Chapter 552: Training the Heavenly Demon Art with the Old Demon
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"When I have nothing else to do, my favorite thing is to study cultivation methods," Chen Huaian said as he led Old Demon Xiao and Young Master Yinyu to the back mountain of the Moon Shadow Sect.
There was a very secluded bamboo forest here, and inside the bamboo forest stood a small cabin.
Outside the cabin were multiple layers of forbidden formations, various arrays that could even prevent those at the Great Ascension Stage from peeking inside.
Although the Electronic Girlfriend store did not sell large-scale sect-protection formations, there were many types of formations capable of completely shielding a small cabin like this one, and they were not expensive. Chen Huaian had bought a set of all of them, layering formation after formation around the cabin.
He methodically began dismantling the nested formations one by one while telling Xiao Feng and Young Master Yinyu, "You probably understand the drawbacks of the Heavenly Demon Art better than I do. That cultivation method makes people too prone to impatience and losing their original intention. To put it bluntly, those with poor character who practice the Heavenly Demon Art almost inevitably stray into evil paths, and even those with good character must resist numerous temptations during cultivation."
Old Demon Xiao paid no attention to what Chen Huaian was saying.
His full attention was on the formations.
He was already at the Great Ascension Stage, Three Tribulations Great Perfection, and just standing outside the formation, he thought this was merely a bamboo forest.
He never imagined there was a hidden world inside, with a small cabin!
None of the formations around the cabin could be penetrated by him.
Although he was not a formation master, it was hard to imagine that if these formations were not for concealment but for killing, even he would fall victim.
With this thought, Xiao Feng looked at Chen Huaian’s back with even more reverence.
This is my brother!
My brother is still as strong as before!
When we were kids, he always cut twice the pigweed and chopped twice the firewood as me.
Now that we have both become old ancestors, I still can only look up to this elder brother.
"Brother, what is this small cabin for?"
Protected by so many formations, it must be very important, right?
"This..." Chen Huaian twitched at the corner of his mouth—this was originally a place he secretly built to meet Li Qingran.
The Slanted Moon Three Stars Cave wasn’t private enough.
After the Rice Bucket incident last time, he had learned his lesson.
But to Xiao Feng, he still lied shamelessly, "This is where the Heavenly Demon Art is stored. It is the version personally revised by your brother. After modification, the drawbacks of the Heavenly Demon Art are not as severe as before. Strictly speaking, it can no longer be classified purely as either orthodox or demonic cultivation."
"You, you said what?!" Old Demon Xiao finally understood and stared at Chen Huaian dumbfounded. "Brother, you... you said you improved the Heavenly Demon Art!?"
"Yes." Chen Huaian finished unlocking the last formation, looked back at Old Demon Xiao, and nodded.
"Brother, that is the cultivation method of the Ancient Heavenly Demons, you..."
No matter how much admiration and trust Xiao Feng had for his brother, upon hearing this news, Old Demon Xiao found it hard to believe.
His first reaction was skepticism, thinking it impossible.
"Heh heh..." Chen Huaian laughed and straightforwardly said, "Humans are born of humans, demons are born of demons. But let me ask you, were the Heavenly Demons born as Heavenly Demons? Before becoming a Heavenly Demon, wasn’t he ultimately just an ordinary person? He became a Heavenly Demon because he created and perfected this cultivation method, not because he was a Heavenly Demon first and then created the Heavenly Demon Art."
"This..." Old Demon Xiao was speechless.
Something felt off, but after pondering, it didn’t seem wrong.
Downgrading the Heavenly Demon to an ordinary demon cultivator made it acceptable that Chen Huaian improved a cultivation method while at the Great Ascension Stage.
But why didn’t he improve it?
The Heavenly Demon Art easily causes practitioners' temperaments to change drastically. He had long wanted to fix this flaw.
But after reading the Heavenly Demon Art’s general outline, it seemed perfect, and he couldn’t find the reason why it changed one’s temperament.
Sure enough, his brother was too strong—this talent, this comprehension!
The gap between him and his brother was like the vast universe.
Seeing that Xiao Feng temporarily accepted the improvement of the Heavenly Demon Art, Chen Huaian breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Old Demon Xiao believed it, things would be easy.
He took out the improved Heavenly Demon stone tablet and placed it in the center of the cabin’s courtyard.
Immediately, a dense demonic energy and scorching heat radiated from the stone tablet.
The moment Xiao Feng saw this stone tablet, he fully believed Chen Huaian’s words.
There was no other reason.
Isn’t this the Heavenly Demon stone tablet he had obtained back then?
There was no second Heavenly Demon stone tablet in the entire Cangyun Realm.
The fist marks he left on it while cultivating the Heavenly Demon Art were still there.
However...
Compared to the stone tablet from when he cultivated, the aura of this Heavenly Demon stone tablet had changed.
That cold and sinister aura was gone, replaced by an overbearing and scorching murderous energy.
Young Master Yinyu scratched his head and quietly said, "It feels like this stone tablet still represents a demonic cultivation method. It’s not essentially different from the incomplete Heavenly Demon Art I practice..."
"Hmph! What do you know!" Xiao Feng slapped Young Master Yinyu’s back of the head and snorted coldly. "You’re a worthless cultivator of a broken manual. What could you possibly understand! For a cultivation method, especially a divine art, even a slight change in aura means the entire method has undergone earth-shattering transformation."
He rubbed his hands and sat cross-legged on the ground.
Carefully, he lifted the stone tablet closer.
At first, his expression didn’t change much, but as he finished reading the general outline and then the branch outlines, his gaze suddenly sharpened, fully focused.
Chen Huaian knew Old Demon Xiao had figured out the key points.
"You study here carefully first. I’ll be right back," Chen Huaian said to Old Demon Xiao.
But Old Demon Xiao was already completely immersed in the Heavenly Demon stone tablet and didn’t respond.
"Watch your old ancestor closely," Chen Huaian patted Young Master Yinyu’s shoulder. "You can also learn from this Heavenly Demon stone tablet. How much you learn depends on your comprehension."
"Really?" Young Master Yinyu’s body trembled, his joy almost bursting from his face.
He had long wanted to practice the Heavenly Demon Art general outline.
But Old Demon Xiao said his temperament wasn’t strong enough, and if he practiced it, he would become a disaster, so he was told to keep practicing the broken manual until his temperament was sufficient to handle the general outline.
He often regretted this.
He thought it was his talent that was lacking, that the old ancestor looked down on him.
"Of course it’s real. You practice," Chen Huaian smiled and nodded.
"Thank you, old ancestor! You truly are my blood ancestor!"
Bang bang bang! Young Master Yinyu kowtowed several times again. Then he sat opposite Old Demon Xiao, reading the contents of the Heavenly Demon stone tablet together.
Chen Huaian looked at the two demon cultivators immersed in the stone tablet, his smile fading. He then turned and walked out of the cabin’s courtyard, opening all the formation seals one by one.
"Heaven’s Calculation! Make me a formation that can trap Old Demon Xiao, limited to the small cabin."
[Heaven’s Calculation completed, item released in the Electronic Girlfriend store.]
Chen Huaian felt a surge of joy.
Previously, he wanted a formation that could resist the Great Ascension Perfection stage.
Originally, he intended to set it up on the Moon Shadow Sect to protect it.
But the Electronic Girlfriend game said it didn’t have one and refused him.
Now, by limiting the range, he changed from resistance to containment from outside.
And the dangerous Old Demon Xiao was right there.
The Electronic Girlfriend system immediately had stock.
Changing a small formation with limited range into a large formation was just a matter of materials invested, right?
Copying the blueprint is easy, right?
Cheating bugs once feels great; cheating bugs forever feels even better.
"Tsk tsk..." Chen Huaian shook his head and sighed, "I really am a talent!"
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