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Chapter 203: From Adversity Comes Fortune
Chapter 203: From Adversity Comes Fortune
Linjiang Prefecture, Stony Gate Cliff.
He Zhen, clad in a wolfskin cloak with a yin-yang fish pattern embroidered on its collar, should have been an awe-inspiring personal guard.
At this moment, leading a group of military officers, he stood dumbfounded, staring at the cliff ahead like a fool.
The demon inhabiting this place was exceptionally skilled at digging, hollowing out the entire mountain wall, and had been occupying this spot for hundreds of years, leaving everyone helpless against it.
Boom!
The youth in the ink-black robe hung in the air, his fist shattering the mountain wall.
A blinding green radiance flashed, slicing open the mountain behind, revealing a dense network of passages.
He closed his eyes to sense the surroundings, then his body erupted in motion, delivering a whip-like kick to another section of the mountain.
Under the terrifying force, a roughly ten-zhang-long demon, covered in scales, frantically burrowed out. Before it could fully emerge, its head was shattered by the surging fist wind!
[Slain Earth Dragon at the Core Formation Stage, with a total lifespan of four thousand three hundred years, remaining lifespan of seven hundred and sixty years, absorption complete]
Shen Yi held the demon's head and returned to the group, then took out a document and began flipping through it.
After a moment, he asked with a hint of confusion, "That's it?"
The officers remained silent, and He Zhen muttered, "That's it."
In over ten days, General Shen had visited eight locations, and except for those that had fled early, the remaining five powerful demons had all been subdued... Not one could withstand a second attack.
This was Linjiang Prefecture! The place demons loved to linger! And now, not a single one remained.
"What about the Jade Purity Stage ones?"
Shen Yi glanced sideways, "Help me gather information and send it back to the Demon Suppression General's Mansion."
From the five Core Formation Stage demons, he had only gained a total of over two thousand years of lifespan, each one more foolish than the last. There was even one with barely sixty years left, still unable to break through to the Embraced Core Realm, far inferior to the Lesser Demon King.
Hearing this, He Zhen wiped a bead of sweat, "Most of the others escaped... I'll go investigate immediately."
Even the Jade Purity Stage demons required his personal attention. Was it because the Imperial Court was running low on funds, and he might be dismissed soon?
Shen Yi nodded and soared through the sky again.
He stopped at a desolate area, tossed the Earth Dragon aside, and from his silver pouch, threw the remains of the other five demons onto the ground, including the Lesser Demon King.
Opening his mouth, he quickly condensed the surging blood into demon blood, swallowing it into his abdomen.
From the five demons, he could barely gather a single drop.
The eight-zhang-tall Bull Demon was the smallest in size but yielded the richest harvest, amounting to eight drops.
Shen Yi picked up the demon pill and stuffed it into his mouth.
Skillfully opening the interface, he began to refine the Heaven Devouring Pill.
With just a few years of lifespan, the demon blood and demon pill, which originally required slow absorption, were instantly devoured by the Dao Infant.
Shen Yi sat cross-legged and entered a state of introspection.
He channeled his Divine Consciousness into the Dao Infant, and his vision transformed once more.
He became the Dao Infant within the inner core again.
Feeling the abundant energy throughout his body, much stronger than when he had just formed, he raised his fist and struck the inner core!
Bang—
"So hard?"
The Dao Infant rubbed his wrist. Smashing this inner core would allow him to break through to the Primordial Chaos Realm.
Clearly, his current accumulation was still insufficient.
After a moment's thought, he turned to the trembling Shadow Soul beside him, "Why are you sitting there? Get up and help."
Under the constant pressure of the subjugation force, the Shadow Soul had become more obedient and hurriedly stood up, gently touching the shell wall with his palm, dissolving the inner core in a different way.
Many hands make light work.
Soon, a crisp cracking sound emanated from the Heaven Devouring Inner Core, and a fine crack appeared on the smooth shell.
The Dao Infant, breathless, lay down and commanded the Shadow Soul to use Incense Fire Wish Power to massage his arm.
In reality, he was just testing it out and hadn't considered using the panel to directly attempt a breakthrough.
With insufficient cultivation, forcing a breakthrough by shattering one's core... that would be considered premature, right?
...
At the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Agency, within the Commander's Mansion.
Aqian sat cross-legged on a stone bench, while Jiangan Yuanhua stood with his hands behind his back.
Both of them stared at a white dove perched on the table.
The dove was formed from essence energy, and around its neck hung a tiny silver bell.
"You take it."
Jian Yuanhua glanced at her. If he remembered correctly, when they had returned to Qingzhou earlier, she had been quite arrogant.
"Cough, cough."
Aqian coughed twice, gritted her teeth, and reached out to snatch the silver bell. The white dove quietly dispersed.
She manipulated her essence energy to retrieve what was inside the bell.
There were only two items in total. The gilded envelope was obviously from the Martial Temple, and next to it was a piece of white jade about two fingers wide.
"One person takes one item."
Aqian quickly snatched the envelope.
Even when she had killed the Little Demon King, she had already prepared for the worst, but as the moment of truth approached, her breathing quickened in anticipation.
In contrast, Jiangan Yuanhua seemed much calmer.
When he had completely lost control over this matter, no matter the outcome, he could only choose to accept it.
Soon, Aqian took out the letter.
There was only one sentence written on it.
"Thousand Demon Cavern, Blood Transmuting Demon Emperor."
These few small words caused Aqian's movements to freeze instantly. Even though she had expected it, when the answer was truly laid before her, just a title was enough to make her breath catch in her throat.
In the small Qingzhou, they had managed to offend a powerful old demon comparable to a Transcendent Incarnation Realm cultivator.
This must have been a pleasant surprise for the Martial Temple.
A hint of loneliness flashed in Jiangan Yuanhua's eyes, but he didn't say anything more. Instead, he gently picked up the piece of white jade.
He infused his essence energy into it.
Aqian was a bit nervous. "Is this from Radiant Light Cave or Paulownia Mountain?"
Jian Yuanhua examined it for a moment before softly saying, "Paulownia Mountain."
As his essence energy filled the white jade, a slightly cold voice emerged from within.
"He's busy. I'm currently beating him up."
The voice abruptly stopped, as if the speaker couldn't be bothered to say another word.
Jian Yuanhua and Aqian exchanged a glance, both falling silent.
After a long while, Aqian suddenly jumped up, lay down on the stone table, and burst into laughter while holding her stomach: "It's over! It's finally over!"
Jian Yuanhua looked at her helplessly until she jumped off the table and skipped out of the courtyard: "Alright, I've got things to do!"
Busy? Busy being lovey-dovey with Wu Feng?
The voice from the white jade was so distinctive that Jian Yuanhua could identify the speaker without much thought.
One of the twelve disciples of Paulownia Mountain, who had achieved the Transcendent Incarnation Realm through the Dao Infant.
Zhen Jian Zhenren, Nie Jun.
Even within the Immortal Sect, he was a formidable presence that made other cultivators retreat in fear.
Even at the peak of the Martial Temple's Ancestor's power, they might not have been able to gain the upper hand against him.
"..."
Jian Yuanhua sat back down, tightly clutching the white jade in his hand.
From adversity comes fortune?
All his plans over the years had been for naught, but the arrival of the Little Demon King and the subsequent appearance of Qiulan and Shen Yi in Qingzhou, along with the extraordinary background of the Little Demon King and the timely arrival of Zhen Jian Zhenren to keep him in check, seemed like a stroke of good luck.
A Demon Emperor who had caught the attention of Paulownia Mountain would likely not dare to venture into a place like Dagan again.
As long as he and the others stayed put, it seemed like this matter had truly come to an end.
Thinking of this, Jian Yuanhua rubbed his forehead and carefully put away the white jade, handling it with utmost care as if he were holding not just a piece of white jade, but the very fate of Qingzhou itself.
(End of Chapter)
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