The matter of the heart material was temporarily settled.
Next.
It was time for the most exciting moment: allocating points.
Jiang Yuechu summoned the interface.
She looked down.
[Current Dao Cultivation: 21,449,325 years]
Looking at this dazzlingly long string of numbers.
Even with Jiang Yuechu's current experience, her breathing couldn't help but heavy slightly.
Previously in Region City.
A single slaughter had harvested a courtyard full of demons.
Plus, she had casually crushed three Denglou Demon Emperors.
All in all.
Her Dao Cultivation reserves had already broken through the twenty million mark.
Reaching an unprecedentedly terrifying level.
Possessing such a vast foundation, Jiang Yuechu was in no hurry to upgrade her demon stats.
With a flick of her hand into the Storage Pouch, a tattered animal skin scroll obtained from the deepest part of the Wangchuan treasury quietly appeared in her palm.
Yu Shan True Form Diagram.
She spread it out across her knees.
The surface of the scroll was filled with obscure, twisted characters and strange lines; looking at it made one feel dizzy and nauseous.
Jiang Yuechu forced herself through the drowsiness.
She compelled herself to scan those complex diagrams from beginning to end.
Fortunately.
Regardless of whether she understood the true meaning within.
As long as her gaze passed over it, the System could always provide a response.
On the panel, a new line of text slowly emerged.
[Yu Shan True Form Diagram (Uninitiated)]
It began.
In the past, she had always been calculating and hesitant.
Now, holding over twenty million years of Dao Cultivation in her hands, she was full of confidence.
Naturally, there was no need to save anymore.
Jiang Yuechu murmured internally.
"Max it out."
Notification sounds overlapped continuously.
Until the final sound fell.
[Consumed 4,320,000 years of Dao Cultivation, Yu Shan True Form Diagram has reached supreme]
Jiang Yuechu looked at the number on the panel that had instantly shrunk by a large chunk.
Her brow furrowed slightly.
It actually consumed over four million years of Dao Cultivation in one go.
This price could not be called small.
One must know, in the past, pushing a Cultivation Technique to the supreme realm took at most a hundred thousand years or so.
Even the Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture consumed a bit more.
But what level was the Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture? And what level was this Yu Shan True Form Diagram?!
Could it be because she had never practiced the path of the Divine Soul before, and suddenly contacting a high-difficulty Divine Soul technique... caused the time required to increase?
However.
Just as this thought arose.
An indescribable, profound sensation exploded from deep within her Spiritual Terrace.
Jiang Yuechu's eyes closed slightly.
She carefully sensed the changes within her body.
If the previous [Untainted Pure Heart]...
...was able to neutralize an enemy's methods once they entered the body.
Then now.
This Divine Soul, tempered to the extreme through the Yu Shan True Form Diagram...
...was complete isolation.
There was simply no need to neutralize anything.
Because any offensive method targeting the Divine Soul couldn't even dream of entering her body by a single hair's breadth.
Not only that.
Jiang Yuechu slowly opened her eyes.
Within her pitch-black pupils, no brilliance leaked out.
She sat quietly where she was.
She didn't mobilize half a bit of blood-qi, nor did she circulate the slightest spiritual energy.
She merely shifted her thought slightly.
An invisible and intangible force diffused from within her body.
Ten zhang away.
A massive black boulder weighing several thousand jin.
Silently floated up.
Without any aura guiding it.
It just stopped in mid-air out of thin air.
Jiang Yuechu's eyelids lowered slightly.
Bang.
A muffled sound.
That incredibly hard black boulder instantly shattered and drifted away with the wind.
Will interfering with reality, the Divine Soul manifesting as substance...
"Isn't this just telekinesis..."
Jiang Yuechu quickly understood the meaning of this new method.
However.
This method of manifesting the Divine Soul as substance was merely a bonus.
The most important thing...
...was still that technique which forged her entire terrifying foundation.
The Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture.
Her gaze fell back onto the panel once more.
This extremely domineering Demonic Technique had shown no movement since being pushed to the realm of Perfection.
It wasn't for lack of Dao Cultivation... but because she had never found a decent Divine Soul technique.
Now that the technique had reached Major Achievement, it was naturally time to let it reach the summit.
Recalling the pain when she last added points to this technique to reach Perfection.
Even with a Heart-Nature like Jiang Yuechu's.
The corner of her eye twitched imperceptibly.
A faint lingering fear arose in her heart.
She took a deep breath.
Closed her eyes.
And hesitated no longer.
[Consumed 3,770,000 years of Dao Cultivation]
[Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture has reached supreme]
The moment the cold notification sound rang in her mind.
Dao Cultivation flowed away.
Jiang Yuechu's body suddenly stiffened, feeling as if the entire world was pressing down on her spine.
Boom.
Rolling black mist billowed out from the three hundred and sixty-five acupoints in her body.
In the blink of an eye.
It completely obscured the sky above the entire Wangchuan Valley.
The sky suddenly darkened.
Blotting out the sun, the momentum was terrifying.
Within Wangchuan Valley.
The several thousand demons who had just retreated to their respective Immortal Caves were all startled by this sudden phenomenon.
They walked out of their caves one after another, looking up at the sky blankly.
Even breathing became incredibly difficult.
They instantly thought of the new Demon Emperor...
Besides that great power who had crushed Elder Tianzhu with a wave of her hand, who else could create such a commotion...
Such a terrifying Demonic Technique.
Is this the foundation of the new Demon Emperor...
Inside the quiet place.
Jiang Yuechu sat cross-legged.
The countless demon souls she had slaughtered and imprisoned in her acupoints along the way shrieked and rampaged.
Residual resentment, unwillingness, and violence began to surge frantically under the crushing weight of the black mist.
If before, she merely relied on detaining demon souls to temper herself.
Now.
It was completely refining the demon souls to become a part of Jiang Yuechu.
What is Great Black Heaven?
The Heavenly Dao is clear, all things have their order.
Reversing Yin and Yang, transforming the body into a tribulation.
Devouring all laws, extinguishing life and death.
In this world, only I, the Great Black Heaven, am supreme!
The shrieking of the demon souls within her body grew weaker and weaker.
Finally, they fell completely silent.
Her terrifying foundation welcomed an unprecedented surge at this moment.
Her Physical Body and Primordial Spirit reached a nearly perfect state of harmony under the baptism of the black mist.
After a long time.
The black mist filling the sky began to roll back.
Following Jiang Yuechu's mouth, nose, and acupoints, it was all pulled back into her body.
Clarity returned once more to the sky above Wangchuan Valley.
When Jiang Yuechu opened her eyes.
Black mist filled her gaze, like an abyss.
If someone were present to look closely at this moment.
Just a trace of the aura occasionally flowing from the Girl in Black Robes would be enough to make one's heart and gall split with fear.
Jiang Yuechu slowly composed her mind.
Looking at the Dao Cultivation balance that had shrunk by a significant amount.
Her heart instead returned to a state of calm.
Now that the most critical techniques were resolved, her anxiety regarding Dao Cultivation wasn't as heavy as before.
But she didn't dare relax in the slightest.
After Denglou Perfection comes the Chess Player.
To forcibly cross this barrier.
She still didn't know how much Dao Cultivation would be needed to support it.
Twenty million years seemed like a lot.
When it actually came time to break through, it might not be enough.
Jiang Yuechu stood up indifferently.
Her black hem moved slightly.
Just as she was about to summon Jade Dust Demon Emperor to ask about the surrounding situation.
Above the sky, flames suddenly rose out of thin air.
Vast stretches of scorching firelight surged toward the horizon.
Heatwaves rolled down.
In just a few breaths, the entire sky was dyed a piercing crimson color.
Within Wangchuan Valley, the demons looked up in terror.
And on that crimson horizon.
A slender figure stood suspended in the air.
Red robes billowed incessantly in the scorching heatwaves.
The man had a face as handsome as carved jade, gazing indifferently at the ground below.
His gaze pierced through layers of heatwaves, landing directly in the depths of Wangchuan Valley.
Their gazes met across the distance.
A cruel sneer slowly curled at the corner of Wang Canglan's mouth.
"Finally... I've found you."