Becoming a leader of the immortal path begins with sowing the seeds of inner demons.

"What an impressive spirit beast! Which family's disciple is this? I've never seen one like it before!"

"Judging from his appearance... he seems to be Lu Ming, who ranked first in this year's assessment."

"First place in the assessment? Isn't the assessment still ongoing?"

"What are you talking about? Before entering the sect, they practiced Qi cultivation. They were rated as top in the disciple selection evaluation and completed the Foundation Establishment in less than three days."

If you can do that, you'll be number one too.

"He was also an A-grade... Speaking of which, I heard there's a female cultivator in our year named Lin Yue, a beauty of unparalleled grace, who also achieved an A-grade in the assessment, but how come I've never seen her?"

"Who told you that?"

"Xu Ran, that guy keeps mentioning this name all the time. Apparently, he even started some kind of association, and quite a few people have joined it."

"What you're saying makes me vaguely remember. I think I saw her in the plaza. She was indeed extremely beautiful. Perhaps she caught the eye of one of the sect's elders and went directly to the peak to cultivate."

"What a pity, such a beautiful face, yet I have no chance to see it."

What if Lin Yue falls in love with me at first sight? I...

Hearing this, Lu Ming stopped deliberately slowing down and urged Fei Xiong to head towards Laurel Mountain.

Only Li Quan, Zhou Jiangyuan, and a few core disciples of the sect knew about his change of identity.

Lin Yue's identity has become a legend among this generation of disciples through word of mouth.

This led Lu Ming to decide that, unless absolutely necessary, he would never allow Lin Yue's identity to reappear in the world.

It's normal to admire young women.

But when it comes to "Ai" (a homophone for "love"), the problem becomes much bigger.

If his identity is exposed, causing a large number of disciples of the Jade Flower Sect to lose their Dao hearts, Li Quan will definitely chase after him and beat him up.

Zhou Jiangyuan crossed her arms and sat sideways behind him. Upon seeing this, the corners of her mouth slightly curled up, but quickly fell back. With a stern face and her short hair flying in the wind, she looked less aloof and more dashing than before.

Lu Ming sensed the change behind him, but didn't dare turn around to ask.

These days, he has been busy with official duties at the Law Enforcement Peak and has not paid attention to the Record of Inner Demons.

Today, while trying to gather enough people to pick up Zhou Jiangyuan, I remembered to check and discovered that Zhou Jiangyuan had also successfully established his foundation.

After thoroughly searching Zhou Jiangyuan's mind and body to confirm that he didn't have any "dirty stuff" like Feng Zai, they proceeded with the plan to recruit him.

Including Fei Xiong, there are exactly three cultivators.

However, when they picked up Zhou Jiangyuan, everyone from Chunyang Peak, including Peak Master Liu Zhenshan, had a relieved expression on their faces.

They even openly and secretly begged him to let Zhou Jiangyuan stay by his side for a few more days.

What has she been doing in just a few days?

Lu Ming was a little curious, but unfortunately, the inner demon could only see the current feelings and could not read memories.

He could only sense that Zhou Jiangyuan was a little nervous; otherwise, his mind was only occupied with the thought of cultivation.

The two remained silent on the way and soon arrived at the territory of the Yu Hua Sect.

Lu Ming recognized Yuegui Mountain at a glance, the same mountain he had seen in Feng Zai's mind, but after a casual glance, he immediately stopped Fei Xiong.

Caught off guard, Zhou Jiangyuan slipped and bumped into Lu Ming. Her face flushed slightly, but she said nothing. Instead, she pretended nothing had happened, put her arm around Lu Ming's shoulder, looked down, and coldly asked, "What's wrong?"

"There's a demonic aura." Lu Ming's expression was solemn, his eyes flashing with divine light.

After Chen Zheng reminded him, Lu Ming never turned off his Qi Observation talent after leaving the sect.

At this moment, in his eyes, two wisps of black smoke were rising straight into the sky from the location of the Imperial Transformation Sect.

Upon hearing this, a red light flashed in Zhou Jiangyuan's eyes. He then flexed his wrists and said excitedly, "I understand."

"Uh-huh?

What do you know?!

Just as Lu Ming was about to react, he heard the wind rushing past his ears.

Upon hearing the sound, they saw a golden-red streak of light plummeting straight towards the location of the Imperial Hua Sect.

With a thunderous roar, flames shot into the sky from the Imperial Transformation Sect!

Lu Ming's hand, which had been trying to stop him, froze in mid-air. He silently swallowed his words, shook his head helplessly, and was about to chase after him when he heard a familiar angry shout.

"Who dares to trespass on the gates of my Imperial Hua Sect!"

A streak of light flew out from the green mountains on both sides and headed straight for Zhou Jiangyuan.

Feng Zai immediately saw his two junior brothers being beaten into the floor tiles, and his anger surged. Just as he was about to kill them, he noticed the clothes on Zhou Jiangyuan's body.

In a flash, he withdrew his killing move and instead threw out a large, moon-white net, which covered Zhou Jiangyuan from all sides.

Zhou Jiangyuan neither dodged nor evaded, his eyes as calm as an abyss. He stared at the large net, took a deep breath, bent his body slightly, drew his right fist to its limit, and then swung it out fiercely.

"break!"

The fist intent formed from pure Yang energy instantly shattered the large net, causing Feng Zai's heart to sink.

Seeing that Zhou Jiangyuan had no intention of explaining, he was eager to protect his junior brother and no longer held back. He made a hand seal, rose into the sun, and snorted coldly: "Even if you are a member of the Yuhua Sect, you are still going too far!"

"Today I will capture you and take you to the Jade Flower Sect to demand an explanation!"

"Take this!"

A loud shout rang out in the arena.

There are other helpers?

Feng Zai was startled and quickly activated his protective techniques.

The next second, a golden light descended from the sky, splitting into several parts that bound him tightly.

In an instant, Feng Zai felt his primordial spirit become chaotic, and all his true qi lost its connection. His vision blurred, and he collapsed heavily to the ground.

Zhou Jiangyuan was stunned. Just as she was about to look up and ask, she suddenly noticed that there were gold rings around her hands, feet, and mouth, which locked her up and made her unable to move.

"Despicable! I always thought the Jade Flower Sect was a righteous sect, but I never expected them to be so vile!" Feng Zai lay on the ground, cursing Lu Ming, who had landed on a flying bear.

"Waaaaah!" Zhou Jiangyuan was both ashamed and angry, glaring at Lu Ming as if she wanted to devour him alive.

"Why are you glaring at me? I'm telling you, can you ask me first before you make a move next time?" Lu Ming, holding the Spirit Locking Ring, jumped off the flying bear's back and observed the two of them.

Although the power of the Soul Locking Ring will decrease after it splits, it is still more than enough for Foundation Establishment cultivators.

To trap a Golden Core cultivator, it would probably be necessary to have the main body of the cultivator appear.

Lu Ming noted this down in the "Guide," ignored the two still struggling, walked to the edge of the pit, and looked at the two bodies with broken bones and tendons.

You read that right, the black aura is coming from them... Wait a minute?

There seems to be something inside?

Lu Ming narrowed his eyes, and twelve semi-transparent Soul-Breaking Pearls slowly appeared around him. He said coldly, "I will only give you three breaths to do what the Jade Flower Sect does."

Don't say you weren't warned.

one."

Before the words were finished, two dark figures suddenly darted out from the corpses and flew into the sky.

Lu Ming didn't even look up, just flicked his fingers lightly.

The Soul-Breaking Pearl vanished suddenly, followed by a series of crisp sounds in the air.

A moment later, the two battered souls returned screaming, clutching their heads and shrilly, "Senior, spare us! Senior, spare us!"

Lu Ming glanced at Feng Zai, who was frozen on the ground with a look of astonishment, silently removed the restraints from him, waved his hand, leaned against the huge body of the flying bear, and coldly addressed the soul kneeling on the ground and kowtowing incessantly.

"Don't lie."

"Yes, yes!" One of the souls glanced at the flying bear that was devouring people, and its soul body trembled in fright. It hurriedly replied.

"Shangxiu, we didn't kill these two!"

When we arrived, these two were already dead!