The Demon with Holy Radiance

Chapter 399: Chapter 273: Senior Brother, My Apologies for the Grievance

A monster, somewhere between illusion and reality, appeared before Yang An.

Its entire body was shrouded in tentacles covered with eyes, like a thick layer of thatch, with only a single giant eyeball peeking out from within the mass.

It floated silently before Yang An. Its body was over twenty feet tall, and it exuded an obscure and incomprehensible aura.

This was a controllable Xian, so Yang An lowered his guard.

If it had been an uncontrollable, unknown Xian, he would have had to attack it at once.

"Be my Guardian! Don’t let anyone get near me, even if it means your death."

Yang An immediately gave it the command.

The moment he finished speaking, the monster’s tentacles all surged outward, completely enveloping the space several meters around Yang An.

The tentacles layered over one another, as if building a wall.

The eyes on the tentacles were like mirrors, reflecting everything around them. Points of light formed lines, and lines formed a surface.

In the span of a single breath, Yang An was astonished to find that the monster’s body around him had vanished. Only the single large eyeball remained, floating overhead.

Everything around him blended perfectly with the outside world. To any observer, it would look as though he were standing right there and nothing had changed. In reality, his very presence had been "erased" from sight, leaving no trace.

’This Xian summoned by the Summoning Incantation actually has such a wondrous ability.’ It suited Yang An’s needs perfectly, and he relaxed. freewebnovel.cσ๓

He sat cross-legged and, in the blink of an eye, entered the Earth Spirit Stele.

Seeing the familiar environment—the layered barriers displaying motes of light and text—Yang An began to ponder a problem.

Namely, the thirteenth Dao of Destiny Technique required for his advancement to the Zombie God stage. freewёbnoνel.com

When he broke through to the Late Stage of Corpse Transformation, Yang An had used Abyss Dragon Devouring Light for his twelfth Dao of Destiny Technique. It was a Light Magic he had recently mastered.

After that, however, he hadn’t mastered any new Techniques. The only one was the Red Wheel Infinite Body, which he grasped at the Great Virtue Temple after being inspired by the Jade Kala Vajra Body.

But while the Red Wheel Infinite Body was an Old Technique of the Light Category, it belonged to the class of Body Refining Techniques. It wasn’t a standard Technique and thus couldn’t serve as his thirteenth Dao of Destiny Technique.

In other words, following his usual method of using Light Magic for his Dao of Destiny Techniques, he would need to master a new Light Magic if he wanted to advance to the Zombie God stage.

He hadn’t known before that the Xian Shrine could refine a Demon Barrier into pure Mana. Because of this, Yang An never expected he would be able to undo all the Concealment Seals and have the chance to advance to the Zombie God stage so soon after the Joyful Shrine Association began.

The leap was simply too great.

That was why he hadn’t even thought about mastering a new Technique beforehand.

Finding a new Technique wasn’t the issue. The Earth Spirit Stele recorded a vast number of them, so finding a Light Magic shouldn’t be too difficult.

The real problem, however, was that Yang An was short on time.

The Joyful Shrine Association only lasted for a single day. Three hours had already passed, leaving only nine.

Mastering a new Technique took time. It was impossible to learn one in less than a day—not even Yang An could do that.

And even if the flow of time in the Xian Origin Land was different from the real world, the disparity wasn’t great enough to buy him sufficient time to learn a new Technique.

He would have to chalk it up to a lesson learned. Ever since arriving at the Great Virtue Temple, he had been so focused on Body Refining Techniques to keep his secrets safe that he had neglected the path of standard Techniques.

It was just like the saying about regretting how little one has read only when the knowledge is needed. By deviating from his main focus, he had been caught unprepared.

However, Yang An was not without a plan.

He had another Technique, one he had mastered long ago, that was perfectly suitable to be fused into a Dao of Destiny Technique.

In terms of offense, he had plenty of options.

For defense and close-quarters combat, he now had a Body Refining Method.

His only weakness was speed. He could only rely on bursts from his Light Magic and Body Refining Technique, or resort to ordinary flight.

The Light and Shadow Escape Technique was the only Escape Technique he had mastered. By creating illusions of light and shadow, it allowed him to achieve an effect similar to Instant Teleportation in an incredibly short amount of time, granting him astonishing speed.

If he could fuse the Light and Shadow Escape Technique into a Dao of Destiny Technique and enhance it further, he could close the gap in his speed, leaving him with no significant weaknesses.

’Once I reach the Zombie God stage and the Joyful Shrine Association is over, I need to find time to master more Techniques as soon as possible. Techniques are my top priority.’

Passing through one barrier after another, Yang An headed for the Xian Origin Land.

The flow of time within the barriers was the same as in the real world, but beyond them, in the Xian Origin Land, it was not.

Beyond the twenty-eighth barrier lay a gray world. This was his second time visiting the Xian Origin Land.

Yang An scanned his surroundings first. Seeing no trace of anyone else, he got his bearings and headed for the jungle.

A bonfire still burned there. Sitting quietly beside it was a person: Fu Ming.

"Junior Brother, long time no see."

Fu Ming greeted Yang An with his usual kind smile. From his tone, it sounded as if a very long time had indeed passed since Yang An’s last visit.

He looked at Yang An with a hint of surprise.

"Junior Brother, are you about to break through to the Zombie God stage?"

He remembered that the last time Yang An had come here, his Cultivation Level had only been at the Visceral Stone stage. He never expected that at their next meeting, Yang An would already be on the verge of breaking through to the Zombie God stage.

’Could it be... that a long time has passed in the outside world?’

’Second Senior Brother used to erupt into coughing fits, even spitting up blood, after speaking just a single sentence. But now, here in the Xian Origin Land, he seems to have recovered his health.’