Chapter 506: Blood Demon

After nearly two hours of searching, almost all of the blood stones placed in the forest by the Demon Shadow Sect had been found.

However, looking at this stone, Lin Xun still felt that something was very wrong.

This blood-red stone.

The problem with it was simply too great.

It could be said that the Demon Shadow Sect wanted to use this stone to control other people.

Rather than saying the Demon Shadow Sect wanted to recruit Cultivators into their Sect…

It would be more accurate to say that the Demon Shadow Sect simply wanted Puppets.

These blood stones were definitely created by that minor Sect Master of the Demon Shadow Sect!

In Lin Xun’s view, many people within the Demon Shadow Sect had already been controlled by that Blood Demon.

Even if not all of them were controlled, at least half of them were.

Lin Xun now somewhat wanted to meet that Blood Demon and kill it himself.

But on second thought, Lin Xun decided to set it aside for now.

This Blood Demon would die sooner or later; that much was certain.

However, even if he executed that Blood Demon now, it wouldn’t be of much use at the moment.

So Lin Xun wanted to wait a little longer.

Because one Blood Demon had escaped now; what if another one escaped in the future?

Therefore, if possible, Lin Xun intended to capture it first and then conduct an interrogation or something.

At least he could get a lot of useful information out of this Blood Demon’s mouth.

Because Lin Xun knew far too little about the matter of Blood Demons.

The Blood Demon’s origins, its purpose, why it escaped, and what exactly happened back then.

Lin Xun was unclear about everything.

Lin Xun wanted to learn a bit more from its mouth.

That way, he would be prepared; if some great catastrophe occurred, he could respond with the fastest speed.

Two hours later, when Lin Xun walked out of that forest, most of the Cultivators had basically come out as well.

Neither more nor less, there were over three hundred people holding those blood-red stones.

“Congratulations to everyone for passing the trial. Now, Fellow Daoists, you have become members of my Demon Shadow Sect.

From now on, the Demon Shadow Sect is everyone’s second home.

I believe you will not regret entering the Demon Shadow Sect.

And I believe even more that with all of you, the Demon Shadow Sect will become even more prosperous.

Our Demon Shadow Sect is a first-class Sect of the Dragon Cry Holy Land.

The Demon Shadow Sect grew from an obscure Sect to the largest Sect in the Dragon Cry Holy Land in just two years.

Such speed is simply staggering.

And I believe that such speed will certainly be maintained to the greatest extent.

I believe that in the near future, with all of you, the Demon Shadow Sect’s strength will be even more powerful.

The Demon Shadow Sect! It will definitely become the largest Sect on the Longming Continent!

Even surpassing the existence of the Dragon Cry Holy Land.”

At the exit of that forest, the Demon Shadow Sect Elder responsible for the selection was giving a passionate speech.

His eloquence was truly quite good; he was indeed very adept at stirring up people’s emotions.

Even though Lin Xun was an undercover agent intending to overthrow their Sect Master…

It did sound quite exciting.

If even Lin Xun found it so exciting, it went without saying for the other Cultivators.

After this Elder finished his speech, these Cultivators looked at each other and then revealed knowing smiles.

For these Loose Cultivators, they naturally didn’t want to be like rootless duckweed, “scrapping for food with dogs” all day long.

After all, who wouldn’t want to live a bit better?

So, for these Loose Cultivators…

The best situation and the best destination…

Was to find a Sect and join it.

That way, they could sleep peacefully and even receive a decent monthly salary.

Wouldn’t that be great?

Of course.

This didn’t mean that just because a Loose Cultivator wanted to join a Sect, the Sect would take them.

After all, Loose Cultivators truly valued their own lives.

Correspondingly, while Loose Cultivators valued their own lives, they also thought very little of others’ lives.

It could be said that for any Loose Cultivator who had cultivated to the Sea Gazing Realm…

There wasn’t a single one whose hands weren’t stained with blood.

A Loose Cultivator could betray friends, brothers, or even their own Dao Companion for a tiny bit of opportunity.

Though it wasn’t all Loose Cultivators…

Ninety percent of Loose Cultivators were worse than beasts.

They were cunning, cared only for themselves, and would do anything for profit.

In fact, perhaps one couldn’t entirely blame the Loose Cultivators.

Because those kind and naive Loose Cultivators generally didn’t live for very long.

No, it should be said that they basically couldn’t survive.

So, if any Sect wanted to accept Loose Cultivators, they would certainly have many considerations.

Unless they really wanted to expand the Sect’s facade and were short on manpower, decent Sects generally looked down on Loose Cultivators.

Therefore, when they learned they could join the Demon Shadow Sect, they were mostly extremely excited.

After all, how should one put it?

Not only could they end this life of uncertainty where they might be sold out by others at any time…

But they could also enter a large Sect.

There was nothing better than this.

Consequently, they, who were originally cautious, now didn’t even have their last bit of psychological defense.

Because in their view, the Demon Shadow Sect was such a large Sect, and they had undergone a difficult selection.

The Demon Shadow Sect had gone to so much trouble just to select them.

The Demon Shadow Sect wouldn’t do anything to them; they wouldn’t cheat them.

Because there was no need.

“Now, please inject your spiritual energy into this blood stone. This blood stone will be the proof of your identity in the future.

In the future, when you enter or leave the Demon Shadow Sect, or need to collect your Spirit Stone salary, you will need this stone as a medium.”

Seeing the Cultivators on the field all beaming with joy, this Elder was also very happy.

At this moment, basically everyone had relaxed their guard and naturally injected their spiritual energy into this blood stone without any defense.

Of course, Lin Xun did the same.

Lin Xun still had to infiltrate the Demon Shadow Sect.

If he didn’t do this, there would be problems.

And when Lin Xun injected his spiritual energy into this blood stone…

Suddenly, Lin Xun felt a blood-colored Divine Sense trying to devour his Divine Soul.

Lin Xun, who was already prepared, naturally wouldn’t let it succeed.

At first, Lin Xun showed no resistance and directly let it enter his Sea of Consciousness.

After successfully entering Lin Xun’s Sea of Consciousness, this blood-colored ghost-fire head began searching for the soul fire within Lin Xun’s Sea of Consciousness.

A Cultivator’s soul fire is generally hidden deep within the Sea of Consciousness; the higher the Cultivator’s Realm, the harder the soul fire is to find.

This is a self-protection mechanism for Cultivators.

Especially at Lin Xun’s Realm, the soul fire had basically become formless.

If Lin Xun deliberately didn’t bring the soul fire out, then this ghost-fire head would never find it no matter what!

And this blood ghost searched and searched, but as expected, it found nothing.

However, Lin Xun planned to make it easy for this blood ghost.

Under the direction of Lin Xun’s will, the soul fire in Lin Xun’s Sea of Consciousness suddenly appeared.

Just as this blood ghost was completely bewildered, suddenly, “this Cultivator’s” soul fire appeared before it.

In the next moment, this blood ghost didn’t even think before pouncing directly onto it.

Just as this blood ghost head intended to devour Lin Xun’s Divine Soul…

Suddenly, Lin Xun’s soul fire transformed into a human shape and then opened its eyes.

“You…”

This blood ghost was incredibly shocked.

Originally, this blood ghost thought it could occupy a decent body and then use the opportunity to survive in this world.

But what it didn’t expect was that the opponent had already detected its existence and was essentially fishing.

Now, this person simply stopped acting and opened his eyes directly.

There was no path of retreat.

Since it had already entered the opponent’s Sea of Consciousness, it was impossible for it to withdraw.

In this battle for dominance over the body, it was either you die or I perish.

And just as this blood ghost made up its mind to fight Lin Xun to the death…

The soul fire Lin Xun merely gave a slight smile.

In the next moment, Lin Xun waved his hand, and under Lin Xun’s powerful Spiritual Pressure, this blood ghost directly turned into spiritual energy and dissipated within Lin Xun’s Sea of Consciousness.

Although Lin Xun was a spear user, as the Demon Son of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect, he still knew some of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect’s other Spells.

Lin Xun used the Soul-Absorbing Great Art of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect to turn this dissipated blood ghost directly into his own nourishment, and then attempted to search through the opponent’s memories.

But unfortunately, Lin Xun didn’t find anything.

This was quite surprising to Lin Xun.

But it didn’t matter.

Anyway, the first step had been achieved.

It could be said that he had preliminarily infiltrated the Demon Shadow Sect.

When Lin Xun opened his eyes, at the same time, the other Cultivators also opened theirs.

When the other Cultivators opened their eyes, their pupils were completely crimson, revealing a blood-light that looked extremely terrifying.

To avoid appearing particularly “different,” Lin Xun also made his eyes deep red, and then, mimicking the spiritual energy of the blood ghost he had just devoured, he emitted a kind of blood Qi.

“My friends, welcome back!”

The Elder of the Demon Shadow Sect stepped forward, opened his arms, and expressed a warm welcome to the three hundred Cultivators who had already been possessed by Blood Demons.

It was as if he were welcoming them home.

“This body isn’t bad; young and strong, I like it.”

A middle-aged man stepped forward, looking his body over from left to right, appearing very satisfied.

“You’re satisfied, but what’s with this body of mine? It’s senile and decrepit.” Another old man stepped forward.

“Stop complaining. Damn it, I’m occupying a woman’s body; this is truly seeing a ghost.” A woman’s voice rang out.

“Let’s not talk about this for now; it’s a blessing that we were able to get out.”

“What blessing? That Seal was already weak; it was only a matter of time before we came out.”

“Don’t say that. We originally estimated it would be another five thousand years before we could come out. Now that it’s earlier and we don’t have to stay in that disgusting place anymore, you should feel lucky.”

“Hahaha, I didn’t expect the world to become like this now.” A Blood Demon, having grasped all the memories of the one it possessed, laughed loudly.

“Damn, I didn’t expect the Myriad Races to have forgotten us!”

“Isn’t it better that they forgot? We can give them a surprise.”

“Hahaha, that’s true.”

“Surprise? I want to show the Myriad Races exactly what a damn surprise is!”

“Alright, alright, stop chatting for now. The General is still waiting for everyone.”

The old man stepped forward, interrupting their conversation.

“General? Which General was it again?” a Blood Demon asked.

“Yeah, which General came out?” another Blood Demon asked, also puzzled.

For these Blood Demons, the moment they truly gained consciousness was when those Cultivators injected a wisp of spiritual energy, activating them.

After being activated, because these Blood Demons had no bodies, they instinctively possessed the Cultivators.

Besides that, they didn’t have much consciousness.

At most, they learned some things about this world from the Cultivators they possessed.

As for who exactly saved them, they were completely unaware.

Meanwhile, Lin Xun remained silent on the side, listening to their conversation.

After all, Lin Xun was blending in with them.

The more one speaks, the more likely one is to make a mistake; it was better for him not to talk.

Furthermore, these people didn’t seem to be confirming identities much, which made Lin Xun even more relieved.

“The one who released you is General Blood Dragon.”

This Elder answered their question.

“General Blood Dragon?” a Blood Demon said in surprise. “I didn’t expect General Blood Dragon to have come out already.”

“Correct.”

The Elder nodded.

“General Blood Dragon has already come out. Not only that, General Blood Dragon has a plan to release more of our kin.

However, this will require everyone’s help.”

“That’s a given!”

“For the great cause of our Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan, everything is worth it!”

“Hahaha, in the ancient times, we were suppressed! Now, it’s time for the world to taste that terror once again!”

“In that case, please follow me, everyone!”

With those words, the Elder rose and flew away.

The rest of the Blood Demons naturally followed immediately!

Lin Xun didn’t think much either and silently followed behind these Blood Demons.

Along the way, Lin Xun encountered several Blood Demons who greeted him, but Lin Xun didn’t respond to any of them.

These Blood Demons all thought Lin Xun was aloof and just ignored it.

Lin Xun, on the other hand, breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Mainly because Lin Xun had used a secret technique to devour that Blood Demon, he could easily mimic the characteristics of a Blood Demon’s spiritual energy, lowering the others’ suspicion.

An hour later, Lin Xun arrived at the headquarters of the Demon Shadow Sect.

The Cultivators responsible for guarding the gate were relatively normal.

The Cultivators on the periphery were also relatively normal.

But as they walked further in, towards the depths, Lin Xun felt that things were extremely wrong!

The blood Qi inside became increasingly heavy, to the point of being completely undisguised.

This Elder led the group of Blood Demons to the outside of a secret chamber.

“General, a total of three hundred kin have been fully revived.”

As the Elder’s words fell, the large door in front of them slowly opened.