So rather than forcibly incorporating them into the family’s control, it’s better to continue employing appeasent tactics to ensure that large western region always belongs to the Li family.
Even Li Zhirui had to fly for most of the day to reach the destination.
Here, there were far fewer cultivators, and the dense spirit light was nowhere to be seen. The environnt was much quieter, but likewise, the spiritual energy was sowhat thin.
"This is indeed a good place for focused cultivation." But he didn’t linger for long and turned to leave.
This ti, Li Zhirui wasn’t in a hurry to travel and had enough ti and mood to enjoy the scenery along the way.
He passed by a mortal village and unexpectedly found a loose cultivator practicing so demon-expelling ritual.
The target of the ritual was a newborn infant.
Li Zhirui, initially reluctant to interfere, suddenly stopped because the loose cultivator was not practicing the Immortal Tao, but rather a demonic cultivation technique!
He appeared in this secluded village intending to use the lives of all the mortals to cultivate.
"A reckless demon cultivator dares to boast and deceive here!" Li Zhirui shouted, directly shattering the spell the demon cultivator was brewing in his palm.
In the next mont, he felt his entire being in the sky, appearing before a cultivator as imposing as an abyss.
Bang bang bang—
He imdiately knelt down, kowtowing heavily three tis, crying out, "I... I... I didn’t an to harm these villagers, I was really forced, I hope the senior sees through this!"
Li Zhirui did not pay attention to him but instead said to the bewildered mortals below, "Go back, the ritual just now was by a demon cultivator, and the previous commotion was simply his deliberate tricks."
Then he cast a spell to summon a purification spiritual rain, not only wiping away the aftereffects caused by demonic qi, but also clearing many diseases within the mortals.
"Thank you, Immortal!"
The mortals were grateful, kneeling and bowing repeatedly.
Li Zhirui disliked others kneeling and bowing to him the most, so he helped them up, manifesting bright spirit light and swiftly leaving.
The reason for the unusual display with spirit light was to make it obvious to the mortals not to stay and continue bowing.
anwhile, the Qi Cultivation demon cultivator he had captured was trembling with fear atop the spiritual cloud, as if his life could be erased at any mont.
"Speak, why were you forced to harm the lives of those mortals." In the demon cultivator’s perception, it seed like hundreds of years had passed before Li Zhirui finally spoke, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Senior, you wouldn’t believe it!"
The demon cultivator wailed and cried imdiately, saying, "I was originally a mortal, unintentionally obtained a Qi Cultivation technique, and only then embarked on the path of cultivation..."
"Enough! Get to the point!" Li Zhirui frowned, impatiently interrupting his rambling nonsense.
"Not long ago, I was kidnapped by a demon cultivator, taken to a dark underground palace, where they placed a restriction within , demanding that within a month I hand over one hundred mortals’ blood, flesh, and soul, or else they would turn into a living corpse. I was really forced to do this!"
"Is what you’re saying the truth?"
"Every word is true, if there’s even one falsehood, let heavenly thunder strike dead!"
Li Zhirui’s eyes flashed with dark light, sneering inwardly. If he hadn’t uttered those last words, there might still be fifty percent credibility, but with those words, what remained was greatly discounted.
Everything in moderation, and those words, though sounding like a vow, were actually irrelevant.
"Huh!"
The demon cultivator trembled all over upon hearing the cold laugh, not daring to say anything further.
"You have so guts, daring to lie to ."
As soon as the words fell, imnse pressure bore down on him, pinning him tightly to the spiritual cloud, with his entire skeleton emitting sounds, seemingly attempting to crush him into a paste.
"Ah ah ah!"
Li Zhirui did not relent due to the piercing screams but rather took this opportunity to probe his sea of consciousness with divine sense, searching through his mories to see what the truth really was.
Monts later, he retracted his divine sense with a grim expression, while the demon cultivator had already beco a broken spiritual soul.
Half of what he said was true, which was handing over a hundred people’s blood, flesh, and soul.
But he wasn’t coerced into doing this by demon cultivators; he had voluntarily embraced the demonic path to leverage their rapid formation thods to improve his cultivation!
Li Zhirui’s anger wasn’t due to being deceived, but because, upon examining his mories, he saw quite a number of loose cultivators voluntarily joining the demonic path!
After many years, the demonic Tao returned to the East Continent, returned to Shanhai State.
But unlike before, they were much more covert, in both their hiding thods and their expansion strategies.
If not for this unexpected discovery, the Li family might have waited countless years before noticing the presence of demon cultivators.
"I cannot allow the demonic Tao to continue growing like this; it poses too great a threat to the family!"
Unfortunately, the demon cultivator’s mories did not have the exact location of the underground palace, not even the orientation, as specific demon cultivators gathered at a designated Immortal City gate at a specified ti to transport them.
"He Guang Immortal City? The next gathering is three days later?"
Li Zhirui studied his mories slightly and knew these details.
anwhile, he had to ensure this demon cultivator wouldn’t die, or it might affect the demon cultivators’ gathering and transport.
At this point, Li Zhirui regretted being heavy-handed and needed to put in so effort to preserve his life.
Originally intending to visit the Ten Thousand Spirit Sea Area, now confronted with this situation, how could he still care to focus on the scenery?
He imdiately returned to Mount Wanxian, intending to go to He Guang Immortal City three days later to capture the demon cultivator who knew the location of the underground palace.
Ti swiftly passed.
Li Zhirui disguised as that demon cultivator appeared in a dense forest outside the Immortal City, waiting for the transporter.
Dang dang dang—
Not long after, a set of low, deep bells sounded, and a Divine Transformation cultivator appeared subsequently.
"The usual rule, let’s go." He tossed a black veil coldly.
The black veil was used to block the five senses and could even obstruct divine sense investigation.
But this black veil posed no obstacle to Li Zhirui; his powerful divine sense wasn’t sothing this small veil could impede.
He did not imdiately act to take down the transporter but planned to wait until reaching the underground palace to suddenly erupt and catch all the nearby demon cultivators in one go!
Soon, over twenty demon cultivators gathered, and the transporter didn’t wait any longer, summoning a spirit boat to carry the group to a certain place.
After flying for several hours, the spirit boat finally stopped.
’Here is...’
Li Zhirui frowned, pondering; considering the direction from which they ca, they arrived at the western part of Shanhai State, before an ordinary, common small hill.
Then he ’saw’ the demon cultivator casting a spell, suddenly creating a pitch-black, deep cave halfway up the hill, used mana to lift everyone into the cave, closing it thereafter, and then said, "You can remove the black veil now."
The group familiarly proceeded to the deepest part of the tunnel, walking for about half an hour, before reaching a huge underground palace.
Many demon cultivators were strolling about, stopping at large pits to inspect sothing.
From the mories, Li Zhirui learned these large pits contained blood, white bone, corpses, and souls, the commonly used resources and materials for demon cultivators.
And they mostly ca from mortals and loose cultivators.
Li Zhirui’s gaze wandered around, and upon finding no Earth Immortal Demon Practitioners present, he no longer concealed his identity, angrily shouting, "A bunch of reckless demon cultivators dare to return to Shanhai State to wreak havoc. Truly reckless!"
"Die for !"
Facing these demon cultivators there was no need for rcy; simply use the most powerful killing move to completely obliterate them.
One layer of massive waves after another, carrying purification light, roared in all directions, instantly engulfing countless demon cultivators’ lives.
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