Immortality by Merit and Sin Coins

Chapter 254: Chapter 133: 3rd Tempering of the Mud Pill, a Fool Comes Searching

When the world cleared and the crimson glow vanished,

the Seven-Star Ridge gradually stopped trembling.

The demons felt as if they had just escaped from the belly of a fearsome beast. They were all soaked in sweat, too terrified to move.

The dense Qi and Blood Power from before felt like it was about to refine them all into nothing.

Only now did the group of Demon Generals slowly begin to understand what Demon General Duan Yue had meant with his final words.

To change the color of the heavens and earth with a single move.

This was the kind of might only a Golden Core Powerhouse could possess!

And that young man had crushed Fei Huang with a single stomp, shattered the Haoyang Demon-Slaying Treasure Sword with a flick of his finger, and effortlessly killed more than ten Core Formation Cultivators with his Qi and Blood Power alone. Yet, he hadn’t laid a finger on them.

’To see the monarch and not bow... To see the monarch and not bow!’

Demon General Ling Liu looked as if she had just awoken from a long dream, an indescribable shock spreading across her pretty face.

With a THUD, she fell to her knees and kowtowed, her forehead touching the ground. ”The Demon Crowd of Seven Stars Mountain pays respects to the Demon Monarch!”

Following her lead, the other Demon Generals snapped back to their senses. With excited expressions, they all knelt and proclaimed loudly, ”We are of mortal flesh and blood, and failed to recognize the Demon Monarch’s presence. We have been discourteous in our welcome. We beg for Your Excellency’s forgiveness!”

”Rise.”

Lin Shu had already returned to the cliffside by the cave. He casually sent out a pulse of Spiritual Light, lifting the demons up before they could kowtow.

Back when he was still a Demon General, Cloud Dragon Demon Monarch had treated him with the same courtesy.

He himself had no desire to be a kowtowing sycophant, and by that same token, he felt no need to make others act so humbly.

This was what it meant to lead by example.

However, compared to Cloud Dragon Demon Monarch, who could casually send out a gentle wave of Demon Power,

Lin Shu’s meager Spiritual Power, at the level of Core Formation Perfection, was not enough to lift all the demons from such a distance. He had to get closer to do it.

He carefully put away the three heads.

Not to mention that all three were at Core Formation Perfection, each worth six hundred Sin Coins.

It was because of their presence...

...that Lin Shu had abandoned his original plan of secretly skimming some Sin Coins and acted so brazenly.

He could send out a total of five Soul-Splits. One controlled the Ink Flood Dragon Sword, one kept watch outside, and the remaining three were all tailing these instructors from the Martial Arts Academy. His fear of them escaping was a testament to their importance.

’Yu Mingxuan...’

Lin Shu mulled over the name.

Although he had long suspected the Yu Family was behind this, after listening to the men’s whispered conversations along the way,

he couldn’t help but feel a little wistful.

’Killing the donkey after it’s done grinding the mill is actually quite common, and the nature of my relationship with Yu Sheng truly did not sit well with the Immortal Families. But less than twenty days have passed, and the Yu Family is already so impatient that they’re trying to permanently eliminate a ”meritorious official” to prevent future trouble. They’re a bit too ruthless, aren’t they? Fortunately, I’m no saint myself. With these heads, the next steps will be much easier.’

”...”

The group of demons, unable to complete their kowtows, stood frozen in a daze.

Now that they finally had a chance to properly observe this Demon Monarch, their perception of him began to change.

The young man’s expression was calm and gentle. He was handsome, with an otherworldly aura, like a graceful immortal banished to the mortal realm.

His eyes were clear, and he didn’t carry the slightest air of superiority.

But when they recalled the cruel methods he had used earlier, the demons didn’t dare to feel any contempt. Instead, their awe and fear only grew.

It was a shame; Demon General Duan Yue had never announced his affiliation.

And the name ’Duan Yue’ itself was obscure—no one had ever heard it. For the moment, the group of demons couldn’t guess this Demon Monarch’s title.

But since he clearly had no intention of revealing his identity, and was wearing a Flowing Cloud Sword Robe, he obviously had important business to attend to and needed to blend in with the human world.

They understood the unspoken rules and didn’t ask any questions.

”Still no word from your Demon Monarch?” Lin Shu asked, looking up after putting away the Storage Bag.

”Demon Monarch Bi Hai, she...”

At the mention of this, Ling Liu bit her lip. ”Since you’ve come to Anren Prefecture, Your Excellency, you must have heard about what happened at Dragon Ridge. Those three Unparalleled Fierce Demons achieved such a great feat, but unfortunately, our own power is meager, and we can hardly bear the fallout.”

”...”

Lin Shu cleared his throat lightly.

Of course he knew the reason why.

As Master Fan had said, one must secure the interior before dealing with external threats.

The group of demons living around the Nine Mansions had done nothing wrong, yet they woke up one day to find themselves being hunted relentlessly by the Immortal Families.

Although this matter didn’t have much to do with him, he could understand the grievances of these demon people.

”The Chen Family Ancestor’s two Mountain Master Disciples, along with Demon-slaying General Lei Shouren, launched a surprise attack on my Demon Monarch.”

”That Lei Shouren has a Mid-stage Golden Core Cultivation, and the two Chen Family Mountain Masters are also Early-stage Golden Core Cultivators. Although they have all formed Third-Turned Spirit Firming True Pills, there are many of them. If my Demon Monarch wants to escape, I’m afraid it won’t be resolved in just a few days.”

The faces of the demon people showed unease and confusion.

In truth, with their level of cultivation, they couldn’t tell the difference between a Spirit Firming True Pill and their own Demon Monarch’s Dragon Tiger Treasure Pill, just as they couldn’t gauge the depth of the Demon Monarch standing before them.

They only had a superficial understanding, using it merely to console themselves.

”So what do you plan to do now?”

Lin Shu took the opportunity to gather information.

What surprised him a little was the sheer difference in foundation between a Half-Life Immortal Family and an ordinary Scattered Immortal family.

Even the Mountain Master Disciples personally trained by the Chen Family’s Scattered Immortal were merely cultivators with Third-Turned Spirit Firming True Pills. In the Yu Family, someone with the same cultivation and aptitude would only be fit to be devoured by their Master to help them evade disaster and overcome tribulations.

’No wonder when I used the Karma Fire Gold Essence earlier, the prompt contemptuously referred to so-called Scattered Immortals as Wild Demons.’

”The Seven Stars Formation has been exposed. Our Demon Monarch was the one who set up this Array, so we can’t alter it. Therefore, we plan to move the demon people deeper into the mountains to ride out the storm for now. We’ll wait until our Demon Monarch returns.”