In the Heavenly Demon Mountain Range in the Zhao Kingdom.
It was the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Inside a courtyard.
“Miss, I am already old and frail, and I can no longer manage anything in bed. Why force me into such a difficult position?”
Ye Bufan looked at the woman, whose temperament was alluring and whose beauty seemed unreal.
She appeared to be about twenty years old. A purple dress wrapped around her graceful figure, her black hair draped over her shoulders. Her looks were breathtaking, like a fairy stepping out of an ancient painting.
If the other party had not been a demoness of the Heavenly Demon Sect, he would have loved to have a beautiful encounter with her.
Ye Bufan was not actually from this world.
A hundred years earlier, he had transmigrated here.
When he learned that this was a cultivation world, he was thrilled.
He had thought he could attain the Dao and become immortal, but his aptitude was mediocre, and he was only a low-grade yang spiritual root.
He visited the five great immortal sects of the Zhao Kingdom one by one, and all of them turned him away.
The reason was always the same.
A yang spiritual root was known as a cultivation cauldron body. It greatly benefited demonic female cultivators, but for his own cultivation, it was no different from an ordinary low-grade spiritual root.
He had no hope of Foundation Establishment in this lifetime.
After running into wall after wall, Ye Bufan refused to give up. He cultivated a basic technique and became a rogue cultivator.
He had struggled and crawled his way through for a hundred years.
Yet he had only reached Qi Refining level nine.
Qi Refining cultivators could live at most one hundred and twenty years, and he had already lived one hundred and fifteen.
Seeing that he only had a few years left to live, Ye Bufan had no choice but to plan to marry a wife and spend his later years in peace.
Maybe he could even have a few children.
But heaven did not go his way. The moment he stepped outside, he was captured by a passing demoness and made into a cultivation cauldron.
“I hid for a hundred years, only to lose my good name at the very end.”
In his previous life, Ye Bufan had seen news of a girl bullying an old man for years until the old man could not stand it anymore and called the police.
Back then, he had sneered at it, but now he believed it.
“A hundred years as a virgin, and still a yang spiritual root. That is pretty rare. Though you are a bit old, as long as you are usable, that is fine.”
“You are not losing out either. This lady is still a virgin, too.”
Chu Zixue extended her jade hand and tapped Ye Bufan’s forehead, smiling seductively.
Although she was smiling, those eyes were filled with coldness.
She had been searching for a cultivation cauldron outside for many days.
If the contest for the saintess position had not been imminent, and if she had not needed to break through to Core Formation in a short time, she would never have taken this old man, Ye Bufan, as a cultivation cauldron.
“This is Blood Spirit Art. It can quickly increase your cultivation. Cultivate well and cooperate with my breakthrough, and you will not lack wealth and glory in the future.”
“If you do not cooperate… I can only throw you into the Ten Thousand Serpents Cave.”
Chu Zixue gently stroked Ye Bufan’s face and handed over an ancient book, her smile carrying a threat.
If this Ye fellow cultivated to the twelfth layer, or even Foundation Establishment, and with his yang spiritual root and a hundred years of virginity, he might help her break through to Core Formation.
“I will come regularly to check your cultivation progress. You have one month. Don’t disappoint me, all right?”
Chu Zixue smiled sweetly and left at a graceful pace.
She did not worry that Ye Bufan would resist. This was the Heavenly Demon Sect.
What trouble could a mere Qi Refining rookie stir up?
“What the hell are wealth and glory? I’d be sucked dry into a dried corpse at this rate.”
Ye Bufan had mixed in the cultivation world for a hundred years. When facing enemies, if he could beat them, he would do everything he could to kill them and erase the evidence.
If he could not beat them, he ran immediately and lay low for a few years before showing himself again.
He also rarely went to dangerous places.
He was extremely cautious.
And the most dangerous places in the Zhao Kingdom were none other than the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Joyous Union Sect.
Some demonesses often snatched strong men to use as cultivation cauldrons, and by the next day they had been drained into dried corpses.
Their ends were miserably tragic.
But if he did not do what the other party said, he would die too.
The difference was whether he died from pain or died from pleasure.
“And what about this technique? What technique that could rapidly increase cultivation did not have huge side effects?”
Ye Bufan flipped through the ancient book. It was an advanced demonic art.
Only cultivation families and sects had this level of technique.
The content did indeed rapidly increase cultivation, but the last few pages had been torn out.
He did not even need to think to know that those were the side effects of cultivating this technique.
“Fine, cultivate it then. Dying from pleasure is better than dying from pain.”
Ye Bufan finally sighed in despair.
He had no choice but to study this demonic art.
『Ding! You observed a cultivation manual with severe side effects and activated the Negative Reversal System!』
『This system can reverse the negative effects of any technique, spell, pill, weapon, and so on for the host into positive effects. Note: it can only reverse external objects; it cannot reverse the host itself.』
『A technique detected.』
『Blood Spirit Art: An advanced demonic cultivation art that can greatly increase cultivation in a short time. Side effect: one circulation shortens lifespan by ten days, and one month later cultivation rapidly drops to Qi Refining level one, crippling the foundation!』
『Negative reversal: one circulation increases lifespan by ten days! One month later, cultivation will surge rapidly! And the foundation will be stable! Note: the higher the cultivation, the weaker the effect.』
Ye Bufan froze, then his eyes widened, and he could not help but burst into tears.
“Damn! The system only activated when I touched a technique with huge side effects?! Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
So he had stayed cautious for a hundred years, only to do it all wrong?
Then he hurriedly looked over the system panel.
“That demoness really isn’t anything decent. If I cultivate this technique, I’ll be ruined!”
“But this system’s reversal is truly heaven-defying. Side effects turn into boosts? Others cultivate and drop dead, while I cultivate and soar ahead?”
“The stronger the side effect, the stronger I get!”
Ye Bufan was truly shocked.
Because he saw a bright road ahead!
It was not just techniques, but pills and weapons too.
If he swallowed a poison pill, he could quickly reverse the side effect and turn the poison pill into a healing pill!
“First, get stronger, then figure out a way to get rid of that demoness.”
Ye Bufan suppressed his excitement and carefully comprehended Blood Spirit Art.
That woman was already at the great completion of Foundation Establishment; out in the outside world, she would have been the Old Ancestor of a small family, and if he faced her, he would be throwing his life away.
And he only had one month. He did not expect to beat her at all.
Being able to run away was enough!
A short while later.
Ye Bufan sat cross-legged and dissolved his original technique.
It was worth mentioning that the technique he had cultivated before was an attribute-less basic technique, so switching to another technique did not require dispersing his cultivation.
After the switch, he began circulating Blood Spirit Art.
This technique used blood as a guide to connect with heaven and earth spiritual qi; bluntly speaking, it burned his own lifespan to increase cultivation.
Its side effects were too severe, and no one in the entire Heavenly Demon Sect dared to cultivate it.
This instead benefited Ye Bufan.
As he cultivated, his progress became visible.
A qi vortex condensed above Ye Bufan’s head, and streaks of heaven and earth spiritual qi drilled into his body.
The barrier that had trapped him at Qi Refining level nine for twenty years loosened at that moment!
Fifteen minutes later.
The qi vortex in Ye Bufan’s dantian doubled in size, and spiritual qi surged.
Qi Refining level ten!
“Awesome!”
He could not help shouting, his expression excited.
After breaking through, his five senses became sharper. He formed a seal lightly, and a fireball appeared, burning a pit into the ground.
“Fireball Technique is much stronger now. This one shot could instantly burn my former self to death, and it is faster to cast as well.”
Ye Bufan praised it over and over.
Qi Refining had thirteen layers in total, and the higher he went, the harder it became.
Most low-grade spiritual roots only reached the eighth or ninth layer for their entire lives.
And the demonic art had let him break through on the spot!
At this rate, he was almost catching up to top-grade spiritual roots.
Then, with a casual glance, he saw a puddle not far beneath his feet, reflecting his appearance like a mirror.
His originally old and frail appearance, as if he could be put in a coffin at any moment, actually showed a hint of vitality!
His full head of white hair also showed signs of turning black.
He had become younger!
“The technique after reversing the side effect is truly monstrous! After fifty great circulations, it increased lifespan by five hundred days… one and a half years?!”
Ye Bufan was shaken to the core and almost burst into tears.
“This is practically a divine art!”
Ye Bufan did not dare delay and continued cultivating Blood Spirit Art.
One circulation increased lifespan by ten days. Who could resist that temptation?
At the same time.
Outside the courtyard.
Sensing the stronger aura inside, Chu Zixue revealed a seductive smile on her stunning face.
“It is good that he is willing to cultivate Blood Spirit Art. It will not be long before he becomes my perfect cultivation cauldron.”
Chu Zixue’s eyes were filled with desire, as if she could already see the saintess throne waving to her.
The saintess of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Her status was second only to the sect master! Countless disciples coveted the power and resources that came with it!
Beside her, a lively young girl in a green dress remained silent, looking at the small courtyard with pity.
“That was Blood Spirit Art. The last guy who cultivated it was only sixteen or seventeen when he started, and after one month he turned completely white-haired. In the end, his cultivation declined and he died of old age on the spot.”
“This Ye Bufan only had a few years left to live anyway, so he probably would not last long.”
The green-dressed girl shivered when she thought of the tragic state of the person from the rumors.
Blood Spirit Art was suitable for the Qi Refining stage and was created by an ancient demonic Old Ancestor.
Many demonic cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect avoided it like the plague!
“Lu Luo, I will go into seclusion for a while to prepare for a breakthrough to Core Formation. You will guard this place, and no one is allowed to approach! Especially those bitches!”
Chu Zixue thought of those rivals and snorted coldly.