Demon Contract, Stepping on the Left Foot with the Right, Ascending to Blue Silver King!

He had never seen any soul beast die of old age. Basically, they either died because they failed to survive a Heavenly Tribulation or were killed by human Soul Masters.

In theory, soul beasts possessed endless lifespans.

So there was no question about choosing the Demon Contract!

To be honest, the second Hextech Golden Egg was also extremely tempting.

This was gambling too, but it could bring surprises, so it was a must-pick as well.

If he could kill a Title Douluo or a soul beast over a hundred thousand years old every year, he would only need six years to obtain a Golden Egg.

As for the third option, Living Forge, being able to obtain divine artifacts was indeed tempting.

But honestly, it was not very useful to him.

The finer a divine artifact was, the better; quantity did not matter. Even if he improved to a certain level through the Demon Contract, as long as he was not a god, he would not be able to unleash a divine artifact's true power.

And if he became a god, his body itself would be a divine artifact.

If he had been hesitant before, then the moment he saw the fourth Hextech, [Nine Lives], he no longer had the slightest doubt!

Because [Nine Lives] could perfectly work together with [Demon Contract].

It was not as though choosing [Demon Contract] guaranteed that he would become a god.

Soul beasts had to face Heavenly Tribulations once every hundred thousand years.

And as a low-bloodline Blue Silver Grass, never mind the later Heavenly Tribulations—he even had to wonder whether he could survive the first hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

According to the original setting, once a soul beast reached a hundred thousand years, it could choose one of two paths.

The first path was taking human form.

The second path was living for only another thousand years.

From the second path, it was not hard to infer that once a soul beast reached a cultivation of one hundred and one thousand years, it would face its first-ever Heavenly Tribulation.

Failing it meant death!

Therefore, Nine Lives was a necessity. With this Hextech, he could use spare lives to withstand Heavenly Tribulations.

Moreover, every time he lost a life, he could receive a reward.

The fewer lives he had left, the better the rewards would be.

And when only his final life remained, he remembered that one of the rewards was a divine artifact!

After ruling out [Living Forge] and [Hedge Fund], the remaining choice was easy.

"System, I choose one, two, and four!"

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Hextech Demon Contract, Golden Egg, and Nine Lives.]

[11 years remain until the Golden Egg hatches.]

After obtaining the three Hextechs, Lan Lingcang vaguely felt that his body had undergone some kind of change.

The most obvious change was that, because of the Demon Contract, Lan Lingcang could no longer increase his cultivation by absorbing natural energy from the outside world.

But he had originally been a low-bloodline Blue Silver Grass, so his efficiency at increasing his cultivation through absorbed external energy had been limited to begin with.

If an ordinary soul beast gained one year of cultivation for every year it lived—

Then a low-bloodline Blue Silver Grass would probably need several years of lifespan to equal one year of cultivation.

Of course, Ah Yin, who possessed royal blood, should have been an exception.

Furthermore, as a plant-type soul beast, he could not move freely.

He had to grow to at least fifty thousand years and reach the level of a Blue Silver King before he could manifest a body with Soul Power and gain the ability to move.

"Hehe, let's see what this Demon Contract is all about. I'll sacrifice ten thousand years of lifespan first and test the waters!"

Then, as Lan Lingcang silently activated the Demon Contract in his mind, he could feel the life force within his body draining away.

In exchange, his cultivation began to grow at an astonishing speed.

Ten years of cultivation... a hundred years... a thousand years...

In just a few minutes, the Soul Power fluctuations around him underwent an earth-shaking change, and his cultivation directly reached five thousand years!

Because his cultivation had risen so drastically, his perception of the surrounding environment also strengthened considerably.

Not only that, but his physical form underwent visible changes as well.

His originally slender and fragile dark-blue leaves became thicker and more solid.

Then Lan Lingcang checked how much life force he had left.

A moment later, Lan Lingcang truly could not hold it together anymore.

At the beginning, he had indeed felt his life force draining away.

In theory, the life force of Blue Silver Grass was not endless either.

In the original story, Tang San had used the Blue Silver Domain to absorb the life force of Blue Silver Grass. The grass had subsequently withered and languished, requiring a long time to recover.

But his situation was different.

As his life force drained away, his cultivation was increasing!

After his cultivation increased, his life force was replenished, only to continue draining again...

Hmm... It felt like stepping on his left foot with his right and spiraling into the sky!

Since that was the case, what was there for Lan Lingcang to hesitate about?

"Demon Contract, keep sacrificing my lifespan! Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice!"

Afterward, as Lan Lingcang continuously sacrificed his lifespan, the aura around him surged wildly.

Six thousand years! Eight thousand years! Ten thousand years! Twenty thousand years!

Violent Soul Power fluctuations spread from him, raging in every direction.

The disturbance was simply too great, directly pressing swathes of surrounding Blue Silver Grass flat against the ground.

Not only ordinary Blue Silver Grass, but even the Blue Silver King within the core region of the Blue Silver Ancestral Land was alarmed by this sudden, powerful aura.

At the center of that Ancestral Land, the face of the Blue Silver King with eighty thousand years of cultivation abruptly changed.

He clearly sensed the abnormal fluctuations coming from the edge of the Blue Silver Ancestral Land, along with the utterly unreasonable changes occurring within Lan Lingcang.

Filled with confusion and shock, the eighty-thousand-year Blue Silver King hurriedly focused his mind and extended his spiritual power to inspect the situation.

What he found was that the aura around this Blue Silver Grass was continuously soaring. Its originally slender stem transformed into increasingly thick vines, and deep golden patterns even began to emerge upon them.

In less than half an hour, Lan Lingcang's aura had already surpassed fifty thousand years.

The moment he reached fifty thousand years, Lan Lingcang's Blue Silver Grass bloodline evolved as well, advancing from ordinary Blue Silver Grass into the bloodline of a Blue Silver King.

Having successfully evolved into a Blue Silver King and broken through fifty thousand years of cultivation, he finally cast off the constraints of his plant form and could use Soul Power to condense a body of his own.

The light gradually receded, and the originally thick vines began to twist and transform.

Then, a pale-blue young phantom slowly emerged from the light, ultimately condensing into a human-shaped figure.

He was a handsome-looking young man.

His skin was fair as jade, carrying a faint fluorescent glow.

He had long ice-blue hair as smooth as a waterfall, gently fluttering in the breeze. His features were delicate and sharply defined, and his temperament was clean and ethereal.

After becoming a newly advanced Blue Silver King, Lan Lingcang immediately sensed that he had unlocked a new innate ability.