Chapter 150: Chapter 55: The Rotten Situation in the Northern Domain

The Liao Kingdom in the Northern Domain was once the home of the Nine Yang Sect.

A thousand years is a long time, yet not so long. By now, few traces of the Nine Yang Sect remained in the Liao Kingdom.

The Nine Yang Sect once served as a bulwark for the seven sects against the Four Demon Sects, as their True Yang Body cultivation was a powerful counter to the Demon Sects. Back then, the northern defensive line of the Western Continent was impregnable, and the Four Demon Sects dared not cross it.

After the fall of the Nine Yang Sect, the situation in the Northern Domain began to deteriorate. The Seven Kingdoms of the Northern Domain were infiltrated by the Demon Sects to varying degrees.

In some county towns far from the state capital, there were even vicious incidents where entire populations had their blood drained and souls refined by Demon Cultivators.

The local Foundation Establishment Clans were willing to help but powerless to do so. Some even secretly colluded with the Demon Sects, joining in their corruption.

The duty of a Demon Patrol Envoy was to investigate Foundation Establishment Clans for any collusion with Demon Sects and to hunt for Demon Cultivators. This position was not entirely safe even in the heartlands of the Western Continent, let alone the Northern Domain, which was riddled with Demon Cultivators like a sieve.

Of the Demon Patrol Envoys from the Six Great Sects stationed in the Northern Domain, a full thirty percent died in the line of duty. Many who managed to complete their term safely did so only by being figureheads who did nothing, simply waiting for their tenure to end so they could leave the Northern Domain.

The only reason the Northern Domain had not completely fallen and become a Demon Realm was due to the routine patrols of the Demon Suppression Army’s Flying Boats, which maintained a fragile state of control.

Yang Jing sat peacefully amidst a cloud of qi with his disciples, flying silently through the air.

After accepting the post of Demon Patrol Envoy, he did not immediately travel to the Northern Domain to assume his duties. When an ordinary Qi Cultivator first achieved Foundation Establishment, their Magical Artifacts and Magic were still from their time in the Qi Cultivation Stage, placing their power at the very bottom of the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Therefore, the Sect would grant these newly promoted Foundation Establishment Cultivators a year to study new Cultivation Techniques and familiarize themselves with new Magical Artifacts.

During this year, Yang Jing used his Merit Points to redeem the remaining Yellow Earth and White Gold Gang Sha from the Sect, and used them to forge the Five Elements Wheel.

While an Independent Cultivator would find it nigh impossible to obtain even a single stream of Gang Sha, for Yang Jing, with his status as an Inner Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivator, it only cost a few Merit Points.

The Five Elements True Spirit Sect had so many Spirit Veins that they produced a considerable amount of Gang Sha every year.

The process of forging the Five Elements Wheel referenced the Artifact Refining Technique. To ensure a smooth process, Yang Jing even shared in Ji Feng’s Five Elements Refining Technique.

He controlled the forging process with his Foundation Establishment-level Divine Sense, so naturally, no mistakes were made.

After consuming five streams of Gang Sha in succession, Yang Jing’s Magical Power directly surpassed the limits of a Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivator. And after using the Qi Condensation into Evil technique to condense his Magical Power into Five Elements True Slaughter, its might was even greater than that of an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

Every Foundation Establishment Disciple was entitled to go to the first-floor secret vault of the General Affairs Hall and choose one treasure.

Yang Jing did not choose any of the Tier Two Magical Artifacts, Spirit Pills, or Spirit Medicines. Instead, he selected a mass of Five Elements Cloud Essence. This Five Elements Cloud Essence was a treasure that could only be born once every hundred years within a Tier Five Spirit Vein with balanced Five Elements.

Most in the Sect would refine it into a Defensive Spiritual Artifact, but Yang Jing had Ji Feng use the Five Elements Cloud Essence as a core, add some purchased five-colored rosy clouds, and refine it into a Flying Spiritual Artifact: the Five Clouds Pouch.

If an ordinary person, unfamiliar with Cloud Escape, were to fly using this Five Clouds Pouch, they would at most save a little Magical Power, and its flight speed would be at the bottom among Tier Two Flying Spiritual Artifacts.

However, when Yang Jing used it at full power, few Foundation Establishment Cultivators would be able to catch up to him. Even better, when controlled via Cloud Escape, the Five Clouds Pouch could completely conceal his presence, making him undetectable.

Always one to consider his escape route first, Yang Jing only came to the Northern Domain to take up his post after he had successfully refined the Five Clouds Pouch.

Because activating the Five Clouds Pouch was very efficient with Magical Power and he didn’t want his movements to be tracked, Yang Jing did not take a Flying Boat. Instead, he directly controlled the Five Clouds Pouch and flew all the way to the Liao Kingdom.

While sitting cross-legged in the cloud of qi, Yang Jing suddenly raised an eyebrow and changed the flight path of the Five Clouds Pouch.

“There’s Demonic Qi.”

Yang Jing said to his four puzzled disciples.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, his various talents had also undergone a qualitative change. For example, with his Bright Qi Talent, he could see even faint Demon Qi from dozens of miles away.

Furthermore, to prevent him from being deceived by Demon Cultivators, his master’s lineage had specially found him a Cultivation Technique for a Dharma Eye.

This Dharma Eye was called the Grotto Dark Dharma Eye. It was said that once cultivated, this pair of eyes could see up to the Nine Heavens and down into the Nine Hells. It had been obtained from the Central Continent by a Divinity Transformation Ancestor Master of a previous generation.

Yang Jing already possessed the Talent Ming Qi and had once consumed the Thousand Years of Cyan, making him uniquely gifted in cultivating a Dharma Eye. Not long after obtaining the Grotto Dark Dharma Eye, he cultivated it to the Second Layer, leaving Xu Hongde utterly dumbfounded.

Within the Sect, even among Golden Core Cultivators, few could cultivate this Dharma Eye to the Third Layer.

As long as Yang Jing activated his Grotto Dark Dharma Eye from a high enough vantage point, not even Demonic Qi from a hundred miles away could escape his sight.

“This Northern Domain is really starting to look like a Demon Cave.”

He said, sounding rather helpless.

On their journey, they had already encountered Demon Cultivators more than once. These Demon Cultivators dared to walk about in broad daylight, making no effort to conceal the Demonic Qi emanating from them.

Whenever Yang Jing encountered them, he would fly over and casually lop off their heads with his sword.

By now, he had already collected the heads of seven Qi Cultivation Demon Cultivators and one Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator in his Storage Bag.

Being a Demon Patrol Envoy came with assessment requirements. Just from this journey alone, Yang Jing had already fulfilled the Merit Point requirements for two years.

He channeled his Magical Power, and a flash of gold and cyan light flickered in his eyes.

“This time, we’ve really stumbled upon a Demon Cave. There are over fifty Demon Cultivators, both strong and weak, and they’re even holding a banquet.”

Yang Jing raised an eyebrow. ’If I take the heads of this group of Demon Cultivators, I could even get a high-level rating on my five-year assessment.’

Without hesitation, he immediately descended from the clouds and flew toward the group of Demon Cultivators.

The reason Yang Jing was so confident was not just because there were only three Foundation Establishment Cultivators among the Demon Cultivators—all of them in the Early Stage—but also because Iron Head had achieved Body Refining Foundation Establishment.

Iron Head had reached Perfect Body Refining even before Yang Jing, but because he lacked the talent for Qi Condensation into Evil, Yang Jing had him wait until after he himself reached Foundation Establishment. This way, he could learn from Yang Jing’s experience, which would increase his own chance of success by ten percent.

A month after Yang Jing successfully reached Foundation Establishment, Iron Head also succeeded. To keep a low profile, he completed his breakthrough in his Cave Mansion.

With Yang Jing watching over him, his Foundation Establishment succeeded without any mishaps.

After successfully reaching Foundation Establishment, because his physical body had reached the pinnacle of Body Refinement, Iron Head’s original talent, High-level True Demon Body, evolved from Rare to Legendary.

True Demon Body (Legendary)

This talent was practically tailor-made for Iron Head, comprehensively strengthening his physical body’s Defense Power, Qi Power, and reaction speed.

It allowed Iron Head’s Qi Power to directly surpass that of Yang Jing, who was only bolstered by the Rare talent, Mountain-Carrying Power. However, his Defense Power was still a notch below.

With two Foundation Establishment Cultivators who had cultivated the True Yang Body, Yang Jing naturally saw this group of Demon Cultivators as nothing more than pushovers.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep