Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

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Chen Qiu glanced at the scholar. His Cultivation was still intact? This was the first time the scholar had so openly spoken about it—if his Cultivation had still been intact. Although he could often guess as much before, they had never explicitly addressed it.

However, he did not say much about it.

Instead, he bowed his head and pondered for a moment before softly asking, "How did you learn that someone is planning to use the lives of a million cultivators in Fufeng City as a sacrifice to Heaven? Are there any traces of Evil Cultivation or Demon Cultivation activities?"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The scholar, seated cross-legged on the ground in the alley, remained silent for a long while before finally speaking hoarsely, "This method is very familiar, the one behind it is Scion of Ten Thousand Demons, a practitioner of Evil Cultivation. His usual tactic is to control countless demon beasts to attack the small towns and villages outside the city. After sacrificing the townspeople to Heaven, he greatly enhances his own Cultivation."

"He had always been pursued by me in the past."

"But this thief is extremely cunning, with many means of escape, making many of my attempts to kill him unsuccessful."

"After I was down on my luck, I could no longer afford to care about it. Unexpectedly, over these years, he has grown to the point where his Cultivation has reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and he is just one step away from breaking through to Golden Core. He just needs to sacrifice all the million living souls in Fufeng City to breakthrough on the spot."

"Those demon beasts outside the city are all under his control, becoming more ferocious as they lose their reason and fear of pain. Once they swarm, they will be unstoppable."

"There is no one in Fufeng City who can match him. The best strategy before the formation is complete is to flee quickly. But unfortunately... it's already too late."

Chen Qiu remained silent, scanning the surroundings. By now, quite a few armor-clad soldiers had surged onto the city walls. Loads of strategic resources were continuously being delivered to the top of the walls—disposable magic artifacts, talismans, war-level Spiritual Treasures, Array Plates, and so forth.

The city's defenses were strong.

According to the scholar, those demon beasts outside should only be at most at the peak of Foundation Establishment too. After all, Scion of Ten Thousand Demons himself only possessed the Cultivation of the peak Foundation Establishment. Could he control Golden Core demon beasts?

In Xia Country, basically the City Lord of each city has Golden Core Cultivation. Of course, Fufeng City is a mundane city, and the City Lord has relatively weaker Cultivation, only at the peak of Foundation Establishment. But being an official of Da Xia, he carries the Qi Fortune of Da Xia, making him almost invincible among his peers.

Additionally, the workshop owner from Wentian Market is a Golden Core Great Power. As long as the City Lord sincerely requests his assistance, dealing with a peak Foundation Establishment practitioner of Evil Cultivation should be secure.

Moreover, at this time, Fufeng City had gathered many youngsters from powerful families and Major Sects. The collective power behind these individuals was not weak. With their young generations trapped in the city by Evil Cultivation, could their backing Golden Core Great Powers just sit back and watch?

Furthermore, Xia Country would definitely not allow its Fufeng City to be slaughtered; they must have already received the news, and perhaps the City Lords from nearby cities were already en route to reinforce them.

A mere peak Foundation Establishment practitioner of Evil Cultivation. Given all these factors, it did not seem he could possibly slaughter Fufeng City.

It rather seemed like he was sending himself to death.

At this moment, Fat Long also expressed his confusion, "Can a mere peak Foundation Establishment practitioner of Evil Cultivation truly pose such a threat? Even make Fufeng City face the danger of being slaughtered? Brother Qiu, last time you also killed a late-stage Demon Cultivation practitioner."

"It's different."

The scholar shook his head, "Demon Cultivators are just a bit... unorthodox in their methods but are more or less still normal people; their combat power, although a bit stronger than a regular cultivator of the same rank, isn't much stronger."

"Evil Cultivators, on the other hand, are genuinely invincible among their peers."

"They seek not immortality, but only battle power."

"Besides these, various eerie methods are also impossible to guard against, and fighting beyond one's level is a common tactic for soldiers, just like this Evil Cultivator, the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons. To my knowledge, he alone has at least three types of Far Escape Techniques."

"Each type comes with the price of consuming lifespan."

"Other eerie methods are too numerous to count, and this man also possesses a particularly eerie technique. As soon as a demon beast controlled by him dies, it transforms into a mass of flesh and blood that fills the sky. Then, this flesh and blood reassembles into ten demon beasts. The original beast's three souls and seven spirits each enter a body. Though they lack Spiritual Wisdom and only possess a bloodthirsty instinct, their strength is weaker compared to before."

"Of course, when these ten demon beasts die, they are completely annihilated."

"But even so, it is still a terrifying method."

"If you kill one of his demon beasts, that beast immediately turns into ten demon beasts upon death."

"The more you kill, the more they appear; it's endless."

"Unless you quickly locate this man and execute a strike to kill him instantly, these waves of demon beasts could bring an extremely terrifying disaster to Fufeng City within a few hours."

"I understand your point, and as for why I am somewhat pessimistic... follow me."

As his words fell, the scholar's sleeve trembled slightly, transforming into a stream of light that shot toward the city wall, leading the group to a less crowded part of the wall: "Take a look outside."

Although his Qingfeng sword couldn't fly outside the array, it could still freely choose its landing points within Fufeng City.

At this moment, the scene was quite chaotic, with many cultivators of decent Cultivation voluntarily stepping forward to ascend the walls and prepare for the defense of the city.

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Miles of continuous black clouds nearly blocked out all light, with Thunder Light constantly flashing among them, and the spirit fields surrounding Fufeng City were already trampled by the demon beasts.

Countless demon beasts surged from all directions, firmly enclosing Fufeng City in the middle.

But as these demon beasts were about to rush to the walls of Fufeng City, their speed gradually slowed down, and they did not launch an immediate attack, merely surrounding the city, seemingly waiting for something.

The entire wall was filled with a murderous aura.

A great battle was inevitable.

Even the air seemed to have been permeated with the scent of blood, and one could vaguely see numerous completely black crows with white pupils perched on the eaves of buildings. Read new chapters at empire

The scholar, in silence, overlooked the countless ferocious demon beasts roaring outside the wall and murmured, "Although the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons could forcefully control demon beasts before, based on my understanding of him, his Divine Sense has not reached the level of controlling so many creatures, even with his Cultivation having broken through to the peak of Foundation Establishment."

"Unless something unexpected happens, the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons must have joined the 'Evil Hall', a power composed of Evil Cultivators. Every member within this power is an Evil Cultivator, yet no one has found where their stronghold is located for many years."

"And the 'Evil Hall' possesses a supreme Foundation Establishment treasure with one effect, that being to greatly enhance Divine Sense. I remember that this treasure is the strongest in Da Xia Country for enhancing Divine Sense."

"Only with this treasure could the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons control so many demon beasts at the peak of Foundation Establishment, meaning this disaster was concocted by the 'Evil Hall'. This is a completely different concept from just the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons alone; the 'Evil Hall' has no shortage of Golden Core experts."