Chapter 200: They Care

"We of the Side-Door Path, though we harm heaven and reason, slaughtering the innocent."

"Yet our ultimate goal remains the Great Freedom and Great Transcendence sought after achieving success in cultivation."

"It is a pity that fellow practitioners are always led astray, devouring demon blood and practicing evil arts."

"Gradually, demon hearts replace human hearts, and demon bodies replace human bodies; not only is the possibility of transcendence lost for a lifetime, but their will to live and die will also be controlled by the Heavenly Demons."

"They become a scourge that we human Cultivators must eradicate!"

Shu Daoren's figure flashed like lightning, appearing before the giant ape.

His voice, carrying a warning tone, rang clearly in the ears of everyone inside the museum.

"This old one, Shu Daoren, happens to be passing by today, so I shall send you evil cultivators on your way!"

Before the words had completely faded.

The giant ape transformed from the wizard Po Wu had already launched another attack with astonishing momentum.

Yet, before it could even get within three meters of the seemingly short and withered Shu Daoren.

Its entire body felt as if it had been pressed down by a sudden increase in gravity, and after it slammed into the ground.

With a loud boom, it actually crushed the floor, sinking into the underground space of this museum.

This underground space was a natural cave within this high mountain.

When the private museum was first built, the former president who discovered this space simply added more funds to turn it into an underground storage room.

Utilizing its geographical environment to preserve those treasures prone to damage.

When not hosting extraordinary visitors.

Facing visits from ordinary tourists.

Only replicas would be placed outside for long periods.

The genuine items were mostly kept in this storage area for preservation.

Su Ping naturally had known this for a long time.

The things he needed were not in those beautiful large cabinets in the museum.

But rather within this mountain body.

Therefore, he deliberately let the giant ape form of the wizard Po Wu smash through the floor and enter this underground space.

After the giant ape that fell into the underground space smashed spiderweb-like cracks into the landing spot, it scrambled up rapidly and, with a roar, fiercely transformed into a streak of white light and charged upward!

This white light passed over Shu Daoren and instantly blasted a large hole in the museum's roof.

Immediately, high in the sky, the figure of the wizard Po Wu, now transformed into a five or six-meter-tall giant ape, reappeared.

And under the sunlight, a larger humanoid phantom emerged behind this figure.

This phantom sprouted three heads and more than ten arms.

Its appearance was even more bizarre and strange than many wizard statue Dharma Artifacts.

This scene stunned the tourists who were still arguing at the foot of the mountain.

Even the security personnel looked up at the white light, a flash of astonishment crossing their hearts.

"What is that?"

"A monster? Are there monsters on the mountaintop?"

"And there have been loud noises coming from there since just now; could it be that some extraordinary beings are fighting that monster?"

Some busybodies let their imaginations run wild, yet they happened to guess the truth.

At the same time, the urgently dispatched Baixiang Guo drone also approached the private museum shakily from high altitude.

People's mobile phones or smart devices in the private museum lobby also continuously received various inquiry messages.

However, as Su Ping slightly radiated a bit of his Foundation Establishment aura to suppress the entire scene.

These people huddled together in corners as if falling into an ice cellar, their hands and feet turning cold, not daring to move at all.

They only kept muttering various prayers for salvation they could think of.

With his divine ability manifesting as dozens of large hands, he opened and closed them.

Su Ping took away all the dark red soil from the depths of the original cave, about one cubic meter in size, which was truly valuable to him in the underground space of this private museum, and placed it into his Storage Spirit Tool.

Afterward, he raised his head and let out a sigh.

As the earth shook, a Strange Tree Seed, a reward for offerings to the Black Locust Tree, was planted by Su Ping on the mountain.

Strange Tree Seeds could be obtained by offering ordinary fish catches to the Black Locust Tree, once a week; accumulated over time, Su Ping had saved quite a few.

It was just that as Su Ping became a Foundation Establishment cultivator and possessed the array map as a great lethal weapon, the role of the Strange Tree Seed in the Cultivation World had no place to be used.

It just so happened that Su Ping had not used one in the field yet.

So he took the opportunity to use one to see its effect on Water Blue Star.

As a one-time consumable.

The Strange Tree Seed took effect extremely quickly.

Accompanied by the formation of the phantom behind the giant ape in the sky and a beast-like roar.

A Strange Mother Tree, pitch-black all over with its trunk covered in dark scales, grew to a height of over a hundred meters in the blink of an eye, and waving tree vines thicker than an adult's torso, it turned into a sky-covering net that enveloped the giant ape and its phantom in the sky.

Roars and ear-piercing rumbles emanated from the giant net.

Soon, these sounds quieted down.

The voice of the wizard Po Wu pleading for mercy came from within the vines.

However, this plea for mercy soon came to an abrupt end.

As the vines slowly loosened and retracted.

A faint silver light followed these vines to the base of the Strange Mother Tree and drifted into Shu Daoren's sleeve.

This silver light was the Yinse Zhiren Faki that Su Ping had used to make the wizard Po Wu lose control.

However, from the outside looking in, there could be countless speculations.

Among them, the one most inclined to be believed by the mysterious figures of Baixiang Guo is naturally related to the soul.

Most relevant consultants, combining the traditional impression of villains, believe that it is the soul of the wizard Po Wu, which might be taken back by the extraordinary entities of the Burial Ground to be interrogated for secrets, or even become the raw material for one of their Dharma Artifacts.

After the Strange Mother Tree devoured the giant ape, it did not disappear.

Its duration was a full hour.

Fortunately, within the duration, it was still under the control of Su Ping and would not go berserk and raze the surroundings to the ground.

It was just that on the museum floor, walls, and ceiling, there were tree roots and vines constantly moving about.

And possessing highly toxic properties, they did not even need to actively release this characteristic.

The aura they emitted still made many people on and off the mountain feel uncomfortable.

Among the former president of the Baixiang Chamber of Commerce and others, there was no lack of people who fainted directly.

This gave the former president, who was still holding on, a vivid feeling that in front of some kind of extraordinary being, he was nothing more than an ant.

And just when he was also about to be unable to hold on.

A clear breeze rushed toward his face, blowing away the poisonous gas at the same time.

A feeling of coolness surged over, and the sense of discomfort vanished instantly.

Those who had fainted also rubbed their foreheads and opened their eyes.

The former president hurriedly knelt before Shu Daoren with his wife.

Just like those most devout believers meeting those great wizards, they paid their highest respects.

The former president, kneeling on the ground, looked up at the broken ceiling and the Strange Mother Tree that had not yet disappeared.

He even expressed his stance again, willing to unconditionally gift the entire museum to Shu Daoren.

"This old man is not some evil Cultivator, so I will not take things by force."

"Furthermore, this museum of yours has nothing worth this old man coming to seize."

Su Ping was not lying.

What made the Dharma Artifact mirror of Zhang Ping'an react was actually the soil beneath the museum.

It had nothing to do with the former president's collection.

Ordinary antiques of Water Blue Star... to be honest, Su Ping really did not covet them much.

The mortal world of the Cultivation World is older than Water Blue Star, and also much larger and more vast than Water Blue Star.

Among them, there are countless talented craftsmen who cannot cultivate, and the cultural treasures created over the long passage of time are equally countless.

Su Ping's vision, as a result, had long since risen to somewhere unknown.

"Get up, this old man still has some matters that require your help."

Su Ping coughed once, and as the words left his mouth, the former president and the others hurriedly and obediently stood up.

They were terrified of being misunderstood and then becoming nourishment to feed that Strange Mother Tree.

Not long after, the former president utilized the power of the Baixiang Chamber of Commerce.

He found all the temples and secluded residences of the wizard Po Wu in various places for Shu Daoren.

And he contacted the big shots of Baixiang Guo for him.

These big shots had also long known about the major event that occurred near the Baixiang Shenta.

After looking at the figure of the Strange Mother Tree transmitted by the Drone.

They all successively cursed the despicable and shameless nature of evil Cultivators like the wizard Po Wu, and praised Shu Daoren's action of slaying demons and eliminating devils this time.

They also indicated that they would firmly support the subsequent actions.

Then, after cautiously inquiring and learning that the Strange Mother Tree, which looked wrong no matter how one viewed it, would not stay in Baixiang Guo for a long time.

The various strongholds of the wizard Po Wu ushered in an unprecedented investigation operation.

These people displayed rare initiative and a serious, responsible attitude.

After detaining all personnel related to the wizard Po Wu.

The search personnel soon discovered various ironclad proofs that this wizard Po Wu was an evil Cultivator.

Underground Altar sites comparable to the sacrificial grounds of evil Cultivators in the Cultivation World.

And skeletal remains hidden in various places.

Although many people had long been prepared, they were still shocked by the audacity of this wizard Po Wu.

This wizard... really treated human beings as raw materials to be used!

The former president of the Baixiang Chamber of Commerce, upon hearing these reports, also felt, amidst his surprise, that Shu Daoren was suddenly not so terrifying anymore.

And not long after the lineage of the wizard Po Wu was thoroughly wiped out as evil Cultivators.

Soon, news spread that Shu Daoren had entered the depths of the Baixiang mountain forests and destroyed more than thirty large and small wizard Altar sites in a single night.

And this was confirmed by those wizard disciples who voluntarily surrendered.

The former vice president utilized a large amount of energy and learned some information from it.

He knew that among those wizards, there was no lack of those who attempted to resist stubbornly, yet they were all suppressed by that Shu Daoren in a single blow.

The power of the aftermath was such that it was not uncommon for entire Altars to be razed to the ground.

For a time.

Not only in Baixiang Guo, but even various wizards or Cultivators in the surrounding regions who considered themselves unscrupulous all packed up their belongings in a panic and fled to distant places.

This actually caused those mysterious-type consultants to suddenly decrease by nearly one-third.

Afterwards, this former vice president of the Baixiang Chamber of Commerce, while eating breakfast at his own home, once again encountered Shu Daoren, who had arrived while riding black mist.

He hurriedly went to welcome him, and suddenly felt a weight in his hand; it was a small box that had landed in his palm.

"Inside this is a Pill to treat your hidden ailment; it can also be considered compensation for this old man destroying that museum of yours."

After Su Ping landed, he did not waste words and said indifferently:

"You can be considered a local kingpin in the mortal world of this place."

"Some matters should be notified to you in advance."

Saying this, Su Ping paused and tapped his cane lightly; only after creating a shielding Barrier did he continue:

"This old man followed the clues of those evil cultivators and circled the surrounding area."

"I have to say, the environment here has problems; Evil Qi is overflowing! It is no wonder that those with a bit of cultivation were bewitched and turned into evil cultivators."

"Therefore, this old man put in some effort and killed all the evil cultivators on your side."

Hearing this, the former president of the Baixiang Guo Chamber of Commerce turned pale, yet he heard a message from it that made his heart palpitate:

"The transcendents of my Baixiang Guo, they are all... all wiped out?"

The former president's waist bent even more standardly, and he respectfully listened as Shu Daoren continued:

"Sigh, this old man did not want to kill those of the same path, but there was no other way!"

"It is just that this is still not enough; in the future, when the extraterritorial heavenly demons invade, this place of yours will most likely become a breakthrough point! To prepare for a rainy day, this old man reported it overnight to those old immortals, asking them to set up the Zhou Tian Star Demon-Slaying and Evil-Repelling Array here for you!"

"The news just came down; they have agreed."

"So this old man hurried over to notify you of this good news."

"Coming this time, I also hope you can grasp this opportunity well."

"After all, once the Array is repaired, the possibility of this region of yours being invaded will also be smaller."

As he spoke, Su Ping took out a scroll and placed it in front of the other party.

Aside from the diagrams, the Array in the scroll was entirely in the language of the Eastern Ancient Kingdom.

However, this was never a problem for the Baixiang Guo Chamber of Commerce.

The middle and upper management of their chamber of commerce either used the Eastern Ancient Kingdom language as their mother tongue or as their second language.

What they cared about more was where this Array was to be repaired, how to repair it, and whether it was truly useful.

It is just that the first two points had answers in the scroll.

As for the third, one could only rely on Hope Island.

The former president nodded and agreed.

And less than half a second after agreeing.

As an animal driven by the desire for power, he keenly perceived the benefits he would obtain after taking over this project.

That was the right to use the unprecedented manpower and material resources of the entire Baixiang Guo, and even the surrounding areas!

He could completely obtain fame in this process that he previously dared not even imagine!

As for financial resources, the former president took a detached view of this, and even planned to pay out of his own pocket to get the matter done beautifully!

Su Ping gave this former president an Invitation Letter, effectively treating him as a temporary tool.

Immediately after giving a few instructions on precautions, he turned and disappeared into the black mist.

This trip to Baixiang Guo.

He used the wizard Po Wu transforming into a monster as a lead, which served as the reason to open up the layout for building the Array infrastructure here.

He naturally had other methods, even using coercion and inducement to make the people of Baixiang Guo do things.

It was just that, on one hand, there was no need to be so forceful.

On the other hand, it could be considered that after Su Ping's Divine Sense discovered that these local wizards had problems, he had no good feelings toward them.

Therefore, taking advantage of this reason to carry out a cleanup of them, besides establishing his authority, could also be considered as letting his thoughts flow smoothly.

Furthermore, the large-scale search operation brought about by Su Ping's action this time, besides letting the bones hidden under those wizard Altar sites see the light of day again.

Indirectly, it also rescued many young boys and girls, and even small children, who were being used as sources of goods.

Su Ping felt.

When the fates of these people who were used as sacrifices were changed, they must have cared very, very much about this action of his.

And after Su Ping left.

The former president of the Baixiang Guo Chamber of Commerce, who had changed into traditional Eastern clothing, first summoned the directors of the chamber of commerce.

Not long after taking out the scroll.

He successfully removed the "former" from his title.

And not long after that, the Baixiang Guo Chamber of Commerce received a large amount of investment.

And began to plan out a large restricted area in a certain coastal region!