Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

The "Devouring Wood Divine Technique" is a high-grade Xuan-level cultivation method. If cultivated to perfection, it can possess the power of a low-grade Di-level cultivation method.

This technique, as its name suggests, relies on absorbing various spiritual woods to strengthen oneself and forge one's physique.

Once mastered, her entire body becomes as hard as a divine tree, and even mid-grade magic weapons cannot break through her defenses.

When she stood there, even a mid-Foundation Establishment stage demonic puppet couldn't break through her defenses.

Therefore, she was very confident that she could break through the so-called nine statues and obtain the inherited demonic power of the Misty Mansion.

The news that the misty mansion may have originated from the Five Elements Master has already spread among the high-ranking members of the three major sects.

They have given orders to take down the Misty Mansion at all costs.

The three leading Foundation Establishment stage cultivators were now enjoying a harmonious and pleasant time together.

In reality, they were secretly plotting against each other.

At this moment, in the courtyard, Jiang Shi was diligently cultivating when the isolation array he had set up was triggered.

There was someone at Jiang Shi's door, but the person didn't come in, so the second-grade superior water lock talisman that Jiang Shi had placed at the door wasn't activated.

Jiang Shi used his spiritual sense to perceive the outside world and discovered that it was Lin Yanyi standing at the door.

He got up and opened the door, and immediately smelled a faint odor of blood.

Lin Yanyi's injuries worsened, and Jiang Shi instantly understood what was going on.

"Senior Sister Lin, please come in." Jiang Shi invited Lin Yanyi inside.

He closed the door and set up an isolation array again, combining a second-grade high-level spirit talisman with the array. If anyone broke in, he would definitely give them a surprise.

"A high-grade second-rank spirit talisman!" Lin Yanyi said in surprise.

But as soon as she finished speaking, she spat out another mouthful of blood.

The blood sizzled as it fell to the ground. Jiang Shi looked down and was surprised to find a trace of black smoke in the blood.

"Demonic energy has entered your body!" Jiang Shi said.

No wonder Jiang Shi clearly saw that Lin Yanyi's injuries had stabilized that day, but they have worsened again today. It turns out that demonic energy has entered her body.

The demonic energy is inside Lin Yanyi's body. If the demonic energy is not removed, Lin Yanyi will never be fully cured.

Naturally, her cultivation level could not be broken through.

"Your comprehension is rare in the world..." Lin Yanyi was very weak. She muttered to herself in a soft voice, and Jiang Shi could not hear what she said next.

"You asked me to come here so I could save you, right?" Jiang Shi said to Lin Yanyi.

"But aren't you afraid I'll kill you right now?"

Lin Yanyi is now seriously injured, which might be a good opportunity to kill her.

After all, Lin Yanyi is Lin Feiyu's daughter, and no matter how good she is, she wouldn't stand by and watch Jiang Shi kill her father.

Just like yesterday, Lin Yanyi stopped him.

"I have... a spell... that suits you," Lin Yanyi said weakly and haltingly.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shi was somewhat tempted. Lin Yanyi had amazing comprehension skills and was also a member of the Lin family. If she said there was a technique suitable for him, it must be true.

Lin Yanyi shakily took out a stone slip from her storage bag.

As soon as she took it out, another surge of demonic energy rose up, and she spat out another mouthful of blood.

The stone tablet slip slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground. However, before it hit the ground, Jiang Shi caught it in his hand with a wave of his hand.

Without hesitation, Jiang Shi eagerly probed the stone slip with his spiritual sense.

[View the mid-grade Xuan-level spell "Water Nourishes Wood"]

[Learned the mid-grade Profound level technique "Water Nourishes Wood"]

[Mid-grade Profound-level Spell: Water Nourishes Wood - Beginner (0/500)]

It turned out to be another technique based on the five elements generating each other.

Like the technique "Wood Generates Fire," it must have been created by Lin Yanyi.

Jiang Shi's gaze towards Lin Yanyi changed.

He was born with the destiny that "Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable," which enabled him to have such insight.

Lin Yanyi surprisingly created a new technique based on the Five Elements in such a short time.

Don't be fooled by "Wood Generates Fire" and "Water Generates Wood," they are only mid-level Xuan-grade techniques.

However, it contains the natural principle of the mutual generation of the five elements.

It is a technique with an extremely high upper limit. Perhaps if all five techniques are gathered together, and the five elements come together, they will generate and combine with each other, resulting in incredible changes.

With his five spiritual roots, this was the most suitable technique for him to cultivate.

"Fine, I'll save you then." Jiang Shi looked at Lin Yanyi, who seemed to be on the verge of death, and prepared to help her.

He had just thought it over, and now was not the best time to kill Lin Yanyi.

Lin Yanyi is Lin Feiyu's daughter. If he kills Lin Yanyi, it could drive Lin Feiyu insane and cause him to do something even more difficult to control.

He might not survive.

There are quite a few statues of Foundation Establishment stage monsters in the Misty Mansion.

Lin Feiyu must have a way to activate it.

Moreover, Lin Feiyu may have inherited the Five Elements Demonic Sect's legacy, possessing numerous bizarre and unorthodox methods.

If Lin Feiyu were to act recklessly, he wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Jiang Shi activated the mid-grade Xuan-level technique, "Water Nourishes Wood".

A large amount of water-based spiritual energy was transformed into wood-based spiritual energy and transmitted towards Lin Yanyi's dantian.

As the wood-elemental spiritual energy entered her body, Lin Yanyi felt a jolt.

She unconsciously began to circulate her cultivation technique.

Jiang Shi's incredibly profound wood-elemental spiritual energy washed over Lin Yanyi's body again and again.

Lin Yanyi's injuries were easy to heal, requiring only wood-type spiritual power, but the demonic energy was difficult to remove even with wood-type spiritual power.

Continuing like this seems pointless; even if Lin Yanyi is healed, she will eventually be burdened by demonic energy again and get injured once more.

"Perhaps we can use the 'True Scripture of Universal Transformation of the Demon Source'."

Jiang Shi thought to himself.

The demonic energy is of the same kind as the "True Scripture of Universal Transformation of the Demonic Source". If so, it might be able to save Lin Yanyi.

But doing so would definitely expose us.

Jiang Shi thought to himself that he couldn't expose himself, so he came up with a plan to increase the output of his magic power.

Given Lin Yanyi's current condition, she couldn't possibly withstand such a large output of magical power.

Soon after, Jiang Shi caused her to faint.

After Lin Yanyi fainted, Jiang Shi no longer hid and began to absorb the demonic energy in Lin Yanyi's body by circulating the "True Scripture of Universal Transformation of Demonic Source".

Just as Jiang Shi had expected, the demonic energy, attracted by Jiang Shi, burrowed into his body like a small fish.

The demonic energy flowed into Jiang Shi's body like water flowing into the ocean.

[Proficiency +100]

"It even increased proficiency!" Jiang Shi was somewhat surprised.

Then he had some other ideas. If this demonic energy could increase his proficiency, he might be able to gain some benefits in the Misty Mansion.

Complete the "True Scripture of Universal Transformation of the Demon Source".

This cultivation technique is currently at the high-grade Xuan level. If it were cultivated to perfection, what kind of power would it possess?

I wonder if he will be able to control those nine Foundation Establishment stage monster statues by then.

What secrets does the Misty Mansion hold? What changes will occur when the scriptures on the nine statues are combined?

Just as Jiang Shi was pondering this, Lin Yanyi woke up.

"You're awake," Jiang Shi said, without any emotion.