Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 897 - 465: One and a Half Moves

Although Tie Dan did not know which specific mountain was Xiu Yu Mountain nearby, he could not go wrong by tracing the Earth Vein Feng Shui and heading directly for the treasure land where Spiritual Qi was most abundant and suitable for cultivation. After all, even Mountain Gods and Great Demons needed a place to cultivate, and in this cramped Central Plains, there would definitely not be any vacant Qi acupoints and spiritual cores, and one could always dig up a tomb in the smallest of corners.

So, with a turn of the sword light, Tie Dan found a pure cultivation mystical realm rich in Spiritual Qi. From a distance, he saw Purple Mist True Qi enveloping the mountaintop like a sunset glow, and upon flying into the misty clouds and looking closer, he saw the mountaintop was covered with large stretches of Spirit Grass. The grass stalks were ridged, the leaves lance-shaped, feathered with deep splits, resembling Divination Grass, but the leaves were bright red.

At the center of this Spirit Grass field stood a Spirit Stone Immortal Peak, where Qi Observation revealed multicolored brilliance emanating from the mountain walls, and upon approaching, the mist dispersed, clouds parted, revealing a huge Five-Colored Divine Stone at the mountain’s peak, radiating in a dazzling array, akin to halos, slowly releasing its light.

Placed beneath that mountaintop Five-Colored Stone, an indistinct Stone Palace was faintly visible, clearly in the style of an Immortal Palace, yet it was an Ancient Demon Suppression Platform, with an altar at the gate, a shrine at the entrance, and a Demon Sealing Cave deep within. The altar had remnants of sacrificial lamb bones as large as a rhinoceros, with ritual tools used for offerings being top-grade Algae Jade.

Stepping over the altar, passing through the Divine Altar, Tie Dan glanced at the shrine’s sacrificial tablet, which matched the statue on the altar, carved from a whole Five-Colored Divine Stone depicting a colorful human-headed pig. Carved into the Mountain and River Map on the wall were the terrains of nineteen mountains, covering a distance of eleven hundred and eighty-four miles. It was clear that this human-headed pig was no licentious demon, but an official Mountain God enshrined by the Three Constellations, with quite a high rank indeed.

No matter, even today, the Three Ministers enshrined in the cave must die.

Tie Dan coldly entered the Sealing Demon Cave, but with his first step, sensed something amiss, pausing to calculate before taking the second and third steps. After seven steps, even with Tie Dan’s power, he couldn’t walk upright but needed to tense all his muscles, Daoist energy overflowing, hunching shoulders and bending knees, adopting a horse stance, stepping on Gang Dou, to barely move forward.

Indeed, this Sealing Demon Array was still active and effective, and with each step taken, the density of Spiritual Qi seemed to double. The deeper he went, the more he felt weighed down as if a mountain was pressing down on his back.

This setup is extremely rare and unusual; generally speaking, demons that need suppressing are naturally born, Primordial Strange Species, naturally affinity with Spiritual Qi, and even using the True Qi that counters their attributes to seal them cannot exclude the possibility of these demonic beasts undergoing stress-induced change.

Therefore, when sealing, efforts are usually made to reduce the density of Spiritual Qi within the Barrier, weakening continuously over time, keeping the Demon God in an extremely weak state, much like the bear in Dui Country’s Cave Heaven Blessed Land, constantly bleeding and extracting bile to prevent the demon from breaking through.

Yet this here sealing seems entirely opposite, as if activated by the True Qi continually emitted from this Five-Colored Divine Stone, a certain supergravity array is forcibly suppressing the demon’s body with the seal.

From Tie Dan’s general experience with Demon Extermination, relying solely on brute force to suppress demons is indeed inefficient, and over time, letting the demon adapt to such an environment might possibly make it more ferocious when breaking free from the seal.

Reflecting on this, Tie Dan gathered his strength, condensing his lifetime’s power around him, forming dense layers of green scales.

Sure enough, this move came from last time’s Dual Cultivation with the Qingtang Sect, closely observing their Waist-cinching Immortal Robe crafting technique inspired Tie Dan to improve on his Qi Technique. In essence, it’s similar to the Sword Ball protective body; the difference is that the Sword Ball’s principle is to attack for attack, active defense, using sword energy to break the opponent’s spell. This move is purely to spread thick True Qi all over the body, adding a thin armor barely as protection, ordinarily as shame covering.

Thus, advancing step by step, with a solid two-thousand-year power confrontation, Tie Dan finally reached the end of the Sealing Demon Cave after proceeding nearly ten miles.

This place is already deep within the mountain, directly under the Five-Colored Divine Stone’s suppression, where one could lift their head and see a giant Golden Sealing Demon Seal engraved upon the mountain stone. It persistently activates under the nurturing of the Taiji Five Qi continuously permeating from the Five-Colored Stone, imposing absolute sealing suppression upon the mountain’s demons and human gods.

And at the core of the Sealing Cave, as expected, the Demon God remained firmly sealed, not yet freed.

Yes, it’s a pig. A little piglet, with a chubby baby face, looking as if the head of a toddler was attached to a pig’s body, this monstrous Demon God was lying on a large heap of tender pink Divination Grass, sound asleep. Clearly, it was indeed overwhelmed by the Divine Stone’s pressure, changing into the smallest form, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating to reduce consumption, enduring with difficulty.

At this point, Tie Dan also understood somewhat that this method of sealing wasn’t bad; it’s simply consuming a stone. After all, if relying on drained Spiritual Qi to seal, casually bringing in any Heavenly Materials Treasures would allow the demon to recover.

But conversely, with Five Qi so dense to this extent, each step forward was like pushing against a wind wall, struggling to force a way through. Like being underwater where the Spiritual Pressure disparity around was so great, not to mention utilizing nearby Spiritual Qi for cultivation and spell, you’d even have to halt your breath, seal your Qi acupoints to prevent this super-pressure Spiritual Qi from infiltrating your body, damaging meridians, possessed by demon. And long-term adaptation to such an environment, if suddenly charging outside, likely would lead to uncontrollable blood bursts, exploding body destruction.