Chapter 88: The Slumbering Phantom Azure Flame

  "I heard what you said, but I'm a magnanimous person and won't stoop to your level. The activation of the Demon Spirit Vein doesn't necessarily require forcibly taking one's essence and soul. Otherwise, how could others with the Demon Spirit Vein devour seventh or eighth-grade demon beasts? Must they grow to the same grade before devouring them? So, there are always shortcuts in everything."

  "For example..."

  "For example, you can make a deal with it! As long as you cultivate feelings with the demon beast, you can reach a common understanding with it. After calming it down, you can eat it directly!"

  "Aren't you ill?" Tang Yan couldn't bear it anymore. Cultivate feelings? Can't I now go to the forest to find wild beasts, and ask them out on a date? Then ask them, "I'll eat you, is that okay?"

  "Aren't you already prepared?" The smile on the Blood Doll's face was somewhat eerie, making Tang Yan feel a sense of unease.

  "Where?"

  "That little wolf cub beside you, this little guy... is quite interesting..."

  "Hei Niang? Do you recognize it?" Tang Yan focused his attention on the Blood Doll again. As Hei Niang grew, its combat power became more and more extraordinary, and he felt both surprise and doubt and worry, because every time Hei Niang burst out, it always emitted a very cold aura, different from the ordinary feeling of cold, it was a kind of cold that emanated from the bones.

  This is definitely no ordinary demon beast!

  Tang Yan had a kind of inexplicable feeling, as if he would lose it sooner or later.

  "Of course I know it, but it doesn't belong here."

  "What does it mean?"

  The Blood Doll muttered to herself, thinking hard: "Something must have changed inside, otherwise they wouldn't be throwing out their own cubs like that. Heh heh, I really want to go take a look and see what kind of big trouble those bastards are stirring up again."

  "Get to the point!"

  "What's the point? The point is you don't understand anything! You're just a little brat, how dare you argue with me, your ancestor!"

  Tang Yan's heart was burning with anger, but he forced himself to calm down: "Ancestor, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you..."

  "Call out once more?"

  "What? Uh... Ancestor?"

  Bloody doll with a pleased expression: "One more time."

  Tang Yan's face was covered in black lines, but he maintained a smile and a respectful demeanor: "Ancestor."

  "Uh-huh, go on."

  "Old Ancestor."

  "Hmm, not bad, we'll use this title from now on. Come, Little Sun, I'll introduce you to this little guy."

  "Sun Tu? Still 'young'? I endure!! Tang Yan kept smiling: "Old Ancestor, you speak."

  "To put it simply, this is a very unique species that guards a certain unique area. They are strong, bloodthirsty, cruel, crazy, arrogant and evil. In short, all negative words can be used to describe them. This is a dirty race that does dirty things. And you little guy..."

  "Wait! What kind of species is unique? What kind of region is unique?"

  "Whatever, you won't understand even if I explain it."

  I'll endure! Tang Yan gritted his teeth, this bastard must have done it on purpose!

  "This little guy's parents are among the top of their clan, and with normal growth, its combat strength is still quite impressive. If you eat it and refine it, although it won't provide much help to you, at least it won't hold you back in the future."

  "Is there any other way?" Tang Yan directly rejected the proposal. Eat Hei Dou? Impossible! The little guy had accompanied him for more than half a year and had assisted him in Ju Xiang Cheng without leaving his side. Although he was a scoundrel, he wasn't ruthless. Moreover, this blood doll obviously had ulterior motives, if he really swallowed Hei Dou, who knows what kind of disaster would befall him.

  "Can't bear to part with it? Don't regret it later!"

  "No regrets, other methods."

  "It's gone." The blood doll replied succinctly.

  "You... Old Ancestor, why don't you think it over carefully again? Maybe you can come up with something."

  "There's no such thing as getting it back, this is overdrawn life, it's fate! You think you can just take it back? If it were that simple, wouldn't everyone be doing it? Wouldn't the world be full of million-year-old monsters?"

  "You can't just watch me die either, can you?"

  "The method has been given to you, but you don't use it. Who can be blamed? Think carefully, your little black dog is now dizzy and weak, this is the best time for you to communicate with him."

  There must be a way, there must be another way. Tang Yan tried to comfort himself and thought deeply for a while, then said: "What about the Ghostly Blue Fire? It's an extraordinary fire from heaven and earth, truly undying and indestructible. Can we find a breakthrough from it?"

  "Are you begging me?" The evil ancestor raised his eyelids, gazing at the sky with a hint of a smile. He had been silent for nearly a hundred years and finally found an interesting little guy, but he wasn't going to let him off so easily.

  "I'm begging you." Tang Yan gritted his teeth and spat out three words.

  "What? I didn't quite catch that."

  "I beg of you."

  "Hmm, it's fine. But don't think about that anymore, thanks to you, the ghostly blue fire has fallen asleep."

  "Sleep? What does it mean?"

  "What's going on! I'm asking you, why did your lifespan disappear?"

  "Unleash Potential, Enhance Strength."

  "Who helped you with it?"

  "Huh?"

  "The Undying Heavenly Art is a ghostly green fire's servant martial art, which means that everyone who cultivates it does so to serve it and provide it with a growing vessel. In short, host, parasite. Your excessive use of the Body Destruction Technique is a voluntary contribution of your lifespan, allowing the ghostly green fire to burn and reap the benefits. As it grants you power, it absorbs your lifespan. In other words, it gives you immense combat strength, and you give it seventy years of life, a fair trade."

  "For a Xuanhuo with endless life, 70 years is not too much, but it's already quite considerable. It needs careful refinement, so it fell asleep."

  "I'm serving martial arts? Serving it? Trading lifespan for strength? Tang Yan listened, feeling a bit anxious, this was different from what Ren Tian Cang had said: 'How long has it been sleeping?'"

  "You ask me? Who should I ask? This is a lifespan of seventy years, seventy years, not seventy days, nor seventy months, it's years, do you understand?"

  "What am I supposed to do during this period?" Tang Yan furrowed his brow, without the ghostly green fire, how could he refine the Spiritual Origin Liquid? How could he cast the Fierce Flame Technique and the Violent Flame Technique?

  "What's the point? You're already lucky to be standing, and you still want to go fight? Kid, take it easy, learn from old master me, take things lightly, enjoy a few years of peaceful life, when it's time to die, just die."

  "Is there really no other way?"

  "I'll repeat it one last time, the method I've given you is to eat that wolf cub! This is also for your own good, otherwise in the future it will definitely devour you! This kind of creature isn't some benevolent being, even if it doesn't eat you, its kin will know that their offspring have become human pets and they will hunt you down across the entire continent. At that time, this vast world will be devoid of anyone who can protect you."

  "Hmph, I thought you were ruthless enough, but it turns out you're so timid. I was blind to have chosen you in the first place!"

  Tang Yan sank into deep thought for a long time, focusing his attention on the Blood Doll. The Blood Doll listlessly shook its head, drank some of the misty water from the Air Sea, blew a few bubbles, and played happily, completely ignoring Tang Yan.

  "Alright, what exactly do you want?" Tang Yan had seen through it; this ghost thing must have a purpose, otherwise it wouldn't have gone to the trouble of waking itself up and wasting so many words.

  "What's wrong? I didn't quite catch it."

  "Open condition!"

  "Hmm? Haha, clever! I knew it, didn't choose the wrong person at first." Xue Wa immediately smiled with joy.

  "Speak!" Tang Yan gritted his teeth.

  "Everything can still be negotiated, Old Ancestor. I've been thinking hard and actually came up with a solution. However, it can only slightly restore your declining state, granting you a few more years of life, enough to promote you to the Martial King level. A Martial Monarch has around 100 years of lifespan, while a Martial King has 200 years of lifespan. The transformation from Martial Monarch to Martial King is a fundamental change; once you complete this transformation, your lifespan will naturally be extended, granting you brand new vitality."

  "Get to the point! How can we slow down aging?"

  "Seize the soul of life!" The Blood Doll did not lose Tang Yan's appetite this time, and explained in detail: "After the death of the monsters and strong men in this world, there will be a strand of invisible soul wandering in the world. If it is a very powerful monster or warrior, this soul will have its own consciousness and can hide and rebuild its physical body. Of course, to reach this level, the monster must be at least sixth-level peak, and the warrior must be at least respected-level peak. It is very difficult to easily destroy those who have reached this level of strength, unless their divine soul is extinguished and their seven spirits are scattered, otherwise they will be reborn in the world."

  Apart from this, there are many unconscious spirits in the universe. They exist for a very short time after the death of living things, silently and quietly wandering between heaven and earth, without consciousness, weakly drifting, invisible and intangible, unless they are captured by special secret methods, otherwise their existence cannot be felt.

  "Does senior have a way?" Tang Yan heard it somewhat vaguely, but roughly understood the meaning, and his spirit involuntarily shook.

  "I have a simple mnemonic, passed down from ancient times, just a fragmented memory that can help you absorb very small and low-level souls. The life essence contained in them is extremely rare, but it's better than nothing. Long-term absorption can delay your lifespan by several years. If you choose to stay in this mystical forest, the effect may be even better. The killing here happens every second, and countless demonic beasts and mercenaries die miserably. Absorbing them is relatively easier." As Blood Doll spoke, she opened her mouth and spat out a stream of blood gas that rushed directly into the misty fog.

  His action once again caused a misunderstanding of Buddha's mind, and the golden lock chain surged out, pulling it towards the air sea for several points.

  The fusion of blood and energy, a few dry and difficult-to-understand phrases were transmitted into Tang Yan's mind, Tang Yan knew the preciousness, and hurriedly seriously remembered them.