Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 417 - 339 Clever Upgrade Method_1

Chapter 417: Chapter 339 Clever Upgrade Method_1

In the early hours of the morning, on a stone platform located behind the Qinglong Hall, dozens of headless corpses were piled up, their blood gushing into the adjacent sewer.

At the center of the stone platform stood a colossal ’Ya Zi’ stone statue radiating a red glow all over, its menacing eyes were looming over the scene below.

——This place was known as the Demon-Beheading House, the execution ground of the Qinglong Hall. Every once in a while, the Qinglong Hall would ’dispose of’ the evil cultivators and felons they had captured.

To prevent the formation of vengeful spirits and the lingering of miasma that could harm future generations, the Liudao Division had spent a huge amount of money to erect a magic array here, ground the bones of a pure-blood ’Ya Zi’ into powder, used a secret technique to craft a stone statue to suppress this place, and employed it to crush the Shenpo of these evil cultivators.

"This is the last batch, almost all the deserving ones inside the Zhenyao Tower have been dealt with, it should be good for at least three months now."

This was a middle-aged man dressed in the uniform of a Fumo Duyu. He led a group of demon slayers of Liudao, bringing seven evil cultivators who were chained with heavy iron chains to this stone pit.

As this middle-aged Duwei spoke, he cast a peculiar gaze at Li Xuan standing in the center, then pointed at a particularly burly man among the seven prisoners, who was as sturdy as an iron tower, and said, "This time, the only grandmaster from the Fourth Gate is this man, Tie Futu Wan Guohao. Two months ago, he slaughtered an entire village, intending to cultivate the Blood Asura secret technique. As a result, he was captured by four Fumo Zhonglangjiang of our Liudao Division. His Mana is extraordinary, having fought ten people by himself, and seriously injured two of our Zhonglangjiang officers."

Li Xuan held a Ghost Head Broadsword filled with runes, casting his somewhat expectant gaze in that direction.

However, he then proceeded as usual, beheading the evil cultivators who were brought before him. When it came to the last man, this towering burly man, with disheveled hair, began to struggle violently. Not only were the chains beginning to crack, but the Zhenhun nails that had been hammered into his body were also popping out one by one. Several Youjiao demon slayers who grabbed the chains and tried to control him were all violently thrown off by this man.

Li Xuan stood before him, watching him calmly.

"In your next life, remember to be a good person, do more good deeds, no wait——"

At this point, the blade in Li Xuan’s hand was already swinging out like a crescent moon.

The burly iron tower of a man couldn’t help but open his eyes wide in anger, struggling violently. He jumped from the Demon-Beheading House to a height of over 30 feet. However, the crescent-like blade light still severed his head with one cut.

The middle-aged Duwei, upon seeing this, couldn’t help but brighten his eyes. Li Xuan’s one strike was fast, vicious, and accurate, like a thunderbolt and lightning flash, even faster than light, it really encapsulated the essence of knife arts.

Then, Li Xuan stood in place, sensing with his mind.

At this moment in his mind, he indeed gained an extra segment of memory, which belonged to this ’Tie Futu’ Wan Guohao.

But it was neither a Yi of the sword or swordsmanship, but a perfected Henglian technique called ’Devil Refining Immortal Body’.

This man’s Wuyi came from a monster species called ’Red-horned Rhino’ - it was said that this monster species who bloodline was extremely close to the Divine Beast, would possess an immortal body after reaching the heavenly level. Wan Guohao had followed its teachings, and his Martial Law had reached the ’Spirit Realm’ mid-phase.

This was why the man’s Golden Body was exceptionally formidable. Only with the joint efforts of four Zhonglangjiang from the Fourth Gate did they capture him, albeit two were heavily injured.

If it wasn’t for his average escape technique, they might not have caught him; if it wasn’t for the seventy-two Zhenhun Nails that they’d hammered into him, piercing his Pipa bones, Li Xuan wouldn’t have been able to behead him with a single stroke.

Li Xuan thought that was a coincidence, as he was recently practicing the Tiebushan and Golden Bell Cover, both of which were Golden Body techniques, with the help of the ’Heavenly Tao Fruit’ that Qiu Qianqiu have given him.

While Wan Guohao was not on the same path as him, they could reference and verify each other.

In addition, with the continuous execution of forty-two evil cultivators and felons, the golden threads on his arm grew. Accompanied by a strong sense of hunger.

The monstrous ’Taotie’ was manifesting, eyes gleaming with a murderous look, baring its teeth at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan gave a cold smile, opened his eyes and glaring back at the monstrous ’Taotie’. Under his overwhelming aura, this fierce monster immediately howled and turned into a bunch of golden smoke, integrating into his armguard.

However, Li Xuan had no sense of triumph, instead, he cast a somewhat worried look at the other side. That was the ’Wuqu Pojun’ armguard, which had not shown any signs of the master-devouring phenomenon.

The main spirit of Wuqu was Fu Youde, and the main spirit of Pojun was Lan Yu - both of them were at the ’Middle Heaven’ level. They had made significant contributions to the nation, but their entire family had been brutally murdered. The degree of their resentment would only far exceed that of the ’Taotie’.

Li Xuan thought that a biting dog doesn’t bark. This ’Wuqu Pojun’ was the most dangerous. If they didn’t move, fine, but once they started to devour the master, it would undoubtedly be an incredibly dangerous situation. Unlike the ’Taotie’, which had no intelligence at all and though it was currently causing a ruckus, the threat it posed to him was almost negligible.

Li Xuan then took out his ’Bixue Leique Sword’, infused it with a strand of Zhenyuan, and activated the Thunder Yi of Sword.

He then noticed that the fierce red light wrapped around the sword was denser than before —— which meant that the power of the arm guard ’Wuqu Pojun’ had increased quite a bit.

Li Xuan then took out a couple of hand-sized, extremely hard iron ingots from his small Sumi Ring and tossed them into the air.

With the blade flashing with Thunderbolt, Li Xuan cut them open without effort. He was pleasantly surprised, with the assisting might of ’Wuqu Pojun’, his blade reached an unprecedented pinnacle of sharpness.

By the same logic, the defensive capabilities of the arm guard ’Taotie’, would also be greatly enhanced.

Li Xuan was overjoyed, and then steadily opened over sixty bottles of ’Jiuyou Oil’, guzzling them down like he was drinking water.

—— These things had cost him nearly fifty thousand teals of silver, and he had bought a total of 120 bottles. The money was borrowed from Luo Yan, he had already spent half of it before he had received the reward for slaying Li Zhetian.

It seemed he would have to spend more and buy some more, as 120 bottles of ’Jiuyou Oil’ were far from enough.

Once the hunger in Lixuan’s stomach finally subsided, he found that a towering fire had been ignited on the Demons-Beheading House.

They were burning bodies, these cultist corpses were extremely dangerous, prone to spawn Evil Spirits, causing a demon disaster. Therefore, they needed to be burnt and their ashes sent to a Buddhist temple or Taoist temple for sealing and refining.

Li Xuan sheathed his long sword, then bowed to the middle-aged Duwei, "Duwei Lin, I express my gratitude here, you have helped me a lot this time."

"Earl Jingan, you don’t need to be so formal." The middle-aged Duwei Lin shook his head, chuckling, "It was a small effort on my part, moreover, in my opinion, your killing these criminals for us, is what we were eagerly hoping for."

These cultists were steeped in sin, and deeply brutal, it was easy to kill them, but it was inevitable that it would stir up trouble. In the past, people like you who borrowed criminals to hone their Yi of the sword, or practice secret techniques, were not uncommon."

He thought that Li Xuan killed these criminals to practice a secret technique that required blood, or to nurture a certain type of fierce sword Yi.

What surprised him was that after Li Xuan had killed dozens of people, there were no signs of sin or resentment born from him.

His family were hereditary executioners of the Liudao Division, they possessed a special ’Spirit Eye’ spell at home, which allowed them to examine the amount of sin and resentment on a person —— it was the biggest problem that puzzled them.

That’s why all of the world’s executioners were people with strong blood and life vigour.

Li Xuan just laughed, without any intention of explaining, "I won’t stand on ceremony with Duwei Lin, in short, if there’s anything that Duwei Lin needs assistance with in the future, do not hesitate to ask. Besides, if the Liudao Division must execute any criminals in the near future, please make sure to inform me."

The middle-aged Duwei shook his head: "There won’t be any for a short while, I suggest you look for Duwei Du. Their squad is in charge of beheading monster species, they behead quite a lot every year, around eight hundred."

Li Xuan had actually already looked for him, but he had to wait three more days. He was not sure whether the blood and soul of the monster species would contribute to the recovery of Taotie and Wuqu Pojun.

Afterwards, he left the Demons-Beheading House and quickly headed in the direction of the food market.

—— He had to go to the market, just around noon, there was a large batch of criminals to be executed there. A total of 370 people with a higher overall quality than that of the Liudao Division.

Just before the start of autumn, a big embezzlement case broke out at the northern borders, and among these condemned prisoners to be executed, thirty-seven corrupt officials and military generals were outed by Shaobao Yu alone.

Part of the prisoners were from the south Zhili, part were involved with the arms trafficking case, a part stemmed from Lin Ziyang’s Zhenjiang Rebellion, and a part related to the rebellion involving Jianling’s descendants and the Maitreya Teaching. Among them were a total of seventy-nine military generals, and there were two deputy commanders, all of whom were transferred to the north for execution.

The so-called ’Autumn Ask to Behead’, in the book ’Chunqiu Fanlu’, it is written ’Celebration is for spring, reward is for summer, punishment is for autumn, execution is for winter’. It is now November, the right time for execution.

Li Xuan was interested in them all, after all his two immortal treasures were refined with the help of the Yuanhun and blood of corrupt officials and military generals.

That’s why this time he utilised family connections and asked Xiuyiwei Zuo Daoxing for help, allowing him to take over the executioner’s duties.