One Sword to Immortality - Chapter 26

Xu Liao had managed to revert to his previous form as a human, but he wasn’t too excited. He then closed his eyes and concentrated again.

His current appearance was just only for looks. The most crucial point in cultivating the Yin Yang Quality Refinery Skill was the internal structure of the body. The internal organs, muscles and bones, together with the veins and vital points, if they are not properly refined, it would affect future cultivation.

After five hours, Xu Liao once again slowly opened his eyes. He tapped the ground with his palm and stood up with ease. The moment he took his first step, the whole courtyard shook lightly. He couldn’t help but smile.

However, his ‘new’ body, though it wasn’t much different from the original, he knew that there were indeed some differences that had been branded into the deepest parts of his body. Even with the most advanced hospital, using he best technologies and equipment couldn’t differentiate the difference between him and a normal human being.

Sun Bo Fang clapped his hands together and laughed.

“Congratulations! This near perfect transformation, even those old demons couldn’t do it! But you actually did it! That’s very impressive.”

Xu Liao stared at Sun Bo Fang for a moment before slowly looking at his own body expressionlessly.

“Even if it is perfect, I am still a demon.”

Sun Bo Fang stopped laughing as a hint an annoyance flashed past his face, he then casually threw Xu Liao a set of new clothing.

“Wait until you have the chance to control the pulse properly, then try and form a battle suit with your cultivation. If not, you would have to change your clothing every time you battle.”

Xu Liao focused his consciousness on his new ‘body’. Apart from the visual transformation of his body, there was another matter that attracted his attention.

Xu Liao waved his hand to activate the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon. The emerald projection appeared in front of Xu Liao, revealing all sorts of new data that weren’t shown before.

Sun Bo Fang was still rather annoyed from before, but once he saw the data on the projection, he took a step back in shock.

“…Demonic force value at 6292!! How is this possible!? Has this damn battle beast system malfunctioned?” Sun Bo Fang screamed.

Xu Liao was also slightly shocked by Sun Bo Fang’s reaction. He tilted his head and asked:

“The battle beast system can go wrong too? Can the bug of this system be fixed?”

Sun Bo Fang just shook his head and didn’t continue the conversation regarding the problem. With a swipe of his finger, a light blue projection appeared in front of him and connected the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon. Both of his hands were like butterflies, skilfully navigating through the settings.

At first, his expression started rather relaxed, but after ten minutes, his face turned really black. Then he turned and stared at Xu Liao, he felt that the way he looked at Xu Liao had changed, as if there was fear.

Xu Liao silently sank into a corner and thought to himself:

“What’s scarier than me becoming a real demon? Tell me the truth if there is anything wrong! Did I make a mistake in the transformation and lost a few years of my life?”

Many things were running through his head right now.

Sun Bo Fang tapped on his forehead as he saw how Xu Liao was behaving. He guessed what Xu Liao was worrying about and sighed.

“Although your situation is weirder than usual, but it has definitely got nothing to do with your life expectancy.”

However, in contrary to his outwardly appearance, in the mind of the Sun Bo Fang, he was silently screaming.

“How is this even a problem!? You’ve got such a high Demonic Force Value! Not to even mention the Vibrating Demonic Qi…”

The Vibrating Demonic Qi is not something that can be achieved easily. The Big Four Legions and the Million Demon Clan; even the Eighteen Xian Faction and the Ying Zong Liu Faction, at least thirty percent of their demons and human cultivators won’t be able to achieve the realm of vibrating demonic Qi even until death. Only those that completely mastered vibrating the demonic Qi would be able to have their own distinct demonic Qi ripples. This realm was like a dream that many could only dream of, and it represents an affinity with stronger powers.

To be able to awaken the blood pulse within the first year of cultivating, then being able to vibrate the demonic Qi, and then forming demonic Qi ripples, is already considered a top class talent.

To be able to awaken blood pulse and within first year of cultivating, and then achieving the realm to vibrate demonic Qi to form demonic Qi ripples, is already a top class talent!

Xu Liao had only awakened to his blood pulse for more than a month, and was able to vibrate his demonic Qi; this alone was already considered a special case. To be called a genius would be an understatement. With his this alone, he would indeed be called a genius within geniuses!

Moreover, Xu Liao awakened to the Undead Tree blood pulse, which is a rare secondary blood pulse. He also received an encounter with the Emperor Stream Serum.  To be able to achieve the realm of demonic Qi vibration, although shocking, but it can still be considered in the range of the many geniuses out in the world. This, Sun Bo Fang could still accept.

But to be able to vibrate demonic Qi and transform into a demon successfully, this had already exceeded the common knowledge of the demonic and humans.

Ancient demons started off transforming into human form, then could they start formal cultivating. Modern demons however, just had to awaken their blood pulse, and judging from the power of the blood pulse, cultivating can begin. But there was a huge bottleneck, which was that they must accumulate enough energy to initiate transformation into demonic form. It is this important step then could they thoroughly open the path to true cultivation!

Ninety nine percent of demons cultivate for a few hundred years before they could attempt demonic transformation. Moreover, this procedure would last for at least a few years. Those that can transform into demons are those geniuses. Within the last three hundred years, there were only eight of such cases … and even compared to that, Xu Liao was even one realm above them.

As if that wasn’t shocking enough, the thing that made Sun Bo Fang scream was Xu Liao’s absurd Demonic Force Value.

The Demonic Force Value is like a gauge for talent and skill. A normal standard for normal demons after one year of cultivation was just a small number in Demonic Force Value. A six thousand Demonic Force Value is equivalent to a six thousand year-old demon!

Sun Bo Fang felt dizzy as he thought to himself.

“Just by following this data, this brat is almost reaching the demonic king’s level. Once he becomes a demonic king, he would be able to go against the soldiers of the Eighteen Xian Faction! How is this possible!?”

Xu Liao didn’t have any changes to his expression. Sun Bo Fang’s mind was in a mess as he sank deep in thought.

For the past month, Xu Liao had always been with Sun Bo Fang and Zhao Yan Qin and learning the common demon knowledge. Thus he didn’t understand the meaning of the data and was equally doubtful of what the data showed.

Xu Liao had recovered his vitality; even his injuries are almost fully recovered. He then mused to himself.

“There seems to be a saying that a perfectly refined regiment of the emperor stream serum is worth sixty years of skill. I swallowed two hundred to three hundred regiments of the emperor stream serum, so there should be at least a few thousand years of skills! I thought I had been thinking too much. It was impossible for me to have such strong demonic power. If not, why did the battle beast only converted around seven hundred demonic Qi? I just didn’t know that … there was actually nothing wrong! It was because my Demonic Force Value had exceeded the battle beast converting limit!”

Sun Bo Fang raised his head towards Xu Liao in shock. He could see Xu Liao concentrating intently on the Jasper Seven Stars Mantis Demon. Even the seven skull-like silver spots on his back started to appear. Sun Bo Fang cringed…

 Translated by Gary. Edited by Jason.