I Possess a Scroll of Demon-Subduing Records

Without the power of magic, Xiao Se was soaked to the bone by the heavy rain. The magic that had been maintaining the illusion was no longer effective, and his true identity as a woman was revealed.

"This is……"

Hua Nianrou realized that things might not go so smoothly, which was evident from Lin Yi's terrible expression.

"My friend, could you please help her change her clothes, Miss Flower?"

"Ok."

Hua Nianrou couldn't help but wonder about this person's identity and what kind of friendship he had with Lin Yi.

After Lin Yi put Xiao Se down, he went out, but not long after, Hua Nianrou came out with a troubled look on her face.

"Brother Lin, she's too heavy, I can't move her."

Changing clothes for someone who is completely unconscious is no easy task. For a normal woman, it might only be a little tiring, but Hua Nianrou was panting heavily after just a few movements and simply couldn't go on.

She dared not move Xiao Se, since he was covered in blood and she didn't know where he was injured. She was also worried that if she didn't handle him properly, he would be worsened, which would be a real sin.

If only Gu Tinglan were here.

But she wasn't there, and Xiao Se was showing signs of a fever, so she had no choice but to ask Lin Yi for help.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi didn't hesitate much.

It's true that men and women are different, but life safety is more important.

Besides, it's not like he's never seen it before. Since he's seen it the first time, he can just pretend nothing happened the second time!

Lin Yi entered the room and carefully untied Xiao Se's belt, peeling off her clothes one by one like peeling an onion until her fair skin was revealed.

With Hua Nianrou beside him, Lin Yi didn't dare to have any evil thoughts, and he didn't even dare to look around.

After taking off Xiao Se's wet clothes, they wiped her body clean with a hot towel before changing her into the clothes that Hua Nianrou had brought.

Throughout the entire process, Lin Yi and Hua Nianrou were extremely anxious.

Hua Nianrou was secretly anxious. Although it was a matter of life and death, Lin Yi had still personally undressed another girl.

This could cause some trouble later.

Lin Yi, however, kept restraining himself. His blood and energy were so strong that he couldn't resist such temptation. Fortunately, his clothes were loose, so Hua Nianrou wouldn't laugh at him.

After changing his clothes, he planned to go out to calm down, but at this moment, Xiao Se on the bed was curled up in a ball, trembling.

She was cold.

Even with a fire burning in the stove, she was still shivering from the cold, a situation Lin Yi couldn't ignore.

If only the dark cloud hadn't been captured, she could have had a cat to warm her bed...

Chapter 407 Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun

Xiao Se was in very bad condition, shivering from the cold, and Hua Nianrou was not the type to warm the bed, so Lin Yi had no choice but to do it himself.

He told Hua Nianrou to go back and rest, and then took off his coat and lay down on the bed.

The moon-white shirt is of exceptional quality and has a built-in dust-removing function, so it doesn't actually get dirty when worn. However, if you don't take it off before sleeping, it always feels like something is missing from the ritual.

As soon as Lin Yi crawled into the blanket, Xiao Se hugged him, an instinctive reaction to keep warm.

Lin Yi was at the peak of his vitality, and the Blood Sacrifice Array was now complete. All the stored cultivation had entered Lin Yi's body, tempering his physical form.

He was like a human-shaped fire, constantly radiating heat, but this heat was very gentle and would not harm others.

"Ten thousand years of cultivation, accomplished."

Lin Yi felt the power surging within him, and his heart felt more at ease.

In such a world, there is no absolute safety, only absolute power.

However, after so much fiery power was injected into his body, his mind inevitably became restless, especially with Xiao Sexiang's soft and sweet little one trying to burrow into his arms and her hands being very restless, unconsciously touching his chest.

"Amitabha……"

Lin Yi silently chanted a Buddhist mantra in his heart. He dared not indulge his desire. Xiao Se treated him like a brother and was completely unguarded with him. He could not take advantage of Xiao Se's unconsciousness to do bad things.

Moreover, Xiao Se's internal organs are currently damaged, and he needs to rest and recover properly. Strenuous exercise might leave him with lasting health problems.

Yan Qingqiu's kick was truly ruthless. The damage Xiao Se and the Dragon Wolf King suffered during their long fight couldn't compare to the damage from Yan Qingqiu's kick.

Whatever the reason, Lin Yi can only remain calm and composed now.

He could only try to distract himself, and luckily, there were still many memories in the Demon-Slaying Manual that he hadn't read yet.

Lin Yi didn't bother to look at the demons and monsters that had scurried from the underworld to the human world; he simply didn't have the time. He also didn't look at the Rat Taoist or Tuoba Yu.

Right now, I'm feeling a bit horny, so looking at their stories will help me calm down.

Lin Yi first looked at the Rat Taoist. The Rat Taoist died too quickly. If Lin Yi hadn't seen the changes in the Demon Subduing Ranking afterward, he wouldn't have known that he had casually killed the second-ranked Demon on the Demon Ranking.

Compared to the reward of 10,000 years of cultivation for the top spot on the Demon Ranking, the cultivation for the second-place winner is much less.

The Rat Taoist only had eight hundred years of cultivation, which seemed insignificant compared to Lin Yi's ability to kill people with thousands of years of cultivation.

However, this thing is demonic.

A demon undergoes one tribulation every hundred years, and according to the saying that one becomes an immortal after nine tribulations, a demon with eight hundred years of cultivation is equivalent to a monster with eight thousand years of cultivation and a ghost with four thousand years of cultivation.

Ah Qi is still number one on the Demon Ranking. Even though Ah Qi's cultivation level has decreased, her land seems to be unaffected by the change in her cultivation level.

Lin Yi began watching the memories of the Rat Taoist. The first scene was a scene from the Rat Taoist's childhood.

Lin Yi never expected that the Rat Taoist was originally a human.

As a child, the Rat Taoist was born with six fingers, which his parents disliked. People said that having six fingers meant he had a knack for stealing, and that this child was destined to be a thief.

When Rat Taoist was six years old, his father was recommended for officialdom and had the opportunity to become an official. Fearing that his son's six fingers would affect his reputation, he devised a plan to have Rat Taoist kidnapped by kidnappers.

When the Rat Taoist fell into the hands of the lowest of the low, he learned the art of theft. The Rat Taoist was exceptionally gifted and clever from a young age, and he quickly mastered the art of theft.

But as the saying goes, "He who walks by the river will eventually get his shoes wet." After committing numerous crimes, the Rat Taoist was caught by a nobleman who gave him a severe beating and even chopped off his sixth finger.

From then on, the Rat Taoist developed a timid nature.

What followed was the story of Rat Taoist's struggle, from the lowest of thieves to a gang leader, and his life was about to pass by like that.

But he was fortunate enough to meet a down-on-his-luck Taoist priest. The rat priest noticed his unusual nature and tried to get close to him to see if he could follow him in his cultivation, which would be better than living his life in the mortal world.

The Taoist priest saw through his thoughts and immediately rebuked him: "You little thief with a weasel-like face, do you think you can cultivate my Taoist scriptures?"

These words completely enraged the Rat Taoist. The most painful thing in his life was being abandoned because he was like a thief, yet he actually became a thief.

Enraged, the Rat Taoist secretly murdered the Taoist priest who was already on his deathbed, and obtained a bamboo scroll from his arms. The scroll contained Taoist magic spells.

But the Rat Taoist didn't know that in Taoist cultivation, what's important is not magic, but state of mind. Having magic but not cultivating the Taoist heart is courting death.

Sure enough, after practicing blindly, the Rat Taoist quickly developed inner demons.

But he was also amazing. He wasn't devoured by his inner demons. Instead, he merged with them and became a demon himself. Since the demon in his heart was his appearance, his appearance after becoming a demon was very similar to that of a rat.

From then on, he was known in the cultivation world as the Rat Taoist, but in reality, he was a human demon with a physical body.

After that, the Rat Taoist's life in the cultivation world was fast-forwarded, with little useful information, until he obtained a secret treasure and joined an organization.

That secret treasure is the twelve bronze rat statues cast by Qin Shi Huang, and that organization is the twelve zodiac animals.

Upon seeing this passage, Lin Yi instantly felt a thrilling and pleasurable sense of voyeurism.

In his essay "On the Faults of Qin," Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty wrote: "They collected all the weapons in the world, gathered them in Xianyang, melted down the blades and arrowheads, and cast them into twelve bronze statues to weaken the people of the world."

This statement also has a unique interpretation in the cultivation world: what the First Emperor collected was not the weapons of the world, but the weapons of the world, which he refined with the fortune of the court to forge the twelve golden statues with mysterious power.

These twelve bronze statues correspond to the twelve zodiac animals. Our ancestors worshipped the zodiac animals, and everyone had their own zodiac animal. However, the First Emperor gathered the military energy of the world, suppressed it with the imperial fortune, and refined it with the national fortune, thus connecting these twelve bronze statues with the fortune of the people.

This kind of behavior is called creating gods.

Each owner of a golden statue possesses power comparable to that of immortals and gods. Furthermore, due to the guardian's fortune and the connection between the imperial court and the people of the world, the twelve golden statues are never fighting individually, but rather representing the entire human realm.

Just reading about the origins of the Twelve Golden Men from the Rat Taoist, Lin Yi felt the grandeur of the First Emperor.

He really went all out. No wonder during the Qin and Han dynasties, the Jingye Division swept across the land, and demons and evil spirits retreated. Putting aside everything else, these twelve golden statues alone were something that no human demon could resist.

No cultivator can directly confront its sharp edge.

However, the final result was still the same.

The Qin Dynasty did not last for a thousand generations; instead, it perished after only two generations. The twelve bronze statues of the Chinese zodiac were scattered in all directions. Over time, the owners of the statues no longer considered protecting the people as their duty.

They spontaneously formed an organization and have been developing it discreetly.

The golden statues in their hands could no longer grant them power comparable to immortals and gods. Nevertheless, they remained powerful and possessed various supernatural abilities and various zodiac-related skills.

Like the Rat Taoist, he mainly has two supernatural powers: theft and stealth.

As for things like digging holes in the ground, he knows them all.

“Those who hold positions but fail to fulfill their responsibilities are all people in this organization who deserve to die.”

Upon seeing this part of the memory, Lin Yi had already defined the Twelve Zodiac Organization in his mind.

Perhaps not all of them were out there committing murder, arson, and tyranny against the people, but the fact that they usurped divine positions is enough.

The divine positions of the twelve zodiac animals are not naturally occurring treasures, but rather man-made treasures, connected to the fortunes of all people.

The source of the power of the Twelve Golden Men is the people of the world.

A deity that receives offerings but does nothing—if such a deity doesn't die, who will?

Through the Rat Taoist, Lin Yi learned a lot about the twelve zodiac animals and also found out where the Rat Taoist hid his treasure.

The Rat Taoist hated stealing more than anything in his life, but after he became a demon, he also loved stealing, so he had the most treasures among the twelve zodiac animals.

However, he did not carry his treasures with him. Instead, he found a secret base, dug a very deep underground palace, and buried his savings of hundreds of years in the underground palace.

As for the little golden man, he put it in his cloud bag. That thing had to be carried with him at all times, and the farther away it was, the weaker its divine power would become.

Lin Yi also discovered another treasure, the Twelve Zodiac Animals Chart. This thing was also related to Tuoba Yu. The great formation formed by the twelve great witches was deciphered from the chart.

The Rat Taoist believed that this catalogue was a secret record from the Qin Dynasty, a combined attack technique prepared for the twelve guardians of the Golden Man.

If he takes it back and gives it to the twelve zodiac animals to practice, they can be considered invincible in the human world.

However, this Rat Taoist was unlucky. He was using his stealth technique, which was supposed to be foolproof, but he just happened to run into Lin Yi, who could break invisibility.

That Dragon Wolf King was no human being either. If he had offered even the slightest help, giving the Rat Taoist a chance to escape, the Rat Taoist could have run away as soon as he touched the ground.