Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 158 Yin Soul Saliva
Crossing the river of corpses and stepping onto the land of the underworld, the surrounding yin energy became even denser, the temperature dropped sharply, and blood-red ice particles could be vaguely seen mixed in with the soil.

Di Yi felt a burning pain in his chest. Although his ribs were not broken, his internal organs had been greatly impacted and he was injured. His condition was very bad.

Using his Dark Holy Soul to draw in the surrounding Yin energy to envelop himself and conceal his Yang aura, Di Yi dared not linger. He chose a direction and fled into the depths of the Yin realm.

We must find a place to heal our wounds as soon as possible, otherwise things could get very bad if Xu Sheng's true form catches up.

The Twin Lotus of Guixu has fallen silent, and Di Yi can no longer mobilize the power within the Xuan Tai, losing the confidence to fight against the Saint.

After traveling over a thousand miles, Di Yi found an inconspicuous cave, plunged into it, and then covered the entrance with a palm strike. Only then did he take out the World-Stabilizing Banner and enter the space inside the banner.

Inside the banner, Ziyuan had given Diyue a healing pill to help stabilize his injuries temporarily, but he had not yet woken up. The claw attack from Xu Sheng's divine consciousness clone had severely injured him, and it would take several months for him to recover.

As Di Yi stepped into the banner, Han Qiu and Ye Honglei came forward at the same time, their expressions full of worry. When they saw the injuries on Di Yi's body, their brows furrowed even more.

"Master, your injuries..."

Di Yi interrupted Han Qiu, briefly explaining their current situation, and then instructed Han Qiu: "Han Qiu, you are a dark cultivator, and you have a unique advantage in the underworld. I need to go into seclusion to recover from my injuries, so you will go outside the banner to keep watch."

"Yes, Han Qiu obeys!"

Entrusted with an important task, Han Qiu readily accepted. However, upon seeing Ye Honglei supporting Di Yi, he felt a pang of jealousy.

"Ah Le, take good care of your master."

Ah Le nodded upon hearing this, without giving it much thought.

After releasing Han Qiu outside the World-Stabilizing Banner, Di Yi, supported by Ye Honglei, slowly sat down and took out a precious Grade 9 healing pill.

Ziyuan stood guard over Diyue, then looked at Diyi who was healing, her heart heavy.

When the Purple Wind Star Envoy and the Green Robe Star Envoy learned that they had arrived in the Underworld, they were quite worried, but their strength was too weak to be of any help.

Ye Honglei and Ale waited by his side for seven days before Di Yi recovered from his injuries. He exhaled a breath of cold air, freezing the ground dozens of feet in front of him into a sheet of frost.

He slowly stood up, his complexion regaining its rosy hue. He had taken this opportunity to refine a small portion of the fourth-grade Saint Essence Pill within his body, raising his cultivation to the peak of the third-order half-saint level.

Instead of immediately stepping out of the World-Stabilizing Banner, Di Yi took out a huge corpse. The corpse resembled a savage elephant, was dozens of feet in size, and exuded a putrid stench. It was something Di Yi had previously retrieved from the River of Corpses.

"Ah Le, come and help me cut off the skin from this corpse."

Upon hearing this, Ah Le immediately stepped forward, without asking why, drew his longsword, and began skinning the animal.

The skin on the corpse was extremely tough; even a demigod would find it very difficult to peel off, demonstrating just how powerful the corpse must have been when it was alive.

Ye Honglei was puzzled and asked, "What use is this skinning corpses for, young master?"

Di Yi picked up a piece of skin that A Le had peeled off, refined it with his spiritual power, and used yin-attribute materials as ink to inscribe runes on the skin.

“In the underworld, the yang energy of the living is far too conspicuous. Although the path of darkness can conceal one’s aura, prolonged use of it is very taxing on the body. This corpse has been soaking in the river of corpses for who knows how many years, and the aura on its skin is exactly the same as that of the underworld. Making a coat out of the corpse skin and wearing it should be able to cover up the aura of the living.”

After spending half a day, Di Yi made four corpse skin garments. He asked Zi Yuan to take good care of Di Yue, while he led A Le and Ye Honglei out of the Ding Shi Banner.

Han Qiu, who had been guarding the cave for most of the day, was overjoyed to see Di Yi appear in the cave with his injuries healed.

"Owner."

Di Yi handed her a piece of corpse skin clothing and said, "Put this on and come with me to see what's going on outside."

Han Qiu took the corpse skin garment, smelled the stench of the dead, and felt somewhat disgusted, but since Ye Honglei had already put it on, she could only endure the discomfort and drape it over herself.

The corpse skin garment worked even better than expected, completely concealing the life force of the four people and allowing them to blend into the underworld.

Stepping out of the cave, the surroundings were very quiet, and looking into the distance, not a single ghost could be seen, which seemed very eerie.

"Master, what should we do next?" There is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the underworld that can be absorbed by cultivators in the mortal world, but for Han Qiu, who possesses the body of darkness, he does not feel uncomfortable at all when he is in it, and he can absorb the yin energy of heaven and earth to improve his cultivation.

In this respect, even Di Yi is inferior to her.

The wondrous power displayed by the Twin Lotus of Return to the Void was even more profound than that of the Dark Body, but Emperor Yi was temporarily unable to control it and could not draw upon the power of this dark flower.

With the True Source Demon Eye activated, Di Yi's vision became much wider, allowing him to see scenes hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

"It's easy to get into the underworld, but it's not so easy to get back. It's difficult for us to avoid the chaotic spatial rifts above the River of Corpses on our own. Moreover, the great battle in the Forest of Fallen Gods has only lasted for less than a day. The Holy War may not be over yet. Now is not the time to go back."

Ye Honglei said, "If we can't go back, then shall we go deeper into the underworld?"

Han Qiu seemed very excited: "With the Ghost Kings all out in force, the Underworld will surely be empty. We can take this opportunity to seize those treasures that do not exist in the Kunlun Realm."

The underworld connected to the Forest of Fallen Gods is a battlefield of gods 100,000 years ago, where more than one god perished. For example, the Moon Goddess of the Moon Realm was seriously injured in that battle and hid in the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin for 100,000 years, almost perishing.

During the previous Holy War, Di Yi had not seen a ghost king whose form matched the Blood Moon Ghost King, which was the manifestation of the Moon Goddess's divine will. In the vast underworld, he did not know where to search. Even if he found one, the most likely outcome was that he would be killed by the Blood Moon Ghost King with a single palm strike.

The underworld is too dangerous. Unless absolutely necessary, Di Yi would not want to set foot in it. There are too many unknowns, which are beyond his current level of cultivation to control.

But since we're already here, we might as well make the best of it and see how things go for now.

In this world, fortune and misfortune are intertwined.

Although the underworld is dangerous, it does indeed contain many rare treasures and opportunities. Even the miraculous medicine that can bring the dead back to life is not entirely a rumor; it truly exists.

"I wonder if Zhang Ruochen has entered the underworld. If we can find him, the successor of time and space can avoid the spatial rift on the River of Corpses and return safely to the Kunlun Realm."

Since the Sword Saint Xuanji is not yet dead, Zhang Ruochen has lost one reason to enter the underworld to find the elixir of life. However, he has the Void Sword in his hand and bears the responsibility left behind by Empress Qiangu. Whether he has entered the underworld or not is hard to say.

In fact, besides mastering the Dao of Space to avoid the chaotic space on the River of Corpses, the Dao of Origin, which is also one of the nine ancient Daos, can also detect spatial fluctuations and thus avoid them if it reaches a certain level.

However, compared to sensing space with space, sensing space with origin is ten or a hundred times more difficult. Even if Di Yi has the True Origin Demon Eye, limited by his own insufficient cultivation and mastery of the Origin Dao, he is not confident enough to avoid every spatial rift on the River of Corpses.

One mistake could mean certain death.

The four figures, draped in corpse-skin clothing and gathering yin energy on their bodies, looked remarkably similar to four undead spirits from afar.

The underworld may appear barren, but beneath this barren exterior lies a wealth of treasures that the Kunlun Realm has never possessed.

Han Qiu leaped out of the bottom of a cold pool, bursting out of the water, holding a deep blue gemstone in his hand, which released a chilling aura.

After briefly examining the gemstone, she presented it to Emperor Yi.

“Master, this cold pool should be the territory of a ghost king. There is a very strong cold and yin aura at the bottom of the pool. This gem was formed in a place where yin energy gathers. It is probably an extraordinary treasure.”

Di Yi reached out and took the gemstone, examining it carefully.

Liquid was flowing in the center of the gemstone, crystal clear, like celestial nectar, and it looked quite extraordinary.

Di Yi recognized it and exclaimed in surprise, "Could this be the legendary Yin Soul Saliva?"

"Yin Soul Saliva? What is that?" Han Qiu had never heard of this name before and looked bewildered.

Ye Honglei, a spiritual cultivator, had read through numerous books in the black market and was no less knowledgeable than Di Yi. She explained, "Yin Soul Saliva is a treasure for spiritual cultivators. Just one drop is enough to allow a spiritual master at the forty-fourth level to break through to the half-saint level. This gem contains at least twenty drops of Yin Soul Saliva, enough to allow a half-saint at the forty-ninth level to attempt to become a spiritual saint."

"This gem is more valuable than a Saint Source."

Han Qiu was surprised, not expecting that the gem she found at the bottom of the pool would be of such high value. She was also delighted. Although she had not made any progress in cultivating her spiritual power, Di Yi was a dual cultivator of divine and martial arts, and the Yin Soul Saliva would definitely enhance his spiritual power.

In Han Qiu's eyes, being able to demonstrate his value in front of Di Yi was even more gratifying than improving his cultivation.

"The wondrous uses of Yin Soul Saliva are not limited to enhancing spiritual power." Emperor Yi played with the gem in his hand and chuckled, "As its name suggests, its greatest function is actually to nourish the soul, enabling a cultivator's holy soul to undergo a transformation, becoming more resilient and pure, and enhancing its potential."

"For half-saints and saints, as long as the saint's soul is not destroyed, they are not truly dead. If they can obtain a sufficient amount of Yin Soul Saliva to make their saint's soul strong enough, they can even transform into soul cultivators. To some extent, Yin Soul Saliva can be considered a divine medicine that can bring the dead back to life."

"There are records in the ancient books of the black market that, according to legend, in the Middle Ages, someone collected a pool of Yin Soul Saliva and soaked the corpse of a dead Great Sage in it. The Great Sage's Holy Soul had been annihilated, but after being soaked in the Yin Soul Saliva for seven days, it was reborn with the Earth Soul replacing the Holy Soul."

Looking at the object in his hand, Di Yi suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

Yin soul saliva can nourish the holy soul, and also nourish the earth soul among the three souls.

Humans have three souls and seven spirits. The three souls are divided into the Heavenly Soul, the Earthly Soul, and the Human Soul. The Human Soul is the soul, which is the sacred soul within a saint. The Heavenly Soul is part of the Heavenly Dao. After the ancient Qi cultivators perished, there was no longer a method for cultivating the Heavenly Soul in the world.

The Earth Soul, on the other hand, is hidden in the shadows, buried underground, like the two sides of Yin and Yang, always existing, yet untouchable.

The Heavenly Demon Innate Diagram in the Heavenly Demon Stone Carvings requires the creation of a Heavenly Demon Shadow. The usual practice is to find a prodigy of the same realm and with comparable potential as the material for creating the shadow.

However, while the fusion of two geniuses with completely different physiques, techniques, and paths of cultivation is undoubtedly powerful, it also carries many hidden dangers, and the higher their cultivation level, the more obvious this problem will become.

Later on, most of the demonic shadows he created in his youth became puppet-like entities, unable to accompany him to the end.

The Heavenly Demon Stone Carvings were created by the Heavenly Demon. Given the Heavenly Demon Ancestor's cultivation level, what kind of Heavenly Demon shadow could accompany him to grow to the Ancestor level and become one of the thirty-six Heavenly Demon Stone Carvings?

Perhaps the answer lies in the Earth Soul.

The Heavenly Demon Shadow, literally speaking, is one's own shadow. Since this shadow can be external, why can't it be something that one originally possesses? It is made by using the Earth Soul as material to refine the Heavenly Demon Shadow.

They are two sides of the same coin, and there is nothing that they cannot fit together. This may be the true essence of the Heavenly Demon Primordial Diagram.

"If I can refine the Earth Soul into the Shadow of the Heavenly Demon, then I can cultivate the Heavenly Demon Innate Diagram and improve my mastery of the Dao of Origin. At that time, even without Zhang Ruochen, I will be able to cross the River of Corpses and return to the Kunlun Realm."

(End of this chapter)