As the heat from the Eight-Winged Purple Python’s inner core grew more and more intense, the speed at which the Wuji Demonic Art rotated also increased. Eventually, it could no longer keep up with the devouring speed of the Wuji Demonic Art. At this moment, Brian Carter felt his whole body burning hot, and the water around him gurgled. Above his head, at the surface of the cold pool, bubbles rose one after another, as if the water were boiling in a pot. Fortunately, there was still a layer of water mist about three meters thick above the cold pool, so this situation did not attract the attention of other disciples of the Wuji Demonic Sect!

The outburst of the Eight-Winged Purple Python’s inner core lasted for a limited time and would not stop just because Brian Carter was cultivating diligently. After the outburst ended, Brian Carter checked his dantian and immediately realized that cultivating down here was about twice as fast as cultivating above.

Only then did he have time to examine the situation in the cold pool. There were no fish in the pool, the water was crystal clear, and there were no plants at all—far too strange!

Brian Carter moved around the bottom of the pool, fully opening his six senses, but found nothing unusual. The only thing that surprised him was that as he moved, the water temperature showed extremely subtle differences. These differences were not obvious; if one didn’t pay attention, they would not notice them at all. Brian Carter, being a careful person and having found nothing else, used his body to sense the coldest spot in the pool by moving around. After searching for more than an hour, Brian Carter arrived at the place where the cold was most intense.

What appeared before his eyes was a cave. Judging by the marks at the entrance, it was clearly man-made. The cold air was slowly spreading out from inside the cave, and even at the entrance, the chill made Brian Carter’s body feel uncomfortable.

His curiosity was immediately piqued. Who had dug such a cave here, and for what purpose? Brian Carter couldn’t help but wonder. Entering the cave, he discovered that the source of the cold was a hiltless, pitch-black longsword, about five feet long and half a foot wide—much longer than an ordinary flying sword. It was made of a strange material, neither stone nor metal. The pitch-black sword radiated cold air, making it impossible for anyone to ignore its presence. Beside it was a pile of withered bones, a storage ring, and nothing else. The sword was extremely heavy in his hand, and he almost dropped it by accident.

A chill that penetrated to the soul surged in, and in an instant, Brian Carter became like an ice statue. The Wuji Demonic Art automatically activated, and the unbelievable coldness of the sword instantly vanished. The entire cold pool returned to normal temperature. Brian Carter could feel that this sword seemed to possess life, cheering for the return of its master!

No matter how he looked at it, it was clearly no ordinary item. After studying it for a long time, he still couldn’t figure out what was going on. He picked up the storage ring, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t use it. He tried many times to communicate with it using the methods recorded in cultivation texts, but it was still useless.

At this moment, Brian Carter recalled the special reaction the Wuji Demonic Art had when he picked up the sword. He activated the demonic art again and tried the ring once more—and it opened immediately. After going through the items inside, Brian Carter finally gained a whole new understanding of the Wuji Demonic Sect...

Chapter 007: Former Glory

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Wuji Demonic Sect was renowned throughout the Tianxuan Continent—almost no cultivator was unaware of it. The power and strangeness of the Wuji Demonic Art were unmatched by any other sect. Because of the devouring nature of the Wuji Demonic Art, the cultivation speed of the Wuji Demonic Sect was much faster than that of other sects.

As a result, experts emerged in great numbers, and at that time, no other sect could compete with them. Precisely because of its strength, its disciples all unhesitatingly chose to devour other cultivators to enhance their own abilities, causing panic throughout the cultivation world of the continent. The unscrupulous devouring by the disciples of the Wuji Demonic Sect led to a sharp decline in the number of cultivators, while the sect’s power only grew stronger. If any sect dared to resist, at best the resisters would be devoured, at worst their entire sect would be exterminated!

Such rampant and tireless slaughter finally led to unprecedented unity among all the cultivation sects on the continent, whether demonic or orthodox. Even sects with blood feuds temporarily set aside their grudges.

The Wuji Demonic Sect became the public enemy of all sects on the Tianxuan Continent!

A brutal and bloody battle finally broke out. Although the Wuji Demonic Sect was extremely powerful, it could not withstand the combined might of the entire cultivation world. Sensing the threat the Wuji Demonic Sect posed to the cultivation world—and with countless sects having suffered at its hands—the Wuji Demonic Sect ultimately paid the price for its actions with its own destruction.

At that time, the sect master, the Wuji Demonic Lord, was already a great expert at the peak of the tribulation-transcending stage, on the verge of ascending. But besieged by over a thousand top cultivators, he barely managed to escape here with the speed of the demonic sword, but his injuries were so severe that even his nascent soul was about to collapse, losing even the ability to leave his body and seek a new host.

Using the secret arts of the Wuji Demonic Sect, he forcibly suppressed his dissipating consciousness just enough to leave behind these accounts.

Seeing this, Brian Carter couldn’t help but feel sorrow for the current Wuji Demonic Sect. Once, the Wuji Demonic Sect stood at the pinnacle of the world, but now it was on the verge of losing even the right to exist. Brian Carter now speculated that the current Wuji Demonic Sect was probably founded by someone who had accidentally obtained some remnants of the sect’s techniques, but, not understanding their true nature and finding the mantras obscure and difficult, they had treated the Wuji Demonic Art as an ordinary cultivation method from the very beginning.

Because of this initial mistake, all subsequent cultivation strayed further and further from the correct path, ultimately leading to the awkward situation of the Wuji Demonic Art today!