Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Translator: Cinder Translations

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In this void, Song Wen was ultimately just a mortal.

He fought endlessly, even when exhausted to the point of collapse, there were still many corpses remaining.

It seemed that the killing intent radiating from Song Wen terrified the corpses, making them dare not gaze directly at him or approach him.

The corpses appeared like weaklings bullied by a villain, trembling and lowering their heads, their eyes darting around.

Song Wen was like a battered general, collapsed in the blood-soaked ground.

He struggled to stand, looking at the group of corpses that seemed to be frightened out of their wits, his gaze disdainful.

"You all will die, you will all die!"

At this moment, Song Wen seemed to have lost his mind, becoming a machine that knew only slaughter.

He stumbled towards a corpse.

Suddenly, his foot slipped.

He fell onto the corpse.

The corpse, unsteady on its feet, was knocked to the ground, instantly splintering into a pile of severed limbs.

In this void, Song Wen didn't know how long he had been killing.

Here, time seemed to have lost its meaning.

Yet, the corpses seemed endless, an eternal cycle of killing and dismemberment.

"Thud!"

Once again, Song Wen collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.

He had already lost count of how many times he had fallen.

An indescribable fatigue lingered in his heart.

He didn't want to get up anymore, didn't want to move, not even to wiggle a finger.

He wanted to rest, to fall into a deep sleep, to sleep well for once, wishing never to awaken.

Song Wen's consciousness gradually blurred, his eyes slowly losing their luster.

His twisted and frenzied expression slowly calmed.

...

In reality.

Song Wen's chest suddenly stopped beating.

A breath of death appeared around him.

The Golden Core in his dantian also grew dim.

Suddenly.

As if sensing the dissipating vitality within Song Wen, a black hole formed in his sea of consciousness.

...

In the void.

Amidst the madness, Song Wen suddenly awoke.

He realized that he was breaking through the Golden Core realm, facing the 'Heart Tribulation.'

Everything before him was merely an illusion created by the heart tribulation.

He could not sink into this; otherwise, he would face the fear of death.

He stood up, closed his eyes tightly, crossed his legs, focused his mind, and ignored everything in the void.

The void began to collapse gradually.

His consciousness returned.

Song Wen's eyes snapped open; he was back in his cave dwelling.

He felt utterly drained, his consciousness hazy.

Song Wen took out a Life-Forging Pill and swallowed it.

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth.

With the power of the pill assisting him, his mental strength gradually recovered, and his consciousness became clearer.

But the heart tribulation was not over yet.

As his vision blurred, Song Wen was pulled back into the illusion.

This time, he faced those who had died by his hands.

Ji Yin, Wu Yu, Shi Shou, Wu Sui, Wu Ren, Guo Tao, Wan Rou, Ai Kun, Lei Tianyu...

These people appeared before Song Wen one by one.

Ji Yin resented him, blaming Song Wen for not being grateful; he had led Song Wen onto the path of immortality, only to meet a tragic end under Song Wen's treachery.

Shi Shou was unwilling, unwilling to have spent over a decade planning, only to end up being a wedding dress for Song Wen.

Wu Ren was furious, angry that a dignified Golden Core cultivator had died at the hands of the weak Song Wen.

Ai Kun pleaded, begging Song Wen to spare him from the torment of the wooden post.

...

Each person had their own reasons; none were willing to die.

Having experienced the previous illusion, Song Wen no longer paid attention, letting these voices buzz around him.

He steadied himself, seated in meditation, as the gentle breeze brushed over the mountain ridge.

He maintained a clear consciousness, not allowing the illusion to deceive him.

He didn't know how long had passed.

Perhaps sensing that it could not confuse Song Wen, the illusion finally dissipated on its own.

However, the heart tribulation continued.

Er Niu, Zhang Cheng, Yuan Cheng, Chen Yi, Sun Ru, and others appeared before Song Wen once more.

These individuals had all had connections with Song Wen and ultimately died prematurely for various reasons.

They loudly accused Song Wen of being indifferent.

If Song Wen had not stood by and chosen to help, perhaps they wouldn't have died.

In the face of these accusations, Song Wen remained unmoved, as if a high monk in meditation.

After a long time.

The illusion dissipated again.

Song Wen's consciousness returned to reality.

He swallowed another Life-Forging Pill, this being the fourth one he had taken.

As Song Wen waited for the illusion to return, he suddenly noticed that the obscure and difficult-to-define aura had abruptly vanished.

The heart tribulation had ended!

The "Corpse King Rebirth Technique" began to operate.

Song Wen's physical body started to devour the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

With the enormous spiritual energy provided by countless low-grade spirit stones, it transformed into a torrent of magical power, flowing into the Golden Core.

The Golden Core shone brilliantly.

The aura around Song Wen rapidly rose.

The process of the Golden Core absorbing spiritual energy lasted a full month.

This island did not have an abundance of spiritual energy, and to avoid problems during the Golden Core formation due to insufficient energy,

Song Wen shattered nearly 100,000 low-grade spirit stones for the Golden Core to absorb.

When the Golden Core ceased absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy, Song Wen did not immediately end his seclusion.

He spent over another year stabilizing his cultivation.

Finally, on this day, Song Wen had adapted to the surging magical power.

He opened several formations within his cave dwelling, wanting to exit when he saw a large stone blocking the entrance.

The stone was broken and battered, evidently a remnant from the island's ruins.

How could there be a large stone blocking the cave entrance?

Song Wen was puzzled and used his spiritual sense to investigate outside.

The entire island was calm and peaceful, with no anomalies.

As he circled to the other side of the stone, his eyes lit up; a sea chart was drawn on it.

It turned out that during Song Wen's seclusion, the Sacred Gu outside the cave discovered this stone and moved it here.

After rewarding each Sacred Gu with a meat ball, Song Wen began to study the map carefully.

Due to the passage of tens of thousands of years, the sea chart was heavily eroded, its markings mottled and difficult to discern, but it indicated his current location and pointed toward the direction of the chaotic sea.

According to the chart, the entire chaotic sea was shaped like an irregular semicircle; to the north lay land, where the endless desert was found; the remaining three sides were shrouded in ghostly fog.

The location where Song Wen found himself was in the southeastern corner of the chaotic sea.

The ghostly fog area protruded here, occupying a vast expanse of the outer sea.

For this reason, this place became the closest point between the ghostly fog and the inner sea.

Perhaps the Nether Shrine had chosen this point to establish a base on this island and set up a teleportation array in the ghostly fog area thousands of miles away.

With the Golden Core fully formed and having obtained the sea chart,

leaving the perilous outer sea teeming with monsters to reach the prosperous inner sea of humanity was just a matter of time.

Song Wen was in high spirits as he soared above the island, gazing at the rising sun by the sea.

As the sun rose, rays of light spread out, and the waves rolled endlessly in the morning light.

Song Wen extended his right hand and suddenly clenched his fist.

"Boom!"

A sonic boom erupted from his palm.

He had not used any magical power; it was purely the strength of his physical body.

Such a simple fist-clenching action was enough to crush the air.

The "Corpse King Rebirth Technique" was a dual cultivation method of body and spirit.

With the Golden Core completed, not only had his cultivation soared, but his physical body had also been greatly enhanced.

Suddenly, a surge of ambition welled up in Song Wen's heart, a feeling as if he could punch through mountains and rivers.

A powerful aura erupted from Song Wen.

Wherever his aura passed, it was like a hurricane sweeping through.

Giant trees snapped, and stones flew.

Wild beasts fled, and birds took to the skies.

The entire island trembled under his imposing presence.

Suddenly, from the depths of the sea about ten miles away from the island, a massive water column shot into the sky, piercing the clouds.

In an instant, a fish tail several miles long broke the surface.

Its scales shimmered with dazzling light, each scale the size of a water tank.

The fish tail swung, like a tempest, stirring up monstrous waves.

The colossal waves crashed against the small island as if to shatter it entirely.

The seawater surged onto the island, toppling countless large trees and sweeping away many beasts.

Inundation swept through, leaving the island in ruins.

At the moment when the massive fish tail stirred up the waves, Song Wen's heart trembled.

He quickly restrained his aura and hid back in the cave.

The "Breath Concealment and Spirit Isolation Array," "Nine Palaces Yin Array," and "Yin Yang Four Symbol Formation" were all activated.

Fortunately, it seemed that the giant fish was perhaps just nearby hunting, disturbed by the commotion on the island.

After swimming around the surface for a while, it dove back into the depths of the sea, leaving only turbulent waves in its wake.

TLN: Damn Fish, let him celebrate a bit...

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