Chapter 140: Dogs Jump Over the Wall in Desperation!

Golden Spring City was almost reduced to ruins by a single punch from the Memory Illusion.

It appeared that those evil cultivators and the corpses used as materials for the Blood Sacrifice had all been turned to dust along with that punch.

In Su Ping's view, although he had not been able to save the people of the entire city, he could be considered to have prevented them from being desecrated by the evil cultivators.

No matter how one looked at it, he had done another great good deed of immeasurable merit, right?

Although there was no longer any Evil Qi in the surroundings, Su Ping, having temporarily finished with the Memory Illusion, still did not intend to enter the city in his true form to clean up the battlefield.

Instead, he handed this heavy responsibility over to the Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui.

As Spirit Mice, they happened to have an astonishing intuitive sense for rare items in the Cultivation World.

Under their diligent searching.

Su Ping found quite a few fragments of precious materials from the ruins of Golden Spring City.

They appeared to be items from the Storage Bags of the black-robed elders.

It was just that the Storage Bags clearly could not withstand the might of the Beidou Tanlang Fist, shattering at the first moment and exposing the items inside.

Afterward, those of poor quality were naturally annihilated by the shockwaves, while the better ones managed to maintain a rough shape before being scattered around the battlefield.

Additionally, in the large crater that was once the City Lord Mansion.

Spirit Mouse Xiaobai dug out a High-grade Spirit Stone from within.

Su Ping guessed that the activation of the Blood Sacrifice Great Array had relied on this High-grade Spirit Stone, which was priceless and hard to find on the market.

However.

"First a Second-tier Talisman that trades life for life, and now a rarely seen High-grade Spirit Stone."

"The group that these three evil cultivator old men belonged to... the water runs very deep!"

"Could it be that they, operating in this area of Golden Spring City, are just one tentacle of a massive evil organization?"

"Fortunately, every debt has its debtor; if they want revenge, let them go find Exorcist Mage Yunkong!"

Thinking of this, Su Ping's Divine Sense swept over the unconscious Song Du and his companion in the dense forest.

He decided to spare their two dog lives.

However, having offended him and colluded with evil cultivators, while the death penalty could be avoided, the living penalty was inescapable!

With a movement of Su Ping's Divine Sense, two syringes appeared in mid-air, held by a Supernatural Arm, injecting the liquid condensed from dozens of Waste Pills into the bodies of these two.

The two of them simultaneously revealed painful expressions in their unconscious state.

Because of the previous battle, many of their meridians had long been destroyed, and their cultivation had been reduced to that of cripples.

In the Cultivation World, this would not be a major problem; if one were ruthless enough to use heavenly treasures, there would still be a chance to cultivate back.

But now, having been injected with so much Waste Pill liquid, their bodies and Divine Souls were thoroughly polluted by pill toxins.

It was equivalent to a Loose Cultivator who had grown up eating Waste Pills.

Such a Loose Cultivator, no matter how good their original talent was, was ruined; except for Su Ping, the culprit, no one in the Cultivation World could cleanse these pill toxins.

"Hmm?"

Not long after Su Ping silently finished all this, he discovered that Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui had found several Jade Slips and Wooden Tablets in the ruins that still maintained their general shape.

Su Ping had seen the Wooden Tablet before; that young master Song Du had been able to save his life by relying on this Token.

He hadn't expected this Wooden Tablet to be so sturdy, actually managing to survive under his fist.

And these few Jade Slips... one look and he knew they were all filled with Evil Qi.

It must have been this Evil Qi that protected them and allowed them to survive.

Su Ping already had experience dealing with these Evil Qi Jade Slips, so he was not in a hurry.

Instead, he waited until Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui had scoured Golden Spring City over and over again, and truly could not find any more items of value.

Only then did Su Ping summon them back, and then quietly left this place of trouble.

Five or six hours after Su Ping left Golden Spring City.

An Immortal Boat arrived at high speed above the city.

Immediately, several golden-shining High Monks flew down from the deck and quickly discovered the anomaly in Golden Spring City.

"Hmm?"

"Amitabha, it seems a Daoist has taken action and eradicated the evil cultivators here before us!"

"My Fo is merciful; it is a pity that the world suffers so much hardship."

"The traces of the Dharma Array remaining in this city... it is the Blood Sacrifice array of the Black Underworld Sect!"

"Report this to the Great Golden Light Temple immediately! The presence of the Black Underworld Sect has been discovered near Golden Spring City!"

A High Monk draped in a red Kasaya had a solemn expression:

"It seems the person who sent the message did not lie; they really were capable of a Blood Sacrifice on the entire city!"

"No, such a major event cannot be prepared in a day or two; how could the cultivation forces near this place not have noticed anything at all?"

"And the Song Family of the Cultivator Alliance is also suspected of being involved with this Black Underworld Sect!"

"Where is the largest cultivation force in this vicinity!"

Several High Monks thought of something, their expressions changing slightly as they flew back to the Immortal Boat.

Then, they also noticed the unconscious Song Du and his companion in the dense forest.

After arriving at the Immortal Boat, one of the High Monks threw out a Treasure Vase, directly sucking the two unconscious people into the vase to be taken away as witnesses!

If the information was all accurate, if nothing else, at least the Song Family within the Cultivator Alliance could not escape their connection to the evil cultivators!

Not long after this Immortal Boat, which was suspected to have a Fomen background, left.

One after another, more than ten more Immortal Boats arrived.

On one of the large Immortal Boats, there was even a Fighting Puppet hovering, fifty meters tall and covered entirely in golden armor.

This showed the degree of importance this force placed on this matter.

Meanwhile.

Su Ping was in a mountain cave, feeding the Evil Qi Jade Slip to a large rat he had caught, and after relying on the help of a Purification Potion to cleanse the Evil Qi from the Jade Slip at the cost of the large rat going bald.

Only then did Su Ping return to the Pot Heaven with his harvest to read the contents of these Jade Slips there.

The first few items among these Jade Slips mainly recorded various Evil Arts.

Especially methods on how to use the almost omnipresent Evil Qi to infect living beings.

This allowed Su Ping to broaden his knowledge.

Su Ping himself naturally would not use these arts, but only by understanding the keys within could he better prevent these Evil Arts.

Of course, this was only Su Ping.

If it were other Cultivators with this idea, they would often find that the more they knew, the easier it was to be eroded by Evil Qi and fall into becoming an Evil Cultivator.

Therefore, in the Cultivation World, knowledge related to Evil Cultivators is always burned away.

Privately hoarding Evil Arts is, according to the regulations of all major sects, absolutely forbidden, at least on the surface.

Besides these Evil Arts, the last Jade Slip was not a technique, but a set of instructions from an Elder of the Black Underworld Sect to these people, as well as insights into arrays related to the Black Underworld.

"Black Underworld Sect?"

Su Ping whispered the name upon seeing it, then recalled it in his mind.

He discovered that he knew very little about this force.

In his memory, he had only seen a few diary entries mentioning this force in the collections of certain cultivation families.

This seemed to be a Magic Path sect that had originally been active in the north.

It belonged to that kind of "cockroach" force that couldn't be killed and was disgusting, even though it had been heavily targeted by the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

Yet, for hundreds of years, it had been stubbornly jumping around.

However, with the Immortal Sect suppressing it, it had never caused any major incidents.

Now that the Chiyuan Immortal Sect has contracted its sphere of influence, the north has even fallen into a paradise for Heavenly Demons due to the Evil Qi Tide.

Did this Black Underworld Sect also come south from the north to develop here?

Su Ping finished reading the contents of the Jade Slip and did indeed get some answers.

Those three old men in black robes were all Elite disciples of the Black Underworld Sect.

Coming to Golden Spring City this time was not a whim of theirs as Evil Cultivators.

Rather, it was part of a grand plan.

At the same time, Su Ping noticed that the Jade Slip mentioned a type of Pill called the Soul-Fixing Pill.

It seemed the Black Underworld Sect used this Pill as a reward to distribute to disciples within the sect and partners to drive them to work for them.

"Soul-Fixing Pill?"

"It's a pity the Pill is too fragile; I don't have a finished product to analyze."

"However, analyzing it from the name and the abnormalities of the Evil Cultivators encountered this time, perhaps this Pill allows Evil Cultivators to perform Evil Arts without losing their true selves so quickly?"

"So this is also the reason and the confidence for why this Magic Path sect can allow its disciples to become Evil Cultivators?"

"It's just that this is playing with fire. Those few old men in black robes still look like their self-awareness and emotions are being affected by the Evil Arts; it wouldn't be strange if they lost their sense of self one day!"

"However, perhaps this degree is actually acceptable in the eyes of the Magic Path? After all, the risks of learning other Magic Path Techniques are no lower than this Evil Art?"

Su Ping rested in the Pot Heaven until the cooldown of the Memory Scepter ended.

Only then did he return to the Cultivation World.

Yet he did not return to the Jiuye Mountain Market.

Instead, after opening the map and looking at it, he headed toward the nearest cultivation family stronghold.

With the Memory Illusion, Su Ping's courage also grew a little bit.

After realizing that this matter was definitely not just a single incident in Golden Spring City.

Su Ping guessed that after the incident, it would definitely force some forces colluding with Evil Cultivators to choose to jump over the wall like a cornered dog!

This is a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters, oh, no... it's a good opportunity to act with chivalry and slay demons!

He couldn't miss it!

There were originally three cultivation families near the Golden Spring City region.

It's just that as the Immortal Sect ran into problems, two of them moved their entire families to the Overseas Islands.

Originally, there were still some clansmen left behind, but after the Yunshan Market was occupied, the Immortal Sect didn't react much.

These two families simply withdrew completely, selling their original foundations at ultra-low prices to other sect forces that came to take over.

Those sects took over, but currently only sent a few small kittens to serve as guards.

The only one currently remaining that could be called a local tyrant is the Golden Spring Bai family of the cultivation family.

This Golden Spring Bai family can also be considered an old-timer in the Immortal Sect, founded eight hundred years ago by the direct Bloodline of a True Disciple.

It's just that in these few hundred years, the Golden Spring Bai family produced Inner Sect Disciples and several Inner and Outer Sect Deacons.

But no more geniuses at the level of True Disciple were born.

As the first and second generations of elders gradually died of old age or fell due to accidents.

The Golden Spring Bai family also became worse year by year.

Today's Bai family only has one Supreme Elder who is a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator holding up the scene.

And the key is that this Supreme Elder is not in Golden Spring City, but is at the Zhu Feng and cannot come down the mountain!

However, when it comes to family heritage, the Golden Spring Bai family is definitely a leader in this area.

One can see a thing or two from the fact that they can independently occupy a Second Tier low-grade Spirit Vein as their family residence.

And the Second Tier high-grade Array arranged at the residence has been improved and strengthened many times by multiple Old Ancestors.

It is already no less than the protective Dharma Arrays of those large Markets.

Furthermore, generation after generation, they would always leave behind some Spirit Tools and Spirit Beasts to protect the family heritage.

This gave the Golden Spring Bai family more power to protect themselves than other Immortal cultivation families, which led them, after weighing the pros and cons,

to only send a small number of clansmen to the Overseas Islands.

The main branch and the majority of the clansmen continued to reside at the family base, and even after the chaos at Yunshan, they took in some Loose Cultivators to bolster their manpower.

When Su Ping arrived outside the mountain peak where the Golden Spring Bai family was located,

he saw more than ten Immortal Boats continuously attacking the Bai family's protective Array.

Dazzling ripples were stirred up across the dark red light screen.

Looking from afar, Su Ping further noticed that the Golden Spring Bai family also seemed abnormal.

Although he could not see clearly because of the Array,

he could feel an ominous red light emanating from within.

And he could vaguely detect an aura similar to a Blood Sacrifice Great Array.

It was very obvious... the Golden Spring Bai family, having colluded with evil cultivators, knew the matter had been exposed, so they chose to act out of desperation.

They had performed a Blood Sacrifice on the entire Bai family and were using the Family Array to stall for time!