Chapter 73: Righteous Path Spy

"Hmm? We're back?" Lu Yang opened his eyes and found himself back in the mysterious white space.

There were many familiar people around: Meng Jingzhou, Seeing Man Gu, Chi Xulong, Shen Jinyi, and so on.

Only ten people from the Yanjiang Branch successfully passed the first two trials. Lu Yang only recognized half of them—when impersonating examiners, half of the people hadn't had time to cheat for their personal information.

The memories of passing the first two trials gradually returned to his mind: the Mantis Fist in the first trial, pushing the potato cart in the second trial...

"It seems the Immortal-Decaying Sect's trial isn't that difficult." Lu Yang felt this belonged to general operation; anyone with a brain could do it.

"I think so too," Meng Jingzhou echoed. "Just get bitten by a spider in the first trial and punch that fatty in the second trial."

Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou with slight surprise: "Hmm? Why are our ways of passing different?"

Meng Jingzhou waved his hand confidently: "Needless to ask, mine must be the standard answer, and you passed by stumbling upon it."

Lu Yang was disdainful of Meng Jingzhou's confidence: "Ridiculous. In the first trial, I realized the Mantis Fist, which can reflect my martial arts attainments. What can your first trial reflect? Good luck? Can becoming an Immortal-Decaying Sect member rely on this? It's obvious mine is the standard answer!"

"I advise you to recognize reality."

Seeing Man Gu watched the two arguing fiercely, each sticking to their own opinion, and silently recalled his own way of passing.

The first trial learned perseverance from the spider and learned to plan before acting from the mantis. The second trial was to put oneself in another's shoes and do things thoroughly.

"Thinking about it this way, my way of passing is a bit ordinary. It seems Brother Lu and Brother Meng's ways of passing are the correct ones. It's just that I don't know who is the most correct." Seeing Man Gu muttered to himself, feeling he had learned new things again.

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou argued for a long time without reaching a result. It was Seeing Man Gu, the bystander with the clearest head, who ended the two's dispute.

"Is it possible that both of your methods are correct? The demonic path emphasizes being wanton and reckless, there is no correct answer, or any method that can pass is the correct answer."

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou looked at Seeing Man Gu in surprise, feeling what he said made a lot of sense.

"I didn't expect the Demonic Sect's trial to be so open-ended," Lu Yang exclaimed, and Meng Jingzhou nodded.

"Speaking of which, we only passed two trials, how come we are back here again? What about the third trial?" The three finally remembered the main business.

The Vice Sect Master's figure appeared in the sky again, holding a palm-sized round ball with a slit in the middle.

He took a step in the air, and the mysterious white space suddenly changed. With him as the center, buildings like scales and combs emerged like a tide—city walls, palaces, courtyards, small buildings, towering mountains, rivers running through the city, hurried pedestrians, shouting vendors, cultivators moving mountains and seas... it was like a cultivation city!

The Vice Sect Master also dispersed the crowd by branch. The ten people from the Yanjiang Branch sat in a small building where they could see the scenery outside.

The Vice Sect Master's emotionless voice sounded in everyone's ears: "Everyone, congratulations on passing the first two trials. Below is the third trial."

"This is a simulated city. Later, I will release your true nature. Your true nature will prompt you to believe this is the real world, making you do the bad things you sincerely want to do."

"The stronger the destructiveness, the higher our evaluation of you. The time limit is one day and one night."

After speaking, the Vice Sect Master raised the round ball in his hand. The round ball opened a slit, revealing a black pupil.

This wasn't a round ball at all, but a giant eye!

The giant eye opened, and eerie purple light shrouded the entire city.

The Vice Sect Master's consciousness returned to the headquarters, still holding the giant eye.

"Worthy of being an immortal treasure refined by the Immortal-Decaying. The human heart is the most complex, able to release true nature and lure out the darkest side of the human heart. Only immortal treasures can do this."

The Vice Sect Master returned the immortal eye to the Sect Master, somewhat reluctant. Opportunities to use immortal treasures were rare.

Theoretically, he didn't have the authority to use the immortal eye. This time, to open the third trial, the Sect Master temporarily handed the immortal eye to him for use.

The Sect Master said: "This third trial is of vital importance, related to whether there will be righteous path practitioners lurking in the demonic path as spies."

"The immortal eye can release a person's true nature. Righteous path practitioners have kind hearts and won't have too much destructiveness. Under the shroud of the immortal eye's light, those righteous path practitioners can't even do things like killing and arson that go against their true hearts!"

"Even righteous path practitioners will take action to stop unjust things when they see them. In this way, those righteous path spies mixed in can be screened out!"

To become a member of the Immortal-Decaying Sect, the primary condition is not to be a righteous path spy.

The Vice Sect Master smiled: "And this immortal eye can automatically judge whose destructiveness is strong or weak according to the level of cultivation. With the immortal eye, you and I only need to wait for the result."

Puchi—

A pedestrian's heart was pierced by a sword. Others screamed and fled when they saw it. The demonic rogue cultivator stood behind and laughed loudly, while laughing, he slashed at others, killing people until heads fell and corpses were everywhere.

"Refreshing, refreshing!" The demonic rogue cultivator had never killed so thoroughly before, feeling happy, releasing his true nature, "Today, let's use your corpses to lay the foundation for my position in the Immortal-Decaying Sect!"

He wanted to take this opportunity to kill enough!

"Stop!" A spear suddenly appeared, picking open the demonic rogue cultivator's sword.

The demonic rogue cultivator saw who it was and was slightly stunned: "I was wondering who it was. Isn't this Fang Hao? Usually acting so cold, I thought you were really a demonic path practitioner who had done all kinds of evil. It turns out you are righteous path."

Fang Hao tried hard to calm his mood, telling himself this was a critical moment and he couldn't expose his righteous path identity, otherwise all previous efforts would be wasted. Unfortunately, under the shroud of the immortal eye's purple light, any disguise was useless.

He couldn't stand the demonic rogue cultivator's wanton killing behavior and wanted to use every means to stop it!

This impulse from the heart couldn't be stopped by any means!

Fang Hao and the demonic rogue cultivator fought, swords and spears clashing, unable to distinguish the winner for a while.

"Sure enough, there are righteous path people mixed in!" The Vice Sect Master said angrily. If there weren't a third trial, this Fang Hao would have entered the Immortal-Decaying Sect!

The Sect Master's eyes were very cold: "Without me saying, you should know what to do."

The Vice Sect Master nodded: "I will let the Huang Yue Branch Master kill him!"

"Kill a fart! Hurry up and notify the Huang Yue Branch Master, the stronghold location is exposed, hurry up and run!"

"Ah?" The Vice Sect Master was dumbfounded.

The Sect Master explained with a sense of "iron not becoming steel": "Ah what ah? Fang Hao can mix into the trial, showing the righteous path already knows the location of the Huang Yue Branch. Still not letting them pack up and run?"

"Then this Fang Hao?"

"Can't kill. The righteous path must have Fang Hao's soul lamp. If Fang Hao is killed, the righteous path will know the spy matter is exposed and will rush to the Huang Yue Branch. Where will the Huang Yue Branch have time to run?"

"Oh."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 74 =====