Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 951 - 91: Consider You Passed

This Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon—isn’t it just too difficult to deal with? Qiu Changtian’s expression was solemn.

Over so many days, he tried using the Tai Yin Suming Sword to pierce and kill it, the Innate Formless Divine Light to melt it, and even the Huangting Kunwu Sword to summon mountains to suppress it.

But no matter what methods he used to uproot it completely, the demon would reappear within a second from some unknown place and instantly recover to its original form.

This Human cultivator—isn’t he just too difficult to deal with? The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon also appeared grim-faced.

It wasn’t as if it was some kind of masochist deliberately showing off the "you can’t kill me" performance. Every time Qiu Changtian attacked, it tried its best to dodge in various ways.

But no matter how it disguised its presence, the opponent could always pinpoint its position immediately, as though a monitoring device had been placed on it... and then unleashed sword strikes, divine light sweeps, and even the colossal weight of Mount Tai crashing down on its head.

If not for the fact that the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon was immortal and indestructible, it would have already been obliterated countless times by now.

There’s no other choice—just stall for time! Qiu Changtian thought silently to himself.

After all, it’s only a trial in the secret realm. Just hold out until everyone else has died, and save his own end for last.

For now, it seems we can only compete in endurance. The Heavenly Demon also mused darkly to itself.

Although it was absurd for a Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon to fail at taking down a mere Nascent Soul Realm Human cultivator, the truth was that the opponent’s bizarre techniques kept emerging one after another—a barrage of top-tier flying swords, Daoist magic, magical treasures flung about as if he didn’t need them. It had no confidence it could defeat him quickly—its only option was to wait for the opponent to run out of True Yuan and then strike a fatal blow.

Both sides unknowingly reached the same conclusion, and so they each slowed their offensive pace, focusing on conserving energy and preparing for a war of attrition.

Several days passed. Qiu Changtian seemed fine, but the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon began sensing something was off.

This Human cultivator’s True Yuan—why does it seem endless, as though it cannot deplete?

It immediately grew suspicious and tangled with Qiu Changtian for a long while, eventually uncovering the truth:

Each time it transformed its physical form into black mist, which necessitated shifting perception from visual to a kind of Divine Sense, its sensory capabilities would momentarily fail—similar to how Humans blink their eyes, with their vision fleetingly disappearing, though most wouldn’t sense their own blinking.

Yet this Human cultivator had been precisely exploiting these split-second opportunities, swiftly tossing an elixir from his sleeve into his mouth, then slowly refining it to restore True Yuan... while the demon revelled in its dream of "wearing down the opponent," completely neglecting the fact that the other side was secretly "cheating"!

Realizing this, the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon erupted in fury.

It had always been the demon’s prerogative to toy with its prey, but this time it was a hunter boldly making a mockery of it!

Infuriated, it viciously drove its demonic techniques, unleashing boundless black mist that engulfed nearly the entire Heavenly Gate Hall Secret Realm.

This wasn’t ordinary demonic qi; it was dubbed the "Nine Heavens Ten Earths Blood Transforming Demonic Art," a fog that would instantly dissolve the flesh of any Human cultivator who came into contact with even a trace, leaving them incurable by medicine or elixir.

Qiu Changtian brought his hands together, activating the Five Elements Divine Light to repel the Blood Transforming Demonic Qi, keeping it firmly at bay.

The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon quickly altered its strategy, forming countless fine ice needles within the demonic fog.

The Tura Great Mystical Needle, when motionless, appeared semi-transparent. Once in flight, it became entirely invisible; those struck by it would instantly freeze, their body tissues die off, the icy chill invade inward, and rescue become impossible.

However, Qiu Changtian possessed scanning capabilities, and although the Great Mystical Needle flew soundlessly and imperceptibly, it couldn’t escape his discerning eyes.

With just a gesture, he summoned the Five Elements Divine Light, immobilizing all approaching Mystical Needles, then using the Five Elements Generation power to dissolve them completely.

Frustrated beyond bearing, the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon finally amplified its speed to the maximum, bolting directly toward Qiu Changtian with full force.

Qiu Changtian calmly brought his hands together, activating the Five Elements Divine Light against the demon. Its body was instantly obliterated by ninety-nine percent.

The demon reappeared as black smoke in the distance and roared in exasperation:

"Five Elements Divine Light... It’s always the Five Elements Divine Light! Do you seriously have no other abilities?!"

Responding was a massive mountain peak that suddenly materialized above its head, crashing down with overwhelming force.

The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon swiftly shifted into a formless state, dodging the broad attack of Mount Tai’s descent, then reemerged in the distance.

"Human, what’s your name?" Instead of attacking immediately, the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon suddenly asked.

"My Daoist title is Changgeng," Qiu Changtian replied leisurely.

"Changgeng, eh." The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon sneered and said, "This world is already entering the final phase of destruction—you’ll die sooner or later. Instead, why not let me devour you directly? At least I can guarantee you’ll feel no pain!"

"Heh." Qiu Changtian also sneered and said, "You are nothing but an illusion conjured by the secret realm, not even a real demon. Why prattle on so much?"

Just as the Heavenly Demon was about to retort, its figure abruptly froze.

The elder who had appeared earlier suddenly reemerged in front of Qiu Changtian, looking at him with an odd expression, and asked:

"Since you knew it was a manifestation of the secret realm, why did you bother conversing with it?"

"Senior," Qiu Changtian cupped his hands in respect and replied, "Because I couldn’t find a way to win, I could only stall for time."

"But I told you, the trial is about fortune and fate," the elder said with displeasure. "Using such petty tricks—isn’t it against the criteria I set ahead of time?"

"The opponent failed to see through my time-stalling strategy. Even if ninety-nine percent of my success is due to my own capabilities, doesn’t one percent still count as fortune?" Qiu Changtian said in astonishment.

The elder: .........

He was stunned for quite a while before finally speaking:

"Though your explanation is quite far-fetched, it doesn’t violate the rules I set beforehand... Besides, being able to find this place is, in some sense, a matter of luck."

"I placed a Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon here. Normally, a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator who reached this place wouldn’t survive, so this fortune would clearly be seen as bad luck."

"Yet you happen to possess so many life-saving techniques, surviving the demon’s onslaught. Isn’t this perhaps a reversal of misfortune into good luck?"

As the elder spoke, he gradually fell into deep thought, while Qiu Changtian stared at him in disbelief.

Wait—did you get things wrong? Normally, a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator encountering the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon, sure, that would be bad luck. But I survived because my abilities are outrageously powerful—what does this have to do with misfortune flipped into fortune?

Suddenly, as if compelled by some unseen force, Qiu Changtian blurted:

"Senior, why did you deliberately place a Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon in the depths of the Kunlun Mountain Range?"

"Because this was once my own residence," the elder replied indifferently. "I just needed some watchdog to guard the premises."

This place was his domain?

Qiu Changtian turned back and finally noticed the ancient image of the Taiqing Heavenly Sovereign enshrined in the local earth temple, whose facial features… couldn’t be said to merely resemble the elder—they were identical down to the last detail.