I am devoted to the Tao

Chapter 33 How can your heart be darker than ours?

The cold wind howled, bringing a biting chill.

But what is strange is that the endless ice field is covered with ancient green trees.

The ancient trees are lush and green, with branches stretching towards the sky. The dense leaves block the sunlight and cast large shadows, like a sleeping ferocious beast, making people feel uneasy.

Jiang Chuan stood in front of the dense forest and turned to look at Que Jinling: "Are you sure this road is safe? A dense forest growing on an ice field is very unusual no matter how you look at it."

"According to the description on my map, some evil creatures appeared in this dense forest before, but they were all destroyed by a high monk from the Mingwang Palace." Que Jinling replied.

"Is your map of Mingwang Palace really reliable?" Jiang Chuan didn't dare to go in anymore.

As a disciple of Bodhi Temple, Jiangchuan knew very well what kind of power the Mingwang Hall was.

The Mingwang is the manifestation of the Buddha's wrath, and he subdues demons and destroys monsters.

In terms of murderous nature alone, it is even worse than that of ordinary demons.

The "Demon-Slaying Sword" that Jiang Chuan practiced was created by a Buddhist master. When it was used, there was no trace of Buddhist magical powers at all. It was not an exaggeration to call it a demon sword.

If the monks from the Mingwang Palace really took action, Jiangchuan felt that it would not only be the evil ghosts that would disappear, but also the dense forest in front of him.

"I paid a high price for this map, so there must be no problem. Let's go."

Que Jinling looked confident and took the lead in flying into the dense forest.

As Jiang Chuan followed, he cursed in his heart: "Damn love brain simulator!"

Mr. Jiang knew very well that there might be something wrong with the dense forest in front of him, so he would not enter at all.

But now he couldn't help but follow, which was obviously not something he would do.

Soon after flying into the dense forest, Jiangchuan smelled a strong stench of decay.

“This smell.”

"This smell is very common in the Northern Territory. It's nothing special, right?" Que Jinling asked.

Jiangchuan: "."

How many people die in your Northern Territory every day?

Oh! The Northern Territory is the territory of the demon race, and it's full of demons.

That's no problem.

"Huh? Why are there so many coffins here?"

At this moment, Que Jinling saw many vermilion wooden coffins.

Vermilion wooden coffins are densely packed in the woods, emitting a foul smell. Under the shade of the trees, they give people a weird and ominous feeling.

"Of course I put it there. Could it have fallen from the sky?"

An exasperated voice was heard, and then a vermilion wooden coffin was opened. A middle-aged man with a pale face sat up from the coffin and looked at Jiang Chuan and Que Jinling with contempt.

"Two more idiots who were cheated out of spirit stones and are still helping others count the money."

"Let me correct you, I didn't spend any spirit stones." Jiang Chuan didn't want to be a fool.

Que Jinling gritted her teeth and angrily said, "You'd better explain to me clearly what it means to be a fool who helps others count the money after being cheated out of spirit stones. Otherwise, I will burn you to ashes immediately!"

"You were able to find this place because you must have purchased the map of the Falling Sun Sea from one of my junior brothers at a high price."

The middle-aged man explained, "This is where I'm in seclusion. I use the dead energy here to practice the supreme inheritance of my Huangquan Demon Sect, the 'Underworld Life and Death Sutra'."

"My fellow disciples wanted to kill me and become true disciples. That's why they deliberately sold the map to lure monks in to disrupt my retreat and destroy me."

"This is a good idea!" Jiang Chuan's eyes lit up and he took note of it secretly.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man's face darkened.

Jiang Chuan said sternly, "The demon cultivators are indeed insidious and cunning!"

"You are not lying to us, are you? If you are really a demon cultivator, why don't you massacre the entire city, but run here to absorb the death energy?" asked Que Jinling.

"I am a demon cultivator, a demon cultivator! I am a human, not a demon!" the middle-aged man retorted loudly.

Regardless of whether they were immortals, demons, or outsiders, they were all human cultivators. No matter how they fought against each other, or how their sects fought internally, or what dirty and sinister things they did in secret, everyone's external narrative was the same.

We are all human cultivators, slaying demons and protecting the human race.

If any demon cultivator dares to massacre the city, he will be hunted down by the three sects of immortals, demons and other sects the next day.

"Where did you hear that the evil cultivators would massacre cities to cultivate?" Jiang Chuan asked.

"I saw that's what it said in the storybook." Que Jinling blinked.

Jiangchuan: "."

Please, can we use our brains when we look at something?

The evil cultivators would often massacre cities and destroy clans during their practice.

With the number of demonic cultivators in the Qingyuan Realm, do you think there are still living things in the Qingyuan Realm?

The middle-aged man looked at Jiang Chuan with sympathy.

"Fellow Daoist, it's rare to see such a foolish female cultivator."

Jiang Chuan nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist, since the map is fake, we will leave now. However, please tell us a safe way to enter the Falling Sun Sea."

"I'm not obligated to tell you." The middle-aged man said as he prepared to lie down.

"Fellow Daoist, please think carefully."

"threaten me?"

The middle-aged man straightened up again.

"You don't think this is my true body, do you? This corpse is just a zombie I controlled with my divine consciousness to protect me during my retreat. I have hundreds of similar zombies!"

"Of course I know this is not your real body."

Jiang Chuan smiled and said, "But what if I make 100,000 copies of the map, give them away for free, and change it to say there's a True Immortal Cave here, what do you think will happen?"

"How come your heart is even darker than ours?!" The middle-aged man's face turned pale.

Jiang Chuan's face showed determination: "To deal with demon cultivators, you must be more insidious and cunning than them!"

Middle-aged man: “.”

I've only been in seclusion for half a year!

Are the cultivators in the Qingyuan Realm already so insidious?
Doesn’t this mean that we, the demonic cultivators, are now more righteous than the immortals?

"Alright! I, Shen Gongming, admit defeat!"

[I took out a map of the Yunyang Sea from Shen Gongming and gave it to you.]

This map was left behind by successive generations of Huangquan Demon Sect cultivators after their explorations of the Yunyang Sea. It depicts the Yunyang Sea's numerous dangerous locations within a million miles, as well as numerous treasured locations that bred natural resources and treasures. For ordinary cultivators, it's priceless.

[You feel like you've made a killing this time, and then you begin looking for a safe path into the Yunyang Sea.]

After discussing with Que Jinling, you ultimately chose to pass through the mire of blood and flesh.

[The Blood and Flesh Mire is a dangerous place formed during the war between humans and demons, where a great demon of the Tenth Realm was slain and his flesh and blood merged into the earth.]

[It bred countless ferocious beasts without intelligence, but dedicated to devouring living creatures.]

[You can use the formation and dark space to perfectly block the leakage of Qi and avoid being detected by the beasts. Therefore, choose to enter the Yunyang Sea from the bloody mire.]

[After finalizing the route, you and Que Jinling set off immediately.]

[Half a day later, you begin to cross the mire of blood and flesh.]

[Everything is just as you expected. The ferocious beasts living there haven't noticed you.]

[However, maintaining both the formation and the dark space simultaneously consumes a vast amount of mana. You can only continuously refine spirit stones to replenish your mana.]

[Three days later, you and Que Jinling successfully crossed the bloody quagmire.]

(End of this chapter)