Record of a Demon's Cultivation Chapter 1418: Making Use of Waste

Translator: CinderTL

"Senior Yuan Rong, your discernment is clear. When the four Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes appeared, the three of us simultaneously sent out warning signals. However, one of the foxes used a secret art to shroud the sky within a thousand-mile radius in an endless, impenetrable darkness, allowing no light to penetrate. The warning signals were swallowed by this darkness, rendering them utterly useless."

Song Wen’s voice trembled, betraying his barely suppressed terror, yet his words were clear and fluent, without the slightest hesitation or stammer—he spoke with the air of someone telling the absolute truth.

"A secret art that plunges a thousand-mile radius into endless darkness?" Yuan Rong’s eyes narrowed with skepticism.

Song Wen nodded emphatically, then smoothly shifted the topic.

"After that, the other three Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes continued toward the forbidden territory. The fox that cast the secret art remained behind to hunt us down. Though weakened by the spell, it was still far beyond our capabilities. To survive, we had no choice but to scatter and flee. Fortunately, fate smiled upon me; the fox didn’t pursue me, and I even managed to meet you here, Senior, eliminating all immediate danger. I only wonder about the fates of Fellow Daoists Tian Ming and Shangguan Ren."

Yuan Rong’s almond-shaped eyes coldly scrutinized Song Wen.

He could find no flaw in Ji Yin’s words or reactions.

However...

Yuanrong lowered his gaze, glancing at his bloodied chest.

Failure was failure, regardless of excuses. There would always be a price to pay.

Song Wen’s heart suddenly tightened.

He keenly sensed a shift in Yuanrong’s aura, turning icy and malevolent.

He wants to kill me!

A Substitute Puppet and a teleportation talisman—will that be enough to shake him off?

Song Wen’s mind raced, desperately searching for a way to escape.

Yet just as Song Wen prepared to cast the life-substitution art, Yuanrong’s aura shifted again, becoming uncertain and wary.

Yuanrong’s gaze pierced through the cave entrance, fixed on the star-strewn sky beyond.

"Ji Yin, we’ll split up. If you survive and return, I’ll let bygones be bygones."

Before the words had even faded, Yuanrong’s figure vanished from the cave, fleeing into the pitch-black night to the west.

Song Wen’s expression turned sharply alarmed.

Only the arrival of the Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes could have thrown Yuanrong into such a panic.

Song Wen glanced at the scattered flesh and fragments of Demon Souls within the cave.

He hadn’t lied earlier about the Azure Fox Clan’s ability to track their kin using the residual soul aura.

The Eighth-Tier Azure Fox in the cave had already suffered soul scattering and spirit vanishing. Yet the other Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes were still closing in, likely drawn by these lingering soul fragments.

The situation was dire, yet Song Wen had no idea where to flee.

The Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes hadn’t yet entered his divine sense range, leaving him completely unaware of their approach.

As for Yuanrong’s suggestion to "split up and flee," if Yuanrong had fled away from the azure foxes, Song Wen fleeing in the opposite direction—eastward—would be like a lamb walking into a tiger’s den, delivering himself straight into the jaws of the azure foxes.

Song Wen leaped out of the cave and glanced in the direction Yuanrong had fled. The figure had long vanished, leaving only the twilight of the night.

Throughout history, these genderless beings have always been treacherous and cunning, he thought.

Song Wen had only revealed a portion of the information he’d gleaned from using the Truth-Hearing Technique on the Eighth-Tier Azure Fox earlier, concealing much of it.

For instance, the three Seven-Colored Fruits in the Azure Fox Clan’s forbidden territory were indeed Life-Replenishing Fruits.

And Yuanrong’s escape from the encirclement of the Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes had been achieved by ambushing Daoist Monarch Yongcheng from behind, using him as a temporary shield against the beasts.

Moreover, Daoist Monarch Yongcheng’s storage ring had fallen into Yuanrong’s hands.

Song Wen had meticulously planned and risked his life, facing three Eighth-Tier Azure Foxes simultaneously, only to end up empty-handed. Instead, Yuanrong had emerged as the ultimate victor.

Truly, man’s plans are no match for fate’s whims!

All the benefits had been snatched away by that scheming Yuanrong.

Just then, Song Wen suddenly sensed four azure foxes appearing in the night sky, thousands of miles to the southeast.

With a swift movement, Song Wen turned and fled northward.

He couldn’t use the teleportation talisman yet.

The talisman’s destination was random. It might teleport him over ten thousand miles away from the azure foxes, or it could drop him right next to them.

The four azure foxes behind him had clearly noticed Song Wen.

However, perhaps because Song Wen’s cultivation was only at the body integration stage, only one of the azure foxes broke off to pursue him, while the other three continued their relentless pursuit of Yuanrong.

Before Song Wen could escape even three thousand miles, the pursuing azure fox closed in.

The fox raised its front paw and slashed through the air. Three azure claw beams shot forth, instantly tearing through Song Wen’s body.

Song Wen’s physical form was instantly severed into several pieces.

The azure fox, having swiftly closed the distance, snatched the flying head, only to find it was a rotting corpse’s head with a blue face and fangs.

At the same moment, it noticed the "upright monster" had reappeared over five thousand miles away, floating in the sky in the direction the fox had come from.

The azure fox had clearly never encountered such a situation before. A deep shock and confusion flashed in its eyes.

It hastily turned to give chase, but then saw the upright monster smash its own head with a palm strike, transforming into a headless corpse that plummeted downward.

The azure fox swiftly leaped across thousands of miles, catching the headless corpse before it hit the ground.

It noticed this was another mummified corpse.

The azure fox scanned its surroundings, its gaze sharp as a sword, piercing through the ink-black night.

But it found no trace of the upright monster.

After a fruitless search, the azure fox lowered its head, examining the severed head and the headless corpse. A look of confusion crossed its eyes.

It couldn’t fathom how the creature had escaped. What were the two mummified corpses it had discarded?

Song Wen held his breath, focused his mind, and suppressed every trace of his aura as he curled up inside a mud burrow. Buried completely in the earth, he remained motionless as a withered log or stubborn rock.

When he activated his Substitute Puppet for the second time, he had teleported directly into this mud burrow.

The demon beasts of the Western Rong Continent possessed limited knowledge. How could they have ever encountered a human cultivator’s life-substitution secret art, akin to a golden cicada sloughing its shell?

Relying on this gap in understanding, Song Wen dared to execute such a risky maneuver, hoping to deceive heaven and slip away unnoticed.

Had a human cultivator at the Great Ascension Stage been present, they would have immediately sensed his presence within a five-thousand-mile radius of the second Corpse Puppet. But the azure fox, lacking such insight, could only conclude that its prey had vanished without a trace.

After hiding in the mud burrow for over four hours and detecting no movement nearby, Song Wen activated the Gu worm within his abdomen. The creature crawled out through his nostril, burrowed into the earth, and slithered through the soil’s crevices for dozens of miles before emerging to spread its wings and take flight.

After circling a ten-thousand-mile radius and finding no sign of the azure fox, the Gu worm burrowed back into the ground, crawled another hundred miles, and returned to Song Wen’s body.

Song Wen immediately retrieved a fifth-tier Earth Evasion Talisman and burrowed into the depths of the earth, making his escape.

(End of the Chapter)

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