Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning-Chapter 262 - Turns Out Cursing Costs Money

Chapter 262: Turns Out Cursing Costs Money

The art of cursing is divided into two types: area curses and specific curses.

Area curses affect the target’s fortune, ranging from minor inconveniences to being struck down by thunder as if rejected by heaven and earth.

Such curses are not easy to cast and carry a great risk of backlash.

Some people in the world of cultivation curse others before they die, with a very high success rate.

They do so at the cost of everything they have, returning to heaven and earth and becoming part of it with no further involvement in the cycle of reincarnation.

Few living people cast such curses, as insufficient personal fortune could lead to a backlash greater than the curse itself.

The art of cursing is difficult to master and not widespread, in part for this reason.

Specific curses, on the other hand, target a particular aspect, body part, or event.

They have less backlash, lower costs, and a higher success rate.

Cursing is an art distinct from spells, characterized by its difficulty to eradicate and its persistence.

Take, for example, a simple rotting curse.

If the curse is not lifted, the rotting will continue indefinitely, even if the flesh heals.

However, such simple curses are not much in the world of cultivation, as most people have the means to deal with them.

After skimming through the books, Jiang Hao realized that cursing and the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead have something in common.

“No wonder the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead can suppress curses; it’s essentially a massive curse itself.”

“But cursing someone is much more complicated than I thought.”

Initially, Jiang Hao thought it only required simple materials and the correct incantations.

That would be enough to cast a curse.

But in reality, it’s not that simple.

The right timing, location, and people, along with formations, materials, and spirit stones, are all essential.

It turns out that the art of cursing requires a large number of spirit stones to avoid backlash.

The more spirit stones used, the lighter the backlash.

Otherwise, one would suffer from an unknown curse, which often harms the body.

If it’s a curse on fortune, one would be plagued with bad luck.

After much hesitation, Jiang Hao decided to try cursing first. If it didn’t work, he would think of other methods.

In any case, he couldn’t let Bai Ye become the chief.

For a moment, Jiang Hao pondered whether to curse Bai Ye’s cultivation or his body.

“First, I need to prepare the materials.”

Firstly, a curse requires waiting for an auspicious time; night is most suitable when all is quiet and there are fewer disturbances.

Secondly, the location is important, as a good position increases the success rate.

Furthermore, the spellcaster must align the curse formation with their birth time.

Jiang Hao surveyed the courtyard and then identified the direction of the Hundred Bones Forest.

He then began to draw the curse formation.

The name of the formation was the Tri-Unity Formation.

It was divided into two main parts: one for placing the cursed object and the other for the spellcaster’s own formation.

Around the spellcaster’s formation was another part, which was for the substitute.

After that, materials with considerable spiritual energy, such as beast blood, beast heads, and spiritual medicines, were required.

The books noted that without these items, success would be difficult to achieve.

Jiang Hao had no choice but to purchase these materials, eventually spending sixty spirit stones on some of them.

Sixty wasn’t too expensive, but to ensure success, it was best to continue the curse for over seven days...

The consumption of materials was not insignificant.

......

At night.

Once everything was ready, Jiang Hao intended to curse the other party’s cultivation level.

He didn’t aim to reduce it, but at least to prevent any progress.

At that moment, Jiang Hao placed the Ruyi Mountain Shield within the formation while he sat on the other side.

He didn’t use spirit stones; he wanted to endure the backlash himself to see.

With the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead, some of the curse’s backlash wouldn’t harm him.

He also wanted to understand the power of the curse to prevent others from cursing him.

The curse began, and the formation started to emit a faint glow.

Once Jiang Hao confirmed the curse, the beast blood in the formation began to burn, the beast heads gradually turned to ash, and the spiritual medicines withered at a visible rate.

At this moment, the Ruyi Mountain Shield lit up, seemingly carrying out the curse.

Jiang Hao felt enveloped by a dark aura, his flesh withering away bit by bit.

It was the backlash of the curse.

But as it withered, the divine ability Withered Tree Meets Spring automatically activated.

The withering was directly replenished by the divine ability.

Seeing this, Jiang Hao was quite pleased and increased the intensity.

The light grew stronger, and his flesh withered faster, far exceeding the pace of divine ability repair and self-healing.

Jiang Hao was unconcerned; if he could withstand the curse’s backlash, then Bai Ye might also be able to withstand it.

As long as he couldn’t stop the backlash, the other party would definitely not be able to either.

It really was a case of damaging oneself to harm the enemy.

For a while, Jiang Hao continued to increase the intensity until the point when self-healing was almost ineffective, and then he stopped.

The light from the Ruyi Mountain Shield carried a deep blackness.

“This should be effective now.”

Breaking away from the curse, Jiang Hao immediately took out the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead.

The continuous damage to his flesh abruptly ceased.

Withered Tree Meets Spring and bodily healing had a noticeable effect.

By noon, he had fully recovered, but the backlash of the curse was always there, merely suppressed.

Fortunately, Jiang Hao felt that Withered Tree Meets Spring could dissolve the curse.

Otherwise, he would have to think of another way.

Afterward, Jiang Hao left the courtyard to go to the Spiritual Medicine Garden.

After handling the spiritual medicines and buying materials, he returned to continue the curse.

In this way, Jiang Hao cursed Bai Ye for a month.

The reason he stopped was that the spirit stones he had earned that month, along with some leftovers, were all spent.

He had to stop.

At this time, Jiang Hao felt his body was full of curses, and even with his Nascent Soul cultivation, he couldn’t last very long.

However, with the Primordial Purple Qi, he could suppress it somewhat.

But the effect was not as good as the Heavenly Extreme Calamity Bead.

After all, one only needed to carry the bead.

At this moment, Withered Tree Meets Spring was continuously dissolving the curse, and with the Primordial Heart Sutra, it wouldn’t take long for the backlash from the curse to disappear.

“Since I can suppress the curse and have a divine ability to dissolve it, why not go for something bigger?”

Jiang Hao thought about casting a wide-range curse to make everything go wrong for Bai Ye.

But after looking at the materials, he gave up...

It would cost at least three hundred spirit stones for one attempt.

Continuing like this, he wouldn’t be able to stop without several thousand.

In short, he was somewhat poor.

For a moment, he was curious about how many spirit stones “Gui” had used to curse the Flood Dragon.

With a sigh, he looked at his status panel.

【Name: Jiang Hao】

【Age: 25】

【Cultivation: Mid-stage Nascent Soul】

【Cultivation Techniques: Tianyin Hundred Revolutions, Primordial Heart Sutra】

【Divine Abilities: Nine Revolutions Death Replacement (unique), Daily Appraisal, Clear Heart and Pure Mind, Hidden Spirit Manifestation, Divine Might, Withered Tree Meets Spring】

【Vital Energy: 46/100 (can be cultivated)】

【Cultivation: 44/100 (can be cultivated)】

【Divine Abilities: 0/3 (cannot be acquired)】

“Twenty-five years old? That’s right, it’s already mid-January.”

“So there’s about six months left until Bai Ye challenges Man Long.”

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Hao felt that the intensity was still not enough; he must save some money and try again.

It meant that the rebirth of the peach tree would have to wait until next year.

This time, he would need at least twenty thousand spirit stones.

He definitely couldn’t save up that many.

Another divine ability fragment wouldn’t change anything; better to delay for a year.

It’s worth mentioning that of the ten bottles of Foundation Establishment stage pills he bought back, not a single one was genuine.

He discovered that the chief was also quite poor.

He was swindled out of fifty spirit stones.