Transmigration After Becoming Love Saint

Chapter 812 - 258: Heroine Yan: Your Sword Dao Has Stagnated for Quite Some Time_2

Seeing this, Wang Mu could only briefly gloss over what had happened back then—how he had absorbed the Emotion Poison and cultivated the Infinite Demon Body in the Water Prison of Sealing God Mountain.

"You went to Sealing God Mountain’s Bi You Palace, and you didn’t have anything happen with her?" Heroine Yan asked. "These past few years, though I couldn’t sense you, I could still calculate that your fate kept shifting. Most of the time you vanished without a trace, like you were dead..."

At this point, her voice sank a few notes. "Something must have happened, right?"

As for the matter of exhausting his lifespan to解除 Bi You’s curse, it was better not to speak of it.

"Forget it. You don’t say, then I won’t know." Heroine Yan’s voice was even. "None of that is important."

Wang Mu was stunned. That’s not important?

He subconsciously glanced at her, and could vaguely sense, from that surging Karmic Fire, a faint and subtle killing intent.

Yet it didn’t seem to be directed at him.

"Then I’ll be going?" Wang Mu asked. "I want to go into seclusion and cultivate for a while."

"You should go into seclusion."

Heroine Yan said, "Your Sword Dao hasn’t made progress for a long time..."

"Then..."

Wang Mu thought for a moment, looked at Heroine Yan’s back, and said, "Elder Yan, could you perhaps give me some guidance?"

The air suddenly fell silent.

Off to the side, the Qingshuang Sword Spirit whooshed and flew straight into Heroine Yan’s body.

No one knew exactly why.

"This place isn’t suitable for instruction..."

Heroine Yan was silent for a long while. "Let’s change to another place..."

"I think it’s fine..." Wang Mu looked around. The view was wide open; there were clouds and mountains, and it was an independent cave dwelling. Jagged rocks surrounded them—it seemed very suitable for cultivating the Sword Dao.

Just right—he planned to seize this opportunity to see, through practicing the sword, whether he could absorb the Karma on Heroine Yan.

Karma that heavy was not a good thing.

Come to think of it, this ability of a Heavenly Demon to absorb Karma didn’t seem like a bad thing for a Cultivator...

No wonder Piao Miaoxu was able to recruit so many Cultivators in such a short time and improve so quickly...

Wang Mu’s thoughts were drifting.

Though she borrowed the reputation of the Saint Dongfang Mu, for Cultivators, if there was no tangible benefit, they might not follow you for long.

High-level cultivators bore heavy Karma and causality.

If it was too heavy, Heart Demons would easily arise, and Cultivation would be full of obstacles.

So many Cultivators in the Cultivation World made it a point not to be entangled in causality if they could avoid it.

Thinking of this, Wang Mu mused that this ability of the Heavenly Demon lineage was practically a heaven-sent Divine Power in the Cultivation World.

If it had been in the Ancient Era—back when the lives of the Ten Thousand Clan were still in a primitive, unenlightened state, when civilization had just begun to develop—there simply wasn’t enough Karma being generated, let alone such massive amounts. Add to that the lack of a complete, systematic Cultivation; average lifespans were short. Even someone as strong as the Ice Immortal—how long did they live?

Thus, as Heavenly Demons, they needed to disturb worldly peace and even shoulder the task of promoting the development of the world, thereby stirring up immense Karma so they could have food...

Thinking of this, a chill of cold sweat rose in Wang Mu’s heart.

If viewed from this angle, the emergence of Heavenly Demons, considered from a higher vantage point, wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for that Ancient Era, was it?

After Heaven and Earth changed, this era was utterly different from the past.

Cultivators were widespread; average lifespans were extremely long. With systematic Cultivation in place, Cultivators could live for several centuries; their burden of causality far surpassed that of mortals.

In fact, compared to the era in which Heavenly Demons first appeared, who knew how many times heavier it had become...

In the Nine Provinces, even a slight disturbance could implicate countless Cultivators; the Karma thus stirred up was like the Heavenly River bursting its banks, indescribably vast.

And those who had lived a thousand years or more—Ascension Experts like Heroine Yan—the weight of their Karma was unimaginable.

Those New Sect Ascension Experts were actually still manageable.

The old-school Ascension Experts were another matter entirely... especially ones like Heroine Yan...

"Thinking of it this way, the emergence of the Heavenly Demon lineage in the Ancient Era really might not have been a bad thing..."

"Power truly varies depending on the life that wields it..."

If he were to absorb the Karma of these Ascension Experts...

Wang Mu couldn’t help suspecting that, with this Heavenly Demon Secret Technique plus his Heavenly Demon Body, he might surpass Piao Miaoxu.

Piao Miaoxu had no chance to absorb it; after all, if she dared approach Heroine Yan and the others, she’d probably be cut down with a single sword.

But he now had this chance...

Wang Mu’s thoughts began to stir.

"Let’s just do it here." Wang Mu stepped forward.

Heroine Yan sidestepped two steps... Wang Mu stepped two steps closer...

"You..."

Not long after, from the cliff edge above the Immortal Energy–wreathed Cloud Sea came a few intermittent, faintly trembling sword hums.

The sword hum, its clarity hiding resonance, shook the surrounding cliff faces so hard that stone grains flew everywhere...

——

A long time later.

Wang Mu leaned against the cliff wall, his entire body surging like fire...

He sensed the state within his body.

The judgment had been right. Through practicing the sword, he could absorb the Karma on Heroine Yan, and the absorption was smooth as silk, vast as the sea.

The Infinite Demon Body, whose Cultivation had been perfected by the Heavenly Control Scripture, was like a sponge, absorbing with manic ferocity.

Clearly, it had been starved for a long time.

This hunger was even more intense than when he had used the Infinite Demon Body to absorb Immortal Essence before.

The Karma he absorbed was directly isomorphic with the Heavenly Demon Secret Technique and Heavenly Demon Body, converted into solid, substantial Cultivation.

Of course, it was different from the Cultivation of the Cultivation World.

This was the Cultivation of a Heavenly Demon.

This bout of practicing the sword lasted for most of the day.

The entire rear cliff, all along the cliff walls, was filled with traces of sword practice.

Yet even after all this time, Wang Mu felt that he still hadn’t completely drained the Karma on Heroine Yan.

There was nothing he could do; it was simply too much, too heavy.

"Thanks to the Great Yin-Yang Harmony Diagram, my Cultivation has also risen quite a bit..."