[Wilderness, gray-brown valley]
[You took inventory of the spoils obtained after killing True Person Dongsha.]
["Five low-grade magical treasures... two mid-grade magical treasures... and one high-grade magical treasure..."]
["Two Crystal Condensation Pills, three top-grade Core Formation Spiritual Items... and numerous Tier-3 spiritual herbs and materials..."]
["Dozens of Tier-3 talismans... including four life-saving Tier-3 mid-grade talismans... Good thing I killed him fast enough. If I'd given that guy a chance to use one of these, it probably would have added a few breaths of variables..."]
[You were in an excellent mood. True Person Dongsha's total net worth far exceeded that of a normal early-stage Golden Core cultivator.]
[You speculated that most of these items—such as the mid-grade and high-grade magical treasures and the Crystal Condensation Pills—were goods intended for trade with the Jiuyou Region.]
[For True Person Dongsha to dare trade with the demonic cultivators of the Jiuyou Region, he must have been confident. Those four life-saving Tier-3 mid-grade talismans were the source of that confidence.]
[Unfortunately for him, True Person Dongsha met you.]
[No matter how well prepared True Person Dongsha had been, it was to no avail.]
[In fact, you still had many trump cards and backup plans left unused, such as the body cultivation divine ability Eruption.]
[Finally, you directly performed Soul Searching on True Person Dongsha's remnant soul.]
[True Person Dongsha was only at the early Golden Core stage, while your soul strength had crossed the threshold into the Late Golden Core Stage.]
[No matter how much True Person Dongsha's remnant soul resisted, it could not block your forceful Soul Searching.]
["Myriad Spirit Blood Pill... True Person Wangyou..."]
[Forcefully performing Soul Searching on someone of the same realm would not yield complete memories, but you still obtained the key information regarding True Person Dongsha's trade for this trip.]
["True Person Wangyou?"]
[You knew of this demonic path true person. He was the sect master of the Wangyou Sect, a faction in the Jiuyou Region, and possessed early-stage Golden Core cultivation.]
[Within the Jiuyou Region, the Jiuyou Cult was the sole ruler, with numerous demonic and evil sects under its command.]
[The Wangyou Sect was one of them, an ordinary Core Formation faction. Besides True Person Wangyou, the sect also had one False Core True Person.]
["Might as well take care of him at the same time..."]
[You hid inside the valley and waited patiently.]
[Half a day later, a figure soundlessly arrived outside the valley.]
[This figure was precisely True Person Wangyou. He narrowed his eyes, staring into the valley.]
[Before long, True Person Wangyou spotted a figure wearing a bamboo hat.]
[Unable to sense even the slightest trace of an aura from the bamboo-hatted figure, True Person Wangyou furrowed his brows slightly and was just about to speak.]
[Buzz—]
[An extremely concealed soul strike arrived in an instant.]
[True Person Wangyou's eyes widened. Numerous life-saving secret arts and treasures erupted, but they were rapidly wiped out.]
[Another figure appeared beside True Person Wangyou, raising a right hand and pressing it onto the top of the latter's skull.]
[Successfully suppressing True Person Wangyou's remnant soul, you evaluated every detail of your strike.]
[First, True Person Wangyou had absolutely no ability to resist your soul strike.]
[In terms of sheer combat power, True Person Wangyou might not have been much stronger than True Person Dongsha, but his life-saving methods were definitely superior.]
[In the Jiuyou Region, demonic cultivators with weak life-saving methods would have died eight hundred times over by now.]
["Truly worthy of the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators!"]
[You marveled inwardly. Between the two early-stage Golden Core true persons, True Person Dongsha and True Person Wangyou, you held a near-crushing advantage against the latter.]
[Empowered by the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent, all demonic cultivators in the world would be suppressed by you.]
[You took inventory of True Person Wangyou's storage bag.]
[Compared to True Person Dongsha, the spoils inside True Person Wangyou's storage bag were much sparser.]
[Aside from normal demonic path magical treasures and talismans, there was only a Myriad Spirit Blood Pill resting inside a blood-colored jade box.]
["The Myriad Spirit Blood Pill!"]
[Looking at the perfectly round, blood-colored pill in the jade box, you faintly recalled the grand demonic pill that True Lord Seven Fiends had refined using the cultivators of an entire city in the third simulation.]
["The Myriad Spirit Blood Pill can allow an early-stage Golden Core true person to rapidly cultivate to the peak of the early stage... What a pity that this kind of pill harbors numerous hidden dangers. Once consumed, the difficulty of stepping into the rank of a Late-Stage Great True Person will skyrocket!"]
[You thought to yourself.]
[Demonic path methods pursued quick success, and most were like this.]
[As long as you followed the step-by-step process of your cultivation, you would steadily enter the Late Golden Core Stage; naturally, you wouldn't take this sort of pill.]
[Of course, the Myriad Spirit Blood Pill was of no use to you. However, to true persons with a Low-Grade Gold Core, or even a medium-grade Gold Core, it was an out-and-out miraculous elixir.]
[True persons with a Low-Grade Gold Core had an infinitesimally slim hope of ever stepping into the Late-Stage Great True Person rank, so they naturally did not care whether taking the pill would ruin their chances of reaching the Late Golden Core Stage.]
[Even though you couldn't use this Myriad Spirit Blood Pill, you could easily sell it to other true persons at a high price.]
[Having finished inventorying all the spoils from the two true persons, your net worth surged drastically.]
["Murdering for loot... is indeed the fastest way to get rich..."]
[You sighed. In the cultivation world, the cycle of murdering for loot never stopped, and this was exactly why.]
["It's a pity I'm not suited for this path..."]
[You shook your head privately.]
[If you chose to become a bandit or a demonic cultivator, you might earn wealth in ten years that would normally take a century to accumulate.]
[But you would inevitably encounter all sorts of dangers and face pursuit from high-realm cultivators. You might even die a sudden death within twenty or thirty years.]
[You didn't consider yourself a child of grand destiny who could turn peril into safety whenever facing danger.]
["Next comes the cleanup phase..."]
[You returned to the interior of the valley, your expression slightly grave.]
[Boom—]
[Your aura suddenly began to skyrocket.]
[Body cultivation divine ability: Eruption]
[In a flash, your soul strength reached the great circle of Core Formation.]
[You brought out the remnant souls of True Person Dongsha and True Person Wangyou and began forcefully conducting Soul Searching on them.]
[You had already performed Soul Searching on True Person Dongsha's remnant soul, but the memories obtained were incomplete. By utilizing the divine ability Eruption this time, your soul strength would remain at the great circle of Core Formation for the next hundred breaths, so you planned to search his soul once more.]
[Twenty breaths passed. You had forcefully conducted Soul Searching on both true persons' remnant souls in their entirety once more.]
[You began sweeping the inside and outside of the valley, scrambling the auras to prevent tracking from retro-cognitive spells.]
[Afterward, you closed your eyes and used the art of Divination to scramble the heavenly secrets.]
[Since the skill of Divination could perform divinatory deductions, it could naturally also prevent one from being divined and deduced by others.]
[What you were doing right now was exactly that—obscuring True Person Dongsha's true cause of death.]
[With your current Divination skill, combined with your soul reaching the great circle of Core Formation, no one could deduce True Person Dongsha's real cause of death—unless a Tier-3 low-grade diviner was willing to expend a massive amount of lifespan, or a Tier-3 mid-grade diviner invested a small amount of lifespan to perform the deduction.]
[As for a Tier-3 high-grade diviner? It was unknown whether Nascent Soul-level factions like Taiyuan Palace or the Jiuyou Cult even had one, let alone whether they could be convinced to help with deductions.]
[Diviners of that level would not easily take action to divine anything.]
[Otherwise, if they divined for one person today and another tomorrow, they would sooner or later suffer a backlash from the heavenly secrets and die of old age from depleting their lifespan.]
[Whether it was True Person Dongsha or True Person Wangyou, both were mere early-stage Golden Core true persons. It was practically impossible for them to attract a Tier-3 high-grade diviner's help.]
["That should be about it."]
[You opened your eyes, your soul slightly fatigued.]
[The path of Divination heavily taxed one's mental energy.]
[To conceal True Person Dongsha's true cause of death this time, you naturally went all out.]
[Finally, you patted your spirit beast bag, and a late Foundation Establishment stage avian demonic beast appeared in front of you.]
[Although this late Foundation Establishment avian demonic beast didn't have strong combat power, it was extremely skilled at flying; it was a native demonic beast of this wilderness.]
[You stuffed the jade box suppressing True Person Wangyou's remnant soul inside the avian demonic beast's body.]
[Then, you had Xiao Hei use the bloodline suppression of a Third-Tier Great Monster to force this avian beast to fly continuously in a single direction.]
[After your Soul Searching, you had obliterated the memories within True Person Wangyou's remnant soul. Now, only instinct remained in this remnant soul, which had entered an irreversible state of dissipation.]
[In about ten to twenty years, it would completely fade away.]
[However, as long as the remnant soul remained, True Person Wangyou wasn't dead yet.]
[Watching the avian demonic beast carry True Person Wangyou's remnant soul and vanish from sight, you brought out True Person Dongsha's remnant soul and directly wiped it out.]
[Thus, True Person Dongsha completely died, while True Person Wangyou—who had traded with him—was still alive and completely untraceable.]
[Any normal cultivator would assume that True Person Wangyou murdered True Person Dongsha for his loot.]
[The heavenly secrets were also obscured. You didn't believe there would be any Tier-3 low-grade or mid-grade diviners willing to sacrifice their lifespan to deduce True Person Dongsha's true cause of death.]
[And even if they deduced his true cause of death, at most they would only learn that he hadn't died by True Person Wangyou's hands. It was still a very, very far cry from locking onto you.]
[Attempting to divine a diviner of the same realm would increase the difficulty by another tier.]
[Two months later, you returned to the Taiyuan Region.]
[At the same time, you received a message from True Person Blood Sea.]
[He stated that True Person Dongsha's death had caused quite a stir in the merchant association circles on Profound King Island.]
[The Core Formation guest elder of the Dongsha Merchant Association directly locked onto True Person Wangyou of the Jiuyou Region as the murderer.]
[As for the Wangyou Sect... the remaining False Core True Person of the Wangyou Sect silently consented to the accusation, given that he had confirmed his sect master was still alive.]
[After all, in the Jiuyou Region, murdering for loot was far too common.]
[This False Core True Person of the Wangyou Sect even grumbled privately that his sect master was hogging the spoils by not bringing him along to murder and rob.]
[With True Person Dongsha dead, the Dongsha Merchant Association collapsed after a single setback and naturally lost any intention of running for vice leader of the alliance.]
[During normal times, the vice leader's power wasn't very great, and during the election, one had to win over various merchant associations, which required paying a hefty price.]
[True Person Dongsha's desire to compete for the vice leader position was entirely because he valued the prestige that the title represented.]
["The matter is just about wrapped up."]
[You waited another two months, and your mind settled.]
[During this time, the matter of True Person Dongsha's death gradually calmed down, and no other unexpected variables arose.]
[One naturally had to be extremely cautious when trading with the demonic cultivators of the Jiuyou Region. For True Person Dongsha to fall due to his carelessness, he could only blame his own insufficient strength.]
[The Dongsha Merchant Association wanted revenge, but against the demonic cultivators of the Jiuyou Region, they could only dream about it.]
[One month later, you walked out of the Purple Bamboo Forest Cave Dwelling and gazed afar toward the direction of the Jiuyou Region.]
["A few years from now, True Lord Seven Fiends will take over as the new cult master of the Jiuyou Cult..."]
[Your thoughts turned.]
[In the third simulation, it was exactly a few years from this current timeframe when you heard the intelligence of True Lord Seven Fiends succeeding to the cult master position.]
["I can't stay... in this Taiyuan Region anymore..."]
[You sighed internally.]
[Less than twenty years after True Lord Seven Fiends took over as cult master, he would show up in the Taiyuan Region. Cooperating with True Person Biyue from the inside out, they would devour the entire city of cultivators in Biyue Immortal City.]
[In other words, True Person Biyue would contact True Lord Seven Fiends beforehand...]
[Given your standing in True Person Biyue's heart, if by chance she made a passing request to have True Lord Seven Fiends conveniently eliminate you...]
[Facing the killing intent of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, you had zero capacity to resist. Even possessing the Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent would be utterly meaningless.]
[The Natural Enemy of Demonic Cultivators talent could only grant you a massive advantage within the same realm, but against a high-realm true lord?]
[Of course, the probability of this was very low. True Person Biyue wouldn't stir up extra trouble just for your sake, and Seven Killings Demon Lord wouldn't strike early and alert the enemy just because of True Person Biyue's request.]
[But you had to be on guard.]
[You always preferred to think about problems from the worst-case perspective.]
["Never mind, I'll go to Profound King Island first to weather the storm..."]
[You had made a decision.]
[Profound King Island didn't reject foreign cultivators. With Venerable Xuan slumbering at the bottom of the lake, it was strictly forbidden for any true lord to approach.]
[Not to mention, over these past years, you had already laid down roots on Profound King Island, and the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce branch you established was flourishing.]
["I'll let Fellow Daoist Blood Sea hold down the fort in the Taiyuan Region, and leave Profound King Island to me."]
[You immediately stood up, not intending to bring Xiao Hei with you.]
[Xiao Hei was your spirit pet; you could share his senses and field of vision at any time.]
[Leaving Xiao Hei in the Taiyuan Region was equivalent to leaving an eye behind, allowing you to learn the latest intelligence at a moment's notice.]
[This was quite important for you to understand the situation in the Taiyuan Region.]
[Half a year later, you brought Li Yan with you and smoothly arrived at Profound King Island.]
[In the third simulation, you had visited Profound King Island once, so you were quite familiar with this place.]
["If there is important information or intelligence, contact me directly using the Concentric Stone."]
[At the Qingyuan Chamber of Commerce branch stronghold on Profound King Island, you completed the handover with True Person Blood Sea.]
[True Person Blood Sea nodded slightly, having no objections.]
[Having presided over Profound King Island all these years, he was getting a bit tired of it and felt it was a good time to head back and stroll around the Taiyuan Region.]
["Without my orders, absolutely do not approach Biyue Immortal City, and especially do not appear in front of Demoness Biyue."]
[You spoke up to remind him.]
["I know!"]
[True Person Blood Sea was very calm. In this simulation, he had more choices; naturally, he had no need to rush into mutual destruction with True Person Biyue.]
[Year 68, you were eighty-four years old.]
[You quickly adapted to life on Profound King Island. Compared to the Taiyuan Region, here you could come into contact with cultivators from major regions all around.]
[Your channels for obtaining information and intelligence rose to a higher level.]
[On this day, you finished your cultivation.]
[A beautiful female cultivator came to visit you.]
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