296: Chapter 296 Discovery of Demonic Cultivators

Afterwards, Chen Hu dispatched another 1,000 Black Armor Cavalry to capture those fleeing Barbarians.

These Barbarians were all born strong and sturdy; they were definitely capable laborers.

Since he had already conquered Baoqing Prefecture, he couldn't just leave it unattended.

It was perfect to use these Barbarians to build roads.

Very quickly.

News of the Fierce Tiger Army defeating the Barbarian army spread throughout the city.

Although Chen Xuance was a good official before, he could not conjure food out of thin air.

To appease the Barbarians, he had no choice but to levy grain from the commoners in the city.

Therefore, upon learning that the Barbarian army was attacking again, all the commoners in the city were terrified.

They worried whether the Fierce Tiger Army would levy grain from them to appease the Barbarians.

Fortunately, the Fierce Tiger Army was terrifyingly strong and had easily defeated the Barbarians.

Inside that same small courtyard.

Secretary Kong Wanwan knocked on the door and entered the study: "Father, I have good news to tell you. The Fierce Tiger Army has defeated the Barbarian army and is currently hunting them down!"

"The Fierce Tiger Army is this strong?"

Kong Jing asked in shock. Having stayed in Baoqing Prefecture for five years, he naturally knew how strong those Barbarians were.

Secretary Kong Wanwan hesitated for a moment and said: "Father, I heard from others that all 3,000 members of the Fierce Tiger Army are in the Marrow Refining Realm!"

"That is impossible!"

Kong Jing rejected the idea without a second thought. Although he was a scholar, he also Cultivate in the martial arts; otherwise, he would not have been able to spend five years in Baoqing Prefecture safely. However, his cultivation was not high, only at the Mid-stage Tendon Refining.

On the other hand, his daughter, Secretary Kong Wanwan, had excellent martial arts talent; at only eighteen years old, she had already reached the Late Stage of the Bone Refining Realm.

However, the father and daughter were quite low-key.

They almost never revealed their martial arts cultivation to the outside world; otherwise, his daughter could have made it onto the hidden dragon ranking.

Secretary Kong Wanwan said: "At first, I didn't believe it either, but I snuck over to the South Gate and discovered that the soldiers stationed there are all in the Marrow Refining Realm!"

She used to be very proud of her own martial arts talent.

But after seeing the Fierce Tiger Army, she suddenly began to doubt her own talent.

"Is that true?"

Kong Jing asked in a deep voice.

Secretary Kong Wanwan nodded: "If Father does not believe me, you can go to the city gate yourself tomorrow to see!"

At this, Kong Jing believed her seven or eight parts, and at the same time decided in his heart that he must go to the city gate tomorrow to verify it.

"Father, five years have passed. The people in the Royal Capital have likely forgotten all about you. Why don't we defect to the Fierce Tiger Army?" Secretary Kong Wanwan suggested.

"Your father is a reader of the sages' books; how could I defect to a rebel army!"

Kong Jing shook his head. Before being demoted, he was a fifth-rank official in the Royal Capital.

Moreover, he was the one pushed out to take the blame.

Unfortunately, five years had passed, and those people had long forgotten him; returning to the Royal Capital was likely a distant prospect.

"Father, when did you become so pedantic?"

Secretary Kong Wanwan said, somewhat disapprovingly: "The Fierce Tiger Army is a rebel army now, but once they seize the world, won't they be the legitimate rulers?"

"You, you are thinking too simply!"

Kong Jing shook his head: "No matter how strong the Fierce Tiger Army is, it is difficult to seize the world relying solely on Baoqing Prefecture!"

"If you don't defect when they are weak, and wait until they grow strong, they will surely have plenty of talent. By then, why would they value you?" Secretary Kong Wanwan argued.

Kong Jing was somewhat moved: "Let's just wait and see for now!"

Time passed, and over an hour flew by.

Two thousand Black Armor Cavalry returned to the city with over two thousand Barbarian captives.

Of the five thousand-plus Barbarians, about 1,500 were killed in the charge.

Another 2,700-plus were captured.

The remaining thousand or so fled into the mountains and forests, and since it was already dark, it was truly difficult to capture them.

After ordering people to lock these Barbarians up.

Chen Hu left Baoqing Prefecture.

He went back to Zhenlong City to spend the night.

Anyway, he had Near and Far, which was very convenient.

That night, at midnight, in the City Lord's study.

He pulled up the System panel.

Chen Hu's gaze locked directly onto the underling points column.

After the midnight refresh, the underling points had increased by over fifty million directly.

The amount of underling points increased to 82.34 million.

"System, how many underling points are needed to increase cultivation in the Golden Core Realm by one level?" Chen Hu asked the System.

"Ten million!"

The System did not answer, but poured the number directly into his mind.

"System, raise my cultivation to the seventh level of the Golden Core Realm!"

Very quickly, Chen Hu's cultivation finished upgrading, reaching the seventh level of the Golden Core Realm.

His internal magic power had expanded dozens of times over.

Consuming 60 million underling points, 22.34 million remained.

The next moment, Chen Hu prepared to open cards.

Following the old rules, he opened the good luck card first.

He silently recited "activate" and obtained five times good luck.

Then, Chen Hu opened the material cards and item cards all at once.

Then Chen Hu took out the enlightenment card.

He locked onto the Great Five Elements Technique.

He silently recited "use," and then he incarnated as a child and entered the cultivation world, practicing the Great Five Elements Technique diligently under his Revered Master's guidance.

Perhaps because he possessed a Nine-Turn Golden Core.

It only took him five months to Cultivate the Great Five Elements Technique to Perfection.

After being kicked out of the cultivation world, he quickly performed Fusion on the cultivation memories.

He quickly took out the second enlightenment card and locked onto "Ten Thousand Sword Technique."

This time, it took even less time; in just four months, he had cultivated this Spell to Perfection.

After performing Fusion on the memories again.

Chen Hu had an urge to test the power of the Perfection-level Spell.

However, he suppressed this urge.

He would wait until he finished opening all the cards before testing.

He opened the connection card and obtained a Ding-grade connection.

Chen Hu felt that the connection card was already useless in this world.

He opened the identity card.

He obtained the identity of a merchant caravan guard captain.

After using it directly.

Chen Hu began to read the other person's memories.

Originally, Chen Hu thought he wouldn't gain any useful memories, but unexpectedly.

He actually obtained some rather strange information.

This caravan guard had long been escorting merchant caravans along a trade route heading to Daoling County.

But two days ago, after the caravan he was escorting arrived at Daoling County, they discovered that Daoling had become a dead city.

Every living being in the city had turned into a dried corpse.

Even though he had the cultivation of Refining Flesh Mid-Stage, seeing this scene almost made him wet himself.

He immediately advised the caravan to turn back.

He switched back to his own identity.

Chen Hu used Near and Far and vanished from the study.

Very quickly, he appeared on the city wall of Daoling County.

He spread his Spiritual Sense.

He discovered hundreds of thousands of dried corpses scattered throughout the city.

He carefully observed a few dried corpses and discovered that they had all died because the blood energy in their bodies had been drained.

Logically speaking, with hundreds of thousands of people dead, the city should be filled with monstrous resentment.

And ghosts should appear.

What made Chen Hu feel strange was that there was no resentment in the city, and not a single ghost had appeared.

"This shouldn't have been done by a Martial Artist!"

Chen Hu deduced a result.

"Could it be that there are Cultivators in this world as well?"

Because this method was very similar to what a Demonic Cultivator among Cultivators would do?

Although the result seemed somewhat absurd, Chen Hu felt the possibility was very high.

Since the people inside could leave from the Extreme East Island and head to the outside world.

Naturally, people from the outside could also enter this world.

"Could a Demonic Cultivator from the outside have run in?" Chen Hu thought to himself.

Therefore.

He released his Divine Sense to start searching for the whereabouts of that Demonic Cultivator.

But to his disappointment, he did not find any traces of a Demonic Cultivator nearby.

Withdrawing his Divine Sense, Chen Hu revealed a thoughtful expression. If there really was a Demonic Cultivator, they would definitely not just slaughter a city once.

As long as there was a next time, he would be able to get news of it.

The living beings of this world were all his designated underlings.

If he let a Demonic Cultivator slaughter them wantonly, wouldn't that cut off his path to earning underling points?

Therefore, the Demonic Cultivator must die.

However, he did not yet know the specific strength of the Demonic Cultivator.

He had to raise his cultivation to the ninth level of the Golden Core Realm as soon as possible.

At the same time, he had to purchase some Talismans and Magic Treasures to enhance his own strength.