Record of a Demon's Cultivation Chapter 1453: Ji Yin, Farewell

Translator: CinderTL

"The human race’s methods are indeed impressive. But you won’t escape."

Venerable Bi Wu gazed in the direction Yuanrong had fled, her eyes seeming to pierce through twenty thousand li to reach the gradually dissipating silver light in the distance.

Yet she didn’t immediately pursue. Instead, she turned her attention to the periphery of the Willow Serpent Clan’s territory.

There, with all twelve Demon Kings of the Five Great Demon Clans slain, the remaining sixth-tier and seventh-tier demonic beasts of those clans had lost all will to fight. They scattered like startled birds, fleeing in all directions.

"Kill them all. Not a single one of these outsiders shall be spared."

After issuing the order, Venerable Bi Wu flashed away, intending to pursue Yuanrong.

But she suddenly stopped, her gaze fixed on the location of King Jianglin’s cultivation cave.

With a violent wave of her hand, a tempestuous surge of demon essence swept out like a furious tide, crashing against the stone mountain housing King Jianglin’s cave.

The already crumbling mountain instantly disintegrated under the onslaught, its fragments scattering into the distance like dust.

In an instant, the entire mountain was erased from its foundations, as if it had never existed.

The cave’s defensive and concealment restrictions were erased along with it.

The severely injured and unconscious King Jianglin was suddenly revealed.

Venerable Bi Wu waved her hand, sending a stream of demon essence that swept King Jianglin before her.

She pressed her hand to the king’s forehead, slowly infusing her demon essence into her.

After a few breaths, King Jianglin slowly regained consciousness.

"M-Master!"

She then noticed the surrounding devastation.

"What... what happened to our clan? Why is everything in such a shambles?"

Venerable Bi Wu didn’t answer. Instead, she asked coldly, "What happened to you? Why are you so severely injured?"

"I was poisoned by a human named Ji Yin," King Jianglin replied.

"Another human!"

A flicker of fury crossed Venerable Bi Wu’s remaining half-face.

"Heal yourself well. This venerable one will capture the human who harmed you and bring them before you."

With that, Venerable Bi Wu vanished into the distant, pitch-black night sky.

Meanwhile, the moment Song Wen noticed Venerable Bi Wu’s arrival, he immediately released Qing Lian from his embrace.

Qing Lian’s immediate crisis had been resolved; now it was his own turn to escape.

Song Wen retrieved another earth-yellow talisman and activated it without hesitation.

This was a Seventh-Tier Earth Evasion Talisman, obtained after killing Tian Ming.

The greatest difference between the Seventh-Tier Earth Evasion Talisman and the Fifth-Tier one he had used previously lay in the depth of subterranean evasion and the speed of his underground travel.

The Fifth-Tier Earth Evasion Talisman could only burrow five hundred li deep into the earth, whereas the Seventh-Tier version could penetrate two thousand li.

Furthermore, the speed of underground travel when using an Earth Evasion Talisman was directly related to the cultivator’s own cultivation level and the talisman’s tier.

With the Seventh-Tier Earth Evasion Talisman, Song Wen’s underground speed was nearly as fast as his aerial evasion.

Song Wen twisted sharply, abruptly changing direction, and darted into the depths of the earth like a fish.

Meanwhile, on Qing Lian’s side,

Without the protection of the Earth Evasion Talisman’s spiritual light, the immense pressure of the earth instantly bore down on her.

Qing Lian’s serpentine tail flicked, and a powerful aura erupted from her body, forcibly repelling the surrounding rocks and creating a cavern several zhang wide.

"Ji Yin, there’s no need to flee any further! The one above is my big brother’s master—Venerable Bi Wu, the Willow Serpent Clan’s sole Ninth-Realm Demon Sovereign. With her here, the Five Great Demon Clans could be crushed with a mere flick of her finger."

Qing Lian’s words, transmitted through her spiritual sense, flooded into Song Wen’s sea of consciousness.

But Song Wen, of course, didn’t stop.

Watching him retreat further and further, Qing Lian felt a mix of confusion and panic.

She had a premonition that this journey of Ji Yin’s would be a one-way trip, that she would never return to the Willow Serpent Clan.

"Ji Yin, the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss you mentioned last time... I’ve been poring over ancient texts these past few nights and have pinpointed its approximate location."

"In the far west, there’s a demon race called the Bone-Corroding Butterfly. A few million li west of their lair lies the Endless Sea. In the deep ocean, about five hundred thousand li from the coast, there’s a region of towering reefs—that’s the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss..."

Before she could finish, Qing Lian realized that Ji Yin had already slipped beyond her spiritual sense range, cutting off their communication.

Staring at the narrow, cage-like cave before her, Qing Lian suddenly felt a pang of sorrow.

She was like a bird trapped in a cage, fluttering only within the territory of the Willow Serpent Clan.

While Ji Yin was like an eagle soaring through the Nine Heavens, capable of crossing seas of clouds, surveying the land below, and traveling between the Eastern Profound Continent and the Western Rong Continent.

Though the Nine Heavens were fraught with storms, lightning, and constant danger, they also held a unique splendor.

"Goodbye, Ji Yin," Qing Lian murmured to herself.

Song Wen fled underground at breakneck speed, successfully escaping a million li without incident.

He pondered his next move. Should he continue fleeing, making a desperate bid to escape the Cloudfall Plains entirely and sever all ties with the Willow Serpent Clan? Or should he hide locally for a year or two, waiting for the heat to die down before slipping away?

Suddenly, a piercing, bone-chilling voice rang out.

"Ji Yin? I remember you—you’re Ji Yin, aren’t you? King Jianglin’s forbidden concubine brought back to the clan."

"Tsk tsk. Who would have thought—a mere plaything could reduce King Jianglin, the foremost demon king of the Willow Serpent Clan, to such a pitiful state?"

"Still, this works in my favor. If I capture you alive, the Venerable will surely reward me handsomely. Perhaps, in her delight, he’ll even take me as her disciple?"

Song Wen’s heart sank.

The voice belonged to King Lu Yao, whom he had encountered earlier.

To run into an eighth-tier demon king in this desolate wilderness...

Truly, his luck was abysmal!

Fortunately, it was only an eighth-tier demon king; there was still a chance to resist. If he had encountered Venerable Bi Wu, his chances would have been slim to none.

Having been discovered, Song Wen had no choice but to continue his escape while the Earth Evasion Talisman’s power still held.

"Ji Yin, you can’t escape. Surrender now and save yourself the trouble."

As King Lu Yao spoke, a stone statue materialized before her.

The two-foot-tall statue depicted a male and female Willow Serpent locked in copulation.

As expected of the Willow Serpent Clan, with its female-dominated society and insatiable lust, even their mystic treasures reek of lewdness. Song Wen recalled his previous encounters with two such artifacts, both similarly suggestive.

As King Lu Yao continuously injected her demon essence into the statue, it gradually began to glow with a faint, blood-red light.

The light coalesced into a beam that shot straight down, striking the ground.

Wherever it passed, even the hardest bedrock melted away like ice and snow.

A two-foot-wide vertical shaft suddenly appeared in the ground, its walls as smooth as mirrors.

The crimson light fell upon Song Wen, and like the rocks, he began to dissolve.

Seeing this, King Lu Yao was startled.

She had never intended to kill Ji Yin, only to capture him alive and claim the reward.

Who could have imagined that Ji Yin would simply stand there and take the full force of the crimson beam?

Alas, it seems I’ll have to return with only fragments of his body to satisfy the request.

(End of the Chapter)

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