1: Chapter 1 Does he intend to betray his sect and cultivate demonic arts?!

Nighttime, the sky was gray and somber, silent as water.

In the sprawling Yao Beast mountain range, a group of people was hurrying in a certain direction.

"Hehe! If you ask me, the Heavenly Demon Sect Sect Master is truly a peerless beauty who could topple kingdoms."

"If I could spend one night with her, it would definitely be worth dying under the peony flower; even as a ghost, I would be a romantic."

"Look at the female Disciples under her command; each one is tender and dripping with charm, enough to make one's heart crave them."

In the crowd, a Foundation Establishment Stage level 3 Cultivator with a face full of acne scars looked greedily at the group of captured Heavenly Demon Sect female Cultivators ahead.

Judging by his expression, if given the chance, he would surely transform into a moonlit wolf, rushing forward to devour this group of fresh and delicious lambs.

Just then, his fellow Senior Brother beside him interrupted him.

"In my opinion, you should stop daydreaming. Our Sect paid a huge price to completely encircle and exterminate the Heavenly Demon Sect this time."

"These stunning women were already reserved by the Sect Master long ago."

"If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the Secret Realm that disrupted the Sect Master's plans, leading him to take the Sect's experts to the front lines, they wouldn't have been left until now."

"Furthermore, even if he doesn't enjoy them himself, he will use them to exchange for cultivation resources or to befriend big shots from other Schools."

Hearing this, the Qingxuan Sect Inner Sect Disciple who had sighed earlier couldn't help but exclaim again: "Sigh, I only hate that my strength is not enough. Otherwise, I could have gotten a share."

"Even if I couldn't get that Sect Master with the celestial appearance, I could have divided one of the beauties to accompany me through the long night. How delightful that would be!"

After speaking, he used his eyes to greedily scan the group of beautiful Heavenly Demon Sect women, which barely made up for the disappointment in his heart.

However, among this group, everyone had their own hidden thoughts.

For instance, in the crowd, a man with a "plain and unremarkable" appearance stood one position away from the Heavenly Demon Sect Sect Master.

After taking everything in, he seemed to be deep in thought.

Is this what the Righteous Path Sect does?

Pah.

Isn't it just killing countless people for selfish gain?

It's not much better anyway.

If it were three days ago, none of this would have had anything to do with Gu Qingge.

At that time, he only wanted to develop steadily, striving to survive in this Cultivation world full of violence and slaughter that preached the law of the jungle, prioritizing stability above all!

However, the turning point of events was that he had awakened a System called "Self-Reliance" three days ago.

As everyone knows, as a person who underwent Transmigration, how could he not have a System?

Especially for a peerless Prodigy like him, with such deep good fortune and spiritual intuition.

It's just that this System arrived a bit late.

On his long road to immortality, from Mortal to Qi training, from Qi training to Foundation Establishment, and then from Foundation Establishment to a few days ago, there had never been any movement.

So much so that he had accepted his fate in this life.

Forced to choose to develop discreetly by relying on himself.

As the saying goes, the poor rely on mutation, the rich rely on technology, and those who are neither poor nor rich rely on miracles.

This neither-poor-nor-rich fate, after experiencing consecutive Secret Realm adventures and looting the Immortal Caves of powerful deceased experts, actually allowed him to rise!

Now, he was already the number one Inner Sect Disciple of the Qingxuan Sect, a Half-step Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

However, at this moment... the System finally arrived.

And after receiving this news, he was pleasantly surprised for a while.

He thought that a good meal is never late, as long as it arrives.

The path of a protagonist in a cool novel to counterattack was right before his eyes.

Subsequently, he was both happy and worried.

Relatively speaking, the tasks issued by the System were single-choice tasks.

As the host, he could choose to accept or not.

After completing it, he would receive corresponding rewards.

If he couldn't complete it, there was no penalty.

Compared to some Divine-Grade choice Systems that even a dog would know how to choose, or trashy Systems that would kill the host at every turn, this made Gu Qingge slightly intrigued.

A bit interesting.

Just at this moment, as his thoughts stirred, a few lines of mysterious text suddenly appeared in his mind.

[Task 1: Surface Brothers]

[Slaughter the Immortal Sect Senior Brothers and save the fellow Cultivators who are in dire straits.]

[Reward: Awaken the Heavenly Demon Emperor Body.]

[Task 2: Eliminate the Righteous Path and Guard the Demonic Path]

[Ensure that none of the Demonic Sect women here die at the hands of the Immortal Sect Cultivators.]

[Reward: Divine-Grade Cultivation Technique — Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art, Divine-Grade Martial Skill — Heavenly Demon World-Extinguishing Palm.]

[Task 3: Many Children, Many Blessings. (Locked).]

[Reward: One random draw.]

As Gu Qingge's thoughts stirred, the conditions to complete the tasks became clear.

It was nothing more than killing the others in the Sect responsible for the escort and monopolizing the women.

Since that was the case, asking the fellow Sect members to go to their deaths didn't seem like an excessive request.

Hehehe!

After all, what Cultivators fight for is to defy the heavens, to struggle against heaven and earth for that sliver of life hidden among the common people.

Looking back, as of now, Gu Qingge's cultivation strength was the Half-step Golden Core Stage.

At the same time, although he was an Inner Sect Disciple, among many Inner Sect Disciples, he was considered a standout.

Moreover, he occupied a more important identity of being unattached.

Parents died early, Family destroyed, a standard template for a destiny protagonist.

Even his previous Master, who was old and had less than ten years of life left, wanted to use Gu Qingge to perform the Possession technique.

However, unexpectedly, by chance, the latter, having grown up, used the Opportunity of exploring a Secret Realm and the methods left by a deceased expert in the Secret Realm to destroy and kill him.

Gu Qingge, who had always been cautious, naturally would not leave any seeds of defeat for himself.

Destroying the corpse and erasing the traces was something he learned without a teacher, which could be called masterful.

Destroying the Physical Body, extinguishing the Golden Core, and scattering the ashes completely.

From the implementation of the plan to the death of his cheap Master, who was a Golden Core Stage Middle Stage Cultivator, his methods were ruthless, decisive, and could only be described as flawless.

And now, Gu Qingge only had one thought in his mind.

Everything in this world is fake and empty; only becoming stronger, stronger, and stronger matters!

Only by becoming stronger will he not be at the mercy of others, becoming bones in a grave under someone else's sharp blade.

Right now, among the twenty people here, besides Gu Qingge, this Half-step Golden Core Stage Cultivator, and a group of Foundation Establishment Stage Senior Brothers, there were also two Golden Core Stage Elders escorting them.

Of these two, one was at the Early Stage of the Golden Core Stage, and the other was at the Middle Stage.

Neither were easy characters to deal with.

But Gu Qingge was not without the means to kill them.

Just like at this moment, inside his robe, he was tightly gripping an object in a jade bottle.

High Grade Earth-tier poison pill — Soul-Destroying Poison.

This object was odorless and formless, and if scattered in the air, anyone who was hit would have their strength severely decline in a short period.

If ordinary poison had no effect on the Golden Core Stage, this thing was something he accidentally obtained while participating in a Secret Realm trial previously.

It actually came from the Immortal Cave of a genuine Peak Golden Core Stage Cultivator, the Withered Bone Old Man.

When he killed his cheap Master last time, this thing had performed a miraculous feat.

He used half of it last time, and the remaining half this time would come in handy.

It was precisely because he possessed this item that the covetous thoughts in Gu Qingge's heart, fueled by ambition, gradually evolved into reality.

Just then, Gu Qingge suddenly felt a weak figure, like a willow in the spring breeze, fall before him.

"Be careful."

Gu Qingge quickly supported Sect Master Min Qingrou's delicate body, which was about to fall.

Now, temporarily setting aside his plans and plots, and examining her carefully, Gu Qingge couldn't help but be amazed.

She was wearing a battle-damaged golden silk dragon-pattern black robe, wrapping her curvaceous and plump body.

Three thousand strands of black hair cascaded down like a waterfall; her magnificent bearing was as beautiful as a painting, graceful and luxurious, as if she were proud above the Nine Heavens.

On her face, as delicate as congealed fat, there was a deathly pallor, without a trace of blood.

Around her body, a faint scent of jasmine drifted.

Such a peerless beauty, with such graceful curves, was truly one in ten thousand.

Combined with the current situation, she was simply the epitome of a beautiful, strong, and tragic character of this generation.

Unobtainable in the Mortal world, like an exiled immortal in a dream.

"Thank... thank you." Sect Master Min Qingrou's delicate body stiffened for a moment, then she whispered softly.

In this world, only those on the Demonic Path understand those on the Demonic Path better.

As a powerful Cultivator at the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage, Sect Master Min Qingrou's expression was slightly uncertain after touching Gu Qingge's body.

Consequently, she clearly realized one point.

This is... the Heavenly Demon Emperor Body that is in the process of Awakening?

As for why she had this discovery, it was because Sect Master Min Qingrou had joined a top-tier Demonic Sect, the Yin and Yang Hehuan Sect, in her early years.

She did not deliberately avoid the matters between men and women.

This Heavenly Demon Emperor Body was regarded as one of the supreme Physiques by the Hehuan Sect!

However, later, because the Hehuan Sect was surrounded and slaughtered, she, as an Outer Sect Disciple, hadn't stayed there long before the Hehuan Sect was destroyed.

Almost instantly, Sect Master Min Qingrou's eyes flashed like lightning, keenly capturing the ambition in the depths of Gu Qingge's eyes that was about to turn into reality.

Immediately, her eyes narrowed, and a thought that was unrealistic but extremely shocking suddenly arose in her heart, which was as dead as ashes.

"Could he be planning to betray the Sect and Cultivate the Demonic Path?!"

Furthermore, under the subtle, unnoticeable observation of others, Sect Master Min Qingrou seemed to notice something.

In the scene she saw, it was precisely the Soul-Destroying Poison that Gu Qingge had just crushed in his sleeve.

That is... a type of poison targeting Golden Core Stage Cultivators?!

(Cultivation Realms in this book: Qi Training Stage, Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, Soul Transformation Stage, Body Integration Stage, Tribulation Transcendence Stage, Mahayana Stage, Spirit Realm, King Realm, Venerable Realm, Saint Realm, Emperor Realm, Mortal Immortal...)