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Chapter 635 - 547: Dark Hall

Chapter 635: Chapter 547: Dark Hall

The Spirit Suppressing Realm, the southern region under the control of the Bone-Soul Sect.

Demon Saber Kuang Weiping had been assigned to create a Dark Hall within the Devil’s Gate since he was discovered by the Demon Child Elder in the border region of Chengde Dynasty, practicing Demon Sect Secret Manual, using devil cultivators as resources, refining them into human pills, and devouring them for cultivation.

However, before he could reach his destination, another fellow Daoist appeared out of the blue: Unchanging Bone Jiang Mingda, who turned out to be a formal disciple of the Wanyu Immortal Sect.

After their encounter and brief understanding of each other’s situations, they decided to proceed together upon realizing they both were tasked with forming the Dark Hall.

After all, neither of them knew much about the Demon Gate, and both were feeling apprehensive.

Finding someone trustworthy in the Devil’s Gate was incredibly rare, and their shared affiliation with the Dark Hall laid the foundation for their cooperation.

Luckily, they managed to break away from the most intense battlefronts through the teleportation function of the Dark Hall and entered the Devil’s Gate territory.

Thanks to the detailed route map provided by the Dark Hall, a map that originated from the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect.

The two made their way smoothly to the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect.

This sect barely had any karma with the Bone Soul Sect, and it was merely a third-rate, obscure faction within the Bone Soul Sect.

The sect only had three Perfected Ones.

They all went to the Northern Region of Wanyu with the Bone Soul Sect’s mass mobilization.

As expected, they all perished at the Chengde Dynasty border. Their corpses were turned into items by the Demon Child Elder, and he gave them to the two of them.

Apart from the Perfected Ones in the Bone-Refining Sect, most of the Wine Monks went along as well.

Only four monks with varying levels of cultivation stayed behind to defend and manage the affairs of the sect.

When they arrived at the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect, Wang Zijia used the bodies of the three Perfected Ones of the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect to create fake replacements.

He gave them to Demon Saber Kuang Weiping and Unchanging Bone Jiang Mingda, allowing them to impersonate the two sect leaders with ease.

The two managed to infiltrate the sect under the borrowed authority.

After a few quiet days, once they familiarized themselves with the general situation, they summoned the few remaining Wine Monks in the sect under the pretense of deliberation.

Jiang Mingda, who had already advanced to the Perfected One status by turning the corpse of the Supreme Elder of the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect into his life-destined zombie, surprisingly attacked and subdued the others.

It was at this moment that Jiang Mingda finally understood why the Demonic Child God Monarch had told him that Kuang Weiping was different.

He witnessed this guy refining the bones of the four monks into human pills on the spot and fearlessly swallowing them to make a breakthrough from his Wine Monk stage.

He was simply insane!

Most demonic cultivators had a high degree of internal contamination. They needed to be very cautious about cannibalizing each other, generally resorting to blood sacrifices instead of direct consumption. Most of those directly consumed were carefully cultivated Furnace Ding.

Yet he, a disciple of the Wanyu Secret Hall, was even more reckless in his actions than the devil cultivators.

But it made sense - those who were sent here as undercover agents to establish sect bases could hardly be expected to be normal.

Perhaps in comparison to him, this ancient zombie might be considered a decent individual.

Kuang Weiping was like this, and so was Demonic Child God Monarch, who didn’t have the demeanor of a disciple from a major immortal sect.

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After discovering Kuang Weiping’s circumstances, he decided to treat him as an equal.

After all, someone who dared to consume humans like him had a high chance of catching up with his progress and becoming a Perfected One in a short period.

However, the premise was that this guy would not have gone completely insane by that point.

Before reaching the rank of God Monarch, the method of cannibalizing human pills among the devil cultivators indeed had an unparalleled advantage.

Of course, people who started this way would find it much more difficult to form the Infant God. But how many of them could eventually become Infant Gods?

With the eradication of the last Wine Monks in the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect, the moderately-sized sect was completely under their control.

After familiarizing themselves with it for several months, they carefully selected targets, established bases, and did everything they could to implant low-level disciples in the surrounding major sects.

The two were extra cautious for several months, and their progress was rapid.

However, a Demon Dao God Monarch emerged unexpectedly in their nearby area. Without knowing why, he went crazy refining Gu and creating poisons, causing havoc in the area.

The sects didn’t know how they had provoked him, but they ended up conflicting with several major demonic sects all at once.

Because his cultivation involved the use of poisonous Gu, he had no regard for his image and continually attacked low-ranking cultivators, causing a huge uproar.

Even after several attempts to apprehend him by the sects, they were unable to catch him.

Finally, several sects allied together, and after great effort, they were able to severely injure him once.

Only then did they receive news that the intruder was not a local devil cultivator, but a heterodox demon from Daqian, which explained his outrageousness.

In the midst of this chaos, the two acted separately and managed to infiltrate several supervisory demonic sects in the surrounding area. Of course, they were only able to get into the lowest level circles.

With the ongoing expansion, their situation gradually improved.

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In the blink of an eye, a year and a half passed, and the Dark Hall they had established was almost fully formed.

All these were thanks to Zhuo Xiaokuan of the Daqian Demon Dao. After being injured, he did not back down.

After recovering from the injury, as if enraged, he set up multiple poisonous gu traps on several occasions, causing a great stir within the sect.

Today, this household is tormented by a worm disaster, with low-level disciples suddenly vomiting insect pupae, and before the commotion subsided, tomorrow another household faces mass poisoning of their disciples. the day after tomorrow, a sect is struck by an epidemic, spreading incessantly.

This created a state of panic among the disciples of the surrounding sects, who lived in constant fear.

It also gave the Demonic Gate a taste of what the Demon Dao was like, and what a fierce Heterodox Daoist could do— they were not anymore easily dealt with than the ravings of their demons, and they also were troublesome.

Under these circumstances, the surrounding major sects devote most of their energy to this, giving them the opportunity to calmly arrange their plans.

However, it recently quietened down quite a bit. It was said that several surrounding sects couldn’t handle it anymore, and the Great Elders and the Infant Gods of the sects jointly visited the top sect in the south: The Burial Spirit Sect.

This sect was one of the top sects subordinate to the Bone Soul Sect, and one where there were more than one Primordial Spirit Big Shots stationed.

When a Primordial Spirit Great Cultivator personally took action, although it was not heard whether they caught the person, it indeed remained quiet for more than two months.

This made the two of them worried about this Daqian Demon Dao for a while. There was a feeling of sadness for the rabbit’s death and the fox, a sense of empathy for its kind.

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That day, late at night, the forbidden area of the Bone-Refining Demonic Sect.

Devil Cultivator Kuang Weiping, who had already been promoted to the Perfected, and Unchanging Bone Jiang Mingda—who was already at the peak of Perfected —were anxiously waiting in the forbidden area.

Both were unusually restless, making frequent movements that made them seem somewhat unable to calm down.

At this moment, aside from the two of them, not only were there no other people in the forbidden area, but the prohibition had also been fully activated, even more, there were four zombies at the peak of Perfected patrolling around.

These were all the fruits of the two’s labor over the past year and a half.

Regardless of whether it was Kuang Weiping or Jiang Mingda, they never dreamed that they could have such a day.

They also never thought that they could reach such a stage in just two or three years.

All of this was simply due to a task from the Immortal Sect’s Dark Department, and the benefits offered along with it.

Only those who have clearly experienced these could understand what a startling method this was.

Namely, Jiang Mingda, who had gone through a century of wasting away, nearly turning into a zombie and struggling to survive. He was extremely terrified of this method, thinking every day about how to complete the task.

Both of them remained silent, quietly waiting in the forbidden area.

As the time drew nearer, the two became increasingly uneasy.

The concern for the progress of the task, the development of the situation after the connection, and so on······

Time gradually passed, and when the moon was overhead, the two paused at the same time.

Under the moonlight, an old figure suddenly appeared in the courtyard, without them noticing when he arrived.

He seemed to have just suddenly appeared;

Yet he seemed to have been in the forbidden area for a long time, watching them without them having any the slightest clue.

As for the old man, both of them were very familiar with him. If he wasn’t Demon Child Elder, who else could he be?

"Greetings to Elder Demon Child!"

"Greetings, Demonic Child Hall Master!"

Jiang Mingda and Kuang Weiping were both startled, then immediately bowed in respect.

Demon Child Elder glanced at the two of them indifferently and said, "I haven’t seen you for just two years, and your cultivation has made rapid progress."

"It’s all thanks to the elder’s favor!" Kuang Weiping responded.

"Thanks to the Hall Master’s bestowal of the Life-destined Zombie, I was able to achieve what I have today!" Jiang Mingda also immediately replied respectfully.

"How is the establishment of your halls coming along?" Demon Child Elder was still as indifferent as before. Without giving the two a chance to flatter and express their gratitude, he went straight to the point, "Don’t tell me you have been solely focusing on cultivating. That will make me very angry."

The two of them looked at each other, Jiang Mingda was the one who exclaimed, "Hall Master, based on what we know, all the forces in the southern region of the Bone Soul Sect that can rank are."

"One first-rate sect, eleven second-rate sects, and two hundred and fourteen third-rate forces still occupied by Perfected ones."

"In more than a year, we have established ninety-three groups of Dark Department personnel, with each group ranging from a dozen to more than a hundred people, who were planted into ninety-three forces."

"Apart from the first-rate sect, the Burial Spirit Sect, which is too unique and we were unable to plant spies in, all eleven second-rate sects have completed planting, and we have developed a good number of members in large scale activities."

"The remaining eighty-two groups were assigned to the remaining third-rate forces according to the importance of the forces. The remaining hundred or so forces, due to time constraints, we have yet to complete the planting of spies."

Upon hearing these, Demon Child’s indifferent face relaxed somewhat.

Seeing the change in Wang Zijia’s expression, both of them who were paying close attention to him quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that at least the task had met the standards!

"Talk about the situation of the eleven second-rate forces first!" Demon Child asked.

"Hall Master, the eleven second-rate forces all have Infant God-level strength. Either they have God Monarch elders, or they have similar level battle strength, and all of them have various relationships with Bone Soul Sect."

Jiang Mingda spoke to this point, paused for a moment, choosing his words carefully before declaring:

"Unlike the Demonic Gate and our Wanyu subordinate forces, most of these sects’ Infant God elders are God Monarchs of the Bone Soul Sect."