Chapter 48: Seed Spark of the Evil God (Part 1)

The method of cloud clear's cultivation is very simple, yet also extremely extreme, quite terrifying.

He uses the massive impact force of a waterfall to scatter all of his spiritual power, suffering severe damage to his life force as well. Then, in a state nearing the end of his energy and light, he squeezes and tears apart the limits of his spiritual power and body.

Because tearing through the limit means taking it a step further.

But in this process, a slightest misstep would mean certain death!

Afterward, he immerses himself in a potion created by the Demon Crab Vine. The Demon Crab Vine contains deadly poison, and it severely stimulates the body, causing cloud clear's cells to twitch and contract even after his consciousness has gone silent, accelerating the healing of his wounds and pushing his body's strength beyond its peak. As for the poison from the Demon Crab Vine, cloud clear has the Divine Poison Bead on his body, so it poses no threat at all.

These days, he has been following this path almost exclusively, like a maniac who doesn't care about death, desperately cultivating through the most extreme methods.

"Hmph, since you're determined to push yourself this hard, the princess certainly won't hold you back. So, when do you plan to finish conquering this waterfall?" Jolly said with a sweet, proud voice.

"Of course, until I've conquered this waterfall!" Cloud clear said resolutely, his eyes flashing with a hint of determination: "How can I conquer my goal if I can't even conquer a single waterfall?"

"Alright then, the princess will watch you take however long it takes to conquer this waterfall. But before that..." Jolly's small face suddenly turned away, a slight grimace appearing on her jaw: "Soon, go buy me a new set of clothes! Undergarments, outer garments, shoes, belts—everything!"

"……No need, I think this outfit looks good?" Cloud clear examined Jolly from head to toe, speaking earnestly.

"If you don't buy them, the princess will get angry." Jolly's body began to emit a cold killing intent.

"Fine, I'll go once I've recovered my spiritual power."

Cloud clear sat properly in the drug pool, steadied his heart, and felt his severely depleted spiritual channels gradually fill up. After a while, he suddenly asked: "Jolly, before you entered the Divine Poison Bead last time, there was a question you didn't answer… Where exactly are you from? Are you a princess of some imperial dynasty?"

Jolly stood up, her expression calm: "The princess is naturally a princess, but not a princess of any imperial dynasty. As for the place the princess comes from… It's a location so far away that even if the princess told you, you wouldn't know where it is!"

Jolly's appearance clearly didn't want to answer everything, so Cloud clear thought for a moment and said: "Since it's so far, why did you come to Lingyun City? Was it because someone chased you here?"

Jolly's small, delicate eyebrows suddenly drooped, speaking in a cold voice: "The people who chased the princess have all died, but the princess didn't expect they would have such a 'taboo' poison! The princess was unexpectedly caught off guard by it! The reason the princess came to this place was to find the five Demon God Secret Spots mentioned in the memory imprint brought by the Demon God's Blood. One of those Demon God Secret Spots' approximate location was in the Eastern region of the Cangfeng Empire. During her search, deadly poison suddenly began to act… The rest of the story, you already more or less know."

"The Demon God's five secret spots?" Cloud clear was clearly amazed.

"In the memory imprint of the Demon God, it was mentioned that this continent of Tianxuan was created by the Demon God back in the day. On this continent of Tianxuan, there were five places where he had made his refuge. Before he perished, he left five 'seeds' in these five locations. And he specially noted…" Jolly looked at Cloud clear: "Only those who inherit his power can find them!"

"So you're saying only I can find them?" Cloud clear was suddenly thrilled, quickly saying: "What exactly are these five seeds? How powerful are they? How can I find them?"

"Hmph, how would the princess know! But since they're things left by the Demon God, they certainly won't be weak. But, the best thing for you now is to put these extraneous thoughts aside. The power levels around the Demon God's secret spots, and the surrounding regions, must be extremely high, and certainly not something you can approach or touch! Wait until the day you can look down upon the entire Cangfeng Empire, then you can consider these matters then." Jolly spoke with a stern, autumnal tone.

"……" Cloud clear had no choice but to keep silent, putting his thoughts aside, and quietly recovering his spiritual power.

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Time passed seven days, and Xiao Kuang Yun was basically no longer able to be in Lingyun Town. Cloud clear took out a new set of clothes from the Divine Poison Bead and put them on, returning to Lingyun Town. His only purpose was to buy Jolly a new set of clothes.

But in the end, Cloud clear returned empty-handed……

Because the process was like this…

"Jolly, how does this outfit look? It seems pretty good."

"No! The princess never wears purple clothes!"

"Then, this one…"

"These clothes are so coarse! How could the princess wear such coarse clothes!"

"……This is a remote small town, and this shop's clothes are already among the most luxurious in town. Even if you wear them, it would be the same…"

"The princess, even if she doesn't wear anything, would never wear such coarse clothes! The princess doesn't want any of these clothes!" "……When I conquer the waterfall, I'll go to Xinyue City. There must be better clothes there. If you don't want these clothes, then we'll have to wait until then to buy them."

"Hmph!"

"How about… a pair of shorts first?"

"You… find… dead~~… I don't care if I kill you!"

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Unknowingly, four months quietly passed.

Red Dragon Mountains, waterfall in the mountains.

The season had quietly entered winter, and the waterfall's water began to grow colder and more biting. Yet beneath the towering waterfall, a youth stood upright. He was shirtless, eyes tightly closed, letting the icy, raging water pour over him, yet his face remained as unchanging as stone. His body, spiritual power surged desperately within, resisting the force of the water… until the last bit of spiritual power was completely exhausted.

Boom…

The youth's body began to tremble, then finally could no longer support himself, being crushed into the surging water pool below.

Struggling out of the water pool, Cloud clear gasped for breath, walking over to the small pool he had dug himself, dipping his body into it, then grabbing several black medicinal pills from the edge of the pool and swallowing them… These were low-level pills refined with iron sand vine from the herbs he gathered around the area, capable of slightly accelerating the recovery speed of spiritual power for a period of time.

After taking the recovery pill, Cloud clear let out a long sigh, closed his eyes, and entered meditation. All fifty-four spiritual gates opened, quickly recovering his severely depleted spiritual power.

These past few months, he had stayed by this waterfall, repeatedly tearing through his limits, yet under the immersion of Demon Crab Vine liquid, his body would not sustain permanent damage.

Jolly watched him from far away, saying nothing. She had grown accustomed to Cloud clear's reckless cultivation methods. He had apparently thought this level of cultivation could last only a few days as his limit, but to his immense surprise, it had been an entire four months, every day like this, without a single day of stopping or relaxing. Yet his crazy cultivation was not without reason. When he felt his body's load or injury was too great, he would immediately return to the pool soaked in Demon Crab Vine liquid, letting the injured body slowly recover and strengthen. As time passed, the amount of Demon Crab Vine he gathered each day increased, and the concentration of the Demon Crab Vine liquid grew thicker and thicker. Thick enough to be lethal to a nascent soul cultivator who immersed themselves in it for only five or six seconds.

One and a half hours later, Cloud clear opened his eyes, leapt out of the small pool, wiped his body, then picked up a leftover roasted rabbit leg from the previous meal and devoured it greedily.

"This time I lasted twenty-three seconds, slightly better than last time." Jolly came to his side, her small hands cupped over her delicate chest, saying calmly.

"At this rate, it'll take about a month and a half before you can break through to the fifth level of nascent soul. This speed is not bad."

Starting from zero, seven days to enter the first level of nascent soul, a month to enter the second level, two and a half months to enter the third level, ten days ago he broke through to the fourth level, such a speed was certainly not bad. In the history of cultivation in the Cangfeng Empire, this speed would be considered unprecedented.

Cloud clear now had all fifty-four spiritual gates open, knew the structure of his body and spiritual channels, as well as the process of cultivation methods, and combined with his relentless efforts day and night, could achieve such incredible speed, it's not exaggerated!

Now he was not only spiritually powerful compared to four months ago, his body had also become incredibly resilient. The enhancement of protective spiritual power was just a small part of it, the greater reason was the countless impacts from the waterfall and the immersion in Demon Crab Vine liquid over these few months. Although his current spiritual power was only at the fourth level of nascent soul, his body's strength might even surpass that of a sixth-level nascent soul cultivator.

"Mmm… then… when… will you teach me some martial arts? You've been calling me your master for four months now, and you've taught me nothing!" Cloud clear said while taking a big bite, his words somewhat unclear.

"The basic cultivation path you clearly know inside and out, there's no need for the princess to teach you." Jolly crossed her small face, displaying the dignity of a master: "What you need to do now is to solidify your nascent soul. When you break through to nascent soul and reach the entry stage, the princess will naturally teach you martial arts."

When she said this, Jolly's eyes suddenly changed slightly, and her voice also lowered: "Someone has arrived."

"People come every day, right?" Cloud clear said offhandedly.

"A total of five people, all of them are at the Tianxuan realm. And one of them has already reached the halfway point to Wangxuan!" Jolly's eyebrows slightly narrowed, her voice becoming slightly serious.

"Wh… what!!!" Cloud clear nearly bit his tongue, shouting in surprise with a stifled voice.

Tianxuan realm? In this small Red Dragon Mountains beside Lingyun Town, how could there be Tianxuan realm cultivators? The Tianxuan realm was a realm that people like Zhui Yuelu could reach, a peak figure in the Cangfeng Empire, a transcendent existence revered by people!

And the halfway to Wangxuan, a martial artist whose spiritual power reached the peak of Tianxuan realm, just half a step away from Wangxuan realm, a super-strong figure capable of touching the top ten figures in the Cangfeng Empire!

These kinds of people are generally born in those vast sects, and within those great sects, they are also extremely high-ranked, and ordinary people rarely see them in everyday life, how could they appear in this remote place? And not just one, but five of them all at once!