186: Chapter 186: The Mummy in the Demon Suppressing Tower (Please Recommend & Bookmark) 186: Chapter 186: The Mummy in the Demon Suppressing Tower (Please Recommend & Bookmark) “Master!”
A deluge of footsteps followed from behind Ye Xuan; Gu Beichen and Zhuo Junting were seen leading the members of the Netherworld to the front of Ye Xuan.
When they saw the corpses strewn across the ground, their pupils shrank slightly, obviously realizing that this was surely Ye Xuan’s doing.
“Spare none, slaughter all.
Take away all their Cultivation Techniques.”
“Yes, your subordinate obeys.”
Gu Beichen and the others grinned cruelly, raising the Blood Blade in their hands and ferociously attacking the remaining monks.
A crushing slaughter commenced in the Lesser Leiyin Temple.
As the monks’ faith crumbled, they had long lost the strength to fight back, and with Gu Beichen and the others’ momentum at its peak, it took less than an hour to lay waste to the Lesser Leiyin Temple.
They even scoured out numerous Cultivation Secret Manuals from the Scripture Pavilion.
While Gu Beichen and the others were slaughtering and annihilating, Ye Xuan, hands behind his back, had already sauntered into the Demon Suppressing Tower.
The Demon Suppressing Tower.
As the name suggests, it was the place where the Lesser Leiyin Temple suppressed Evil Demons.
The Lesser Leiyin Temple had stood on The Great Divine Land for thousands of years.
In those ancient times, it was one of the foremost among the Buddhist Sects.
The fame of the Demon Suppressing Tower had made countless Evil Demons tremble with fear.
The Demon Suppressing Tower had nine levels, from the first to the ninth, and each oppressed the notorious Evil Demons of past generations.
Times changed, as did the world.
As time passed and nature’s spiritual energy dissipated, the Evil Demons once imprisoned in the Demon Suppressing Tower had long since turned into nothing but bones under the assault of Time, casting a deathly silence over the entire tower.
The Demon Suppressing Tower, first level.
The dark cells, the foul stench, and the various sounds of cursing echoed throughout.
Ye Xuan walked forward until he reached a cell, where a familiar figure entered his sight.
“Damn it, once I get out, I’ll make sure you bald donkeys are sliced into a thousand pieces and executed by lingering death.”
The chubby man’s clothes were filthy, and he was tightly bound in the cell by a dozen or so chains of fine steel, yet he was still screaming furiously, clearly enraged and indignant at being imprisoned here.
“Seeing you not dead and still bouncing around vigorously, I can rest assured,” Ye Xuan said with a wry smile.
“Who, who the hell is talking to me?” The chubby man, bound by countless chains, couldn’t move his body and naturally couldn’t see Ye Xuan’s face.
He cursed loudly in agitation.
The cell door shattered, and Ye Xuan stepped in before the chubby man, his voice mocking, “Who are you calling ‘old man’?”
The chubby man first froze upon seeing Ye Xuan before him, then his face flushed with instant elation, and joy crossed his eyes as he said, “Master, I knew you would come to save me.”
Ye Xuan’s sword finger came together, and a dot of blood grew at his fingertip, swiftly cutting through the dozen steel chains and freeing the chubby man.
“Brother Huang, save us!”
Following the chubby man’s release, a dozen ecstatic voices were heard from within the first level of the Demon Suppressing Tower, clearly indicating that a large number of villains were imprisoned there by the monks of the Lesser Leiyin Temple.
“Sir, these people are all fierce and evil characters.
I think if we recruit them into the Netherworld, we can rapidly forge an elite force from among the elite,” the chubby Huang respectfully bowed and said to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan slowly nodded his head.
The fact that Huang Paozi had set his sights on these individuals surely meant they were anything but ordinary, which made Ye Xuan agree with Huang Paozi’s suggestion.
a large number of vicious criminals were released by Ye Xuan.
Led by Huang Paozi, the group of criminals, faces flushed with excitement, pledged their loyalty to Ye Xuan.
They even went so far as to thump their chests and guarantee that they would kill anyone Ye Xuan asked them to.
As for the loyalty of these criminals, Ye Xuan merely smiled faintly without much sentiment and stealthily signaled Huang Paozi with a glance, which made Huang Paozi nod in full understanding.
Huang Paozi knew that Ye Xuan was telling him that these criminals were unruly, and for now, they might be overflowing with gratitude for being saved.
But once they left the Demon Suppressing Tower, who knew where they would go.
Ye Xuan was by no means a charitable sort, but rather someone who would not stir without profit.
Since he had saved these people, the lives of this gang of criminals were his—Ye Xuan’s.
And of course, Huang Paozi understood that Ye Xuan didn’t trust these people.
He had already planned to control the group of criminals with a slow-acting poison once they were out of the Demon Suppressing Tower—this was an infallible method.
From this, it was clear that Ye Xuan’s creation of the Netherworld was a supremely right decision because with talents like Huang Paozi, many minor troubles could be spared for Ye Xuan.
If it were up to the past, Ye Xuan alone could only plant blood contracts on these criminals himself, which was undoubtedly a waste of Ye Xuan’s time.
“Huang Paozi, make them understand the rules of the Netherworld.
You may take them and leave now,” Ye Xuan spoke in a gentle murmur.
“Sir, aside from the first floor where there are still living people, there are no more people in the upper eight floors.
Are you not going to leave with us?” Huang Paozi asked, puzzled.
Ye Xuan’s lips curled into a sardonic smile, and in a strangely enigmatic tone, he said, “You’re wrong.
There’s still an old thing hiding in this Demon Suppressing Tower.
If I don’t draw him out, wouldn’t that make me, Ye Xuan, appear incompetent?”
With those words, Ye Xuan headed straight for the second floor of the Demon Suppressing Tower, prompting Huang Paozi to snap back to reality and hastily usher the group of criminals to quickly exit the Demon Suppressing Tower.
The heavy footsteps echoed in the Demon Suppressing Tower as Ye Xuan climbed the stairs, heading towards the ninth floor.
Along the way, the skeletal remains that he passed were all cast into his view.
At just a glance, Ye Xuan could tell that these skeletons were left by past Evil Demons, their bones seemingly crafted from jade, still emitting a faint glow.
At that moment, Ye Xuan’s eyes slightly squinted, and a streak of Spiritual Light flashed through his mind, with a trace of disdain flickering in the depths of his eyes.
The ninth floor of the Demon Suppressing Tower.
As soon as Ye Xuan stepped foot onto this floor, he saw a mummified corpse collapsed on the ground without a trace of life, as if it had been dead for an unknowable length of time.
Ye Xuan walked casually up to the corpse, and when he opened and closed his eyes, a hint of bloodlight passed through them.
“To feign death before me, you’re still a bit too green.”
In the midst of this eerie atmosphere, Ye Xuan’s voice sounded cold and ruthless, yet the corpse showed no response, as if it had truly lost its life.
“I have to say, you’re quite the genius of the Buddhist Sect.
Over these thousands of years, you’ve endured through thick and thin in the nine-story Demon Suppressing Tower, occasionally feasting on the flesh and Essence Qi of Evil Demons to survive to the present day.
This feat is indeed commendable for you,” Ye Xuan said to himself, without allowing any aura to manifest but with an intense coldness in his gaze towards the corpse.
The temperature of the ninth floor of the Demon Suppressing Tower began to silently drop.
If an ordinary person were here, they would surely be petrified by the chilling and horrifying atmosphere.
“I’ll count to three.
If you continue to play dead with me, I will destroy your body and shatter your Primordial Spirit, ensuring you never reincarnate,” Ye Xuan’s eyes narrowed as his voice hardened with venom and ruthlessness.