novelraw Chapter 136
Chapter 136
But.
Not lying does not mean there are no doubts. Based on past experience, cultivators like Wang Yu who practiced side-path demonic techniques were highly likely to be the culprits.
This was a matter of experience, not discrimination.
The only thing Chang Xi cared about was the tragic life Wang Yu mentioned, where he spent the first half of his life as a Spirit Slave in the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain. That stirred up a bit of sympathy in her.
Just a little, not much.
The problems in Black Demonic Mountain were very severe. Not only had the Black Mountain Pass been corroded and infiltrated by the demonic path, but many high-ranking figures had secretly entered the Crimson Kite Demonic Domain to obtain certain rare breeds seldom found in the Taihu Spiritual Domain.
Even many demonic secret arts were what they sought.
Most of this was for the sake of upper-class figures’ Wasted Spiritual Roots offspring, who required the demonic path’s expertise to defy the heavens and alter fate.
And the hundreds of millions of people in the Taihu Spiritual Domain were one of the resources the demonic path desired. Thus both sides struck a tacit agreement. On the surface, righteous and demonic stood opposed, battling for life.
In truth, their dealings were frequent. Not only the great figures, even mid-tier and low-tier characters would secretly collude with the demonic path during peaceful times. To a sword cultivator like her, who abhorred evil, this was no different from thunder striking a clear sky.When she learned the truth, her worldview almost collapsed. Fortunately, there were not many such people in the Heavenly Void Sword Sect, and her righteous sword heart saved her.
Over time, she decided that what she could not see would not trouble her, and so she came to these borderlands to walk the world.
After a moment of silence, she still opened her mouth and asked.
“Fellow Daoist, all your cultivation in this life comes from the demonic path. Have you ever considered abolishing your cultivation and rebuilding anew?”
Wang Yu frowned. What kind of joke was that?
How much effort and hardship had gone into his cultivation? How many times had he risked his life, walking among the sons of the great clans like treading a tightrope? How could he be willing to waste it all?
“Fellow Daoist Chang, do not jest. I know the righteous and demonic are opposed and fight lifelong, but I have never harmed anyone in the Taihu Spiritual Domain. Once I return home to visit my clan, I will choose a secluded place to live in reclusion, never appearing again.”
“Oh?” Chang Xi was somewhat surprised.
“At such a young age, you already want to retire into seclusion? Why is that?”
“Of course because my lifespan is nearly exhausted. I wish to choose a place of clear mountains and flowing waters to bury myself.”
Chang Xi: “…”
Looking at Wang Yu’s expressionless face.
She almost forgot the treatment of demonic path Spirit Slaves. Indeed, seeing this head of lifeless white hair, and recalling that she had previously perceived faint traces of death aura during her probing, it was obvious.
This was the sign of someone whose oil was nearly exhausted, who was not far from death.
“It was presumptuous of me, Fellow Daoist. Please do not take offense.”
A man near death caused her suspicion to dissipate a little more.
Wang Yu nodded and said nothing further.
Overall, this sword sect envoy, who treated him almost as an equal despite her Foundation Establishment peak cultivation, also reflected her character.
She had her forceful side, yet also possessed upright righteousness.
After waiting for a little more than half an hour, Chang Xi took out a blank scroll. Once words gradually appeared on it, she looked at Wang Yu and said.
“Fellow Daoist Wang, your identity has already been verified. However, the Wang Clan of Stone Lake seems to have experienced some changes recently. If you wish to visit your kin, you should hurry.”
Hearing this, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
“If not for encountering an opportunity while crossing Black Demonic Mountain, I would not have chosen to return only after breaking through Foundation Establishment. It has delayed me greatly. I was just preparing to depart.”
As for what had happened here, although she had just promised to tell him, there was no need to ask further. First, he needed to get away.
Seeing Wang Yu pack up his things, his silhouette gradually disappearing into the distance.
Chang Xi felt that something was wrong.
“Just breaking through to Foundation Establishment, even if it was body cultivation his lifespan should have been greatly extended, yet he said he wanted to find a quiet place to wait for death… he lied.”
She raised her Moonlight Sword, intending to chase and question him, when suddenly a scolding voice came from ahead.
“Where did this demonic brat come from. Your body is full of evil qi. Today I shall eradicate demons and uphold the Dao.”
“This is bad. It is Junior Brother Lan.”
At this moment.
A thousand meters outside the cracked cliff.
Wang Yu stomped the ground and leapt back, his face gloomy as he glanced at where he had just been standing, only to see it blasted into a ten-zhang pit by a spell. His killing intent could no longer be suppressed.
A middle-aged male cultivator with a mustache floated in the air with mid Foundation Establishment cultivation, his eyes filled with disgust.
“Demonic heretic. You deserve death.
“River-Sword Technique: Water Origin One-Line Slash.”
He held a second-rank high-grade magical weapon in hand and slashed fiercely toward Wang Yu. In an instant the air roared with the sound of surging rivers and waves.
Endless water spiritual power condensed into a hundred-meter ocean, like the heavenly river overturning, like the line where water meets the sky, instantly compressed into a streak of azure sword light.
The two were only a hundred steps apart. The sword strike was immediate.
Its ferocity far exceeded what Wang Yu had ever seen from Deacon Xu. Their methods were simply not on the same level.
“You damn bastard, what is your problem.”
With a low shout, Wang Yu first sacrificed a first-rank supreme-grade copper alms bowl, only to watch in pain as it was cleaved in half and turned to scrap metal.
But the speed of the azure sword light slowed, and its power weakened a little. Only then did Wang Yu mobilize his entire body’s spiritual power, stomping with his left foot.
Six layers of ice walls from the Ice Coffin Curse rose in succession. They collided with the sword light, yet still fell short, though they further weakened it.
Only then did Wang Yu kick out his right leg. A Yin Nether Demon Flood Dragon manifested from spiritual power, emerging from the dragon spine within his back. Like a flood dragon leaping from the sea it surged forth, coiling around his right leg as it kicked.
A thunderous explosion shook the air, and both powers vanished together.
This sword sect cultivator at Foundation Establishment seemed even stronger than a blood sect cultivator at the same stage, especially with mid Foundation Establishment cultivation, a high-grade sword weapon, and an advanced sword technique.
Wang Yu had to exhaust nearly all his strength just to barely counter the attack.
The dragon spine condensed from Flood Dragon Force was closely related to the dragon-blood secret medicine taken during the Nine Dragons Tendons stage. Wang Yu had used the essence blood of a dragon-blooded ice python.
Among all dragon-type demonic beasts, the dragon-blooded type was the lowest grade, but it carried a trace of the essence from a third-rank flood dragon’s inner core. This opportunity, combined with the corpse-demon secret art’s mutation, produced the Yin Nether Demon Flood Dragon Spine, a superior Body-refining divine ability.
Among peers of the same stage, he was not weak, at least in the upper-middle tier. To strengthen this dragon spine further, the best method was to continue consuming higher-grade dragon-blood secret medicines.
This was equivalent to enhancing a body refining’s innate divine ability, gradually deepening his physical foundation. Until his cultivation art advanced, secret medicines were his only method to strengthen his body cultivation.
Now that he faced a true great sect cultivator, the arrogance after breaking through Foundation Establishment was completely shattered.
What remained was only the determination to turn shame into strength.
Of course, the strongest emotion in his heart at this moment was still killing intent.
Before breaking through he was submissive, and after breaking through he was still treated the same. Then what was the point of his breakthrough. The Taihu Spiritual Domain truly was not for him. He wanted to return to the Demonic Domain.
“You heretic. You do have some tricks.
“Remember this. The one who kills you is named Lan Boting. River-Sword Technique. Secon—”
“Stop.”
Arriving late, the sword sect’s wandering enforcer struck with one sword, scattering all the water origin power. Chang Xi coldly said,
“I still have use for this man. Junior Brother Lan, do not interfere.”