Chapter 191: Chapter 96: Sun Godslaying Manual

Life is unpredictable. Not even Yang Jing could have anticipated that the person the Wei Family was searching for was Yu Jingming, the very child he had rescued from the Lengquan Three Friends.

His parents had accidentally discovered that the Wei Family and the main branch of the Yu Family were secretly abducting people for the Demon Sect to make a profit. They had even sold a great deal of intelligence on Longwu Marketplace.

After hiding their child away in secret, the couple reported the crimes to the Demon Suppression Army. But despite their caution, word leaked out. The Wei Family’s contact for their human trafficking business was a Golden Core from the Profound Sun Demon Sect.

The Wei Family Patriarch simply used a Secret Technique to ask Yan Gao of the Profound Sun Demon Sect for help. They ambushed and eliminated the Demon Suppression Army squad, leaving no survivors.

Mr. and Mrs. Yu were also captured by the main branch of the Shuijing Yu Family. They were subjected to all sorts of methods to torture Yu Jingming’s location out of them, but to no avail.

Human trafficking was already a crime punishable by the annihilation of one’s entire clan. For ambushing and killing the Demon Suppression Army, every single cultivator in the Wei Family would have their Divine Soul extracted and burned day and night in a Soul Lamp.

The Wei Family Patriarch, Wei Zhongda, had been backed into a corner. He could only send out his clan’s disciples to search for Yu Jingming under the pretext of having lost a valuable treasure, hoping to find the evidence the child held.

In his calculations, Yu Jingming was just a wet-behind-the-ears child who should be easy to capture within a few days.

He never expected that not only would the useless disciples of his clan fail to find Yu Jingming, but they would also attract a deadly jinx.

Wei Zhongda was advanced in years, having celebrated his two-hundredth birthday just seven years prior. He looked even older than other Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the same age. His teeth were loose, his skin was wrinkled and shriveled, and his face was already covered in age spots. His back was hunched, and his withered body barely had any flesh on its bones.

Today, he sat restlessly on his Meditation Cushion, the Seven Enchantments Map he usually cherished tossed casually aside.

This was a secret treasure for dual cultivation that he had acquired in exchange for forty-nine young boys and girls. It was crafted with the peeled skin of a female Foundation Establishment Cultivator as its primary material.

His Seven Enchantments Map was made from the skin of her back, a single, seamless piece without any trace of stitching. It was smooth to the touch, as if one were truly caressing a person’s back.

Painted on the map were seven lifelike young maidens in palace attire. These maidens were actually Enchanting Demons, bound by a Demon Sect’s Secret Technique. With an infusion of Magical Power, they could manifest their bodies and fly out of the scroll.

What pleased Wei Zhongda the most was that as long as he fed these seven Enchanting Demons with the Essence Blood of a female cultivator, they would return Essence Qi to him during their trysts, making him more vigorous with each encounter.

However, the Seven Enchantments Map had not been nourished with Essence Blood recently, so he absolutely did not dare to summon the Enchanting Demons for pleasure. If he lost control for even a moment, his Essence Qi would be drained, and his Vitality would be greatly damaged.

Lately, any Wei Family disciple who left the clan’s territory would meet a gruesome end. Only their heads would be left, sent back to the Wei Family. It had been a long time since any new female cultivators were brought in.

It didn’t matter if the disciples who went out were skilled in arts of concealment or flight; without exception, their heads would end up hanging on the archway at the entrance to the clan’s estate the very next day.

The Wei Family had once posted guards to lie in wait by the archway. The next day, even the guards were dead, frozen into ice sculptures by a cold Yin Demonic Qi.

The clan Elders were all arguing, unable to agree. Some suggested defecting to the Red Yin Demon Sect, others wanted to ask the Demon Suppression Army for help, and one degenerate even wanted him to engage in Magical Combat with that True Disciple from the Red Yin Demon Sect.

Before the Demon Sect’s True Disciple even had to act, Wei Zhongda had already slapped that degenerate to death.

’That’s the Red Yin Demon Sect! Magical Combat? People die in those!’

’As for seeking help from the Demon Suppression Army, that’s even more fanciful. The Wei Family couldn’t possibly withstand an investigation. If the Demon Suppression Army came, would they demand entry into our estate? If they found something they weren’t supposed to, would I have to silence them all over again?’

Wei Zhongda had already made up his mind: he would activate the clan’s Grand Array, be a coward and hide in his shell, and wait for Yan Gao of the Profound Sun Demon Sect to arrive and let them fight it out.

’Whomever wins, the Wei Family will side with them. As for whether the tribute we’ll have to pay will increase, that’ll just be a hardship for the clan members to bear. In any case, my own pleasures as the Patriarch can’t be diminished.’

With this mindset, Wei Zhongda managed to force himself to sit tight and wait.

The only thing that still worried him was the child, Yu Jingming, whose whereabouts were still unknown.

’However, the Yu Family’s fate also rests on that child. I’ve already sent a Talisman ordering those good-for-nothings from the Yu Family to start searching as well. Although doing this creates more openings and suspicions, as long as we aren’t caught red-handed, there’s still room to maneuver.’

As Wei Zhongda comforted himself with these thoughts, his hand drifted unconsciously toward the Seven Enchantments Map.

’It has been so long since I last enjoyed the pleasures of these Enchanting Demons.’ His heart felt as if it were being scratched by a cat’s claws. ’It’s just a little Essence Qi. What’s the harm in giving some up?’ The next moment, Wei Zhongda’s thoughts turned to the female cultivators of his own clan. ’Since they live under my protection, isn’t it only right for them to contribute a little Essence Blood?’

Just as Wei Zhongda was about to act on his thoughts, a Dharma Mirror on his desk suddenly began to flash with Spiritual Light.

He scrambled to turn around and kneel before the mirror. In his haste, his rear end stuck high in the air, creating a rather comical sight.

“You useless trash! A single True Disciple from the Red Yin Demon Sect has left you all helpless?”

As soon as the connection was established, Yan Gao began to curse, reaming out Wei Zhongda.

Wei Zhongda felt no shame. Instead, his face was full of flattery, completely unconcerned that Yan Gao was a full century younger than him.

“For my services this time, I want one hundred and twenty mortals and twenty-four cultivators.”

Yan Gao said from within the Dharma Mirror.

He cultivated the Profound Sun Demon Sect’s Demon Skill, the Sun Godslaying Manual. The Demonic Qi from this technique was incredibly domineering, requiring him to constantly use human blood in his Alchemy to suppress the volatile impulses within the Demonic Qi. Otherwise, the fire poison would invade his mind, and he would completely descend into madness.

In the Profound Sun Demon Sect, there was a Magical Treasure called the Great Sun Fire Chariot, which required eighty-one Foundation Establishment Perfection Cultivators whose minds had been invaded by fire poison as auxiliary materials for its Refining.

Wei Zhongda was momentarily troubled. One hundred and twenty mortals were easy to find; if worse came to worst, he could just hand over the mortals in his Wei Family who lacked Spirit Roots. The cultivators, however, were more difficult.

The Independent Cultivators of the Northern Domain Seven Kingdoms were all on high alert these days, making them not as easy to catch as before.

A flash of inspiration struck him. ’Only the main branch of the Shuijing Yu Family is cooperating with my Wei Family in this trafficking scheme. If I work with the main branch, coordinating from the inside and out, we can take down the other branches of the Shuijing Yu Family. Wouldn’t that easily fulfill the quota of twenty-four cultivators?’

Even though he already had a plan in mind, Wei Zhongda still feigned a troubled expression, hesitating for a long while before nodding with great difficulty.

“In that case, I will have to trouble you, Venerable.”

Yan Gao nodded in satisfaction.

“Before long, you will see the head of that little demon spawn from the Red Yin Demon Sect.”

A flicker of joy appeared in Wei Zhongda’s heart. Just as he was about to say something, a loud BANG suddenly came from the other side of the Dharma Mirror, and the connection was cut.

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