Junior sister, I really need to control you

Although a Grandmaster naturally has a power advantage over a True Master, the power of the Taibai Sword is indeed somewhat exaggerated.

He couldn't help but think of the insect cloud.

Compared to when he killed Chongyun, he now only has a little over a hundred years more cultivation.

But if they were to encounter the insect cloud again at this moment, they would have absolutely no chance of escaping.

With just a thought, the Taibai Sword would leave Chongyun without him even realizing how he died.

Even if ten insect clouds came, it would only be a matter of the Taibai Sword spinning in the air.

This is what a sword cultivator should be like.

Li Yinsheng was filled with emotion.

However, this sword is said to be able to threaten even a Great Master, so using it to bully a Master would not reveal its power.

But that dragon...

One of the reasons why the dragon is so powerful is that it has scales that provide defense comparable to magical artifacts.

I wonder if that dragon is qualified to test the Taibai Sword?

He looked at Nianci and asked, "Fellow Daoist Nianci, do you think this heretical cultivator is the same one you are investigating?"

Upon discovering that the cultivator in front of him was an evil cultivator, he felt that something was amiss.

There are not many heretical cultivators to begin with, and even fewer who can cultivate to become true immortals. It just so happens that they came to the capital of Dayong at this time. What a coincidence!

“Fellow Daoist Li, this is indeed the person,” Nianci nodded.

Li Yinsheng nodded slightly: "This person is colluding with the Bloodscale Demon Clan. Perhaps we can still find some information out of him."

……

Some time later, on a desolate mountain outside the capital.

Li Yinsheng frowned slightly as he looked at the cloud of blood mist in front of him.

This heretical practitioner has been exposed.

It's just a pity that she died so quickly.

However, this time it wasn't a complete loss; the evil cultivator, through his little tricks, managed to recruit quite a few things.

At first, she was very stubborn, whether she was afraid of losing her value and being killed after confessing, or whether there was some kind of blood pact or restriction preventing her from doing so.

But Li Yinsheng first extracted a portion of his own forging veins and used it on her.

Of course, this kind of vein-forging rope is not for body tempering, but rather he activates it, circulating it throughout his body, and the pain is much stronger than when he was tempering his body.

After a short while of this, before Li Yinsheng could come up with any new methods, she confessed on her own.

This person, known as "Blood Stream," was originally a legitimate disciple, but later felt hopeless about becoming a true immortal in this life, so he turned to the heretical path.

Her cooperation with the Bloodscale Demon Clan was even deeper than what Nianci and the other two had discovered.

It could even be said that her arrival in the capital of Dayong was directly related to whether the Bloodscale Demon Clan could hatch the so-called "Holy Son".

The blood sacrifice required to incubate a holy son cannot be performed arbitrarily. Instead, a special blood refining formation is needed to refine a large number of mortals and a considerable number of cultivators before the holy son can be incubated.

This formation requires three conditions.

First, one hundred and eight array bases must be established at various locations along the array's target.

Then, 108 specially made array flags were planted on the array base. The array flags were called Blood Refining Demon Flags, which the Bloodscale Demon Clan had only recently created.

The forging of these Blood Refining Demon Banners requires a great many precious materials and is extremely complex, taking a very long time to complete.

Therefore, the Bloodscale Demon Clan simply sent people out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains to collude with evil cultivators and build an array base in the capital city where sacrifices were required.

Once the Blood Refining Demon Banners are all forged, they will be delivered to the dragon presiding over the formation.

This is so that the Holy Child can hatch as soon as possible.

At this moment, the 108 Blood Refining Demon Banners were in the evil cultivator's Qiankun Bag; she had come to deliver goods for the Bloodscale Demon Clan.

In addition, the blood ginseng that Li Yinsheng encountered was also quite important.

Even if all the array flags are planted on the array base, a considerable amount of blood sacrifice is still needed to activate the great array.

The blood ginseng cultivated with the essence of demons and mortals can not only help evil cultivators increase their cultivation, but also serve as offerings to activate formations.

But what Li Yinsheng didn't expect was that the number of these blood ginsengs cultivated with human lives was actually quite large—

The evil cultivators who cooperated with the Bloodscale Demon Clan were not just one or two, and it had been going on for far more than ten or eight years.

The cooperation between the heretical cultivators and the Bloodscale Demon Clan has lasted for more than a century, and the cultivation of these blood ginsengs has been going on for at least twenty or thirty years.

The cultivation of blood ginseng was not limited to the Dayong Dynasty, but was scattered throughout the mortal realm surrounding the entire Ten Thousand Mountains.

Although a significant portion of the cultivated blood ginseng was used up by the evil cultivators, the remaining amount was quite substantial, enough to activate the formation, and it should all be in the hands of that dragon at this moment.

Even after confessing all this, the evil cultivator seemed to be unharmed.

It wasn't until Nianci said that these evil cultivators also had power, and according to their understanding, the largest of these evil cultivators could even cooperate with the Bloodscale Demon Clan on an equal footing.

This Blood Creek belongs to that faction, but that faction usually has restrictions that prevent its members from revealing their secrets.

When Li Yinsheng pressed on with that question, Xuexi dared not speak again.

No matter how much he interrogated her with the Forging Vein Chain, Xuexi endured it with fear and pain on her face, or begged for mercy repeatedly, but she dared not say a word about the power behind her.

However, he later drew inspiration from his junior sister's previous experience and used the moonlight and the Three Yang Spiritual Fire to let this person experience the feeling of extreme cold in the soul and burning in the body.

Compared to using moon dew and fire with her junior sister, this method only has disadvantages and no advantages, and the level of pain is also greatly increased.

After much effort, Xuexi finally confessed, but before she could say anything, she opened her mouth to speak, only to explode into a cloud of blood mist.

Looking at the blood mist in front of him, Li Yinsheng shook his head.

"As expected, there was a restriction. It seems that the restriction that allowed her to reveal information about the Bloodscale Demon Clan came from that evil cultivation force. They only forbade her from revealing her own affairs, but they didn't care about the secrets of the Bloodscale Demon Clan."

As he spoke, he took Xuexi's Qiankun bag.

From it flew out countless streaks of blood-red light, which landed on the ground and transformed into 108 strange blood flags arranged in neat rows, resembling battle flags.

The Blood Flag is a triangle resembling a command flag, with countless twisted demonic characters drawn from the flag to the flagpole, and each flag features a different beast shape.

Snakes, fish, birds, turtles, tigers, wolves, insects...

Strange, what do these Bloodscale Demons actually look like?

Li Yinsheng shook his head, temporarily setting aside the thought, and looked at the Blood Refining Demon Banners.

Although these array flags were made with precious materials, they were not very sturdy due to their limited purpose, and it was not difficult to destroy them.

If my junior sister destroys all these flags, will it increase the rewards for the cultivation tribulation?

? Chapter 134 Killing the dragon

Outside the capital of the Great Yong Dynasty, on an unnamed, desolate mountain.

Mu Xiaoyu conjured a spell to summon the Cold Bright Sword, and with a single strike, the sword, mixed with azure sword light, slashed at a Blood Refining Demon Chess Piece.

A layer of bloody light rippled across the surface of the Blood Refining Demon Banner, sending the Cold Bright Sword flying several feet away, but its own bloody light also dimmed slightly.

Li Yinsheng, who was standing to the side, said, "It's working, junior sister, continue."

Mu Xiaoyu nodded and once again activated the Cold Bright Sword to slash down. After more than ten strikes, the blood light on the Blood Refining Demon Banner was completely extinguished and it was cut in two.

As he had expected, the Blood Refining Demon Banner, while possessing some protective properties, was not particularly sturdy.

For a real person, this thing can be destroyed at will.

Even with her junior sister's cultivation level, destroying a single, unclaimed Blood Refining Demon Banner wouldn't be too difficult.

He glanced at the changes in the gold lettering.

Current cultivation time: 48 years and 6 months

A Blood Refining Demon Banner can actually extend cultivation time by half a year.

Destroying all 108 poles would mean 54 years of reward money.

"Junior sister," Li Yinsheng patted her head, "I have an extremely important task for you: destroy all these blood sacrifice array flags. Can you do it?"

"No problem!" Mu Xiaoyu nodded seriously.

The three people standing to the side, including Nianci, did not know why Li Yinsheng insisted on making Mu Xiaoyu destroy the Blood Refining Demon Banner. If he were to do it himself, he could do it with a wave of his hand.

But as long as the Blood Refining Demon Banner can be destroyed, nothing else matters.

Moreover, whether it was capturing this evil cultivator or seizing the Blood Refining Demon Banner, it was all done by Li Yinsheng alone, so they had no right to say anything.

“With the Blood Refining Demon Banner destroyed, this grand formation can no longer be set up,” Li Yinsheng said. “However, we still need to deal with that dragon, as well as that so-called Holy Son it brought with it.”

Although the Bloodscale Demon Clan had already hatched several holy sons, every one less is better.

Such a thing, which can lead to becoming a True Person or even a Demon Immortal within a few decades of birth, is extremely troublesome just to hear about.

I wonder if there are any drawbacks to this kind of quick learning?

"Has Fellow Daoist Li already met the Bloodscale Demon Clan member who carried the Holy Son?" Nianci asked.

Li Yinsheng nodded: "I have indeed seen it, but... it's strange, it was a dragon, and I can't see any connection with the Bloodscale Demon Clan."

This was also what puzzled him. Although he didn't know much about the demon race and demon cultivators, he shouldn't have mistaken such an iconic creature as a dragon.

But to say that the dragon was not a member of the Bloodscale Demon Clan, but was merely hired by its clan to help incubate the Holy Son, is even more illogical.

How could such an important matter be easily entrusted to outsiders?

The term "demon race" is merely a general term; in reality, the unity within the demon race is comparable to that within the demonic path, like the legendary Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick.

In the history of the Ten Thousand Mountains, there have even been a few instances where a certain demon race briefly cooperated with the human race, solely to fight against or exterminate another demon race with whom they had a grudge.

With the help of a dragon to incubate the holy son, aren't the Bloodscale Demon Clan afraid that the dragon will become too hungry and devour the holy son?

"A dragon?" Nianci was somewhat surprised, but the reason for her surprise was something else entirely.

"Fellow Daoist Li, there is no need to be surprised. The Bloodscale Demon Clan is not a single type of demon clan, but rather a category of demon clans."

"The way the Bloodscale Demon Clan reproduces is by placing their own eggs into the eggs or cubs of other demon clans, transforming them into Bloodscale Demon Clan members. It is somewhat similar to possession."

"However, this possession is limited to newborn Bloodscale Demons and other newborn demons, so there are no disadvantages to possession, but rather the benefits of possession."