“This… this… this!”
He Yan stepped back several paces in fright when he saw the purple phantom appear before him.
If he hadn’t clearly seen the form of this phantom, He Yan would have thought those ghostly things had appeared inside the Black Bird Guard’s mansion.
The purple phantom didn’t open its mouth, but it could still produce a clear, bright voice that reached He Yan’s ears.
“Speak!”
Upon hearing this purple phantom speak, He Yan immediately realized that this purple phantom was the work of the Mystic Envoy.
“I greet the Mystic Envoy!”
“It’s about Huangshan Town in Liusha County!”
“That Tiger-Servant Demon King from the Hulao Mountain Range isn’t dead yet. Yesterday, it severely injured Deputy Envoy Yu Hong and killed a Yellow-rank Black Bird Guard who had reached the Blood Refining stage!”
“I beg the Mystic Envoy to make a decision!”
The Tiger-Servant Demon King?
The realms for demon beasts are: Sentient Demon Beast, Sentient Great Demon, Demon King, and Celestial Demon!
These correspond to the martial arts realms of human warriors.
The Blood Refining stage, the Inner Energy stage, the Outer Gang Grandmaster stage, and the Divine Mansion True Person stage.
That is to say, this Tiger-Servant Demon King is a demon beast equivalent to a human warrior at the Outer Gang Grandmaster stage.
At this moment, the purple phantom floating in mid-air in the courtyard began to transform into strands of purple mist, gradually fading away between heaven and earth.
Seeing this, He Yan didn’t understand what was happening and could only stand there anxiously, waiting for Lu Xuan’s decision!
Inside the room, Lu Xuan raised his right hand and made a grasping motion in the air toward a corner of the room.
There lay the Star-grade Two-pattern Ritual Vessel, the Wind and Fire Saber.
The Wind and Fire Saber, quietly leaning against the wall of the room, suddenly began to tremble at that moment, flying swiftly toward Lu Xuan’s right hand.
After Lu Xuan grasped the Wind and Fire Saber, a faint purple light suddenly emanated from the blade, causing the surrounding space to start distorting and deforming.
The next moment, the door to the room cracked open slightly, and the Wind and Fire Saber detached from Lu Xuan’s palm, passing through the open door at lightning speed.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it arrived before He Yan, floating quietly in mid-air.
“For now, I cannot leave. I can’t go to Liusha County in person.”
“Deputy He, take this saber and rush to Liusha County to assist Deputy Yu Hong!”
“If you encounter that Tiger-Servant Demon King, bring out this saber that I’ve given you.”
“It will take care of that Tiger-Servant Demon King!”
These words echoed throughout the entire courtyard, as if coming from the vast and boundless heavens and earth, each one falling into He Yan’s ears.
As soon as the words finished, Lu Xuan’s door closed tightly again, leaving the stunned and dazed He Yan standing there, unsure of what to do.
He Yan stared blankly ahead as the bronze saber floated quietly in the air.
The next moment, He Yan unhesitatingly reached out both hands and carefully cradled the bronze saber in his arms.
“Yes, Mystic Envoy, I will leave for Liusha County immediately.”
Although he didn’t know why the Mystic Envoy had only given him a bronze saber, He Yan trusted the Mystic Envoy completely in his heart!
The Mystic Envoy must have his reasons for doing this!
After He Yan left, Lu Xuan moved his mind, and the system panel immediately appeared before his eyes.
Host: Lu Xuan
Realm: Divine Mansion True Person
Cultivation Methods: Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique 2/9 (deducible), So Close Yet Worlds Away 0/9 (deducible), Immortal and Indestructible 0/9 (deducible)
Points: 26,200
Please confirm, host, whether to consume 20,000 system points to deduce the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique.
Please confirm, host, whether to consume 20,000 system points to deduce So Close Yet Worlds Away.
Please confirm, host, whether to consume 8,000 system points to deduce Immortal and Indestructible!
“I have 26,200 system points left, enough for only one more deduction of the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique.”
Lu Xuan had already refined all of these heavenly and earthly treasures on the ground.
Originally, Lu Xuan had 34,200 system points, but he consumed 8,000 points when deducing the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique to the second level.
“Does deducing the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique to the third level really cost 20,000 points?”
Ever since he had deduced these martial cultivation methods to this new realm, the required system points had multiplied many times over.
After breaking through to the Divine Mansion realm, all of Lu Xuan’s Gang Yuan surged deep into his sea of consciousness.
And deep within Lu Xuan’s sea of consciousness, there was a mysterious purple vortex.
At the center of the purple vortex sat a small, ethereal purple figure, cross-legged.
That small purple phantom was the Divine Thought that only Divine Mansion True Persons possess!
The Divine Mansion nurtures Divine Thought, and Divine Thought connects with heaven and earth, thus driving the boundless power of heaven and earth.
Lu Xuan could now clearly see the true essence of this world.
Between heaven and earth, every place was filled with endless and infinite heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.
“I never imagined the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique had such a wonderful use!”
Lu Xuan raised his right hand, and a dark purple flame slowly appeared above his palm.
The dark purple flame burned gently in the void, and the surrounding space began to twist continuously.
This wasn’t the previous state of distorted air, but truly affecting the ethereal void itself.
Only when deep, dark spatial cracks appeared in the space around Lu Xuan’s palm did he move his mind and withdraw that terrifying purple flame.
And this dark purple flame wasn’t even Lu Xuan’s full strength.
The true power of the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique could only be brought out by a saber.
“Weird creatures, this Lord will see if you truly are immortal and indestructible!”
Lu Xuan vaguely remembered what Li Yanran had told him back then.
Divine Mansion True Persons might be able to use the power of heaven and earth to completely eliminate them.
To make these ghostly things unable to revive again in this world.
Then, Lu Xuan looked at the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique on the system panel and moved his mind.
Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique, deduce!
As soon as this choice was made, 20,000 system points were instantly wiped from the system panel.
The reason Lu Xuan couldn’t go to Liusha County in person was that after breaking through to the Divine Mansion realm, he still needed to stabilize the Divine Mansion in his sea of consciousness.
The mysteries of the Divine Mansion were too profound and difficult to understand. Lu Xuan wouldn’t rush to leave seclusion; he prioritized safety above all!
Besides, the Heaven-Scorching Saber Technique could still be deduced to the third level.
So, Lu Xuan took the Wind and Fire Saber and entrusted a strand of Divine Thought power to it.
That single strand of Divine Thought power was enough to obliterate any being below the Divine Mansion realm.
Even the Tiger-Servant Demon King would absolutely not escape death under that strand of his Divine Thought.
Moreover, Lu Xuan had kept a cautious eye.
Even if an unexpected situation occurred, the Tiger-Servant Demon King absolutely could not escape Lu Xuan’s grasp.
That strand of Divine Thought would secretly attach itself to the Tiger-Servant Demon King without it noticing anything unusual.
By then, when Lu Xuan came out of seclusion, that would be the time to hunt down the Tiger-Servant Demon King.
A Demon King, huh?
According to the Black Bird Guard’s records, don’t Demon Kings have a mysterious demon core inside them?
I wonder if that demon core can be refined by me into system points?
“Next, we’ll see if that Tiger-Servant Demon King shows itself in Liusha County.”
Lu Xuan’s eyes shimmered with purple light as he murmured softly.
Deep within the Hulao Mountain Range, outside a massive cave, the ground was littered with a large number of white bone remains.
Among these bone remains were various different biological remains.
But the most numerous bone remains on the ground were actually those of humans.
And deep inside the cave, there were densely packed, countless swaying dark shadows.
Without a doubt, the shadows appearing in the cave were all humans!
In front of these shadows sat a hill-sized dark figure, crouching on the ground.
And it was the Tiger-Servant Demon King that had been hunted down by several Earth-rank Black Bird Guards many years ago.
The Tiger-Servant Demon King’s entire body was covered in dense, sharp black fur, and its huge, bright green eyes emitted a chilling ferocity.
Especially on the forehead of the Tiger-Servant Demon King, there were many black stripes that occasionally gave off a faint black glow.
“Those damned Black Bird Guards, the demonic essence I left on that enslaved ghost was comparable to a strike from a human martial grandmaster.”
“I didn’t expect him to survive.”
“What a pity. This human warrior at the Inner Energy stage is a rare and precious blood meal for me.”
The Tiger-Servant Demon King opened its blood-red maw and, surprisingly, spoke just like a human.
“Oh well. Since I can’t lure that Inner Energy stage warrior here, I’ll let him live a few more days.”
“I still need some more blood meals, and then my strength can break through to that legendary realm.”
As the Tiger-Servant Demon King said this, its enormous eyes shot out terrifying black rays.
Back then, those damned humans, taking advantage of its distraction, threw a magical weapon that injured its incredibly powerful demon body.
Otherwise, those few human warriors would have long been devoured by it in one gulp.
Whenever the Tiger-Servant Demon King thought of those Black Bird Guards from back then, the wounds on its body began to ache faintly.
If it hadn’t desperately sacrificed half of its body at the last moment, escaping with its demon core by feigning death, it might have actually died at the hands of those damned humans.
The Hulao Mountain Range stretched for hundreds of miles; even those Black Bird Guards couldn’t thoroughly search the entire mountain range.
So, the Tiger-Servant Demon King used the terrain to its advantage and hid in a secret place.
Until three years ago, a mysterious Demon King found it and helped it recover from its injuries.
And that mysterious Demon King even told it a huge secret.
In the Baidao Prefecture area, that Lord Dragon Lord was actually sealed away.
When that Lord Dragon Lord emerged into the world, that would be the time for the Tiger-Servant Demon King to pledge its allegiance.
“Hehehe!”
“My strength has long surpassed that of my former self.”
“I’m only a hair’s breadth away from the Celestial Demon realm!”
“Even if those Black Bird Guards from back then came now, I wouldn’t fear them.”
“I’ve been rampaging and killing like this for days, so why haven’t I seen those damned Black Bird Guards yet?”
“Could it be that those damned Black Bird Guards don’t dare come looking for me anymore?”
The next second, as if it had sensed something, the Tiger-Servant Demon King roared at the enslaved ghosts beneath its feet.
“You useless lot, get your asses down to the foot of the mountain! Another batch of human warriors has arrived!”
Over the past few days, the Tiger-Servant Demon King had been controlling the warriors it had eaten.
Every human warrior eaten by the Tiger-Servant Demon King would become its enslaved ghost.
Then, the Tiger-Servant Demon King sent out a large number of enslaved ghosts to spread news about the golden reishi mushroom everywhere.
The golden reishi mushroom had the powerful effect of raising the dead, regrowing flesh and bones, and advancing martial realms by leaps and bounds in a single day.
As a result, quite a few human warriors had been tricked by it into coming to the Hulao Mountain Range.
“Enough waiting. Those Black Bird Guards must be afraid of me.”
The Tiger-Servant Demon King slowly propped up its massive body. It planned to eat those human warriors down below and then leave the Hulao Mountain Range.
The entire population of Liusha County had already caught the Tiger-Servant Demon King’s attention.
As its strength grew, the Tiger-Servant Demon King had completely forgotten the agreement it made with that mysterious Demon King back then.
The agreement between them was that after recovering from its injuries, it should lie low in the Hulao Mountain Range and not let the Black Bird Guards notice it.
And just an hour after the Tiger-Servant Demon King left, two dark figures appeared at the cave entrance.
As these two dark figures stretched longer, their faces were fully revealed.
A figure dressed in a pure white robe, with almost its entire body wrapped up, revealing only that ugly face.
It was a one-eyed old man. His face was like a dry tree trunk, covered in wrinkles.
His left eye was deeply sunken, the dry, dark eye socket empty and exposed to the air.
The fingers protruding from the old man’s pure white robe were thin as kindling, with sharp fingernails, and bulging veins faintly visible.
Beside this old man was another figure draped in a deep black cloak. The black cloak wrapped his entire body, making his true face impossible to see.
“This idiot, this brainless waste.”
“Just as I suspected.”
“This brainless fool, as soon as he recovered from his injuries, revealed his true nature.”
“Now that this fool is running amok, those Black Bird Guards will definitely be attracted to him.”
These voices sounded extremely shrill and harsh, as if they weren’t the kind a human could make.
The old man in the white robe, hearing these words, turned his head to look beside him.
There, in the dark figure wrapped in the black cloak, a pair of yellow vertical-slit pupils was visible at the face area, reflecting a faint yellow glow.
Those were eyes exactly like a snake’s.
“King Qing, if you want to know the whereabouts of the Dragon Lord, our Pure World White Lotus Cult has already divined it.”
“But before that, you must come with me to Mingzhou.”
“There, you’ll find the people your demon race hates the most, the members of the Li family, Li Chengxing, the Deputy Commander of the Black Bird Guard.”
“I believe, King Qing, you’ll be very willing to lend a hand, won’t you?”
“Hmph, you humans can’t be trusted!”
“How do I know your Pure World White Lotus Cult won’t go back on your word?”
Seeing this, the old man in the white robe didn’t rush to prove anything but simply smiled slightly.
“King Qing, at this point, aside from our Pure World White Lotus Cult, who else in the entire Great Xia Empire can divine the Dragon Lord’s whereabouts?”
