Who gave you permission to refine demons like this?

Bai Ming turned around, his previous expression vanished, and he looked at Lin Sheng with a dark expression.

"A scholar should be viewed with new eyes after three days of separation," this saying is most fitting for Fellow Daoist Lin.

"Who would have thought that the person who used to dig up soil and pick vegetables on the mountain would have such strength now?"

Lin Sheng looked at him and said, "I never imagined that the Boss Bai who used to focus solely on business, trying to earn even a single copper coin from the price of herbs, would now..."

"They would also do such harmful things."

"You've really got it all: robbing for money and murder."

"Hmph, Lin Sheng, don't pretend to be so righteous."

Bai Ming scoffed, his eyes filled with mockery.

"From what you just said, you're at Taoyuan Post Station now, right? I remember that's where you process demon materials."

"Then how could you not understand the preciousness of mortal flesh and bones?"

Do you really not understand why ordinary people are considered as provisions?

As a cultivator, are you truly not tempted by this?

"What I'm doing is the proper course of action for all cultivators in the world!"

Bai Ming licked his lips: "I think those mortals have another name, something like...spirit and flesh..."

"Especially children..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Ming felt a chill run down his spine as he saw a gleaming knife aimed straight at him.

So fast!

Bai Ming waved his sleeve, and the object in his hand collided with Lin Sheng's knife, sparks flying.

Lin Sheng stepped back, looking at the bloodstains on his chest, then at the other person, Bai Ming, who had somehow acquired a pair of large iron claws.

Several scarlet beads of blood clung to the iron claws.

Bai Mingshen also had a wound on his arm, but it healed quickly.

Just as Lin Sheng was about to continue his attack, green patterns appeared all over his body. He felt weak, his breathing became rapid, and he used his knife to support himself.

Bai Ming sneered, "Are you tired from killing so many monsters?"

"Or... are you poisoned?"

Bai Ming brandished his iron claws, the blood droplets on them being eroded by the green liquid dripping from them.

Seeing that Lin Sheng could no longer move, he confidently walked forward, the liquid on his claws becoming increasingly thick, and began to drip onto the ground.

"Lin Sheng, I was really scared of you at first. After seeing you kill all the monsters here, I really wanted to leave."

Lin Sheng, enduring the pain, raised his head and looked at Bai Ming: "You knew what was going on here from the beginning."

Bai Ming sneered, "You yourself say I'm a business-minded person, so since there's business here, why shouldn't I come?"

He moved closer to Lin Sheng, his tone mocking: "He gave me a reward I couldn't refuse."

Lin Sheng trembled: "What is it?"

"Ha, you still want to know."

Do you think I'm some kind of idiot from those novels? That I'd tell you everything?

Even if you are about to die, I will not reveal a single word.

"Go in peace, and be a little smarter in your next life."

As Bai Ming swung his claws down, he was delighted to see something soaring high into the air.

However, the next moment, a piercing pain came from his arm, washing away his pleasure.

A pig-like scream echoed through the courtyard.

In his dazed state, Bai Ming saw clearly what had fallen to the ground: a severed arm, his own severed arm!

Bai Ming covered his severed arm with his left hand, blood gushing from between his fingers, sliding down his body and staining his white clothes red.

Lin Sheng slowly stood up, and the green lines covering his face gradually faded away.

"Why! Why are you alright?!"

"This is the icy poison of the Cold Pool, how could you be unharmed!"

Once Lin Sheng was certain that his body had fully recovered, he threw out two magic talismans. The talismans floated high in the air, their patterns resembling eyes.

Lin Sheng, with a clear view, flicked his knife: "Bai Ming, I do have something to do."

"But your methods are unlikely to cause any problems for me."

"Now let's continue our previous topic. You need to make things clear today in order to die comfortably."

"Otherwise you'll know what it means to wish you were dead."

Bai Ming's poison was real, and Lin Sheng was also truly poisoned.

However, when he was poisoned, he noticed the activation of the Heart-Protecting Jade Pendant, which slowed down the rapid-acting poison. Then, Lin Sheng seized the opportunity to use the Eye-Clearing Technique.

He tried to recover his own strength while trying to get information out of Bai Ming, but unfortunately, the other party didn't fall for it.

Even without the trap, Lin Sheng believed he could pry out what he wanted to know by using a knife.

Bai Ming's face was grim, not only because of the continuous blood loss, but also because things had turned out unexpectedly.

He had never felt such an urgent need for life.

.......

Jintang Martial Arts Academy.

The room was dimly lit, with orange flames flickering, but they provided no warmth; instead, they created a chill with each flicker.

A thin, low-temperature mist rose into the room.

In a scene composed of clouds and mist, Su Ren and Duan Xiaoyi are killing various blood shadows.

"Master Kim, if the perspective could be a little closer, I could try to use it to curse these two to death."

Jin Feiyang smiled and said, "Master Lei, let alone getting any closer, even moving a fraction of an inch would probably be noticed by these two."

"Once this spell is broken, we won't even be able to observe it anymore."

"That's fine then."

Lei Feiming stopped conjuring a black spike in his hand.

"Master Lei, what do you think of these two's strength?"

"Very strong, and if I'm not mistaken, this person..."

Lei Feiming pointed at Duan Xiaoyi and said calmly, "He should serve as a regional-level Red Guard within the Martial Virtue Division."

"Master Lei guessed correctly. This person is indeed Duan Xiaoyi, a Red Guard of the Wude Division."

He and Su Ren were longtime friends.

"It's quite troublesome. After this incident, he will definitely come to various dojos to ask about what happened last time. We need to be prepared to deal with it."

Jin Feiyang smiled and said, "It's alright, just ask if you want. After all, who can find any evidence?"

He pulled a blood-red bead from his pocket and said, "Without evidence, it's all just speculation."

Suspicion cannot stop us from doing things.

Then, in front of Lei Feiming, he swallowed the blood-red bead directly into his stomach, looking very pleased.

Lei Feiming sensed the increasing aura emanating from the other party and asked, "Have you found a way to suppress that thirst for life?"

After swallowing the bead, Jin Feiyang's power continued to increase. Finally, his whole body trembled, stirring up a gale in the room, causing the room to rattle and the candles to flicker. It took a while for the wind to calm down.

"This is the power of the True Profound Realm."

"As expected, it's worlds apart from the Jade Life Realm. No wonder one can establish a sect once they reach the next Transcendent Realm. So that's how it is."

"It's just a pity..."

After sensing the changes in his body, Jin Feiyang slowly said, "We've only found a way to temporarily suppress it."

"We haven't been able to fully absorb it yet, but the current gains have already pointed us in the right direction."

He turned to look at Lei Feiming, the candlelight reflected in his pupils: "The direction of increasing purity is correct."

Lei Feiming, dressed in black, looked at Jin Feiyang with his wild, beast-like yellow eyes.

He then said, "Then let's stick to the plan."

"Of course," Jin Feiyang affirmed.

"Hequan Town is too small to accommodate so many sects."

"I think three is the best."

"One golden crabapple, one swallow, one frosty fruit."

He looked at Su Ren in the picture and said, "Su Ren, Liuyun Pavilion... will make its own decision."

"We've already borrowed some of the people from Nine Knives, so I doubt that old guy would mind if we borrowed a few more."

At this moment, Lei Feiming asked, "What if he'd rather abandon his seclusion than compromise the plan?"

"Why not do it tonight? There's no one in the city right now. As long as we act quickly, no one will know."

Jin Feiyang gently shook his head: "No rush, good things come to those who wait."

"The most urgent task is to completely refine the blood bead."

"These two blood beads sent by Shuang Shizi can help us break through, but it will still be difficult."

Lei Feiming nodded in agreement, adding, "That technique cannot be practiced; it can only be used as one of the means to improve its purity."

"Yes, I don't know where Shuang Shizi found the cultivation technique and blood beads, but they are combined so cleverly."

The technique absorbs the practitioner's spirituality, vitality, and power, and feeds it back to the corresponding blood beads.

The deeper a practitioner cultivates using that technique, the better the effect on us.

Those who had practiced the techniques thought they had a chance of breaking through to the next level.

Jin Feiyang burst into loud laughter.

But then his tone shifted, becoming icy cold: "How foolish."

"Even in the demonic path, cultivation is a game of cruelty and deceit; how can one so opportunistically take advantage of others? They should be reduced to mere provisions!"

After listening quietly to Jin Feiyang's words, Lei Feiming asked, "Shuang Shizi has already sent people to Gu Yanchuan's side."

After saying that, he added, "They sent people there voluntarily."

"Then let's wait for him to go. We need to be careful with Shuang Shizi. I have a feeling that they don't just want to wipe out the Nine Blades Sect."

"The cultivation techniques and blood beads they developed were too ingenious, so ingenious that it aroused suspicion."

"If necessary, it would be fine to leave two sects in Izumi Town."

Jin Feiyang pushed open the door. The sky outside was dark and the wind was biting.

"The sky in Hequan Town is really dark."