Chapter 161: Chapter 66: A Clean Sweep

Yang Jing examined the Blood Pearl in his hand. It was formed from pure, condensed Blood Qi, incredibly refined without a trace of Demonic Qi mixed in.

The Celestial Demon Blood Transformation Divine Light was truly mystical. When Yang Jing had used it to convert the flesh and blood of Demon Beasts, the conversion efficiency was nowhere near this high. The Nine-Child Demon Mother originally had no Blood Qi, but that single ray of Divine Light had converted its Demon Soul and Demonic Qi entirely into Blood Qi.

The amount of Blood Qi within this one Blood Pearl surpassed the total Blood Qi of an Early Stage Foundation Establishment Great Demon.

[Celestial Demon Blood Transformation (Legendary): 101%]

The progress of Celestial Demon Blood Transformation had also advanced by 1%.

Even with Yang Jing’s Willpower, the thought of summoning Outer Celestial Demons and slaying them with Celestial Demon Blood Transformation flickered in his mind. ’I could accumulate Blood Qi and improve my Talent at the same time. It’s truly killing two birds with one stone.’

But Yang Jing extinguished this tempting thought.

Do not summon demons wantonly. This was a truth countless players in the Nine Heavens World had verified with their own blood and tears.

Celestial Demons were not without organization. If the same person summoned a large number of Celestial Demons and none returned, or if a lucky survivor escaped and reported that a Cultivator was luring and killing them, it was highly likely to attract the descent of a Golden Core or even Nascent Soul Level Celestial Demon’s avatar.

Although these avatars had the same Cultivation as an ordinary Low-level Celestial Demon, their methods were far beyond what an ordinary Cultivator could withstand.

The already annihilated Nine Yang Sect was a prime example.

“Master.”

Iron Head approached, escorting the disciples of the Profound Cyan Old Demon.

They had offered almost no resistance before being captured by Iron Head and the other three disciples.

“In the future, when you encounter these Demon Cultivators, just kill them directly.”

Ignoring the Demon Cultivators’ heaven-shaking wails and pleas for mercy, Yang Jing condensed a Flying Sword from Five Elements True Slaughter and sliced off their heads in a row.

Even Demon Cultivators who breathed Muddy Qi had to consume human hearts and blood to keep from losing their minds to it. Those who performed Banishment Rituals for Celestial Demons had to constantly offer blood sacrifices to appease them.

To raise the Tier of their Celestial Demons, these Demon Cultivators would even set up altars for sacrificial rituals from time to time. The victims numbered from the dozens to the tens of thousands.

Once a person falls into the Demon Dao, they become a mortal enemy to all living beings.

Furthermore, to obtain enough Muddy Qi for their cultivation, they had to slaughter mortals wantonly, destroy a region’s Dragon Vein, and convert Spirit Veins into Muddy Veins. This put them in direct opposition to Cultivators, making them mortal enemies with a fundamental conflict of interest.

The reason these Demon Cultivators could breathe Muddy Qi was that most of the mortals on Black Wind Mountain had already been either eaten or sold by them, and the rest had fled. Only then did a Tier Two Muddy Vein coalesce.

After explaining all this to his four disciples, Yang Jing gave the Blood Pearl to Iron Head.

“This was left behind by the Nine-Child Demon Mother. See if you can use it as the main ingredient to refine a Spirit Pill that nourishes Blood Qi.”

Most Spiritual Materials, when supplemented with various other ingredients and refined into a pill according to the principles of alchemy, would have their effects greatly enhanced. Consuming them directly would be a tremendous waste.

As long as they continued hunting Demon Cultivators like this, there would be many more such Blood Pearls. Investing in Iron Head to research Pill Formulas early on would yield multiplied returns upon success.

Iron Head not only had the Elixir Understanding Talent, but his Alchemy output was also more than ten times that of other Alchemists at the same tier. After condensing a True Register in his Acupoints, he even had his own Spiritual Fire for Alchemy. Yang Jing was full of confidence in him.

Yang Jing and his four disciples searched the Profound Cyan Old Demon’s cavern. The greatest prize was the Tier Two Spiritual Artifact, the Demon-Catching Tripod, which could be sold for at least tens of thousands of Spirit Stones to the Four Demon Sects. It was a good thing the Profound Cyan Old Demon knew how to hide his capabilities; otherwise, red-eyed Demon Cultivators would have long since surrounded Black Wind Mountain to kill him for his treasure.

As for how he obtained the Demon-Catching Tripod, Yang Jing guessed he had probably gotten lucky and found the corpse of a Demon Sect True Disciple, looting it from the body.

Because this was truly not a treasure that a rogue demon like him should possess.

The next most valuable items were the Jade Scrolls recording Demon Skills. The only ones of slight value were the Nine-Child Demon Mother Scripture and the Beast Demon Scripture. As for the other crude Demon Skills, they were worthless.

Yang Jing also found over a thousand Spirit Stones and some Spiritual Materials for refining Demon Artifacts in the Profound Cyan Old Demon’s Storage Bag.

Besides that, in the cellar were thirty vats of human blood, a hundred rolls of tanned human skin, a hundred skulls, and a thousand pounds of finely ground and sifted human bone powder.

These were all materials needed by Demon Sect disciples to practice Demon Summoning. Itinerant merchants would come to purchase them and travel north to sell them to the Demon Sect. This was how these rogue demons obtained most of the Cultivation Techniques and resources they needed for their practice.

The Demon Sect was also happy to raise the purchase price to cultivate the number of Demon Cultivators in the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms.

With a blank expression, Yang Jing summoned a Fire Dragon and incinerated everything in the cellar.

At this moment, the drugs given to the children who had been abducted by the Withered Daoist wore off, and they woke up. Most of them were only three or four years old and immediately began to cry. Yang Jing could crush a Demon Cultivator’s head with ease, but he was at a complete loss with these children. He could only hand them over to his disciples to be soothed, then summoned his Five Clouds Pouch and flew toward the nearby county seat.

After revealing his identity as a Demon Patrol Envoy, Yang Jing handed the children over to the local County Magistrate, ordering him to find their families and send them home.

Afterward, Yang Jing followed the wanted posters to find the lairs of two more Demon Cultivators, wiping them out completely.

However, these two Demon Cultivators’ stashes were far less substantial than the Profound Cyan Old Demon’s, and even the Celestial Demons they had under Banishment were far inferior to the Nine-Child Demon Mother. But the most valuable thing about these Demon Cultivators was the bounty on their heads, so Yang Jing was not too disappointed.

After that, the Demon Cultivators in the Liao Kingdom grew paranoid, startled by the slightest sound. Some of the Demon Cultivators on the wanted posters even fled their lairs to lie low.

Yang Jing simply decided to ignore the wanted posters and used his Bright Qi Talent to trace the direction of Spirit Veins and search for Muddy Veins. While a Muddy Vein wasn’t guaranteed to have a Demon Cultivator encampment, it was highly probable that Demon Cultivators would hide within them.

With this sweeping purge, another five Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators fell into his hands within a month, their heads taken. He also eliminated over sixty Qi Cultivation Demon Cultivators.

Among these five Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivators, one had reached Late Stage Foundation Establishment and had a Banned Ox Power Demon, granting him boundless strength. Yet, he still lost a contest of strength against Yang Jing and was pinned to the ground, unable to move.

Iron Head lopped off his head with a Big Spear.

The attached Ox Power Demon tried to escape, but Yang Jing used Celestial Demon Blood Transformation to condense it into a Blood Pearl.

The death of Venerable Niu Li completely terrified the Demon Cultivators of the Liao Kingdom. They either went into hiding among mortals or fled to other kingdoms.

The entire demonic atmosphere in the Liao Kingdom was cleansed, giving rise to talk of a “Daoist Demon Disappearance.”

The local Immortally Cultivation Clans wanted to build a relationship with Yang Jing, but he ignored them completely. These established clans had their own ways of survival, including intermarriage, and he was certain a few of them had secret dealings with Demon Cultivators.

The entanglements ran too deep. He was only here to hunt Demon Cultivators, accumulate Merit Points, and plan for his Dao Listening Foundation Establishment. He had no desire to get involved.

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