Practice begins with immortality

After a long while, Wang Bai finally arrived at a dilapidated attic. It looked shaky and ready to collapse at any moment. It was the Demonic Sect's Sutra Library, once one of the sect's most important locations, but now practically in ruins.

Wang Bai stood in front of the attic door, a sense of disappointment welling up in his heart. He had hoped to find some precious manual on cultivation or magic here to help him improve his strength. However, the scene before him left him feeling disappointed. The scripture storage room was already dilapidated, the walls peeling, the roof in tatters, and the scriptures on the shelves had long since decayed to ash.

Just as he was about to disperse his spiritual sense and turn away, he suddenly caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a secret door behind a bookshelf. With a sudden thought, he hurried forward to take a closer look. As expected, the secret door was so deeply hidden that if it weren't for his powerful spiritual sense and his careful observation, he would have never discovered it.

Wang Bai carefully pushed open the secret door, revealing a narrow, secret room. The air inside was filled with a stale, oppressive air. He looked around, only to see a worn desk, a chair, and an old stone box. These items all looked incredibly worn, as if they had seen years.

Wang Bai walked over to the stone box and gently opened the lid. Inside the box were two ancient books, their pages yellowed and their edges badly worn, looking very old.

Wang Bai picked up one of the books and found that it was the diary of a demon cultivator named Li Ren.

"January 20th. I was sent to guard the mines again. Damn Sun Chen, he wanted to snatch my foundation-building opportunity for his cousin, but failed and kept deliberately making things difficult for me. When I succeed in my cultivation, I will definitely grind you to dust!"

"April 3rd. Three months, three months! Not only is the reward for guarding the mine low, but the pervasive metallic energy will also damage my body. The lifespan for those who have established their foundation is three hundred years, but if I continue like this, I'm afraid I won't live past two hundred! I have to find a way!"

"July 14th. Hahaha!! God is truly merciful! I never thought a miner would possess such a secret technique! As long as I practice this technique of slaughtering lives and seizing souls, I'll have a way out of my current predicament!"

"October 7th. Although I consumed a large amount of essence and a trace of my soul essence, I finally condensed my life-defining magic weapon. According to the records in the secret method, I killed some miners and used the magic weapon to absorb their blood and soul to replenish my damage. In the process, I found that my cultivation level also increased. However, because the miners were people whose cultivation was abolished, my cultivation level only increased slightly. Perhaps I should go kill some immortal cultivators."

"December 3rd. After killing nearly a hundred sect disciples in the late Qi Refining stage, my cultivation finally reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. However, although these Qi Refining disciples are just ants to the sect, the death of so many in the same area in a short period of time will still attract the attention of the higher-ups. It seems I have to hide away for a while to avoid the limelight. But before that, I have to kill that bastard Sun Chen!"

"December 7th. What a pleasure! What a pleasure! With the demonic soldiers at my side, I killed Sun Chen in no time. Not only that, I fucked his wife and daughter to pieces. When I get tired of them, I'll kill them to improve my cultivation."

"December 10th. Sun Chen is dead, so naturally no one would give me a hard time when assigning me a mission. But to be safe, I chose an outbound mission. Right now, I just want to kill people. How can relying on my own cultivation be as fast as using my demonic soldiers to devour others?"

"July 3rd. With the help of the magic soldiers, I became a cultivator who has completed the foundation building in two and a half years. With the help of the magic soldiers, I will definitely be able to break through to the golden elixir stage, no, the Nascent Soul stage. No, as long as I keep killing, even becoming an immortal or a patriarch won't be difficult!"

After reading this, Wang Bo turned to the next page of his diary, only to see the entire page filled with “Kill kill kill kill kill kill!!!”

Wang Bo frowned at this and continued flipping through the pages. But the last three pages were filled with the word "kill" (杀). The next three pages were blank.

"This secret method has been deliberately altered." After reading the diary, Wang Bai looked at another book. This book was naturally the "Slaughtering Soul-Snatching Life-Snatching Art" mentioned in Li Ren's diary. With Wang Bai's vision, the changes in it naturally could not be hidden from him.

"Using one's own essence and the essence of one's soul to forge a natal magic weapon, and enhancing its power and grade by seizing the spiritual energy of all things, this is the way to practice the secret method. Directly devouring and refining the cultivation of other cultivators through it is inferior." After studying the secret method, Wang Bai came to the conclusion: This is a secret method for forging a cultivator's natal weapon.

Natal artifacts were generally only forged by cultivators at the Golden Core stage and above. With Wang Bo's current level of cultivation, he could have forged one long ago. The reason he hadn't done so was, firstly, because he didn't have the secret method to forge a natal artifact, and secondly, because he didn't have a good artifact embryo.

"But now that I have obtained this secret method, there is no time to lose and I will forge my own natal artifact." After saying this, Wang Bai used this secret method to begin to condense his own natal artifact.