- Chapter 165 1 (2/2)

That True Immortal was raising the pill inside the graves. The symbol that he placed on Bright Sparrow was the Symbol of Master Recognition. In other words, he decided to cultivate Bright Sparrow like a pill. When the pill was complete, he would eliminate the devil spirit within Bright Sparrow, turning her into her original form in order to obtain a pill of Nine Revolution or even higher.

As for Wei’s Founding Ancestor, he planted the Symbol of Devil Raising.

Unfortunately, there was one disadvantage in using the symbol. When the symbol is placed, the effect of the pill would be nullified.

On the bright side, the symbol could turn the pill into a devil with intelligence by chance after tens of thousands of years. As the cultivation realm of the devil increases, the power of the symbol would increase as well. As a result, the pill devil could become a Rogue Devil or even a Heaven Devil. However, it could never break the symbol on its own. It was bound to be the servant of its master, becoming a fighter for them.

Fortunately, Wei’s Founding Ancestor had successfully raised a Rogue Devil.

The only pitiful part was that he no longer had the chance to have it serve him since tens of thousands of years ago.

It would be a different story for True Immortals to raise devils.

However, raising a devil was only a wild ambition for the seven realms of cultivators who have yet to become True Immortals.

In ancient times, there were quite a number of cultivators who tried raising devils. In the end, those who were able to control devils were at least of the True Immortal Rank.

Up to this point, there are about three difficulties in raising devils.

First, the success rate of raising a devil is abysmal. The success rate was comparable to the rate of obtaining a Dao Fruit from killing cultivators. It was all about luck.

Some people succeeded at their first try in raising devils. Some people spent hundreds of Five Revolution Pills but still failed to raise a single.

The factors affecting the pills from becoming devils were the quality of the pills, the environment and the formation needed in raising the devils.

However, it wasn’t exactly appropriate to say that the higher the quality of the pill, the higher the success rate of raising a devil. It was the complete opposite. If the quality of the pill was too good and the efficacy of the pill was hard to dissipate, the pill would not gain spirituality and wouldn’t become a devil. Also, if the quality of the pill was too bad, the pill would not be good enough to have spirituality. Thus, Five Revolution Pills were the best to raise devils.

As for the environment, the Desolate Hill of the Founding Ancestor was much easier place to grow devils compared to the Dark Sparrow’s Grave3. Since the Dark Sparrow’s Grave contained the remains of the Ancient Dark Sparrow, that place carried a special effect. It was the reason why the True Immortal chose to grow his devil there.

As for the formation of raising devils, Wei’s Founding Ancestor arranged a Mortal Void Realm Grand Formation while the formation in Dark Sparrow’s Grave was at Immortal Void Realm. It was much better than the formation in the Desolate Hill of Founding Ancestor.

Since the rate of the pills to successfully evolve into Pill Devil was pretty small, a large amount of Five Revolution Pills were used. Using large quantities of pills would directly increase the chances of having one successful evolution of a Pill Devil.

It wasn’t a problem for a True Immortal to have a large number of Five Revolution Pills. But it wasn’t easy for cultivators of the seven realms to take out that amount of quality pills.

Secondly, the time for raising a devil was extremely time-consuming!

For example, in order to raise a Pill Devil, which was the result of a pill gaining spirituality and turned into a devil, would need at least a period of time ranging from tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years. Any True Immortal would have the lifespan to wait but none of the ordinary cultivators, including Void Fragmentation Realm cultivators, had that excessive amount of time. Even Void Fragmentation Realm cultivators only had the lifespan of tens of thousands of years. Before the Pill Devil took form, its master would have already turned into ashes.

If the cultivator successfully became a True Immortal during the period of raising Pill Devils, the newly born Pill Devil would need years of cultivation in order to reach the Void Fragmentation Realm. It was only then that the Pill Devil could come in handy. It would be useless for a True Immortal to have Pill Devils below the Void Fragmentation Realm.

Last but not least, it was the Symbol of Devil Raising.

Some ancient cultivators who weren’t able to become True Immortals grew devils for their offsprings.

With the help of the symbol, the devils that could be controlled by its master must not have a higher cultivation realm than their master.(For example, the devil must not be at Spirit Severing Realm if the master is only at the Gold Core Realm.)

If a Void Fragmentation Realm cultivator raised a Rogue Devil, his descendants could only control the devil by reaching Void Refinement Realm themselves. By controlling the devil, the descendants would be able to protect the family, avoiding the family from declining.

A notable problem was that the power of the symbol would diminish as time passes by. The control over the devil would gradually grow weaker.

As time kept on flowing, the devil’s strength would develop and get even stronger.

There were a number of cultivation clans which had devils as guardians who got eliminated by the devils themselves, as the the head of the clans lost control over the them when the power of the symbol weakened and the devils struggled to escape from their control.

In short, there were risks of raising devils to a certain extent.

You’ll never know when the devils would break loose from the symbol’s control. And there’s no clear indicator of when the devils should be eliminated before they bring upon disaster.

Only True Immortals wouldn’t face the three problems when raising devils. In fact, only True Immortals would raise devils.

The cultivation period of a cultivated devil could never match a True Immortal. Therefore, the devil’s strength was impossible to rival that of a True Immortal. There’s no way for a devil would fight back against a True Immortal. A True Immortal can only be hurt when thousands of devils were raised to form a war troop in order to fight against him.

The above were the information that Ning Fan comprehended from Ancient Chaos’ memories.

Ning Fan knew about the surprising talent of Wei’s Founding Ancestor’s through the way he arranged the Symbol of Devil Raising.

He was an outstanding cultivator. He should be regarded as a cultivator who was even more marvellous than True Immortals who raised devils!

The way he altered the Symbol of Devil Raising totally got rid of the weakening of the symbol’s power.

It was because this symbol was connected to his relics4!

As long as his relics were not destroyed, the symbol would never be broken by the Rogue Devil itself. Aside from that, the seal of ten thousands of True Words that was casted using the power of relics could never be eradicated by the devil.

If it tried to resist, he would surely suffer a counterattack from the symbol and die!

Wei Country is one of the ancient states in China. (state)

Dantian is the “qi focus flow centers”

Dark Sparrow’s Grave was the grave that Ning Fan entered in chapter 112.

Relic is a part of a deceased holy person’s body or belongings kept as an object of reverence.