I'm in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have one equipment slot!

"Junior Brother Han, once this matter is settled, we need to make plans as soon as possible."

Zhou Yuan gazed at the pale dawn breaking on the horizon, his voice low and clear: "It won't be long before the Yue Kingdom is defeated..."

"Go to Yuanwu Kingdom immediately, find your array master friend, and retrieve the repaired teleportation array diagram. Then, meet me as soon as possible; we need to leave this dangerous place quickly."

"Is the Yue Kingdom about to be defeated?"

Upon hearing this, Han Li was startled and his expression changed slightly.

He originally thought that in a war between the seven sects of Yue Kingdom and the six sects of the Demonic Path, both sides were powerful and had their own strengths. Even if the Demonic Path had the advantage, they could at least maintain a stalemate and protracted struggle for several years, or even longer.

How could it be so fast?

"Previously, the main force of the demonic path was still annexing neighboring small countries such as Cheqi and Jiang, and did not deal with Yue with all its might. Now that those small countries have been destroyed or surrendered, the demonic path has no worries about the rear and can concentrate all its forces to suppress Yue."

The seven-faction allied forces appeared to have secured their position at Jingu Plain, but in reality, they were exhausted, their resources depleted, and morale low.

"Once the six sects of the demonic path launch a full-scale attack, or resort to some extraordinary means, the defensive line will collapse in no time," Zhou Yuan calmly analyzed. Combining his memories of the original work with his own judgment, "According to my estimate, the time we have left... will not exceed three months."

Three months!

Han Li's heart sank.

The timeframe was much tighter than he had anticipated.

He took a deep breath, suppressing his shock and a hint of panic, and nodded heavily:

"Alright! Senior brother, I understand! I'll set off for Yuanwu Kingdom immediately and retrieve the array diagram as soon as possible!"

He knew that Zhou Yuan's sources of information and judgments were often more accurate than they appeared on the surface.

Since Zhou Yuan said so, the situation in Yue Kingdom is probably really in dire straits.

Without another word, the two harnessed their magical artifacts, transforming into two streaks of light that disappeared into the gradually brightening sky.

……

Zhou Yuan did not linger near the capital. He flew south for about a thousand miles and finally landed in a secluded natural cave in a remote, desolate mountain in the heart of the Yue Kingdom.

After setting up several simple warning and aura-isolating restrictions, Zhou Yuan sat down cross-legged, finally having time to carefully take stock of the gains from the annihilation of the Black Fiend Cult, especially the killing of Emperor Yue (the true leader of the Black Fiend Cult).

Besides the storage bag, there were three other items among the Yue Emperor's belongings that survived from the remains shredded by the Thousand Blade Technique, thanks to their special materials.

The first item was a bare, black hilt about half a foot long. It felt cold and heavy to the touch, and it was neither gold nor wood; I didn't know what it was made of.

Zhou Yuan probed with his divine sense and could feel a restrained yet sharp aura contained within, as well as a peculiar, obscure fluctuation that seemed capable of devouring divine sense.

Fragments of magical artifacts…

Zhou Yuan understood.

The original work describes this item as a remnant of a damaged ancient treasure. Although it has lost most of its power, after being refined, it can still be used as an extremely sharp and special magical artifact that can absorb the enemy's spiritual attacks.

When I used the "Twelve Divine Thrusters" to ambush Emperor Yue earlier, the fact that the other party was able to react so quickly and activate the protective blood light was probably because the black hilt of the sword absorbed part of the power of the divine sense attack at the critical moment, weakening the effect.

Otherwise, with his current spiritual strength comparable to the early stage of Core Formation, the Emperor Yue would never have been able to remain frozen for such a short time with his spiritual secret technique. His first strike with the Black Dragon Strike would have been enough to kill him!

The second item was a palm-sized, soft yet exceptionally durable white silk handkerchief.

On the silk handkerchief, embroidered with some kind of pale gold silk thread, was a map with extremely complex lines and marked with many strange symbols, but the overall picture was blurry, as if shrouded in clouds and mist.

On the edge of the map, there are some ancient characters that are difficult to decipher.

"Fragments of the Void Heaven Palace Map!"

A glint of light flashed in Zhou Yuan's eyes.

As a time traveler, he naturally understood the value of this item.

This seemingly inconspicuous handkerchief is actually one of the key tokens guiding people to the mysterious and unpredictable ancient ruins of the Chaotic Star Sea—the Void Heaven Palace!

The Void Heaven Palace opens only once every few hundred years in a certain area of ​​the Chaotic Star Sea. The palace contains countless treasures, including legendary items such as the Void Heaven Cauldron and the Heaven-Mending Pill.

With this incomplete map, he will be qualified to explore the Void Heaven Palace in the future.

The third item was two sharp cones, each about three inches long, dark red in color, as if formed from concentrated blood, exuding a strong bloody smell and a sharp, menacing aura.

This object is not a crafted magical artifact, but rather a materialized product formed within the body of the Yue Emperor after he practiced some kind of evil secret technique.

"Blood Spirit Diamond!"

Zhou Yuan recalled the description of this secret technique in the original work.

This is a secret technique recorded in the "Mysterious Yin Scripture" that is extremely vicious and ruthless, but also incredibly powerful.

Cultivators need to repeatedly compress and condense their own pure true essence dozens of times, and slowly condense it into this blood-red pointed cone in specific acupoints within their bodies.

Once activated, this item will launch a piercing attack in a straight line at extremely high speed, possessing exceptional armor-piercing capabilities and astonishing speed. Following Han Paopao's pen, embark on an adventure in the novel "In Huangfeng Valley, I Have an Equipment Slot!" on Cola Novels. It is often difficult for opponents to dodge.

However, the downside is that after each release, a lot of time and true essence need to be spent to condense it again, making it a one-time consumption killer move.

Zhou Yuan was very interested in this secret technique.

With his current cultivation level and precise control over true essence, mastering this technique is not difficult.

If one can master this skill, one will always have one or two "Blood Spirit Diamonds" in their body. When activated suddenly at a crucial moment, they can definitely achieve the effect of surprise and reversing the course of battle.

More importantly, he thought about the buffs from his equipment slots.

In particular, the near-inexhaustible mana regeneration ability brought by the [Miniature Spirit Eye Spring] can greatly compensate for the time-consuming and labor-intensive drawback of condensing the "Blood Spirit Diamond"!

and……

On a whim, he tried equipping one of the "Blood Spirit Diamonds" into his equipment slot.

A pale blue light screen appeared, indicating an information update:

[Equipment Slot 2: Blood Spirit Diamond (Tier 3)]

[Effect 1: Increases the speed at which Blood Spirit Diamonds solidify!]

[Effect 2: Slightly increases comprehension of Blood Spirit Diamond Secret Technique!]

Sure enough!

Zhou Yuan was secretly delighted.

Equipping this item will not only directly increase the speed of comprehension of this secret technique, but also accelerate the efficiency of condensing new "Blood Spirit Diamonds"!

This greatly helped him master this killer technique.

After temporarily removing his equipment, Zhou Yuan turned his attention to the storage bag.

Upon opening it, there weren't many items inside, but each one exuded an eerie and extraordinary aura.

The first thing that catches the eye is a bowl about the size of a large bowl, completely black, with a smooth and cold surface, and engraved with many distorted ghost faces.

This object is called the "Soul Gathering Bowl," an extremely rare evil artifact specifically designed to contain and imprison the soul and primordial spirit of cultivators.

Once any living soul is taken into this bowl, it will gradually be eroded by the evil spirits within, its spirituality will dissipate, and it will eventually become a wicked and vengeful spirit that is only capable of obeying commands. It is an excellent "material" for evil cultivators to create ghosts and practice certain sinister techniques.

The Yue Emperor must have used it to collect and refine the souls of countless innocent cultivators.

Zhou Yuan had no interest in this item, but he didn't destroy it immediately either. Perhaps it would be useful in some special occasion in the future, so he put it away for the time being.

The other item was an ancient jade slip, grayish-white in color, seemingly shrouded in a deathly aura, yet with a warm and smooth texture. Zhou Yuan immersed his divine sense into it.

The contents recorded in the jade slip were quite varied, but the core of it was all about various evil techniques and demonic arts.

Besides the Demonic Demon Technique, an advanced cultivation method practiced by the four Blood Servants that can condense the Five Elements Demonic Core.

In addition to the "Blood Refining Divine Light," which was cultivated by the Yue Emperor and was even more powerful,

And the specific methods of some secret techniques such as "Blood Spirit Diamond" and external avatar.

These exercises almost all subtly mention a classic text called "Xuan Yin Jing" in their opening or commentary, suggesting that they are derived from different parts of this classic text or from derivative exercises.

"The Mysterious Yin Scripture...Master Xuan Gu..."

Zhou Yuan understood.

As a transmigrator, he naturally knew that these evil arts and techniques, as well as the "Blood Spirit Drill" and "External Avatar" secret techniques, all pointed to the "Mysterious Yin Scripture" created by the famous demonic tyrant Xiao Cha, the Mysterious Bone Master, in the Chaotic Star Sea!

The five-colored skeleton (extremely dazzling) that I obtained before was the disciple of Xuan Gu Shangren.

The jade slip also mentioned the usage of the Five Elements Evil Pill obtained earlier.

By collecting five different elemental pills representing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and using a secret technique, a cultivator has about one-third of the chance to condense a "pseudo-golden core" similar to the golden core of a Core Formation cultivator—the "evil core"!

Once this "Demon Core" is formed, the cultivator can gain strength comparable to the early stage of Core Formation in a short period of time, and also has the miraculous effect of prolonging life.

However, its drawbacks are also very obvious: one's cultivation will be forever stuck at the "pseudo-Core Formation" level, with no possibility of further growth or progress.

Zhou Yuan cultivates the "Azure Origin Sword Technique" with the goal of achieving the true Golden Core Dao, so he naturally wouldn't choose such a heretical path that would ruin his future.

But this does not mean that "Sha Dan" is useless.

He looked at the "Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Technique" recorded in the jade slip.

This is a secret technique for cultivating an external avatar, which requires a suitable body with a certain level of cultivation as a vessel.

He used a secret method to erase the primordial spirit, then injected his own divine consciousness to refine and control it, ultimately creating a "second body" that was completely obedient to him and could cultivate and fight enemies on its own.

Zhou Yuan had a plan in mind: if he had the opportunity to obtain a suitable body in the future, he would use this secret method to refine an external avatar.

Let this avatar cultivate the Black Fiend Sect's techniques, and when its cultivation reaches the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, use those five Five Elements Fiend Pills.

Try to condense a "destructive pill" for it!

If successful, he would have a powerful henchman and bodyguard with the combat strength of the early Core Formation stage!

Especially considering the characteristic of the "Qingyuan Sword Manual" that requires dispersing one's cultivation and starting over... during the period of dispersing one's cultivation, one's strength will plummet to its lowest point.

Once activated, this object will pierce through defenses at an extremely high speed in a straight line, making it incredibly powerful and fast, often leaving opponents with little chance to dodge.

However, the downside is that after each release, a lot of time and true essence need to be spent to condense it again, making it a one-time consumption killer move.

Zhou Yuan was very interested in this secret technique.

With his current cultivation level and precise control over true essence, mastering this technique is not difficult.

If one can master this skill, one will always have one or two "Blood Spirit Diamonds" in their body. When activated suddenly at a crucial moment, they can definitely achieve the effect of surprise and reversing the course of battle.

More importantly, he thought about the buffs from his equipment slots.

In particular, the near-inexhaustible mana regeneration ability brought by the [Miniature Spirit Eye Spring] can greatly compensate for the time-consuming and labor-intensive drawback of condensing the "Blood Spirit Diamond"!

and……

On a whim, he tried equipping one of the "Blood Spirit Diamonds" into his equipment slot.

A pale blue light screen appeared, indicating an information update:

[Equipment Slot 2: Blood Spirit Diamond (Tier 3)]

[Effect 1: Increases the speed at which Blood Spirit Diamonds solidify!]

[Effect 2: Slightly increases comprehension of Blood Spirit Diamond Secret Technique!]

Sure enough!

Zhou Yuan was secretly delighted.

Equipping this item will not only directly increase the speed of comprehension of this secret technique, but also accelerate the efficiency of condensing new "Blood Spirit Diamonds"!

This greatly helped him master this killer technique.

After temporarily removing his equipment, Zhou Yuan turned his attention to the storage bag.

Upon opening it, there weren't many items inside, but each one exuded an eerie and extraordinary aura.

The first thing that catches the eye is a bowl about the size of a large bowl, completely black, with a smooth and cold surface, and engraved with many distorted ghost faces.

This object is called the "Soul Gathering Bowl," an extremely rare evil artifact specifically designed to contain and imprison the soul and primordial spirit of cultivators.

Once any living soul is taken into this bowl, it will gradually be eroded by the evil spirits within, its spirituality will dissipate, and it will eventually become a wicked and vengeful spirit that is only capable of obeying commands. It is an excellent "material" for evil cultivators to create ghosts and practice certain sinister techniques.

The Yue Emperor must have used it to collect and refine the souls of countless innocent cultivators.

Zhou Yuan had no interest in this item, but he didn't destroy it immediately either. Perhaps it would be useful in some special occasion in the future, so he put it away for the time being.

The other item was an ancient jade slip, grayish-white in color, seemingly shrouded in a deathly aura, yet with a warm and smooth texture. Zhou Yuan immersed his divine sense into it.

The contents recorded in the jade slip were quite varied, but the core of it was all about various evil techniques and demonic arts.

Besides the Demonic Demon Technique, an advanced cultivation method practiced by the four Blood Servants that can condense the Five Elements Demonic Core.

In addition to the "Blood Refining Divine Light," which was cultivated by the Yue Emperor and was even more powerful,

And the specific methods of some secret techniques such as "Blood Spirit Diamond" and external avatar.

These exercises almost all subtly mention a classic text called "Xuan Yin Jing" in their opening or commentary, suggesting that they are derived from different parts of this classic text or from derivative exercises.

"The Mysterious Yin Scripture...Master Xuan Gu..."

Zhou Yuan understood.

As a transmigrator, he naturally knew that these evil arts and techniques, as well as the "Blood Spirit Drill" and "External Avatar" secret techniques, all pointed to the "Mysterious Yin Scripture" created by the famous demonic tyrant Xiao Cha, the Mysterious Bone Master, in the Chaotic Star Sea!

The five-colored skeleton (extremely dazzling) that I obtained before was the disciple of Xuan Gu Shangren.

The jade slip also mentioned the usage of the Five Elements Evil Pill obtained earlier.

By collecting five different elemental pills representing metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and using a secret technique, a cultivator has about one-third of the chance to condense a "pseudo-golden core" similar to the golden core of a Core Formation cultivator—the "evil core"!

Once this "Demon Core" is formed, the cultivator can gain strength comparable to the early stage of Core Formation in a short period of time, and also has the miraculous effect of prolonging life.

However, its drawbacks are also very obvious: one's cultivation will be forever stuck at the "pseudo-Core Formation" level, with no possibility of further growth or progress.

Zhou Yuan cultivates the "Azure Origin Sword Technique" with the goal of achieving the true Golden Core Dao, so he naturally wouldn't choose such a heretical path that would ruin his future.

But this does not mean that "Sha Dan" is useless.

He looked at the "Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Technique" recorded in the jade slip.

This is a secret technique for cultivating an external avatar, which requires a suitable body with a certain level of cultivation as a vessel.

He used a secret method to erase the primordial spirit, then injected his own divine consciousness to refine and control it, ultimately creating a "second body" that was completely obedient to him and could cultivate and fight enemies on its own.

Zhou Yuan had a plan in mind: if he had the opportunity to obtain a suitable body in the future, he would use this secret method to refine an external avatar.

Let this avatar cultivate the Black Fiend Sect's techniques, and when its cultivation reaches the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, use those five Five Elements Fiend Pills.

Try to condense a "destructive pill" for it!

If successful, he would have a powerful henchman and bodyguard with the combat strength of the early Core Formation stage!

Especially considering the characteristic of the "Qingyuan Sword Manual" that requires dispersing one's cultivation and starting over... during the period of dispersing one's cultivation, one's strength will plummet to its lowest point.

This is when we are most vulnerable.

If one has a "Demon Core" incarnate to protect them, their safety will undoubtedly be greatly guaranteed!