65: Chapter 65 Thanks to Senior Brother Li

Fang Yuan said at this moment, "No need. The market will continue to operate, and everything will proceed as before. However, defenses must be strengthened; more Cultivators must be arranged to stand guard at the foot of the mountain and the entrance of the market."

"Mountain Master..." Li Xinyi hesitated.

Fang Yuan frowned.

"Yes! Mountain Master!"

Li Xinyi nodded.

"You may go and busy yourself."

"Yes!"

After Li Xinyi left, Fang Yuan began to ponder.

"Devilish Qi is composed of earth qi, turbid qi, and Origin Qi; it is itself a type of power within the heavens and earth. Since that is the case, can I convert Spiritual Qi into Devilish Qi?"

Fang Yuan tapped his finger on the Spiritual Qi.

"Decompose!"

A flash of golden light occurred, and the Spiritual Qi decomposed into two things.

[earth qi] + [clear qi]

After the clear qi appeared, it rose upward, heading toward the sky.

The earth qi continued to sink into the ground.

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and decomposed his own spiritual power.

[earth qi] + [clear qi] + [Origin Qi]

His spiritual power was also composed of earth qi, clear qi, and Origin Qi.

Looking at it this way, although Spiritual Qi and Devilish Qi appear to be opposites, both are a type of power of the heavens and earth; it cannot be said that absorbing them will cause one's temperament to change drastically.

"Cultivators who absorb Spiritual Qi indeed feel their minds clear and their power light and agile; this should be the effect of clear qi. Conversely, turbid qi makes people's thinking sluggish and their power heavy; this is why Devilish Qi has stronger attack power."

"But Devilish Qi will not truly cause one to fall into the Demonic Path. It is more likely due to the reason of demonic seeds, or perhaps these Devilish Qi themselves are problematic!"

Fang Yuan fell into deep thought. These Devilish Qi are all external substances, and it is very possible that some "Impurities" are mixed within them.

The Golden Finger's Decompose comes with a purification effect, and many Impurities are actually decomposed directly, which is why he did not feel any abnormal substances when decomposing Devilish Qi.

But thinking carefully about the Devilish Qi he encountered before, they all had a sense of autonomous consciousness, autonomously moving toward living beings; this does not seem like mere power.

"Since the external Devilish Qi is problematic, if I condense Devilish Qi myself, it should be fine."

Fang Yuan took a deep breath.

He saw Li Chenggong and did not just sit and wait for death. Since the other party is a Demonic Cultivator, he would just become a Demonic Cultivator himself. In this way, everyone would be on the same side, and he would naturally be able to save his life.

This was just an insurance policy, but he still had to do it. It was not safe outside right now; perhaps after becoming a "Demonic Cultivator," staying at Cloud Mist Mountain would actually be the safest option.

Fang Yuan did not hesitate and began to absorb earth qi and turbid qi.

He would not have absorbed these two types of qi before, but circumstances have changed, haven't they?

Fang Yuan dove into the underground and arrived at the junction of the Spiritual Vein and the earth vein.

He tapped his finger on a wisp of earth qi.

The earth qi was directly decomposed into turbid qi.

Fang Yuan took a deep breath and chose to absorb the earth qi and turbid qi.

As the earth qi and turbid qi entered his body, they initially threatened to disrupt Fang Yuan's physique.

However, at this moment, the Spiritual Origin began to vibrate.

These two streams of qi instantly became docile and very naturally arrived around the Spiritual Origin.

Fang Yuan's heart moved, and he drove the Spiritual Origin to release a wisp of Origin Qi, fusing it together with these two wisps of qi.

Initially, these three wisps of qi were intertwined, but there was no phenomenon of converting into Devilish Qi.

But at this moment, the Spiritual Origin vibrated once, and an inexplicable force acted upon these three wisps of qi.

Just like that, under Fang Yuan's gaze, the three fused together and transformed into a wisp of Devilish Qi.

Fang Yuan hesitated for a moment, then, following the cultivation method of the "Thick Earth Demonic Art," he began to circulate this Demonic Technique.

As the Demonic Technique began to circulate, it absorbed this wisp of Devilish Qi and started to run. The Devilish Qi fused with Fang Yuan's own Spiritual Sense and vital energy, transforming into a wisp of Demonic Power that Fang Yuan himself controlled.

Fang Yuan stared intently at that wisp of heavy Devilish Qi.

The imagined situations like consciousness distortion or demonic nature entering the body did not happen at all.

The Demonic Power was just like spiritual power, circulating freely within his body; even the Spiritual Origin absorbed the Demonic Power, integrating it into itself.

Vaguely, Fang Yuan felt that he could now condense a demonic seed.

"This is truly..."

Fang Yuan's eyes widened.

Devilish Qi was actually harmless!

The Devilish Qi he condensed autonomously had no essential difference from Spiritual Qi; it was just that one was turbid and the other was clear, one was heavy and the other was agile.

But in essence, both were manifestations of some kind of power within the heavens and earth, and both could be utilized by Cultivators.

"Devilish Qi is poisonous; it is only the external Devilish Qi that is poisonous!"

Fang Yuan understood, and his prejudice against Devilish Qi was thus reversed.

He took a deep breath and continued to absorb turbid qi and earth qi underground, creating his own Devilish Qi, then absorbing and refining it, turning it into his own Demonic Power.

In his Dantian, where 70% was originally occupied by spiritual power, a small portion now began to transform into the territory of Demonic Power.

Suddenly, a thought occurred to Fang Yuan, and he thought, "I have seen many Cultivators who, once they fall into the Demonic Path, their spiritual power soon turns into Demonic Power. This means that spiritual power can be converted into Demonic Power; I can try it out."

Fang Yuan tried to make the spiritual power and Demonic Power touch. During the attempt, he discovered that if there was too much spiritual power, it was entirely possible to convert Demonic Power into spiritual power; the principle was likely converting turbid qi into clear qi.

And if there was more Demonic Power than spiritual power, it would convert the spiritual power into Demonic Power.

The two did indeed complete a change in nature within his body.

During the process, the Spiritual Origin played a huge role; it was like a balancer, allowing Demonic Power and spiritual power to coexist and also to be converted into each other.

Reaching this point, Fang Yuan felt that the term Spiritual Origin was no longer enough to describe this thing; it should be called Dao Origin!

It was itself intercepted from the Origin of the Dao, not intercepted from the Origin of Spiritual Qi.

Since he could already convert Demonic Power, there was no need to stay underground all the time, lest Li Chenggong suddenly sense that he had disappeared and come to trouble him.

Fang Yuan returned to the Immortal Cave.

But he saw that someone was already waiting there.

Fang Yuan's heart jolted. He looked up at the top of his head and saw that the Luck above his head was still as stable as before, and even much denser than before; the main Luck had already reached 180 wisps of yellow Luck.

At the same time, the Light of Fortune had also not shifted.

He knew that danger had not arrived.

Fang Yuan's expression remained normal, and he cupped his hands toward the person in front of him: "So it is Senior Brother Li! Long time no see."

Li Chenggong turned around, looking Fang Yuan up and down.

"I did not expect that your cultivation would Breakthrough so quickly, nor did I expect that you would also become a Demonic Cultivator." A strange arc curled up at the corner of Li Chenggong's mouth.

At this time, Li Chenggong had already become young again; he was not in the decrepit state from before, but his appearance had not changed much.

Fang Yuan said calmly, "Senior Brother Li is joking. Cultivation is for longevity; whether it is a Demonic Cultivator or a Spirit Cultivators, it is all just for the sake of cultivation."

Li Chenggong laughed heartily: "Indeed, I did not misjudge you, kid!"

Fang Yuan grinned: "When I saw the news saying that Senior Brother Li was also a Demonic Cultivator, to be honest, I felt like I had found my organization!"

"Hahaha!" Li Chenggong laughed endlessly.

Fang Yuan moved closer, his palm approaching Li Chenggong: "Senior Brother Li, from now on, I will follow you; is that okay?"

His palm was getting closer and closer to Li Chenggong, and a faint golden light appeared on his fingers, but this golden light could only be seen by himself.

"Kid, you have a future. If you follow me, it won't be difficult for you to Breakthrough to the Golden Core in the future." Li Chenggong nodded with satisfaction, not paying much attention to Fang Yuan's approaching palm.

Thus, Fang Yuan's palm successfully touched Li Chenggong's palm, and he gripped it tightly.

Fang Yuan lowered his eyelids: "Yes, Senior Brother Li, I am truly so grateful to you!"

"Decompose!"