Jiang Yuechu's eyes flickered slightly, and she unceremoniously put the nine-bend purple bamboo into her Storage Pouch.
"What about the Cultivation Technique?"
She turned around and looked at Demon Emperor Jade Dust.
"Where is that Yu Shan True Form Diagram?"
Demon Emperor Jade Dust snapped out of it and hurriedly replied, "This Junior will go find it right away!"
After saying that.
This Deer Demon with a half-collapsed face truly put in twelve points of effort.
He rummaged through chests and cupboards.
He overturned stone platforms, opened secret compartments, and even crawled on the ground, flipping through every piece of clutter in the corners of the walls.
After working for a full half-incense stick's time.
From behind an inconspicuous stone altar in the deepest part of the treasury, Demon Emperor Jade Dust fished out a dust-covered iron box.
Holding the iron box in both hands, he walked quickly to Jiang Yuechu and presented it respectfully.
"Senior, it should be this item."
Jiang Yuechu took the iron box and opened the lid.
Inside lay a quiet, yellowed animal hide scroll.
The corners of the scroll were damaged, clearly not a complete item.
After unfolding it, densely packed text and bizarre diagrams met her eyes.
The diagrams depicted various mountain ranges of different shapes, with countless fine lines connecting them.
It looked like a map of Meridians, yet also like a Formation diagram, but not entirely either.
Jiang Yuechu read a few lines.
"What kind of ghost scribbles are these... they aren't even as well-drawn as this Emperor's..."
She muttered a sentence under her breath but still put the scroll away into her Storage Pouch.
She looked up at Demon Emperor Jade Dust: "Did that Old Monkey ever succeed in practicing this thing?"
Hearing this, Demon Emperor Jade Dust scratched the deer skin near his broken horn and said awkwardly, "To answer Senior... that old thing used to talk about this all day long in his earlier years."
He gave a bitter laugh.
"He would brag to everyone he met, saying that once this technique reached Major Achievement, the Divine Soul could condense into substance, and no means in heaven or earth could harm it in the slightest."
"But after bragging for thousands of years, there was no more news later on."
Demon Emperor Jade Dust lowered his voice, a hint of disdain appearing on his face: "This Junior estimates... he most likely couldn't practice it. After all, he's an old thing..."
Jiang Yuechu's expression remained unchanged.
She didn't respond to those words.
Couldn't practice it...
Just because Elder Tianzhu couldn't practice it didn't mean she couldn't.
Now she possessed nearly twenty million years of Dao Cultivation.
If she still couldn't practice this so-called Divine Soul Great Technique under such lavish expenditure.
Then she absolutely wouldn't believe anyone else in this world could practice it to Major Achievement.
Or perhaps, the person who created this Cultivation Technique was purely talking nonsense, intentionally deceiving future generations.
Having obtained what she wanted.
Jiang Yuechu naturally wouldn't be polite in the slightest anymore.
Her black sleeves fluttered.
The Storage Pouch at her waist glowed faintly.
Spiritual Plants, Ores, Magical Artifacts, Medicinal Pills.
Regardless of quality, and without asking about their origins or uses.
The vast underground treasury was instantly cleared out completely.
Having finished all this.
She straightened her cuffs, turned around, and prepared to leave coolly.
Demon Emperor Jade Dust stood stiffly on the spot.
He stared blankly at the empty treasury before him.
Even the few jade bricks on the floor containing Spiritual Qi had been conveniently pried away.
Wait...
Truly not a single reward?!
It was true that the old thing guarded against him, but usually, for those common cultivation resources, the old thing was never this stingy... at least he could get a share of the soup.
This new master was something else.
She ate everything up!
Sensing the emotional shift in the Demon Emperor behind her.
Jiang Yuechu stopped her footsteps.
She turned her head slightly, her deep, dark eyes glancing over indifferently.
"What, is there still a problem?"
Her cold voice echoed in the hall.
Demon Emperor Jade Dust shuddered, and the slight grumbling in his heart instantly vanished.
He suddenly bent his waist even lower, waving his hands repeatedly.
"No... this Junior has no problem..."
Jiang Yuechu gave a sneer.
Retracting her gaze, she put her hands behind her back and walked out of the treasury grandly.
Still wanting some reward.
The demons and monsters throughout Wangchuan Valley would sooner or later become part of her Dao Cultivation.
If she gave out Heaven And Earth Treasures as rewards now for these things to eat.
Wouldn't that be a total waste...
...
After leaving the underground treasury.
She didn't bother with Wang Ziyu and that Striped Fierce Tiger anymore.
Now in Wangchuan, the old master had just died.
With her, the new emperor of terrifying might, established, those demons trembling below hadn't even figured out her temperament or background yet.
Even if they were given ten times the courage, no one would dare to be so blind as to touch the people she brought in at this time.
She casually found a relatively intact, quiet place behind the main hall.
She brushed away the dust on the ground with her sleeve and sat down cross-legged.
Her black robes spread out.
With a flick of her wrist.
An icy stone box and a purple-red, nine-bend bamboo quietly appeared in her palm.
Ordinary Ascending the Tower Cultivators or demons would be as cautious as if walking on thin ice when refining heart materials.
They would need to find an absolutely safe place and carefully release their Primordial Spirit.
Using Soul Power, they would extract that wisp of heaven and earth rhythm from the heart material like peeling silk from a cocoon.
But now.
Jiang Yuechu looked down at the two top-grade heart materials in her hands.
There was no ripple in her dark eyes.
The talent of [Devil-Self Freedom] had already completely blended her Primordial Spirit and Physical Body, making them inseparable.
The Physical Body was the Primordial Spirit, and the Primordial Spirit was the Physical Body.
Where was the need for the tedious steps of Primordial Spirit Leaving the Body?
She directly raised her hand.
With a slight force of her fingers, she crushed the stone box to pieces.
The water-fire cold smoke coal was exposed to the air.
In an instant, the surrounding temperature plummeted, and frost rapidly spread from her fingertips.
Jiang Yuechu's expression remained unchanged.
Her blood and Qi were like a sleeping dragon awakening, letting out a deafening roar within her Meridians.
She suddenly closed her palm.
She forcefully grasped that mass of violent water-fire cold smoke coal into her flesh and blood.
There was no step-by-step guidance.
Only the most brutal devouring!
The extreme cold exploded within her body, but in an instant, it was firmly suppressed by her body's blood and Qi.
The pure spiritual rhythm was forcibly crushed, turning into a surging torrent that rushed into her body.
Immediately following.
Her other hand grabbed that nine-bend purple bamboo.
As soon as it touched her hand.
Countless purple phantoms, invisible to the naked eye, shrieked as they rushed up her arm straight toward her Spiritual Terrace.
But Jiang Yuechu only gave a cold snort.
The glow on the purple bamboo dimmed inch by inch.
Finally, it turned into a handful of purple ash, scattering through her fingers.
And the most pure Soul Power contained within had already completely poured back into her body.
Two surges of vast foundation belonging to top-grade heart materials.
Boisterously converged within her body.
The power of the Primordial Spirit was skyrocketing.
If it were in the past, when the Primordial Spirit grew stronger, the Physical Body could only act as a bystander container.
But now.
When the Primordial Spirit became stronger, the Physical Body became stronger.
Deep within her bones, a continuous sound of thunder rang out.
After an unknown amount of time.
Her aura finally slowly converged.
Everything returned to peace.
Jiang Yuechu slowly opened her eyes.
In her dark pupils, there seemed to be blue fire disappearing, and purple intent surging.
Four types of heart materials.
Complete.