Chapter 232: Chapter 103: Five Demon Forms, Chaos in the Capital, Heirs Arrive, Thunderous Chants and the Devouring Zen

At this moment, Jing Miao directly said, "You have not yet entered monastic life."

Wang Changchun replied, "As soon as I came here, I had entered monastic life."

Jing Miao nodded, and shortly afterward, it seemed someone reported something to her. After the report was finished, Jing Miao looked at Wang Changchun and said, "There’s trouble in the Wang family."

Wang Changchun was taken aback and said nervously, "What trouble?"

Jing Miao smiled and said, "You have not yet entered monastic life."

Wang Changchun was stunned again, remained silent for a long time, but no longer dared to underestimate this young abbot. He bowed, said some words like "The Empress Dowager believes in Buddhism," and then left.

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... 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Soon, Prince Qing’s Mansion welcomed a secret guest from the capital.

The guest simply requested to see Prince Qing and said nothing else.

However, Prince Qing was not at the mansion, so the guest stayed in Xiongshan County, waiting daily.

This guest clutched a blood letter in their hand, written by a prince of the Zhao family, requesting Prince Qing to head north to support the sovereign.

But Li Xuan did not respond; unless his incense fire was disturbed, he wouldn’t show up, nor involve Prince Qing’s Mansion in such disputes.

Receiving incense, growing stronger in the shadows, isn’t it better than rushing to the forefront to fight?

He preferred developing calmly like this rather than stirring up trouble.

Flowing sovereigns, ironclad Buddha.

Although Li Xuan hadn’t gathered any information about the "Incense Fire Divine Realm" or the "realm after the Demon Form," he still had gains.

Firstly, he had roughly combed through the Northern Mountain Road, slaughtering a Tier One ordinary demon and three ordinary young demons, totaling 63 points. Coupled with the previous demon points, his point count had already reached 90 points.

Secondly, he had devised a "Secret Martial Arts system" himself, with "Evergreen Unwithering Skill," "Nine Sun-Breaking Arrows" and "Monument-Splitting Hand." Upon consolidating these, he obtained a new Demon Form Map——"Ten Yang Ice Silence Celestial Palace Destruction."

In this map, he saw ten suns in the sky, with nine surprisingly frozen, transforming from nine fireballs into nine large ice chunks. Beneath the Celestial Palace, there was a divine general in golden armor, holding a red bow, anxiously aiming the bow heavenward, seemingly searching for an enemy.

There was no other choice in this map, Li Xuan naturally visualized that Red Bow Divine General and gained 60 agility points, and his agility attribute jumped from "[Agility: 91/280]" to "[Agility: 151/280]".

And his [Secret Martial Arts] section also underwent changes:

Adding a line: Ten Yang Ice Silence Celestial Palace Destruction (LV2) (Perfection).

This Demon Form reaffirmed for Li Xuan that basically each additional 30 Spirit Attributes could sustain one additional Demon Form.

Now, after injecting demon blood, his Spirit Attribute was: "[Spirit: 91+52/280]".

Naturally, he could completely maintain his rationality.

In an instant, what had always been lagging agility suddenly became "the highest attribute without injecting demon blood."

After tasting the benefits, Li Xuan temporarily stopped pursuing the "Incense Fire Divine Realm" and the "realm after Demon Form," and instead began increasing his Demon Forms.

He wanted to fill up his attributes through Demon Forms.

Now he had 90 spare points, enough to sustain 3 Demon Forms, aiming to achieve the realm of "Seven Demon Forms."

Soon, the fifth Demon Form arrived.

That was the readily available system from Great Yong’s Esoteric Sect.

Li Xuan didn’t deliberately seek it. Just while a monk from Esoteric Sect was practicing around Xinci Temple and flipping through cultivation techniques, he glanced at them.

Where incense was pervasive, his ears and eyes were everywhere.

This glance directly memorized the cultivation technique, and then, at a mind-boggling speed... mastered it by evening.

"Vajra Pestle," "Unbreakable Body," "Nine Words of the Secret Spell."

The three grandmaster cultivation techniques of Esoteric Sect, Li Xuan soon mastered them, and then smoothly began transforming them into Secret Martial Arts, rapidly reaching perfection using resources like Blood Qi Pills.

The fifth Demon Form Map emerged.

Incense swirling around, steaming continuously, among which sat a rather corpulent monk. Although the monk’s smile seemed kind, somehow it appeared a bit chilling. His eyes carried a smile, yet there was some chill in them. Those eyes wandered into the distance, as though penetrating this Demon Form Map and reaching the outside world.

Beneath the monk, several Vajras stood.

Map name: Thunderous Chant Engulfs the Zen.

This map was quite odd, featuring more than ten entities that could be visualized.

However, Li Xuan directly chose the corpulent monk because at a glance, he was clearly the central figure.

He initially thought it would go smoothly this time, but as he entered the corpulent monk, a terrifying consciousness clash overwhelmed him.

Without any hesitation, Li Xuan threw in 30 Spirit points.

However, this time, 30 points unexpectedly failed to suppress it.

Li Xuan was momentarily stunned, his brain suddenly felt like boiling, and an acute knife-piercing pain abruptly came without warning.

He hurriedly invested another 30 points.

With a full sixty points of Spirit, Li Xuan finally calmed down.

He glanced at his own panel.

[Li Xuan]

[Lifespan: 21/160]

[Realm: Third Realm]

[Demon Points: 30]

[Strength: 92/280]

[Agility: 151/280]

[Constitution: 200/280]

[Spirit: 151/280]

"Constitution" went from 109 to 200, then bounced a little at 200 and no longer increased.

Clearly, these 200 points were the limit of "Demon Form allocation," just as the "Secret Martial Arts allocation" also existed at a limit before.

’Thunderous Chant Engulfs the Zen, this map is peculiar.’

Li Xuan instinctively drew this conclusion.

He glanced again at his five Demon Form Secret Martial Root Maps.

’Moonlit Wind Skeleton Bewilders Vajra, Ice and Fire Flame Demon Destroys Heaven and Earth, The Battle of the Cyan Dragon and Vermilion Phoenix, Ten Yang Ice Silence Celestial Palace Destruction, Thunderous Chant Engulfs the Zen...’

’I always feel like these maps are revealing something.’

Li Xuan suddenly fell silent, then murmured, "Could it be about the Incense Fire Divine Realm?"

He shook his head, temporarily casting aside this thought, then started contemplating the changes in his body.

No matter what happened outside, he only needed to continuously become stronger.

Slay demons, diligently cultivate, expand incense fire, investigate Divine Realm, seek breakthroughs, and strive to return home early; this... was what Li Xuan was currently doing.