The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 458: Treasure Refining in the Cave
Su Yan used the Concealing God Banner to hide his aura. The extreme cold seawater ten thousand meters below, combined with the concealment of the fifth-grade top-quality Dao weapon, made it difficult for even Martial Saints like Hu Yanqingluo, Hu Yanbao, and Hu Yanfeng to detect his presence.

Not to mention, Su Yan used the power of the Dream-Devouring Moon God Worm to carry three false clones that were created from his own flesh and blood.

"The clone doesn't have the ability to travel through space, so it won't be long before the three of them discover it."

Su Yan did not completely relax at this moment. He took off in another direction with the Concealing God Banner on his head. This time, he did not make a bigger commotion. Instead, he traveled through the seabed without leaving any trace.

Less than a quarter of an hour after Su Yan left, a terrifying tsunami suddenly erupted on the sea surface ten thousand meters above. Hu Yanqingluo was furious, and the aura he released caused the sea surface to sink several meters, forming a huge bowl-shaped depression.

His divine sense swept frantically across the sea surface, extending for hundreds of miles. He also did not overlook the underwater areas, constantly exploring the deep sea.

However, the seabed is extremely cold and blocked by seawater, so divine sense would be constantly suppressed when it entered. By the time he explored to a depth of 10,000 meters, he could only vaguely sense it.

And what about Su Yan?

He left this place a quarter of an hour ago. No matter how powerful Huyan Qingluo is, how could he possibly find him?

Hu Yanqingluo's search yielded no results. A quarter of an hour later, Hu Yanbao and Hu Yanfeng arrived from different directions.

"Elder, we haven't found that guy."

Both men were equally furious, but at this moment they were even more worried about Huyan Ji's life or death.

"We can't detect anything in the deep sea with our divine sense. That guy also has a secret technique for escaping, so he's probably no longer here."

Although Hu Yanfeng was unwilling, the methods displayed by Su Yan, a Golden Body Realm martial artist, made the current situation potentially the most dangerous.

Huyan Qingluo said in a deep voice, "Block Binggeer Prefecture. He is seriously injured. Even if his secret techniques are amazing, he will definitely not be able to leave Binggeer Prefecture. Go back and ask our ancestor to take action and use the secret techniques of the shaman bloodline to find his location."

Knowing that this was the only way to save Huyanji, the three immediately headed towards Ice Burial City, where the Ice Burial Tribe was located.

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Su Yan fled across the sea for over a thousand miles, following the dark, icy waters all the way to the far north.

In the so-called far north, day and night are eternal, and extreme cold pervades the entire region. Even a Golden Body Realm martial artist would find it difficult to endure for long after entering this place.

The Ice Burial Plateau is located at the other end of the far north, facing the northern part of the Death Ice Sea where Su Yan is located.

Su Yan was covered in icicles. Even though he had an unparalleled physical body and had cultivated the Extreme Cold Insect Demon Technique, he could still feel a chill in this far north.

Before him, the continental coastline extended into the seabed, forming a white ice wall, beyond which lay frozen, hard rocks and permafrost.

Looking at the ice wall in front of him, Su Yan thought to himself, "I have already fled three thousand miles. Even if they want to find me, they probably won't be able to find this place for a while. It's perfect for me to hide under the ice."

After saying that, he summoned the Frost Mountain Giant Insect. Its huge body was covered in wounds, and the damage from the battle with the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint was not so easy to heal.

"Dig out an underground space."

Su Yan gave the order, and soon the Frost Mountain Giant Worm swung its huge, hard legs and began to break the ice.

The hard ice layer could not stop its insect legs at all, and soon a tunnel about ten feet wide appeared in front of Su Yan.

As seawater poured in, Su Yan waved his hand, summoning the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover, which instantly enveloped the outside of the ice cave, isolating it from the seawater.

The Frost Mountain Giant Worm kept digging, and the rumbling sound was incessant. After about an hour, it finally dug out an underground cave that was about 100 feet high and more than 200 feet in circumference, located 10,000 meters below the seabed.

Su Yan released the Extreme Cold Hell Worm, the Ice Nether Sky-Splitting Mantis, the Frost Soul Butterfly, and the Black Ice Three-Headed Centipede.

Several ferocious insects worked together to control the power of extreme cold, reinforcing the entire ice cave. Before long, the underground cave was transformed into an ice cave supported by a thick layer of ice, which was incredibly thick and sturdy.

Su Yan placed the Concealing God Banner in the center of the ice cave to isolate his aura. At the same time, he released the Dream-Devouring Moon God Worm and used the Concealing God Banner and its innate power to conceal the place.

After doing all this, Su Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ice Burial Tribe"

His eyes were cold. This time, the Ice Burial Tribe blocked the gate. If it weren't for Wu Sumu suppressing them in the Ten Thousand Insect Prison Tower and throwing them out with evil energy and extreme cold power, he would have been saved.

I'm afraid I won't be able to hold off the three of them; I'll have to fight them on the spot.

The Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Insect King was still recovering from its injuries. If they were to fight, the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Insect King might have to use the Undying Core to feign death and be reborn.

Now that he has escaped, it's time for him to go and cause trouble for the Ice Burial Tribe.

Su Yan released the corpse of the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint. As soon as the ancient ice crystal tree, which had gathered all of the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint's extreme cold essence, came out, the entire ice cave seemed to have fallen into another extremely cold place.

"Most of the extreme cold origin is still there. The body of the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint and the Extreme Cold Insect Demon is of the same origin. If he is devoured by the Extreme Cold Hell Insect, he may have a chance to break through to the Martial Saint level."

Su Yan looked thoughtful. Although the Extreme Cold Hell Worm had only recently broken through, if it wanted to accumulate strength slowly, it would inevitably have a long way to go.

However, if the source of extreme cold is completely the same as it, then the situation will be very different.

"Let's give it a try."

Thinking of this, Su Yan directly ordered the Extreme Cold Hell Worms to begin devouring the Ice Crystal Ancient Tree.

The mouthparts of the Extreme Cold Hell Worm opened, like sharp guillotines, biting off branches of the Ice Crystal Ancient Tree piece by piece. Extreme cold power gathered within its body, and the surrounding spiritual energy also continuously converged towards its body.

Su Yan arrived at one end of the branch of the ancient ice crystal tree, looked at the rare and precious materials hanging on it, and waved his hand to take them all down.

The ferocious insects were severely damaged, and the Ten Thousand Insects Prison Tower was also damaged. If Su Yan wanted to restore them, he would definitely need a large number of rare and precious materials as a supplement.

These rare and precious materials are just right: ten-thousand-year-old deep-sea ice, ice marrow, polar night cold essence fruit, meteorite sand...

Every single item was a treasure from the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint's collection, sixth-tier quality natural treasures, enough for Su Yan to upgrade all the Dao weapons in his possession.

He took out the Ten Thousand Insects Prison Tower, its cracks clearly visible. It had successfully blocked the attacks of two Martial Saints. If he were to repair these cracks himself, it would probably take a long time.

“The Ice Meteorite Pearl can be refined and integrated into the Myriad Insect Star-Eating Sword. As for the Frost Bee Bag, it would be suitable for the Myriad Insect Prison Tower, but we need to let the Giant Spirit Flame God Scorpion recover first.”

Refining Dao Weapons requires the help of the Fusion Flame, but the Giant Flame God Scorpion is not in a suitable state right now.

Su Yan first fed the Nine-Turn Jade Purity Golden Pill he was carrying to the most severely injured ferocious insects, with the Giant Flame God Scorpion being the first to be fed.

After taking the pills, the Giant Flame God Scorpion's injuries improved somewhat. He released the Nine-Scale Furnace and, among these rare and precious materials, used them as the main ingredients, along with rare and precious materials he had plundered from the Red Dragon, Uyghur, and Frost Wolf tribes in his insect realm space, to refine another batch of healing pills, which he then distributed to the other ferocious insects.

During the battle, the Thunderwing Holy Spirit Insects and Void Shadow Spiders, which mainly cooperated in the battle and restrained the main force, gradually recovered from their injuries in about seven days after taking the pills and with the healing function of the Insect Realm Space. They then began to guard Su Yan on both sides of the cave.

It took about half a month for the two giant beasts, the Giant Flame God Scorpion and the Frost Mountain Giant Insect, to fully recover.

After this battle, the bottleneck of the Giant Flame God Scorpion loosened. Although there was no breakthrough in its bloodline, it was close to the transformation period. In terms of combat power, it was originally at the peak of the fifth rank. After breaking through and standing firm, it has now touched the threshold of the sixth rank of saint and reached the pseudo-saint level.

With the terrifying physical body of the Giant Spirit Beast, it was truly able to withstand the Martial Saint this time.

Su Yan stared at the blue flame within the Fusion Flame, his eyes flickering slightly as he pondered, "The confrontation with the power of the extreme cold rules has instead stimulated the power of the flame's origin. Is this the prerequisite for stepping into the Saint Realm, the Domain of Fire..."

Whether you are a martial artist or a wild beast, if you want to break through to the sixth rank, you must comprehend your own rules. When the rules materialize into a domain, you will gain the power to control space.

The Giant Flame God Scorpion already possessed a pseudo-saint-grade bloodline, and coupled with the terrifying talent of the Giant Beast, breaking through to the saint-grade level was a foregone conclusion.

Now, amidst the great battle, although their bloodlines have not yet undergone a transformation, they are already qualified to break through, as exemplified by their ability to rise from the ashes.

Su Yan smiled. Breaking through and establishing anew is the best outcome. The Fusion Flame has been further enhanced, and it also has the attribute of extreme cold flame, which will be of greater help to him in refining his Dao Weapon.

Su Yan only had four Dao weapons in his possession: the Ten Thousand Insects Prison Tower, the Ten Thousand Insects Star-Eating Sword, the Hidden God Banner, and the Demon-Imprisoning Nine Dragons Cover.

The Ten Thousand Insects Suppressing Prison Tower obtained five scrolls of Hell God Scrolls, which, after fusion, have reached the strength of a sixth-tier low-grade scroll.

In the current clash, it was only because Su Yan's cultivation was insufficient, and the two old men on the other side attacked too fiercely, coupled with the fact that the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint Mi Zhan had been fighting for too long, that cracks appeared in his skin.

This is Su Yan's natal weapon, which follows the path of ferocious insects. It can be said to be an evolution of the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, so it is naturally of utmost importance.

The Myriad Insects Star-Eating Sword was originally the Poison Dragon Sword formed from the Poison Dragon Pool. After absorbing the power of a large number of ferocious insects, it connected with the various celestial stars of ferocious insects in the universe of strange phenomena, and has now reached the level of a fifth-grade top-quality weapon.

The remaining two, the Concealing God Banner and the Demon-Imprisoning Nine Dragons Cover, were obtained from the treasure vault and were gifts from Master Hong Wuji as a formal apprenticeship present.

When the former was first obtained, it was only a top-grade fourth-tier spiritual artifact. However, it was continuously refined by Su Yan with special metals, and with the constant refinement by the Moon-Eating Insect and now the Dream-Eating Moon God Insect, its laws were integrated into it, and it gradually reached the strength of a top-grade fifth-tier artifact.

His ability to evade the pursuit of three Martial Saints was largely due to the Concealing God Banner's ability to conceal his presence.

As for the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover, its methods of murder, robbery, and annihilation are self-evident.

However, Su Yan also understood that what he had obtained in the secret realm of the Insect Sacrifice Martial Saint, plus the remaining stock of the three tribes, was not enough to upgrade all three Dao weapons to the sixth rank.

"We can only be selective. In terms of combat, the Ten Thousand Insect Prison Tower will likely be further improved after this forging. The Ten Thousand Insect Star-Eating Sword is a duplicate. The Hidden God Banner is not suitable, so we'll have to rely on the Imprisoning Demon Nine Dragons Shield for trapping people."

He made a decision and immediately summoned the Nine-Scaled Furnace, then took out all the Dao weapons he had plundered from Huyan Ji, Wusu Mu, Huyan Naluo, and others.

From Hu Yanji's fifth-tier top-grade Ice Meteor Bead to Wu Sumu's Ice Soul Extinction Spear, almost all the Dao weapons that Su Yan managed to keep were at least mid-grade fifth-tier Dao weapons, and they were Dao weapons made of special materials.

Those below the mid-grade of the fifth rank were all used as food by the Gold-Devouring Emperor Insect. It devoured the Dao Soldier's origin and the essence of metal, turning them all into its own power. Now it has reached the peak of the fifth rank.

More than ten mid-grade fifth-order Dao weapons were laid out before them, along with three top-grade fifth-order Dao weapons, which came from Huyan Ji, Wusu Mu, and Huyan Naluo respectively.

The Gold-Eating Emperor Insect also came to Su Yan's side at this time, facing the Giant Spirit Flame God Scorpion, and standing on either side of the Nine-Scaled Furnace.

Su Yan's eyes flickered slightly: "Let's begin."

With a wave of his hand, he summoned half of the Dao soldiers with his true essence, which hovered in front of the Gold-Devouring Emperor Insect.

The Gold-Devouring Emperor Insect emitted a ghostly light and activated its Gold-Devouring Domain, with strands of black silk wrapping around these Dao soldiers.

Although it was a perfectly intact Dao weapon, it was clearly visible to the naked eye that strands of special Dao weapon essence, rule inscriptions, and metal essence had been disassembled.

The Demon-Imprisoning Nine-Dragon Cover in Su Yan's hand flew into the Nine-Scaled Furnace, and the giant spirit Flame God Scorpion spat out a ball of fire containing the power of rules and fusion, igniting the Nine-Scaled Furnace.

As the furnace fire rose, the Gold-Eating Emperor Worm poured clumps of metallic essence into the Nine-Scaled Furnace, and then used its innate ability to enhance the material of the Demon-Imprisoning Nine-Dragon Cover.

Talent is the best weapon refiner.

Even a Saint-level weapon refiner could not separate the essence of metal from a natal weapon that already bore a deep personal imprint.

The idea that a complete separation could allow one to recast another weapon of the same or even higher quality is simply a fantastical tale.

Because no two Dao weapons are exactly alike, the more powerful they are, the greater these differences in rules become, like impurities that can never be crushed under a wheel, like grains of sand.

With the help of the two ferocious insects, Su Yan began to inscribe his own runes little by little, leaving his mark on the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover.

One day, two days, three days...

When all the Dao weapons were completely melted down, leaving only three fifth-grade top-quality Dao weapons, the Ferocious Insect Cauldron within his body suddenly began to vibrate.

Behind Su Yan, the ferocious insect universe emerged, enveloping the entire underground cave.

The Insect Lord God sat solemnly deep within the Fiend Insect Universe, the Fiend Insect Cauldron within his body emitting a red light. Beside him, the Ascension Token, missing a third of its length, bowed its head and trembled slightly, like a subject.

Su Yan suddenly realized that the Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover could be completely transformed into a ferocious insect weapon, just like the Myriad Insects Eroding Star Sword.

Then the Insect Lord God Venerable stretched out his finger and touched the Nine-Scaled Furnace. The immense power of the ferocious insects surged into the Nine-Scaled Furnace. At this time, the remaining three Dao weapons were also separated by the Gold-Devouring Emperor Insect and thrown into it.

The Nine Dragons Imprisoning Demon Cover, which had already reached a critical state, instantly crossed the sixth-order threshold and began to evolve its own rules—Imprisonment.

Imprisoning the heavens, imprisoning the earth, imprisoning the years, imprisoning ancient monsters...

Roar

Nine dragons howled, a sinister shadow suddenly appeared.
Nine ferocious, illusory insects replaced the nine dragons, with stars forming the borders and star belts acting as locks, and countless ferocious insects sealing off the sky...

The quality of the Dao Soldier continued to rise for a full half month, and finally it crossed the threshold of the sixth-grade low-rank Dao Soldier and stepped into the sixth-grade middle-rank.

As Dao Bing transformed, his connection with Su Yan grew stronger, and the power of his transformation flowed back into his body.

At this moment, Su Yan's true essence surged within his body, and his soul was nourished. It was a natural progression that he stepped into the eighth level of the Golden Body Realm.

(End of this chapter)