Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1225 - 1221: The Plan

Chu Zhiyuan was full of helplessness.

It felt like the inexplicable feeling of accompanying a woman shopping.

That night, they killed seven groups of evil demons; three were groups of demons, the remaining four had only two or three.

She didn’t care how many demons there were, sneaking close, striking suddenly, killing with a single blow.

She was getting better and better at combining her Qinggong, swordsmanship, and newly mastered secret technique, growing more powerful.

By the time they got to the last two groups, the demons didn’t even know what happened before dropping dead.

One of the groups even consisted of eight evil demons, maintaining distance from each other in the woods to avoid disturbing their meditation, yet she silently killed them all in one go.

Her assassination skills were growing more refined and formidable, leaving her excited and unable to contain herself.

As daylight began to break, they got farther away from the Imperial City and had to return.

Otherwise, she would have continued killing without any exhaustion after a whole night.

Ding Huanchun quickly said, "Okay, okay, we’ll talk another day, this is..."

"Killed quite a few evil demons." Chu Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "Too lazy to clean up."

Ding Huanchun’s eyes lit up, and he laughed, "Leave it to us, I’ll send someone to take care of it."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "It’s too far, just handle those within fifty li."

He bent his finger and moved it.

With his finger force like a pen, he drew on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, a map appeared on the ground.

On the map, mountains and rivers were clearly visible, and forests were marked.

Several places had special markings, indicating the places where they killed the evil demons.

"Good, good, good!" Ding Huanchun couldn’t stop smiling, "With this, we’ll find them soon."

Chu Zhiyuan waved his hand, "I’m off now."

"Go back and rest," Ding Huanchun quickly clasped his fists, warmly saying, "All these evil demon corpses will be collected and presented."

"Thanks for your trouble," Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

Their cooperation was already extremely tacit, requiring no more words.

Chu Zhiyuan and Lu Xiaolu entered the city gates, and the bustle greeted them immediately.

Vendors shouting loudly, children playing and laughing, parents scolding, all filled the bustling wide street at once.

Chu Zhiyuan and Lu Xiaolu weaved through the crowd while talking.

The dense crowd around them did not hinder their walking and conversation at all.

Though seemingly talking casually, they used sound transmission into secret, only moving their lips.

Lu Xiaolu said, "Junior brother, let’s come again tonight!"

Chu Zhiyuan quickly waved his hand, "Senior sister, let’s skip tonight."

Lu Xiaolu’s energy was so abundant that he could hardly bear it.

Lu Xiaolu immediately pouted her red lips.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "With senior sister’s skills, you alone are enough."

"But I can’t find them," Lu Xiaolu said.

Finding those evil demons wasn’t easy; with Chu Zhiyuan, it seemed easy to find seven or eight groups.

But if searching alone, it would be like casting a net in every direction.

Heading in one direction might encounter some people, but likely, they weren’t demons but other martial arts people.

After all, the outside world was too vast, finding those demons was like fishing for a needle in the ocean.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "We’ve almost cleaned the demons around, to find more, you’d have to go beyond a hundred li. It’s not worth the time."

Lu Xiaolu was disappointed, "None within a hundred li?"

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Very few, Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect have suffered greatly, those demons are all beginning to flee on foot."

Last night, they overheard a lot of demon discussions, it was clear that the joint failure of Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect was a severe blow to the morale of the entire demon community.

This failure directly broke the spirit of the demons.

Wanxiang Sect and Feiling Sect were top-notch evil sects, with hundreds of masters joining forces, yet they failed to break into the city.

The seemingly weak, vulnerable City Guards actually had such potential.

This made them suspect that everything before was a deliberate weakening by the City Guards, baiting them to come to die.

Suddenly realizing during self-reflection, many evil sect masters were unknowingly lost.

While the losses for the City Guards were limited.

This seemed increasingly like a scam, whether it was the Imperial City’s divine artifact failure or the Four Great Sects having the treasure of Feixue Cave Mansion, it all seemed like a scam.

In the end, they couldn’t break into the Imperial City, nor did they get the treasure of Feixue Cave Mansion, and they didn’t even know what treasure Feixue Cave Mansion was.

The more they thought carefully, the more they found it ridiculous and lamentable, giving rise to the intention to retreat.

Lu Xiaolu quickly said, "If they want to run, we should pursue and kill them even more, it’s harder to kill them if they retreat to their lairs."

Evil demons were to be exterminated by everyone, if these demons returned to their lairs or hid to do evil secretly, it would indeed be hard to kill them.

Now was the best time.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled, gently shaking his head.

Lu Xiaolu’s eyes suddenly brightened, giggling, "With that expression, you have some scheme, don’t you?"

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and shook his head.

Lu Xiaolu quickly urged, "Quick, tell me, why not chase them quickly?"

Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "If we kill them all now, how do we find their lairs?"

Lu Xiaolu paused, then excitedly clapped her hands, "Let them lead us?"

Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

"But with so many demons, how to track them? You alone aren’t enough."

"If the Four Sects’ masters aren’t enough, get the Evil Extermination Department to help, try to root out more."

"Then... did we kill too many last night?" Lu Xiaolu hesitated.

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, "Without killing them, how could we scare away the distant demons?"

"Was last night’s kill enough?" Lu Xiaolu asked, "Should we kill another batch?"

"That’s enough, that’s enough," Chu Zhiyuan quickly said.

Keep killing and you might not find their lairs anymore.

"Alright then," Lu Xiaolu was a bit regretful, then excitedly said, "I’ll follow a demon back to their lair, then quietly take out their lair!"

With her current skills, could she infiltrate their lair silently without alerting the entire sect and take them out one by one?

This was a huge challenge.

Thinking of this made her eyes shine, full of motivation.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Which sect’s demon is senior sister preparing to follow?"

"Can I choose?" Lu Xiaolu was curious.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled, "If it’s Wanxiang Sect or Feiling Sect, I can find them directly, the rest depend on luck."

"Wanxiang Sect!" Lu Xiaolu didn’t hesitate.

Wanxiang Sect was one of the trickiest evil sects, if she could infiltrate them and destroy them, it would be a great achievement.

Chu Zhiyuan nodded, "Wanxiang Sect has now lost their primordial energy and is indeed suitable to take action."

Lu Xiaolu coyly said, "Junior brother, are you implying I bully the weak and fear the strong?"

Chu Zhiyuan laughed, shaking his head, "Wanxiang Sect’s strength is now weak, but they will be more troublesome, are you sure you want to deal with them?"

"That’s right," Lu Xiaolu snorted, "I just want to choose Wanxiang Sect!"

Chu Zhiyuan nodded, "Alright, tomorrow night I’ll help find a demon from Wanxiang Sect, you just follow them secretly."

"Can you really find one?"

"Not a big problem."

"Alright!"

...

Zhu Lingyun was currently sitting cross-legged in a courtyard, in a small courtyard of the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

He didn’t expect to enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple so easily.

So mysterious and formidable, yet he slipped in so easily into the Imperial Ancestral Temple, still treated as a secret land.

This was beyond his imagination.

Now, he had changed his appearance, becoming another young man.

More delicate and handsome, his body was also slightly thinner.

This was all thanks to Wanxiang Sect’s methods, wearing a mask on his face, achieving a disguise effect.

If it were an ordinary mask, it wouldn’t fool the top masters, but this mask could hide him.