Chapter 281 - 279: Demon Race Affairs, and Being Spied On

Chapter 281: Chapter 279: Demon Race Affairs, and Being Spied On

The next day.

Su Qing went to the Marketplace to have a look.

He wanted to see if he could find any good treasures.

However, there were very few Cultivators in the Marketplace.

Furthermore, most of them were Cultivators whose auras were unstable.

Loose Cultivators.

Unstable auras usually meant they were Loose Cultivators.

Su Qing silently observed the stalls.

The foot traffic had been cut nearly in half.

Su Qing casually bought a few types of Spirit Medicine seeds and left the Marketplace.

Everyone knew.

In this kind of situation, it seemed only Loose Cultivators could protect themselves.

But even they weren’t completely safe.

For the low-level Cultivators, it didn’t matter if the heavens themselves changed; their circumstances remained the same. Their suffering would not diminish.

Su Qing knew that the matter with the Demon Realm and the Demon Race had to be resolved one way or another.

He certainly didn’t want this place to be filled with drifting Demonic Qi.

After returning, Su Qing placed the seeds inside his Storage Ring.

His Micro Acupoint Cave Heaven Technique had not yet reached Perfection.

He didn’t have a Great World of his own to plant them in.

He was just collecting good things for now.

Once his Cultivation Technique reached Perfection, he could plant them all.

...

「One week later.」

Su Qing gradually began to sense many auras from the Demon Race.

But he didn’t go out.

—

Host: Su Qing

Realm: Acupoint Limit [Micro Acupoint Cave Heaven Technique: 8,134th Micro Acupoint]

Golden Core Limit [Great Dao Golden Core Quenching Pill Technique: Mastery (987/1000)]

High Tier of Universal Thought [God Demon Devouring Universe Map: Mastery (756.14/1000)]

—

Su Qing wasn’t surprised by the breakthrough in his Soul Realm, but he did find it a bit strange.

Extremely strange.

Because he had broken through to the High Tier so naturally.

Back in the stage that led to Dustless, he hadn’t improved one bit.

Now, his progress was too fast.

He didn’t quite understand it.

When he returned, he would have to exchange some Cultivation insights with those families.

Especially regarding the Soul Path.

The Great Dao Quenching Pill Technique was already nearing Minor Achievement.

In less than half a year.

Su Qing would definitely be able to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Su Qing was confident, as long as not too much changed within the next six months.

He had eaten so many Spirit Fruits.

Su Qing was tired of synthesizing.

And he was tired of eating them.

Without grinding the Synthesizer’s Level, just by synthesizing things himself, Su Qing estimated it would take hundreds of thousands of items to level it up just once.

There was almost nothing he wanted to select.

Most of the options, Su Qing didn’t want to choose.

Because many of them were redundant.

They weren’t as practical as Standardization, nor as useful as Divinization, Demonization, or Mutated.

As for upgrading the Synthesizer, Su Qing was letting it happen naturally.

Right now, he needed to upgrade himself, not the Synthesizer.

The Synthesizer was already sufficient for his needs.

"Time to go out and get something good to eat."

Su Qing leisurely went out for a stroll. The moment he stepped outside, he saw a Qi Cultivation Realm Cultivator walking with a member of the Demon Race.

A man and a woman; the man was a Cultivator, the woman from the Demon Race.

Su Qing froze for a moment. He had just been preparing himself to kill the demon.

After all, who wouldn’t be a little panicked seeing a demon the moment they stepped outside?

But this demon, aside from some thin scales on her face, was wearing very revealing clothes.

More revealing than what you’d see in a brothel.

She had an amazing figure, and even the Qi Cultivation Realm Cultivator beside her was laughing heartily, overjoyed.

’A Humanoid Demon Race?’

’An Unranked demon... but why do I get the feeling that female demon is skilled in some profound Charm Skill?’

Su Qing had never seen a Desire Demon before.

Naturally, he was a little surprised and suspicious.

But he was good-natured. As long as it didn’t affect him, Su Qing couldn’t be bothered to interfere.

’So that’s where the Demonic Qi is coming from.’

As Su Qing walked, he encountered quite a few Unranked members of the Humanoid Demon Race.

Though they were called the Demon Race, as long as you didn’t sense their auras, they were almost identical to humans.

They were just a bit stronger than ordinary humans.

While buying ingredients, Su Qing even saw a shop opened by a member of the Demon Race.

’This...’

Su Qing was thoroughly confused.

’It’s only been a week.’

’How can the sea region around the Treasure Tower have so many members of the Demon Race?’

’And they’ve integrated into this world’s way of life so quickly.’

Su Qing really didn’t understand.

Until Su Qing saw something.

[Demon Stone: A stone containing Demonic Qi, used for the Cultivation of Demon Cultivators. The Demonic Qi can easily affect one’s mind...]

This was an item someone else was trading.

Su Qing just happened to see it.

This kind of stone was probably very popular among Demon Cultivators.

However, the part about Demonic Qi easily affecting one’s mind felt wrong.

Su Qing remembered synthesizing an Elixir that allowed Demon Cultivators to practice Cultivation without any side effects.

’Could it be that this Demonic Qi is not that Demonic Qi?’

Su Qing bought some seafood and some farmed Spirit Beasts.

Then he hurried away.

’This world is too surreal. Clearly... wait, no, this is an Immortal Cultivation World to begin with...’

’Then it’s not strange at all!’

Su Qing went back to cook himself a good meal.

...

「Nighttime.」

On Lingqing Island, Su Qing went to a reef by the sea and started fishing.

He used his Soul Path to observe the situation here.

Currently, there was only a single Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed on the island.

And, of course, there was Su Qing, the homebody who rarely stepped out the door.

He wanted to cast a World-Purifying Immortal Technique on this island.

On the island itself, not on the members of the Demon Race on it.

He just wanted to see.

Would the members of the Demon Race change?

Would they be affected?

His actions wouldn’t harm anyone.

It was just an experiment.

"World-Purifying Immortal Technique."

After getting it under control, Su Qing unleashed it upon the island.

Suddenly.

The entire island was baptized by what felt like a warm breeze.

It quickly fell silent again.

And from that moment on...

The Demonic Qi on the island no longer drifted about.

Any wisp that appeared would be completely erased.

However, not even the island’s sole Foundation Establishment Cultivator noticed this change.

’No effect?’

Su Qing looked at all the Unranked members of the Demon Race; it really seemed like there was no effect.

It was just that any Demonic Qi that appeared from their bodies was absorbed by the earth and then vanished completely.

This was the power of Standardization.

Moreover, this Immortal Technique could also be used in combat. If it washed away all negative emotions, everyone would stop fighting mid-battle and just sit down for a chat over tea.

A delightful image.

’Isn’t that what it means to be invincible?’

’To have no enemies is to be invincible.’

Of course, Su Qing knew that at his current level, if he could affect a Divinity Transformation expert with his Immortal Technique, that would already be impressive. Affecting a Sixth Realm Cultivator would be difficult.

Besides, a single normal casting consumed half of his Magical Power.

It was a bit of a loss.

He’d think about combat once he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Qing had no desire to fight right now.

As it stood, he was unrivaled below the Divinity Transformation Realm.

’If I use my Dharma Aspect, can’t I just solve it with one Reversing Life Sword?’ he thought.

’Reversing Life...’

’Holy crap, I just remembered.’

Su Qing took his Tier Four Immortal Artifact out of his Storage Ring.

The Immortal Transformation Ten Thousand Blades.

He stroked the body of the sword. "My apologies, I only just remembered you. Let’s do some Sacrificial Refinement in my Dantian."

The Immortal Transformation Ten Thousand Blades trembled slightly, as if complaining.

Su Qing activated the Star Sacrifice Treasure Method and simultaneously placed the Immortal Transformation Ten Thousand Blades into his Dantian to be nurtured.

With a Third Realm Cultivation, one could also nurture a Tier Four Magical Treasure.

Not to mention, Su Qing was the Magical Treasure’s original master. With his great strength and high Compatibility, the sword began the nurturing process very smoothly.

Inside his body, points of starlight began to appear around the Immortal Transformation Ten Thousand Blades again, circling its blade.

’Have I forgotten anything else?’ Su Qing took stock. No, that was everything.

His Magical Treasure was back.

"Hm?"

Su Qing had just been lost in thought, but when he came back to his senses, he detected a gaze.

He followed the gaze with his own eyes.

His Soul Cultivation instantly bore down on the other party.

Rendering them completely immobile.

"Get over here!"

For the weak, a command from Su Qing’s soul was like an unassailable Rule, impossible to defy.

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