Chapter 152 Serene Bird (2/2)

The little sparrow that brought Shen Lian here did not understand what he was doing. When it heard the yelp of the green demonic bird, it wanted to approach them but did not dare to. This had angered the green demonic bird.

A flame started coming out of the green demonic bird’s body, but it was extinguished by Shen Lian with his Mana. Shen Lian let go and dropped it into the snow.

As Shen Lian raised his feet and tried to walk away, the demonic bird rushed forward and looked at him with its pitiable eyes.

Shen Lian was amused and found it funny that the demonic bird was behaving like a child.

He did not plan to leave the demonic bird behind. It was just that he felt that a unique species as such would have come from an impressive background, and its parents should be Demon Kings that shapeshifted. However, it would seem that the little demonic bird really knew nothing about this. It could only ejaculate water and fire in an extremely crude manner. Though when Shen Lian used his Yin Spirit and stared at the little demonic bird, the demonic bird was surprisingly unaffected by it.

The demonic bird shot a strange gust of Qi into Shen Lian’s body. Shen Lian wanted to stop it, but decided against it. He segregated a strand of Taixu Divine Qi to wrap around the strange Qi, and surprisingly the two Qi got along. The Taixu Divine Qi felt like a blurry mirror that got cleaned and emerged to be clearer and felt purer.

The evolved Taixu Divine Qi melted into the Mana spiral within him. It got more solid and slowly sunk.

Shen Lian knew that there were a lot of occult techniques that could purify one’s Mana. The benefit was that it could help with the quality of Huandan. If Huandan was between Eight Transformations and Seven Transformations, one would be able to attain the Eight Transformations of Huandan due to the purity of Mana.

Especially for those who relied on external alchemy or celestial elixir to enter into the state of Huandan, if their Mana was pure, they would be able to attain the Three Transformations of Huandan. If the celestial elixir was of good quality, with some luck they might be able to attain Six or Seven Transformations of Huandan, and would not be too worse off from those who attained Huandan by relying on their own capabilities. However, it took both time and effort to cultivate pure Mana.

The day one managed to refine one’s Mana to great purity, one would be really old.

Shen Lian remembered there was a Dao technique in Qing Xuan that turned the cultivator’s Mana into a purer form each time he cultivated it. One would reach the pinnacle at the third attempt. However, someone had tried it to cultivate this before. However, on the second attempt, the person had aged terribly.

After all, not a lot of people were like Chen Jianmei, and most could not Chushen in three years and Ruhua in ten years.

Most cultivators with great potential would not be as crazy as Chen Jiamei was.

The little demonic bird did not know that Shen Lian planned to bring it along. Out of desperation, it gave away some of its Qi of origin. This triggered Shen Lian’s curiosity.

Shen Lian was not concerned about the effect of purifying his Mana, after all the Taixu Divine Qi was pure enough on its own. However, it would not harm if it was even purer.

”Fine, I’ll take you in for a while. If you have parents, I’ll return you to them when they come looking for you. If you don’t have any, I’ll just bring you back as Jing Qing Tongzi’s companion,” Shen Lian would not change his mind after deciding on something. The little demonic bird seemed to be able to sense Shen Lian’s acceptance of it and flew onto his shoulder. The normal little sparrow flew in front. Shen Lian did not have the patience to walk slowly. He turned into the breeze and wrapped around the little sparrow, within moments they had arrived at the door of the Temple of Killings.

He was able to turn himself into the wind and traveled in that manner, even though he was not as speedy as the characters in the legends, but his attainment was impressive for someone at his level of cultivation.

Shen Lian did not open the door immediately, but he stared at the corner at the side. There was a blood red sword mark, and when his gaze fell onto the mark, he felt murderous thoughts directed at him. Shen Lian kept his thoughts clear and let the murderous thoughts hit him. His heart was still as a rock and remained unaffected.

When the murderous thoughts were dispersed, he heard a passage of words. ”Three days later, when the moon is bright, I will take your life then.”

Shen Lian sighed, ”I have been waiting for you for a long time.” This was a message from the mysterious strange person, and the black blade that had demonic characteristics had left a deep impression with Shen Lian.

Shen Lian pushed open the door. When the little sparrow and the demonic bird had gone to take a rest, Shen Lian went to the hall and looked at the ”Yuan” hanging there. It looked the same as when he first set eyes on it. After staring at it for a long time, Shen Lian murmured, ”Just as the statues of deities in the temple needed offerings to show their divine power, could it be that you need offerings too? Senior Apprentice-Brother Chen had left you here for a reason, and since you were left here to receive worship, maybe I should try to offer you that strange person as a sacrificial offering?”

If the strange person who killed so casually found out about Shen Lian’s thoughts, would he be furious? Shen Lian did not know and did not care about it.