Slaying Demons: Starting with Upgrading my Calligraphy

"You beast, you must be truly out of your mind."

"Do you not know that I am a Jiaoren from the North Sea? Yet you actually think you can drown me in water?"

"Hahaha, after so many days on the road, I can finally relish a hearty fight!"

With scales lighting up in abstruse light, Wen Qianshan's face twisted fiercely as he frantically stimulated his innate talents as a Jiaoren, intending to turn the tables and seize control of this dark, watery expanse.

"Relishing it, are you? Very well, then I shall let you truly enjoy yourself."

With a sweep of his sleeves, Qi Xiu appeared before the colossal Wen Qianshan. Gazing at those terrifying, dark green eyes, Qi Xiu smiled faintly.

In the next instant, a series of golden Talisman Scripts, radiating a heavy and majestic aura, rose from the seabed.

Compared to the Five Thunder Charm and Black Water Talisman Qi Xiu had used previously, these golden Talisman Scripts now floating in the water wove mysterious and majestic patterns with their golden lines. Each rune flashed with profound light.

All around them, everything seemed to freeze, as if suppressed by the power emanating from them!

Majestic!

Overbearing!

Heavy!

These were the only feelings Wen Qianshan had upon seeing the golden Talisman Scripts.

"Suppression Talisman Seal Skill!"

With a soft utterance, Qi Xiu's eyes blazed with a dazzling golden light!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Chains as formidable as warship anchor chains roared forth from the golden Suppressing Talismans, binding Wen Qianshan's body with unyielding force.

The suppressive power within the Suppressing Talismans bore down relentlessly, sealing everything.

"Release me!"

Sensing the power within the golden chains, an innate fear surged within Wen Qianshan.

He keenly felt all his power begin to be suppressed the moment the golden chains coiled around him!

Growing weaker, ever more insignificant.

Six Realms Charm: Triple Suppression Charm!

This was one of Qi Xiu's most potent measures from his early cultivation, now revived in all its former glory.

Its overbearing, arrogant, and tyrannical suppressive power was truly peerless!

The golden chains continued to constrict, biting into Wen Qianshan's flesh, his bones, and even his soul.

He screamed and roared madly, trying to summon his strength to break free from this suppression.

But how could the trap so carefully prepared by Qi Xiu allow its prey to escape so easily?

Whenever a chain formed by a Suppressing Talisman shattered or snapped, he would effortlessly replace it with another.

Inside the Golden Cry Jade Beads, he had Talisman Scripts accumulated over fifteen years.

Their number was sufficient to plunge any enemy into complete despair!

"Release me! Let me go, now! I want to get out..."

Gradually, Wen Qianshan's voice grew fainter.

The divine power of the Suppressing Talisman was to suppress everything!

Not just the physical body, but also cultivation, soul, and even consciousness.

Those terrifying, dark green eyes gradually dimmed, becoming dull, empty, and numb.

"Enter my Hunyuan Palace, and even a dragon becomes a worm.

You, this salted fish, just wait patiently to be turned into dried fish."

With his sleeves gathered, Qi Xiu appeared before Wen Qianshan's glabella. Compared to Wen Qianshan's colossal, mountain-like form, Qi Xiu seemed as insignificant as a feather.

A slight gap opened in his sleeve, and ten Cloud Seal Talismans, gleaming with black-gold light, flew out.

Yama Seal Divine Charm!

The greatest advantage of using Talisman Scripts for magic is the ability to produce effects multiple, ten, or even a hundred times stronger simultaneously.

This is because the Talisman Scripts are all prepared in advance.

As long as Qi Xiu's mind and energy could withstand it, releasing ten, a hundred, or a thousand Talisman Scripts at once was equivalent to casting the spell ten, a hundred, or a thousand times simultaneously.

Ten Yama Seal Divine Charms activated at once.

Instantly, Soul Arresting Seals, shaped like imperial jade seals and radiating majestic power, stamped fiercely one after another onto Wen Qianshan's Ancestral Aperture at his glabella.

The formidable soul-arresting power of Yama's Golden Chapter took immediate, miraculous effect on Wen Qianshan, whose will was already suppressed.

A blurry soul—half-human, half-fish, like a dark, ominous wind—the Jiaoren's soul was gradually being extracted by Yama's Law Seal.

"Captured!"

Activating Yama's Law Seal, Qi Xiu directly drew Wen Qianshan's soul into his Ancestral Aperture, then instantly initiated the union of spirit and flesh.

Within his Ancestral Aperture, Qi Xiu gazed at the Jiaoren's soul before him—its eyes vacant, empty, and numb.

Qi Xiu pondered for a moment, then placed his hand upon the soul and activated a Mysterious Ability.

HUM—

His palm trembled slightly as a repulsive force generated from it, pushing him away.

It's still not working...

Although I've used the Suppression Talisman Seal Skill to seal all consciousness and thoughts of this Jiaoren's soul, its fundamental instincts as a living being remain. I intended to use the Culinary Divine Marvel to transform it into sustenance, but its subconscious naturally resists. The Culinary Divine Marvel can only transform targets with absolutely no resistance. Even the slightest subconscious resistance renders it ineffective.

Feeling a pang of regret. Since the Culinary Divine Marvel is ineffective, I have no choice but to use my soul to draw upon the power of my physical body.

Qi Xiu then used the Star Absorption Skill to directly devour Wen Qianshan's soul.

Feeling a stream of extremely pure soul essence merging into his own, Qi Xiu's soul became a bit more substantial.

"Beyond the Yin God Phase is the True Spirit realm, where one breaks the barrier of life and death, gaining the ability to reincarnate and recultivate.

At this realm, the mere power of the soul can influence the material world.

The soul becomes akin to a physical entity, capable of effortlessly lifting a small mountain or, with a mere thought, invading the minds of Dao-Entering Realm cultivators.

A sweep of Divine Sense can cover a radius of thousands of miles, and not a single strand of hair can escape its detection."

The soul, unlike the physical body, is fragile and complex, and it serves as the very foundation of life. Consequently, nearly all Blood-Stained Great Cultivators exhibit a significant disparity between the cultivation realms of their soul and their physical form.

Furthermore, methods to cultivate the soul are scarce.

Many Blood-Stained Great Cultivators find their cultivation progress stagnant, primarily because their souls hold them back.

It was Dongfang Qing who, noticing the deficiency in Qi Xiu's soul cultivation, gifted Daoist Yunxiong a First-Rank Heart Pill. She tasked him with obtaining the Hell Dao soul cultivation technique, Yama's Golden Chapter, to remedy this shortcoming for Qi Xiu.

And, being a Demonic Path technique, Yama's Golden Chapter adopts a simple and crude approach to cultivation.

Arrest Souls to Cast the Palace, Myriad Spirits Bow in Worship!

Similar to the methods of Incense God Dao, it forges the soul into a Yama Golden Body.

However, Qi Xiu, this prodigy, possessed the Innate Mixed Yuan Holy Body. He mastered divine skills like the Union of Spirit and Flesh and even created a heaven-defying Divine Marvel like the Star Absorption Skill.

He directly swallows the souls he captures to strengthen himself.

He had, in effect, carved out an entirely different path for himself.

As for which path is superior, it's difficult to determine without reaching the apex of cultivation.

As Qi Xiu absorbed the soul, Wen Qianshan's physical body immediately went limp. A body without a soul becomes mere dead flesh.

"You're fortunate you ran into me; otherwise, all this fine flesh of yours would have gone to waste."

Shaking his head slightly, Qi Xiu flipped his hand to retrieve an item: the Spirit Pill Pouch, a Magic Artifact of the Food Demon Sect that hadn't seen action in a long time!

Ever since forging the Innate Mixed Yuan Holy Body and cultivating the Hunyuan Apertures,

this Magic Artifact, which had accompanied him for a long time, had been set aside.

It was thanks to this good fortune that it wasn't completely lost to the Corpse Demon Nie Biao back at the Nu River Dragon Palace.

This time, descending the mountain, he knew he would face massive slaughter, wading through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Discarding the corpses of so many Demonic Evil Cultivators would be an utter waste.

He might not need Spirit Pills now.

But giving them away as gifts or selling them would also be beneficial. After all, it's crucial for people not to forget their roots.

"Master mentioned last time that the Food Demon Sect possesses a Secret Technique to fuse the Spirit Pill Pouch and the Wonderful Medicine Pot into a Magical Treasure called the Spirit Pill and Miraculous Medicine Furnace.

This treasure vies with the creation of heaven and earth, seizing the profound mysteries of Qiankun.

It is a wondrous treasure capable of refining Immortal Pills.

If I can obtain this Secret Technique, my Spirit Pill Pouch will become very useful."

Casting a spell, Qi Xiu stored the Jiaoren Wen Qianshan's corpse into the Spirit Pill Pouch. He then dispersed the sea of black water formed by the Black Water Talisman and, with a thought, withdrew from the Hunyuan Palace.

He had frozen it with the Black Water True Skill, forcefully dragged it into the Hunyuan Palace, then sealed its physical body with the Suppression Talisman Seal Skill, and finally, arrested its soul with Yama's Law Seal.

This was the path of no return Qi Xiu had laid out for these five great Blood-Stained Demons.

Against five such Great Demons at once, Qi Xiu knew he would struggle to overpower them.

But one-on-one... without strength at the sixth layer of the Blood-Stained Realm or higher, even a pure-blooded demon of the Gu Clan would have to submit and accept death.

Stepping out from the Hunyuan Palace, due to the difference in the flow of time, only a short while had passed in the outside world.

Whom to pick next...

BOOM!

Just as Qi Xiu's gaze shifted, contemplating his next target,

far in the distance, endless Divine Light suddenly erupted. A corner of this light evolved into the phantom of a vast, massive beast, as if a primitive world had materialized from thin air, stretching across the sky.

Deafening rumbles, accompanied by the wild laughter of several demons, caused the entire mountain range to tremble violently.

Staring at the fiercely rampaging Myriad Beast Formation, Qi Xiu's eyes narrowed. He acutely perceived that what sustained this entire Great Formation were thousands upon thousands of interconnected Talisman Scripts.

This is... Talisman Array Dao!?