Record of a Demon's Cultivation Chapter 1264: Decapitation

Translator: CinderTL

From beneath Song Wen’s feet, an immeasurable ocean of blood erupted, a crimson flood advancing upon Jing Bei.

The colossal corpse qi python was the first to be consumed.

Stretching for scores of kilometers, the serpent appeared no larger than an ant before the vast, sky-engulfing blood sea.

Upon contact with the blood sea, the corpse python only managed to rouse a towering crimson wave before vanishing without a trace.

"Blood Sea Seal!"

Jing Bei’s eyes widened minutely, disbelief clouding his gaze.

Once enveloped by that blood sea, his prospects of survival today would dwindle to nothing.

Despite the immense danger posed by the Blood Sea Seal, he could not afford to retreat.

The instant he departed the protection of the corpse qi, he would become susceptible to Song Wen’s ocular abilities.

In a desperate move, Jing Bei swiftly ordered the Corpse Puppet to assault Song Wen from the rear.

With a mere thought, Song Wen conjured a massive wave from the blood sea under his feet, directing it to crash down upon the Corpse Puppet.

The Corpse Puppet wielded the might of a peak sixth-tier cultivator, its physical form incredibly robust. Though vanquishing it would prove challenging, restraining it was a simple matter.

Under the relentless onslaught of the blood sea, the Corpse Puppet was continuously repelled, its advance toward Song Wen thwarted.

Concealed within the thick corpse qi, Jing Bei observed the Corpse Puppet’s inability to threaten Song Wen. Meantime, the blood sea drew nearer, now suspended directly above. A ruthless gleam flickered in his eyes.

"You believe ending my life will be simple?"

A medicinal pill materialized before him, the size of a chicken egg and a deep crimson hue, imbuing the surrounding corpse qi with a dark red luminescence. The pill drifted into Jing Bei's parted lips.

As the foreign object descended his throat, Jing Bei’s already gaunt physique wasted away even further, as though all flesh had been stripped, leaving only bone and a thin layer of skin. Nevertheless, his aura escalated dramatically.

However, having already reached the Peak Void Refinement realm, the pill did not grant him the ability to directly bridge the gap between Void Refinement and Body Integration. Instead, it placed him in an interim state, as if one foot had already crossed the threshold of the Body Integration Stage, yet he had not truly breached the barrier that separated the two realms.

The transformations affecting Jing Bei's body extended beyond his cultivation level.

His eyes, now unnaturally protuberant from his withered frame, glared like copper bells, bloodshot and appearing on the verge of bursting, brimming with agony and frenzy.

"Aaaah!" He cast his head back and bellowed with fury.

Dark-green baleful energy violently erupted from his seven apertures, instantaneously disintegrating the expanse of corpse qi he had previously conjured.

The baleful energy coalesced into slender, lethal serpents that slithered towards the blood sea suspended above.

The blood sea, which had rendered the gargantuan corpse qi serpent powerless, proved entirely defenseless against this dark-green baleful energy. Not only were gaping fissures rent through its expanse, permitting the baleful energy to penetrate its core, but wherever the dark-green essence came into contact with the blood, the crimson liquid visibly corroded, transforming into a putrid, noxious fluid that cascaded from the heavens.

Song Wen's expression froze in astonishment. Jing Bei’s desperate measure had caught him entirely unprepared.

To forestall further degradation of the blood sea and a significant diminution of the Blood Sea Seal’s potency, Song Wen promptly retracted the blood sea.

Perceiving this, Jing Bei instinctively presumed Song Wen was attempting to abscond, a crazed grin spreading across his countenance.

Even the severed Fu Kaiyu ceased his endeavor to retreat his divine soul into his Dantian, intending instead to escape with his nascent soul.

Despite being decapitated, Fu Kaiyu’s head and body remained intact, sealed by his spiritual power to preserve his life force. He could simply reattach them at a later juncture.

"You cannot escape! Your life is mine!"

With a thunderous roar, Jing Bei unleashed a deluge of Malevolent Qi that surged towards Song Wen.

At that precise moment, an extraordinary spectacle unfolded across the nocturnal firmament.

The blood sea, which had sprawled across half the sky, retreated in disarray as if confronting its natural nemesis. In its wake, hundreds of dark-green venomous serpents coiled and writhed, relentlessly pursuing their quarry.

Just then, ominous clouds abruptly massed overhead.

Faint golden lightning flickered within the turbulent darkness.

Crack!

Thunder erupted like celestial indignation, shattering the suffocating quietude of the night.

A blinding golden bolt of lightning, akin to a sanctifying divine radiance, tore through the obscuring clouds.

The golden lightning speared the already fractured expanse of corpse qi, causing it to detonate violently.

The corpse qi was pierced, torn asunder, and transmuted into tendrils of verdant smoke that dispersed into the atmosphere.

The gaunt form of Jing Bei and Fu Kaiyu, clutching his severed head, were now completely exposed to the open. Two crimson beams of light slammed into Jing Bei’s mana shield. Despite desperately channeling his half-step Body Integration stage spiritual power, he found the shield crumbling. As his defense grew increasingly fragile, Jing Bei’s expression turned to one of sheer panic. He channeled all his dark-green baleful energy, commanding the Corpse Puppet to launch a pincer attack against Song Wen. With Song Wen having recalled his blood sea, the two forces were unopposed as they careened towards his physical body. The Corpse Puppet arrived first, its claw-like hands raised like withered branches and striking with a single blow that shattered Song Wen’s skull. The twin crimson beams erupting from Song Wen’s eyes vanished instantly. A wave of dark-green baleful energy surged through, obliterating Song Wen’s remaining body. Witnessing the defeat of their formidable foe, Jing Bei let out a sigh of relief. But in the very next moment, a bone-chilling dread slithered up his spine. A frosty killing intent surfaced silently from behind. Bang! A sharp crack resounded as his protective shield disintegrated from a blow originating from behind him. Jing Bei had barely turned his head when he saw a short blade, emanating an icy radiance, slicing towards his neck. He soon followed Fu Kaiyu, his head separating from his body and soaring into the sky. As his world spun, he caught a glimpse of his opponent—the very one who should have been annihilated by the Corpse Puppet and dark-green baleful energy—standing aloft in the air, miles away. Immense quantities of gray baleful qi erupted from the figure, engulfing both Jing Bei’s and Fu Kaiyu’s headless bodies and severed heads. The gray baleful qi exploded with extreme cold, instantly solidifying into a block of profound ice, encasing Song Wen and Fu Kaiyu, preventing even their divine souls from escaping their skulls. Song Wen recalled the Soul Cleaving Blade and, using his spiritual power, dragged the ice formed from Nine Nether Fiend Qi away without hesitation. After fleeing a million miles, Song Wen plunged into a raging river. Submerging to the riverbed, he bypassed the need to set up a formation, directly shattering the ice, seizing the two skulls in his hands, and devouring their divine souls. Next came the mangled remains of Fu Kaiyu. After draining his blood essence, Song Wen ignited the corpse with a burst of flames, reducing it to ashes that scattered with the river’s current. Finally, only Jing Bei’s corpse remained. Now at the peak of Void Refinement, Song Wen understood that absorbing Jing Bei’s spiritual power would not advance his cultivation. Yet, he refused to let it go to waste and decided to conduct an experiment. After all, advancing to the Body Integration Stage necessitated the purification of one’s spiritual power. Song Wen harbored the hope that he could use Jing Bei’s spiritual power to temper his own. However, the outcome defied his expectations. The spiritual power absorbed from Jing Bei’s body, encountering a bottleneck, could neither be absorbed by Song Wen’s nascent soul nor retained within his body. Instead, it transformed into Spiritual Qi and dissipated outwards. (End of the Chapter)---------------------------------------------------------Continue Reading (𝙍𝘿𝘾) on CinderTL• ⓒⓞⓜRead Ahead to Ch1540 • 𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖊 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 • No Login---------------------------------------------------------