Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 219 - 12 Why is there only half? [Ask for monthly ticket!]_1

Chapter 219: Chapter 12 Why is there only half? [Ask for monthly ticket!]_1

Heavy rain, it kept pouring until the second day at noon.

Chu Liang accompanied the people from the City Warden Yamen to a village outside the city.

Around, there were clusters of villagers, surrounding a thatch house, yet they were blocked by the Yamen officials, and there was a lot of discussion.

"It’s hard to believe, this Li Si, such an honest and frank person, turns out to be a Demonic Cultivator? Good heavens..."

"Years ago they said his wife ran off with someone else, I felt sorry for him for quite a while, who thought she had been killed by him and buried in his backyard..."

"It’s not just that, look at the bodies being dug out one by one, he has killed untold numbers of people over the years... I fear all those who disappeared on the mountains around the village were his victims..."

"A perfectly good person, why did he have to fall into demonhood?"

"It’s too horrifying."

"..."

Chu Liang listened to the discussions in the crowd and got a general idea of who Li Si was.

A plain and simple peddler, usually unremarkable, spending his days pushing a cart into the city to sell goods at dusk, and pushing it home at dawn. After his wife’s death, no one cared about his whereabouts.

He was a man who lived in everyone’s sight, but out of their attention.

The entire trajectory of his life could be precisely outlined, he probably got some chance and picked up a Demonic Path Cultivation Method and started cultivating according to it. However, he could not possibly be a disciple of the Demon Sect who had been hiding for many years.

Then why would the orthodox of the long-hidden Soul Slaughter Sect go to great lengths to abduct him?

Chu Liang walked up, Lin Bei was there tut-tutting: "There were more than thirty skeletons dug up altogether, and that’s probably not all the people he killed. To reach the Third Realm in the Soul Slaughter Sect, a demonic cultivator has to kill so many people, this sect deserves to die!"

"But do you know that this Cultivation Technique was not originally from the Demon Sect?" said Shang Ziliang.

"Oh?" Chu Liang was really not aware of this.

"Legend has it that in the time of the calamity of the Demon God, the Demonic Clan invaded, and the Human Clan was defeated. The Nine States Land was in desperate straits, and the Human Cultivators were completely unable to resist the power of the Demonic Clan. At that time, the ancestor of the Soul Slaughter Sect, stood up and created this technique," Shang Ziliang recounted, "This technique doesn’t need a lot of resources, as long as there are enough human lives to fill, it can create cultivators in a short time to fight."

"So that’s how it is?" Chu Liang was quite shocked.

"I read it in my father’s secret Confucian scriptures; it should be true," said Shang Ziliang, "After the calamity was over, people who were still cultivating this technique were immediately purged. The ancestor of the Soul Slaughter Sect, who had been hailed as a hero, was treated as a demon head and killed. The Soul Slaughter Sect afterwards, truly became a part of the Demon Sect."

"Sigh." Chu Liang sighed.

The search was almost over here, apart from an old book in Li Si’s house, there wasn’t any other cultivator’s items, he was the kind of non-mainstream cultivator that you could say was absolutely poor.

Chu Liang walked alone to a hillside nearby, took out the silkworm baby, and put it on the leaf of a big tree to see if it would eat the leaf.

The silkworm baby slowly came to its senses, all of a sudden it twisted its head and plop, it fell to the ground.

Then, it began to crawl in one direction.

Chirping, chirping, chirping.

Its speed was not slow, but one has to say, it was still cuter when it gurgled while its legs were not visible.

This was the first time it moved on its own towards a direction other than downward, Chu Liang looked over, didn’t stop it, but followed it.

The silkworm baby’s speed got faster and faster, revealing an impatient emotion as it wriggled its body.

It was in a hurry!

Where did it want to go?

...

The road ahead became steep, winding downward, passing through a crack in the valley, suddenly, there was a large downward cave in front. It seemed to be a landslide caused by heavy rain, revealing an underground cavity.

There was actually a big river flowing rapidly here!

The river was extremely cold, giving off a chilling creeping coldness, which seemed to be somewhat eerie.

The whole river was flowing underground, only this part was exposed on the surface, the silkworm baby didn’t hesitate and burrowed down, turned a bend and crawled along the river bank.

Chu Liang had just been worrying about whether it would go into the water, and now he heaved a sigh of relief, it seems it had no intention to swim.

Ahead, the path turned into a cave, thanks to the high overhead space, Chu Liang could barely move forward even though he was suspended in the air with no foothold.

The silkworm baby had been crawling along the wall for a while, and ahead, the gloomy river changed direction, leaving a large empty river beach, it had penetrated deep into the ground without knowing how much.

This is...

Chu Liang lit up the path ahead with a thread of Fierce Light Technique in his right hand, only to see a dark stone cave covered by mud and sand. The facade and plaque had disappeared a long time ago, blocked by the mud and sand.

It seemed to be a water mansion of a gloomy river in the past, but now it was exposed. It seemed that the water had also entered inside it, some objects were washed out, one could see some rotten and broken cups, books and other things.

All carried a heavy stench of death.

Could it be that this was a lost cultivation cave with treasures in it sensed by the silkworm baby?

This little thing can also find treasures?

Chu Liang’s doubts did not last long, the silkworm baby unhesitatingly dug into the mud and dirt blocked gate.

Whoosh--

Of course, Chu Liang would not drill with his head, instead, he tossed the Dustless Sword, the radiant Sword Qi opened a path through the gate.

Just as he stepped into the gate, he heard the wind-breaking sounds of "whoosh" emanating from beneath, under the muddy ground was a swamp, from the swamp suddenly sprouted dozens of white bone spears!

Fortunately, Chu Liang was quick-eyed and handy, he held up a green leaf umbrella, facing downwards, clang clang clang, the umbrella blocked the piercing attack of these white bone spears.

From what he could tell, this formation had likely been laid out in a hurry. Plus, with the years that had since passed, its power should have already decreased. Otherwise, it couldn’t be so simple.

After passing through the swamp, along a long corridor for a while, and passing through several more broken down formations, he came upon a wide cave filled with sludge. Nearly everything was half-engulfed, including an incomplete skeleton.

The Beheading Red Famous Sword, kept inside the White Pagoda, suddenly moved.

Chu Liang raised an eyebrow.

This was the first time the Beheading Red Famous Sword had felt the urge to harm a corpse.

What unspeakable sin had this skeleton committed in its lifetime that even in death it couldn’t fend off the Beheading Red Famous Sword’s impulse to destroy it?

The skeleton’s cultivation level likely wasn’t low, yet the lingering spirituality in its bones wasn’t complete, extremely fragmented. Only half, or maybe even less than half of its body was left intact.

The kind of wound it suffered in life must have been unexpectedly severe.

With just this little remaining spirituality, it probably couldn’t grow any Heavenly Material and Earth Treasure, could it?

The moment this thought crossed Chu Liang’s mind, he felt a chill down his spine.

Now whenever he saw a powerful skeleton, his first thought was whether or not he could farm it...

On a shelf behind the corpse, a few books were arranged, but most of them were already rotten and damaged, with only a few still intact. On its visible body, there didn’t seem to be any treasures.

The only object of interest was a bronze cauldron placed on the desk in front, emanating a hidden divine light. It must be a powerful magic artifact.

Chu Liang’s gaze didn’t move as swiftly as the Silkworm Babies’ short legs. As he had just noticed the bronze cauldron, Silkworm Baby’s head poked up from below... it made itself a path.

Heaven...

Chu Liang winced in pain.

This was some level of magic artifact, and you’re just going to eat it?

But after all, it was Silkworm Baby who had found it. Compared to a magic artifact, the ability to find treasure was something that made him even more joyous.

If nurtured properly, couldn’t he lean on it to build his fortune?

So while Silkworm Baby gnawed on it, Chu Liang began to search around. His gaze swept the room and focused on a finger of the skeleton.

This finger was clearly distinct from the others, with a particularly lustrous glow.

You have a Golden Finger too?

Chu Liang approached with a smile and indeed found it an extraordinary finger bone.

Without being courteous with this being who committed atrocities in life, Chu Liang grabbed and snapped off the bone with a quick snap.

He held it in his hand, pondered a bit, and stimulated it with his true qi.

Rumble—

The wall behind the skeleton suddenly shifted!

This peculiar bone was actually a key?

Chu Liang leaned in and saw that it was just a narrow space. Inside was a golden skull, apparently a processed magic artifact.

A scroll of parchment was held in the skull’s mouth.

"Huh?" Chu Liang voiced his surprise.

This thing seems familiar...

But he didn’t know what the skull was, so he didn’t act rashly to take it.

As he hesitated, a clang sounded from outside, along with a shout.

Is something happening?

Chu Liang quickly grabbed the happily nibbling Silkworm Baby, vanished into the narrow space, and with a twist of the finger bone, the wall closed. In just a short time, this little creature had grown another two sizes.

He wasn’t sure if it was due to the rich spirituality of the cauldron, or if Silkworm Baby’s growth speed was naturally shockingly fast.

...

Not much time passed.

From outside, a somewhat familiar voice echoed, "This really is the burial place of the Murderous Old Man! I finally found it!"

It was that demonic cultivator from last night!

The Sect Master of the Soul Slaughter Sect!

The footsteps sounded chaotic, there should be a few disciples following behind him.

Chu Liang’s heart jumped. He held his breath and hid his presence for fear being discovered.

Even with the aid of the Beheading Red Famous Sword, he might not be able to defeat such opponents. It would be better to observe for a while before making a move.

After a pause, he heard the Soul Slaughter Sect Master laugh again, "Just like the one in the record. It indeed is the Cooking Immortal Cauldron! The Soul Slaughter Sect’s first treasure in thousands of years, but it ended up being lost here with the Murderous Old Man! But today, I’ve found it! Only with this could I cultivate the Spirit of Life Pill to break through to the Sixth Realm! Hehehehe..."

Crashing noises accompanied what likely sounded like him lifting the bronze cauldron.

Immediately after, his laughter stopped abruptly.

What followed was his voice, sounding a bit puzzled.

"Huh? Why is it only half?"