Chapter 527: Descending from the Heavens!

Chapter 527: Chapter 527: Descending from the Heavens!

Li Mo stayed where he was, unable to say a word for a long time.

Finally, he could only smile bitterly and say, "These people’s luck is just too good..."

Just half a minute ago, he thought he was the lucky one, but now that excitement and thrill had faded a bit. The impact was so great that he didn’t even bother to hide that touch of unwillingness in his heart.

Chen Xuan heard his heartfelt voice and could understand his feelings—the Qi sensing talent of loose cultivators was uncertain, but their experiences of embarking on the cultivation path were generally similar. Without guidance or anyone to refer to, they had to explore bit by bit, enduring a decade of painstaking cultivation to barely cross the threshold and become true cultivators.

Yet the villagers of Baihe Village had inexplicably received everything he longed for.

For Li Mo, the feeling of unwillingness was mild... He had essentially wasted over a decade on a detour. This mindset is like a city person seeing the rural folks they once looked down on suddenly becoming rich; if someone had a narrower mind, they might directly resent the villagers.

Fortunately, if he were really that kind of person, he wouldn’t escape Chen Xuan’s discerning eyes.

"I understand... I will do my best." He suppressed the emotions in his heart and lowered his head in agreement.

"Are we still returning to Kun Mountain? Are we not dealing with the demons in Yongtang City?" Li Ziyan asked somewhat helplessly.

"This..."

"Demon fiends must be exterminated, I’ve said they are humanity’s enemies." Chen Xuan made the decision for him, "As for Kun Mountain, is that your base?"

It doesn’t seem to be the name of a town.

"No, Kun Mountain is a place where cultivators gather to exchange information and resources," Li Mo thought about it and felt there was nothing to hide from Lord Taboo, "It’s true we’re loose cultivators, but we just lack a predecessor to establish a sect. Even if the Immortal Masters from Lotus Cloud Sect look down on us, we can’t let ourselves fall into depravity."

I’m afraid you’ll never be able to establish a sect.

The operation mechanism of the Grotto Heaven doesn’t allow for the emergence of a self-iterating cultivator organization.

Chen Xuan realized that once he sold a lot of Heart Methods, it would definitely attract Wei’s attention, and then he would have to consider how to deal with Wei’s "cleansing."

"How did you come to know about the demon fiends in Yongtang City?"

"Someone passed the message to us. After receiving the request for demon extermination, everyone would then discuss who would take the task based on difficulty." Li Mo truthfully replied, "This time it’s presumably a Painted Skin Demon, so I brought my apprentice out to see the world."

"Who is this person?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.

"I don’t know. The letter is carried by traveling merchants, and sometimes it’s not just one batch of cultivators receiving the news. I heard from others that the most one time he saw four teams on site."

That is to say, this courier holds information on many loose cultivators, at least knows where to find them more easily. Such a large workload is unlikely completed by one person alone; there’s probably a civilian organization at work behind it.

Why it’s a civilian organization rather than an official one, Chen Xuan’s reasoning is simple. Lotus Cloud Sect has explicitly prohibited the government from cooperating with loose cultivators and supporting any cultivator organizations other than Lotus Cloud Sect. Although the Six Kingdoms are more or less secretly violating this mandate, now that Immortal Masters have emerged, the kings of various nations can’t continue playing this game in front of the Immortal Masters.

"What is the form of payment if you eliminate the demons?" he continued to ask.

"After the demon fiend is dead, we don’t have to worry about anything; someone will bring the money to Kun Mountain," Li Mo answered.

Oh? That’s quite the gentleman’s agreement, Chen Xuan thought. The financial backer behind doesn’t reveal themselves at all, issuing and settling commissions entirely based on trust, and even pays multiple bounties for a single task, which shows considerable wealth and power.

The issue is... does it only serve Luo Kingdom, or does it exist across the Six Kingdoms? What’s its purpose? It’s hardly for sincerely caring for common folk, right?

"Given that’s the case, follow me to exterminate the demons then." Chen Xuan raised the corners of his mouth, "Ma Shun!"

"Lord Xuan, I’m here!" Ma Shun hurriedly walked out from the house.

"Take care of these two’s bodies," he pointed at Li Mo and Li Ziyan.

"Yes."

Take care? The two froze slightly, "Lord Xuan?"

The next moment, their eyes suddenly rolled back, and they slumped directly onto the chairs.

Chen Xuan retrieved their souls. If they were ordinary people, without souls the body would immediately die, but the bodies reforged by the Lord of Flesh and Blood can sustain themselves for a while; even without consciousness, the blood still flows autonomously.

Soon after, his entire body melted.

Literally melted, his flesh collapsed rapidly, seeping underground like damp mud.

Even if it’s not the first time witnessing such a horrifying sight, Ma Shun still felt his heart racing, his legs softening. He wouldn’t ponder the meaning of taboo like Li Ziyan; he only knew that the other party had taken over his life, whether Lord Xuan is a True Immortal or Great Demon, he had only one choice, to obey.

Meanwhile, already in Yongtang City, Ma Qiuniang felt something, quickly walked to the shadows by the wall and raised her right hand.

A lump of flesh quickly rose on the back of her hand, and the surface split open, a green bird broke free, spreading its wings and flew up. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the shadows.

The green bird is precisely Chen Xuan.

He ascended to a height of a hundred meters, overlooking the capital city from the sky.

In terms of scale, it’s larger than Zhangwei City, clearly a city with a population of hundreds of thousands, with river transport being of utmost importance. The flow of people and goods is quite frequent.

The government only knows people keep disappearing in the city, but they can’t find the bodies or perpetrators. Based on experience, it’s inferred they probably encountered demons. Yet, using conventional methods to find where the demons hide would take at least a few months, meanwhile restricting the residents’ movements inside to prevent the demons from moving or escaping would be a massive blow to the city’s commerce.

If they can’t deal with it, leave it to the professionals. From this perspective, the government should or more or less know about such a civilian organization. After all, the Immortal Masters of Lotus Cloud Sect don’t shift without gaps, and not every Immortal Master is interested in demon slaying and protecting people.

Chen Xuan wasn’t clear on how loose cultivators find demon fiends.

But any method is no match for directly seeing.

He unfolded the Celestial Mist Cloud Birth True Skill, sensing the flow of spiritual Qi in the city. At first, numerous light spots appeared in the city; as he raised the screening threshold, most spots dimmed, leaving only eight.

Among them, six undoubtedly belonged to humans, the contours of their light spots were clear, their brightness obvious, their size moderate, typical cultivators. Surprisingly, there are six loose cultivators in the capital of Pei State, far surpassing Zhangwei, although it’s unclear if these cultivators are guests of wealthy families or like Li Mo, demon exterminators responding to commissions.

But one thing Chen Xuan is sure of is that Yongtang City does indeed have demons, and it’s actually two.

Their spiritual Qi radiance can’t be called light spots but have formed humanoid silhouettes, with dispersed and uniform luminous areas, easily distinguishable from humans.

At this moment, it’s broad daylight, the streets crowded, but he didn’t care.

The green bird swooped down toward the house where the light mass was located, like a bullet from a chamber, piercing through the tiled roof!

With only a muffled boom, Chen Xuan already landed with rolling smoke and debris, and stood straight before the two demon fiends.