The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 390 The Secret of the Iron Sheet
Once swallowed, the Golden Body Pill immediately dissolved within the body, its powerful medicinal properties spreading throughout.

The medicinal power surged through his body like golden magma, spreading from his physical form to his inner world.

Within the body, the Insect Lord God stands in the inner landscape, surrounded by stars of the universe. The ferocious insect cauldron resides in the center like a star, with the Myriad Insect Star-Eating Sword and the Myriad Insect Prison-Suppressing Tower on his left and right sides, respectively.

Strands of golden medicinal power permeated the interior, resembling golden branches that continuously took root and sprouted within this interior space, which resembled a dark, deep universe.

The golden medicinal power continued to extend towards the image of the Insect Lord God.

Wherever it went, the true essence and divine sense within the body were constantly refined, as if all that it had learned and comprehended was being extracted, becoming purer and more condensed.

After Su Yan's learning was integrated into the Ferocious Insect Technique, he had already found his own path. Now, with the help of the Golden Body Returning to Origin Pill, the process of shaping his Dharma Image into a golden body is naturally even smoother.

In just a quarter of an hour, Su Yan's true essence had increased by at least 30%, and the aura of the Insect Lord God Venerable had also greatly increased.

In the universe of ferocious insects, the stars symbolizing countless ferocious insects are also gathering the power of insect essence and injecting it into the Insect Lord God.

In an instant, the energy surged like a torrent, continuously increasing until it finally crossed the checkpoint steadily.

The Sixth Heaven of the Dharma Realm

Su Yan smiled. He had only broken through to the fifth level of the Dharma Aspect Realm less than three months ago. After the fifth level, each realm was a new barrier. He thought that breaking through to the sixth level of the Dao Realm would require about a year of accumulation.

However, his own ferocious insects are currently making breakthroughs one after another.

The Lava Giant Scorpion is in the late stage of maturity, and is only one step away from the metamorphosis stage.

The ancient insects of the spirit realm have entered their mature stage, as have the spring and autumn withering and flourishing insects.

All three possessed late-stage fourth-order strength, and the insect essence they fed back was far greater than before, naturally enabling them to assist Su Yan in breaking through to the fifth level of the Dharma Aspect Realm.

Not to mention that Su Yan wasted his time by using the Returning Origin Golden Body Pill at this critical moment.

After using two Golden Body Returning Pills, it wasn't just a simple breakthrough; his foundation and roots were also strengthened.

Su Yan consolidated his cultivation before taking out the fragments of the Frost Bee Bag and the mysterious iron piece.

The Frost Bee Bag is pure white, and just holding it in your hand exudes a chilling aura. If a martial artist at the Danqiao Realm were to touch it carelessly, they might suffer frostbite.

"It's less like fragments and more like they were deliberately separated."

Su Yan glanced at the edge of the cold bee bag. It looked like a broken piece, but the key inscription was not damaged. Instead, it was relatively intact.

This is why even a fragment of a Saint-grade Dao Weapon can retain the power equivalent to a fifth-grade Dao Weapon.

The Cold Bee Bag did not recognize a master and was as active as a Taoist weapon.

As Liu Yinxi said, as long as the fragments of the Cold Bee Bag are refined, one can naturally obtain the cultivation techniques within and gain a portion of the inheritance.

However, Su Yan did not make a move directly. His eyes flickered slightly as he thought to himself, "Using the Frost Bee Bag as a catalyst, he probably obtained more than one Frost Bee Bag. This technique may have other motives."

One should always be wary of others; who knows whether this Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint is dead or alive?
A character capable of slaughtering millions of people is definitely not a kind soul.

Su Yan then activated the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, which trembled violently. Just like when he refined the Poison Dragon Sword, the cauldron instantly disappeared into the Cold Bee Bag.

The sack of bees suddenly vibrated, instantly releasing an astonishing chill. The entire courtyard crackled and sputtered, instantly covered with a layer of white frost.

Su Yan continuously poured his true essence into the Ferocious Insect Cauldron. As his strength increased, although he still couldn't directly use the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, he could easily activate it and borrow its power.

As time went by, the released cold air was gradually suppressed, and the Dao soldier's essence hidden in the cold bee bag was completely subdued by the power of the ferocious insects.

Su Yan entered the Cold Bee Bag with his mind. At this moment, although the surface of the Cold Bee Bag was still pure white, many blood-red lines had appeared in the key areas.

The sixth-grade superior-quality "Extreme Cold Insect Demon Technique"!
The cultivation technique flooded into his mind, and Su Yan immediately memorized this profound technique.

With the cultivation of Extreme Ice Insect Demons as its core, it specializes in cultivating a single stream of extreme demonic cold energy, using countless cold insects as a medium to dominate the frozen domain.

This technique is undeniably domineering. Before reaching the Danqiao realm, the methods might be slightly weaker, with the cultivated cold insects as the core.

After reaching the Danqiao stage, his style completely resembled that of the Northern Priests, manipulating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to form attacks.

"I thought the Extreme Cold Insect Demon could only be cultivated using the Extreme Ice Insect Mother. Its foundation is actually an innate cold energy, with insects as the medium."

The Extreme Ice Insect Mother is the plan of the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint. It is formed by transforming the Ice Insect, the Frost Blade Spirit Insect, the Extreme Ice Ancient Insect, and finally the Extreme Ice Insect Mother, and then raising that wisp of extreme cold energy into extreme cold demonic energy, thus forging the Extreme Cold Insect Demon.

At that time, with a body made of solid ice, he was immortal and indestructible, making him one of the few martial saints below even the terrestrial immortals.

And there is certainly a possibility of going even further.

Su Yan naturally had the ability to cultivate this technique and then nurture his own Extreme Cold Insect Demon.

However, with the alien insects readily available, it seems there's no need to select one separately.

Deep within the Frost Insect Bag, surrounded by tens of thousands of Ice-Melting Insects, a fist-sized blue ice crystal contained a larva—the Frost Blade Spirit Insect.

"They've really prepared everything."

The Frostblade Spirit Insect is of a higher grade than the Ice Melting Insect, and is considered a third-tier superior bloodline.

However, this spirit insect is still in its larval stage, and its strength is only at the late stage of the second tier.

Clearly, this was specially prepared for inheritance, so that those who obtained the Frost Bee Bag could better refine the spirit insects.

Liu Yinxi only roughly investigated the situation of the cold bee bag, but in order to preserve its value, she obviously did not refine it further.

"It's a good opportunity to form a contract with both the Mountain-Devouring Worm and the Soul-Eating Worm."

Su Yan released the Mountain-Eating Worm Eggs and the Soul-Eating Worms.

The Soul-Devouring Insect, which had been sealed within the Spirit-Sealing Artifact, has now recovered over time and is showing signs of awakening, instinctively resisting.

Refining!

Su Yan grasped the spirit-sealing artifact, and the power of the ferocious insects immediately surged out from the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, enveloping the Soul-Devouring Insects.

The Soul-Eating Insect struggled fiercely, but faced with the powerful force from the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, it was quickly tamed, turning into a wisp of red light and disappearing into the Ferocious Insect Cauldron.

【Soul-Eating Insect 1/100 (Early Stage)】

As the Soul-Devouring Insect was refined, a surge of insect essence flowed from its body into Su Yan's body. Although it was not as high as the insect essence produced by the Molten Mountain Giant Scorpion and others, its quality was still very high.

"Around the late stage of the third rank, after a period of further cultivation and the absorption of living souls, one can break through to the fourth rank."

Su Yan was quite satisfied with the state of the Soul-Devouring Insects, and then followed the same method, covering the Mountain-Swallowing Insect Eggs with the power of the ferocious insects.

The surface of the Mountain-Swallowing Insect egg immediately became covered with dense spiritual patterns, and in a daze, one could see a huge beetle, its body jet black and its armor as hard as rock, inside the egg. Su Yan took out thirty million yuan stones and spread them all over the small courtyard.

The 30 million yuan stones are not all first-tier yuan stones, but rather 30,000 fourth-tier yuan stones of equal value.

Thirty thousand spirit stones were laid out around the Devouring Mountain Worm, but in an instant, one-fifth of its spiritual power was absorbed.

The Mountain-Swallowing Worm had already reached its hatching period. In order to ensure that it would not hatch before the auction and cause unnecessary trouble, Tianbao Pavilion used a sealing technique to control the worm eggs.

Now that Su Yan has begun the contract, the natural seal has failed, and a cracking sound has been heard as a mountain-devouring worm larva, about half the size of a person, hatches from its shell.

Most of the fourth-tier elemental stones were absorbed, and the newly hatched Mountain-Devouring Worm swallowed them one by one.

The power of the Ferocious Insect Cauldron enveloped the Mountain-Swallowing Insect, and with the penetration of the power, the Mountain-Swallowing Insect was immediately successfully refined.

【Mountain-Eating Insect 1/100 (Early Stage)】

As the powerful insect energy surged into his body, Su Yan felt a jolt.

After the two finished, it was finally the turn of the Frostblade Spirit Insect.

Su Yan raised his hand to refine it. The icy blade-like spirit insect was quickly permeated by the power of the ferocious insect and transformed into Su Yan's ferocious insect.

He focused his attention on the Extreme Cold Insect Demon Technique.

As the various mysteries, secret techniques, and moves of the cultivation method flashed through his mind, he couldn't help but think: "My Ferocious Insect Technique is based on the Star Constellation Mystic Beast Technique. Although it incorporates many cultivation methods and uses the Poison Dragon Mystic Technique as a progression, it is still a bit lacking. It has only just reached the threshold of a fifth-order cultivation method. It is appropriate to use this technique as a reference now. Moreover, the Ferocious Insect Technique is a method of many ferocious insects, and the Extreme Cold Insect Demon is one of them."

Su Yan circulated his cultivation technique, continuously drawing upon the icy power of the Frost Bee Bag. At this moment, the Ice-Melting Insects inside the Frost Bee Bag became restless and awakened, trying to break free of the bag.

However, Su Yancao had already refined the Frost Bee Bag. With a thought, the Frost Bee Bag suppressed the Ice-Crystal Insects inside and extracted wisps of cold energy from their bodies.

A pale blue aura of extreme cold hovered in front of Su Yan, like a flowing sheet of solid ice.

Su Yan continued to refine the ice, and thousands of ice insects in the Frost Bee Bag had already died.

The entire courtyard was now as if it had entered the dead of winter, with ice spreading and large snowflakes falling.

The true essence within Su Yan's body continuously intertwined, gradually merging into the extreme cold energy.

Among these true essences, there is also a unique true essence power evolved from the Ferocious Insect Technique.

Soon, a touch of blood appeared within the extreme cold, and the extreme cold completely took shape, releasing its chill, even cracking the nearby blue bricks.

Su Yan pointed his sword, and the extreme cold energy flowed into the Frostblade Spirit Insect's body through his sword finger.

The Frostblade Spirit Insect unleashed a chilling aura, its aura surging dramatically. In a very short time, it rapidly advanced from the late stage of the second tier to the early stage of the third tier.

The chill was like a knife, and the aura was domineering.

This newly formed Frostblade Spirit Insect already possessed the power to command Ice-Crystal Insects.

At that moment, wisps of coldness, like blades transformed into threads, retreated back into Su Yan's body.

The knife-like chill constantly pierced his body, but it also gradually strengthened his physical power.

Su Yan closed his eyes slightly, and it took him a long time to calm down. He circulated the Ferocious Insect Technique in his mind countless times, and gradually merged the two techniques into his own.

After collecting the ferocious insects, Su Yan finally turned his attention to the mysterious iron piece.

What on earth is this?
This was the first time Su Yan had sensed something that could actively cause the Ferocious Insect Cauldron to vibrate.

It should be noted that even a fragment of a sacred-grade Dao weapon like the Frost Bee Bag is not worth the tremor of the Ferocious Insect Cauldron.

The fact that it was also a fragment, and had been reduced to a mysterious metal piece the size of a palm, yet could still cause vibrations, naturally piqued Su Yan's curiosity.

Su Yan grasped the iron piece, and the same slight vibration immediately emanated from the Ferocious Insect Cauldron.

A vicious insect!

This time, Su Yan sensed that it was the power of the ferocious insect.

"The power of this mysterious iron piece is actually related to the Ferocious Insect Cauldron?"

Su Yan's doubts deepened, and he immediately activated the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, sending a surge of ferocious insect power into the iron plate.

In an instant, red light burst forth, and the previously indistinct patterns on the iron plate immediately lit up with red light, one after another, like ferocious insects, or like an inscription formed from the origin.

A series of lights flashed into Su Yan's mind, eventually converging into the shape of a token.

Completely black, forged from Xuanxing Divine Iron, countless special ferocious insect inscriptions similar to the Ferocious Insect Cauldron eventually converged into the power source of the token, forming two large characters at the center of the token—Great Devour!
Great Devouring Ancestral Witch, Ascension Token

Su Yan was shocked, never expecting that the origin of this token was so extraordinary.

The so-called Ancestral Witches were the title of the Witch Kingdom, equivalent to the terrestrial immortals among the warriors of the Dali Dynasty.

This is not some martial saint or Taoist soldier, but a celestial soldier of a terrestrial immortal.

The value of a Celestial Weapon belonging to an Ancestral Witch is already immeasurable. If this news were to spread, the Martial Saints of the Royal City would probably start fighting over this so-called mysterious iron piece the very next day.

Even terrestrial deities would intervene.

Because this is an Ascension Token, a token created by a great shaman who had reached the pinnacle of power countless years ago, who wanted to ascend to heaven and explore this world.

Buzz

As the power of the ferocious insects continued to be injected, the fragments of the Ascension Token were constantly activated, resulting in new changes.

The token fragment transformed into a stream of light, and before Su Yan could react, it had already entered his body, landing directly in his inner world and submitting to the feet of the Ferocious Insect Cauldron.

One ring after another of light from the token spread outwards, the light converging into characters, and ancient Wu Kingdom characters appeared in the inner world.

Ultimately, they all converged into one move—the first form of the Great Devouring True Demon Palm.

It was merely a collection of techniques, but the illusion of the techniques displayed in Su Yan's inner vision was a huge gray palm covered with red patterns, which condensed in mid-air. With one palm strike, the earth cracked, countless mountains turned into deep pits, countries were destroyed, and living beings turned into ashes.

A single strike can destroy a nation; a single palm strike can cause mountains and rivers to crumble.

Su Yan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but this set of combat techniques was already deeply imprinted in his mind.

Seventh-tier martial skill - Great Devouring True Demon Palm.

Even if there is only one move on this fragment, that single move is probably far more powerful than the secret techniques of a Martial Saint.

However, compared to the origin of the Ascension Token, Su Yan had a more important question in his mind at this moment, which was that part of the power of the Ascension Token actually came from the Ferocious Insect Cauldron. So what exactly is the Ferocious Insect Cauldron?
(End of this chapter)