Chapter 335: Chapter 183: Traps Within the Blood Corpse Mushrooms, Feng Jue’s Insights

After the Tier Two Lower Grade Blood Corpse Mushroom was taken out, it was about one foot high, and its entire body was black with corpse qi, several times more substantial than the Tier One Blood Corpse Mushroom, probably making it excellent for corpse nurturing. Fortunately, Feng Jue was there this time; without him as a shield, these ten mushrooms would have been hard to obtain.

However, as Wen Jiu examined them closely, he noticed that they differed from the Tier One Blood Corpse Mushrooms, containing a large amount of sinister death energy, with just one equivalent to the entire Corpse Remains Death Land at Feixian Peak.

Initially, this was something to be happy about, as he needed death energy to practice the Yinzhou Heterodox Record.

But the death energy in the Tier Two Lower Grade Blood Corpse Mushroom was somewhat unusual. While a typical Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s Divine Sense couldn’t detect it, the perception of the East Spring Undying Bone could clearly perceive a trace of special demonic energy within.

It was subtle, yet not Yin Demonic Qi. When Wen Jiu probed with the perception of the East Spring Undying Bone, it always brought a sense of unease, as if swimming in a cold pond, with eyes constantly watching from the bottom.

"Luckily, I’m not the one using it, so there’s nothing to worry about." Wen Jiu directly used the East Spring Undying Bone to refine the corpse mushroom.

A whole night passed before the Tier Two Blood Corpse Mushrooms were completely refined by the East Spring Undying Bone. By the time midnight arrived the next day for the daily settlement, the harvest was substantial. The Tier Two Lower Grade Blood Corpse Mushrooms provided a total of 500 points of corpse nurturing experience.

Quite a lot.

A single Tier Two Lower Grade Corpse Mushroom could sustain corpse nurturing in the Little Demon Realm for about forty days.

Ten mushrooms equal four hundred days, a full five thousand experience points.

"The Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect indeed has something remarkable; the corpse nurturing effect of these Blood Corpse Mushrooms is so powerful. In the future, those left-path evil cultivators who gain the planting method will inevitably plant them without reservation... As a result, their entanglement with the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect will only deepen.

As this continues, it’s impossible for the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect not to grow stronger. If their sect leader can become a Heterodox Golden Core, it might be another Wind and Cloud Immortal City. However, this method is too extreme.

Once these Blood Corpse Mushrooms become known, even the Wusheng Three Gates will likely target them, and if a Golden Core Cultivator causes trouble, it might be counterproductive and do more harm than good. Thus, it seems the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect has deeper intentions with its methods."

Given this, Wen Jiu was even less inclined to cultivate corpse mushrooms himself.

Better to buy them.

In the future, when more people start cultivating corpse mushrooms, he would just spend some Flower Spirit Stones to buy them, although he would have to spend some time gaining Yin Talisman Master experience.

Luckily, he had no desire to go anywhere at the moment, even when the Demon Corpse sought a place to cross the tribulation with the East Spring Undying Bone and Three Thousand Blood Inks accompanying it. He wouldn’t go, so he had plenty of time.

Letting his thoughts wander, Wen Jiu glanced at the daily settlement’s gains—acquired 2000 points of death energy.

Not much, not little.

Two thousand points of ordinary death energy only equaled a thousand points of True Spirit Demon Death Qi, and he currently had less than three thousand points of True Spirit Demon Death Qi. Adding the over twenty-four hundred points of ordinary death energy, there was still a long way to go before reaching mastery of the Yinzhou Heterodox Record, but at least minor mastery didn’t affect Foundation Establishment.

Once the Demon Corpse successfully crossed the tribulation, he planned to establish his foundation simultaneously.

With the Power of the Three Corpses, along with his own power, anyone who came at the early stage of Foundation Establishment would die, and he had an eighty- to ninety-percent certainty of killing someone at the middle stage. Even if the other side had protective talismans, he had Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi.

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Another few days passed.

Wen Jiu stayed in, fully focused on corpse nurturing while controlling the Three Thousand Blood Inks to cultivate the Corpse Fate Technique.

Though the Little Demon Realm was not an Innate Death Land, cultivating the Corpse Fate Technique was no less effective than the Prohibition of Living People.

During this period, Chen Li moved into a new residence and broke through to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, sending Wen Jiu an invitation. However, Wen Jiu refused, citing corpse nurturing, and only sent Feng Jue with three Tier One Top-Grade Talismans as gifts.

Three Tier One Top-Grade Talismans were worth tens of thousands, a gift not affordable by a typical early-stage Foundation Establishment. However, considering Chen Li was now at the middle stage and a Tier Two Middle-Grade Yin Alchemy Master, his breakthrough celebration would surely include middle-stage Foundation Establishment attendees, so Wen Jiu decided to be more generous.

As for why he didn’t go, it wasn’t really due to corpse nurturing; Wen Jiu encountered a problem.

As the number of refined Blood Corpse Mushrooms increased, an unformed strand of demonic qi appeared within the East Spring Undying Bone, which his Divine Sense couldn’t detect, only perceptible to the East Spring Undying Bone’s own senses.

Though this demonic qi was special, it could still be removed with Spirit-Extinguishing Corpse Qi. However, Wen Jiu was very curious about what this demonic qi truly was and why it was hidden in the Tier Two Blood Corpse Mushrooms.

Was it intentional by the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect?

Or unintentional?

So Wen Jiu planned to observe it within the East Spring Undying Bone for a few days, waiting for it to form before searching for information on this demonic qi through the soul memory of the Demon Soul, to confirm some things.

He worried the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect was targeting the entire group of left-path evil cultivators in the Little Demon Realm.

When the East Spring Undying Bone refined all ten Tier Two Lower Grade Blood Corpse Mushrooms, that strand of demonic qi gradually formed. On the day it formed, the East Spring Undying Bone felt no discomfort; it did nothing but silently released a special essence that strengthened the corpse body of the East Spring Undying Bone.

This change in the corpse body was noticeable even without the East Spring Undying Bone’s perception; Wen Jiu could feel it himself.

"If an ordinary Corpse Nurturer saw this scene, they’d be particularly shocked," Wen Jiu murmured to himself, awaiting the midnight daily settlement. As the daily settlement arrived, a piece of new information caused Wen Jiu’s expression to change.

The East Spring Undying Bone automatically acquired a special method; it was not a Corpse Technique, but it could be enhanced.