The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 424 Making a Deal with Xiao Wujiu
Su Yan's machinations in Chijiang Prefecture stirred up various factions, and the resulting calamity became a catalyst for his inner demons.

Su Yan had no intention of suppressing it. He challenged again and again, constantly circulating the Heavenly Gang Demon Suppression Scripture. At this time, the inner demons in his mind had formed a huge demonic cocoon.

If anyone were to enter the inner world of Su Yan's Fiendish Insect Universe, they would see a pitch-black star among the myriad stars, which is constantly growing larger.

Millions of fine threads, like spider silk, connect the void, as if suspending this demonic cocoon in the void.

When inner demons form a cocoon, even a distant glance can stir one's mind.

However, the Insect Lord God, sitting in the center of the universe, showed no sign of wavering.

Su Yan directly triggered his inner demons, and wisps of black energy surged from his body, rushing into the prepared corpse of a Golden Body Realm martial artist in front of him.

He did not bring back all the corpses of the Golden Body Realm warriors; he only secretly tampered with them.

Ashiza, Ashina, Qian Yu, and Muli were the only four people he secretly hid because the actions were carried out by the ferocious insects and did not involve the Long family's subsequent arrangements.

Although a corpse is not as valuable as a living Golden Body Realm martial artist, something is better than nothing.

Moreover, the evolution of inner demons does not necessarily require devouring flesh and blood; it is only by devouring large amounts of flesh and blood and energy that inner demons can evolve to become more powerful.

The inner demon devoured for a full quarter of an hour. In Su Yan's eyes, the inner demon had split into two, each entering the body of one of the four golden-bodied martial artists.

Su Yan frowned slightly; he hadn't expected that this manifestation of the inner demon would split into two.

At this moment, black mist swirled around the body, and the corpse quickly dried up, turning into a skeleton in just a few breaths.

The inner demons that devoured Ashina and Ashiza on the left gathered black energy, and flesh and blood transformed into a humanoid monster clad in black armor, faceless and aimless, with particularly thick arms connected by blood vessels.

Bloodhand Demon!

The inner demon on the right manifested, now transformed into a humanoid demon shrouded in black flames, its eyes like fire, its flames around it seemingly burning everything, and it also showed a faint tendency to devour emotions.

Heartfire Demon!
Two inner demons evolved in one go, and their aura enveloped Su Yan at this moment.

A powerful pressure suddenly descended, no weaker than a fourth-level Golden Body martial artist.

Moreover, he possesses supernatural powers and is completely familiar with Su Yan's methods, making him even more difficult to deal with.

"kill!"

The inner demon harbored endless killing intent towards the original body, and once it manifested, it rushed directly towards Su Yan.

The Blood Hand Demon directly unleashed two hundred-foot-long blood-red hands, which crossed left and right, enveloping Su Yan like a black hole.

Su Yan circulated his true essence throughout his body, his insect-bone armor opened, and a barrier was erected within his inner world, thus neutralizing the strange pulling force.

However, the surrounding trees and rocks could not withstand the attack and flew directly into the Blood Demon's hands, where they were instantly disintegrated.

Su Yan's pupils contracted slightly, his heart filled with shock. What a bizarre Blood Demon Hand!

It is called the Blood Demon Hand, but it is like a monster that devours everything.

With his powerful perception through the Seed of Insect Consciousness and the Divine Eye, what was devoured was not crushed, but decomposed into strands of primordial energy.

Whoosh!
At this moment, the Heart Flame Demon suddenly changed its form, took a step closer, and appeared in front of Su Yan in an instant.

The demonic flames transformed into sharp spikes, piercing directly through the barrier of the inner world and suddenly appearing in front of Su Yan.

Su Yan was shocked and retreated rapidly. But just as he was about to move to the right, he discovered that the Heart Flame Demon summoned a demonic flame on the right side at almost the same time, or even faster.

Su Yan threw a punch, blocking the demonic flames, but before he could make a move, the Heart Flame Demon, almost anticipating his attack, launched another attack with its own demonic flames before he could react.

At that moment, the Blood Hand Demon manipulated its blood hand to grab down from above.

Su Yan transformed into wind and thunder, scattering to dodge. With a single claw strike, his body instantly disintegrated from the earth and vanished into nothingness.

The spatial barrier formed within the body's inner world merely grazed the edge before being twisted and disintegrated by the Blood Demon Hand, and only gradually recovered after being removed from its range.

Su Yan fought with his true form, battling for over a hundred rounds within the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover.

The barren mountain land was already full of potholes, deep pits and cracks, traces of fire burning, and scratches left by decomposition.

Even within Su Yan's body, the three inner worlds had shrunk back into his body, relying on the Sacred Tree of Bodhi to maintain their form.

Its shell cracked, and its body continued to heal itself, clearly indicating that it had suffered a serious injury.

'The Blood Demon Hand devours and disintegrates, controlling and grasping all things; the Heart Flame Demon uses emotions as fire, burning all things, sensing emotions. Each one is easy to deal with individually, but together they are difficult to handle. Don't blame me then.'

Having figured out the inner demon's true nature, Su Yan immediately went all out, summoning his ferocious insects one after another.

Blood Prison Demon Centipede, Void Shadow Spider, Thunderwing Holy Spirit Insect, and Giant Flame God Scorpion.

The appearance of the four insect kings immediately created an absolute suppression.

The Blood Hand Demon and the Heart Flame Demon tried to use the same trick again, cooperating to attack Su Yan.

But the next moment, he was instantly enveloped in the Blood Prison summoned by the Blood Prison Demon Centipede.

Immediately afterward, the Void Shadow Silk sealed their bodies, and before they could react, they were overwhelmed by the attacks of the Giant Flame God Scorpion and the Thunderwing Holy Spirit Insect.

In an instant, the inner demon died.

Two powerful forces surged into Su Yan's body, gradually manifesting and converging into his two divine abilities.

Endless Heart Flame and Blood Demon Hand
The Endless Heart Flame landed in Su Yan's inner world, like a ball of multicolored flames, merging with the power of the Insect Consciousness Seed, and finally becoming one with it.

After mastering this supernatural power, Su Yan could feel that his perception of his surroundings had greatly improved again, especially his perception of the emotions of living beings, as if a series of delicacies had been placed in front of a gluttonous beast.

Ignite emotions, devour emotions, increase strength

This is the power of the Endless Heart Flame. However, the stronger the power, the more thresholds there are for its use. If the Endless Heart Flame is used recklessly and devours too much emotional power without being digested, it will undoubtedly become nourishment for inner demons and even erode the spirit of the martial artist.

The Blood Demon Hand Divine Power is not much different from the Blood Hand Demon in terms of its execution. When the right arm is activated, it turns as red as blood and can decompose all things. It seems ordinary, but if Su Yan is strong enough, he can destroy other people's Dao weapons with this hand.

Although Su Yan has many martial arts skills, due to his physical training, his most powerful attacks are actually his fist and foot techniques such as the Star-Picking Hand, Dragon-Capturing Hand, and Hundred Tigers Breaking Army Seal.

And the trump card is the seventh-tier martial skill—the Great Devouring True Demon Palm.

If combined with the Blood Demon Hand technique, Su Yan's combat power would be significantly enhanced. With the two techniques refined, Su Yan's true essence surged, and even his divine soul became increasingly solid.

He sat cross-legged, constantly devouring the surrounding spiritual energy like a vortex. The elemental stones in the insect realm space were also being continuously devoured, merging into his body like countless streams converging into the sea.

After circulating his true essence through his meridians countless times, Su Yan's aura suddenly surged, as if breaking through a dam, and he instantly entered the eighth level of the Dharma Aspect Realm.

The surrounding spiritual energy gathered into mist, and the true essence within Su Yan's body almost formed a vast ocean, filling the entire inner landscape.

If Xiao Wujiu and the others were to see this, they would probably curse him as a monster in their hearts.

For no other reason than that, Su Yan's reserves of true essence are ten times that of an ordinary eighth-level Dharma Aspect Realm martial artist.

Su Yan possesses a powerful physical body, further supported by three worlds within his body, making his true essence far superior to that of ordinary people.

Su Yan secretly completed his breakthrough before removing the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover and the Concealing God Banner, and returned to Chijiang City.

The breakthrough went unnoticed, and Su Yan quietly made a fortune.

First, the Lancang Medicine Pavilion arranged for the medicinal herbs he needed to be delivered to the Zhenyao Guard's residence.

Su Yan refined all the medicinal herbs into Dragon Transformation Golden Pills, and the batch of nine pills was considered extremely successful.

He distributed the nine pills, but the Divine Fiend Locust didn't get any. Instead, it devoured the Dragon Family's spoils—the Demon Abyss Soul Crystal Gold—that Xing Menglan had sent.

The Divine Fiend Locust devoured one of the transformed creatures, and its aura immediately surged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Although it did not achieve a breakthrough in its bloodline, its combat power crossed that barrier and was no weaker than a fifth-tier beast king.

Of course, this is just an ordinary beast king, and it is still far inferior to the Void Shadow Spider and Blood Prison Heavenly Demon Centipede that have completed bloodline breakthroughs.

However, the chasm between the fifth and fourth orders has been crossed, and it can be said that Su Yan's fighting force is three times stronger.

Su Yan distributed the nine Dragon Transformation Golden Pills to the various ferocious insects in order of their strength, from the Ancient Spirit Insect, the Spring and Autumn Withering Insect, the Moon-Eating Insect, the Giant Mountain Insect, and the Soul-Devouring Insect.

Having recently undergone a bloodline transformation and possessing the strength of a fifth-tier beast king, the Blood Prison Heavenly Demon Centipede with its four ferocious worms was placed later.

After taking the Dragon Transformation Golden Pill, the effects were indeed remarkable. In less than half a month, several of the ferocious insects had already experienced breakthroughs in strength.

The Soul-Devouring Insect has transitioned from its nascent stage to its adult stage, with its bloodline purified by 30%, making its combat power comparable to that of a mid-to-late stage fourth-tier wild beast.

The giant mountain worm has also transitioned from its nascent stage to its growth stage. Its bloodline has only increased by 20%, but its combat power has jumped to the late stage of the fourth tier.

It possesses the bloodline of the Giant Spirit Beast. Although it is not as powerful as the Giant Spirit Flame God Scorpion, it is undoubtedly one of the best among ordinary wild beasts.

With Su Yan now investing a lot of resources, his body has grown to five or six hundred feet tall, and his defensive power and the sheer volume of demonic energy within him are truly terrifying.

Besides the two, the three mature insects—the Moon-Eating Insect, the Spirit Realm Ancient Insect, and the Spring and Autumn Withering and Flourishing Insect—have also broken through the 350 growth value mark, and are only one step away from the metamorphosis stage.

Aside from the ferocious insects mentioned above, both the Dragon Vein Ancient Insect and the Gold-Eating Emperor Insect have broken through to the growth stage, showing significant improvement in strength and reaching the combat power of a fifth-tier beast king.

Both of them already had high bloodline levels, and now they have broken through again. Su Yan had a vague idea of ​​this, and now it has finally come to fruition.

"In this way, I will have seven fifth-tier beast kings at my disposal: Giant Flame God Scorpion, Blood Prison Demon Centipede, Thunderwing Holy Spirit Insect, Void Shadow Spider, Dragon Vein Ancient Insect, Gold-Eating Emperor Insect, and Divine Fiend Locust."

Su Yan unconsciously smiled slightly, feeling happy. Although the Divine Fiend Locust was slightly weaker, it was already on the verge of transformation. If it could complete the transformation, its combat power would likely be comparable to, or even stronger than, the Giant Spirit Flame God Scorpion.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but ponder whether he should go to the Nine Nether Sect to exchange for the Myriad Fiend Heavenly Crystal.

With the Divine Fiend Locust about to undergo its transformation, Su Yan naturally couldn't avoid it if he wanted to speed things up.

Having made up his mind, Su Yan asked his subordinates in the Demon Suppression Guard where Xiao Wujiu was staying.

Xiao Wujiu and his two companions had helped kill members of the Long family and now had considerable merit, so they could exchange items with the Demon Suppression Guard. For the time being, they did not leave and maintained a close relationship with the Demon Suppression Guard.

With just that one question, he knew that Xiao Wujiu was in the Chijiang Guanchao Pavilion.

Su Yan went out and went straight to the Chijiang Tide-Watching Pavilion, where he found Xiao Wujiu.

The two met again, having just brewed tea, and sat facing each other.

At this moment, Xiao Wujiu was very unsure. Could it be that Su Yan was going to quit?
'Given his talent for cultivating ferocious insects, he might not even need that formula. Not doing it would actually cause trouble. But if we go together to find the remnant soul of the Martial Saint, it would be problematic if he wanted to use force.'

Xiao Wujiu did not believe that Su Yan was such a person, but he witnessed Su Yan's terrifying combat power in the Nine-Bend Cold Pool, where he casually pulled out four ferocious insects at the level of beast kings.

Anyone who saw this would wonder just how many vicious creatures Su Yan could pull out.

At this moment, Su Yan looked at the composed Xiao Wujiu and a subtle feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

Before anything was even said, the Endless Heart Flame within him suddenly detected a barely perceptible emotion of irritability, implying worry.

'So this is the power of the Endless Heart Flame? Sensing emotions... no wonder the Heart Flame Demon could predict my movements. But is Xiao Wujiu worried about me?'

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, when is the estimated departure time for the Soul-Sea expedition?"

Su Yan took the initiative to ask, and Xiao Wujiu was taken aback: "Judging from the time, the tides of the Fiend Soul Sea will weaken in half a month at most. When will be the best time to enter? But does Fellow Daoist Su still have time?"

The Chijiang Prefecture had just quelled the rebellion, and now various forces were vying for resources, keeping the Demon Suppression Guards extremely busy.

Su Yan is the backbone of the organization, and it won't be easy for him to leave.

"With the town magistrate watching over things, there won't be any major trouble. I've done what I needed to do. Next, I'll take a trip to Youyuan Prefecture."

Xiao Wujiu's lips twitched slightly: "You're coming after me. Although I am the adopted son of the Nine Nether Sect, it is still a Martial Saint sect. I'm afraid that even if I lose, I may not be able to reach what the Grand Commandant wants. You will have to deal with the Golden Body Elder and even the Martial Saint level yourself."

This kind of thing, which involves subduing a sect, isn't simply a matter of challenging the smaller ones; it's essentially about making the older ones submit as well.

"There's always a way out, and I've come here today for another matter."

Xiao Wujiu looked curious: "What is it?"

Su Yan said, "I've come to make a deal with you, or rather, to make a deal with the Nine Nether Sect through you. I want the Myriad Fiends Heavenly Essence Crystal."

hiss

Xiao Wujiu gasped: "Your requirements are quite high. Even if I wanted this, I would have to make a contribution and give up all my contribution points to have a chance."

(End of this chapter)