143: Soaring Peng Bird, Third-Order Corpse King

May.

Qingchen World.

This was an unremarkable Micro Dust World; compared to the many Micro Dust Worlds Yu Xuzi had visited, there was nothing special about it.

However, the only reason it was worth Yu Xuzi's visit was that a Yao King had appeared here several thousand years ago.

But it had already fallen.

It had died trapped in the meager cultivation environment of a Micro Dust World.

It left behind only a group of Bloodline descendants.

This Yao King had once evolved into a true Demon Emperor Species—the [Fuyao Roc].

"Fellow Daoist, how about we make a deal?"

Within the Myriad Mile Mountain Range, atop a mountain cliff thousands of feet high.

Yu Xuzi spoke softly to a Fuyao Roc with a wingspan of nearly forty feet and a cultivation level at the Late Stage of the Second Order.

If it possessed some intelligence, it should have been able to understand Yu Xuzi's words.

"Skreeee————!!!"

Unfortunately, what answered him was a furious cry and golden wings descending from the sky.

"Boom!!!"

Before the sharp claws could land, the Star God Wings unfolded behind Yu Xuzi's back, and amidst flashes of lightning, wind, and fire, his figure vanished from the spot.

Immediately after, a Star-Plucking Giant Palm dozens of feet wide struck down from the sky, swatting the roc to death on the spot as pale golden flesh and blood splattered in all directions.

"Though its Bloodline is decent, it is ultimately a Yao Beast of a small world; its intelligence is too weak."

Yu Xuzi shook his head; he had originally intended to spare its life.

With a wave of his hand, he allowed Embracing Star and Soaring to begin attacking in all directions, capturing the roc tribe Yao Beasts in these high mountains.

This was also one of his purposes for coming here.

Embracing Star and Soaring were producing more and more descendants; there were now nine "young birds."

The first three born had already reached the Peak of the First Order and were about to become Second-Order Yao Beasts, while the other descendants were also growing robustly.

As they gradually matured and gained the ability to reproduce, the existing population was no longer enough to meet their needs.

Furthermore, when the numbers are too small, inbreeding is always ill-advised.

To put it simply, he was here to find mates for Embracing Star's descendants, and also to expand the tribe to provide manpower for his future vision of the Yu Xu Palace.

Based on Yu Xuzi's own secrets, compared to the complex minds of Human Race Cultivators, he still trusted Yao Beasts that he had raised and controlled since they were young.

As for the other purpose, it was for the Bloodline evolution of Embracing Star and Soaring.

They were currently only subspecies Bloodlines of the Fuyao Roc.

To take their Bloodline a step further, seeking out true Fuyao Roc Bloodlines for devouring and Fusion was the best path!

Several hours later.

Inside the Yuxu Grotto-Heaven.

Embracing Star's tribe had gained dozens more roc Yao Beasts of varying Ranks.

Four Second-Order Early Stage rocs—two females and two males—all possessed the true Fuyao Roc Bloodline.

There were over thirty First-Order rocs, sixty percent female and forty percent male; these fellows could only be considered degraded subspecies Bloodlines of the Fuyao Roc, but they were more than sufficient for expanding the tribe and breeding descendants.

They were all Yao Beasts with chaotic intelligence, far inferior to the wisdom of Embracing Star and its descendants, but once their intelligence was awakened in the future, they would be even more loyal to Yu Xuzi.

Now that their leader had been swatted to death by Yu Xuzi, Embracing Star and Soaring became their new leaders, and in the future, they would become the supreme "Kings" of this tribe!

And their descendants would undoubtedly be the direct lineage.

Ten days later.

Accompanied by two successive cries that echoed through the Yuxu Grotto-Heaven, both Embracing Star and Soaring broke through their Bloodline constraints and became true Demon Emperor Species Fuyao Rocs!

At the same time, they also achieved the cultivation of Second-Order Middle Stage Yao Beasts... June.

Yao-Demon Lesser Thousand World.

Within a certain twisted valley, there was a blood pool a thousand feet in diameter, looking like a boundless crimson sea.

Its surface was flat and waveless, as viscous as the cooled and solidified plasma of billions of living beings, with a hair-raising thick mist steaming from it.

Countless Yao-Demon corpses were floating and dissolving.

Three-headed and six-armed Ape Demons, twisted and eerie two-headed giant snakes, Crocodile Demons with hideous scales, and demonic birds with broad fleshy wings... every one of them had at least the strength of the Second-Order Middle Stage or higher, but at this moment, their consciousness had already been extinguished.

The pool water enveloped every inch of Yao-Demon flesh, making a faint and dense "sizzling" sound.

Sturdy bones were softening, tough tendons were disintegrating like threads, and vast flesh essence and deathly corpse Qi were being forcibly extracted and stripped away, turning into streaks of dark red viscous light that converged toward the gargantuan entity at the center of the pool.

A terrifying aura continuously grew and rippled in all directions; dark clouds gradually gathered in the sky, and threads of lightning began to roar.

"Corpse King Lightning Tribulation!"

"It's almost ready!"

Twenty miles away, Yu Xuzi sat cross-legged in mid-air, his vast Divine Sense all pouring into the interior of the Demon Puppet, assisting his Divided Soul in fully controlling the soon-to-be-born Corpse King body, strangling the self-will emerging within the Demon Puppet!

Once the Demon Puppet showed signs of losing control, he would decisively terminate the Breakthrough and withdraw his Divided Soul.

At the same time, he would activate the blazing sun shield Magic Treasure, using scorching flames to suppress or even heavily injure the Demon Puppet, directly knocking it back to the Second Order.

Correspondingly, he was also prepared to leave at any moment.

Even though he was confident in controlling the Corpse King body this time, just to be safe, he prioritized his own safety.

Several hours later.

"Boom!!!"

The entire blood pool suddenly sank downward, and then, boundless waves of blood swept outward like a mountain collapse or a tsunami!

At the center of the pool, a massive shadow over a hundred and fifty feet tall broke through the crimson curtain and slowly rose.

The first to pierce through the blood mist were three giant horns.

Curved and hideous, they seemed as if they would pierce the heavens, with wet plasma and physical black corpse smoke coiled around them.

Following that was an incredibly large Dragon head, and black wings that suddenly spread open behind its back.

The wings, covered in lightning and black fire, could almost blot out a small patch of the sky, emitting sharp screeches like the cries of ten thousand ghosts in the rising gale of corpse Qi.

In front of it was a slowly rotating black-red corpse pill, about a zhang in size, covered entirely in Yao-Demon patterns.

The cultivation of a Corpse King and a Yao King of the Yao Race shared similar principles; both integrated their entire cultivation essence into a carrier, using it to trigger Divine Abilities or even for Possession and Rebirth.

The Human Race's carrier is called a Profound Fetus!

The Yao Race has a Yao Core, and the Corpse King's is called a corpse pill.

There are Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade, and supreme-grade versions, corresponding respectively to the Human Race's Profound Fetus, spirit fetus, immortal fetus, and Saint Fetus.

The corpse pill before him was of High Grade quality.

After all, it was a monster forcibly fused and refined from many Yao-Demon corpses, and it hadn't integrated the remains of any extremely powerful species; it had an Innate deficiency.

Being able to produce a High Grade corpse pill was already very difficult.

"A Third-Order Corpse King, it's finally done!"

Yu Xuzi breathed a sigh of relief, opened his pale eyes, and swallowed another Medicinal Pill that nourished the Divine Sense.

The newborn Corpse King's will was finally suppressed and completely annihilated by him.

"Awooo!!!"

A strange Dragon's roar echoed through the heavens, as if it were provoking the Lightning Tribulation in the sky.

"Rumble——————"

Lightning poured down from the sky.