Chapter 1173: Wipe Out the Jin Family, Contain the Human Demon Danfu, Obtain the Pill-Seizing Qi-Controlling Hand

Because, Fatty needed to understand the cruelty and bloodshed of the world.

Overprotective sheltering.

Telling her to close her eyes before killing, that would be the wrong guidance.

Living in a world like this, expecting to remain unstained by the mud around you was nothing short of a fool's dream.

Rather than having her fail to accept the cruel side of the world later on, it was better to let her see it openly and clearly now.

Lu Ding wasn't her babysitter. The two of them merely had a karmic connection, and he was just taking care of an injustice that happened to overlap with his main quest. So Lu Ding wasn't going to shield her forever.

Lu Ding had always believed in one principle.

A person must rely on themselves, no matter what!!!

BOOM!!!

[Celestial Shift] Lu Ding vanished, heading straight for the Jin Family.

As the saying goes, if you don't pull out the roots, the spring breeze will make them grow again.

Wushuang City wasn't a bad place. It wasn't too far from the Demon Continent's border, the geographical position was decent, natural resources were acceptable, and there were plenty of people.

Perfectly suited as a starting point for the Han Embassy.

So Lu Ding couldn't leave a gaping pit for the future Han Embassy.

The Jin Family had to be wiped out, completely!!!

High above Wushuang City.

A voice thundered across the sky, audible to everyone.

"The Jin Family has colluded with demonic creatures and harmed the innocent! Heaven's justice will not tolerate this! Today, Lu Ding, disciple of Lü Mountain, executes the decree of Lü Mountain to wipe out the Jin Family!!!!"

Might as well use that tiger skin while he had it!

That shout.

Stunned the Wushuang City crowd who had been looking toward the Shen Family, hoping to watch a show.

Huh!?

Wait...

Weren't they supposed to be fighting at the Shen Family?

How did the Jin Family get dragged into this!?

The Jin Family colluded with demonic creatures and harmed the innocent...

As for the former... in the entire Wushuang City, was there even a single family that hadn't colluded with demonic creatures?

As for the latter...

On this territory of the Demon Continent... were there even such rare things as "pure innocents"?

In this giant dye vat, if anyone could truly remain unstained by the mud, countless hidden sects would probably be fighting over them.

And besides...

Lü Mountain...

Wasn't it not yet time for them to open their mountain gates?

The Centennial Demon-Feeding was still a ways off.

The Jin Family shouldn't have done anything so heinous that it would cause Lü Mountain to send disciples down early.

Not to mention, this Lu Ding was a name never heard before. Lü Mountain had no such immortal master by that name.

In the entire Demon Continent, there was hardly any long-standing faction that didn't know the names of the heavenly masters on Lü Mountain.

Lü Mountain had been rooted here for so long. Apart from the Ancestral Master and those particularly hidden seniors who weren't known to outsiders, the other immortal masters of Lü Mountain had their portraits and names spread far and wide!

Just as they were all confused.

BOOM!!!!

That thing.

[Golden Ao Island] came crashing down, directly sinking the Jin Family.

In an instant.

It snapped those Wushuang City forces watching the show to full attention!

The immortal master is right!!!

The Jin Family committed heinous crimes, deserving death a thousand times over!

Colluding with demonic creatures, hunted by all!

Damn it, what else were they supposed to say? That divine ability was literally the size of an island, dropping in an instant—who could withstand that!?

Wushuang City was such a huge place.

Whose family wouldn't sink if that landed on them!?

Forget about whether this guy was really from Lü Mountain—with that kind of raw power, if he said he was, who dared say he wasn't!?

Of course, that wasn't even the scariest part.

The scariest part was that the Spiritual Energy in the Jin Family's territory was instantly drained dry.

Completely and utterly clean.

While that didn't specifically mean anything on its own, the implications behind it were absolutely terrifying to contemplate!

High in the long sky.

Lu Ding watched the words constantly jumping on his Golden Finger interface.

Alright, now he had more spells to decompose into colorless large crystals to strengthen the divine ability he'd looted from Jin Tianran.

Who the hell invented this thing on the Demon Continent?

Lu Ding had only walked a short distance, from Niuxin Village to Wushuang City, and he'd already been given so many drops.

Plus two divine abilities.

[Contain Monster: Human Demon Danfu]

[Containment Reward: Pill-Seizing Qi-Controlling Hand]

[Pill-Seizing Qi-Controlling Hand: Seize the external pill of a person, control the internal dan's qi core, grab the person and lock their qi]

A very simple ability description, but its power was anything but simple. Upon careful understanding, it was the purest contest of numerical values.

As long as one's own Spiritual Energy value was higher, you could seize and lock the enemy's qi from a distance, directly yank them over, and deliver an Electric Punch.

Even if the Spiritual Energy quality and value were equal, it could still affect the enemy.

It was both a crushing technique and a support technique.

More importantly, it perfectly addressed the inconvenience of Lu Ding absorbing people's Spiritual Energy to refine into spirit stones.

Having just started walking the Demon Continent, Lu Ding had already discovered his shortcomings. The divine abilities and secret techniques on him were either too powerful with area coverage, or too strong at point-kill, like [Way of the Jinche], which chopped up even the Spiritual Energy within the body, making it impossible to recover.

None of these were conducive to Lu Ding absorbing the enemy's Spiritual Energy and refining it into spirit stones for secondary use.

Physical divine abilities like [Mountain-Shaking Earth-Quaking] weren't convenient either, having to go one by one was too troublesome.

When Lu Ding was in the mood, he could indulge in some fist-and-foot fun.

But he couldn't do that with every single enemy.

Now, this [Pill-Seizing Qi-Controlling Hand] perfectly solved the problem.

With his Spiritual Energy value, as long as he didn't run into monsters as outrageously strong as the elders back home, he could completely walk sideways!

This thing really dropped right into his heart.

No wonder it came from the demon recorded in the Taoist scripture [Supreme Lingbao Scripture of Limitless Salvation of Humanity].

Human Demon, one of the ten demons in the [Supreme Lingbao Scripture of Limitless Salvation of Humanity], recorded in ancient texts:

[As for Human Demons, all practitioners have them... whether dwelling in the mountains or entering chambers, writing talismans and chanting incantations, forming hand seals and performing practices... just as one is about to employ their arts, a single stray thought arises, or perhaps speech and noise, foul stench, chickens, dogs, pregnant women, monks, nuns, or laypeople, clash with the altar grounds, causing confusion to the Dharma Body, improper thoughts, unresponsive talisman water, and ineffective incantations and seals...]

[All are tests of the Human Demon. One should place the Mixed Hundred Spirits Seal at the altar, write the four characters 'Bound Demon Spirit,' stamp it with the seal, burn it over incense-fire, form the left and right Zi and Hai finger seals, and recite the Demon King's Three Grades chapter, and the demon will retreat on its own...]

Explaining it was quite complicated.

In Lu Ding's own words, it was just unexplained restlessness, too close to reality to elaborate on. Anyway, it was useful. Whether it was psychological comfort or a metaphysical effect, it worked.

As for the 'Danfu' part after Human Demon.

That was something Lu Ding had never heard of.

It should probably be a localized species.

Just like snakes being divided into venomous and non-venomous—fang placement, color, thickness, whether it was neurotoxin, hemotoxin, cytotoxin, or a mixed toxin.

Looking back at the Golden Finger interface.

Although the item was good.

But.

There were still over a dozen spells acquired from wiping out the Jin Family that could be decomposed into large crystal blocks, plus Lu Ding's original reserves.

That was more than enough for several waves of refining.

Ever since he'd refined [Dance of Destruction] once, Lu Ding had become addicted. If he didn't refine, he felt like something was missing.

"What if I can refine something even better!?"

After all, he still had so much to do. If there was nothing better, that was fine too, no big deal. But if he could refine something better...

Wouldn't that be like adding wings to a tiger...

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Researching this [Supreme Lingbao Scripture of Limitless Salvation of Humanity] gave me a headache, took too much time, can't finish writing the remaining chapter. I'll add more tomorrow, my dears.