The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 170 - 107 Glad to have you, Xiao Jia_1

Chapter 170: Chapter 107 Glad to have you, Xiao Jia_1

Nine Spiral Mountain.

The Canary’s small face turned pale. When she saw the Mystical Gate disappear, she gathered up her skirts and ran crazily toward the mountain.

"Blood Bead!"

The familiar figure did not appear, and the top of the mountain was completely empty.

The Canary felt an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart.

The Mystical Gate disappeared, and the Blood Bead... disappeared too.

Everything was so bizarre, too hard to accept.

The gentle breeze at the top of the mountain lifted the strands of hair on the Canary’s cheek. She defiantly gazed at the sky.

"Blood Bead, you can’t really be the Buddha they mentioned!"

"Am I the... demoness you killed?"

Ever since the origin of the Mystical Gate was revealed, a theory began to circulate in secret among the Nine Spiral Mountain.

The emergence of the Mystical Gate and the subsequent appearance of the Blood Bead—it was believed to be a great demon, a drop of blood from the Buddha.

The sermonizer of The Blood applied the Trapping Demon Technique, which was seen as an act of atonement.

There were quite a few people on Nine Spiral Mountain who deemed this theory to be absurd, yet quite a few acknowledged it as well.

The Canary stood on the peak, lonesome.

She did not like the story of the Buddha slaughtering the demoness.

...

A heavy rain poured. Inside the City of No Return, Yuan Qi wore a raincoat. When he raised his head and saw the figure on the city wall—the defender—his heart was filled with unexpected fear.

Just recently, an enormous demon army attacked. Thousands of them were killed by the defender, one stroke at a time.

This was supposed to be a heartening event. But, for some reason, when Yuan Qi looked at Qi Yuan, he had an inexplicable feeling that he was looking at a terrifying demon from Hell.

Especially when he saw Qi Yuan sitting on the city wall, a clear blood-red light flickering in his eyes.

Simply seeing those eyes, his heart trembled with an indescribable fear.

It felt as if he was not looking at a defender, but at a horrifying monster.

"What’s the matter, are you scared of me?" Qi Yuan’s voice echoed from above the city wall.

Like a stone, it fell directly onto Yuan Qi’s heart. He gritted his teeth, bowing his head as he said, "The Lord Defender, your current state... is somewhat strange."

He dared not look at Qi Yuan.

"Hmm, go now." Qi Yuan said lightly, seemingly unbothered by this.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Qi breathed a sigh of relief, promptly leaving.

He didn’t know why, but the closer he got to the Lord Defender, the more fear rose within him.

He felt incredibly stifled inside.

Qi Yuan atop the city wall, held a broken sword in his hand. A bead of blood remained on it. With a flick of his hand, the bead fell.

"After this realization, the extraction efficiency from the Source of Demons has increased tenfold, reaching 10%.

"Will I end up becoming a monster like the demons?" Qi Yuan pondered.

His current internal state was very unstable.

Greed, wrath, lust, arrogance, all constantly cycled within him.

Especially just after slaying the demons, this situation was most severe.

"Xiao Jia, are you scared of me?" Qi Yuan turned his head, looking at the bright red wedding dress behind him.

Xiao Jia seemed flustered and somewhat panicked, almost stumbling. A wooden placard fell onto the floor.

Qi Yuan picked it up. It was the "zion" placard.

Qi Yuan held Xiao Jia close, feeling the faint fragrance of her clothes, a satisfied smile on his face: "It’s good to have you... playing the game alone too much can be rather dull at times."

The redness in Qi Yuan’s eyes gradually faded, as did the chilling aura that seemed to scare people away previously.

He held Xiao Jia, the two of them sitting on the city wall, staring at the vast desert. But it was a pity that the realm of gentle winds had neither sunrises nor sunsets.

...

Inside the Monster Controller’s camp, Wu Tong had a grim look on his face.

"For a small City of No Return, will I really need to personally take action?"

Wu Tong was furious, knocking wine glasses and jade plates off the table, shattering them on the floor.

The dozen or so Nation Stabilizers in the room hung their heads, not daring to speak.

Awhile ago, the Vanguard’s iron chains went to the City of No Return, but they never returned.

This stunned them.

The iron chains were the second strongest in the camp, right after Wu Tong. But they never came back.

These people would definitely not go themselves without clear information. They could only use some controlled demons to slowly besiege the City of No Return.

Nevertheless, those demons never returned.

"Hmph!" Looking at his timid subordinates, Wu Tong’s face filled with rage. "If Misan gets wind of this business, I wonder how he would mock me?"

The people in the room did not dare to speak.

After all, if they lost to another city, they could just accept defeat. Unless there was deep hatred, the opponent would also be willing to accept their surrender.

An old man stepped forward: "Commander Wu Tong, perhaps the City of No Return is not well-named, causing us to have no return."

After all, they dared not go.

Hearing this, Wu Tong’s anger intensified: "Who among you dares to go to the City of No Return? Claim the City of No Return, and I will reward you handsomely. I might even... bestow some of the Original Source of Monstrous Control."

The people in the room began to breathe rapidly.

The reason why they could command some monsters without being attacked was because of the Original Source of Monstrous Control.

The monsters they are currently commanding are all through borrowing the Original Source of Monstrous Control, not their own.

If they acquired the complete Original Source of Monstrous Control, they would not only command more powerful monsters but also elevate their cultivation levels. They could even step through the Nation Stabilizers and enter the realm of Terrestrial Myths.

Nevertheless, the people present still held back their eager hearts.

"Commander Wu Tong, why don’t... we just all rush together?" the old man who had earlier commented on the City of No Return’s name suggested.

"Yes, let’s all go together and annihilate the City of No Return!"

"If Commander Wu Tong were to make a move personally, the City of No Return would be destroyed in an instant!"

Everyone urged on.

After all, they had Wu Tong, the strong one, leading them.