99: Chapter 99 Who is the mantis and the cicada, unaware of the oriole?

Just as both sides were at daggers drawn, each showing their skills, Gu Qingge stirred up the winds and clouds with his blood-colored Heavenly Demon Halberd.

With a single strike, he shattered Bao Wusheng's burning ambition for slaughter.

It was defeated.

Moreover, it was a miserable defeat, subdued in a single move!

"I—I have important information. If I tell you, will you spare my life?"

Bao Wusheng knew that, under the current circumstances, he could never withstand Gu Qingge's brilliant, furious might. To continue fighting would be like a mantis trying to block a chariot—suicide.

"You have no right to choose." Gu Qingge stared coldly at Bao Wusheng.

As for the Bao Wusheng before him, Gu Qingge truly didn't know what secret the other could possibly know.

"This intelligence concerns the unrest in the Hundred Thousand Monster Mountain Range. I assume you must have detected some anomalies recently."

This time, Gu Qingge did not interrupt.

He really wanted to know the inside story and the resolve behind this incident in the Hundred Thousand Monster Mountain Range.

Since the Hundred Thousand Monster Mountain Range had been able to stand for so long, it meant its power was considerable; otherwise, it would have long ago become an experience pack for Cultivators to farm.

"I can tell you everything. But I need you to swear a Heavenly Dao oath. If you violate it, you will be devoured by your Heart Demon." Bao Wusheng was being particularly cautious.

The Gu Qingge before him didn't look like an easy character to deal with; only a Heavenly Dao oath, which represented the power of Law, could bind him.

Afterward, Gu Qingge swore the Heavenly Dao oath, and Bao Wusheng recounted what he knew, seven parts true and three parts false.

However, after obtaining the information he wanted, Gu Qingge changed his attitude.

This action caught Bao Wusheng off guard.

"You! You have no integrity! Are you not afraid of your Heart Demon devouring your body and your path to immortality being severed?"

"Heart Demon? What does that amount to? I act wildly against the wind and clouds; watch as the winds and clouds of the world change!" Gu Qingge flipped his face as easily as turning a book, without hesitation.

As a man blessed by the System, how could he be intimidated by a small Yao Beast fleeing in panic?

"I knew you humans were insidious and vicious; seeing it today, it is indeed true."

"However, just by this, you want to kill me? You are still too naive."

"The act of stalling for time just now, fortunately, has allowed me to recover part of my spiritual power."

Although Bao Wusheng's words were full of disdain and mockery, in reality, these words, combined with that gnashing expression, were extremely comical.

Suddenly, a blood-colored magic array appeared at his feet.

Almost in an instant, his figure vanished into that blood-mist array.

"It is the Yao Emperor Blood Evasion Technique."

A moment later, Demon Empress Ji Zixue's figure stood upon the eaves, looking at the blood-soaked scene on the ground, and spoke.

"Yao Emperor Blood Evasion Technique?"

"What is that?"

Encountering a term he had never heard of, Gu Qingge felt a bit bewildered for a moment.

But in his heart, he understood that this leopard-shaped Yao Beast must have paid a huge price to exchange for a chance to survive.

Moreover, looking at its gnashing demeanor before fleeing, the price paid was quite heavy.

"The Yao Emperor Blood Evasion Technique sacrifices all of one's own cultivation to obtain the Opportunity for long-distance teleportation."

"Furthermore, to cast this technique, one's strength Realm must reach the Golden Core Stage. Otherwise, at the very start of casting, one would immediately explode and die."

As a Demon Empress, although her strength was now like that of the ants she once looked upon, her unique vision had not diminished in the slightest.

The matter of Bao Wusheng was more like a small interlude.

Afterward, Gu Qingge directly closed Shengdan Hall temporarily and took the women and his Imperial Blood Demon Cavalry to the Heavenly Demon Sect site.

The reason he did not leave them in Qingshan Town was, firstly, because the unrest in the Hundred Thousand Monster Mountain Range made him feel that a crisis was approaching, one that he might very well be unable to resist.

Secondly, he had not forgotten that he had previously killed a member of a Soul Transformation Stage Family.

Judging by the status in their Family, they were the type that was quite favored and pampered.

It was hard to guarantee that the other side would not come to seek revenge.

Thus, staying by his side was actually safer.

After all, the Soul Transformation Stage Peak Experience Card gifted by the System would not fake anything.

Once used, he could possess the cultivation Realm of the Soul Transformation Stage Peak!

Although the duration could not be maintained for too long, for him, it was enough to kill an expert of the Soul Transformation Stage Realm, or one could call it easy as turning over one's hand.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."

"If one asks who is the oriole, and who are the mantis and the cicada?"

"The one who laughs to the end is only me, and it will only ever be me."

Gu Qingge took in all the recent intelligence regarding the chaotic situation of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

This was a trap.

But it was just a trap.

The person manipulating this trap did not have the strength to kill or eliminate all threats.

Therefore, he needed the support of an external force.

According to the detailed information Shen Youqing obtained from Sect Master Min Qingrou, this plot was merely to pave the way with blood and open that trial ground.

At the same time, this trial ground was, in a sense, also a facade.

On a deeper level, it was about a part of the Legacy of the Asura Demon God!

The Asura Demon God was a peerless genius who had once carved a bloody path through smoke and war to achieve the stature of a Great Emperor.

He had always prioritized blood slaughter, supplemented by soul-nourishing and evil-refining.

After becoming a Great Emperor, he was a terrifying existence that all other Great Emperors avoided!

However, having said that, this was not the orthodox Legacy of the true Asura Demon God.

It was a legendary trial ground created by the Fengdu God Emperor.

The Fengdu God Emperor was a Prodigy of the Emperor Realm who had once obtained seven-tenths of the Asura Demon God's Legacy.

He was hailed as a peerless expert within the Emperor Realm, with no enemy able to last a single exchange against him.

However, his life ended at the Emperor Realm.

This was because when he was seeking the eighth part of the Asura Demon God's Legacy, hostile forces used three Peak Venerable Realm experts to surround and kill him, causing him to be outnumbered and eventually fall and die.

Just as Gu Qingge and the others were on their way, unknowingly, a piece of gossip exploded like thunder and spread outwards at a rapid speed.

"Have you all heard? There is a secret treasure hidden at the Heavenly Demon Sect, and it is about to emerge!"

"No way? Wasn't the Heavenly Demon Sect just destroyed?

Moreover, as far as I know, the site of the Heavenly Demon Sect seems to reveal a hint of ominous Feng Shui.

Several Sects have already risen and fallen in that place; the Heavenly Demon Sect is not the first to be destroyed."

"That is where your knowledge is shallow.

Perhaps there really is some ancient ruin, or an Immortal Cave where an expert passed away, containing an Opportunity that can change one's destiny."

"What is the use of just talking here? We might as well go together to take a look.

Anyway, even if we just go to watch, it won't be a wasted trip."

"You all go if you want; I feel an invisible murderous intent revealing itself within this.

Even if there really is an Opportunity, it is not something that we Loose Cultivators can obtain; in the end, it will still be making wedding clothes for others.

Perhaps they will even use our lives as stepping stones to pave the way, using us as tools to compete for the Opportunity."

Among the crowd, there was no lack of people who had a full understanding of these large Sects.

Since this kind of information could be spread and not completely blocked, it indicated one thing.

This kind of Secret Realm required some special medium, or perhaps these large Sects could not swallow it all at once.

There were other possibilities, such as some Sects feeling they could not compete against others, so they spread this information.

In short, no matter which it was, it was not something a Loose Cultivator could change the result of.

And if they rashly entered the trap, they would only end up as cannon fodder.

Of course, many people understood this logic.

However, due to the outbreak of greed, even if it was a dangerous journey, to them, wealth was to be sought amidst danger.