Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Translator: Cinder Translations

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"Friend, may I ask if your esteemed shop has any detailed information regarding the Xing family?" Song Wen lowered his voice and asked.

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper's expression stiffened, and his eyes fixated on Song Wen with a hint of wariness.

Anyone daring to inquire about the Xing family's information in Fang City was surely no good.

Song Wen also held his breath, concentrating intently on the shopkeeper.

The magic power within him stirred restlessly, ready to strike with thunderous force should the shopkeeper show any unusual behavior.

In the entire shop, it was only the two of them.

Song Wen was confident he could eliminate the shopkeeper without being detected.

At that moment, his appearance and aura were disguised. If he had to kill, he could easily leave the city, change his appearance, and return to Fang City. ℞ἁɴꝋＢȧ

The atmosphere in the shop suddenly grew tense, as if the air itself had solidified.

After a long silence, the shopkeeper finally spoke.

"Friend, you have quite the audacity to seek information on the Xing family. I don't have detailed intelligence, only some commonly known information."

As he spoke, the shopkeeper tossed a jade slip to Song Wen.

Song Wen caught the jade slip without looking at it and asked, "How much spirit stone?"

The shopkeeper shook his head. "No spirit stones needed; consider it a gift to you. Please leave my shop quickly. I will pretend you were never here. In the future, I kindly ask you not to visit my shop again."

"Thank you," Song Wen replied before turning to leave.

After exiting the small shop, Song Wen headed straight for the city's outskirts.

The southern city lacked walls, so Song Wen chose a random direction and left the city.

He wandered through the dense forest outside the city for a thousand miles, ensuring no one was following him before he resumed his appearance as 'Wei Ding' and returned to the southern city.

Song Wen arrived at a grand building within the city.

This was the place where the Xing family rented out caves.

Surrounding Fang City were numerous mountains rich in spiritual energy.

The most abundant spiritual energy mountains were occupied by the Xing family as their family territory.

For the remaining mountains, the Xing family had opened many caves, leasing them to external cultivators for a substantial amount of spirit stones.

These caves were divided into four grades: A, B, C, and D.

After weighing his options, Song Wen rented a grade B cave at the price of six thousand spirit stones.

The cave was located about thirty miles southwest of the southern city, situated within a high mountain.

It lay on the shady side of the peak, nestled between steep cliffs halfway up the mountain, in a serene environment.

Holding the cave's token, Song Wen opened the cave's restrictions and entered.

The cave was not large, roughly the size of two acres.

Inside was quite empty, the walls bare, with nothing within.

The spiritual energy in the cave was relatively rich, comparable to the cave he had at the Beastmaster Sect.

Song Wen arranged the "Gathering Spirit Array," "Nine Palaces Yin Array," "Concealing Spirit Formation," and "Yin Yang Four Symbols Formation" from inside to outside within the cave.

Then he took out a meditation cushion, sat cross-legged on it, and pulled out the recipes he had purchased, beginning to study them carefully.

After a thorough examination, Song Wen discovered that the six recipes involved some spiritual herbs he had previously never heard of.

However, most of the spiritual herbs were the same as those on the Tianyuan Continent, just with different names.

Next, he began to research the information about the Xing family that he had obtained from the shopkeeper.

This information did not pertain to the Xing family's secrets but was public knowledge.

According to the information, the Xing family had three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, one in the early, one in the middle, and one in the late stage.

Xing Chang's father, Xing Gaohan, is the highest-ranking cultivator in the Xing family, at the late Nascent Soul Realm.

Xing Gaohan is known for either practicing dual cultivation techniques or having a fondness for both men and women, as he has over a thousand concubines.

Compared to the large number of his concubines, he has relatively few children, totaling just over a hundred.

However, he only has three legitimate sons and daughters.

Aside from the three sons still in infancy, the remaining two are exceptionally talented individuals.

The eldest son is named Xing Li Ren, who is already over three hundred years old and at the late Golden Core stage. According to rumors, he is just one step away from reaching the peak of the Golden Core stage.

The second daughter is named Xing Xinxin, about twenty years old, and at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.

After carefully reading through the information on the Xing family, Song Wen lightly crushed the jade slip in his hand, turning it to powder that scattered in all directions.

Song Wen left the cave and headed to the southern district of Fang City.

He wandered between various shops, replenishing the spiritual herbs he was lacking.

He easily gathered all the herbs needed for the four types of second-tier pills.

However, he was still missing one or two Tier 3 spiritual herbs for the Golden Jade Pill and Qi Spirit Pill.

The Golden Jade Pill was missing its main ingredient, Golden Spirit Seed.

The Qi Spirit Pill was missing Profound Spirit Root and Life Reversing Pearl.

Unable to find these herbs in the shops, Song Wen went to a marketplace for scattered cultivators to try his luck.

At these stalls, Song Wen didn't find the required herbs but noticed many scattered cultivators openly selling demonic spiritual materials.

Although the Xing family was not a demonic force, there was no deep-seated enmity between the demonic and righteous paths in the Chaotic Sea; rather, they maintained close ties.

Therefore, it was not surprising to see some demonic cultivators appearing in Fang City.

Perhaps due to the large number of low-tier cultivators setting up stalls, the demonic materials for sale were primarily Tier 1, with very few Tier 2 materials available.

For someone like Song Wen, who had already reached the Golden Core realm, these low-tier materials naturally didn't catch his eye.

Song Wen squatted in front of one stall and picked up a medium-quality item from the Ghost Dao, asking, "Where did you get this?"

The item had slight damage, clearly a second-hand item.

The stall owner was a young man in his twenties. When he sensed Song Wen's unfathomable aura, he immediately became nervous.

"Senior, I acquired this from the Dark Star Black Market at a low price and planned to sell it in the marketplace for a profit; I definitely didn't steal it. If the previous owner of this item has any connection with you, I can take you to the black market to find the seller."

The stall owner clearly misunderstood Song Wen's identity, thinking that the original owner of the Ghost Dao item had some past with Song Wen and assumed he was here for revenge.

"Black Market!" Song Wen's eyes lit up. "Where is the Dark Star Black Market? What kinds of spiritual items do they mainly sell?"

Upon hearing this, the stall owner's tense heart relaxed.

Since Song Wen didn't even know about the black market, he was clearly not here for revenge; it seemed he was new to Fang City and didn't understand the local situation, merely inquiring for information.

The stall owner replied, "The Dark Star Black Market is located six hundred miles east of Fang City, at the foot of a high mountain. They have all sorts of spiritual herbs and pills, as well as techniques from both righteous and demonic paths. There are also many items of dubious origin."

Song Wen nodded, dropped ten spirit stones, and turned to leave.

While at the stalls, he also noticed something else.

Perhaps due to the abundance of beasts in the Chaotic Sea, many scattered cultivators were selling the corpses, blood, and souls of beasts at quite low prices.

Most of the corpses being sold at the stalls were of Tier 1 beasts, with Tier 2 beasts being quite rare.

Just as Song Wen was about to head to the Dark Star Black Market, he received a message from Xing Chang.

[Wei Ding, where are you? If you have time, come to 'Wind Listening Pavilion' for a chat.]

Looking at the message on the jade slip, Song Wen's lips curled into a smile.

He couldn't discard the bait that was Xing Chang just yet, as Xing Chang was currently the only person he knew from the Xing family.

[Young Master Xing's invitation cannot be ignored. Please wait a moment; I will be there shortly.]

Song Wen sent back the message.

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