Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 332 - 16 Heaven Devouring Beast [Requesting votes!]_1

Chapter 332: Chapter 16 Heaven Devouring Beast [Requesting votes!]_1

Elder Chuan Jian pulled Chu Liang aside and whispered to him, "What are you talking about? All of the sect’s budget combined, even if the Dan Tai Peak Master and I broke our back, we could only gather seven thousand Azure Dragon Coins! How are you going to make up the remaining thousand?!"

"Indeed." Chu Liang looked at him strangely.

Since I have already made a bid, of course, it’s me who has to make up the deficit. Even if I asked Junior Brother Wen to pay, it would be on my account.

"You..." Elder Chuan Jian was about to say something, but suddenly faltered, "What did you say?"

"I said I would cover it."

"With what?" Elder Chuan Jian asked. "The Sword Coins of Shu Mountain are all minted by me..."

His implications were clear: he mints all of the Shu Mountain’s Sword Coins and knows the exact amount Chu Liang possesses.

Where would you get a hundred thousand Sword Coins from?

But before he finished speaking, Chu Liang handed him a magical storage tool and whispered, "The disciple happened to buy some Spirit Gathering Pills in Taotie city, and just during a time of price surge in the city, I made a little profit. Here are a hundred thousand Vermilion Bird Coins."

Elder Chuan Jian, after inspecting it with his divine sense, realized it was true.

He was stunned for a long time before finally asking, "You made so much... How many Spirit Gathering Pills did you casually buy?"

"I casually bought one hundred and fifty thousand of them." Chu Liang replied earnestly.

Elder Chuan Jian: "..."

"All the elders have been putting in great efforts to raise funds for Shu Mountain, and we younger generations will naturally not fall behind. I believe that no disciple of Shu Mountain would hesitate to give their entire wealth at this moment." Chu Liang said.

Elder Chuan Jian’s gaze softened. He patted Chu Liang’s shoulder, finding himself at a loss for words.

When Chu Liang was making money off the sect, causing Sword Coin scarcity, Elder Chuan Jian saw him as a nuisance. But now that he made money from outsiders and redirected it to Shu Mountain, Elder Chuan Jian suddenly found the boy quite pleasing.

If he were a hundred years younger, he would certainly ask to become sworn brothers with him.

Especially considering his extraordinary achievement last time, when he slew Tao Wu with the Purple Green Double Swords.

Even if letting him be the big brother and himself the second wouldn’t be much of an issue.

After a while, he finally said, "Rest assured, Shu Mountain will never forget your contribution."

Chu Liang replied solemnly, "The sect saved my life and gave me the opportunity to change my fate through cultivation, it is an endless favor for this life."

Elder Chuan Jian also said seriously, "That was Empress Feng’s doing, we have to separate what she did and what Shu Mountain did."

Alright then.

Chu Liang grumbled in his heart.

Elder Chuan Jian had been persistent for a hundred years in maintaining his policy of "keeping the Shu Mountain Sect separate from Empress Feng", even if the deeds of his own master were concerned as well.

While the two were mumbling to each other, the manager of Xianyuan Pavilion was a bit anxious. The two were considering for a long time, was it possible that they couldn’t actually afford to pay?

That would make the situation very difficult for him...

Right when he was about to worry, Elder Chuan Jian turned around and said word by word, "Cash on delivery."

The manager of Xianyuan Pavilion was clearly at ease, quickly saying, "Okay."

This old chap, though looking oddly scary, seemed rather attractive when being generous.

Soon after, the shopkeeper mounted the platform and announced loudly.

"Our gentleman here is a young hero from the Shu Mountain Sect! The Demon-Subduing Pestle was won by the Shu Mountain Sect at the price of eight thousand Azure Dragon Coins. Congratulations, Shu Mountain!"

"Wow--" A wave of astonishment swept across the crowd.

Shu Mountain was bidding upstairs while secretly setting up someone downstairs! Their tactics were beyond expectations.

Back in the private room, Dan Taijing was also surprised by Chu Liang’s performance. He usually prided himself on his wit, but he could not understand how Chu Liang, a Golden Core Realm Disciple, could command such wealth?

He couldn’t ask about it here, so he left with his questions unanswered, and departed the private room with the two of them to return to Shu Mountain.

As they left, they saw the Penglai team coming towards them in the corridor on the second floor.

Daoist Xuan Lu first glanced at Chu Liang then turned to Dan Taijing, "First you openly placed bids against us on the second floor, driving the price to an extremely high point. Then you arranged for a hidden participant on the first floor, making it hard for us to gauge your actual resources. People often say that you, Dan Taijing, are highly intelligent. Today I have seen that intelligence for myself."

In his view, such a major decision would obviously not be left to Chu Liang, a mere disciple.

Of the people present, the one with the mind for such a strategy would certainly be the renowned tactician, Dan Taijing.

"Hmph." Dan Taijing managed a cryptic smile.

He wasn’t sure how Chu Liang managed this and whether he should let Chu Liang take the blame, so he remained silent.

However, in Daoist Xuan Lu’s eyes, the meaning behind his smile was definitely tacit approval.

Indeed, that’s exactly how it is!

...

Elder Chuan Jian arrived using a flying artifact, one that he had spent a significant portion of his life modifying. It was a rather grand and comfortable airborne pavilion.

When he left, he rode on the back of a large white bear.

Although Dan Taijing’s large white bear had a broad back, it still felt slightly cramped with four people on it. However, for a long-distance flight, having a mount was better than flying on one’s own.

Chu Liang and Wen Yulong, the two young disciples, were capable of sword flight.

The two elders had even sold their flying swords...

"Stop scrambling, if you push any further you’ll knock my wheelchair off," Dan Taijing laughed as he said to Wen Yulong.

"I’m sorry, Dan Tai Peak Master," Wen Yulong apologized promptly, shifting closer to Chu Liang’s side.

All three of the younger generation respected Elder Chuan Jian, therefore, they left a large empty space for him at the front, taking up just about half of the space behind him.

Of course, in addition to respect, it was also because the air pressure around Elder Chuan Jian was relatively lower.

"My Dragon Phoenix Mysterious Element Pendant..."

"My Wilderness Sword..."

"My Eighteen Times Killing Sword Formation..."

"My seventy-two kinds of peerless materials..."

It was inevitable for the old man to feel a bit down having become penniless so suddenly at such an old age, and everyone understood. The Shu Mountain Sect didn’t have anything like pension or retirement funds, so future living arrangements were a problem.

Although Dan Taijing had also spent all his fortune, he was a bit younger and didn’t like to collect treasures as much as Elder Chuan Jian, so he was a little better off.

Chu Liang cared even less, as he only depleted his liquid assets, his industrial foundation was still intact.

Moreover, after this incident, Master Wen Yuan would surely summon him for a discussion on compensation. The 100,000 Sword Coins he paid out might not be a complete loss after all.

Wen Yulong consoled, "Master, don’t be too upset, as the ancients said, although the gold be disbursed, it can still return."

During his cultivation in the Chuan Jian Hall, Elder Chuan Jian was his mentor. Strictly speaking, he was actually a generation older than Chu Liang. However, in the Shu Mountain Sect, one’s sect lineage was more important and the generational ranking of deacon disciples in the Hall were not taken too seriously.

"Then you should persuade your grandfather to reimburse all the treasures I lost." Elder Chuan Jian said.

Hearing this, Wen Yulong quickly backed down, "I cannot sway him."

Chu Liang had ears to the ground about Wen Yulong’s grandfather being Master Wen Yuan. At the beginning, he had some far-fetched suspicions, and he had not expected it to be true.

This kid could be said to be the third generation of immortals in the Shu Mountain Sect.

You really wouldn’t have guessed it...

Upon returning to Shu Mountain, Chu Liang went to the Silver Sword Peak first.

Before he had a chance to rest, he saw a paper crane flown over by Senior Sister Jiang, asking him to meet at their usual spot after he returned.

Although the two of them were now the first and second of the Shu Mountain Peak Conference and could openly meet each other, they were still used to meeting in the old place privately.

Chu Liang quickly replied, and then went to the cave in Pagoda Peak.

Jiang Yuebai arrived shortly after.

"What’s the matter?" Chu Liang asked.

Senior Sister Jiang rarely looked for him in such a hurry, and he wondered if there was a big issue.

"Remember the little butterfly I saw last time?" Jiang Yuebai said, "I felt like I had seen it before, so I went back and looked up some ancient records. It is indeed the creature recorded there."

Golden Butterfly Baby?

Chu Liang was also very curious about its origins, so he asked, "What is it?"

"Let me ask you, didn’t it start as a white larva from an egg, somewhat like a maggot; then it transformed from a larva into a large green bug, like a silkworm; and now, it has morphed from a green bug into a golden flying insect, like a butterfly... At every stage, it has an extreme penetrating power that can devour almost everything?" posed Jiang Yuebai.

Listening to her description, Chu Liang nodded and confirmed, "Yes, that’s exactly it."

"In that case, it is indeed what the legends refer to as the Heaven Devouring Beast!" Jiang Yuebai exclaimed.

"Heaven Devouring Beast?!" Chu Liang echoed.

The name sounded quite domineering.

"The Heaven Devouring Beast rarely appears. Even from ancient times to the present, there have only been two records. But every time it does appear, it causes great turbulence. It can undergo nine changes and after the ninth change, it will possess the power of Tongxuan. The last recorded appearance of the Heaven Devouring Beast was..."

She paused, before slowly uttering a name.

"Demon God!"