565: We've been outmaneuvered! The Invisible Demon Clan!

"Phew! I finally made it through!" Su Lie only let out a sigh of relief when he returned to the peak.

The gourd vine in his hand was already withered and looked like it was about to die.

The fact that he avoided the old Daoist's danger this time was an idea the gourd vine came up with itself.

After careful consideration, Su Lie agreed to the gourd vine's plan. He hadn't expected things to go even smoother than anticipated.

The old gourd vine excitedly communicated, "Master! Remember what you promised this old one! Let me clarify again, I am truly not some medicinal ingredient; I am just an old gourd vine that gained sentience after obtaining a drop of immortal blood!"

"Don't worry! I will heal you!" Su Lie reassured the old gourd vine.

Along the way, he had kept his Six Roots of Void Talent and Crisis Perception Talent active.

Besides the old Daoist in the back mountain, he hadn't heard any other nagging voices.

But the moment he stepped onto the summit of Emperor Sword Peak, the nagging voices began ringing out incessantly.

Some of these came from the servant working around him, cleaning the Garden and Vegetable Garden.

They were not communicating using their "mouths," nor were they using Spirit communication, but rather a special frequency vibration.

Su Lie unconsciously slowed his pace, pretending nothing was amiss as he walked past these servant.

Although the servant did not look up, they all saw Su Lie.

Their topic of conversation shifted from who they would eat tonight to how Su Lie should be eaten. It was all worthless information.

When Su Lie passed by the training grounds, he saw...

Hu Xiaoyun's clothes were soaked; she was still practicing her sword.

The pungent smell of body odor mixed with sweat almost suffocated Su Lie.

His sense of touch was too sharp.

Gathered around Hu Xiaoyun was a group of Weird Monster that Su Lie couldn't even see using his Revelation Eye Talent.

They were communicating in low voices.

Just as Su Lie was about to leave the training grounds, he heard some interesting remarks.

Immediately, Su Lie turned around and said to Hu Xiaoyun, "Senior Sister! Why don't you take a break!"

"Junior Brother! I am dull, and no genius! I only achieved this Skill through sheer effort, and now that Master has chosen me, I need to work twice as hard to live up to the title of Head Senior Sister!"

Hu Xiaoyun slightly slowed her sword movements and smiled faintly at Su Lie: "Oh right! Junior Brother, do you have time later?"

"Do you need something, Senior Sister?" Su Lie's eyes lit up. He was looking for an excuse to stay here. Wasn't this his chance?

Hu Xiaoyun nodded: "Yes! I found an ancient sword cultivator's cave dwelling at the foot of our Emperor Sword Mountain. The cave is deep and dilapidated, and I'm worried I might fall into a trap if I go alone, so I wanted to find a helper!"

"If there are any resources inside, we'll split them two-thirds! How does that sound? The remaining five parts must be offered to Master as tribute! Otherwise, it wouldn't be our turn to tidy up the cave dwellings on the peak!"

She looked at Su Lie eagerly, unconsciously puffing out her chest.

"Alright! Once you finish practicing your sword, I'll go with you!" Su Lie nodded and sat down directly on a nearby stone.

Hu Xiaoyun was stunned, then immediately began wielding her sword again: "Does he want to see how skilled I am?"

It was also at this moment that the Weird Monster hidden nearby changed the topic.

"Hehe! This girl has some wits! She is actually willing to cooperate with Black Pepper King to frame other disciples to save her life. Not bad! Not bad!"

"She's fine! But she f*cking stinks! I suspect Black Pepper King assigned us here to punish the two of us for talking smack about him behind his back!"

"Damn it! I didn't say anything! Everything I said was the truth! Even if he reports me to the Ancestor, what I said is still the truth! The Ancestor told him to seize the Inner Sect Master's body, but this guy had to find an excuse to send other brothers over!"

"What is he trying to do?" "Are you brain-dead? He obviously wants to take advantage of the coming night to eat more life!"

"Holy crap! He's the one who's crazy! After he seizes the Inner Sect Master's body, won't all the disciples inside the sect be at his mercy, free for him to gorge himself? F*cking damn it! Why didn't they give this task to me? It's a sure thing!"

"You piece of dirt! Why am I paired with a pig like you! Have you forgotten our restrictions? Once we occupy a body, we can't easily leave it unless we eat it completely dry!"

"Is that so? No wonder Yu Jianying only dares to release her aura when facing us, without even bringing out her main body! So that's how it is!"

"Yu Jianying can't hide much longer! Her body is dying too severely!"

...Su Lie's heart sank after hearing this.

He looked at Hu Xiaoyun, who was practicing her sword in front of him, and pondered gravely: "Is she planning to offer me to Black Pepper King first?"

"In that case, everything this person has done is a Disguise? She knows what happened here, so she is using the method she believes will keep her alive to Disguise herself?"

He thought of some secrets Hu Xiaoyun had mentioned. This allowed Su Lie to guess even more.

However, the Weird Monster hidden nearby quickly changed the topic and started chatting aimlessly.

Su Lie obtained a lot of important intelligence from their conversation.

Soon, Hu Xiaoyun finished practicing her sword. She first returned to her dormitory, and after cleaning up, she took Su Lie down the mountain.

Su Lie pretended to put the old gourd vine into the dormitory, but in reality, he placed it into his storage grid.

When he came out, he found that the two surveillance Weird Monster were nowhere to be found.

This gave Su Lie many ideas.

The two followed the small path of Emperor Sword Mountain toward the foot of the mountain.

Along the way, they didn't encounter anyone, nor were there any Weird Monster nearby.

"Could this be Black Pepper King's arrangement?" Su Lie thought of a possibility.

Soon, in a dense thicket, Hu Xiaoyun pushed aside a broken hole covered by branches and leaves.

The hole was about 2 meters high and 1 meter wide, and there was a broken stone tablet at the entrance.

Judging by the text on the stone tablet, it could be confirmed that this was an abandoned cave dwelling.

At the entrance, Hu Xiaoyun whispered a couple of instructions to Su Lie, and a flash of light in her hand revealed a ball of flame in her palm.

Only then did she walk into the cave. Su Lie followed closely behind, holding only a torch.

After Hu Xiaoyun walked past three corners inside the cave, she suddenly vanished.

"Here it comes!" Su Lie's heart stirred.

He pretended nothing was wrong and turned his head to look around.

Soon, Su Lie saw a door with Invisibility power on the wall of the tunnel.

Behind the door was a space of about 10 square meters.

Inside the space, Hu Xiaoyun was kneeling before a bull-like monster condensed from black mist, and she whispered, "Black Pepper King! I have brought the food! Please bestow upon me a token to save my life!"

"Good! Good! Good! Although you stink a bit, little girl, you have a beautiful heart and know how to serve this old bull! Come here and make me comfortable first!" Black Pepper King lay half-reclined on the ground, chuckling.

Hu Xiaoyun trembled but obediently walked over: "Black Pepper King, aren't you afraid that Su Lie might escape?"

"Hehe! I have set up a Soul Confusing Formation and a Celestial Weird Shielding Great Formation inside this cave! He will never be able to escape from here in his lifetime! That slut Yu Jianying dared to humiliate me publicly, so I will eat her groom!"

Black Pepper King spoke cheerfully. His gaze seemed able to penetrate obstructions, as he was constantly staring at Su Lie.

Su Lie pretended to search around for a while, then walked toward the depths of the cave while calling out Hu Xiaoyun's name.

The Soul Confusing Formation had no effect on Su Lie, but Su Lie did not expose it.

He was waiting for Black Pepper King to lower his guard.

Therefore, he followed the guidance of the Soul Confusing Formation, constantly walking back and forth, stopping and starting in this corridor.

The only thing that secretly delighted Su Lie was that there was actually a Shielding Great Formation here.

This was naturally an excellent thing for Su Lie.

Soon, Black Pepper King's attention shifted away and focused on Hu Xiaoyun.

Su Lie seized this opportunity and quickly entered Invisibility state.

He dared not use the invisibility ring, worried that it might be affected by the rules of this world. If it broke, the loss would outweigh the gain!

Then, Su Lie silently passed through the Invisibility barrier on the wall. By the time he entered the room, Black Pepper King and Hu Xiaoyun were already in a state of ecstasy.

Buzz! Su Lie immediately used his Time Stop Talent.

In an instant, the entire cave was frozen solid.

Seeing this, Su Lie finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Good thing! Black Pepper King's power is not strong!"

Muttering to himself, Su Lie first used his Identification Talent on Black Pepper King.

[Black Pepper King] [Quality: red god-tier Rule Life] [Race: Formless Ghost Clan Weird Evil God] [Level: Unknown (Strength comparable to a Level 145 Third-Turn Professional)] [????] [????] [Note: Due to incomplete the rules, a comprehensive Identification of this species is not possible.]

"Hmm? Incomplete the rules?" Su Lie's eyelid twitched when he saw this.

At this point, he could confirm that the mist rule had indeed infiltrated this world.

He first sealed Hu Xiaoyun, then threw her into Avici Purgatory.

Immediately after, he used his Memory Reading Talent on Black Pepper King.

Buzz! In the blink of an eye, after being judged by the mist rule, Black Pepper King's Spirit power was found to be lower than Su Lie's after being enhanced by the Bewitching Demon Art Talent.

Black Pepper King's memory was successfully read by Su Lie.

"Hiss! So that's how it is!"

By reading Black Pepper King's memory, Su Lie found some secrets concerning the Formless Ghost Clan Weird Evil God. Just as he was about to read the most core confidential information...

A certain power of the rules inside Black Pepper King's head was triggered.

But this power, just as it was about to completely destroy Black Pepper King, was suspended inside Black Pepper King's head by the power of Time Stop.

Su Lie's eyes narrowed when he saw this: "Crap!"

His reading had triggered Black Pepper King's secret protection rule.

If he withdrew the power of the Time Stop Skill, Black Pepper King's head would instantly explode.

That wasn't the point. The point was that Black Pepper King's Undying rule would disappear because of this power.

This meant that Black Pepper King, whose head was blown off, would die!

"Is there any way to remedy this?" Su Lie thought of a possibility.

He immediately used Glorious Sealing on Black Pepper King.

Then, Su Lie withdrew the power of the Time Stop Skill.

Everything around them returned to normal. Bang! But Black Pepper King's head still exploded.

Clearly, the level of this rule was higher than Glorious Sealing Technique and comparable to the rule of Time Stop.

Su Lie's eyes darted around after seeing this: "This clan was born in a place of filth, naturally possessing the Formless Body! They were later subjected to Pollution Conversion by the Eerie race!"

"Thus, the Formless Ghosts were born!"

"Their Ancestor was a primordial Eerie being in the world, later captured by the Sword Sect and suppressed in a secret location within the Sword Sect!"

"After the Ancestor transformed into the Formless Body, he began to retaliate against the Sword Sect!"

"However! This information does not reveal how this Ancestor was released from the Sword Sect's suppression grounds, nor how he went to the place of filth to transform the Formless Ghost Clan!"

"It seems there must be an inside man within the Sword Sect!" "Could it be the Peak Masters of the other eleven peaks?"

Su Lie had a question in his mind.

According to Black Pepper King's intelligence, out of the thirteen main peaks in the Sword Sect, the bodies of the Peak Masters, servant, and deacons of nine peaks have already been seized.

The remaining four Peak Masters have completely defected to the Formless Ancestor and become his slaves.

These four are the Peak Master of Ghost Sword Peak, the Peak Master of Evil Sword Peak, the Peak Master of Demon Sword Peak, and the Peak Master of Blood Sword Peak.

They respectively lead the Ghost cultivators, Evil cultivators, Demon cultivators, and Blood cultivators of the Sword Sect.

Furthermore, from Black Pepper King's memory, he learned important information such as the formation cores and deployment details of the Ten Heavens Eerie Land Heart-Severing Extinction Great Abnormality Formation.

This gave Su Lie a general understanding of the entire situation within the Sword Sect.

Of course, Su Lie's biggest gain was learning a secret.

There was still a power within the Sword Sect capable of resisting the Formless Ghosts Ancestor.

That was the Sword Sect's Supreme Elder Council hidden inside the sword tomb.

"It seems I need to find a way to rescue the Divine Dragon! Unite with the Sacred Sword! Once I find out the location of the Supreme Elder Council, I can use the sword tomb token to go to the sword tomb and search for the Supreme Elder Council!"

Based on the intelligence he had just obtained, Su Lie formed a plan: "When their armies and generals start fighting each other, that will be the time for me, Su Lie, to fish in troubled waters!"

With a shift in thought, he used the Divine Thief Talent on Black Pepper King's corpse.

Since Black Pepper King was dead, it was time for waste utilization.

He had to act before too much time passed and Black Pepper King's power completely dissipated, leaving Su Lie with nothing.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! In the blink of an eye, scrolls of books appeared in his hand, along with a jelly-like ball of bloodline and a lifespan pearl.

"How the hell do I use this?" Su Lie was speechless.

The scrolls were Qiang Qiao Shu, Formless Body, undying core, Eerie, and Moon Rule, respectively.

The bloodline ball was an Formless Ghosts abnormality bloodline bead.

Black Pepper King's lifespan pearl contained about 10 million years of lifespan.

Su Lie looked at Black Pepper King's corpse, which was already shriveled like a piece of cowhide, and put it along with all the resources he had stolen into his storage grid.

Only then did he use his Invisibility Talent to silently teleport back to his dormitory... At the same time.

The old Daoist in the back mountain suddenly frowned: "Hmm? Black Pepper King is dead?"

He couldn't help but start calculating with his fingers.

As he deduced and calculated, his expression grew uglier and uglier: "Damn it! Damn it! The target actually obscured the heavenly secrets! This person came prepared!"

Thinking of this, he could no longer sit still: "No! The Sword Sect has already been breached to the core! As long as the Ten Heavens Eerie Land Heart-Severing Extinction Great Abnormality Formation is completed, I can convert this area of millions of kilometers into my Shadowless Eerie Domain!"

"At that time, no one will be able to stop me!"

"This level of small bug must die!" "I must prevent a thousand-mile dike from being destroyed by an ant hole!"

As he spoke, he flashed and flew to the summit of Emperor Sword Peak.

About five minutes later, Yu Jianying stormed out of the main hall: "Ancestor! You must preside over justice for me! That Su Lie was the groom I favored! That Black Pepper King fellow..."

Slap! "Hmph! Are you f*cking deaf?"

The old Daoist slapped Yu Jianying: "Black Pepper King is dead! He was read by a powerful expert, triggering the curse I placed inside your heads!"

This instantly silenced Yu Jianying.

Just as she was grinding her teeth, wanting to ask the old Daoist for another inner sect disciple...

The servant Zhao Ergou ran over: "Ancestor! Peak Master! I just went to the dormitory area! That Su Lie is currently fiddling with a dying gourd vine in his room. He did not go with Hu Xiaoyun to see Black Pepper King!"

"FNMP! The two of us personally saw them agree to go to the cave dwelling at the foot of the mountain!"

A servant following Yu Jianying couldn't help but curse.

Zhao Ergou smiled mockingly: "Did you f*cking follow them all the way down?"

At this point, that servant trembled in fear and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Ancestor spare me! We were indeed responsible for tracking Hu Xiaoyun! However, Black Pepper King commanded that as long as Hu Xiaoyun brought Su Lie to see him, we could hide in a secluded place and entertain ourselves!"

"So, when Su Lie and Hu Xiaoyun left the training grounds and headed toward the dormitory area, we went to play cards nearby!"

"Ancestor! Black Pepper King was our direct superior. We do whatever he tells us to do! Besides, since they had already agreed to go, they would definitely go! Hu Xiaoyun had long since submitted to Black Pepper King..."

The two surveillance Formless Ghost Clan members recounted the transaction between Black Pepper King and Hu Xiaoyun in detail.

The old Daoist was dumbfounded hearing this: "Holy crap! My race reproduces asexually, how could we possess the desires of livestock..."

As he said this, he turned his head to look at Yu Jianying.

Wasn't there a descendant right in front of him who was exactly like that?

The old Daoist was struck dumb, roasted internally and externally, and for a moment didn't know what to say.