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Chapter 1303: Chapter 982: Cooperation (2)

The flattering underlings indulged in slaughter, and the bones delivered were immediately seen through by him.

A classic case of "I did not kill Boren, but Boren died because of me," Qian Xiaoyu, to avoid committing murder, dared not accept any more corpses. At this time, he began to feel the tangible benefits, as his realm, stagnant for years, began to loosen.

Thus, after some careful thinking, he realized the essence in the remains was pitifully small, so why not devour and refine demon beasts?

After all, in the countless cities of the Wilderness World, demon cultivators survive by hunting demon beasts. Directly picking high-quality demon beasts to refine essence is acceptable even if it involves slaughter, since there’s the tribulation crossing array gifted by the Protector, allowing easy tribulation crossing.

Qian Xiaoyu only mentioned it casually, and advanced demon beasts from all over were continuously transported to him.

Devour, refine, become stronger; in just two months, he successfully used the array to cross the thunder tribulation and advance his realm! Afterward, his desire to become stronger began to swell, and the pleasure of devouring living beings made him eager to try consuming humans, especially cultivators with refined spiritual power.

Eventually, he could no longer resist the temptation. After tasting the exquisite flavor of devouring cultivators, the feeling of gaining without effort and standing high above all living beings led him step by step to corruption.

However, Qian Xiaoyu was very cunning.

He did not, like other evil cultivators, impatiently develop subordinates, but instead used power to make targeted underlings serve him. Otherwise, once they joined as evil cultivators and tasted the benefits, how could they, under so many enticing conditions, fully search for cultivators for him to devour and refine?

However, high-level cultivators are rare, and ordinary demon cultivators offer little from refining, yet they might resist, causing trouble and low cost-effectiveness.

Qian Xiaoyu carefully compared and ultimately concluded—the little demons that have just transformed are the purest in essence and the easiest to refine. Additionally, these little demons have no combat power, making it extremely convenient to grasp and quickly refine them.

So he demanded boys and girls, then imprisoned them and fed them demon cores, waiting for them to absorb abundant spiritual energy before mass devouring.

Afterwards, to better hide his evil cultivator identity, after careful consideration, Qian Xiaoyu pulled the Vice Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, Shang Jiuxiao, into the water, developing him as a subordinate. He personally helped him contribute merit to become a squad leader of the Leisure Sect.

"From refining remains to devouring demon beasts, and then starting to eat demon cultivators, little demons, such a step-by-step fall is pathetic." Gao Yi remained silent for a long time after listening, examining his own heart in the face of such temptation, fearing that without an extremely strong mindset, he might also fail to resist.

After all, an evil cultivator can peacefully cross the thunder tribulation unless the Leisure Sect is completely wiped out. Otherwise, no one could possibly believe that a great cultivator like Qian Xiaoyu is of an evil path.

Hu Zhile slightly calmed his mind and softly said, "Nowadays in the wilderness, many demon cultivators are beginning to whitewash for the Leisure Sect, claiming that their cultivation is not an evil technique, just that it’s some cultivators with dwindling lifespan seeking a livelihood. Ha, who knows why some demon cultivators like to empathize with the perpetrators."

"They generously offer others’ resources; if the stick falls on themselves, they’d have already shouted curses all over. The victim is not themselves, some demon cultivators thus associate with wanton wrongdoers, evil cultivators. Frankly, they’re all potential members of the Leisure Sect, fantasizing they might someday step on others and indulge in power."

Gao Yi coldly said, "To those who whitewash evil cultivators, I can only wish they meet all evil cultivators quickly so they don’t waste the pure spiritual energy between heaven and earth."

He pinched a pink sparkling little flower, and with a flick of his finger, it shattered into pink mist that surrounded the heavily battered Qian Xiaoyu. Hu Zhile softly asked, "Those little demons that have just transformed, where do you imprison them?"

"In the cave residence a hundred miles southwest of Niutou Mountain Market, given as tribute by my subordinate workshop chief, Pei Jian."

Finally asking where the children were imprisoned, Ling Di volunteered, "I’ve been to Niutou Mountain, leave rescuing the little demons to me!"

It directly tore through space and quickly returned, with a group of little demons just barely managing transformation.

"Waa waa waa, I want to find mommy!"

"Don’t kill me! Please, I’m not tasty with just a few ounces of meat!"

"Help! Master save me!"

......

The City Lord’s Mansion’s backyard was filled with over ten crying little demons, instantly turning the oppressive atmosphere into chaos.

"Quickly ask Miss Hu if there are any other little demons to rescue?" Ling Di was frustrated by the crying group of children, his dog ears tightly pressed, frowning helplessly: "If not, quickly arrange to send these children wherever they should go, each crying and yelling, my ears are buzzing."

Finally keeping vigil to a satisfactory outcome, Yun Mo folded his large wings, pulling aside seventeen or eighteen little demons, "Don’t cry! See that pretty lady there? She’s Miss Gongxi, the City Lord’s daughter of Carefree City. Quickly tell her your name and where you live, then you can go find your parents."

According to Qian Xiaoyu’s confession, a large portion of these little demons were trafficked by human smugglers, bought by the commerce association and given as gifts. To save costs in buying little demons, sometimes they would also target little demons in the cities, either abducting, deceiving, or stealing them.

This time, Du Li ordered an investigation into the commerce association’s warehouse accounts. Zhong Yingui, who was guarding and stealing, couldn’t balance his books and, finding a scapegoat needed, found two fitting children and directly dragged them away to give to Qian Xiaoyu.

"Fortunately, fortunately, he always needs to gather thirty to forty little demons before devouring in one go. This time the quantity wasn’t enough, so he hadn’t managed to devour yet." Hu Zhile said in fright, "Otherwise, these children would have suffered. Pitiful for those previous young ones. This scoundrel is utterly vile; even a slow death or lighting the sky lantern wouldn’t be enough to quell the anger!"

Du Li rubbed his temples, sounded muffled: "Once interrogated, he’ll be handed over to Mr. Jiang for disposal. I predict Qian Xiaoyu can’t die just yet; after all, he’s a squad leader in the Leisure Sect. Mr. Jiang will certainly extract more evil cultivators from him, a final contribution."

Now explaining the current progress to Jiang Yuan, who still awaits more evil cultivators lists, there’s an imperative to quickly purge the alliance of internal evil cultivators and parasites!

"I too want to know which Demon Realm Alliance members are evil cultivators, but I’m really short of time now." Jiang Yuan urged for patience.

He then carefully chose his words, mimicking Qi Baijun’s speaking habits, and issued a ban — from now on, the Leisure Sect will not accept new members, existing members are to cease activities and not develop subordinates until the ban is lifted. Also, Leisure Sect members should act discreetly, suspending cultivation if necessary.

All evil cultivators of the Leisure Sect across the Wilderness simultaneously received the ban from the Three Protectors, feeling bewildered.

"Could Qi Guardian have gone mad? Why no longer accept new members?"

"Damn it! I tirelessly tried sweet-talking and persuading, finally convincing over ten friends to join. Just reported to the Incense Master, isn’t such big merit about to go to waste?"

"Act discreetly, suspend cultivation if necessary, does that mean hunting can’t happen for now? Does that mean trafficking has to stop too?"

"Probably should stop; something’s absolutely up, and it’s big trouble! Better not catch a bullet."

"Eek! Haven’t you heard? Members in the Qihan Mountain area were wiped out, only Incense Master Yang Sansi survived."

"Whoa! That’s explosive! What’s the situation, quickly tell!"

"Couldn’t it be offending some orthodox cultivators to so thoroughly be eradicated?"

......

The circles of lower-level evil cultivators were relatively fixed, quickly connecting familiar peers to inquire about the situation after receiving the Guardian’s ban;

The mid-level ones were more cautious, although not actively probing, they had somewhat heard the news of over a hundred under Yang Sansi’s banner falling. The Six Elder ordered the matter to be fully handled by the Three Protectors, indicating the situation had reached a critical juncture.

There were only so many in higher levels; the Six Elder was still striving in bed, completely ignoring sect affairs;

The Second Guardian was in retreat, still not engaging in any decision-making;

Four Guardian You Lai only sent a terse two-word message — "What’s up?"

The Great Protector was furious, directly sending a message filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, "Qi Baijun, the Six Elder entrusted you with full responsibility for this task, is this how you handle it?

Directly banning new members, do you know how many talents the Leisure Sect loses each day? Do you know how much essence new members contribute? Can you bear the losses caused by this ban?"

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