Chapter 387: Chapter 386: I, Protector of Heaven’s Court, Dark Ghost Heavenly King! _1

Upon seeing that Vice Headmaster Shi was suppressing him in every aspect, the withered old man inwardly groaned that he had met with a bad omen. How could this young man be so powerful, totally beyond his expectation?

In the tide of Unification period Demon Path cultivators in the Great Yu Dynasty, he was among the strongest. The only ones who could actually put any pressure on him were the top most major demons who were also on the Unification level.

Damn, what luck! I come out to refine a Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and end up refining a bunch of beasts that don’t understand commands. Now, I run into the top most major demon of the Unification level.

The full-scale battle of the Great Era hasn’t even completely erupted yet, and I’m already running into this kind of opponent?

If we keep fighting, the loser will be me!

Run!

Not wanting to keep fighting, the withered old man turned and fled.

His rich survival experience told him that being defeated temporarily doesn’t mean he’d always be defeated. As long as he continued to cultivate diligently, who would dare to mock his escape today when he took his revenge in the future?

He hadn’t intended to target Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye. These two had a solid foundation, but their cultivation level was too low; they were probably the opponent’s disciples.

Those who are practicing on Demon Path value themselves most. To them, the act of kidnapping disciples for threatening was nothing less than a joke.

The withered old man left the six major demons to hinder the pursuit, turned himself into a stream of light and fled.

“Damn it, that old bastard is so shameless, he just ran away!” Vice Headmaster Shi cursed irritably. The opponent had no stature of a top master.

Although, if he was in the withered old man’s place, he would also make the same choice.

All of a sudden, space undulated like ripples, and a figure appeared silently behind the withered old man. Holding something that looked like a brick, he knocked the withered old man over.

The withered old man staggered and fell from the sky.

“Who?!”

He hastily adopted a defensive stance, but unfortunately he had been hit too hard and the movement was too proficient; he was dizzy and could hardly stand up straight.

Realizing that there was another top master, he prepared to flee again.

The figure with the brick in his hand sneered coldly in a chilling way.

“You want to run from me, the Heavenly King?” The figure looked at the withered old man, who had fallen into a stupor and had no power to resist.

The stupor of the withered old man lasted only for half a second, and he quickly regained his senses.

However, half a second was long enough to do many things for cultivators on the Unification level.

The figure kicked the withered old man over and trampled him underfoot harshly.

When the withered old man tried to use Earth Escape to flee underground, the figure calmly pointed at the ground, and the ground instantly turned as hard as meteoric iron, indestructible. Even when the old man tried to break through by hitting his head against the ground, he couldn’t.

“Point Ground Into Steel?!”

Both the withered old man and Vice Headmaster Shi exclaimed in surprise. They recognized this Great Divine Skill that countered Earth Escape. This move was almost lost to the world, and only the Five Great Immortal Sects and ancient cultivators could use it.

The figure looked at the withered old man coldly and pressed harder with his foot, causing the withered old man to scream in pain.

“Who are you?” The withered old man stared intently at the figure that had suddenly appeared.

If it hadn’t been for this person appearing suddenly, he would have escaped by now.

But he had no heart to resist, the moves the figure had just shown were a bit stronger than those of Vice Headmaster Shi.

Vice Headmaster Shi also watched the figure with a bit of vigilance. The figure had made a move at the critical moment, implying that he had been following them all the time, but he had not noticed it from beginning to end.

What a deep and unfathomable hiding technique!

The figure’s eyes were deep and unfathomable, like an ancient well. He glanced at the withered old man lying on the ground and then at Vice Headmaster Shi. His tone was flat, revealing arrogance and contempt.

“I am Yale of Heaven’s Court, the Protector known as Dark Ghost Heavenly King.”

Vice Headmaster Shi’s face changed slightly. As expected, the figure was the Protector of Heaven’s Court.

Also, using “Dark Ghost” as his title, could he be related to the ancient Nine Nether?

The withered old man looked confused, what organization was Heaven’s Court?

He had investigated all the major forces today, and hadn’t heard of an organization called Heaven’s Court.

Lu Yang and Tao Yaoye watched as the Grand Elder stepped on the ancient Unification period demon, despising the vice headmaster of the demonic sect, wildly unrestrained and domineering, barely managing to suppress the urge to make a sarcastic remark.

When Lu Yang was planning to meet with a vice headmaster of a demonic sect, something this dangerous, the Seek Dao Sect naturally had to send someone.

Originally, Lu Yang didn’t intend to have anyone follow him. He didn’t know where the Grand Elder had heard that he and Tao Yaoye were going to meet Shi Huagu and had volunteered to protect them.

All in the name of protecting the future of the Seek Dao Sect.

Seeing the Grand Elder’s behavior, Lu Yang felt that it wasn’t really about protecting himself. He was just using it as an excuse to show off.

After Vice Headmaster Shi was sure that the Grand Elder was an ally, he felt relieved. He squatted down and slapped the withered old man a couple of times, and asked sternly.

“Say, why the hell did you kill so many livestock!”

Feeling insulted, the withered old man got angry and felt Vice Headmaster Shi was too humiliating. “Do I look crazy? I’m a Demon Cultivator, not a butcher! If I had known that those bloody odors came from a slaughterhouse, I would have taken the trouble to refine the Ten Thousand Soul Banner?”

Vice Headmaster Shi felt the withered old man had a point, and so he slapped him a couple more times.

“Tell me how the villagers disappeared!”

“What villagers? There was nobody around when I got there!”

The withered old man was puzzled, he wasn’t sure why Vice Headmaster Shi had targeted him for no reason.

“That’s not right, wasn’t it you?”

“It wasn’t.”

Vice Headmaster Shi saw that the withered old man wasn’t lying. They were both demon cultivators, and there was no need to cover up a murder.

“Strange.”

…

Seek Dao Sect, Eternity Breeding Ground.

The former master of the Eternity Sect looked at the endless breeding ground. Cattle and sheep leisurely grazed in a peaceful scene, and he sighed softly.

“My lord, what’s wrong?” The three female ghosts, Xiao Wu, Xiao Liu, and Xiao Qi, came up with concerns, seeing that their master had sighed.

“I was just remembering the time when I opened a slaughterhouse as the Master.”

“You used to run a slaughterhouse?”

“The way you say it… doesn’t everyone have a hobby?”

“I’ve never told you before. Before I joined the Eternity Sect, my family ran a slaughterhouse. Later, I was wanted by the government for tax evasion, but the Eternity Sect saw that I was a talent and recruited me.”

“After some time in the Sect, I became the Master.”

“After becoming the Master, I always remembered the days of running the slaughterhouse. My subordinates were as stupid as pigs and were constantly annoying me. Since we didn’t have many people in the Eternity Sect, and it wasn’t easy to find replacements if the subordinates were gone, I bought a lot of puppets and built a small village in the wasteland, which I named Huai’an Village.”

“I controlled the puppets and made them pretend to be villagers. I opened a slaughterhouse and slaughtered pigs every day, using it as an outlet for my anger at my subordinates. So, I slaughtered pigs like that for three or four hundred years and gradually became a well-known traditional slaughterhouse in the area.”

“Then I was caught and my slaughterhouse was sequestrated. The pigs, cattle, and sheep inside were all sold by the government. The government ordered me to stop all the actions of the puppets, and then the puppets were also taken away by the government.”

“Now, Huai’an Village is just an empty shell, leaving only a pile of useless bloody odors. The government doesn’t know what to do with it and just lets them sit there.”

“Wouldn’t the bloody odor be used by the demon cultivators, like refining it into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner or something?” Xiao Qi was worried, they were almost refined into the soul banner.

The master burst into laughter.

“How is that possible? Which dumb Demon Cultivator would use this sort of bloody smell to refine the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.”