65: Play the long game, unplanned changes!

Inside the stone building underwater.

There was a young girl with skin as fair as snow, almost transparently white. She wore a sky-blue dress and a pair of blue jade bracelets on her wrists.

A thoughtful look flickered in her peach blossom eyes.

"Number Three has never been activated."

"This person's identity is mysterious, but it's very likely a Senior at the Golden Core Stage or above. To be able to obtain internal information about the Yellow Springs Demon Sect at this time, they must belong to a powerful Family or a Sect."

"However, if this person knows about the Yellow Springs Demon Sect's information, it's also possible they are from the Yellow Springs Demon Sect themselves."

"A Cultivator from the Yellow Springs Demon Sect is unlikely. If Number Three truly was a Yellow Springs Demon Sect Cultivator, the Number Three tai peak token wouldn't have remained inactive for so long."

Lan Yingying cast aside thedistracting thoughts from her mind.

Her goal was very clear now: the jade puppet that the former Sect Master of the Yellow Springs Demon Sect had accidentally obtained.

That jade puppet had mysterious uses; it was a relic from a once-destroyed Nascent Soul Sect and was of great benefit to her own Law Seed.

It would also be advantageous for her Core Formation in the future, so she was determined to acquire it.

Within her Family, she had paid a significant price to obtain this information. Now, using the tai peak token, she had also found partners to snatch the treasure, and she was ready to act.

Since Number Three could get information about the Yellow Springs Demon Sect, there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future!

What could be a substitute for the hundred-year-old red serpent dragon fruit?

Lan Yingying sat cross-legged on a Spiritual Plant cushion in the stone building, a thoughtful look in her crystal eyes.

Currently, Number Three was only interested in the red serpent dragon fruit, so she could only approach it from this angle.

"I'll ask a few other Family members; perhaps I can get some insights."

Immediately, Lan Yingying took out a communication jade talisman from her Storage Pouch.

…

Seven days passed in a flash.

Corpse Refining Cave, Great Pagoda Mountain Immortal Cave.

Shi Chuan's aura suddenly surged, his internal Crimson God Magic Power increased by several tenths again, and his Divine Soul grew significantly.

Nourished by this Spiritual Qi, his Divine Soul naturally advanced to Qi Refining Level 9.

The growth of his Divine Soul was greatly aided by the soul silk techniques he had gained in the market.

"Qi Refining Level 8!"

Shi Chuan exhaled a breath of turbid Qi, and the ground around him was covered with empty Spirit Stones.

He had consumed over a hundred Spirit Stones.

In the past few days.

The Profound Yin Banner and the Nine Nether Demonic Fiend Vine, along with the several thousand Spirit Stones Shi Chuan had just acquired, allowed him to enter seclusion for Cultivation.

The Yellow Springs Demon Sect was plagued by internal and external troubles.

It was in a precarious state.

If Shi Chuan could advance to Level 10 Qi Refining sooner, he could escape the Yellow Springs Demon Sect earlier.

Shi Chuan now possessed knowledge of the former Sect Master Gu Kun's Seal location and the method to break the ancient array, giving him the initiative.

The only solution now was to raise his Cultivation as soon as possible!

The area beneath the Corpse Refining Cave was indeed a good place to Cultivate Magic Power. Moreover, in these past days, Shi Chuan had ordered the Corpse Hounds and Corpse Crows to cooperate with the Eel Demon.

Below Shi Chuan's Cultivation stone chamber, they had dug a subterranean waterway directly connected to an underground dark river.

The Eel Demon could follow the excavated waterway to the area below the Cultivation stone chamber and spray blood fiend at Shi Chuan.

The effect of the blood fiend was more than double that of corpse fiend.

This was one of the reasons Shi Chuan was able to advance to Qi Refining Level 8 so quickly.

At the same time, in these past few days, Shi Chuan had also filtered out two useful pieces of information. The other few were white-grade intelligence, which was dispensable, containing a variety of information but not of high value.

One purple, one green.

【Green Intelligence: The two hall masters of the Talismans Production Hall and the Gu Refining Hall have secretly joined forces to contact hidden agents of the Purple Cloud Sect and the Jiao Demon Sect, hoping to defect soon.】

This was normal; the peak masters of Corpse Refining Peak and Refining Soul Peak had been missing for so many days.

It was clear that their fate was sealed!

This situation had left the two remaining hall masters on Corpse Refining Peak terrified, fearing that the great sword hanging over their heads would fall at any moment and cleave them to death!

【Purple Intelligence: Kong Ran and Zhang Tian, the two Vice Sect Leaders of the Yellow Springs Demon Sect, had long been eyeing the two remaining Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivators on Corpse Refining Peak. They merely wanted to see if they could lure out other Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Jiao Demon Sect or Purple Cloud Sect nearby outside the Sect. The more they could devour, the better.】

"Long line fishing."

Shi Chuan understood.

Now, the Golden Core Demonic Cultivators in the Sect were all sitting high up, each holding a scoop net, staring at the two fat fish in the school of fish within the fish tank before them.

They were waiting to see if those two fat fish could attract a third or fourth fat fish before they would use their scoop nets.

The terrified Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivators would instinctively want to flee and seek a way out.

The reason the two Golden Core Demonic Cultivators in the Sect didn't act was also to fish, hoping to gain more profit.

Corpse Refining Peak and Nine Bend Market might soon fall into chaos.

With Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivators disappearing one by one.

The Disciples below would definitely go crazy, especially since outside the Sect, there were large armies of Jiao Demon and Purple Cloud Second Sect Cultivators, ready to attack the mountain at any time.

At this moment, with Foundation Establishment Cultivators disappearing one by one and no Foundation Establishment Cultivators to suppress them, chaos was inevitable!

"If those two old fellows devour all the Foundation Establishment Demonic Cultivators, will it be the turn of the smaller fish?"

"Qi Refinement Stage Disciples."

Shi Chuan's heart sank in the stone chamber.

He was showing signs of being put on the chopping block; he couldn't wait any longer.

It seemed the plan couldn't keep up with the changes!

As Golden Core Demonic Cultivators within the Sect, Soul Refining methods were certainly familiar to them.

Judging by the methods of these two Golden Core Demonic Cultivators, harvesting all the Qi Refining Disciples in the entire Sect and refining all their wandering souls into soul banners to enhance their power was certainly something they could do.

The corpses of all the Disciples in the Sect could also be refined into Corpse Puppets to fill the protective Sect array.

The more Shi Chuan thought about it, the colder his heart grew.

"From now on, I'll draw talismans with all my might!"

Shi Chuan's mind stirred, and he took out the Earth Vein Teleportation Talisman from his Storage Pouch. A warm, jade-like luster enveloped the jade talisman.

The surging Earth Vein power within the jade talisman had increased slightly compared to before!

However, it was still Medium Grade Tier 2 and had not advanced to High Grade.

To advance from Medium Grade to High Grade, relying solely on Earth Qi Talisman nourishment would certainly be impossible in a short time; it could only be achieved through accumulation over time.

Based on his previous talisman-drawing speed, it would take at least a year.

However, if Shi Chuan put all his effort into drawing talismans for the next few days, it could still give him some confidence.

"Eh?"

"An unexpected pleasant surprise, a prey has arrived!"

At this moment, Shi Chuan suddenly sensed the information transmitted back by the Corpse Crow, which had been circling the periphery outside the Immortal Cave.

He raised his hand, and a streak of Crimson God Magic Power was released, condensing into a mirror several feet long and wide, half a step in front of him.

The mirror displayed the figure of a Human-faced Snake Demon in the mountain forest. The Human-faced Snake Demon was ten zhang long, covered in green scales, and a hazy green light supported its body, allowing it to move nimbly through the mountain forest like a breeze, covering a hundred zhang in a blink of an eye.

"It's the Human-faced Snake Demon from Wangchuan Market."

"It's just in time."

Shi Chuan was afraid that this Human-faced Snake Demon wouldn't come. Now that the Yellow Springs Demon Sect was in chaos, if this Human-faced Snake Demon didn't come, it would be one less delicious dish.