Chapter 476 - 345: Without a Sound
The territory of the Celestial Demon Sect.
Fang Yun had already appeared here.
Less than three months after Bai Qinying returned from the Wind Ling Sect, he launched his operation.
This was the first time he had appeared in the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory since reaching the Core Formation Stage.
He had been wearing his Lifebound Magical Treasure, the Half-Hidden Spirit Boots, ever since leaving the Celestial Cloud Sect.
Under the enhancement of his seven-star Combat Talent, he remained concealed even while moving at high speed, likely undetectable even to an ordinary mid-stage Core Formation Demon.
Fang Yun’s target for today was Iron Wolf Castle, one of the Celestial Demon Sect’s subordinate Foundation Establishment influences.
Among the Celestial Demon Sect’s current subordinate Foundation Establishment influences, Iron Wolf Castle’s overall strength ranked second.
According to information gathered by the Evil Extermination Hall regarding the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory, they now had only one less subordinate Foundation Establishment influence than before.
In the places Fang Yun had previously annihilated, new Demon Foundation Establishment influences had already emerged.
However, these new influences were much, much weaker than their predecessors, typically having only a single early-stage Foundation Establishment Demon within their ranks.
These subordinate Foundation Establishment influences of the Celestial Demon Sect were very weak and easy to destroy.
They would be of little use in the major battles to come, so they were not Fang Yun’s current targets.
With the concealment effect of the Half-Hidden Spirit Boots at full power, Fang Yun easily infiltrated Iron Wolf Castle.
With his current stealth capabilities, practically no Second Tier Grand Array’s detection could uncover his presence.
After infiltrating Iron Wolf Castle, Fang Yun did not act rashly.
Unlike before, when his first priority was to locate the Foundation Establishment Demons, this time he wanted to find the storage location of the Demon Jars within Iron Wolf Castle.
In his past operations, it was difficult to annihilate a Demon Foundation Establishment influence without news of it getting out immediately.
But things were different now. He had the ability to do so, and therefore, he would.
Generally, the Demon Jars of Foundation Establishment Demons were kept in very secluded locations, which were also guarded by other Demons.
For a Foundation Establishment influence, the Demons guarding the Demon Jars were typically at the Peak of Qi Refining.
’Found it.’
Ever cautious, it had taken Fang Yun quite some time to find this place.
A Demon at the Peak of Qi Refining was eliminated before it could even react.
The process of eliminating the Peak of Qi Refining Demon generated almost no fluctuation in Spiritual Power.
’Next up, the Foundation Establishment Demons.’
Before locating the storage place for Iron Wolf Castle’s Demon Jars, he had already pinpointed the locations of all its Foundation Establishment Demons.
His primary objective had been to find the Demon Jars’ location; finding these Foundation Establishment Demons had become a secondary task in the process.
「Before long.」
Fang Yun changed his position, and now the corpse of a Peak Foundation Establishment Demon lay at his feet.
Iron Wolf Castle currently had a total of five Foundation Establishment Demons: one at the Peak of Foundation Establishment, one at the late-stage of Foundation Establishment, and the remaining three at the early stage.
The main reason the Evil Extermination Hall had ranked Iron Wolf Castle’s overall strength second among the Celestial Demon Sect’s subordinate Foundation Establishment influences was the presence of both a late-stage and a peak Foundation Establishment Demon—especially the one at the Peak of Foundation Establishment, who he had just killed.
’I haven’t been discovered yet. Excellent.’
Although this was all within Fang Yun’s expectations, he only felt truly relieved after seeing it succeed in practice.
It was the combination of the Half-Hidden Spirit Boots’ concealment effect and his own minimal Spiritual Power consumption that had made such a feat possible.
An ordinary Core Formation Cultivator, even one with powerful stealth techniques, could easily sneak in. However, the moment they struck to kill a Foundation Establishment Demon, they would inevitably create a fluctuation in Spiritual Power.
Such a fluctuation would be easily detected by the Grand Array.
Fortunately, when the current Fang Yun attacked, he wielded an Upper Grade Spiritual Artifact and consumed a sufficiently small amount of Spiritual Power.
With little Spiritual Power consumed, the resulting fluctuation was naturally minor, making it much easier to conceal.
’This is the last Foundation Establishment Demon in Iron Wolf Castle.’
A different place, a different corpse.
Fang Yun had silently eliminated all of the Foundation Establishment Demons in Iron Wolf Castle.
Killing these Foundation Establishment Demons had earned him a base of 930,000 Talent Points.
’Seven million, four hundred and forty thousand Talent Points... Acquiring Talent Points through combat really is the fastest way.’
Fang Yun had just done a quick mental calculation of his grand total after killing these Foundation Establishment Demons.
And that was just from the Foundation Establishment Demons; the remaining Qi Refining Demons in Iron Wolf Castle would also provide him with a substantial number of Talent Points from combat.
When the points settled at the beginning of next month, his total would likely break into the eight-figure range.
If he could gain ten million Talent Points every month, it would take him less than ten years for his Life Talent to officially level up.
An upgrade from eight-star to nine-star, while he was still in the Core Formation Stage, would make his Life Talent barely sufficient all the way up to the Divinity Transformation Stage.
And there was still the entire Nascent Soul Stage between them.
In the Qionglin Domain, neither their side nor the Evil Sects had ever produced a Divinity Transformation level Cultivator.
’They really know how to hide the Core Array Plate for Iron Wolf Castle’s Grand Array.’
Fang Yun hadn’t found it on any of the Foundation Establishment Demons he had killed so far. If this last one didn’t have the Core Array Plate for Iron Wolf Castle’s Grand Array, then he would have no idea where it could be.
Ever since he was in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he had known that the Demons, as a precaution against him, would no longer keep the Grand Array’s Core Array Plate on their most powerful member as they once had.
’Now, I can finally let loose.’
The Grand Array’s detection capabilities were always active, and any anomalies would be displayed directly on the Core Array Plate.