Chapter 733: Chapter 732: The True Demon Heart Questioning Skill, Han Youran

This...

What’s the point!?

The nine ancient demon Taoists were dumbfounded as Elder Xing Huang immediately dispersed his aura.

Xing Huang was in charge of the array.

As his aura collapsed, the array disintegrated instantly.

The devil’s claw above Li Jing’s head also quietly disappeared.

The eight demon Taoist elders in the array were collectively stunned.

Damn!

They all silently cursed in their hearts, their faces turned pale, as they all spat out a jet of blood, each one spraying higher than the other.

Seeing this, Li Jing’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch.

True to their demon Taoist nature.

Xing Huang was not only the person in charge of the array, but also its Array Eye.

Not only did his cultivation level being pulled from the late stage of the Sixteenth Realm to the peak of the Seventeenth Realm put a huge burden on him, but the burden of the array itself was basically all on him.

The combination of the two was too much for Xing Huang.

In fact,

From the moment he set up the array, his origin had been slightly damaged.

The longer the array lasted, the more serious his damage would be.

He was aware of this.

Otherwise, he would not have appeared in the array in the form of an array eye.

This move by Xing Huang to actively disperse his own aura was to stop the loss timely.

However, while he stopped the loss, the other eight were unlucky.

As part of the array, the eight of them originally wouldn’t have suffered much damage.

They all burned their life potential to infuse Xing Huang with enough power, sacrificing their Essence Source to exert 120% of their strength.

Loss of the Essence Source is nothing.

The Essence Source is not the Origin, and the loss can be replenished through acquired cultivation or nourishment.

If they could repel Li Jing, the loss of any amount of Essence Source would be worth it for them and for the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace.

However, not only did they fail to repel Li Jing, Xing Huang had also screwed them over.

Xing Huang, as the Array Eye, disrupted the formation, causing it to collapse instantly.

They, who had exerted 120% of their strength and all invested it in the formation, were suddenly struck by a backlash from the power within the formation.

The eight of them each exerted their own power to the limit, and combined it into one...

This backlash.

Was equivalent to the eight of them collectively giving everyone in the array a hard hit...

Fortunately, the eight demon Taoist elders had deep foundations, otherwise someone would have been incapacitated on the spot, and maybe even some unlucky ones would have died on the spot.

After collectively spitting out a mouthful of blood, all eight of the demon Taoist elders had blood-red eyes, and were furious.

If it weren’t for the great enemy at hand, the eight of them would have combined their power to punish Xing Huang.

speak of Xing Huang, he was certainly a demon Taoist.

In the face of the eight men’s murderous gazes, he took out a bottle of elixir, took two pills, and then got up and saluted.

"I admire Ninth Heavenly Respect’s contribution to creation, I revere you," Xing Huang said.

Li Jing was slightly startled when he heard this.

Heavenly Respect?

What kind of title is that?

Before he could react, the eight demon Taoist elders, who had been screwed over by Xing Huang and were looking pale, stood up and saluted him respectfully.

"In the Universe Great World, the Ninth Heavens and Ten Earths, there are no more than ten Heavenly Respects. The Upper Three Realms only account for two of them. Considering Lord Ninth Heavenly Respect’s cultivation, our Extreme Taoist Demon Palace has no reason to feel aggrieved. Knowing that Lord Ninth Heavenly Respect has such a cultivation level, we can give an explanation to the Demon Lord when we go back."

Xing Huang spoke again, pulling out an old, yellowed book.

"This is the secret inheritance of our Extreme Taoist Demon Palace, the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill. I present it to Lord Ninth Heavenly Respect. I hope Lord Ninth Heavenly Respect can be magnanimous and not hold our offense against us, don’t make things difficult for our Palace."

As he spoke, he nodded to the eight people behind him.

The eight of them understood and collectively took out more than a hundred specially sealed brocade boxes.

Then one of them spoke.

"A thousand divine objects, please accept them, Lord Ninth Heavenly Respect."

You have to admit-

The demon Taoists are not only down-to-earth, they also pay great attention to details.

Although they had plans to deal with him and even took action, they also prepared the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace’s inheritance and a thousand divine objects.

Li Jing had no grounds to complain now.

After all, they not only gave him a thousand divine objects, but also directly handed over their secret inheritance.

He took the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill from Xing Huang’s hand, opened it and took a look, and Li Jing’s eyebrows raised slightly.

With his current vision, he could see at a glance that the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill was a profound method comparable to the Shangqing Longevity Technique, and the intricacies within it could immediately shatter the cultivation technique he had figured out based on the operation of the Heavenly Demon in his body.

This could completely log into the status bar and "upgrade" the demon Dao origin represented by the Unnamed Taoist Tool.

Without thinking too much, Li Jing logged in silently in his mind.

"Login successful, the Third Breakthrough Skill ’True Demon Heart Questioning Skill’ learned."

Getting the prompt, Li Jing’s face was expressionless, but his eyes lit up.

Sure enough, it was on the same level as the Shangqing Longevity Technique, a Third Breakthrough profound teaching.

Without hesitation, he decisively spent 200 Skill Points to max out the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill.

As soon as the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill was maxed out, it immediately affected the demon Taoist Forces represented by the Unnamed Taoist Tool, replacing the original method of operation.

Then.

The power within his body that had been converted into Demon Qi increased its quality and purity by more than 50% in one breath, reaching the level that can be on par with the Clear Qi produced by the Shangqing Longevity Technique in a blink of an eye.

???

On the other side, including Xing Huang, the nine Demon Taoist Elders.

They were all demon cultivators.

And at this moment, all of the Chaos Qi in Li Jing’s body had been transformed into Demon Qi.

Xing Huang and the others could not clearly sense that Li Jing had learned the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill, but they could easily feel the increase in the quality of his Demon Qi.

This sudden increase in quality shocked the nine of them...

With this, it was not difficult for them to imagine that Li Jing had learned the True Demon Heart Questioning Skill in minutes.

This-

Is this even possible?

Not to mention that it was extremely difficult to learn the secret inheritance of the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace, Li Jing had only flipped through a few pages, and hadn’t even finished reading the secret inheritance.

Could he actually learn this quickly?

Leaving that aside.

Judging from the purity of the Demon Qi in Li Jing’s body, it was not as simple as just learning.

Just learning couldn’t possibly provide such a high boost, could it?

Moreover, the Demon Qi in Li Jing’s body was already purer than anyone else present, it was completely unreasonable for its quality and purity to increase so much all at once.

Bringing the conversation back...

Wasn’t Li Jing supposed to be the Thousand-faced Fox Demon?

It was understandable that he could temporarily control the demon Taoist system with the extraordinary transformation ability of Thousand Faces.

But as a demon, he shouldn’t be able to manage, let alone learn on the spot, the demon Taoist inheritance. This should be completely impossible.

After all,

This is the heritage of human cultivators...

Xing Huang and the other eight were puzzled, and Ye Piaoran, who was standing behind in the field of the Little Universe, was also taken aback.

Li Jing had the Shangqing Longevity Method which had the same origin as hers in his body.

The clear Qi produced by the Shangqing Longevity Method has now been transformed into Demon Qi under the influence of the Chaos Qi. This made Ye Piaoran feel the increase of Demon Qi in a certain person’s body.

Brother Li is...

He’s gotten stronger again!

Ye Piaoran didn’t understand what was happening to Li Jing.

But she had a rough guess that it had something to do with him flipping through the Heart Questioning Skill of the True Demon a couple of times.

Just flipping a book can make him stronger.

Is it even possible?

While still in disbelief, Li Jing’s aura was restrained, and no more power could be felt from him.

"I’ll take three hundred divine objects, you can leave."

Li Jing indifferently spoke and waved his hand, seizing three hundred brocade boxes from the air.

Xing Huang and the other eight elderly Demon Taoists were stunned upon seeing this.

The items they had prepared for this trip were not only to satisfy Li Jing, but also to ’buy their lives’.

Out of a thousand divine objects, Li Jing only took three hundred.

This was nothing short of a surprise to them.

It seemed.

The Heart Questioning Method of True Demon delighted him.

After looking at each other, the nine people separately bowed in salute, collected the remaining divine objects, and left collectively in a flash of light.

Saving seven hundred divine objects this time was a great boon for the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace.

After all, even in the Upper Three Realms, divine objects are a rare commodity. Not only are they difficult to collect, their uses are also infinite.

Li Jing stood on the spot and watched the nine left, his mind filled with thoughts.

This round, not only did Xing Huang’s group bring him the Heart Questioning Method of the True Demon, but they also informed him of the existence of the title "Heavenly Respect".

Heavenly Respect evidently corresponds to the Eighteenth Realm.

But it’s not a specific cultivation level in the strict sense.

It should generally refer to the Eighteenth Realm, roughly corresponding to the unique titles of quasi-emperor, Heavenly Emperor, Holy Emperor, and God Emperor, but it is not directly linked to an individual’s unique world.

This.

It has to be said, is quite fresh.

Through Xing Huang and the others’ words, Li Jing also confirmed one thing.

His current cultivation level has truly reached the peak of the Universe Great World.

Nine heavens and ten earths.

The nine heavens should represent the Nine Heavy Heavens.

What ten earths represent was still unclear to Li Jing.

However, since Xing Huang mentioned that the number of Heavenly Respectfuls in the nine heavens and ten earths combined wouldn’t exceed ten, it means that in the entire Universe Great World, there were less than ten who could match his cultivation level, of which only two were from the Upper Three Realms.

Looking back at what the Star Cloud Heavenly Path said before, there wouldn’t be too many in the Eternal Divine Kingdom whose cultivation level exceeded his.

Li Jing exhaled lightly.

With a status bar, it shouldn’t be a problem for him to continue leveling up.

However, this cultivation path.

It seemed to have come to a temporary halt.

If he wanted to go further, it seemed that he should really study how to obtain the Immortal Position.

While he was thinking, Ye Piaoran came over.

"Brother Li, what’s our next move...?"

Interrupted, Li Jing turned his head.

"Hmm, we’ll go straight to the Eight Heavens. We’ve already had a proper encounter, it’s not appropriate to go to the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace as guests again, they might not welcome us."

Ye Piaoran grinned.

If they were forced to hand over their family’s secret heritage, the Extreme Taoist Demon Palace would welcome them when pigs fly.

Li Jing chose to stop when things were going well, she of course would have no objection.

The two then embarked directly on the journey to the Eight Layers of the Earth Realm.

...

The journey was uneventful.

In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days had passed again.

Li Jing and Ye Piaoran finally traversed the Seventh Heaven and came to the entrance of the gateway to the Eight Heavens.

The two had just arrived, and before they had time to observe the entrance, a person from the Demon Abode had already welcomed them.

Li Jing had come all the way from the Fifth Heavy Sky, and it could easily be inferred that his next stop would be the Eight Heavens. The Extreme Taoist Demon Palace had arranged it long ago.

The person who came was a charming female Demon Cultivator.

Not only did she have a mid-Fifteenth Realm cultivation level, but she also had a natural Charming Bone.

Having natural Charming Bone and natural Charm are two different things.

Those with natural Charming Bone usually have an exceedingly beautiful appearance and can easily make others feel good about them.

Upon face-to-face meeting.

Ye Piaoran was slightly dazed for a moment before she knitted her eyebrows in strangeness, and the female Demon Cultivator gave her a playful smile.

?

Li Jing.

Looking at Ye Piaoran, did they know each other?

Before he could ponder, the female Demon Cultivator looked over and respectfully saluted.

"Han Youran, the chief disciple under the Demon Taoist Holy Emperor, welcomes the great arrival of the Ninth Heavenly Respect."

Oh?

Li Jing frowned.

This one.

Is she a disciple of the Demon Taoist Holy Emperor?

Then she must be much younger than the current Demon Taoist Holy Emperor.

The Demon Taoist Holy Emperor was at most a half-step into the Sixteenth Realm, but Han Youran was already in the mid-Fifteenth Realm. She was likely not only his disciple but also the future successor of the current Demon Taoist Holy Emperor.

So.

Why would the Demon Taoist Holy Emperor send his successor over here?

This...

Could it be not just to simply "see off a guest"?

While he was pondering, Ye Piaoran whispered.

"Brother Li, I know this enchantress. She’s talented and without any unexpected incidents, she’ll be the next Demon Taoist Holy Emperor."

Before Li Jing could speak, Han Youran smiled charmingly.

"Sister Piaoran, you overpraise me. If we’re talking about talent, you’re much more talented. If it hadn’t been for your past tragedy of being framed and making a mistake in an important assignment, causing you to be punished by Yaochi and wasting many years, you’d most likely be the expected next Yaochi Divine Emperor."

Ye Piaoran remained silent.

What Han Youran said was the truth.

If she hadn’t been punished, her predecessor would have indeed become the designated next Yaochi Divine Emperor.

But this didn’t have much to do with her.

She was not the original Ye Piaoran, nor had any intention of becoming the Yaochi Divine Emperor, and she didn’t want to return to Yaochi to be some saintess.