Immortality Begins with Breathing Exercises

The demons are indeed more terrifying than imagined. Their powerful life force alone is unmatched by either Martial Artists or Cultivators.

He pondered for a moment, then swung his long blade once more.

This time, the Purple Thunder Demon Slaying Blade was infused with powerful True Essence, with crimson True Essence jumping with purple-white arcs of electricity.

Crackle——

The long blade swept across, and another eerie fruit fell from the tree.

Without hesitation, Lin Zheyu struck again at the fruit that transformed into a bizarre creature.

The sharp blade cleaved the demon in half, and potent True Essence surged along the blade into the demon’s body, producing crackling sounds.

A thick stench and strange scent emanated from the demon’s body.

”It’s effective!”

”The contained lightning fire and Pure Yang True Intent aren’t strong enough. The True Essence isn’t sufficiently firm and yang, only able to suppress the demon’s potent regenerative abilities, not directly kill it.”

Lin Zheyu muttered to himself.

The strike just now was merely a test, using a comparably small amount of True Essence to the demon’s Demon Essence.

Under such circumstances, it could only suppress the demon’s regenerative abilities.

The dense Yin Sha power within the Demon God Barrier would erode away Lin Zheyu’s True Essence; the demon would likely regenerate.

Splurt——

Whoosh whoosh whoosh——

Lin Zheyu continued to draw his blade, cutting down one bizarre fruit after another that fell from the tree, turning into one powerful demon after another.

Under Lin Zheyu’s blade, these demons were continuously slain.

Splurt!

He slew another demon.

Lin Zheyu looked at the demon completely devoid of life and gained a deeper understanding of the demon’s regenerative abilities.

”By using approximately three times the demon’s Demon Essence in True Essence, I can completely eradicate these demons.” Lin Zheyu muttered to himself.

He deduced this result through experiments with these demons growing on the eerie tree.

Different demons might have slight variations, but the difference shouldn’t be significant... right?

”The tree capable of nurturing so many demons must be even more formidable.”

”Now that all the fruit demons have been slain by me, this tree hasn’t moved at all, strange...”

Lin Zheyu stared at the eerily still tree, feeling puzzled.

In his perception, this bizarre tree contained an extremely terrifying energy, similar to the Cultivator from the Observatory he encountered earlier.

”If I don’t understand, so be it. Just cut it down.”

Lin Zheyu thought to himself.

He was curious to see what change this tree would undergo; however, after waiting several minutes, the eerie tree remained silent.

Whoosh——

The long blade swept across, embedding deeply into the trunk; Lin Zheyu felt as if he was cutting through flesh.

With a splat.

The entire tree was cleaved into two sections, and from the cut sprouted a vile, viscous liquid rich with dense Yin Sha power.

Splurt——

After being split into two, from the cut sprouted more than a dozen tentacles that burrowed into the soil.

”...”

Lin Zheyu looked at the bizarre tree now split into two and felt speechless.

Demons, unlike demon puppets that have fatal flaws allowing for an easy kill by severing the head, even when cleaved into dozens of pieces will recover as long as there’s sufficient Yin Sha power.

To truly slay this tree, Lin Zheyu would need to expend a significant amount of True Essence to completely obliterate it.

”If defeating a demon always requires exhausting a large amount of True Essence, how do Cultivators ever manage to vanquish demons?”

Lin Zheyu frowned.

Only through personal experience does one understand just how aberrant a demon’s regenerative ability can be.

With such abnormal regenerative abilities, how did Cultivators ever expel them from this world?

”I just refuse to believe it...”

”If chopping into ten pieces isn’t enough, then a hundred, if a hundred’s not enough, then a thousand pieces!”

”I refuse to believe a demon’s regenerative ability is truly this monstrous!”

Determination flashed in Lin Zheyu’s eyes, his gaze brimming with killing intent.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh——

In an instant, hundreds of terrifying blade lights split the darkness, constantly slashing toward the eerie tree, cleaving it into over two hundred fragments.

Splat splat splat...

The constant splattering noises persisted as the tree reduced to hundreds of fragments had tentacles continually growing from the cuts, burrowing into the ground.

”Still not dead?”

Seeing the scene before him, Lin Zheyu steeled his resolve and continued to slash with his long blade.

Lin Zheyu didn’t use True Essence to obliterate these fragments; instead, he decided to discover how many cuts it would take to completely destroy this demon tree.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh——

A few minutes later.

Lin Zheyu looked at the scattered debris and let out a sigh of relief: ”Finally dead, huh!”

Having reduced them to thumbnail-sized fragments, the tentacles that sprouted from these pieces lost their vitality quickly after embedding into the soil.

”The concentration of Yin Sha power here is just too dense; outside, it wouldn’t require such an extent.”

”And in a place with even denser Yin Sha power, even this might not be enough to kill them.”

Lin Zheyu mumbled to himself.

This bizarre tree was just too extreme.

Although it couldn’t retaliate, it could reproduce indefinitely.

The severed trunk could grow tentacles from the cuts, burrowing into the soil to become a new demon tree.