Chapter 70: Leaving the Sect

Inside the Heavenly Demon Sect, You Huang, who was in the midst of a breakthrough, had a solemn expression.

"Qin Yan actually broke through to Cave Heaven? And... she even erased the related memories of practicing the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Grand Method?"

"Could she have discovered something?"

"Damn it!"

You Huang kept forming hand seals, yet he didn't understand why, each time he touched the bottleneck of the Dao Comprehension Realm, a mysterious force would affect him.

"Every time I finally make up for that scoundrel's cultivation, it inevitably drains away quickly."

"What the hell is going on?!"

Lu Chen and Qin Yan agreed to meet at the sect gate in an hour.

He returned to his residence and immediately told Gu Xiangxiang and Su Qian the news.

However, he wasn't quite clear about one person's willingness.

"Chu Lian, are you coming or not?"

These days, Lu Chen and Gu Xiangxiang's discussions have never been kept from Chu Lian.

So Chu Lian naturally knows their plan.

What he didn't expect was that they would agree so readily.

"Come on, why not." Chu Lian rolled her eyes; although she agreed, her tone was clearly a bit displeased.

If she doesn't follow Lu Chen, she can only return to Spirit Impurity Valley.

If, by then, her master gets angry over the innocence matter, her trouble will be great.

Rather than that, it's better to run away with Lu Chen.

Anyway, she's grown tired of staying in the Demon Sect.

Besides, running away is just changing locations to cultivate and make pills.

For her, going to the Orthodox Territory is actually a good thing.

Because the spiritual energy there is abundant, many spiritual herbs and resources that are rarely seen normally can be easily found there.

"Then let's get ready; we'll leave now."

Although the Soul-Nurturing Pill still lacks its final ingredient, Lu Chen can't wait any longer.

These days, he feels that the rate at which he cultivates the Heavenly Demon Dissolution Grand Method can't keep up with You Huang's cultivation speed.

He fears that within a day, the other side will break through.

"Hmm." The three women nodded simultaneously.

Soon, after packing up, they followed Lu Chen to the sect gate, where they also encountered Qin Yan, who had likewise rushed over.

"Greetings, Thirteenth Elder!"

"Greetings, Thirteenth Elder!"

The gatekeeper disciple, seeing Qin Yan's appearance, respectfully saluted.

Qin Yan nodded, looking at Lu Chen, as if waiting for him to give orders.

"Let's go."

Lu Chen said, and with a move of his body, he flew out of the sect on his sword.

The four women exchanged a glance and immediately followed.

Leaving the Heavenly Demon Sect, Qin Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Although nothing had happened these days, her spirit remained tense.

Now that she had left that place, she instantly relaxed.

"Let's go, pick up Xiao Xiao, and by the way see if there's a ghost market nearby."

Although Thousand Spirit Grass is not scarce in the Orthodox Territory, if we could find it here, it would save us some effort later.

After some searching, Lu Chen indeed found a ghost market.

This ghost market is a certain distance from the Heavenly Demon Sect, huge in scale; at a glance there are at least a thousand cultivators inside.

"No wonder it's the ghost market near the Heavenly Demon Sect; just the pill formation cultivators here number in the hundreds."

As usual, concealing their cultivation levels, Lu Chen and the three women quickly entered the ghost market.

Of course, having come all this way, Lu Chen naturally couldn't just look for Thousand Spirit Grass.

If he could find some decent cultivation arts, he could try to acquire them.

As he proceeded along one end of the ghost market, seeing that an hour had passed, he still hadn't seen anything of interest.

Although there are many things here, none are usable by him.

As for cultivation arts, unless they have special functions, he basically doesn't need them.

For killing moves he has the Black Prison Sword Canon; for defensive moves he has the Heavenly Demon Transformation Secret; for escape techniques he has Yin Wind Escape.

As for pills, unless they are of extremely high grade or have huge side effects, with Chu Lian around he basically doesn't need them either.

After simply buying some beast blood usable for the Myriad Beast Blood Refining Method, Lu Chen's pupils suddenly contracted.

The next moment, his hands involuntarily trembled, and a feeling of excitement surged from the depths of his soul to his mind.

"Hiss..."

The last time he had such a reaction was when Chu Lian first refined that batch of Heavenly Demon Pills.

"Could there be something related to the Heavenly Demon Bloodline here?"

He immediately spread his divine sense, examining everything on the nearby stalls one by one.

Until his divine sense locked onto an inconspicuous stall.

On the stall lay various miscellaneous items, rotting animal bones, broken talismans, incomplete cultivation arts, and some small objects emitting strange odors.

And among these things, beneath a piece of black cloth lay a plain, unremarkable scale.

Celestial demon scale?!

In an instant, Lu Chen's mind shuddered.

The celestial demons, long extinct, actually still have scales passed down to this day?

Although he currently only possesses the first volume of the Celestial Demon Metamorphosis Technique, if he obtains this scale, he might be able to condense a more complete celestial demon phantom.

As an extremely versatile top-tier technique, this degree of improvement is something he absolutely cannot miss.

He suppressed his inner excitement and pulled Su Qian to the stall.

"Young friend, what have you taken a fancy to?"

Lu Chen felt pressed for time and did not haggle.

Upon reaching the stall, he straightforwardly picked up the celestial demon scale and asked the price.

"Hehe, I obtained this item from an ancient ruin."

The stall owner narrowed his eyes and gave a hehe laugh.

"Young friend, since you know the goods, I'll give you a sincere price: one hundred bottles of high-grade killing qi."

Lu Chen furrowed his brows.

High-grade killing qi, even Su Qian doesn't have much of it.

According to what he said, it's obvious he doesn't understand the value of this item.

He had no interest in haggling, so he glanced at Su Qian and Qin Yan beside him.

Seeing this, the two stepped forward and came to the edge of the stall.

Afterwards, they slightly released their concealed cultivation.

"Great Cultivator of the Condensed Spirit Realm!"

"This person... actually is a Cave Heaven..."

"I didn't know the Venerable had arrived; this old man failed to recognize Mount Tai!"

The stall owner looked at the beautiful women surrounding Lu Chen and originally thought he was definitely a fat sheep.

But he never expected that the women beside him would have such terrifying cultivation.

Feeling their auras, his legs went weak and he knelt down in fear.

"Ten bottles of medium-grade killing qi—take it or leave it."

Lu Chen's tone was calm.

But the stall owner knew this was extortion; if he dared to say a word of refusal.

Within an hour, his corpse would be exposed in the wilderness.

"Exchange! I'll exchange!"

After Lu Chen happily obtained the celestial demon scale, he also looked over the remaining stalls of the Ghost Market.

Unfortunately, he found no trace of Thousand Spirit Grass.

Having no choice, he temporarily gave up and decided to go to Gu Xiaoxiao's cave abode to fetch her.

Lu Chen summoned Wangcai, letting it carry the four of them swiftly toward the cave abode.

Soon, Lu Chen saw the formation markers he had set up.

But what he didn't expect was that these formations seemed to have been destroyed.

Seeing this, he immediately felt something was wrong and ordered Wangcai to fly swiftly to the cave abode.

Just as they arrived, the last formation had not yet been broken, and a ferocious figure was circling in the sky above.

"Wind Wing Demon?!"