After the demon seed was spit out, it hung quietly in the air, emitting strong fluctuations of demonic energy.
Feeling the vague connection between her body and the demon seed, Xu Chunniang became more and more certain that the demon seed was the ball in the golden lion playing with beads.
She recalled the movements and details of the golden lion playing with the beads, imagining herself as the golden lion, playing with the demon seeds before getting up.
Dao Fruit is the foundation of immortality, and Demon Seed is the origin of demons. Whether it is Dao Fruit or Demon Seed, they are extremely important to those who practice Taoism.
Once the Taoist fruit or demon seed is destroyed, the cultivator's cultivation will be like a rootless tree or a waterless tree, nine out of ten.
Therefore, very few people would expose the Dao Fruit and the Demon Seed. This is the main reason why Xu Chunniang did not expect that the ball with the golden lion playing in it was the Demon Seed.
The demon seed is only the size of a bullet, but the power contained within it is terrifying, and it is not easy to control at all.
Xu Chunniang used all her senses to try to play with the devil like the golden lion in the painting, but she still couldn't get it right.
During the practice, she discovered that the demon seed was not as nimble and controllable as the ball on the lion's back. She could only do it with all her strength to prevent the demon seed from falling.
After practicing for less than two hours, Xu Chunniang stopped panting.
She wiped the sweat on her forehead, a faint look of exhaustion in her eyes.
When she looked at the golden lion playing with beads in the painting, she only felt that the golden lion's posture was nimble and its movements were easy and freehand. Playing and dancing with beads was as easy as breathing and drinking water.
When it was her turn, she realized how difficult these seemingly simple actions were. Each action required a lot of physical strength.
It seems that this set of exercises cannot be practiced in a short time, so let’s stop here today.
Xu Chunniang opened her mouth, swallowed the demon seed in her palm, took out a handful of demon crystals and began to absorb them.
After consuming all the magic crystals, she found that the speed of absorbing the magic crystals seemed to be several breaths faster than usual.
Could it be related to the set of exercises just now?
In order to verify her conjecture, after recovering some of her strength, Xu Chunniang spit out the demon seeds again and continued to practice the movements of the golden lion. She stopped sweating profusely when the last bit of strength in her body was exhausted.
After resting for a moment, she sat down cross-legged, took out the same magic crystal she was skilled in before and placed it around her body, and started practicing the reverse technique.
After absorbing all the demonic energy in the magic crystals, Xu Chunniang confirmed her suspicion. Practicing the physical skills recorded on the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls diagram can indeed speed up the body's absorption of demonic energy.
Although the speed has only increased slightly, she has only practiced this set of physical skills for a short time. If things go on like this, as long as she insists on practicing this set of physical skills, the speed of absorbing demonic energy will definitely become faster and faster.
Xu Chunniang regained her energy and immediately decided to take three hours out of her daily practice time to practice the physical technique of the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls.
Even if she couldn't master this set of physical skills in a short period of time, it was worth her time and energy just because it could increase the speed at which her body could absorb demonic energy.
The daily practice time was reduced by three hours, which once slowed down Xu Chunniang's practice a lot. However, as time went by, she absorbed the devil's energy faster and faster. After six years of this, the efficiency of her practice was Instead of decreasing, it increased.
On this day, she spit out the demon seeds as usual and imitated the movements of the golden lion to play with the demon seeds.
After six years of practice, she is now much more proficient in her movements than when she first came into contact with this set of techniques, and she has gradually developed a tacit understanding with the demon species.
But compared with the golden lion in the original painting, there is still a huge difference between the sky and the earth.
Three hours later, Xu Chunniang panted slightly and ended today's practice.
When she first started practicing this set of exercises, she would break out in sweat every time she finished practicing, as if she had just been fished out of the water.
To this day, she only feels a little sweaty when she finishes practice.
This means that Xu Chunniang's use of the power within her body has become more precise and effective, and she will not waste too much energy.
She sat down cross-legged, took out the magic crystal and started practicing as usual. As the technique was reversed, a large amount of demonic energy entered the body along the apertures, ravaging every inch of flesh and blood.
After several years of hard training, Xu Chunniang's cultivation has approached the realm of the human-demonic queen, and she is just one step away from being able to successfully break through to this realm.
But now, this last gap is being narrowed infinitely.
The demon seed in her body seemed to sense something and trembled slightly.
Time passed quietly, and Xu Chunniang absorbed more and more demonic energy into her body, and she absorbed the demonic energy faster and faster.
Finally, at a certain moment, the limit of her body's endurance was broken again. The demon seed made a subtle crisp sound, and a small crack appeared on the top, which began to spread from top to bottom.
Immediately, the demon seed began to shed its outermost film like a snake shedding its skin.
The whole process happened very quickly, but within four or five breaths, the outermost layer of the demon seed had faded away, and the new demon seed looked even more mysterious and unpredictable than before.
Xu Chunniang opened her eyes, breathed a sigh of relief, stood tall, and gently clenched her fists, intuitively feeling the increase in strength.
Ten years have passed since she was in seclusion. After consuming 200,000 magic crystals, she finally improved her demonic cultivation by two small realms and successfully broke through to the human-demon realm.
Except for a brief trip when her rent expired five years ago, she never stopped practicing.
Now five years have passed, the last rent payment has expired again, and it is time to renew the rent payment.
Xu Chunniang took out the stone talisman, inserted a message into it, and left the cave.
The person responsible for the management of the cave in Nancheng District is still the snake-tailed female demon from before.
Seeing that compared to five years ago, Xu Chunniang's cultivation had improved to a small level, her eyes showed surprise, and she quickly returned to normal.
Xu Chunniang handed over the prepared magic crystals, "This is twenty-five thousand magic crystals. I will renew the lease of the previous cave for another five years."
This time, the snake-tailed succubus did not receive the magic crystal, but said calmly, "Sorry, the cave you lived in before needs repairs and is not available for rent for the time being."
"No more rentals?"
Xu Chunniang was a little surprised, "Didn't you say before that those are semi-abandoned caves and they shouldn't need to be repaired, right?"
The snake-tailed succubus explained, "These are all arrangements from above. I just followed orders. I don't know what happened specifically."
"That's it..."
Xu Chunniang thought for a while, "Do the other semi-abandoned caves also need to be repaired?"
The snake-tailed female demon was startled, then nodded and said, "Of course."
"How long do these caves need to be repaired?"
(End of chapter)
