Yang Yuhu’s journey around the world brought him back to Penglai, and the Yellow Dragon Taoist’s vertical golden light rushed to the East Sea. All of this took only a moment. In this short time, the tiny Silkworm Baby could not possibly consume the large iron bowl.
Just now, the Silkworm Baby burrowed into the iron bowl and began to eat wildly. As it excreted golden threads, its body grew larger and larger. The larger it became, the faster it ate… and the faster it ate, the larger it became.
In the end, it grew into a palm-sized white worm in a short time!
It was not until it had grown so much that Chu Liang could see clearly that it was not a real maggot, but a creature with several pairs of tiny golden legs and a golden mouth. Its body was segmented as it fattened up.
Rather than calling it a maggot baby, it was more like a silkworm baby, especially since it could spin silk… even though it was from its rear end.
This silkworm baby, with its white and gold colors intertwined, had eaten a large chunk of the iron after consuming a large piece of it. The entire bowl had been hollowed out by it, the array patterns were destroyed, and the suppressing effect was also broken.
With the owner of the magical tool far away, it became an ownerless broken magical tool.
Chu Liang infused it with his true energy and reluctantly took it in.
Although the array patterns were damaged and could no longer be used, and repairing them would be somewhat difficult, it was still an excellent choice to feed the Silkworm Baby.
Just as he put away the damaged iron bowl and the Silkworm Baby, he sensed a golden light in the sky. The Yellow Dragon Taoist had arrived with Yang Yuhu.
Upon hearing Yang Yuhu’s question, he let out an “ah”, his mind quickly turned, and he simply replied, “I managed to break that magical tool. After its array patterns were damaged, it could no longer suppress people, so I took it.”
As he spoke, he shook the broken bowl in his palm and put it away again.
“What?” Yang Yuhu was surprised again.
He had felt the hardness of the bowl just now. Even with all his strength, he could hardly scratch it. Chu Liang was only in the early stage of the Golden Elixir realm, how could he…
But thinking about the shocking sword strike he had almost used to kill the demonic cultivator, it didn’t seem completely impossible.
Terrifying!
This young man was extraordinary!
While he was surprised, the Yellow Dragon Taoist was somewhat displeased.
If his disciple had truly encountered a life-and-death crisis, he wouldn’t mind rushing over with his vertical golden light. But now, a disciple in the early stage of the Golden Elixir realm could break the spell and escape, yet Yang Yuhu couldn’t do it and only knew to run back to the mountain for help?
The Yellow Dragon Taoist looked at Yang Yuhu with a slightly gloomy gaze.
Was his disciple too delicate?
He should know that he was just about to have a breakthrough in his understanding of the Dao. For a seventh realm powerhouse, missing a moment of enlightenment might mean several more years of cultivation. Rushing over to save him without regard for anything, only to find that there was no danger, naturally made him feel annoyed.
Of course.
If Chu Liang knew about this thought, he would probably find it strange… Oh, so seventh realm cultivators still need time to understand the Dao?
Was this master too delicate?
Yang Yuhu immediately felt the gaze of the Yellow Dragon Taoist. But he didn’t know how to explain. His cultivation in the late stage of the Golden Elixir realm was indeed higher than Chu Liang’s, but his terrifying sword energy surpassed many realms, which was also a fact.
He couldn’t explain it clearly for a while, so he could only look at his master with a pitiful gaze that said he was wronged.
Wronged.
…
Since the Yellow Dragon Taoist had already come, he followed his disciple to the city guard office in Yanbo City.
On the way, they ran into Du Ce and his subordinates, as well as Lin Bei and Shang Ziliang.
It turned out that after they left the city, they encountered a group of demonic cultivators who tried to intercept them, resulting in a battle. In the end, they killed three demonic cultivators and captured one, who blew himself up and caused some chaos.
They were completely trying to use their lives to stop the pursuers from Yanbo City, creating time for the middle-aged man to escape.
Upon hearing this, Chu Liang’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
When Du Ce saw the Yellow Dragon Taoist, he was naturally very polite. He welcomed him all the way to the city guard office and respectfully invited him to take a seat.
As a fifth realm Confucian cultivator, he was indeed much inferior to the seventh realm powerhouse who held real power in Penglai. Regardless of his imperial background, even the regent in Yudu City would have to give some face to the Yellow Dragon when he saw him.
The Yellow Dragon Taoist didn’t stand on ceremony, he directly took the seat and asked, “Yanbo City is located in the prosperous East Region and has always had few traces of demonic cultivators. Who are these people who dare to be so arrogant today?”
“They are from the Soul Slaughter Sect.” Du Ce answered.
After a pause, he added, “The culprit who committed the serial heart-cutting case in Yanbo City should be a disciple of the Soul Slaughter Sect. And the expert who kidnapped him should be Chen Wuyin, the current sect leader of the Soul Slaughter Sect and a wanted criminal of the imperial court. Apart from him, no one else could mobilize several demonic cultivators to cover the rear.”
After being heavily suppressed for many years, the Soul Slaughter Sect still stubbornly existed, but it was no longer as it used to be. The current sect leader, Chen Wuyin, only had the cultivation of the fifth realm.
But he was the only fifth realm expert in the Soul Slaughter Sect.
However, compared to the several fifth realm cultivators of the Underworld Sect that Chu Liang had killed in the Southern Territory Mountain Chaos, he was obviously much stronger.
The higher the realm, the greater the possible gap between the same realm.The difference between the realms of divine consciousness might be between eleven and nineteen at most; the gap between the Golden Elixir realm could be between one hundred and one and one hundred and ninety-nine; the difference between the Five Elements realm could be between one thousand and one and one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.
The Yellow Dragon Taoist snorted coldly, “Evil remnants of the demonic path, barely clinging to life, dare to bark and show off their ferocity!”
At this moment, Chu Liang stood up and said, “I find this matter somewhat suspicious.”
“Hmm?” Du Ce turned his gaze to Chu Liang and nodded, “Go on.”
On the way, Lin Bei had already told him about Chu Liang’s discovery of the murderer in the Flower Street at the earliest time, which made Du Ce look at this intelligent Shu Mountain disciple with new respect. Now that Chu Liang had something to say, Du Ce immediately showed respect.
Chu Liang said, “The rescued demonic cultivator is only at the peak of the third realm, and his true energy is quite mixed… But the demonic cultivators of the Soul Slaughter Sect who were left behind and killed by you, there were four of them, including a Golden Elixir realm cultivator. To say that it was purely for the rescue of their fellow sect members, it’s unlikely.”
This was a simple principle, abandoning four strong ones to save a weak one, no normal person would do such a thing.
“Huh?” Supervisor Du was stunned by his line of thought, then said, “Then the demonic cultivator who was rescued might be an important figure in the Soul Slaughter Sect…”
“It’s possible, but the likelihood is not high.” Chu Liang said, “I had a brief encounter with him… Although he had no power to fight back, did not use any divine tools, and his aura was very chaotic, he was basically… a wild cultivator.”
The demonic cultivator who committed the crime in the city of Smoke and Waves did not seem like a cultivator with a sect lineage. In fact, if he was a proper demonic cultivator, he would not have done such a thing in the city of Smoke and Waves.
Like the orthodox Soul Slaughter Sect led by Chen Wuyin, they already had a mature system on how to grow under the suppression of various righteous paths.
“Hiss.” Du Ce pondered for a moment, frowning, “There are indeed some doubts in this, let’s wait until a detailed investigation is conducted tomorrow before drawing conclusions.”
…
Crack—
A thunderclap sounded in the sky, and heavy rain poured down. It was the rainy season in the southeast during the height of summer.
Not far from the city, in a dilapidated temple, several figures were resting.
A flash of lightning illuminated a figure looking up at the sky from the temple door, it was the middle-aged man who had escaped from the Red Name Sword.
It was also the current sect master of the demonic Soul Slaughter Sect, Chen Wuyin.
On the divine platform behind him, a bamboo mat was spread out, and the peddler was lying on it with his eyes closed, a horrifying deep wound on his neck, flesh and blood blurred.
Two disciples of the Soul Slaughter Sect were trying to save him, their foreheads covered in sweat.
“Sect Master!” A disciple of the Soul Slaughter Sect said with a difficult expression, “This man is too badly injured, it seems very difficult to save him!”
“Yes!” Another disciple of the Soul Slaughter Sect agreed, “His life force is cut off, even a god would find it hard to save him!”
The peddler had previously been hit by Chu Liang’s control skill, and it was already a great fortune that he did not die on the spot.
Moreover, he was later grabbed by Chen Wuyin and fought while fleeing, after being tossed around for a while, it was not surprising that it was impossible to turn the tide.
“Then just feed him medicine directly, let him revive for a while! He must be made to speak!” Chen Wuyin’s face was gloomy, like frozen ice, “If he can’t speak, kill him and extract his soul, let his soul speak!”
Crack—
Another thunderbolt illuminated Chen Wuyin’s ferocious face.
Seven hundred years ago, the world was in chaos.
The Soul Slaughter Sect had a revitalizing sect master named the Old Man of Slaughter. Taking advantage of the chaos of the world, he led the Soul Slaughter Sect to a period of prosperity. Later, when the Yu Dynasty was established and the world was at peace, sects like the Soul Slaughter Sect immediately faced a catastrophe. The Old Man of Slaughter was hunted down by several righteous powers and eventually died near the East Sea.
But there was reliable news. He did not die at the hands of the righteous path, but disappeared after being seriously injured. At that time, he carried the most important treasures and inheritance of the Soul Slaughter Sect, which were also lost.
When news of the Soul Slaughter Sect causing trouble in the city of Smoke and Waves appeared, Chen Wuyin immediately sensed that this person was very likely to have received the inheritance from the burial place of the Old Man of Slaughter! He immediately led his men to the city of Smoke and Waves. Like the righteous people, he had been closely watching the news of the murderer, waiting for him to show up again.
Unfortunately, he was still slower than Chu Liang…
Chen Wuyin roared in a low voice, “Our Soul Slaughter Sect is already weak, and four brothers died to bring him back. If we can’t find out where the Old Man of Slaughter was buried, I won’t let it go!”
(End of Chapter)