Chapter 503: Chapter 257: Narrow Encounters, Reentering the West Mountain Floating Domain
The Three Karmic Demon currently recuperating from his wounds.
This surprised Wen Jiu somewhat; why did he not go to the Lifeless Abyss to heal but instead suspected of entering the West Mountain Floating Domain?
What a pity.
The Corpse Fate Technique has only reached a minor accomplishment, so it’s impossible to directly discern the cultivator’s fate and easily see through the reasons.
However, Wen Jiu speculates that the Three Karmic Demon must have a reason for doing so... perhaps the West Mountain Floating Domain is safer for him.
"Maybe that’s the possibility." Wen Jiu immediately used the Corpse Fate Technique again to divine the location of other Unrestrained Yin Evil Spirits. It involved a Dark Altar set up by the Outer Path Hidden Demon Sect in the West Mountain Floating Domain, and also implicated the He Family Golden Core, along with the Three Karmic Demon, making it seem far from the best choice.
Nonetheless.
After traveling thirty thousand miles forward, repeated divinations yielded increasingly unsatisfactory results.
The second group of Unrestrained Yin Evil Spirits was in the hands of a Golden Core Clan, specifically held by a middle-stage Golden Core Ancestor.
The third was located in an Immortal City, although not as grand as the East Pole Immortal City, the possessor was still a middle-stage Golden Core cultivator and even the city’s lord. As for the fourth group, it was an unowned object.
But it lay within the Immortal Forbidden Land of the West Mountain Floating Domain, where even late-stage Golden Core cultivators faced the risk of perishing if they entered.
Wen Jiu couldn’t help but sigh, "These Golden Core Cultivators of the West Mountain Floating Domain have really stripped this land bare."
However, when he thought of any Golden Core Influence lasting thousands of years, some even two to three thousand years.
And the traces of cultivators in the West Mountain Floating Domain going back tens of thousands, or even thirty thousand years, it was indeed too normal for such unique Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects to be plundered clean.
"It seems that the Three Karmic Demon’s Unrestrained Yin Evil Spirit has become the optimal choice." Wen Jiu immediately made up his mind.
...
Meanwhile, as the East Spring Undying Bone traversed the Traceless Mountain Range, the battle between the Three Life Gates and the Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks intensified. Although the order of slaughter slowed the attack speed, the offensive of the Three Life Gates was essentially unstoppable.
Because the Three Life Gates consisted of Heterodox Evil Cultivators, although not as terrifying as Demon Cultivators, slaughter only made them increasingly powerful. For Ghost Cultivators or Corpse Cultivators, the elevation that blood brought was too rapid.
It was during this time that word spread of a bounty order issued by a Golden Core Ancestor from the Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks.
The bounty targeted individuals with External Foundation Establishment in the Far West.
That is, Wen Jiu.
And the only ones who knew Wen Jiu’s identity were Shankui and the Jue Ying Sect Leader, the Golden Core Cultivator behind him.
On that day, Shankui immediately communicated with him, explaining the stakes and advising him to leave Wind and Cloud Immortal City and join the Three Life Gates. Wen Jiu refused with a ten-year Spirit Contract, but also promised to reconsider ten years later.
Shankui immediately reported this, and the Jue Ying Sect Leader fell silent, as with Du the Corpse Cultivator present, they currently had no way to negotiate with Wind and Cloud Immortal City or threaten Pei Wuxing to relinquish Han Li’s ten-year Spirit Contract.
In resignation, the Jue Ying Sect Leader decided to observe the changes first. Fortunately, the Far West belonged to the Three Life Gates for now; neither the Little Demon Realm dared enter, nor did the people from Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks have the capacity to enter.
"Master, should we just kill him to eliminate future problems?" As the Jue Ying Sect Leader pondered, Shankui asked coldly.
Jue Ying hurriedly shook his head, "Not wise, not wise."
"Master, why? Killing him would resolve everything, leaving no hidden troubles." Shankui was quite puzzled.
Jue Ying promptly refused and warned sternly, "Don’t entertain such scheming thoughts, or you will be expelled from the sect!"
This disciple only knew they had lost a bet and a contest in the Little Demon Realm that day.
Unaware that they had escaped back to the Celestial Demon Sea.
Afterwards, they implored the Three Elements Zhenren for a life-calculating divination. The result showed that peering into his fate and origins would take at least five hundred years of lifespan, while fully understanding would not be possible even in a thousand-year lifespan of a Golden Core Cultivator.
In contrast, the divination of the Golden Core Ancestor of the Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks required only a mere fifty years of lifespan.
Consequently, currently, they avoided the Little Demon Realm.
"Yes, master!" Shankui promptly nodded, daring not to entertain any excess notion.
The Jue Ying Sect Leader continued, "Did you not say that Han Li is an Ascetic, constantly training in the Little Demon Realm? Since the matter is known only to you, me, and Feng Jue, then simply let it be.
Feng Jue is intimately linked with Han Li, and has a blood feud with the Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks; he can’t possibly betray Han Li. So, as long as neither of us reveals the secret, who will know Han Li Foundation Established using the Yinzhou Heterodox Record and possesses the External Foundation Establishment Items?"
"Master, I understand now." Shankui responded once more, ended the communication with the Jue Ying Sect Leader, and then communicated with Wen Jiu.
"Fellow Daoist Han, rest assured, although my master might harbor intent to kill you, I’ve assured my master that you won’t leave the Little Demon Realm, and in ten years, you’ll surely join the Three Life Gates, so you merely need to cultivate well among them."
"There is no need to thank me, Fellow Daoist Han... Save your gratitude for later."
"Should anything arise, feel free to use the Communication Stone to contact me at once. I’ll come immediately. Take good care of yourself, Fellow Daoist Han."
Stashing away the Communication Stone, Shankui smiled with satisfaction.
Wen Jiu, on the other hand, stored the Communication Stone in his storage bag, not believing a word of Shankui’s assurances.
Kill me?
Isn’t that your own thought?
Would those high-tier cultivators from the Three Life Gates, or the Jue Ying Sect Leader, dare come to the Little Demon Realm?
Still, Wen Jiu couldn’t care less about Shankui’s two-faced behavior. Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators were already insignificant before Wen Jiu.
Except for being unable to kill the Law-Devouring Yin Insect, Wen Jiu could eliminate Shankui with any one of his techniques. Having absolute power, Wen Jiu no longer minded, opting to let it be.
Even being betrayed didn’t matter—in fact, it might lure out the Golden Core Ancestor of Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks for elimination.
The lower volume of the Yinzhou Heterodox Record could be acquired directly.
Collecting his thoughts, Wen Jiu resumed practicing the Gathering Yin Poison Technique; meanwhile, controlling the East Spring Undying Bone, he killed a Golden Core Great Demon that headed his way. Unfortunately, due to some signaling method used by the Golden Core Great Demon before dying, after traversing ten thousand miles in the Traceless Mountain Range, he couldn’t encounter another Golden Core Great Demon.
Within the range of Divine Sense, there was no Golden Core Great Demon.
"What a pity, otherwise I could save a lot of Spirit Stones." Wen Jiu sighed.
Three days later.
The Heaven-Reaching River, running westwards from the depths of the Traceless Mountain Range towards the West Mountain Floating Domain, was now in sight.
Wen Jiu controlled the East Spring Undying Bone to maintain its original form as it traveled upwards, passing through the False Pill Celestial River Guard’s inspection smoothly after showing the West Mountain Order. Crossing the Heaven-Reaching River, Wen Jiu head straight for the Celestial Yin Mountain Range.
However, his target wasn’t the Three Karmic Demon.
It was the Loose Cultivator practicing in the mountains.
Corpse Cultivator.
Foundation Establishment Perfection.
And still a Loose Cultivator.
Loose Cultivators meeting these three criteria would only be found in places like the Celestial Yin Mountain Range, laden with heavy Yin Qi.
A quick calculation using the Corpse Fate Technique and Wen Jiu found the first target, rushing over to discover his cave mansion on a cliff beside a blood-red swamp. With a Pseudo-Tier Three Concealment Array, Pseudo-Tier Three Defense Array, Pseudo-Tier Three Attack Array, and even a Tier Three Trapping Array forming a quartet, one could retreat unscathed even if a Golden Core cultivator intruded.
"Truly cautious, these Loose Cultivators." Wen Jiu couldn’t help but sigh aloud in Lengxi Mountain.
Straight after, Wen Jiu frowned slightly.
"Reputation of the Heterodox Dao gets ruined by people like you, cultivating in such remote, evil lands yet not forgetting to bring women."
As the Divine Sense of the East Spring Undying Bone ventured within, Wen Jiu saw not only the grand array and Yin Corpses but also a dozen raised iron cages behind which were unconcealed despair, each forging piece constructed from Tier Two Middle Grade Materials, exceptionally durable.
Inside these cages were sixteen scantily clad young women in sheer gauze dresses.
With the lowest cultivation at Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer.
The highest cultivation at Early Stage of Foundation Establishment.
In their world, this Foundation Establishment Perfection Corpse Cultivator was akin to the heavens, thus the sixteen made no outcry or plea, their eyes filled with sheer despair. Wen Jiu never claimed to be a good person but held such Heterodox Cultivators in disdain.
"You... you make killing people guilt-free for me." Wen Jiu controlled the East Spring Undying Bone to perform the Blood Corpse Escape and easily infiltrated the dwelling.
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