Chapter 82

"..."

In the open space, Li Xiang drank his white porridge alone, feeling somewhat withdrawn.

No!

Don't look at me with those kinds of eyes!

How could I, how could I possibly be that kind of person?

I'm only three years old!

Even if I had the heart...

I also...

Li Xiang sighed and shook his head.

This Wenwu Building was actually the county's brothel.

The two characters "Wen" (Literature) and "Wu" (Martial) represented the two sides of this brothel's business.

The Martial Building was quite ordinary; you pay the silver, and the girls accompany you.

Money and goods are exchanged, clean and simple.

The clientele on weekdays were mostly peddlers, porters, and ordinary people with a little bit of spare cash.

The price wasn't expensive either.

Spending half a month's wages was enough to have a good time.

The Martial Building did business for these poor people.

Because its clientele was on the lower end, many nobles were unwilling to come here.

So, in order to earn more money, they feigned refinement and set up a Literature Building.

One needed to pay in gold and silver to enter, and then show off one's flair by writing poems and beautiful sentences to win the girls' favor.

If a girl was pleased, it meant a night of intimacy and romance.

Although that was the claim, in this remote little town, where would there be so much fuss?

Basically, once the silver was paid, there were no other requirements.

It was just that the girls in the Literature Building were beautiful, mostly fallen young ladies who were also well-read and sensible, and the surrounding environment was relatively elegant, so many nobles in the county often patronized this place.

The prices were much higher.

On weekdays, it was mostly official runners from the Demon Slaying Division, martial artists from the military, or some merchants and nobles who came here to spend money.

Come to think of it, the biggest taxpayer in Chiyang County wasn't the farmers or merchants below, but this shady Wenwu Building.

Li Xiang's sudden, brainless question.

Actually caused some misunderstandings.

Young man, you're still young; the matters of this Wenwu Building.

You can't handle them!

"Bad luck, bad luck!"

"How is it some damn brothel."

"With a great battle imminent, how did a proper deputy general like you end up in a brothel having fun?"

"I don't know what the Demon Spirit is thinking, not disciplining this guy."

Li Xiang spat casually, feeling it was very unlucky.

He looked up at the layout of the Demon Slaying Division.

At this moment, there were still about a dozen martial artists inside the Demon Slaying Division; their cultivation wasn't very strong, all were around the Ninth Grade, responsible for taking care of the villagers and protecting the safety of the Demon Slaying Division.

The others had basically followed Lu Jianxing and Qi Le to stir up trouble.

The defensive strength couldn't be considered too strong, but it couldn't be considered too weak either.

If a real fight broke out, relying on these dozen or so ranked martial artists, it would be difficult for even a hundred armored soldiers to break through this place in a short time.

Besides that, the area around the Demon Slaying Division was surrounded by deep cyan Haoran Qi.

It was a forbidden restriction left by Qi Le to prevent Demon Spirits from entering.

Overall, the current defensive strength of the Demon Slaying Division was still quite good.

Unless the few deputy generals under the Demon Spirit took action, it would likely be very difficult to break through this place.

With his parents and the little one staying here with them, they shouldn't encounter danger in the short term.

Thinking of this.

Li Xiang didn't dawdle and secretly walked toward the inner hall of the Demon Slaying Division by himself.

He greeted the people of the Demon Slaying Division.

Just saying he was hungry and wanted to go inside to eat something.

The way was clear, and no one stopped him.

However, that little tag-along behind him, in the blink of an eye, discovered that her senior brother was gone, and she was left standing there, feeling somewhat confused.

"Eh?"

"Where is my senior brother?"

"Where did such a big senior brother go?"

"Senior brother! Senior brother! Where did you go? You didn't go to the Wenwu Building, did you!"

Idle talk aside, after Li Xiang entered the inner hall, a ray of immortal light suddenly appeared on his body and descended beside him.

It took only a few breaths.

One could see that immortal light slowly gathering beside him, condensing into a human shape.

At a rough glance, it looked like a child of the exact same height as him.

This was the Immortal Dao divine ability "Qi Wandering Mountains and Rivers," a version that had been magically modified by Li Xiang.

"Qi Wandering Mountains and Rivers" focused on using Qi to condense a form to tour the mountains and rivers of the world and obtain information.

He added a "billion" details to it and directly changed it into a clone divine ability.

Using immortal light as the foundation to create a body-external incarnation was an extremely profound Immortal Dao divine ability, which could be considered a Fifth Grade technique.

Further up, the level of mystery was even more outstanding; when perfected, one could manifest a Dharma Image and Primordial Spirit, with strength even more formidable than the original body, borrowing the power of gods and demons to transform into a mountain and river deity.

Its power borrowed from heaven and earth, and its spirit light had its own wisdom, so even without the support of his own power, it could exist in the world for a thousand years.

Even, if he entrusted a ray of spirit light into it.

It could have independent thinking, and even if it cut off contact with him, it could still survive in the world.

It was just that the source of life wasn't complete enough to go any further.

But even so, it was still a very mysterious Immortal Dao divine ability.

Just like the foresight ability he had deduced that day which could observe the future in a small range, both were top-tier divine abilities.

However, his current Immortal Dao accumulation wasn't very high, and the immortal light was cultivated casually, so there wasn't much to speak of.

Just making a clone to provide an alibi was enough.

The immortal light landed and grew in the wind.

Gurgling, it condensed into a child with the exact same appearance as Li Xiang, also dressed in rags, only the eyes were slightly dim.

Li Xiang smiled.

He reached out and tapped the center of its brow.

The next moment, the clone seemed to have gained consciousness, and a bit of clarity flowed into its eyes.

"Fellow Daoist, good!"

Looking at each other, the two walked around the room.

One couldn't tell who was the clone and who was the main body.

"Good!"

This clone didn't have intelligence; he just reached out and tapped its brow, connecting it with immortal light like fine threads.

Like a marionette, he controlled this clone.

Not to mention, his craftsmanship was exquisite.

It truly looked no different from a living person, vivid and lifelike.

Reaching out to touch it, he could even feel the soft, tender skin of the child and the faint warmth remaining on his fingertips.

Wonderful!

This clone technique would likely help him a lot in the future.

After doing all this, Li Xiang turned around lightly, and suddenly, the sound of bones rubbing against each other came from his body.

In the blink of an eye, a young man with sharp brows, a tall and thin figure, but giving off a strong sense of threat, appeared in the room.

Li Xiang stretched and loosened his muscles and bones a little.

"Not bad."

"Judging by Lu Jianxing's strength, the strength of the few generals under the Demon Spirit should be around the Seventh Grade."

"Seventh Grade."

"Can be destroyed with a flick of a finger!"

Feeling the surging power within his physical body, Li Xiang commented lightly.

With a thousand drops of essence blood in his body, Li Xiang felt he truly had the strength to take down a county city by himself.

And this was without counting the other divine abilities he possessed.

In a transcendent world, great power belongs to the individual.

Strength, in the end, is the foundation of everything.

Once the matter here in Chiyang County is resolved, he would find an opportunity to start cultivating in seclusion.

Only by reaching the limit of this world early could he have a little bit of security.

Hmm!

That's decided!

First Grade in two years, Transcendent in five, within ten years, I am the Heaven.

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about those messy things.

The clone started moving, pushed open the door, and walked out of the inner hall.

Seeing the clone, the people of the Demon Slaying Division nodded slightly, their vision shifting away.

The next moment.

A faint red figure rushed out from the room and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The speed was so fast that no one noticed.

——

Chiyang County, on the roof of a shop in the North City.

Li Xiang leaned over and looked at the street below.

Many pedestrians were coming and going on the street, and there were even a few small vendors selling breakfast.

Everything was orderly.

There was no sign of the extreme chaos.

However, when he used his Confucian divine ability to look over, he saw that the spirit platforms of more than half the people on the street had already been entangled by Demon Spirits.

It was just that the Demon Spirits weren't acting up yet.

People were talking to each other, and before long, many more people were infected by the Demon Spirits.

It seemed the Demon Spirits were deliberately controlling the crowd.

Intentionally letting them not act up for now, continuing to spread, until everyone in the entire city was infected, and then performing deep demonization, directly igniting their fire of desire.

"What a restrained technique."

"It's very different from the dance of demons I saw last night."

"Could it be because of the Demon Suppression Bell?"

Li Xiang speculated.

He leaped lightly and headed toward the Wenwu Building.

"Forget it, no need to think so much."

"Master said."

"If you can push through horizontally, just push through; if you can't, then consider strategies."

In the sky, a red figure streaked by faintly.

In just a few snaps of a finger, Li Xiang arrived at a pavilion in the North City.

The buildings here were much taller than the previous shops, and the road in front of the door was much wider.

Evergreen trees were planted all around.

It looked clean and comfortable.

Two antique pavilions were located here, connected in the middle by a covered walkway, very elegant.

The buildings were three stories high, each floor decorated exquisitely, with fallen red leaves, colorful lanterns, and the most special two bright pearls on the roof, which seemed somewhat out of place with this poor border town.

It was clearly a place of filth, yet it was decorated extremely elegantly.

The left was the Martial Building, the right was the Literature Building.

With carved dragons and painted phoenixes, and intricate designs, the antique pavilions quietly awaited their guests.

He looked at the map.

Li Xiang saw that the Demon General Ya Ze was still staying in the Wenwu Building.

At this time, Zheng Yuan was leading a group of people toward the Wenwu Building, but his speed wasn't as fast as his.

A rough estimate was that it would take about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

"Eh?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Xiang didn't take action immediately.

It wasn't that he couldn't beat this Demon General; he just felt that he should appear at an appropriate time and forcefully kill the opponent.

Then farm some favorability with Zheng Yuan, so it would be easier to arrange for him to continue following him to clean up the Demon Spirit's other deployments.

The Chiyang County mission had many winning conditions.

Cleaning it up by himself was still too much effort.

If he could let Zheng Yuan do the work for him, the efficiency should be much faster.

While thinking.

Li Xiang suddenly heard a commotion coming from the Wenwu Building.

A broken half of a Xiuchun Blade flew out from the building, brushing past Li Xiang's ear.

"Where did this dog thing come from?"

"Daring to spoil this general's mood?"

"You say this is your Miss Tong? A joke."

"Call her and see if she's willing to pay attention to a useless dog like you."

"Since when did people from the Demon Slaying Division care so much about brothel women?"

"Lu Jianxing, you don't discipline your men well!"

The next moment.

The third floor of the pavilion shattered.

A blood-covered figure smashed through the wooden wall and fell straight down from the third floor.

Landing on the ground, he spat out a large mouthful of blood.

All over his body, his bones were already completely shattered.

Many armored soldiers rushed out from the Literature Building, surrounding him with a great clamor.

Finally, a man over two meters tall, covered in fat, walked out of the building, wearing black armor, and strode out.

Crossing the crowd, he picked up the man spitting blood on the ground with one hand.

Pinching his head, he sneered at him.

Li Xiang looked up.

Ho!

It was an old acquaintance.

Demon Slaying Division, Shen Lian!

(End of chapter)