Chapter 661 - Eroding Bone Palace (1/2)
Chapter 661: Eroding Bone Palace
Translator: Radiant Translations Editor: Radiant Translations
After Xue Ying chatted with Monarch Hex Cricket for a while, he bid his farewell and proceeded to the Eroding Bone Palace.
“Hu.”
He was continuously moving forward inside the Mirage world. Following the lead of the Three Devil Command Token, it was not long until he arrived at his destination.
“Mn?” He watched as a bubble appeared right in front of him. As soon as it enveloped him, he got a sensation similar to being shattered apart, and he disappeared from his original location.
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Once he regained his bearings, he noticed a black lake right in front of his eyes, and at its very center many pillars going down deep. These pillars were propping up an ancient palace with some motley vestiges left on the main door. There were three words written on it—Eroding, Bone, and Palace.
With a single step, Xue Ying moved across a few hundred meters to arrive in front of the palace door.
‘One of the Three Devil Palaces, the Eroding Bone Palace.’ With another step, Xue Ying entered the palace, whose insides proved to be quite dilapidated. Since the palace door remained nearly always closed, the insides had slowly turned filthy. As he looked towards the walls, Xue Ying soon came across a large amount of densely written words; this was one of the three fundamental secret techniques, the ‘Eroding Bone Secret Technique’.
“You came here using the command token… which means you’re that soldier from the Destruction Legion, right?” Black water droplets began converging within the hall to form a black-robed old man.
“That’s me,” Xue Ying replied.
“The Eroding Bone Secret Technique is right there, so just hurry up and begin cultivating. If you do not succeed within 10,000 years, you can get lost,” the black-robed old man hollered.
“Must the subordinates of the Ancestor Devil be so aggressive towards the soldiers of the Destruction Legion? We’re not even in the third cosmos epoch anymore,” Xue Ying muttered.
“Hmph.” The black-robed old man gave a cold snort before going to a corner and sitting down cross-legged. He couldn’t be bothered to even say another word.
Xue Ying did not attempt to bicker any further and instead looked upwards to carefully imprint the Eroding Bone Secret Technique in his mind. Now that he owned the command token, he was in no rush to actually cultivate this secret technique. If he could not succeed within 10,000 years and was thrown out, he could just continue cultivating outside. Once his cultivation succeeded, he could just come in again. As such, it would naturally be quite easy for him to eventually pass the trials. Such were the benefits of owning a command token.
With such a token, he could enter the Three Devil Palaces time after time, and he would have however many chances he needed.
As a result, back when he entered the first palace by coincidence was the only turning point, since he had to succeed on his first try.
‘Eroding Bone Secret Technique?’ Xue Ying nodded lightly after having finished reading through it. ‘It goes in an entirely different direction compared to the Dissolving Blood Secret Technique, but cultivating one’s bones is bound to be agonizing. I wonder why these three big secret techniques created by the Ancestor Devil as a base for his strongest absolute art—the “Myriad Devil True Body”—are so painful to train in?’
The Dissolving Blood Secret Technique, the Eroding Bone Secret Technique, and the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique were all very painful to cultivate.
The Dissolving Blood and Eroding Bone Secret Techniques were less so since they targeted the blood and the bones. Even in the worst case scenario, the pain would only slightly affect his soul.
But when it came to the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique… it purely targeted one’s True Deity Heart.
Despite the pain, and even during the most intense moments, he would have to maintain his consciousness and continue cultivating. Xue Ying was lamenting over why the Ancestor Devil would have created such a secret technique. He was worthy of his status as the existence who created the Dark Abyss from how unique his ways of creating absolute arts were.
‘I’ll try starting my cultivation now. Hopefully, I will succeed within 10,000 years.’ Xue Ying sat down cross-legged before starting his cultivation of the secret technique. Even his true body back at the Crimson Rock Mountain World immersed itself in pondering and cultivating it.
Over time, bones began gradually protruding from his skin to become visible to the entire world. In fact, these sparkling, translucent bones were connected to each other to form an entire body! The surface of Xue Ying’s body was gradually being covered by a layer of bone, and he was slowly transforming in appearance into a literal man of bone.
“Pa!” The translucent bones broke down. Shortly afterward, ‘pa pa pa’, the bones covering the surface of his body also began breaking down. This was a result of a disintegration of the innermost structural makeup of the bones—almost instantaneously, every single bone within Xue Ying’s body crumbled apart; there was not a single bone left. However, shortly afterward, his World Deity energy began transforming, and a new set of bones started growing once again to return him back to his original state.