Chapter 39: Seizing the Taiyi Sect

Xia Jiuxiao unleashed a One‑Word Cloud‑Piercing Arrow.

About a quarter of an hour later.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Lines of Taiyi Sect disciples, each wielding flying swords, magical robes, long knives and other spirit weapons, arrived from all directions one after another.

Over a hundred of them!

All of them were Rou Shen Shi Chong warriors, their strength equal to ten or more Xuanhuang fiery horses.

"Search for me; even if we have to dig three feet into the ground, we must root out the Blood Shadow Demon Sect's demon brats and kill them. Once we return to the sect, we'll have the senior true‑transmission brothers bring charges against the Blood Shadow Demon Sect! And if we find disciples of other demon sects, we must strip their martial arts and bring them back to the sect for punishment!"

As Xia Jiuxiao's cold voice fell, the over‑hundred Taiyi Sect disciples moved, launching a massive sweep in the underground world of the Great Virtue Dynasty.

……

On the other side, Chen Zheng had no idea that after killing a Taiyi Sect disciple, he had inadvertently framed the Blood Shadow Demon Sect.

He and the Immortal Crane, following the footprints of numerous Yasha, had already arrived more than a thousand li away.

Ahead was no endless plain, but a pitch‑black, barren underground mountain range, its slopes riddled with countless mine shafts like termite mounds.

Tens of thousands of demons swarmed in and out of those shafts like ants, pushing iron pulley carts, hauling loads of ore outward, pushing empty carts back into the holes, working feverishly.

The demons are mining.

Not far from those mountains stood a castle, grand and imposing.

"Ahead should be Chi Long's lair; you stay here, wait for me to kill Chi Long and then come back."

Chen Zheng dimmed his Vanishing Light, landed on the ground, sheathed his White Rainbow Sword, and ordered the Immortal Crane beside him.

"Little Crane, obeyed."

The Immortal Crane bowed respectfully, rolled its eyes to look around, quickly found a nearby depression, leapt in, and curled up.

Chen Zheng strode forward, reached the castle's edge, leapt over a wall ten zhang high, and entered the interior.

The castle looked ancient yet solid, exuding a gloomy aura, but it was impeccably clean, spotless.

Inside the castle there were no servants or guards; Chen Zheng walked deeper without encountering a single demon, as if it were a dead city.

"Achoo!"

"Crown Prince Xueyan, what's wrong?"

Suddenly, a sneeze and a questioning voice came from not far away, catching Chen Zheng's attention.

He quickly softened his footsteps, moving silently toward the source, and soon arrived before a great hall.

The hall's doors were tightly shut.

Through the crack he could see the hall interior was not dim like outside but brightly lit, with fist‑sized night pearls set into the walls and dome, a scene of luxury.

Inside, two people sat face‑to‑face, with a table of wine and dishes between them.

One of them had a human‑shaped head, a handsome face; even if the lights were off, only his head would be visible, undeniably a top‑class beauty.

He was only two steps below Chen Zheng.

Unfortunately, his body was massive, covered with thick bluish‑black scales, looking as if he wore an ill‑fitting armor, and he bore a pair of closed flesh wings on his back.

His lower half was identical to the three‑headed Yasha that Chen Zheng had previously slain.

A human head, a Yasha's body!

Chen Zheng instantly recognized it was not a human but an Asura of the underground demon race.

Asuras are evolved from flying Yasha, their strength even greater, at least the power of thirteen or fourteen Xuanhuang fiery horses.

If an Asura also transforms its lower half into a human form, it becomes a Great Asura, possessing magical power comparable to a cultivator of Shen Tong Mi Jing.

"What a rich blood aura." As soon as Chen Zheng saw the Asura inside the hall, an impulse surged to immediately squeeze out all its blood.

That Asura was undoubtedly Chi Long, who possessed a trace of Demon Emperor blood.

But he did not act rashly.

There was another person inside the hall.

He was a genuine human.

The man was a young man in his twenties, his pallid complexion comparable to Chen Mo, the second young master of the Chen family, his thin lips red to a violet, looking quite uncanny.

Especially, the uncanny youth wore a large red robe, embroidered on each chest side with a snarling skull, making him even more bizarre.

"A disciple of the Blood Shadow Demon Sect?"

Through the two snarling skulls on the red robe, Chen Zheng recognized the youth's origin.

He was the last of the three demons—Heaven, Earth, Human—among the human‑demon, representing the major sects of the Demonic Path's seven veins: Huangquan Demon Sect, Blood Shadow Demon Sect, Xiantian Demon Sect, Hongchen Demon Sect, etc.

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The Demonic Path's cultivation differs greatly from the Immortal Dao's gentle, serene, and spiritually clear methods.

It mostly cultivates by provoking one's own negative emotions—anger, hatred, malice, cruelty, etc.

Or it directly plunders the flesh, blood, souls of other beings for cultivation.

"It's fine."

At this moment, the uncanny man who had just sneezed gestured to the Asura, lifted his cup and said with a smile, "Brother Chi Long, whether we can find the trace of Bai Hai Chan now depends entirely on you. Here, I toast you."

"Crown Prince Xueyan, rest assured, my Yasha army has already moved to the underground of the Great Li Dynasty; we expect good news soon." Chi Long raised his cup, clinked with Crown Prince Xueyan, and drained it in one gulp.

He continued: "This time, the three great Demon Emperors of the underground have already signed a defensive‑offensive pact with your Demonic Path's great emperors, to jointly oppose the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao. When we obtain the Jiao Fu Huangquan Map, it will be time to establish a new order for the Xuanhuang Great World."

Crown Prince Xueyan set down his cup, licked his blood‑red lips and rasped, "Especially those hypocrites of the Taiyi Sect, who constantly call for war against us, and not long ago rumors spread that they intend to enact laws to restrain us. Do they really think that mastering a great calamity technique lets them act as heaven's executioners? They are unworthy! Sooner or later, my Blood Shadow Demon Sect will seize their immortal artifacts and drain Tai Hun Tian and Tai Huang Tian into dry corpses!"

"Audacious demon, how dare you slander my Taiyi Sect!"

Crown Prince Xueyan and Chi Long were toasting, just as they got into a swing, a righteous, thunderous shout rang out like a tiger's roar and a dragon's chant, its rolling wave shaking the castle and the surrounding thousand acres.

The two in the hall were struck by the intense sound wave, their heads feeling as if hit by an invisible hammer, dizzy, their cups slipped from their hands and fell to the ground.

Nether King True Body, Form Six: Soul Capture!

Obviously it was Chen Zheng from outside who struck.

And just as the two inside the hall felt their heads spin, a white flash of lightning shot in from outside, like a rainbow spanning the sun, straight into the Blood Flame Prince's brow.

Boom!

Simultaneously, Chen Zheng's towering figure burst through the hall doors, instantly appearing before Chi Long, extending his palm and forcefully stabbing his eyes with two fingers.

An Asura's flesh is unmatched in toughness; ordinary spirit weapons and flying swords can hardly wound it, only the eyes are a weak point.

Pfft!

Ah... Thus we have Title: Elder, the one who killed me is a Taiyi Sect disciple; avenge me, avenge me...

Chen Zheng's index and middle fingers pierced Chi Long's eye sockets as easily as cutting tofu; the Asura let out a gut-wrenching scream and felt the life force within his body draining at a terrifying speed.

Chi Long, knowing his death was certain, at the very last moment reached out and crushed the communication jade tablet hanging at his waist, sending the news of his being killed by Chen Zheng to the demon clan Thus we have Title: Elder.

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