Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 959 - 48: Grand Illusion [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

Chapter 959: Chapter 48: Grand Illusion [Vote for Monthly Tickets!]

The Qingqiu Demon King passed peacefully.

...

The object Chu Liang chose to kill Cai Yi and the Demon Seed was the broken bone shard that had fallen from Yan Renjie after his death.

The shard was necessary because the Demon Seed was a terrifying being that not even the frontal assault of the Shu Mountain Divine Boat could kill. Even if the divine weapons in his possession were powerful, they could not surpass the Divine Boat. Even the Demon-slaying Sword, with its bonus against evil spirits, would not achieve this feat.

If there was anything that could achieve this effect, it was only this bone shard. It was the physical remnant left by the fusion of the Demon Suppression Tower and the Demon God Origin inside Yan Renjie, and the reason this abyss repelled Evil Demons was due to its spiritual power influence, which not even an Eighth Realm Evil Demon could break through.

In other words, its spiritual power repelled evil spirits and was a force above the Eighth Realm.

It was indeed meant to kill the strongest Evil Demon in the world!

Thud.

As expected, with a muffled sound as it entered flesh, Chu Liang easily plunged the bone shard into Cai Yi’s chest. In a trance, the face before him suddenly changed, revealing a glimpse of Daoist Cang Yun.

It was a trap!

Alarm bells went off in Chu Liang’s mind, but it was already too late to withdraw. He turned around only to see a dim sky.

As expected, neither the Fox Demon King nor the Demon Seed were so easy to kill. These methods seemed more like Cai Yi’s illusion techniques.

In the sky, dark clouds gathered together, and a large flock of crows flew from beyond the mountains, screeching towards the end of the sky. The air carried a damp heaviness, as if a heavy rain was about to fall.

But coming before the rain was a rumbling of footsteps.

Chu Liang knew all too well what that was.

It was Demonic Aura.

Then, from behind, a shout rang out, "Doggy, time to eat—"

That voice seemed very familiar from memory. Chu Liang turned around to see a chubby woman standing at the edge of the village with a winnowing basket, waving affectionately.

When he saw that figure, the impression that naturally popped into his mind was... Mother.

Only then did he realize that he was no longer an Immortal Sect disciple with the Eighth Realm puppet and surging dragon blood, but a small, frail child wearing a coat filled with holes, albeit neatly mended.

Now, he had no abilities whatsoever.

All he could do was lift his head and shout towards the distance, "Run!"

Without the White Pagoda, a Flying Sword, or cultivation... he had nothing and could only run for his life. In the blink of an eye, a huge and ferocious shadow arose behind him.

That was a heavy-stepping Rhinoceros Spirit; the footsteps Chu Liang had heard belonged to it. But it was not alone. Dozens of spirits and creatures of various sizes sprang out from the surrounding woods, completely encircling the village. From the other side of the village, screams sounded even before Chu Liang’s side.

"Demons! They are demons!" His mother’s legs trembled with panic, but without a moment’s hesitation, she picked up Chu Liang, burst with surprising strength, and flung him onto the roof beam. "Hide up here, don’t come down!"

"Mom!" Chu Liang called out unconsciously.

"Keep quiet!" His mother instructed before she went outside to hide.

However, the demonic creatures’ sense of smell was incredibly keen. Amid the successive screams, his mother’s cry soon echoed too.

Chu Liang lay on the roof beam, his mind in utter chaos. From the moment he had stabbed Cai Yi, he felt as though he had fallen into an illusion, but how she had managed it, and how he had been drawn in, was something Chu Liang completely didn’t understand.

Everything he was experiencing now seemed like...

Wait, he felt as if everything in his brain was rapidly fading away, as if his memory was being erased.

In the moments Chu Liang pondered, the outside suddenly quieted down. Noticing this eerie silence, he cautiously looked back to see nothing but scorched earth outside.

A tall woman, full-breasted like the full moon, clad in a black dress with red linings, stood boldly at the doorway, revealing half of her body from the shadows.

"Hey, kid, what are you doing standing on the beam?" she asked lazily.

"Master?" Chu Liang called out subconsciously, but then became somewhat confused. Why did I call her Master?

"Hmm?" The woman across him paused and then suddenly smiled, "That rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn’t it?"

...

"His name is Chu Liang, and he’s my apprentice. Can I finally become the Peak Master now?"

Within the Unbounded Palace of Shu Mountain, the woman forcefully pushed forward a boy as skinny as a bean sprout, confronting the group of Elders with a defiant look in her eyes.

"It might be possible, but this child’s constitutions..." the Pill Furnace Elder pondered aloud, seemingly about to say something discouraging.

"What’s wrong with his constitution? Sure, it’s mediocre, but so long as he can cultivate, that’s fine, right? His entire village was slaughtered by the Evil Demon. Had I not rescued him to the mountain, he’d become an orphan, possibly turning to unethical deeds, or even crimes. What if he became an outlaw? If his rebellion were successful, there would be mountains of corpses and seas of blood—countless innocent lives lost. Elder, can you take responsibility for that?"

Empress Feng waved her hand, cutting off the Pill Furnace Elder’s speech, and then launched into a long discourse.

The Pill Furnace Elder was taken aback, "How easy do you think staging a successful rebellion is? Are you joking?"

"Hmmph," Empress Feng scoffed disdainfully, "What’s so hard about it? I could devise three plans with over a fifty percent success rate in a breath’s time."

The Pill Furnace Elder wanted to retort, but after giving it some thought, he strangely felt she was overly confident and feared further infuriating her.

What if she really proved it?

"Alright," Master Wen Yuan, sitting at the head of the room, said with a smile and a wave of his hands, "Since you won the contest and have taken a disciple, you should take charge of Silver Sword Peak. But Ah Feng, now that you have a disciple, you have responsibilities—you can no longer behave recklessly and lead him astray. You must devote yourself to proper instruction."

"Rest assured," Empress Feng declared proudly, "I guarantee I’ll train my apprentice to be the finest disciple in all of Shu Mountain for the next five hundred years!"

"Psh, you’re full of it," the Pill Furnace Elder scoffed.

"A life bet?!" Empress Feng glared, "Do you dare to accept?"

The Pill Furnace Elder visibly shrank back.

He couldn’t understand how she could be so confidently sure about something completely far-fetched that he dared not even try.

And so, Empress Feng took Little Chu Liang back with her.

However, just as everyone had anticipated, she indeed lacked some talents... and effort... and sincerity... and time, money, patience, responsibility, and determination in teaching her disciple...

Although Chu Liang, having his villagers killed by the Evil Demon, really wanted to train hard to seek revenge, he indeed lacked some talent, and his upbringing was nearly wild.

Thanks to the open cultivation environment of Shu Mountain, even though his master hardly taught him, he could still help the sect plant trees, tend flowers, feed the spirit birds and exotic beasts, and exchange some Sword Coins to buy cultivation techniques and elixirs.

By the age of seventeen, he finally reached the realm gateway of Divine Consciousness. Chu Liang could hardly contain himself anymore. Once he broke through to the Third Realm, he could leave the mountain to slay demons and exorcise evil.

Normally, with his level of cultivation, he should have prepared for at least another half a year to a year before attempting the breakthrough. But watching his peers advancing one after another, he finally couldn’t suppress his impatience any longer.

Thus, disregarding the insufficient accumulation of his True Qi, he forcefully attempted to break through the barrier to the Third Realm, by condensing energy to gather spirit sense, ascending to spirit connection!

That night was incredibly perilous, yet Chu Liang ultimately...

succeeded.

Huh?

At the moment of successfully breaking through the Divine Consciousness Realm, he suddenly sensed something strange.

Is there something not quite right?