Chapter 220: Strategy for Demon Transformation

Tianqing City, Commercial Street, Nameless Pill Pavilion.

After encountering the Fire Scale Dragon, Ouyang Hao was invited here.

Entering the door, he looked at the unfamiliar young man who had been waiting for a long time and tested, “A sliver of life?”

“A kind-hearted female Cultivator,” Lin Jing replied.

“The code is correct, it’s you!” Ouyang Hao’s eyes welled with tears.

Lin Jing smiled slightly. “Senior Brother, please.”

Senior Brother Ouyang took a deep breath. “You really are in Qingzhou. I heard the Academy was ambushed by the Yin Corpse Sect, and the students were scattered everywhere.”

Not long after that, a wanted warrant for you was issued in Qingzhou by the Yin Corpse Sect. Because of this, most people in the Sect guessed you had ended up in Qingzhou.”

“We’ve been looking for you everywhere, and some accidents happened during that time. I didn’t expect to run into you here!”

“The Luo Sha Sect?” Lin Jing asked.

“You know about it!” Ouyang Hao sighed. “Yeah, to get the Yin Corpse Sect’s reward, that Sect captured Cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect to force a confession about your whereabouts. Fortunately, our Eldest Senior Sister managed to become the Demon Court Saintess. She had her Dao Protector step in and wipe out the Luo Sha Sect!”

“After that battle, no one dared to target the Beast Taming Sect anymore. Have you noticed that there are fewer Cultivators searching for you?”

Lin Jing pondered. He hadn’t noticed at all because, with his illusions, he hadn’t encountered any Cultivators searching for him.

“Junior Brother, come back with me. At least with Eldest Senior Sister there, it’ll be safer,” Ouyang Hao suggested.

“No rush,” Lin Jing shook his head.

“How much do you know about this Demon Court? If my Physique is discovered by them, do you think there’s any difference between falling into the hands of the Yin Corpse Sect or the Demon Court?”

Ouyang Hao was stunned and said, “This—that shouldn’t happen. Eldest Senior Sister’s status in the Demon Court is quite high.”

“Eldest Senior Sister is also a very good person—”

“It’s better not to gamble,” Lin Jing said. “Besides, I have other things to do.”

“Tell me about yourself, Senior Brother Ouyang. Why did you come near Tianqing City?”

“The Demon Court’s headquarters and the Beast Taming Sect’s temporary base shouldn’t be here in Qingming Province, right?”

Ouyang Hao sighed. “One reason is to find you. Most of the Beast Taming Sect’s Cultivators have scattered…”

…searching for your whereabouts.”

“The second reason is to handle matters for Eldest Senior Sister.”

“Handle matters for Eldest Senior Sister?” Lin Jing stroked his chin and said, “What matters?”

“Recruiting—Pill Dao Retainers,” Ouyang Hao said with a strange expression, looking at the room’s layout.

“Recruiting Pill Dao Retainers?” Lin Jing was surprised and asked, “For what purpose?”

Ouyang Hao explained, “Junior Brother, you know about the Demon Court, so you should know its purpose, right? It’s to let the Yao Race reappear in the world.”

“And within the Demon Court, the three Saintesses with Half-Demon Bloodlines are the main executors of this goal.”

“They can mobilize massive Demon Court resources to realize their plans, with the sole objective being the revival of the Yao Race!”

The plans of the three Saintesses to revive the Yao Race are all different. For example, the Demon Court’s First Holy Maiden’s method is breeding. Although Half-Demons cannot breed with Yao Beasts, they still have a small probability of breeding with the Human Race to produce offspring with demon blood.”

“She hopes to study the mystery of the Yao Race Bloodline by giving birth to more and more descendants with demon blood.”

“Because of this, the Demon Kings and Demon Emperors of the Demon Court have captured many talented Human Race geniuses for her to use in breeding demon Bloodlines.” Senior Brother Ouyang said fearfully, “Fortunately, I have Eldest Senior Sister covering for me, or I would have definitely been ‘harvested’ as well.”

“As for that Second Holy Maiden, she’s more normal. At the same time, she’s a Genius. She advocates for reviving the Yao Race through ‘innovative Cultivation Techniques.’ It’s said that over the years, she has created more than ten volumes of ‘Cultivation Techniques’ that Yao Beasts can learn.”

“Although she hasn’t yet created a Yao Race Cultivation Technique that can allow Yao Beasts to transform into human form in this era, her supporters and followers are the most numerous among the three Saintesses.”

“As for our Eldest Senior Sister, she is the third Saintess of the Demon Court.”

Hearing this, Lin Jing understood and asked, “So Eldest Senior Sister’s plan is to revive the Yao Race through ‘Pill Dao’?”

Senior Brother Ouyang nodded and said, “It’s said that in ancient times, there were only two ways for Yao Beasts to transform into humans and become part of the Yao Race.”

“One was through cultivation, changing their Bloodline to take human form.”

“The other was to consume a third-tier Spiritual Plant called ‘Shapeshifting Grass.’ This Shapeshifting Grass is also called Human-Transformation Grass or Demon-Transformation Grass.”

“Later, due to changes in the world’s rules, Yao Beasts could no longer transform into human form through cultivation, and Shapeshifting Grass also lost its original effect. When Yao Beasts consume it, there’s no reaction at all.”

“Eldest Senior Sister’s strategy is: since Shapeshifting Grass can no longer directly help Yao Beasts transform, if it’s refined into a Medicinal Pill—a ‘Transformation Pill’—is there a chance to reactivate its effect?”

“To this end, she has gathered many Alchemists, providing her own Half-Demon blood and a large amount of Shapeshifting Grass for them to research the Transformation Pill. Unfortunately, as a force of Yao Beasts, the Demon Court has too few Alchemists. With their talent, it’s not enough to research the Transformation Pill, and they haven’t had much success to this day.”

“But Alchemists with both talent and potential, like those in the Tongtian Pagoda, would never help the Demon Court research the Transformation Pill. So currently, the Beast Taming Sect has scattered. Besides searching for you everywhere, another purpose is to find talented young Alchemists in various places, bring them back to the Demon Court for training, and have them join the research on the Transformation Pill.”

“As humans, Cultivators of the Beast Taming Sect find it more convenient to travel through human cities compared to the Yao Beasts of the Demon Court.”

After Ouyang Hao finished, Lin Jing nodded and said, “No wonder—”

“Senior Brother, do you still really want Hong’er to transform into a human?” he asked the guide who had saved him from the demonic Sect.

“Of course,” Ouyang Hao was confused. “Junior Brother, why are you asking this?”

After some thought, Lin Jing said, “Let me help you. It just so happens that I have some attainments in Pill Dao. Isn’t Eldest Senior Sister recruiting Alchemists? I am one.”

“However, I won’t go to the Demon Court with you.”

“Can you secretly bring me some of Eldest Senior Sister’s Half-Demon blood and Shapeshifting Grass?”

“Huh??” Ouyang Hao was stunned.

“You?”

Lin Jing rolled his eyes and said, “If you’ve done a deep investigation into my background, you should know that back in the Ancient Kingdom, I refined top-grade pills like the Rising Dragon Pill.”

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“Just say that you found a Genius Alchemist who is willing to research the Transformation Pill but unwilling to go to the Demon Court. In short, as long as you don’t expose my identity to the Demon Court’s experts, with your status as the Sect Master’s disciple and Eldest Senior Sister’s status as the Demon Court Saintess, this small matter should be doable, right?”

“That’s true, but without proof, I—”

Lin Jing said, “It’s not without proof. I’ll have you take back a few types of pills to prove my Pill Dao attainments.”