“To break through the blockade, he could only find a suitable identity and slip out.”
“First came the disguise technique, including aura, appearance, and magic power fluctuations. It all had to be disguised comprehensively.”
Ye Bufan planned it in his mind. After making up his mind, he sent Lu Luo to the Scripture Repository to look for a spell in this area, and to use her contribution points to exchange for a demonic cultivation art at the Foundation Establishment stage.
He specifically told her to choose a demonic art with fast cultivation speed and powerful magic power.
Lu Luo’s face turned pale. She was extremely unwilling, but with the knife already at her throat, she could only go to the Scripture Repository dejectedly.
“Taking her as a slave is also very useful. Before leaving, I can still get a few techniques out of her.”
Ye Bufan was not worried that Lu Luo would turn on him. With her soul blood in his hands, even a Core Formation cultivator would have a hard time saving Lu Luo’s life.
After that.
Ye Bufan began cultivating “Demon Dragon Art” and “Blood Escape Art.”
For the former, he directly snatched Lu Luo’s demon serpent soul.
The serpent head spell Lu Luo had used earlier was precisely “Demon Dragon Art.”
This spell was not low-level and was very difficult to cultivate.
For an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator to achieve mastery, they would need to contribute blood essence year after year, and it could take several years or even more than a decade to master it.
Lu Luo had contributed for a full two or three years, and every cultivation session caused damage. She only dared to contribute once every few days.
Its power had not even reached minor mastery.
“But I don’t have that worry. The more others contribute, the weaker they become; the more I contribute, the more my cultivation improves.”
Ye Bufan dripped out a drop of blood essence and fed the purple little snake before him.
The little snake soul had green, gleaming eyes and greedily swallowed the blood essence.
Perhaps because of Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, the little snake’s aura increased noticeably.
It was far stronger than when Lu Luo had used it.
And Ye Bufan not only felt no loss or weakness from the blood essence, but instead felt refreshed and sensed a slight improvement in his cultivation.
“This is truly perverse! Even this can improve cultivation.”
Ye Bufan marveled that this system was far too heaven-defying.
And the little snake seemed unsatisfied, greedily staring at the wound on Ye Bufan’s thumb.
This was a trait of “Demon Dragon Art,” and the snake soul instinctively craved to devour its Master’s blood essence.
For most Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators, cultivating this art and losing even a single drop of blood essence would make them incomparably miserable and leave them weak for several days.
They would even fear having their blood essence devoured.
“Pfft!”
After one drop of blood essence was devoured, Ye Bufan’s cultivation improved again, and the little snake’s aura grew stronger, making its green eyes even greedier.
“Pfft!”
“Pfft!”
Ye Bufan kept contributing blood essence without tiring, and the cultivation he had just stepped into at Foundation Establishment was completely stabilized and still improving little by little.
As blood essence kept being fed, the little snake’s aura grew stronger and stronger, moving from beginner level toward minor mastery!
And the greed in the little snake’s green eyes grew less and less.
In the end, it even resisted swallowing it.
It was full to bursting!
“Continue devouring it.”
Ye Bufan remained expressionless and kept feeding it.
The little snake’s body swelled, and as it stared at its Master before it, greed turned into fear.
If it could speak, it would probably already have started cursing.
In the end, it was so full it almost exploded.
“That was just right.”
Ye Bufan nodded inwardly and did not continue feeding it, letting the little snake digest on its own.
Once it finished digesting, the spell would be about at minor mastery, and that speed completely surpassed those monstrous geniuses in the Heavenly Demon Sect.
After “Demon Dragon Art” came “Blood Escape Art,” and this spell was even simpler; it only depended on whether one was willing to burn blood essence.
By deep night, Ye Bufan had completely cultivated the two spells successfully, and his strength had improved significantly.
Lu Luo also returned.
In a green dress, with a graceful figure, she no longer carried her usual condescending attitude and instead looked like a bedchamber maid, ready to be taken at will.
“Master, this servant has exchanged the three techniques with all my contribution points.”
“I didn’t have enough contribution points for a powerful Foundation Establishment technique, so I could only exchange for this powerful body-refining technique, ‘Demon Ape Great Art.’”
“Besides that, there was also the unusual puppet technique ‘Paper Effigy Canon.’”
Lu Luo spoke softly and did not dare cut corners on anything Ye Bufan had instructed.
To be able to forge a top-grade dao foundation right under her nose and do it so silently, that level of scheming surpassed many fellow demonic cultivators.
“Mm, all right.”
Ye Bufan nodded and took the two ancient books.
Although he was somewhat disappointed that there was no advanced disguise technique or Foundation Establishment technique, he could understand it; a high-level Foundation Establishment technique was far too valuable.
Outside, they would all be clan-suppressing techniques.
“Demon Ape Great Art, a high-level body-refining technique. Once cultivated to success, the body becomes like steel, strength becomes limitless, and it is comparable to Foundation Establishment. It requires the blood essence and essence soul of ape beasts to assist cultivation.”
“Side effect: it can easily cause mental confusion and pollute one’s own magic power.”
Ye Bufan was very surprised when he saw the beginning.
Body-refining cultivators were quite rare in the cultivation world, because the path of body refinement was harder than Qi Refining, let alone body-refining techniques that could reach Foundation Establishment.
However, in close combat, a body-refining cultivator was invincible.
And this “Demon Ape Great Art” was quite powerful; with Lu Luo’s contribution points, she simply could not have exchanged for it.
But after seeing the side effect, Ye Bufan understood.
“How many people in the entire Heavenly Demon Sect cultivate this kind of body-refining technique?”
“Not a single one.”
Lu Luo was watched by Ye Bufan, and she felt somewhat frightened. She said with grievance, “It’s precisely because the side effect is so severe that it’s cheap. As for the others… I couldn’t afford to exchange for them either.”
After cultivating “Demon Ape Great Art,” one basically said goodbye to being normal; one’s cultivation became polluted, and one’s realm stopped there.
No one in the entire Heavenly Demon Sect cultivated it.
But that instead made things cheaper for Ye Bufan.
『Demon Ape Great Art, Negative reversal: after cultivation, the mind becomes even clearer, and one’s own magic power is purified.』
Ye Bufan smiled inwardly.
Besides that.
“Paper Effigy Canon” was an unusual puppet technique that used various materials to create paper figures, paper beasts, and the like with combat ability.
It was unusual for a reason.
Most puppets in the cultivation world were made from steel or rare wood.
There were simply no paper figures of the sort.
Lu Luo explained that, according to rumor, this had been researched by an Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Demon Sect who had come from a funeral shroud shop more than a thousand years ago.
Because it had many shortcomings in various places, Heavenly Demon Sect disciples had always chosen the normal puppet path rather than paper effigies.
Ye Bufan was somewhat interested in it, but he would have to study it later.
He would cultivate Demon Ape Great Art first to strengthen himself and escape the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Ye Bufan gave Lu Luo two hundred spirit stones and had her go to the Heavenly Demon Sect market to buy ape blood essence.
The Heavenly Demon Sect market operated twenty-four hours a day.
When Lu Luo returned, Ye Bufan took the two bottles of blood essence containing the “Azure Demon Ape” and entered the room.
This was a Tier-2 demonic beast, equivalent to the Foundation Establishment early stage.
A moment later, a large bathtub was steaming hot, and rolling baleful qi and a fishy smell rushed at him, as if it contained a ferocious and terrifying magic ape.
“Master, Lu Luo will undress you~”
Lu Luo’s face turned red as she looked at the old man before her and forced herself to say it through discomfort.
This was clearly an act of flattery.
However, such intimate actions with a wretched old man were ultimately not from her heart.
“As long as she serves him well, there will eventually be a chance to escape from his grasp.”
“All right.”
Ye Bufan nodded and, without the slightest embarrassment, sat in the bathtub under Lu Luo’s service.
In an instant.
Baleful qi boiled, mist rose, and a great amount of medicinal power drilled into Ye Bufan’s body.
As Demon Ape Great Art circulated, his physique rapidly grew stronger.
Divine Concealment Art could no longer conceal him, and Ye Bufan’s true appearance gradually showed.
With a head of black hair, handsome features, and delicate skin, he looked just like a noble young master from a prominent clan, with no trace of old age left.