I am a boss in the world of nine uncles

Not long after.

Inside the Sword Pavilion.

Upon seeing the Sect Leader arriving in a dignified manner, the sword spirit Hongyu hurriedly bowed and greeted the Sect Leader: "Greetings, Sect Leader."

The sect leader nodded, stood in front of the other party, and said gently, "Tu Su said he can control the Burning Sword, so I brought him here to test it out."

Hongyu's expression froze.

Controlling the Burning Soul?

A hint of doubt had just risen in his mind, but when he thought of Tu Su's ability to control the power of the Burning Sword, he could no longer voice that doubt.

"Hongyu, untie the Immortal Rope." Seeing her stunned and speechless appearance, the sect leader spoke again.

"Yes."

Hongyu clasped her hands in response, turned around and cast a spell. The chains binding the Burning Sword fell off one after another, and the sword, now free of its restraints, suddenly emitted a black and red light, exuding a sinister demonic aura.

"Tu Su, do not force yourself," the sect leader said, turning around.

Qin Yao nodded slightly, stepped out from the crowd, and walked step by step toward the Burning Sword.

The Burning Sword sensed his aura, or more accurately, the aura of the sword spirit, and immediately emitted bursts of sword cries, igniting raging demonic fire from top to bottom, causing the temperature inside the hall to soar.

Within Qin Yao's body, the sword spirit, which also sensed the aura of the Burning Sword, once again unleashed a towering wave of fire, charging fiercely towards the Chongming Bird in the air.

"Crash..."

Thousands of golden chains appeared out of thin air, weaving into a net that withstood wave after wave of fire.

"This is my sword, mine!" the sword spirit roared repeatedly upon seeing this.

Qin Yao ignored this and slowly stopped when he came close to the Burning Sword, raising his hand to grasp the hilt.

The raging demonic fire could not burn his skin; instead, it poured into his body through the contact, making his aura even stronger. Not to mention the elders, even the sect leader was secretly alarmed.

He had a feeling that even he himself might not be able to withstand Tu Su's sword wielding the demon weapon!
No wonder there have always been rumors that whoever obtains the Burning Sword can become the ruler; the boost this sword provides to one's strength is truly terrifying.

"Tu Su, are you alright?"

Compared to the shocked and stunned crowd, Hongyu was more worried about Tusu's safety and couldn't help but ask.

With a thought, Qin Yao caused the demonic fire on the Burning Sword to retract back into the sword. He then slowly pulled the sword out of the stone platform and said, "I'm fine, I feel no discomfort."

Hongyu: "..."

Therefore, the torment of evil energy that the other party has endured over the past ten years has actually accumulated into today's opportunity?

"Tu Su, try your sword," the sect leader suddenly said.

"How do we test it?" Qin Yao asked, raising his head.

The sect leader thought for a moment, then summoned a lump of iron with a flick of his hand and said, "This is meteorite iron, which is indestructible. Even after I obtained it, I was unable to refine it. You can try using it."

Qin Yao nodded, gripped the Burning Sword in his hand, and slashed at the meteorite iron.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the Star Meteorite Iron, which the sect leader claimed was indestructible, was sliced ​​open as easily as tofu, with a smooth cut and no obvious resistance.

Everyone: "..."

If meteorite iron is so easy to cut, imagine how easy it would be to cut other things, like their bodies...

Upon realizing this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

"As expected of an ancient demonic weapon renowned throughout the world." The sect leader put away the two pieces of meteorite iron with a wave of his sleeve, staring intently at the Burning Sword, and sighed with complex emotions.

If this sword were his own, then Ziyin's title as the number one swordsman in the world would probably be lost.

Qin Yao nodded slightly, holding his sword, and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Master."

The sect leader let out a soft breath and said solemnly, "From now on, you will face the greed of countless cultivators and their frenzied acts of plunder. Are you truly prepared?"

Qin Yao calmly said, "If we establish a deterrent effect, there will be far fewer problems."

In Jin Yong's martial arts novels, the Heaven-Slaying Sword remained in Wudang for seven years without anyone daring to steal it; while the Dragon-Slaying Saber, in Xie Xun's hands, brought him endless disasters.

This is the difference in deterrence. Zhang Sanfeng fought demons for sixty years and became the number one person in the world. Xie Xun, on the other hand, had no such experience and could not intimidate people's hearts. Naturally, he became guilty of possessing a treasure!
"Within Tianyong City, unless under special circumstances, you are not allowed to kill anyone outside the back mountain." Sensing the chilling killing intent in his reply, the sect leader said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Qin Yao was willing to give the other party face, after all, the old man was quite sensible.

"Go back and inform your respective disciples that they are not allowed to enter the back mountain without permission," the sect leader nodded and then addressed the elders.

The elders readily accepted the order, and no one raised any objections.

In their eyes, once Tu Su took control of the Burning Sword, he became an extremely dangerous figure. Such a dangerous existence should not be allowed to be associated with by the disciples, lest they be dragged down with him!
Half an incense stick later.

The lawn behind the hill.

Looking at Qin Yao approaching with his sword, Chang'e smiled slightly: "This way of obtaining the sword is perfect."

"It's also thanks to someone leaking the secret, otherwise outsiders wouldn't know that Fenji was in Sword Pavilion, and there wouldn't have been a compromise from the sect leader," Qin Yao transmitted his voice.

Chang'e's smile faded, and she secretly asked, "Who do you think this person could be?"

"Ouyang Shaogong".

Why him?

"There are two reasons. First, he tried to seize it by force, but found that he couldn't get the Burning Sword under the protection of Tianyong City. Second, he guessed that the Burning Sword Spirit was inside me and wanted to merge the spirit and the sword," Qin Yao said slowly.

Chang'e pondered for a moment and said, "He thinks that the sword spirit can overcome your will."

“That’s right.” Qin Yao chuckled. “After all, he doesn’t know my true situation, nor does he know how much I have up my sleeve and what my trump cards are.”

"Perhaps this is also his way of testing the waters?" Chang'e asked casually.

"It doesn't matter anymore."

Qin Yao casually planted the Burning Sword into a blue stone, then looked up at the sky: "Go back now, the back mountain will be very bloody for some time to come..."

The next day.

A large number of madmen from the cultivation world gathered at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Looking up, they could see the red light on the mountaintop and the constantly fluctuating powerful aura.

"Wasn't it said that Fenji was in the Sword Pavilion of Tianyong City? How did it end up on the mountaintop?" A swordsman dressed in hemp clothing, with sword-like eyebrows and a full beard, said with his head held high.

"Could it be a trap?"

Not far away, a young woman in a red dress, with graceful bearing and bare white legs, asked a question.

“Tianyong City is a reputable and righteous sect, surely they wouldn’t be so shameless?” an old woman said.

"But the problem is, we're here to rob people," the woman in the red dress said.

At the forefront of the crowd, a man dressed in blue robes, wearing a golden crown, and wielding a three-foot-long sword rose into the air: "Are we just going to give up because it's a trap? Everyone, as long as we unite as one, we will definitely be able to bring the Burning Sword out of Tianyong City."

During the conversation, hundreds of cultivators flew swiftly to the back mountain. Looking around, they saw the Burning Sword stuck in a blue stone, and in front of the sword sat a young cultivator wearing a silver crown and a purple robe.

"Hey, young man, are you the guardian of the sword?" The old woman asked in a deep voice, looking at the somewhat eerie scene.

Qin Yao shook his head: "No."

"If you're not the sword guardian, what are you doing sitting in front of the Burning Sword? This is the Burning Sword, right?" the bearded man asked. Qin Yao smiled and said, "I'm waiting here to vanquish the demon."

Everyone: "..."

Qin Yao slowly stood up, raised his hand and drew the Fenji sword: "Considering Heaven's benevolence towards life, I will now give you a chance to leave."

"Who gave you any chance?" From the crowd, a figure resembling a bat transformed into a streak of black light and swiftly rushed towards Qin Yao.

Qin Yao remained indifferent as he gently slashed down with the Burning Soul Sword. A black and red sword aura flew out and cleaved the figure in two with a soft thud, causing it to fall from the sky covered in blood.

Everyone: ?

The high-ranking officials, who were watching the situation on the back mountain from a distance, all gasped in shock, their faces showing expressions of horror.

The feeling of watching this demonic sword cleave a person is completely different from watching it cleave a meteorite. The latter only makes people marvel at the sharpness of the demonic sword, while the former... instills endless fear in people's hearts.

"Attack together! He only has one sword, while there are so many of us. Surely one lucky one will be able to seize it!" a bald man shouted, raising his arms with a crazed expression.

Hundreds of cultivators mobilized, creating quite a stir.

Qin Yao chuckled and swung his sword, slicing all the charging figures in two. The scene left the high-ranking officials of Tianyong City dumbfounded and their scalps tingling.

At Lintian Pavilion.

The sect leader stood before the door, muttering, "I'm afraid Ziyin is nothing special after all."

The back mountain.

Inside the first palace.

Master Ziyin slowly opened his eyes, his divine sense scanning the corpses scattered on the ground before finally focusing on Tu Su.

He tried his best to break free from the confinement of this body and check the other party's soul, but the layers of golden light blocked all his attempts to see.

"It doesn't seem like... his body was possessed by a sword spirit." Zi Yin murmured after silently withdrawing his divine sense.

The summit of the back mountain.

Qin Yao swung his sword, unleashing streaks of demonic fire that burned all the flesh and blood on the ground to ashes, but he controlled the temperature of the fire, leaving behind the skeletons.

After all, without these skeletal remains as evidence, how would later generations know that so many sword-stealers had died?

If even this warning cannot dispel their greed, then they deserve to die!

a few days later.

Another group of over a hundred people arrived at the back mountain and were indeed shocked when they saw the skeletons.

After regaining their senses, some of the more timid cultivators, or those who had simply followed the crowd, immediately backed down.

Then they were horrified to see their companions being slaughtered indiscriminately, watching as demonic fire surged and devoured the flesh and blood of the corpses, adding many white bones to the back mountain.

"Aren't you leaving yet?" Silently sheathing his Burning Sword, Qin Yao looked at the dozen or so people.

More than ten people were so frightened by this glance that their scalps tingled, and they quickly flew away.

As a result of their spread, Tianyong City gained a Demon-Slaying True Lord.

Legend has it that this True Lord was the disciple of the world's number one sword immortal, Master Ziyin. He surpassed his master and was also blessed by the peerless divine sword Fenji, making his strength almost godlike. He was no longer a cultivator.

Therefore, no one could stop his sword; no matter how many people attacked together, they could not stop his sword.

This rumor swept through the entire cultivation world like a hurricane. Some were horrified, some questioned it, and some refused to believe it and insisted on challenging it. The final result was that an extra skeleton appeared on the back mountain.

After three years of fighting demons, the skeletons on the back mountain of Tianyong City have turned into a wasteland of bones.

If you look down from above, you can see that the white bones surround a blue stone in a circle, and the world-famous demonic weapon is still stuck in the blue stone!
One afternoon.

Chang'e stepped over the stark white bones and arrived in front of the blue stone, saying softly, "It's been about half a year since the last group came to seize the sword, hasn't it?"

Qin Yao nodded, stood up and said, "It's been more than four months, and the deterrent effect has been achieved."

Chang'e said, "These skeletons are no longer necessary, are they? Leaving them here makes us look like the Demon Sect."

Qin Yao chuckled, and with a flick of his sleeve, he turned all the bones into ashes, which were then blown off the cliff.

"Oh, by the way, Ouyang Shaogong has gone down the mountain," Chang'e said in turn.

"Go down the mountain?" Qin Yao asked in surprise.

"It is said that she went to seek a way to be reborn," Chang'e replied.

Qin Yao was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "Would you like to go for a walk down the mountain?"

Chang'e smiled and said, "Of course."

A moment later, Qin Yao led the other party to the front of Lintian Pavilion and said loudly, "Baili Tusu requests an audience with the Sect Leader."

"Come in, Tu Su," the sect leader said gently inside the palace.

Qin Yao then led Chang'e through the door and looked directly at the middle-aged man with white beard and hair: "Master, I would like to go down the mountain with Qingxue for some training."

The sect leader: "..."

Experience?

Do you have some misunderstanding about the word "experience"?
Three years have passed, and the name of the Demon-Slaying True Monarch has shaken the entire cultivation world, granting Tianyong City a transcendent status.

This is something even Master Ziyin couldn't do, but Tusu did.

That's why his attitude towards Tu Su now is not much different from his attitude towards Zi Yin.

"I have no objection to you going down the mountain, but could you wait a couple of days?" After a moment of contemplation, the sect leader said with a smile.

Qin Yao asked curiously, "Wait two days? Wait for what?"

"The conferment ceremony".

The sect leader said, "Because of your three years of demon-slaying, Tianyong City has become a unique entity in the cultivation world."

Countless geniuses yearn to join Tianyong City, and some already powerful immortal cultivators also flock to it, causing Tianyong City to unknowingly surpass other sects and become the number one immortal sect in the cultivation world. Your contribution is truly remarkable.

Therefore, I intend to appoint you as the Guardian Elder of Tianyong City. Do you have any objections to this?

Qin Yao hesitated and said, "This is not appropriate. I am just a second-generation disciple."

"What's inappropriate about it? In the world of cultivation, strength is paramount!" the sect leader said sincerely.

Qin Yao thought for a moment and said, "Alright, then I'll wait two more days..."

The next day.

The investiture ceremony was held as scheduled. Looking at Baili Tusu, who was being bestowed the title by the sect leader on the high platform, Ling Duan quietly clenched his hands, but then slowly relaxed them, as if he had deflated.

Ever since Tu Su obtained the Burning Sword, everything has changed. They are no longer people from the same world, and the difference between them is like that between immortals and mortals.

In this situation, let alone targeting someone, even if you secretly say a few bad things, if the sect leader hears it or reports it to the sect leader, you will be severely scolded.

Strength earns respect, strength earns status—this was demonstrated to the fullest extent at this moment.

And he, the second senior brother of Tianyong City, is no longer worthy to be the "opponent" of the Demon-Slaying True Lord... (End of this chapter)