Chapter 65: Enforcement Hall Deacon

As Meng Su passed by Shi Xiaoxiao, he looked at her and smiled, "Thank you for your help, Teacher Xiaoxiao."

Having said that, Meng Su arrived before Wu Linglong. A white pill appeared in his hand, and with a forceful squeeze, it rapidly dissolved into a white mist. Array patterns manifested within the mist, and Meng Su and Wu Linglong vanished together.

Yang Lu was left alone at the scene, staring blankly into the void, completely bewildered.

Above Meng Su's medicine field, a white point of light appeared over the canyon. The point of light expanded rapidly, and Meng Su and Wu Linglong emerged from the void.

Although it was a short-distance teleportation, it was still a traversal of the void. Cultivators below the Demon Venerable realm had no grasp of spatial laws, so such a teleportation would typically cause dizziness and other discomforts. However, Meng Su had experimented countless times after refining the Escape Void Pill and was already immune to the side effects.

Wu Linglong was different. She rarely experienced such teleportation; as a prodigy of the Mist Demon Sect, she always traveled via teleportation arrays. Teleportation arrays provided protective barriers for those being transported, so they never caused discomfort.

While Wu Linglong was still in a daze, Meng Su punched her in the face. Wu Linglong had no time to dodge and took the blow squarely; her face was flattened, covered in blood.

Meng Su did not use the Seven Injury Fist again. At this stage, the Seven Injury Fist did not cause significant damage to his opponent but consumed a massive amount of thought power. If he failed to kill Wu Linglong and his thought power was exhausted, he would be in danger.

Wu Linglong let out a miserable shriek as she was sent flying over a dozen zhang away. After advancing to the Thought God realm, Meng Su was now capable of brief periods of aerial flight.

Watching the retreating Wu Linglong, Meng Su channeled his thought power and applied "Body Follows Thought" to her.

Before Wu Linglong could recover her senses, she appeared before Meng Su again, following his will.

Meng Su clenched his fist, gathered his strength, and struck her again.

Wu Linglong was sent flying another dozen zhang.

Body Follows Thought. Wu Linglong appeared before Meng Su once more.

Meng Su clenched his fist, gathered his strength, and struck her again.

Following this with Body Follows Thought, Meng Su struck Wu Linglong over a dozen times. His fist force, carrying the power of Nirvana, directly knocked Wu Linglong down from the early stage of Demon Saint to the peak of Demon God, dropping her by a major realm.

Wu Linglong was beaten into a state of total confusion. With great difficulty, she regained her senses, transformed into demon mist, executed a Mist Escape, and vanished beyond the reach of Meng Su's supernatural ability.

Re-condensing her true form, Wu Linglong let out an earth-shattering howl: "You heaven-slaying little bastard, to think you could hurt this lady so deeply. I will surely slice you into a thousand pieces to vent the hatred in my heart."

Wu Linglong began to chant an incantation, simultaneously moving her hands to form seals rapidly. A powerful aura began to permeate her body.

"Mist rises, fate is born; mist scatters, fate ends. Fate ends, form ends." Following her incantation, a surge of demonic intent locked onto Meng Su.

Faced with this powerful demonic intent, Meng Su felt his heart tremble.

Suddenly, gray mist surged from the void, centered on Meng Su. The gray mist rapidly solidified, finally forming a giant hand that gripped Meng Su in its palm.

This was the Mist Demon Sect's lethal supernatural ability: Form-Slaying.

In this critical moment, Meng Su drove his thought body, intending to use it to take the blow in place of his true body and then escape, but the giant hand seemed to vaguely seal the entire space. Meng Su found himself unable to break free.

Meng Su desperately communicated with the Devouring Demon Pill, hoping it could devour the hand formed of demonic mist, but the Devouring Demon Pill remained a Taiji pattern, rotating slowly.

With no other choice, Meng Su desperately channeled the Reincarnation Lotus, releasing endless life force.

Under the nourishment of the powerful life force, Meng Su transformed into a youth, then into a child.

As his life force became abundant, a supernatural ability that worked intermittently appeared in Meng Su's mind: the Reverse Demon Scripture.

At this moment, Meng Su's heart suddenly became clear. The obscure parts he had previously failed to understand now vaguely began to make sense.

A strange demonic power appeared around Meng Su.

After this power appeared, Meng Su rapidly grew from a child into a youth, then from a youth into a young man, then into a middle-aged man, and finally into an elderly man. His hair and beard were white; he formed a seal with his left hand and pointed a finger at Wu Linglong with his right.

Seeing Meng Su's transformation, Wu Linglong could not understand what he was doing, but she had extreme confidence in her supernatural ability—until Meng Su pointed at her.

Under Meng Su's finger, Wu Linglong suddenly shuddered. Her demonic power began to reverse.

The giant hand gripping Meng Su began to loosen its fingers, then the palm began to turn ethereal, finally transforming from a solid entity back into demonic mist. The mist grew thinner and thinner, and the locking force on Meng Su dissipated.

The demonic mist transformed into demonic power and returned to Wu Linglong's body. This looked exactly like reversing time and space. However, the manipulation of time laws was something only those above the Demon Immortal realm could master; Meng Su could only be considered half a Demon God.

Wu Linglong was terrified by Meng Su's Reverse Demon Scripture. She looked around nervously, feeling fear toward Meng Su for the first time. This must be some great power or time artifact assisting him. If she did not leave now, she might lose her life here.

Thinking of this, Wu Linglong immediately transformed into demonic mist, which collapsed toward the center, formed a point, and vanished into the void.

Meng Su was immersed in the wonderful state of Dao enlightenment and did not notice that Wu Linglong had escaped.

When he finally came to his senses, he discovered that Wu Linglong had disappeared.

Meng Su looked into the void and muttered, "The Yang family—sooner or later, I will go and pay them a visit."

With Wu Linglong gone, the other three who had come with her to stir up trouble also retreated. Even if they had the heart to continue making things difficult, they had to weigh their own strength.

The Danmo Sect was not the "soft persimmon" the rumors claimed it to be just because Shi Buli had gone missing.

Shi Xiaoxiao was only in her twenties and was already a Demon Saint. Such talent was heaven-defying. In all likelihood, she would be the future Demon Son of the Demon Capital. Who would dare offend a Demon Son?

In the Demon Capital, a Demon Son was almost on par with an Elder and was the quasi-successor to the future Demon Capital Demon Venerable.

There were also the three Protector Elders led by Shi Yu; these were the elite demon cultivators Shi Buli had left for Shi Xiaoxiao. The Danmo Sect was not to be trifled with; they were protective of their own, exclusionary, and held the cultivators of other sects in the Demon Capital in contempt.

After Wu Linglong fled, Meng Su channeled the Reincarnation Lotus to restore his original appearance. He then entered the cave again to begin refining True Demon Pills. He had only refined a little over a hundred thousand of the million True Demon Pills required. As long as this massive debt remained unpaid, Meng Su could not sleep or eat in peace.

Working day and night, half a month later, Meng Su had refined two hundred thousand True Demon Pills.

Meng Su walked out of the cave and returned to his hut, preparing to send a message to Luo Xiaowu of the Nine Cauldrons Pavilion. As he pushed open the door, he suddenly discovered someone sitting inside his hut.

Meng Su rubbed his eyes and looked closely; it was Shi Xiaoxiao.

Meng Su feigned surprise and said joyfully, "Teacher Xiaoxiao, welcome to my humble abode. Do you need more medicinal herbs? If you need herbs, you could just send word, and I would deliver them to you. Why trouble yourself to make the trip?"

Shi Xiaoxiao stared fixedly at Meng Su without speaking.

Meng Su felt his skin crawl under Shi Xiaoxiao's gaze.

After a long while, Shi Xiaoxiao sighed and said, "I don't want to delve into your background; everyone has their own secrets. But since you have joined my Danmo Sect, you are a cultivator of my Danmo Sect. You have remarkable skills, and in the future, you must contribute to our sect. From now on, you are transferred to be a Deacon of the Enforcement Hall." ===== CHAPTER 66 =====