319: Practice [Demon Sealing Technique]

Through reviewing the Martial Demon System Compendium, Xiao Shi gained a comprehensive understanding of the Martial Demon Realm system.

He then realized that whether it was the runes he had previously encountered or the demonic patterns, they all shared a common concept.

That is, the ability to engrave and seal certain special powers.

For example, the Martial Demon Realm Expert Xiao Shi faced in the past.

Every demonic pattern on him was a special power.

These powers varied in strength.

Some of the more powerful ones even exceeded the limits that a Martial Demon Realm martial artist could control.

Therefore, these powers needed to be sealed using methods like demonic patterns.

"If the physical body, soul power, etc., are powers originating from oneself..."

"Then the Martial Demon Realm system is essentially about acquiring powers external to oneself, then engraving and sealing these powers, and subsequently being able to use them."

"Different people have different methods of engraving and sealing."

"These powers can be transformed into marks, runes, etc., and stored on the body; they can also be integrated into artifacts, or even transformed into special spirit beasts, or even special organs..."

From the records in the Martial Demon System Compendium, Xiao Shi saw many applications of the Martial Demon system.

Combining this with his own situation, he felt that he could completely follow the Crimson Tiger Lineage's system to construct this power.

The Crimson Tiger Lineage, in the Martial Demon Realm aspect, primarily constructs these external powers into different Crimson Tigers.

The key still lies in acquiring these external powers.

Typically, there are many ways to acquire these external powers.

For example, within various factions, there are more or less reserves of these external powers.

The Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect, for instance, has quite a few of these external powers. Usually, as long as someone in the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect reaches the Martial Demon Realm, they can apply to obtain these powers within the sect.

Of course, one can also choose to collect them externally.

However, collecting them externally is more difficult.

Not only does it require sufficient strength, but also a certain amount of luck.

Especially for those powerful forces, the difficulty of acquisition is immense.

"If I can strip these powers from other Martial Demon Realm Experts... that would be a good method!"

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

In fact, he was not the only one with such an idea.

Many Martial Demon Realm Experts had similar thoughts.

However, no one had ever been able to achieve it.

After all, these external powers existing on other Martial Demon Realm Experts had already formed their unique systems, making them naturally impossible to strip away.

However, Xiao Shi had an idea.

"If I use the Demon Sealing Art to seal the external powers of these Martial Demon Realm Experts..."

"I wonder if I can strip them away?"

Xiao Shi felt that his idea might have a chance to be realized.

But the specific situation would depend on the effect of the Demon Sealing Art.

Currently, he only knew that the Demon Sealing Art was a Martial Soul Grade sealing Secret Skill, but its specific effects would only be known after he cultivated and cast it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi immediately took out the ring of lucky sacrifice.

Before cultivating the Demon Sealing Art, he needed to first boost his luck.

Otherwise, there was a high probability of failure in cultivating the Demon Sealing Art.

The ring of lucky sacrifice was a silver-white bracelet.

When Xiao Shi put on the entire bracelet, he closed his eyes and silently decided what he would sacrifice this time.

According to his previous plan, what he was going to sacrifice this time was his lifespan!

Immediately, under his will, his entire lifespan began to rapidly drain away, pouring into the ring of lucky sacrifice.

Xiao Shi was not worried that his lifespan would be exhausted by the sacrifice.

Firstly, with his current realm, his lifespan was already incredibly long, so sacrificing a portion would not have too much impact.

Secondly, this kind of sacrifice was controllable.

He could stop at any time during the sacrifice.

It wouldn't happen that his entire lifespan would be sacrificed at once. Once he sensed something was wrong, he could immediately interrupt the sacrifice.

Xiao Shi, at this moment, while feeling the loss of his lifespan, also paid attention to the luck feedback from the ring of lucky sacrifice during the sacrifice.

Compared to the Luck Pills he had refined earlier, the luck feedback from the ring of lucky sacrifice seemed a bit scarce.

It required a considerable amount of lifespan to exchange for enough luck.

Fortunately, Xiao Shi now had abundant lifespan, enough to exchange for luck.

Just like that, under his continuous sacrifice, after he had sacrificed more than half of his lifespan, Xiao Shi finally interrupted the entire sacrifice.

Although his current luck was slightly less than the luck brought by the Luck Pills at that time, it was enough for the cultivation of the Demon Sealing Art.

As for the reduction in lifespan, although Xiao Shi could feel it, it did not manifest on his appearance.

However, he would begin to age faster with the passage of time.

Under normal circumstances, with his previously vast lifespan, even after four or five hundred years, he would still maintain a youthful appearance.

It would take at least a thousand years for him to transition from youth to middle age.

But now, after sacrificing a large amount of lifespan, it is estimated that he would transition from youth to middle age in less than a hundred years.

Fortunately, the consumed lifespan could be replenished.

As long as he found an opportunity to replenish the lifespan sacrificed this time, he would still have a long lifespan.

However, this method of sacrificing lifespan for luck could only be performed once.

Next time he wanted to make a sacrifice, he would only be able to do so by other means, no longer able to sacrifice lifespan.

Now that he possessed a considerable amount of luck, Xiao Shi immediately began cultivating the Demon Sealing Art.

Although the cultivation of this Secret Skill, in addition to one's own luck, also depended heavily on aptitude and comprehension, these were not concerns for Xiao Shi.

As long as he had enough luck, he had absolute confidence that he could master this Secret Skill.

Buzz!

Immediately, after a brief period of cultivation, Xiao Shi successfully mastered the Secret Skill of the Demon Sealing Art!

"Next, I need to cast this Secret Skill to examine its effects and power..." Xiao Shi thought to himself.

This Secret Skill's specific power and effects could only be understood after it was cast.

Merely mastering it offered limited understanding.

Subsequently, Xiao Shi took out the teleportation pendant he had previously dropped and began to study the teleportation array within the pendant.

Among many arrays, teleportation arrays have always been the most advanced.

Even those array masters with considerable achievements in arrays, few possessed the ability to set up teleportation arrays.

After inspecting the teleportation array within the pendant, Xiao Shi discovered that this teleportation array was far more advanced and profound than he had imagined.

Even with his talent in arrays, it was not something he could thoroughly research in a short time.

"It seems that researching this kind of teleportation array is not a matter of a day or two; I can only take it slowly." Xiao Shi shook his head and did not continue his research.

He knew that even if he did nothing else now and focused solely on research, it would be impossible to master the teleportation array in a few days.

Xiao Shi decided to continue hunting.

He first checked the current situation of his Demonic Body Clone through its perspective.

At this moment, the Demonic Body Clone had entered an underwater area and was currently slaughtering extensively there.

Under Xiao Shi's stimulation, the Demonic Body Clone was killing with extreme ferocity this time.

Through the Demonic Body Clone's perspective, Xiao Shi could see the dense corpses of sea beasts scattered around the Demonic Body Clone.

Among them, there were not a few corpses of Martial Demon Realm sea beasts.

Although the Demonic Body Clone's entire body was covered with large and small holes from the fierce fighting, he seemed to feel no pain, with only slaughter in his eyes!

Xiao Shi nodded in satisfaction at this.

This was exactly the result he wanted.

To maximize the acquisition of items in these few days, both he and the Demonic Body Clone had to kill with all their might.

"I should set off too." Xiao Shi cast his gaze towards the distant sea.

Whoosh!

His figure moved, and he directly headed towards the distant sea at the fastest speed.

The location he chose was exactly opposite to that of the Demonic Body Clone.

This way, they wouldn't appear in the same area simultaneously.

In terms of time, the Demonic Body Clone started its killing spree earlier than Xiao Shi.

Xiao Shi had spent a considerable amount of time tallying these Martial Demon Realm items, sacrificing lifespan, and cultivating the Demon Sealing Art.

However, he was not worried that his final kill count would be less than that of the Demonic Body Clone.

Soon, after a rapid journey, Xiao Shi arrived at an area he had not visited before.

"This is the place." Xiao Shi's eyes narrowed.

With a splash, his entire figure moved, directly plunging into the seabed.

As soon as he entered the sea, he was pleasantly surprised to discover that the sea beasts in this area far outnumbered those he had encountered in any previous underwater location.

The sheer quantity of sea beasts here, even before entering the deep sea area, already far exceeded those he had seen in the depths of another seabed previously.

"Indeed!"

"With my current powerful luck, I will encounter even more sea beasts than before!" Xiao Shi's heart was greatly excited.

This was also one of the reasons why he wasn't worried that the Demonic Body Clone would kill more than him.

He believed that with his current powerful luck, the upcoming hunt would surely be smooth sailing.

Immediately, Xiao Shi began his hunt here.

The sea beasts here were not only numerous but also of various realms.

At the same time, as Xiao Shi killed them, more and more sea beasts continuously rushed in from the distant sea.

This meant that Xiao Shi didn't even need to go to other places; he could just kill right here.

It even saved him travel time.

After numerous sea beasts below the Martial Demon Realm had all died in Xiao Shi's hands, Xiao Shi then focused his gaze on a colossal sea beast not far away.

This was a sea beast somewhat resembling an octopus, with many tentacles.

Each of these tentacles was clearly manifested after a certain power had been engraved and sealed.

After reviewing the Martial Demon System Compendium, Xiao Shi knew that this was a powerful system that formed organs through external forces.

Whoosh!

In an instant, one of this sea beast's tentacles, with astonishing speed, like a bolt of lightning, stirred the seawater and swept over from a distance.

From a great distance, Xiao Shi already felt that one of its tentacles seemed to contain an indescribably terrifying gravitational force.

"The ability of this tentacle is gravity!" Xiao Shi realized.

In response, he directly chose to use the Soul Plate.

Buzz!

The Soul Plate in his soul immediately began to rotate, and the pointer of the entire Soul Plate directly stopped on the defense area.

This caused the nature of the sea beast's striking tentacle to instantly be forcibly transformed from attack to defense, directly losing its lethality.

Although with Xiao Shi's strength, even facing this gravitational tentacle, he could completely resist it.

He even felt that if he went all out, he could instantly blast this tentacle apart.

But what he mainly wanted to try now was sealing!

And it was a perfect, undamaged seal.

Therefore, he needed to use the Soul Plate.

With the alteration brought by the Soul Plate, the moment the entire gravitational tentacle transformed from attack to defense, buzz!

Xiao Shi immediately cast the Demon Sealing Art, sealing the entire tentacle.

In an instant, this gigantic gravitational tentacle seemed to be stained by numerous black inks, turning pitch black, and losing its vitality, becoming like petrified stone, unable to move.

It had undergone a completely different change from the sea beast's other tentacles.

And in the perception of this sea beast, it felt as if its tentacle suddenly no longer belonged to it, and all its power, perception, etc., were instantly lost.

This made its eyes widen, filled with disbelief!

After all, this tentacle of its was not an ordinary fleshy tentacle, but a system it had formed with external power.

This situation of its system directly losing its function had completely exceeded its comprehension.

Xiao Shi reached out and grabbed the sealed tentacle.

Plop!

With a gentle pull, he tore the tentacle from the opponent's body.

"Very good..." He looked at the tentacle in his hand. "Its ability has been completely sealed within this tentacle."

"Next, I just need to find a way to strip the ability from within the tentacle!" A sharp glint flashed in Xiao Shi's eyes.

He directly placed the tentacle into the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree's storage space.

At the same time, the sea beast in front of him no longer had any desire to continue fighting.

Although the sea beast's sealed tentacle was not its strongest, Xiao Shi's method was too bizarre, terrifying it immensely and causing it to lose the courage to continue fighting.

It was worried that if it continued fighting like this, its other tentacles would also be lost.

Immediately, the sea beast did not hesitate for a moment, turned around, and fled.

"Trying to escape?" Xiao Shi's figure flickered.

Naturally, he would not allow it to escape.