C31 Summoning spirit

This time, the condensed spiritual energy within his body was infused with demonic energy. He didn't know how much effort he had to put in to expel it all!

Yang Junshan secretly sighed, this was a last resort, he had originally planned to use the "Blood Refinement Spirit Art" to successfully advance to the level of immortal summoning spirits, and then accept the inheritance of the Eight Monarchs. This way, even if he had to absorb demonic energy as a medium to accept the mysterious inheritance, with Yang Junshan's cultivation level at that time, it would be much easier to expel the demonic energy that had entered his body.

It was a pity that Yang Junshan had performed the "Blood Refinement Spirit Art" twice in a row, almost pushing his body to the edge of collapse. In order to smoothly circulate the "Earth Spirit Art" in his body, Yang Junshan had no choice but to absorb the demonic energy emitted from the stone wall before he reached the level of Spiritual Summoning.

Although Yang Junshan had never been lucky enough to obtain these mysterious demon clan inheritances in his previous life, he had heard people talk about them more than once. The method for a cultivator to obtain these inheritances was also very simple; they could absorb a certain amount of demon qi into their body during the process of cultivation, thus, they could impersonate a demon clan cultivator to gain the recognition of these inheritances.

However, demonic energy was different from the spirit energy that cultivators absorbed. Human cultivators were not like demonic beasts, and when the demonic energy mixed with the cultivators' bodies for a short period of time, they might not be able to see much, but with the growth of the cultivators' cultivation, the demonic energy would become like maggots in their bones, making expelling it more and more difficult. It wasn't until the cultivators had stepped into the Martial Human Realm that the demonic energy completely merged with the cultivators, turning into a half-human half-demon.

Following Yang Junshan's cultivation support from the Lying Tiger Diagram, the Five Earth Spirit Arts, which was originally circulating in his body at a tortoise-like speed, suddenly became a lot lighter. The endless spiritual energy, which had gone through the two spiritual cavities in his body, was finally able to communicate and circulate under the pressure of the mountain.

Perhaps it was because there was a trace of demonic energy in his body, but as Yang Junshan moved the spiritual energy in his body, the circulation of the [Wutu Earth Spiritual Art] became smoother.

And when the [Wutu Earth Spiritual Art] completed a complete cycle in Yang Junshan's body, Yang Junshan suddenly felt his body tremble, and two thick streams of spiritual energy, like melted snow on a snowy mountain, rushed down from the mountain peak, and collided with the two spiritual cavities with a "hong" sound.

The dense spiritual energy transformed into a mountain torrent and charged into the Spiritual Aperture, but the two Spiritual Apertures did not move at all. Instead, they caused the surging spiritual energy to smash into pieces and rush around the meridians in his body, causing the spiritual energy that was circulating in an orderly manner to go into chaos.

This collision caused Yang Junshan's mind to waver, the whole circulation of spiritual energy that he had painstakingly built up in his body almost completely collapsed.

However, Yang Junshan was not alarmed, but happy instead. He hurriedly gathered his mind and did his best to maintain the circulation of the spiritual energy in his body. At the same time, he also borrowed the power of the [Wutu Earth Spiritual Art], trying his best to merge the two streams of dense spiritual energy into his meridians, causing the amount of spiritual energy stored in Yang Junshan's body to increase by a lot.

With the addition of this spiritual energy, the circulation of the spiritual energy in Yang Junshan's body became even more powerful. And every time the spiritual energy in his body revolved once, there would be two streams of spiritual energy rushing out from the two spiritual essences in his body, attacking the spiritual energy in his body. After shattering it, the spiritual energy would disperse into his meridians, fusing with the spiritual energy of the spiritual energy in his body, strengthening the spiritual energy in his body bit by bit.

The spiritual energy within the two high grade immortal spirits was melted by the soil spiritual energy within Yang Junshan's body. This also meant that Yang Junshan had successfully awakened his immortal spirit, and his cultivation had successfully entered the second level of the Mortal Realm.

However, because the two immortal spirits Yang Junshan had awakened were high grade immortal spirits, even though each round of transportation could absorb a dense amount of immortal spirit essence into the body, the spiritual energy that flowed within the two immortal spirits still gave off a mountain-like feeling, as if wanting to completely melt the two immortal spirits and reach the Great Circle of Spiritual Energy, it would be a long and lengthy process.

Originally, the process of summoning immortal spirits was for cultivators to either hold them in their hands or to speak of them. Thereafter, they would slowly practice their cultivation techniques to slowly refine them, causing the essence within the immortal spirit to gradually merge into the spiritual energy within their bodies.

This process was even slower than the one after Yang Junshan used the secret technique, but the whole process of cultivation was like a gentle breeze and fine rain, not directly impacting the spiritual energy in the body, and not to mention Yang Junshan's current state. Every time a strand of immortal essence melted, he would have to think of using it once, and the refluent immortal essence would cause a series of turbulence, causing him to have the risk of going berserk.

However, once Yang Junshan was able to properly handle the dangers of the technique, it would be beneficial for him in the future.

The third layer of the Mortal Realm was considered as the threshold for a cultivator's cultivation. If a cultivator was unable to store enough spiritual energy during the Celestial Summoning Stage and wanted to break through the barrier of the celestial spiritual cavities, completely opening them would be wishful thinking.

Many cultivators could reach the Great Circle of the second layer very quickly after they advance to the Celestial Realm. However, they were all trying to break through to the third layer of the Mortal Realm, trying to open their celestial spiritual cavities. They had no choice but to spend more time to nurture their spiritual energy and accumulate strength to break through to the third layer of the Mortal Realm.

Yang Junshan used a secret technique to absorb the immortal essence into his body, and every time the immortal essence melted, it would make a strong impact on his immortal spiritual cavities. When the immortal essence completely melted and Yang Junshan's cultivation reached the Great Circle of the Celestial Realm, his immortal spiritual cavities would be on the verge of loosening due to the countless attacks of his immortal essence. At that time, Yang Junshan could also store enough spiritual energy with his two high quality immortal essences, so the process of opening the immortal spiritual cavities would definitely be twice the result in half the effort.

When Yang Junshan woke up from his cultivation, another day had passed. At this time, there were only four days left until the Hundred Sparrow Mountain enclosure closed, and Yang Junshan's luck was not bad. During his weakest time, no one had noticed his cave.

At this time, Yang Junshan's body was still weak, but he was no longer like the day before, exhausted from even a slight movement. At least he had survived.

Yang Junshan checked the two wounds on his body; there was only an inch long scab left on his abdomen. The tiger tooth immortal spirit that was previously exposed outside of his skin seemed to have shrunk a little.

Yang Junshan heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had successfully cast the secret art. However, it was all thanks to the help of that crouching tiger picture. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to recover so quickly.

He turned around and looked at the map of the Eight Mountains on the wall again. Yang Junshan pondered for a moment, and in the end, he still didn't accept the inheritance of the other seven pictures, his body had not fully recovered yet. At this time, accepting the inheritance of the other seven pictures would certainly absorb more demon qi, since he was already here, it didn't matter if he was late.

On the straw mat beside him, the little tiger was sleeping soundly. Yang Junshan could clearly feel a faint demonic aura being emitted from the stone wall around the little tiger, slowly entering into its body along with its breathing.

This was the demonic beast's cultivation instinct. As time passed, the demonic energy stored within the cub would completely open up its spiritual wisdom, turning it into a demonic cultivator that knew how to cultivate on its own.

In his previous life, there were rumours that said that all those famous native demons had already activated their spiritual wisdom to cultivate before the great change occurred in the heaven and earth. Although the little tiger was still a newborn, it had already started to absorb the demonic energy for its instinctive cultivation.

Two more days passed, and Yang Junshan's body recovered very quickly. Although his face was still pale due to the loss of blood, he had completely consolidated his second layer of immortal spirit cultivation, leaving only a faint red line on the wound on his abdomen. The tiger tooth immortal spirit on his back was also slowly melting, disappearing under his skin.

Circulating the [Wutu Earth Spiritual Art], a strong and vigorous Spiritual Energy flowed through his meridians, and Yang Junshan immediately felt his entire body brimming with energy. He was completely sure that once his two wounds completely healed, the strength of his body would reach a whole new level.

However, at this time, Yang Junshan looked at his sworn brother angrily. This little thing was lazily lying on the grass, and its posture was exactly the same as the picture of a crouching tiger on the stone wall.

However, Yang Junshan wasn't angry because of this. The backpack that he placed by his side was now in a mess, of the three bear paws, only two were left. The lost one had already entered the mouth of the tiger cub with its innocent eyes wide open.

"You, you, you little bastard! This bear paw is at least worth one stone in the Spirit Valley and is at least 10 jade coins worth! How can it just enter your stomach like that!"

Yang Junshan stepped forward and pushed away the pallet under the tiger cub, exposing a few bones. This cub actually knew how to hide evidence. The cub let out two "ao ao ao" sounds, and seemed a little embarrassed.

Yang Junshan had neglected this tiger cub for three whole days in order to make full use of his time in cultivation and consolidate his immortal summoning cultivation.

Under the urge of hunger, the cub couldn't resist the temptation of the bear paw in its backpack. In the end, it left two cub for Yang Junshan because the cub couldn't eat them.

However, a single plump paw weighed at least a dozen pounds, almost the same weight as the cub itself. How could it eat so much in two days?

However, the little guy's stomach was round and in just two or three days, his body had grown to almost a foot long. It seemed that eating a fat bear's paw was acceptable.

"Alright, now we need to go out for a walk and make some preparations to leave Hundred Sparrow Mountain!"

Yang Junshan placed his quiver and quiver back on his back, then spoke to the tiger cub while holding his carved bow.