"Sect Master, what exactly happened?"
Chixia True Monarch also flew to Zhao Yu’s side and asked curiously as he looked at the sky.
The gaze of more than twenty Nascent Soul Cultivators also fell upon Zhao Yu.
As the Dan Ling Sect housed a Fifth Order high-grade Spirit Vein and was situated at the center of the Blue Sky Sea, it offered all manners of indulgences. Thus, after the battle at the Seven Seas Sect, many Nascent Soul Cultivators had willingly joined Zhao Yu’s command, settled in Dan Ling Sect, and become Guest Elders there.
Zhao Yu’s expression was serious as he slightly shook his head, worry flashing through his eyes, "I don’t know either!"
However, seeing the demonic qi backflowing into this realm, Zhao Yu couldn’t help but feel an ominous premonition rising within him.
Zhao Yu silently thought, "After all, Dan Ling Sect has too shallow a foundation and no connections to the Upper Realm! However, there are naturally people who can contact the Upper Realm, and they should clearly know what has happened! The Myriad Changes Demon Sect of the Great Wei Empire and several righteous God Transformation Grand Sects that are enemies with the Great Wei Empire would definitely know."
Zhao Yu returned to the Dan Ling Sect, summoned Li Xianjiao, and had him oversee the affairs of the sect while he himself went to a distant teleportation array that leads to the Great Qian Empire.
That long-range teleportation array had been damaged by Zhao Yu at one corner, but he had prepared well and quickly repaired the array. Through the teleportation array, he returned to the Great Qian Empire.
"The Great Qian Empire should now be under the territory of the Four Great Demon Sects, or possibly the Myriad Changes Demon Sect! I am not afraid of the Four Great Demon Sects, but the Myriad Changes Demon Sect is somewhat troublesome. To gather information, I should choose a market."
Zhao Yu thought to himself, transforming into a streak of light, flying toward a market.
Upon arriving at the Lingquan Mountain Market he remembered, Zhao Yu immediately saw countless emaciated mortals being moved into the market like ants.
"Move quickly! You lowly mortals! Won’t you hurry up? This is an opportunity given by the Immortal masters!"
A Qi Cultivation Cultivator dressed in the attire of the Xuan Bone Demon Sect fiercely whipped a mortal, knocking the person to the ground.
From the side of the road, wails of despair echoed as several Qi Cultivation Cultivators from the Xuan Bone Demon Sect grabbed several attractive mortal women, cavorting and enjoying their desperate screams.
Zhao Yu sighed deeply, "Indeed, nine out of ten cultivators on the Demon Path are beasts!"
Of course, there were good people among the demon path cultivators, but they were exceedingly rare, and these good individuals had to be even more cunning, deceitful, and talented than the evil ones to survive in the Demon Path.
Zhao Yu glanced downward, shook his head slightly, and flew directly to what used to be the Lingquan Mountain Market.
At that time, Lingquan Mountain Market was no longer a Cultivation Market but had become one of the branch strongholds of the Xuan Bone Demon Sect, filled with disciples of that sect.
Zhao Yu said indifferently, "Take action!"
The White Ghost Emperor grinned, opening his mouth to exhale large swathes of Ghost Fog, sweeping toward Lingquan Mountain Market.
"This is ghost qi!! Fourth-Order Evil Ghost’s ghost qi, damn it! How could there be a Fourth-Order Evil Ghost here?"
Upon seeing the vast expanse of ghost fog, the manager of Lingquan Mountain Market, Minggu Zhenren felt a chill run through him, immediately executed an escape technique, and burst out with a Golden Core Level terrifying aura, frantically fleeing into the distance.
"A Golden Core Cultivator? We’ve caught a big fish!"
Zhao Yu’s eyes flashed with surprise as he pointed his finger, and a poison needle magical treasure instantly flew out, piercing through the head of Ming Bone in an instant.
Ming Bone’s eyes filled with despair as he fell heavily to the ground.
The White Ghost Emperor pounced directly, swallowing Ming Bone whole, and then under the power of devouring the Dao Fruit, he refined the man and plundered his memories.
"These mortals are all sacrifices prepared by the Xuan Bone Demon Sect! In one month, the Xuan Bone Demon Sect will bring these mortals to the altar and kill them all. Although Ming Bone didn’t know why it was necessary, he guessed that it must be related to the sky cracking and the reverse flow of demonic qi. After the last ceremony, the sky had cracked and the demonic qi had reversed," he said.
"Even Demon Path cultivators know that mortals are the foundation of everything, so within the territories controlled by Demon Path sects, although mortals are treated like weeds, disciples are not allowed to slaughter them indiscriminately. Such massive slaughtering of mortals, Ming Bone probably guessed right," he said.
"If you want to destroy this ceremony, the only way is to go to the former address of Yunluo Immortal City and destroy the altar set up by the Xuan Bone Demon Sect!" he exclaimed.
"To know the plans of the Xuan Bone Demon Sect, you must kill a Nascent Soul! Capture his memories, or you cannot know their complete plan!" he stated.
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While Zhao Yu was silently calculating in his mind, he summoned countless puppets to charge at the Xuan Bone Demon Sect cultivators.
The Seven Seas Sect and Holy Blue Palace both had massive reserves of puppets, and there was a sect called the Flying Stone Sect in the Blue Sky Sea that specialized in the refinement of various puppets. Every year the Flying Stone Sect offered a Golden Core puppet to Zhao Yu, so he had quite a number of exquisite puppets at his disposal.
In the midst of the Ghost Fog, screams of agony arose, and soon those Xuan Bone Demon Sect cultivators were slaughtered to the last man.
"I am Stone Taoist, come here today to slay demons and eradicate evil! You are all free now!" he declared.
Zhao Yu ordered the puppets to release all the mortals from this branch, then transformed into a streak of Escape Light and soared into the sky, no longer paying attention to the mortals.
Zhao Yu could not save everyone, and the only way to spare those mortals from disaster was to eradicate all four major Demon Sects.
Three hundred li northwest of Yunluo Immortal City, three streaks of Escape Light were entangling.
"Fairy Yun Manzhi, surrender! If you surrender now and serve my brother and I, if you continue to resist, once my brother and I capture you, we’ll send you to Hongli Garden, to be ridden by a thousand, slept by ten thousand, and within less than two years, you will become the lowest of prostitutes!"
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A Xuan Bone Demon Sect Golden Core cultivator, eight feet tall, dressed in black and covered in a layer of pitch-black bone armor, wielded a human bone fork and attacked a stunning young girl in grey clothes, whose shapely figure and shoulder-length black hair, possessed a beauty that could topple cities.
Another exceptionally handsome Xuan Bone Demon Sect Golden Core cultivator sighed softly, wielding a pitch-black Magic Sword from the side, "Fairy Yun Manzhi, my brother and I have already shown mercy. If you remain obstinate, even I cannot save you!"
Fairy Yun Manzhi clenched her teeth and just urged her mana to control two short blade magical treasures, fighting those two Golden Core cultivators.
"Xuan Bone Demon Sect’s Golden Core cultivators? Then die!"
Just as Fairy Yun Manzhi was desperately resisting the two Great Golden Core cultivators, two Flying Swords flew from afar, winding around the necks of the two cultivators.
The heads of the two Golden Core cultivators rolled off with a thud, and their headless bodies fell from the sky to the ground.
"Yun Manzhi pays respects to the elder!"
The moment Yun Manzhi saw Zhao Yu flying from afar, she clasped her hands and bowed respectfully.