Shi Feiyang had refined the nine Mother Demons. Next, he needed to nourish them and let them grow, then, when the time was right, have them conceive Demon Embryos and give birth to child demons. Only then would the Nine-Child Mother Heavenly Demon be fully complete. To make them grow quickly, however, he would have to feed them vast quantities of fresh flesh and blood. He had no urgent need for this set of demons, so he set them aside for now and let them mature slowly.
He had spent more than nine hundred days at Granny Ridge. Besides looking after Shi Longgu, he had cultivated his own Daoist arts, practicing both Hesha's Marvelous Book and the Chiyou Threefold Scripture. Above all, he had never neglected the Guang Chengzi Heavenly Book. The Yin Impurities in his Nascent Soul had dwindled, while its yang energy had grown ever stronger.
During that brief span, he had danced with demons day and night, as though living in hell itself. The slightest lapse would have given them an opening. Had his cultivation been weaker, the nine Demon Embryos in Shi Longgu's belly would have corrupted his mind first. Even if he had not become their puppet, he would have suffered cultivation deviation, gone mad, and died.
At the end, he had also endured a Heavenly Tribulation, driving away more than a thousand Heavenly Demons from other realms single-handedly. Although taking the tribulation for someone else diminished its benefits somewhat, it had still truly tempered his Nascent Soul.
Over those two and a half years, his cultivation and magical power had advanced by leaps and bounds. The gains were far more than ten times what he would have earned through solitary, austere cultivation at home!
On his way away from Granny Ridge, he sent messages