Chapter 216: Chapter 116: Demon Dao Ranch

The four landed near a village at the southwest corner of the Wei Kingdom, carrying doubts and disguised themselves before entering.

Upon entering the stockade, they just happened to see an elder sorting out firewood, and the friendly youth that Zhou Cang changed into approached him politely.

“Old sir, excuse me, what is this place?”

The elder slowly turned his head, his cloudy eyes gave them a glance, and he slightly lifted his chin.

Beside him, a fallen sign read Wooden Tower Stockade.

“How many years have you been here?”

The elder looked them over again and probed, “Are you cultivators?”

Upon hearing this, the four exchanged glances. In the various countries of the Southern Domain, ordinary people encountering cultivators usually shout out ’Immortal, Immortal Master.’

Yet this elder was so indifferent, seemingly very familiar with cultivators and indifferent.

“Indeed, sir, we four brothers are out training and happened to pass through here.” Zhou Cang smiled awkwardly.

“I advise you to leave quickly, the Divine Race envoy is likely coming soon.” The elder pondered a moment, seeing the four’s friendly faces, shook his head and said.

“Divine Race envoy?” Zhou Cang asked confusedly.

The elder didn’t speak anymore, leisurely continuing to sort the firewood.

After a moment of waiting, the four did not linger and continued heading inside the stockade.

The stockade’s scale was not small, judging by the number of houses, at least tens of thousands lived there.

The deeper they walked, the more people they met.

However, most of them seemed indifferent, unwilling to communicate with them.

And each person’s energy seemed weak, as if close to dying.

The four quietly discussed for a moment and decided to leave temporarily.

The elder mentioned the Divine Race envoy was coming, so they chose to lie in wait, secretly observing.

At the same time, the four hid nearby the stockade, opening their Divine Sense, watching the situation inside.

Until night fell and all the lights went out, whispers between beds finally made their way into the four’s minds.

“It’s this month, I wonder who will be chosen this year?”

“We’re already so weak, we should not be selected, right?”

“But everyone is weak, maybe we’re the least weak ones, so there’s a chance we’ll be picked!”

“Oh, when will it end, how come those sects haven’t overthrown the Divine Race yet!”

…

Most people talked similarly before sleeping.

“The Divine Race selects people… and according to what they said, it seems they choose those strong and healthy… so they deliberately make themselves weak to avoid being chosen…” Zhou Cang realized with a thought.

“The ’Divine Race’ is likely the Demon Sect, they all hope the sects will overthrow the Demon Sect!”

“Judging from their words and actions, this has probably been going on for a long time and has become a habit!”

“Let’s wait for the Demon Sect envoy to arrive; then the truth will be revealed!”

The four expressed their thoughts and ultimately decided to continue waiting.

Until half a month later.

Three people flew in from the northeast, eventually landing in the stockade.

“Are these the Demon Sect envoys? But only Early Stage of Foundation Establishment.” The four swept their Divine Sense over them, feeling slightly disappointed with the arrival of these three.

But this is good too, lower-stage cultivators may not have restrictions in their minds, Soul Searching can be fully accomplished.

Li Jizhou sensed with the Year Wheel again, confirming they were just Early Stage of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

And their magical power within was thin, seemingly forcibly enhanced with pills.

After landing in Wooden Tower Stockade, the three immediately gathered the villagers.

“Selection by the God Gate, hurry and gather!”

“Divine envoy is above, our stockade cannot eat well and is getting weaker, fearing we cannot meet god’s requirements!” The elder of the stockade moved tremblingly forward.

The three swept a glance over the crowd, seeing their sickly appearances, suddenly frowned.

“Hmph, God Gate can choose divine favored ones among you, that is Lord Divine King’s mercy, offering you an opportunity, yet you… are so useless!”

“Yes, yes, all of us in the stockade are grateful for Lord Divine King’s grace, just… dare ask the divine envoy, when can those who became divine favored over the years come back to see us?” The elder quickly asked.

When the three heard this, their expressions changed and they coldly scanned the crowd: “Of course, divine favored ones have become gods, how can you see them as you wish?”

The elder was unyielding, continued: “But I…”

“Whiz~” A blood glow formed by magical power flashed by.

The elder’s body suddenly separated from his head, falling to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

“Ah!”

“Elder!”

“You devils, we’ll fight with you!” The elder’s status in the stockade was clearly significant,

his tragic death stirred the villagers’ anger.

“Hmph! Since no medicine people can be produced, let them all die!” The three cultivators were unconcerned, immediately forming a cold glow.

Yet at that moment,

“Boom~”

A staggering wave of magical power surged forward, arriving in front of the three almost instantly.

Next, they felt as if their whole bodies were frozen, unable to move even slightly.

Ye Jingyu was the first to rush forward, unable to hold back.

“You… who are you? I am an officer of the Divine Medicine Sect, do you know what consequences your actions will bring? Your sect will be destroyed because of you!” The leading Early Stage of Foundation Establishment disciple from Demon Sect saw Ye Jingyu’s face clearly, then sensed his True Core level magical power aura,

yet did not show the usual fear that small cultivators outside exhibit when seeing great cultivators, instead dared to threaten.

“Hmm?” Ye Jingyu clearly did not expect this, his icy gaze swept over them.

“Immortal Master, Immortal Master, you’ve finally come, kill these false gods!” The people in the stockade finally reacted after a while, upon seeing Ye Jingyu controlling the three, they all knelt and called out Immortal Master.

“What’s all this about? Speak truthfully!” Zhou Cang also walked over at this moment, asking loudly.

The stockade’s people immediately rushed forward, condemning loudly: “Immortal Master, these people are demons, our stockade has continued for hundreds of years, leaving records from early ancestors,

they come to our stockade every few years to select strong people to take away.

At first, they deceived us saying it’s divine favor.

Taking them to become gods.

Initially, our ancestors were very happy, even first they tried their best to become divine favored,

yet hundreds of years passed, none came back.

Not even a single word was passed back.

Until over a hundred years ago, a young man joined a sect and returned to tell us that those who call themselves gods are all demons.

All taken people were refined into medicine by them; they took medicine made from people for cultivation.

To avoid them, we’ve moved several times…”

After hearing, Ye Jingyu secretly communicated with Zhou Cang and the other two, then the three took the three Demon Sect people and flew away.

“Who are you? In the cultivation world of Wei Kingdom, none have dared to oppose our Divine Court!” The three Demon Sect disciples continued shouting hoarsely.

Until reaching a secluded forest, Ye Jingyu did not hesitate, grabbed the leader’s head and directly performed Soul Searching.

A moment later, Soul Searching completed smoothly, Ye Jingyu directly crushed his head.

Then he looked at the remaining two once more.

“Hahaha, you’re doomed, you’re all doomed; our Divine Medicine Sect won’t let you go, Lord Medicine God will refine everyone in your sect, including your relatives, into medicine, hahaha!” However, unexpectedly, the remaining two appeared crazed, entirely unafraid, even more violent in their eyes.

Zhou Cang and the other two were puzzled, but Ye Jingyu was not surprised.

Cultivating Demon Skill undoubtedly leads to a corrupted mind, cannot be judged by normal humans.

Moreover, the result of the soul search just clarified what kind of beasts these are.

To ensure reliable information, Ye Jingyu continued Soul Searching on the remaining two.

A moment later, he killed them successively.

Afterward, he solemnly looked at Li Jizhou and the other two.

“Everyone, the situation in the Wei Kingdom is worse than we imagined!”

“From their memories, the Wei Kingdom is basically divided into nine parts, the southwest is ruled by the Divine Medicine Sect, they cultivate the Magic Potion Skill, refining people into medicine, ascending through the medicine.

And this area is all their pasture!

Regardless of ordinary people or sect and clan.

They neither wipe them all out nor clarify completely,

just through hunting, they limit their activity range, and provide them with cultivation resources and Spirit Vein Dojos,

even knowing they’re harboring hatred.

Giving them hope for revenge, waiting for them to produce more high-tier cultivators,

using them as medicine guides for the Demon Medicine Sect’s high-tier cultivators.

Again and again,

only cultivators who break through the Middle Stage of Core Formation are targeted for elimination…”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep