387: Recorded, the Ice Emperor Ceremony is complete

"Third Brother, are you mad? If you speak, we will all die!"

Ghost Scythe's expression changed, and he quickly said, "Has this guy's head been caught in a door?"

"Big Brother, I only know that if I don't speak now, I'll die immediately!" Ghost Face Scholar roared in a low voice. In the face of life and death, nothing else mattered; he just needed to get through the immediate crisis.

"Speak!"

Chu Jiang said indifferently.

"You have to guarantee my safety first, otherwise, what if you kill me as soon as I speak?" Ghost Face Scholar panted. He wasn't a fool; he had some understanding of Chu Jiang's methods.

"This Lord can spare your life, provided the information you give is valuable. Otherwise, you won't escape death!" Chu Jiang said coldly.

Boom!

With a flick of his finger, the cultivation of the two heavily injured humans and one demon was completely sealed.

"You..."

Ghost Face Scholar's face was grim, but being under someone's roof, he had no choice but to bow his head. His attitude instantly did a one-hundred-eighty-degree turn, and he said fawningly, "I guarantee the top-secret information I'm about to give will be useful to you!"

As the saying goes, a true man knows when to yield and when to stand firm.

"Yue Province Pacification Commissioner Lin Hai makes us, from Soul Severing Mountain Range, secretly capture tens of thousands of cultivators every year. They are sent in batches to Shen Yue Great Marsh and handed over to people from Sun Moon Country!"

"We were all forced to do it. If we didn't comply, the Yue Province Pacification Commissioner and the Yue Province Army would come to suppress us!"

"We are good citizens; please investigate thoroughly, my Lord!"

Ghost Face Scholar cried bitterly, filled with remorse.

"Record it!"

Chu Jiang looked at Ma Han beside him and said coldly.

"Yes!"

Ma Han nodded, took out a recording stone, and looked at Ghost Face Scholar:

"Uh, could you please say that again?"

This recording stone was obtained from the Royal Capital Demon Suppression Division's treasury and could record a person's voice and face.

It was more credible than signing and fingerprinting.

However, the Royal Capital didn't have many of these, and each one could only record three different videos.

Chu Jiang had brought out thirty of them.

Seeing Ma Han's actions,

Ghost Face Scholar: "..." (°Д°)

What the hell?

Playing it like this?

"What, were you trying to deceive this Lord just now?"

Chu Jiang's face turned icy, and the air temperature immediately plummeted.

"No..."

Ghost Face Scholar quickly denied it. If he dared to say no now, Chu Jiang would definitely slap him to death.

Helplessly,

He repeated what he had just said.

It was completely recorded by the recording stone.

"Damn it!"

Ghost Face Scholar cursed in his heart. This time, he was truly trapped; the higher-ups would never let him go.

"And you, what do you plan to offer for your life?"

Chu Jiang looked at Ghost Scythe. "Don't worry, I am a man of my word. As long as your answer satisfies this Lord, you will live!"

As he spoke,

He flicked his finger, and Ghost Face Scholar's cultivation was unsealed.

"Thank you, my Lord!"

Ghost Face Scholar breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed this guy still needed them as witnesses, so they were temporarily safe.

Even with his cultivation unsealed, under the eyes of this killing god, he dared not make the slightest move.

Just that single move of 'Heaven and Earth Gravity' earlier could greatly reduce their speed, allowing Chu Jiang to kill them with one strike.

Twenty-three Heaven-Level Demons were annihilated by his two slashes; he didn't think he could withstand more than a few strikes from him.

He could only look for another opportunity.

Ghost Scythe had lived for several hundred years; how could he not know what answer Chu Jiang wanted? It was for him to expose the higher-ups, and the more powerful, the better.

"My private underground palace contains a large number of treasures I've collected for the higher-ups, as well as records of communications with officials from the Three Prefectures, and evidence of their collusion with demons!"

Ghost Scythe reluctantly stated his price. Since his third brother had already sold them out, and the arrow had already been shot, there was no turning back.

"Who are the higher-ups?"

"The Li Family of Wu Prefecture, the Family of the Wu Prefecture Pacification Envoy!"

"Good, I like smart people like you!"

Chu Jiang smiled faintly, unsealing his cultivation with a wave of his hand.

Ma Han had already started the recording stone. Of course, at crucial moments, the scenes of Chu Jiang interrogating them were all edited out.

With timely editing,

A perfect confession was freshly produced.

Boom!

"My Lord, the Purple-Faced Fiend has been captured by me!"

A purple light flashed, and the Purple-Faced Fiend, with his cultivation sealed, was slammed heavily into the ground, instantly falling flat on his face.

Before Chu Jiang could speak,

"Corrupt official, this chieftain would rather die than surrender! If you have the guts, kill me! Big Brother, Third Brother, you are foolish. After this corrupt official uses you, he will definitely not let you go!"

The Purple-Faced Fiend struggled and cursed angrily, showing no intention of surrendering. The crimes they three had committed were enough to kill him a hundred times a day.

Bowing and scraping was merely a temporary act of clinging to life.

"Seeking death!"

Fu Yunxuan's face was like ice. She struck out with a palm, and purple light filled the sky, sending him flying several hundred meters again, crashing into a mountain, splattering blood.

"Zhao Hu, bring him. The rest of you, fully clear out the remaining bandits in Soul Severing Mountain Range."

Chu Jiang said indifferently.

This Soul Severing Mountain Range, three thousand li long and five hundred li wide, probably concealed countless bandits. The tens of thousands of bandits killed just now were likely only a portion of them.

"Yes!"

Zhao Hu tore through the Void Realm, grabbing the Purple-Faced Fiend from the ruins like he was carrying a small chick.

"Lord Chu, what about me? I'm a good demon. I've never actively killed a Human Race member. Can you let me go?"

"Those people weren't what I wanted to eat; they were all forced into my mouth. I was coerced!"

Cang Yue Demon Lord muttered in a low voice, "Am I dead or alive? You damn well give me a straight answer!"

Whoosh!

"In you go!"

Chu Jiang lightly patted the purple gold gourd, and a powerful suction force swept over.

Still deliberately stuffing them into his mouth? This guy's thick skin truly knew no bounds.

"No..."

Cang Yue Demon Lord was sucked into the purple gold gourd, and at the same time, so were the twenty-odd Heaven-Level Demon corpses.

However, he was not in a hurry to refine Cang Yue Demon Lord. He still needed him to find the Tiangou Cave's lair, preparing for a complete sweep.

This Cang Yue Demon Lord was truly extremely afraid of death, never having self-destructed a single one of his grotto-heavens.

Any other Heaven-Level Demon would probably have detonated them all and fought to the death.

"The Lord has commanded, leave no one alive!"

"Kill!"

Wang Chao led the charge, commanding the Demon Suppression Guard to rush forward.

One thousand Demon Suppression Guard, three thousand Tiger Brave Army, all launched an attack, encircling step by step, causing the bandits to flee in disarray, leaving corpses strewn across the fields and rivers of blood.

In the sky,

Chu Jiang stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze fixed on the panel.

[demon life essence: 183,000 years]

[Heavenly Mandate Martial Art · Ice Emperor Canon (Not initiated)]

This Ice Emperor Canon was the product of the Fusion of the two ice-attribute martial arts he had taken from the Royal Capital Scripture Pavilion that day.

Now that he had Lifespan, it was a good time to Cultivate it.

With a large amount of Lifespan infused,

[...]

[...]

[150,000th year, Ice Emperor Canon Perfection, unlocked Ice Emperor's Nine Strikes (including Ice Seal Finger, Cold Star Finger, Ten Thousand Hua Ice Mirror, Profound Ice Dragon Soar, Cold Heaven Shattering Earth, and four other forms), Ice Emperor Jade Bone]

[Ice Emperor's Nine Strikes, high-level offensive technique, can attack and defend, with infinite variations]

[Ice Emperor Jade Bone, doubles the efficiency of Cultivating ice-attribute martial arts]

[Heavenly Mandate Martial Art · Ice Emperor Canon (Perfection)]

[demon life essence: 33,000 years]

...

Chu Jiang opened his eyes, his entire demeanor cold, his eyes like a world of extreme cold.

With a wave of his hand, he could change a large area of the weather.

...

On the other side,

Five hundred meters below.

A certain underground palace in the Soul Severing Mountain Range.

Buzz!

Little Bai and Long Teng, the two rascals, appeared stealthily. Long Teng, with his large, wheel-like eyes, laughed and said, "Bai Ge, I've already seen the treasure!"

"Idiot, you don't need to tell me, it's right in front of you. Old rules... I get twenty percent, you get ten percent, and the remaining seventy percent goes to the Master!"

Little Bai lightly patted Long Teng's big head, letting out bursts of strange laughter.

With that, the two walked into the underground palace...