Chapter 12: It's Time for Him to Slaughter!

This is the Shushan he wanted!

This is the flavor he wanted!

Descend the mountain to save the world in troubled times, return to the deep mountains to live in seclusion in times of prosperity!

What Gu Jiangming despised most were those hypocritical cultivators in cliché cultivation novels, who flew the banner of compassion while engaging in sordid, petty deeds.

His idea of founding Shushan in this world was to release the youthful chivalry and the unyielding spirit within his heart.

A cultivator should not be listless and morose.

A cultivator should not be spending their days scheming against one another either.

A cultivator should be someone who hears the Dao in the morning and can die without regret in the evening, a true practitioner with their own faith!

This is the meaning of cultivation!!!

On the screen.

Gu Jiangming and his disciples had already descended the mountain together, beginning to face the havoc wreaked by the demon creatures surging in like a tide.

After the prohibition was lifted, these demons no longer had any rules or taboos to follow, appearing openly before ordinary people.

Mortals were like fat meat on a chopping block, left to be slaughtered by the demons at will.

And at the same time the Shushan Disciples descended the mountain.

Jiu Jiu revealed an expression of disbelief.

The grudge between the Human Race and the Demon Race had long been festering, but she remembered that it would be a long time before this conflict erupted; how could it have suddenly advanced by hundreds of years to trigger such a great war?

Moreover, Jiu Jiu remembered very clearly that the scale of that war was not large; it could not be called a Hundred Demons Night Parade at all, because the Hundred Demons Night Parade was almost the highest-level formation of the Demon Race.

Even in a formation of this scale, a Guhuoniao with a relatively noble bloodline like hers would not belong to the first tier of demons.

This is bad.

Jiu Jiu knew that hotheaded fool of hers too well.

Given that hotheaded fool's personality, he would inevitably be unable to stand the sight of the Demon Race bringing disaster to the land; he would certainly be dragged into a war like this.

Even though Gu Jiangming's strength had greatly improved compared to the past.

But facing the top-tier great demons, he was still far from enough, because these demons had lived for far too long, and their strength was simply immeasurable.

Jiu Jiu's greatest advantage lay in her knowledge of the past; she benefited from this in many things, allowing her to foresee fortune and misfortune a step earlier.

This was how she found Longhu Mountain and sent the severely wounded Gu Jiangming, who was being corroded by Demon Power, to the Celestial Master Mansion.

However, the current trend had entered a situation that was impossible to judge.

She did not know what level of great demon would emerge.

Once a great demon beyond her capabilities, or even beyond her cognitive scope, appeared, Gu Jiangming would absolutely not survive.

In this situation, she had to leave the valley to fish him out, tie this guy up, and make him quiet down for a while.

And on the screen.

The demons entered the world in large numbers, forcing the cultivators hiding among ordinary people to show themselves and fight these demons to the death.

【You have your personal disciple Xu Qingyun lead the other third-generation disciples to act together, and to prevent them from falling into a disadvantage when engaging with the demon creatures.】

【You taught them the Shushan Seven-Star Sword Formation of the Heavenly Steel that you had painstakingly studied for some time; in a combined attack state, they can strike together, help each other, and protect each other.】

【This greatly improved the defensive capabilities of these low-cultivation disciples when facing demon creatures.】

【And you formed an army of one, to face those demons with more formidable strength.】

【Now, you are in great need of an opponent, an opponent who can evaluate your true strength.】

【You decided to seek out some great demons recorded in ancient texts to compare your combat capabilities.】

【However... a letter from the Celestial Master Mansion was delivered to your hands.】

【The situation in the mortal world is extremely dangerous now; even the Celestial Master Mansion on Longhu Mountain, which chooses to govern by non-interference, has dispatched a large number of disciples down the mountain to subdue the rampaging demons, but there are always some demons that are difficult to resist entrenched in certain areas.】

【Your master Zhang Tianze hopes you can join him in slaying demons to ensure peace in the region.】

【And thinking of the Celestial Master Mansion's life-saving grace toward you back then, and considering that many of your Esoteric Arts came from the Celestial Master Mansion, you naturally agreed immediately.】

【You headed to Longhu Mountain and reunited with your master Zhang Tianze.】

【When you arrived from the sky by sword, he revealed an expression of extreme astonishment, as if he had not expected you to descend in such a manner at all.】

Gu Jiangming descended from Shushan, and his entrance with just a Sword Control Technique stunned the world.

He appeared in a flying manner, just like an Immortal from the heavens in myths.

【After a brief moment of distraction, Zhang Tianze introduced you to the two cultivators accompanying you this time, one from the Dongyi Ma Family, and one from the Yunnan Mu Clan.】

【"A precious steed grows wings to the Ninth Layer of heaven, eight treasures of cloud light on Iron Brake Mountain."】

【"I am Ma Yang, I only know a few family-inherited Esoteric Arts." The man wearing strange military robes gave you a hearty smile, "Brother, your skills are quite handsome, much more elegant than my horse-riding ones."】

【After a pause of a few seconds, you shifted your gaze to the woman covering her face with a black veil.】

【Zhang Tianze introduced to you: "This one is named Mu Qing. She practices the Mu family's inherited arts, which are somewhat special; sometimes she cannot speak, but she can help you sense danger and can also see through the flaws of demon creatures through her arts."】

【Mu Qing bowed slightly with an apologetic look.】

【"I am Gu Jiangming of Shushan. More than ten years ago, I was saved by the Celestial Master Mansion and learned a set of skills there. Later, after descending the mountain, I had some insights, so I used my own Esoteric Arts to open a gate and establish a sect to verify my own Dao." You cupped your hands in greeting.】

【"You are the Shushan Venerable Master?" Ma Yang raised his hands again, "I have long admired your name. Over these years, I have heard the name of Shushan often; I have heard that you often descend the mountain to help the common people, and the disciples in your sect are all dragons and phoenixes among men. Seeing you in person today, it truly lives up to its reputation."】

【"What was that technique just now? I wonder if Brother Gu could tell me about it?" he asked.】

【"It is merely a Sword Control Technique, a plain and unremarkable Esoteric Art on my Shushan, usually just used for traveling." You waved your hand and said.】

【Seeing that the atmosphere had become familiar, Zhang Tianze got straight to the point: "There is a paper demon causing chaos in Yangzhou. This demon has lost the restraint of the prohibition, destroying a hundred households overnight. It is difficult for ordinary people to track it, and even cultivators find it hard to catch this demon."】

【"The Senior Brother ordered me to hunt down this demon, dead or alive, and I hope everyone will spare no effort."】

【"What is so strange about this demon that it requires the Celestial Master Mansion to take action personally?" Ma Yang couldn't help but ask.】

【"It can make ordinary people turn into paper figures and live normally without knowing it, and it can bewitch the masses to cause chaos." Zhang Tianze listed the characteristics one by one, "Besides, it is hard to kill."】

【"Hard to kill?" Ma Yang asked.】

"As long as one paper doll transformed by its Esoteric Arts remains alive in this world, it will not die," Zhang Tianze explained one by one. "Moreover, while it cannot yet be considered an ancient demon, if it continues to cultivate like this for a period of time, it will be far more formidable than ordinary demons."

Upon hearing this, your heart immediately hung in suspense.

You did not know if your disciples could handle such a demon should they happen to encounter one, and you were even more uncertain whether your incredibly foolish wife, who had left without saying goodbye, might run into such an evil entity.

In your heart, you kept reminding yourself to find her as quickly as possible.

Soon, your group set off together for the prosperous and magnificent Yangzhou; on this journey, you bought several jugs of fine wine to keep you company.

This was the one-thousandth time you had drunk fine wine.

Ever since Jiu Jiu left without a word, you had become increasingly reliant on fine wine, growing fonder of using it to drown your sorrows, yet your constitution was extremely unique; drinking could not make you drunk, it only added sorrow upon sorrow.

You sighed that the intent of the drunkard lies not in the wine, but in the mountains and rivers.

Yet you were no drunkard, though you had learned to feign drunkenness; you wanted to drown your sorrows, but you could never make yourself drunk.

Thousand-Cup-Unfallen triggered a hidden effect.

Every time you drank fine wine, the power of your 'Momentum', 'Qi', and 'Method' could be correspondingly enhanced, and the effects of your Esoteric Arts became even more powerful after drinking fine wine.

When you drank ten different types of fine wine in succession, your amplification effect would reach its optimal state.

Watching his talent entry for this round take effect once again.

Gu Jiangming could not hide his joy.

That such simple conditions could allow the power of his Esoteric Arts to be enhanced was, for him, an absolutely massive boost.

It should not be long before the time came for him to display his great divine might.

Under these circumstances, he could not let all those years of diligent, head-down cultivation go to waste!

It was time for his cultivation as the Sword God of Ten-Mile Slope to finally bear fruit after long accumulation.

(End of this chapter)