Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 853: Shocking news

Chapter 853: Shocking news

If that were truly the case, all his arrangements in Dongsheng Divine Continent would have been in vain.

"Fellow Taoist, spreading this lie is meaningless. A Great Luo Golden Immortal can’t pretend to be an Innate Dao Sovereign, and by the same token, an Innate Dao Sovereign can’t pretend to be a Great Luo Golden Immortal. The undying Innate light between your brows has already given away your true identity."

"Or do you feel that, even with six Innate Dao Sovereigns joining forces on my side, we still can’t force out your true cultivation level?"

Standing up, Jiang Chen approached the elder with a smiling face and said.

He knew the elder from Whitehead Mountain was done for. From the moment he sat back and watched his disciple being killed, and that Immortal Dao expert who spoke for him was slain, he was finished.

Hiding one’s cultivation level wasn’t a big deal; many did it, and it was an unspoken rule. But the elder from Whitehead Mountain made the gravest mistake. When the two were attacked by the Heavenly Demon, he still chose to hide his cultivation level.

If the elder had chosen to reveal his cultivation level during the attack and had stepped forward to save them, his prestige wouldn’t have been affected in the slightest. In fact, it would have solidified everyone’s resolve to stand with him.

Regrettably, he made the stupidest choice, not only failing to reveal his cultivation level but also allowing the two to die in front of him. Afterwards, he even used their deaths as leverage. This made his concealment of cultivation seem ulterior and raised everyone’s suspicions and wariness towards him.

It took tens of thousands of years to build such prestige, but because of one small mistake, it all collapsed in an instant and turned to water.

One could only say, a demon is a demon; no matter how long or convincingly they play the role of a good person, they can’t change their nature. If he didn’t truly look down on mankind, why would he have sat and watched the two die?

"Elder from Whitehead Mountain, is what this Emperor Lord of Heaven Court says true? Do you really possess the cultivation of an Innate Dao Sovereign?"

"When the two fellow Taoists were in trouble, why didn’t you intervene to save them? One of them was your own disciple, whom you raised. How could you be so cold-blooded and watch him die before your eyes?"

Around them, some masters expressed their discontent, hurling accusations at the elder from Whitehead Mountain.

"Fellow Taoists, do not be swayed by that deceiver’s instigation. It’s not that I was unwilling to help, but that I was incapable despite my willingness."

"The disciples of Whitehead Mountain were targeted by a mysterious master, and I was confronting him at that time, which consumed most of my attention, and that’s why I couldn’t rescue them in time."

Faced with the public’s reprimand, the elder from Whitehead Mountain naturally did not take pleasure in it, but he couldn’t show it on his face. Instead, he put on an aggrieved expression and provided various explanations to the people around, attempting to justify why he didn’t save them.

These were all well-known Immortal Persons, and none who had cultivated to this realm were fools. Even if the elder spoke very plausibly at this point, once the crowd lost their trust in him, they naturally wouldn’t believe his reasons.

"Hehe, if you nurture a spiritual herb for a thousand years, ten thousand years, would you not consume it because you’ve developed affection for it? For a demon who takes disciples, this is the rationale."

"You think they’re taking disciples, but in reality, they’re cultivating them like spiritual herbs, waiting for the right time to harvest them to enhance their own cultivation."

"If the spiritual herb is destroyed, they’ll naturally feel regret, resentment, and pain, but not sorrow. How can there be sorrow where there is no affection?"

Hearing the crowd’s scolding, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but shake his head, revealing the true purpose behind the elder from Whitehead Mountain forming his sect and taking in many disciples.

It wasn’t actually to nurture successors, but to cultivate human-shaped spiritual herbs for future harvesting.

It wasn’t just the elder from Whitehead Mountain who did this, but all the Demon Immortals of Dongsheng Divine Continent who established sects aimed for the same thing. How could the Demon Clan possibly be so kind to open a sect and teach disciples?

The idea of a generous demon just sounds laughable.

Keep in mind, blood sacrifice was most prevalent in the Ancient Era.

To resurrect Di Jun Taiyi, fate alone wasn’t enough; a vast number of sacrifices was also needed. The goals of those Demon Immortals in establishing forces and taking in disciples speak for themselves—they were preparing offerings for the resurrection of Di Jun Taiyi.

And the Human Race were the best offerings.

Jiang Chen had already seen that among the forces established by the Demon Immortals, the disciples and successors were mostly from the Human Race. Even here at Whitehead Mountain, it was the same, with over eighty percent of the disciples being from the Human Race.

"What?"

"The Demon Clan is so malicious?"

"Under the guise of recruiting disciples, they’ve been nurturing blood food for themselves, this is horrifying to hear!"

"I find it hard to believe that such a horrifying thing could happen in my Dongsheng Divine Continent, you must know, even the Xiniuhe Continent, where demons rampaged in the past, didn’t have such horrifying incidents."

When the crowd heard Jiang Chen’s narrative, their first reaction was disbelief, but the facts before their eyes forced them to believe. It was very possible that what Jiang Chen said was true, that Whitehead Elder had been cultivating his disciples as blood food all along.

In the Dongsheng Divine Continent, known as the realm of Earth Immortals and a famous place of purity in the Three Realms, such a horrifying incident had occurred. You can imagine the shock in everyone’s hearts, their entire worldview close to collapse.

The most crucial fact was that this horrifying incident had taken place in Dongsheng Divine Continent, yet the higher-ups of Immortal Dao did nothing!

The Great Divine Transcendents are all-knowing and all-powerful, and people couldn’t believe they were unaware of this; yet they did nothing. Thinking this, everyone felt a shiver run down their spines, too scared to continue the thought. Who knew what dark and sinful secrets lay hidden beneath the dazzling Immortal lights?

Outsiders were deeply shocked by Jiang Chen’s words, not to mention the many disciples of Whitehead Mountain. At this moment, they stood there like statues, utterly unable to believe that their ancestral master, whom they had admired so much, harbored such a malicious intention and regarded them as blood food.

"Heh heh, you must be Jiang Chen, the newly emerged prodigy of the Human Race. Unexpectedly, you know so much about my Demon Clan. It hasn’t been long since you arrived here, yet you’ve already seen through my plans. You’re unlike those three fools beside you who have been here for so long and haven’t noticed anything amiss."

"That’s right, the reason I’ve been cultivating these disciples is indeed to nurture them as blood food,"

"Alas, times have changed. Nowadays, the Human Race has become strong, and it’s no longer possible to devour humans at will like in the Ancient Era. Therefore, I thought back on the tradition of our Demon Clan from ancient times and decided to rear a batch of blood food for the times when I crave a little indulgence."

"I did not expect that before these disciples could grow up, you would find out and expose my purpose,"

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Whitehead Elder admitted it straightforwardly.

"What!"

"Demon, you..."

"What a vicious heart you have!"

Before, the people were only suspicious, but hearing Whitehead Elder personally admit it, they were so angry that their eyes nearly burst, and they couldn’t help but curse him out.

Especially the disciples of Whitehead Mountain, who were now collapsing outright, falling to the ground powerless.

And some disciples, as if remembering something, suddenly shouted at Whitehead Elder, "My master disappeared mysteriously, no matter what, we can’t find him anywhere. Did you eat him?"

"And my senior brother, he just vanished..."

How could the Demon Clan not eat humans? Especially with so many fresh humans parading before him, how could Whitehead Elder not be tempted?

Therefore, from time to time, he would strike at the disciples in the mountain and devour them entirely, as a treat for his palate.

It was just that his actions were secretive and no one noticed. After all, it’s very common for cultivators to meet accidents on their cultivation path. So even if a few disciples from Whitehead Mountain disappeared occasionally, no one suspected anything.

If it wasn’t for Jiang Chen revealing Whitehead Elder’s purpose, the disciples of Whitehead Mountain wouldn’t have connected the disappearance of their loved ones to him.