Wen Jiu earnestly explained, "But now, our fellows at the market, both sect mbers and Loose Cultivators, are in dire straits. If I go for practice and hold you, Elder Feng, back, wouldn’t I indirectly harm our comrades?"
"Alright then."
Feng Xuan said no more.
But he didn’t believe these words.
Because he knew Wen Jiu was an Ascetic who liked to ditate in isolation.
When he was appointed as the new Inspector of the Inspection Hall, he didn’t go there for a whole month, focusing solely on secluded cultivation.
"Mountain Mist Peak, Celestial Unity Peak, Feixian Peak, you three Peak Masters, bring your people and follow to support the market imdiately." Feng Xuan ordered without any hesitation as the Flying Ship slowly ascended.
After the Flying Ship left Bright Moon Peak with the people, Wen Jiu found an excuse to practice and ordered the people of the Inspection Hall to guard the Bright Moon Peak Main Hall, allowing no one to enter, then used the Three Rivers Ghost Concealnt to leave Bright Moon Peak.
As soon as he exited Bright Moon Peak, Wen Jiu used the Hidden God Technique to conceal all his energy and imdiately flew with the Three Evil Flying Corpses towards the Trading Market.
When passing a nearby market, the battle below caught Wen Jiu’s attention. Feng Xuan and his people had already arrived, engaged in fierce combat with the demons within the market, but the demons seed harder to deal with than imagined.
At that mont, the market was shrouded in a dense blood mist, with Feng Xuan and his team struggling to withstand its corrosion with their magical power.
As for the Loose Cultivators.
Those mortals.
They had already lost their minds in the blood mist.
Fighting each other like crazed beasts.
Wen Jiu was not surprised by this, as demons are not Demon Beasts; they possess all sorts of sinister abilities. However, Wen Jiu had no intention of staying to help because, under the perception of the Three Evil Flying Corpses, Feng Xuan and the others had already identified the demons and were working to eliminate the Blood Fog Demon releasing the mist one by one.
Just as Wen Jiu was about to leave, the Three Evil Flying Corpses detected a faint trace of a Gu Insect.
Inside the strongest demon in the market.
It was evident.
Yet it wasn’t intentionally done; rather, the Gu Insect was forced to act to control that demon.
"Demon-controlling Gu."
Wen Jiu was taken aback.
It was another Gu Insect from the secret techniques of Golden Cloud Valley.
Its sole purpose is to ta demons and Demon Beasts, turning them into one’s spiritual pets. Since those who follow the Heterodox Dao often seek quick success, few are willing to spend ten or twenty years nurturing a single spiritual pet.
Rather than nurturing, they chose to seize.
Thus, the Demon-controlling Gu was born.
However, demons and Demon Beasts controlled by the Demon-controlling Gu cannot grow, and the conditions for controlling demons are very harsh, so among the secret techniques of Golden Cloud Valley, it’s not considered a powerful Gu, only slightly above average.
"Indeed, soone is playing tricks behind the scenes."
At this mont, Wen Jiu was very certain that the attacks on the Ten Thousand Beasts Pool and the Independent Practitioner Market by the demons were orchestrated by Heterodox Cultivators.
But what is the purpose of doing this?
Is it just to cause destruction?
"Let’s capture it and take a look." Demons and Heart-devouring Gu are Soulless, so the Avoidance Technique of Soul Capture used by the Three Evil Flying Corpses doesn’t work on them.
But the secret techniques of Golden Cloud Valley ntion that the Demon-controlling Gu has.
No.
To be precise, it has a life essence.
A kind of soul, similar to nurturing a spirit when nourishing corpses.
Upon realizing this, Wen Jiu imdiately rushed into the blood mist with the Three Evil Flying Corpses, charging towards the demon leading twenty or thirty Tier One Middle Demons attacking Feng Xuan and the others. But just then, it suddenly went berserk.
Caused by the Demon-controlling Gu.
Likely triggered by Wen Jiu and the Three Evil Flying Corpses entering the blood mist.
The berserk Blood Fog Demon instantly spewed forth massive amounts of Demon Blood Aura, forcefully injecting it into the other demons, causing their aura to surge.
"Retreat!"
Feng Xuan shouted urgently.
He initially thought that bringing three Side Peak Peak Masters at the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer, along with himself, would be enough to handle the market crisis.
But the strength unleashed by these demons rivaled ordinary Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer, even matching Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer.
And now their strength is rising yet again.
This made him feel a tinge of unease.
As soon as the three Side Peak Peak Masters heard Feng Xuan’s command, they were about to retreat but saw the leading Blood Fog Demon charging towards them, along with the rest of the demons, seemingly ignoring Feng Xuan and the others.
Upon seeing this, the three Side Peak Peak Masters imdiately summoned their Magical Artifacts and Talismans, continuously attacking the encroaching demons.
Yet.
The next mont, three Gu Insects unexpectedly erged from the bellies of three demons, swiftly shooting through the blood mist and landing behind the three n, catching them off guard. In that instant, their magic ceased abruptly.
Their Magical Artifacts clattered to the ground.
The three Side Peak Peak Masters plumted headlong toward the ground.
"Extinction Insect!"
Feng Xuan exclaid in shock.
He imdiately led his n forward to rescue, as once the Extinction Insect attaches to a person, its poison instantly invades the body, rendering them unable to use magic for half an hour—one of the notorious thods of the Celestial Left Alliance!
The next instant.
Before Feng Xuan and the others could rush over, the leading Blood Fog Demon had already swallowed the three Side Peak Peak Masters whole.
Then it transford into a red mist and dashed out of the market, disappearing into the dense forest in the blink of an eye.
Feng Xuan wanted to pursue.
But he was blocked by other red mist demons.
"Damn it, their target was the Side Peak Peak Masters." Feng Xuan’s face darkened as he lost three Side Peak Peak Masters at once.
This is no small matter!
anwhile.
The senses of the Three Evil Flying Corpses led Wen Jiu to a Loose Cultivator among the blood mist, who also flew out at this mont.
His entire cultivation was revealed.
Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer!
Wen Jiu imdiately used the Three Rivers Ghost Concealnt again to follow, catching up long enough to hear the man laugh triumphantly, "Collecting three living Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer Cultivators at once, what an enormous gain."
The next mont.
Wen Jiu instantly used the Blood Corpse Escape to appear behind the man, causing the Celestial Left Alliance mber’s smile to abruptly halt.
Even though he sensed danger behind him, before he could react, the hand of the Three Evil Flying Corpses had already pierced through his chest, extracting his still-beating heart.
The man’s eyes suddenly widened in horror, his consciousness fading, casting his gaze upon his still-throbbing heart and the black corpse hand of the Three Evil Flying Corpses as he fell.
Swiftly, the Three Evil Flying Corpses used the Postnatal Corpse Technique Divine Techniques to violently absorb his soul and essence along with that of the Demon-controlling Gu.
As for why he still wasted corpse energy to absorb the essence of the Demon-controlling Gu, it’s because he wasn’t a Gu Cultivator.
At most, he counted as an Evil Cultivator.
He practiced ordinary Evil Dao.
After dealing with and collecting the demon into the Corpse Eye, Wen Jiu swiftly departed towards the second market.
Along the way, he checked the soul of the Celestial Left Alliance person, and what he found was shocking.
The Celestial Left Alliance issued an order.
They wanted the corpses of Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer Cultivators!
The more, the better.
Anyone bringing back a corpse would receive a Left Essence Pill, a rare Yin Pill for breaking through to Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer.
If more than one is brought back, each additional corpse would yield another Left Essence Pill.
Unfortunately, in his mories, there were no scenes explaining why the Celestial Left Alliance Leader issued this task.
But it was certain that it was to cultivate so Left-Handed Arts.
However, there was a surprise in those mories: those accepting the task didn’t necessarily have to be from the Celestial Left Alliance; anyone from the Heterodox Dao could take the task, and the task acceptance site was in Celestial Sound City.
"I’ll leave this matter for Shan Yue Ru and the others to investigate; I’ll continue my straightforward demon hunting."
With this decision made, Wen Jiu turned back, leaving the words ’Celestial Sound City’ at the place where the three Side Peak Peak Masters had fainted.
If Feng Xuan and the others arrived, they would surely see it.
Then Wen Jiu examined the essence of the Demon-controlling Gu, and to his surprise, it was again from that Master Gu. However, compared to before, he now had a clearer understanding of Master Gu.
Half-Human.
Half-Demon.
Of course.
Not an offspring from human-demon union.
But a Gu Cultivator with half a body being demonic.
He was currently at Qinghe Square, the Independent Practitioner Market fifty miles away from Bright Moon Peak!
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