"Ding~ You imbued the First-grade Immortal Elixir Immortal Thunder Bamboo with 4000 days of cultivation, gaining a 200-fold return, yielding 8 days of cultivation."
Hmm~
Seeing the prompt about imbuing the Immortal Thunder Bamboo with cultivation, Yang Hong was stunned. He had imbued 4,000 days of cultivation and received a 200-fold return, yet it only increased his cultivation by 8 days?
This... this was a bit too unbelievable, too strange.
Immediately, Yang Hong felt a difference.
His Great Ascension realm cultivation actually showed a slight increase, and the spiritual energy and mana within his body became even more refined.
"This is a genuine increase in cultivation, not just an empty increase in mana."
This time, he was quite pleasantly surprised.
Before, his cultivation had reached the peak of the Great Ascension realm and could not advance further. Only after ascending could his cultivation continue to grow. The cultivation returned from imbuing spirit plants had all been consumed by him to cultivate spirit plants.
But now, although it was only an increase of 8 days of cultivation, his cultivation had genuinely grown.
Did this mean he could cultivate to become an immortal without ascending?
"Perhaps I can give it a try."
As the thought struck him, Yang Hong quickly used his divine sense to pick out the Ninth-grade spirit plant with the richest spiritual energy and closest to evolution, and began a new imbuement.
He would have liked to continue imbuing the Immortal Thunder Bamboo, but the system's restriction was that each plant could only be imbued once per day.
"Ding~ You imbued the Ninth-grade spirit plant Sun-Bright Fruit Tree with 4000 days of cultivation, gaining a 200-fold return, yielding 800,000 days of cultivation."
The returned cultivation, Yang Hong merely let it circulate around his body before pouring it back into the Sun-Bright Fruit Tree.
[Ding~ Your Ninth-grade spirit plant Sun-Bright Fruit Tree has evolved into a First-grade Early Sun Immortal Tree.]
Very smoothly, the Sun-Bright Fruit Tree evolved successfully with just one instance of imbuing spiritual energy. Although it also absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy, it only required Yang Hong to use the returned cultivation from four imbuements to water it and complete the evolution.
"Although it seems... simpler, the aura of this Early Sun Immortal Tree is clearly weaker than the Immortal Thunder Bamboo."
"Continue~ Continue~ With two experiences, I can manufacture Immortal Elixirs in batches."
...
Amidst the clanging sounds of mutual combat, three and a half days passed in the blink of an eye.
The two powerful demons still hadn't managed to kill each other, so they decided to stop for a "meal." This "meal" was the spirit plants planted by Yang Hong.
"Wuxiang Zhaoxuan, don't think that just because you're treating this demon lord to spirit plants, I'll forgive you. I will still kill you and eat you!"
On the plains, a skeleton more than ten zhang tall, entirely black like obsidian, casually pulled up a Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and stuffed it into its mouth, chewing it like a pastry, crunching it down in a few bites.
Golden lightning struck it, causing no damage. Instead, it brought an expression of enjoyment to its skeletal face.
"Satisfying~ This Heavenly Thunder Bamboo is truly fragrant.
Wuxiang Zhaoxuan, give it all to me, and I'll temporarily spare your life."
"Heh heh~ Kehong Gu, you brute. If you had said this earlier, we wouldn't have had to fight until our heads were bloody."
A silver-gray demonic figure, a hundred zhang tall, floated gently beside the black skeleton. The two demons seemed to have reached a truce.
"Hmph~ If I hadn't beaten you into submission, would you, you liar, have honestly revealed that you have spirit plants?
Speaking of which, you liar are truly skilled. You can actually plant spirit plants in the demonic land using formations. As expected of your lineage of liars."
Skeleton Kehong Gu grumbled while eating the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, occasionally letting out a satisfied burp. The Heavenly Thunder Bamboo truly suited his palate.
The Heart Demon Wuxiang Zhaoxuan distractedly scanned his surroundings, searching for Yang Hong's trace, impatiently responding to Kehong Gu's chatter.
"Stinky bone, if you have something to eat, just shut up! Why ask so much?"
"Fine, I won't pry into your secrets. But I want to know where that bastard Kehong Tong is?"
"Killed by me. I scattered his demon soul origin in this secret realm."
"Is that so? It's a bit of a shame that this bastard was killed."
The two demons chatted intermittently, continuously venturing deeper into this spirit plant plain that spanned a thousand li.
Yang Hong heard the dialogue between the two demons and realized why the name Kehong Gu felt familiar.
These were the two demon souls from the Sealed Demon Secret Realm in the Myriad Demon Sea Domain!
In the past, Yang Hong had narrowly escaped death at the hands of these two escaped demon souls.
He never expected to encounter them again.
Even more unexpectedly, another [Corpse Demon] had been killed by the [Heart Demon]. It seemed the Heart Demon's power was even more terrifying than Yang Hong had imagined.
"Fortunately, these two demons turned on each other first. If they had joined forces to attack me from the beginning, I would surely have been dead.
And three days' time was just enough for me to complete the modification of a formation."
Although it pained him to see the spirit plants outside being continuously eaten, Yang Hong could only endure it and watch them be consumed.
At least, he wouldn't be in danger of being discovered by the two demons for a while.
Yang Hong didn't want to be discovered, and Wuxiang Zhaoxuan didn't want Yang Hong to be discovered either. In his view, Yang Hong was his food, and meticulously raised food at that, which could not be easily revealed to the Bone Demon.
Unfortunately, the Bone Demon, while appearing brainless, was quite cunning. While eating the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo and burping, its bony limbs still swayed towards the Yin-Yang Two Energies Spirit Transformation Formation, hidden by the Three Talents Formation.
Even with the formation hiding it, there were still traces for these demons to follow.
Bang~
"Hahaha~ Liar, you were indeed hiding something! This demon lord wants to see what you've been hiding."
"Get lost!"
The two demons, in tacit understanding and mutual suspicion, still found the Heaven and Earth Three Talents Hidden Shadow Formation. However, as the Bone Demon was about to act, the Heart Demon promptly blocked him.
"Liar, you get lost! Hahaha~"
Skeleton Kehong Gu laughed heartily, emanating black lightning that directly forced the Heart Demon back.
"Stinky bone, this is mine."
The Heart Demon roared, dispersing itself into a gray mist ten li wide, directly enveloping the Bone Demon and Yang Hong's formation area.
Then, there was silence.
...
Yang Hong looked at the two demons stuck to the formation's light screen and still fighting each other with a strange expression, inwardly bursting with laughter.
The tradition of demons fighting amongst themselves was too good. Back then, he had escaped the Sealed Demon Secret Realm while the Corpse Demon and Bone Demon were fighting. This time, in the Hongdong Secret Realm, the Bone Demon and Heart Demon were also fighting.
He hadn't even had a chance to use the several methods he had prepared before the two demons began their deadly battle.
"Since you are so eager to seek death, I will not be polite."
"Yin-Yang Revert~"
He quickly formed hand seals. A golden, fiery Buddha landed on an Immortal Elixir-grade Early Sun Immortal Tree, and the entire fruit tree lit up with golden flames.
A silver immortal being landed on the Immortal Elixir-grade Moon Gazing Immortal Grass, and the three-foot-tall green immortal grass ignited with silver flames.
Golden and silver dual-colored flames began to flow slowly between the two immortal elixirs. More immortal elixir spirit plants ignited with dual-colored golden and silver flames.
An hour later, the space within a radius of one li was completely transformed into a golden and silver dual-colored expanse, filled with warm immortal Buddha fire.
A powerful suction force emanated from the formation's light screen, rapidly drawing in the demonic energy from the outside.
Taking the brunt of it, the two demons were even more tightly adhered to the formation's light screen!