The night was deep.
After offering a rare few words of comfort to the Emperor, Jiang Yuechu returned to her palace, feeling somewhat exhausted.
She closed the door behind her without lighting a lamp.
She walked straight to the brocade-covered soft couch and sat cross-legged.
The battle at Five Immortals Mountain seemed like an easy victory.
In reality, only she knew how much Dao Cultivation had been sacrificed to create that scene.
Two hundred thousand years of Dao Cultivation in exchange for a momentary state of invincibility.
Was it worth it?
Naturally, it was.
Not only did she eliminate a major threat, but she also found a path for the Incense God Dao for the Great Tang.
Jiang Yuechu took a deep breath and calmed her mind.
With a slight thought.
[host: Jiang Yuechu]
[Realm: Ascending Tower Third Level]
[Recorded Demons]
[great desolation four fierce beasts suppressing mountain chart: Tiger Mountain God, Mythical Ape, Green-Faced Gentleman, Black Mountain Bear Lord]
[Three Flood Dragons Roiling the Sea and Overturning the Sky Chart: White Flood Dragon Jiao Xu, Black Flood Dragon Jiao Chun, Red Scale Demon Venerable]
[White Ape Duke (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Qiankun Demon King (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Silver Bone Demon Venerable (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Huiyue Great Sage (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Great Sage Lingxu (Shadow Copy)]
[Six-Tailed Jade Fox (Shadow Copy)]
[Green Flood Dragon · Great Sage Qing Ming (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Yellow Flood Dragon · Little Dragon King (Heavenly Accomplishment)]
[Red Silk Ribbon Demon Emperor (Shadow Copy)]
Looking through it all, quite a few Demons had already been recorded in this book.
Jiang Yuechu's gaze fell upon a row of numbers.
[Current Dao Cultivation: 2,774,300 years]
If it were in the past.
Such a massive number would have been enough to make her wake up laughing from her dreams.
But now... as Jiang Yuechu looked at those names, her brows gradually furrowed.
With the rise in Realm, the consumption of Dao Cultivation also grew like a rolling snowball.
To upgrade a Lamp Lighting Realm Demon to Heavenly Accomplishment would easily cost hundreds of thousands of years of Dao Cultivation.
But to deduce an Denglou Realm Demon Emperor to an even higher Realm... the required Dao Cultivation would likely be an astronomical figure.
Not to mention.
The Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture still remained at the Entry level even to this day.
This Cultivation Technique was domineering, to be sure.
But to deduce it to the next Realm, who knew how much Dao Cultivation it would cost.
Jiang Yuechu sighed.
Even with millions of years of Dao Cultivation in hand, she was still a pauper on this long road of cultivation.
She still had to kill, still had to save.
She shook her head to dispel the stray thoughts in her mind.
She began to calculate the next path for allocating points.
If she poured her Dao Cultivation into these Demons, she could certainly obtain various divine abilities and talents... but not every Divine Ability or talent was guaranteed to provide a substantial boost to her actual combat power.
Moreover, she didn't seem to be lacking in means right now... rather than gambling on ethereal luck, it was better to pour the Dao Cultivation into her own foundation.
With that thought, Jiang Yuechu no longer hesitated.
"Deduce."
With a thought.
The numbers on the system panel flickered wildly, pouring down like water from a breached dam.
[Consumed 300,000 years of Dao Cultivation, Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture upgraded to proficiency]
Jiang Yuechu's eyelid twitched violently.
Three hundred thousand years?
Just to cross from Entry to proficiency cost three hundred thousand years.
If she wanted to push it to Perfection or even the supreme Realm, wouldn't she have to pour in millions of years of Dao Cultivation?
The next moment.
Her internal Qi Sea roared, letting out a muffled sound like thunder in the silent night.
Rolling black mist surged out.
Under the scouring of this black mist, Jiang Yuechu felt her entire body's muscles, bones, and flesh being reforged by an extremely domineering force.
Every inch of skin and every single bone greedily devoured this power.
Her Physical Body strength actually skyrocketed significantly within a few breaths.
What was even more heart-palpitating...
As the technique reached proficiency, all 365 major acupoints throughout her body lit up simultaneously.
Especially those acupoints where Demons were imprisoned.
Fierce demonic patterns emerged from beneath her skin.
In the pitch-black palace hall.
The young girl sat cross-legged, surrounded by surging black mist and covered in Demon patterns.
At first glance.
It was as if a new Demon Emperor had been born.
Jiang Yuechu slowly clenched her fist, surprised.
As expected... her choice was not wrong.
As this technique reached proficiency, the boost provided by each imprisoned demon soul increased significantly.
Since she had started, there was no reason to give up halfway.
She gritted her teeth, a trace of ruthlessness flashing in her eyes.
"Again!"
[Consumed 456,000 years of Dao Cultivation, Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture deduced to Minor Achievement]
Boom—!!!
An even more violent aura erupted from the girl's body.
As the technique entered Minor Achievement.
The acupoints in her body vibrated, and the remnant demon souls imprisoned within let out excited roars.
Amidst the surging black mist, the girl slowly opened her eyes.
In the depths of her eyes, two streaks of crimson blood-light actually overflowed.
The red light tore through the darkness, appearing exceptionally eerie and grim against the backdrop of the rolling black mist.
With such a Physical Body, even a Primordial Spirit at the late stage of the Denglou Realm who focused on Body Tempering would likely find it hard to be her match!
Calming her mind, her gaze fell back onto the system panel.
[Remaining Dao Cultivation: 1,718,300 years]
Jiang Yuechu hesitated for a moment.
It seemed the remaining Dao Cultivation wouldn't be enough to deduce this technique to the supreme Realm... Should she find a Demon to gamble on some luck?
In the worst-case scenario, she could just summon it and stuff it into a major acupoint.
[Consumed 314,000 years of Dao Cultivation, Six-Tailed Jade Fox deduced to Heavenly Accomplishment, obtained Demon Gift]
Buzz—
In her mind, there seemed to be an extremely plaintive fox cry.
This sound did not enter through the ears but resonated directly in the depths of her Divine Soul, leaving her mind dazed and giving rise to an inexplicable sense of sorrow.
[Obtained Divine Ability: Wretched Fox Cry]
[Wretched Fox Cry: Under the mournful cry, it breaks one's heart, confuses the mind, and those with weak Divine Souls will collapse upon hearing it.]
Jiang Yuechu frowned slightly.
Although it wasn't completely useless... this kind of method was, after all, considered an unorthodox trick.
For weak enemies, there was no need to use it.
If the enemy was much stronger than her, the effect probably wouldn't be significant... forget it.
Better to honestly allocate points to the Cultivation Technique.
There were about 1.4 million years left.
Jiang Yuechu did not stop.
"Continue."
As her thought fell, the Dao Cultivation slipped away like flowing water.
[Consumed 870,000 years of Dao Cultivation, Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture deduced to Major Achievement]
Rumble—
The Qi Sea in her body surged like rolling thunder.
Jiang Yuechu exhaled a long breath of turbid air.
She glanced at the remaining 500,000-plus years of Dao Cultivation and stopped her actions.
With this remaining Dao Cultivation, she couldn't really upgrade anything for now.
Better to keep it for emergencies.
She calmed the restless blood and Qi in her body.
Jiang Yuechu was in no hurry to get up; instead, she turned her gaze toward a Divine Ability she had obtained earlier.
[Flesh and Bone as Furnace: Can take Heaven And Earth Treasures, treasure artifacts, and Magical Artifacts to merge into one's own flesh and bone for nurturing, complementing each other to achieve the unity of person and artifact.]