Beside the Blood Pool were piles of hearts, livers, spleens, and lungs, with human sacrifices hanging from wooden stakes.

The sudden sight of such a scene was enough to make even the flag-bearing Ox Power Demons waver. They wanted to cast aside their Demon Banners and leap into the Blood Pool.

Soon, the sound of swallowing saliva echoed from within the Mixed Cave.

"Why have you summoned me?"

The Starfall True Demon’s deep voice boomed from the other side of the Mixed Cave.

"This disciple has his eyes on the wealth of a Foundation Establishment Family, but their defensive Grand Array is a bit tricky. I specifically activated this array to request the Demon Venerable’s aid. If you can break their array, all the blood-food within will belong to you."

Yang Jing used the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon Qi to cloak himself in a dense aura of Demonic Qi.

The Starfall True Demon on the other side of the Mixed Cave immediately believed him and eagerly squeezed through. It lunged straight for the Blood Pool, wanting a taste of the Essence Blood within.

But it never expected that the moment it pounced, the Blood Pool would vanish like a mirage, transforming into more than a dozen Demon-Catching Chains that ensnared the completely unprepared Starfall True Demon.

After Yang Jing formed his Golden Core, the Demon-Catching Chains activated by his Demon-Catching Tripod were over ten times more powerful. The moment the chains bound the Starfall True Demon, it felt its Demonic Qi become sluggish and unresponsive.

It screamed in horror.

"You bastard from the Demon Sect, you dare betray me!"

The Starfall True Demon’s Demonic Qi was temporarily suppressed, but its astonishing brute force remained. It struggled relentlessly, causing the entire Inner World to tremble slightly.

The Five Fire Child, commanding its gourd, unleashed a bolt of Five Fire Divine Thunder from the air.

With a deafening CRACK, a brilliantly radiant bolt of True Thunder struck the Starfall True Demon, instantly obliterating its head.

This single strike not only grievously wounded the Starfall True Demon but also terrified the Ox Power Demons.

The severely injured Starfall True Demon stopped struggling, bound by the Demon-Catching Chains like a trussed-up hog.

"Dismantle the Summoning Demon Array."

Yang Jing gave the order, then walked over to the Starfall True Demon and sat down cross-legged before it.

The Ox Power Demons were already extremely loyal to Yang Jing. Now, awestruck by the Five Fire Child’s terrifying power, they dared not show the slightest disobedience or hesitation and hurriedly dismantled the Demon Summoning Array.

They stared with a mixture of shock and uncertainty at the Five Fire Child and the Five Fire Gourd hovering in the air.

That bolt of Divine Thunder had contained a terrifying power. They felt that if even its aftershock had grazed them, they would have been blown to bits.

Suddenly, the Starfall True Demon, injured by the Divine Thunder, let out an incomparably wretched scream, as if it were suffering some horrific torture.

Yang Jing felt a torrent of Essence Qi surge into his Dantian and his heart settled. ’The amount of Essence Qi gained from refining the Starfall True Demon in the Inner World is truly massive,’ he thought. ’It far surpasses what I got from the Red Yin Death Demon, which was also Tier Three.’

He immediately activated the Five Elements Wheel to refine all the Essence Qi flooding his Dantian.

This horrifying scene, paradoxically, made the Ox Power Demons breathe a sigh of relief. The Five Fire Gourd was simply too much like an Ultimate Demon Refining Treasure from a Taoist Sect. A single, seemingly effortless strike had severely wounded a powerful True Demon like the Starfall True Demon, which was renowned for its tough hide.

A supreme treasure like that could never be refined by a Celestial Demon.

Some of the more quick-witted Ox Power Demons were beginning to genuinely doubt the truth of that rumor.

But when they saw Yang Jing refining the Starfall True Demon, their doubts vanished like smoke.

What kind of Righteous Cultivator would increase their Magical Power by refining a Celestial Demon? Not even Low Tier Demon Cultivators from the Demon Sect could do that. Only a true Celestial Demon could refine its own kind to increase its Power.

Now that Yang Jing was a Golden Core Cultivator, his ability to refine Celestial Demons was far beyond what it was before.

After a full day and night, the Starfall True Demon’s massive body had already shrunk by a full circle.

Yang Jing let out a long breath. The Demonic Qi within the Essence Qi had been completely extracted by his True Martial Demon-Vanquishing Divine Techniques and was expelled with that breath.

This dense Demon Intent was nothing but useless exhaust to Yang Jing, but to the Ox Power Demons, it was a high-level Celestial and Earthly Treasure.

Their noses twitched. Upon smelling the Demon Intent drifting in the air, they became ecstatic and began to greedily inhale, drawing the Demon Intent into their bodies.

Yang Jing rose to his feet. The refining he had just done had advanced his Cultivation by about three months. Given the sheer amount of dense Demonic Qi in this Starfall True Demon, completely refining it should increase his Cultivation by nearly fifteen years.

Its effects were even better than the best Jinhua Pills in the Sect.

Even a great sect like the Five Elements True Spirit Sect could only produce one batch of Jinhua Pills every twenty to thirty years, but the Tier Three Great Celestial Demons from beyond the heavens were inexhaustible.

"You will all remain in this realm and await the Wanhua Child’s orders."

Yang Jing said to all the Ox Power Demons. The Five Fire Gourd needed to absorb Spiritual Qi daily. If it stayed in a place like the Inner World where Spiritual Qi was scarce, its Tier might drop. But the Wanhua Child, being a Demon Sect Treasure, had no such weakness. It was perfectly suited to manage these Ox Power Demons.

The Ox Power Demons roared their assent.

Although the wisp of Demon Intent that had escaped was small, it came from a Tier Three Great Celestial Demon like the Starfall True Demon. Even absorbing a single sliver was of immense benefit to them.

Yang Jing nodded. He glanced at the Starfall True Demon, suppressed by the Demon-Catching Tripod, and left the Inner World with his mind at ease.

A Golden Core Cultivator’s ability to neutralize Elixir Poison was far greater than that of a cultivator in the Qi Cultivation or Foundation Establishment realms. An amount of Elixir Poison that could permanently trap a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at their current Realm could be expelled by a Golden Core Cultivator in just over a month.

However, increasing one’s Magical Power too much in a short period still led to the problem of it being unstable.

Yang Jing decided to spend seven days refining his Magical Power before returning to the Inner World to continue refining the Starfall True Demon.

For the next three months, his life fell into a very regular pattern: he was either in the Inner World refining the Starfall True Demon or at the Five Elements True Spirit Sect refining his Magical Power and guiding the Outer Disciples in their practice of the Blood Spirit Scripture.

By the time the Starfall True Demon was completely refined, Yang Jing’s Cultivation had reached the limit of the First Layer Golden Core, and he was ready to break through to the Second Layer Golden Core at any moment.

He also made a pleasant discovery: refining the Starfall True Demon didn’t just yield pure Essence Qi; his Power of the Flesh had also increased slightly.

The increase had been so subtle that it took three months of accumulation for Yang Jing to notice. He hadn’t experienced such a change when he refined the Red Yin Death Demon.

’Could it be the effect of the Fetal Transformation Divine Techniques?’

After pondering for a moment, Yang Jing pushed the matter to the back of his mind.

After that, he experimentally lured a Yin Evil Spider Demon into his Inner World. This demon was far more sinister and cunning than the Starfall True Demon, but it still couldn’t resist the allure of blood-food and obediently entered the Inner World.

Because its Power of the Flesh was inferior to the Starfall True Demon’s, Yang Jing didn’t even need to use the Five Fire Gourd. He subdued the Yin Evil Spider Demon directly with the Demon-Catching Tripod.

This demon provided less Magical Power than the Starfall True Demon, only enough to advance Yang Jing’s cultivation by ten years.

However, after completely refining the Yin Evil Spider Demon, Yang Jing not only broke through to the Second Layer Golden Core but also discovered that his Eye Power had actually increased.

This completely convinced him that it was the effect of his Fetal Transformation Divine Techniques.

Spiritual Objects capable of increasing Eye Power were extremely rare. Even the most common one, the Thousand Years of Cyan, was not always available. To advance his cultivation of the Grotto Dark Dharma Eye, Yang Jing had tried to exchange for Thousand Years of Cyan at both the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion and the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, but was told both times that it was temporarily out of stock.

He never expected that, after failing to find any Thousand Years of Cyan, he would discover that the Yin Evil Spider Demon had the same effect.

’It seems these Celestial Demons are treasures from head to toe.’

Yang Jing felt a twinge of regret, as he could currently only summon two types of Celestial Demons: the Starfall True Demon and the Yin Evil Spider Demon.