[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons":3,"chapter-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-70":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortality Begins with Slaying Demons",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2317958,4533,"Chapter 70: Swordsman of Qingfeng Mountain","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-70",70,"\u003Cp>“Found you at last! These black-skinned bastards… these captains, they don’t treat martial artists like human beings at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang hooked his arm around Shen Yi’s shoulder and exhaled in relief: “Good, good, you’re unharmed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the brute’s muddy, disheveled state, each time he slapped himself, a palm print stained his clean long robe…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi seriously doubted whether the man had gone off to some hidden place to meet his old lover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you really playing that hard?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh! Promoted so fast?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang glanced sideways and, noticing the cloud pattern on the youth’s sleeve, instantly froze in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi flicked his eyes to the man’s bulging belly and said coolly: “You look like you’re about to give birth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heh, body tempering works like this—you don’t understand unless you’ve done it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brute scratched the back of his head, hesitating: “I know you’re powerful, but you’d better keep a low profile for now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he got to the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi led him inside, poured two cups of well water that had been boiled and cooled, and handed them over: “What’s it about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang took the cup without ceremony and gulped it down: “You don’t know? Something huge happened in Linjiang County!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi leaned against the bedframe, sipped the cold boiled water, and turned his head to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, he had just returned from Linjiang County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the butcher’s next sentence dispelled his suspicion: “Remember that swordsman from Qingfeng Mountain I told you about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The one with over twenty family members, who treated every concubine with chivalrous tenderness?” Shen Yi’s eyes flickered with complexity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang wiped his mouth with his sleeve: “You should know what kind of power Qingfeng Mountain is…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t.” Shen Yi shook his head honestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Butcher Zhang twitched his lips, as if he’d just tried to gossip about the neighbor’s wife and the other person asked, “What’s a wife?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re a Captain of the Demon Suppression Bureau—how can you not know your own jurisdiction? Qingzhou’s top-tier forces: the Six Sects and Four Clans, all with Golden Core experts holding court. Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li—Qingfeng Mountain’s swords, Pingsha Valley’s bandits, Baiyun Pavilion’s Daoists.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five fingers weren’t enough; Butcher Zhang extended his other hand: “Plus the Xiafeng Manor with its divine blade techniques… Point is, in Qingzhou, they’re second only to the Demon Suppression Bureau.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about Jin Gang Men?” Shen Yi asked casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang clicked his tongue: “Without a Golden Core internal art, they’d be third-tier—but they have half a body tempering scripture. Their abbot uses it to transcend Jade Fluid, so though weaker than true Golden Core masters, he crushes Jade Fluid peak cultivators easily. Barely qualifies as second-tier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Shen Yi grew interested: “What body tempering scripture?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How should I know?” Butcher Zhang sighed. “You need peerless talent, plus fifty years of chanting sutras and fifty years of teaching doctrine—only then might you be granted it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was over forty and still hadn’t entered Jade Fluid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of melancholy crossed his expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough of that. Let’s talk about you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang took a deep breath: “That Qingfeng Mountain swordsman is their most gifted disciple. Young as he is—even under one hundred and fifty years old—he’s already showing signs of touching the Golden Core.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi listened in silence, unsure how this concerned him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few months ago, he left Linjiang County on business. One of his concubines, pregnant, sneaked into the government office and gave birth… in front of everyone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang tensed, his gaze heavy: “A jade dragon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi’s cup trembled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The evil dragon was born prematurely and turned on its mother, devouring her down to the last bone fragment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“More chillingly, this swordsman has lived on Qingfeng Mountain for over a hundred years. His concubines are frequently abducted by demons and vanish without a trace—who knows how many he’s sired!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When the swordsman returned, the Linjiang County Demon Suppression General immediately surrounded Qingfeng Mountain, killing dozens of disciples—all his offspring.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Butcher Zhang speculated: “Qingfeng Mountain is a major sect, so the Bureau only surrounded it, didn’t storm it—they’re probably waiting for your Regional Commander to return and make the call. Lately, rumors say the mountain’s people are trying to smuggle the swordsman out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sighed: “Pfft. All internal camp captains except those guarding Qingzhou have been pulled out. A hundred li around the mountain is now under lockdown. This time, they mean business. The city guards say even some of the Golden Wolf insignia have been dispatched. You should stay out of it—you’ve only just arrived in Qingzhou, this has nothing to do with you, and you haven’t even gotten your rewards yet. Don’t get yourself buried before you’ve earned anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi set down the cup, his expression calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally understood what those two had been talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This place will be chaotic for a while longer…” Butcher Zhang pulled out his pork-killing knife, rubbing its blade repeatedly, seeking reassurance from its cold steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That so-called heroic swordsman? Probably just a Golden Core elder jade dragon who left his kin in Yangchun River to have some fun, took human form, and slowly revealed his power.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Demon Suppression General may be strong, but if he faces even a few Golden Core beings, he’ll barely win—and wiping them all out is impossible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If that evil dragon escapes, along with its unknown offspring, their first act will be revenge against the Demon Suppression Bureau… They know what the Bureau cares about most: ordinary people like us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having delivered his message, Butcher Zhang didn’t mince words: “Come on, squeeze in. Let me stay a few days. Damn it, finding a good tutor for a newborn now costs a fortune—I carried ten days’ worth of cargo just to scrape together the silver.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You sleep. I’ll go for a walk.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi yielded the bed and stepped into the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts drifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression was complex—alert, yet tinged with a barely perceptible aura of malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the evil dragon escaped, would he be among its targets?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, time and place matched perfectly—he could no longer ignore the origin of that wounded juvenile jade demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even river demons could scent the taste of a jade dragon’s core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the dragon core was inside him, transformed into the innate power of a dragon, did it emit a similar aura?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi didn’t know. His understanding of such matters was still too limited. Since he couldn’t judge, he’d assume the worst-case scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze flickered, and his interface unfolded before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the Wind and Thunder Subdue Demons Scripture served as a stamina-restoring tonic; now that he’d reached Jade Fluid peak, its efficiency was far too low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If my oil lamp runs dry, without pills, how many years of lifespan would it take to instantly restore full condition?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly poured demonic lifespan into the Wind and Thunder Melt-Sun Scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi didn’t expect to unlock anything new—he only wanted to feel the changes in his inner sea, so he continued feeding it year after year as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the prompt flashed by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression shifted slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Year Five: Your realm did not advance, but your bloodline grew robust—causing the original 270 acupoints of the Melt-Sun Furnace to connect one additional acupoint.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unexpected bonus—even if its use was unclear, any improvement was welcome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi closed his eyes, sensing the faint, drifting cosmic energy around him, then reached a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the Melt-Sun Scripture’s breath cultivation efficiency far surpassed the Wind and Thunder Scripture, his current reserves were more than a hundredfold greater than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Limited by the scarcity of cosmic energy, even if his inner sea ran dry, even after exhausting a century’s accumulation of Jade Dew, even with his internal art at peak, meridians expanded, and body thoroughly saturated for years…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without pills, it would take at least twenty years of lifespan to refill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before acquiring a martial art capable of triggering a qualitative leap, this was Shen Yi’s greatest advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how potent the elixir, absorption still took time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as long as he had sufficient demonic lifespan, he could always remain at peak condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, update time is around 11 PM nightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, minimum is two chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, about the subscription thing… because of some weird things I did, I lost my full attendance bonus…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, I wasn't recommended, felt frustrated, waited another week, and the data dropped again... hahaha, I'm so dumb I could explode myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, the big guys have helped me a lot, but it’s still my own skill that’s lacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, since I’ve lost full attendance anyway, on top of the guaranteed two chapters at 11 PM, I’ll update extra chapters irregularly, depending on how much I write.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>, thank you again to all the big guys for your support!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1488,"2026-06-20T15:00:36.117Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f7c8cd0377d83f0df1e18489307dba7ed106d46b99de19ccc3788b3ff28da315","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-71","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-69",840,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-cover.jpg"]