Volume 1, Chapter 357 – High-Level Draw

Shi Lan had never liked hesitating. Once she had made up her mind, she directly pulled up the system panel and entered the draw interface.

She was not drawing for herself, but wanted to add some support to her family.

It would be impossible to temper her state of mind at home. She was going to travel far, and she still did not know how long she would be away this time.

Although she had many treasures and cultivation arts on her, once she counted them carefully, there were not many suitable for her family. Most had been tailor-made for her alone.

Shi Lan went straight into the intermediate draw interface. With her surging reputation points in hand, she acted like a wealthy tycoon, directly putting in four million reputation points and starting a forty-draw sequence: ten each for pills, cultivation arts, magical artifacts and divine weapons, and miscellaneous items.

As reputation points burned away madly, the intermediate draw wheel spun wildly.

This time, Shi Lan heard no strange noises at all. Clearly, all those disturbances had been cut off beyond the Lingyang Realm.

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a two-star item: Blood-Melding Pill x100.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a three-star item: Aperture-Opening Pill x20.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a four-star item: Spirit-Replenishing Powder x1.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a six-star item: Ancient Spirit Origin Pill x1.]

[Unfortunately, Host, you did not obtain any item.]

…

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a four-star item: Azure Feather Scripture.]

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[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a two-star item: Ghost Vein Art.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a three-star item: Three Cloud-Treading Steps.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a six-star item: Fragment of the Heaven Demon Scripture (Cloud-Breaking Scroll).]

…

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a three-star item: Nine Yin Hair Crown.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a five-star item: Silken Immortal Robe.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a six-star item: Immovable Wisdom King Battle Armor.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a five-star item: Sacred Silver War Crossbow.]

…

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a five-star item: one thousand-year violet corpse fiend.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a six-star skill: Candle Dragon Demon Eyes.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a three-star item: Thunder Eagle Totem.]

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a five-star item: Sacred Water of the Heavenly Pool.]

…

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A long string of rewards appeared in the system’s temporary storage. Out of the forty draws, two had come up empty, costing her two hundred thousand reputation points for nothing. But to the current Shi Lan, that loss no longer amounted to much.

Among the pills, the most precious was still that Ancient Spirit Origin Pill. It nourished yin and replenished yang, restoring vital energy in abundance. It was of great use even to major cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm.

Magical artifacts above five stars had all already developed artifact spirits and gained minds of their own. Most were somewhat resistant to suddenly being brought into a different world.

Shi Lan did not waste time on those artifact spirits, refining them one by one. Those that knew what was good for them were naturally fine. Those unwilling to cooperate were directly suppressed by her, cut off from the five senses of heaven and earth, and sealed deep within their original bodies. Once someone fully refined them, the problem of the artifact spirits’ resistance would naturally be resolved.

Shi Lan gave the cultivation arts a rough glance. There was not much among them that was useful to her. That fragment of the Heaven Demon Scripture was a cultivation method of the demon race, and its grade was not low.

With Tianbai having stayed by her side for some time, Shi Lan had gained a general understanding of demon race cultivation. The cultivation methods of the demon race differed quite a bit from those of the human race.

Although after stepping into the Demon King realm they could assume human form, and their meridians and acupoints also became quite similar, in the end there were still differences.

At present, the cultivation methods of the demon race in the Lingyang Realm were divided into two branches. One branch had been passed down from ancient times. Together with special breathing and qi-circulation methods, it absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, drew in the essence of the sun and moon, or devoured heavenly treasures to strengthen itself.

The other branch was similar to that of the human race. Beginning in the Middle Ancient era, great demons had started imitating human cultivation arts and created formulas suited to demon race cultivation.

However, this type of formula had major limitations. It was only suitable for a particular race, or for a particular category of demon beasts.

The demon race did not actually place much importance on cultivation methods. They were only a means of increasing strength. What mattered more were bloodlines and innate divine abilities. Those were what the vast majority of demons relied on to stand firm.

The items drawn from the miscellaneous category came in every variety imaginable, by far the strangest of the lot. What surprised Shi Lan most was still that six-star skill.

The probability of drawing a skill in a draw was extremely low. Since the system bound itself to her, this was only the second time it had happened.

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[Do you wish to fuse Candle Dragon Demon Eyes?]

Shi Lan pondered for a moment, but still chose to fuse it.

In an instant, a searing current of heat filled her eye sockets and wrapped itself around her pupils.

Shi Lan could not help closing her eyes, enduring the faint prickling numb pain. Only after half an hour did the stinging gradually fade, and the method of circulating the Candle Dragon Demon Eyes likewise poured into her sea of consciousness.

Letting out a light breath, Shi Lan slowly opened her eyes and activated the demon eyes. Her once clear, limpid pupils instantly became a pair of dark red vertical pupils, within which a strand of deep crimson flame flickered faintly.

Unlike the Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight she had drawn before, the Candle Dragon Demon Eyes were an offensive divine ability. Within the pupils was contained a strand of Red Lotus Karmic Flame, and it had quite a good degree of compatibility with the Phoenix True Fire in her body.

As for that thousand-year violet corpse fiend, its corpse qi was dense, it stood nearly a zhang tall, its entire body covered in foot-long violet hair, and its features could not be seen clearly. Its clothing was extremely ancient, still speckled with fresh mud, making Shi Lan unable to help wondering whether the system had just dug it up from somewhere underground.

After taking stock of her gains, Shi Lan paused slightly and looked toward the high-level draw section.

The high-level draw section was no longer a wheel, but a mass of seven-colored radiance, within which countless shifting scenes alternated, seeming both within arm’s reach and yet impossibly distant, visible but unattainable.

After glancing at her remaining reputation points, Shi Lan suddenly felt an inexplicable impulse rise within her.

Maybe I should try it once…

[Do you wish to begin a high-level draw?]

Sensing the longing in Shi Lan’s heart, the system proactively issued a prompt.

“Begin!”

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Shi Lan answered almost on instinct.

With Shi Lan’s confirmation, the mass of seven-colored radiance on the panel suddenly burst forth with a stretch of chaotic light. An invisible passage opened, leaping from Shi Lan’s sea of consciousness into the void. In the time it took to snap a finger, it shattered the barrier of heaven and earth and entered a vast, empty universe.

Coming back to her senses, Shi Lan could not suppress her curiosity. She released a thread of divine sense and, following that patch of chaotic light, entered the passage.

Countless rivers of stars retreated through her field of vision. The speed of this strand of divine sense had now surpassed the speed of light by hundreds of millions of times.

If one entered such a passage in the flesh, then even if one had cultivated an Undying Body, one absolutely would not survive even for an instant. One would be torn apart by that terrifying speed and reduced to tribulation ash.

…

In one corner of the universe, the Fierce Nether King Realm.

A solitary peak more than ten thousand zhang high stood amid a valley of steep and treacherous mountain ridges, like a giant pillar propping up the heavens.

At the summit of the lonely peak, a vast black mass of figures knelt prostrate. A single glance showed that most had the faces of Rakshasas, with green skin and protruding fangs, though a few beautiful women with charming features were mixed among them.

At the center stood an altar. In the very middle of the altar, a young girl with a delicate and shapely figure knelt on the ground. Before her stood a pitch-black battle halberd more than a hundred zhang long, from which blood-red light overflowed.

“Whooo-oo—”

“Whooo-oo—”

The perfectly synchronized cries shook the entire mountain peak. This was clearly a large-scale sacrifice.