Chapter 1432 - 1039: At the Mercy of Others (Part 2)

Chapter 1432: Chapter 1039: At the Mercy of Others (Part 2)

Shift rotations in the mining, ensuring nearly a hundred people are busy every day, and the speed has increased significantly from before.

The warehouse is also filled with various specialties from Lotus Peak.

"Grandfather!" Wan Mingchuan immediately spotted Wan An dressed in a blue dark-patterned long robe and ran over excitedly, "Grandfather, I’m here!"

When he first returned, he used the Communication Stone to contact his grandfather.

At that time, his master was busy, so Wan Mingchuan didn’t feel right to trouble him to escort him to the Netherworld. He thought that since he had already promoted to the Integration Realm Peak, he should be able to traverse the Yin and Yang Realms to the Netherworld himself, but he ended up not knowing the way.

However, since both grandfather and grandson are cultivators and can easily live for thousands of years, they were not in a hurry to meet right away, so Wan Mingchuan didn’t mention it.

With Wan An’s status and age, coupled with his slow cultivation speed, Bai Yunqi would never assign him to mining.

But the old man couldn’t sit still. Whenever he had some free time, he would come over to do some manageable chores.

"Stronger than before, now you can help ease your master’s burden, good! Very good!" Wan An looked his eldest grandson up and down, delighted beyond measure.

Jiang Yuan, seeing the grandfather and grandson deep in conversation, had nothing else to do and simply slipped into the Seven-Layered Glazed Treasure Tower.

"Spare me, fellow cultivator! We are just following orders and dare not defy the Regent Throne, we didn’t intend to harm them."

"M-my Storage Bag was taken away by Lan Shanying, I don’t have any treasures to offer you. But if you spare my life, when I return to the Demon Realm, I will offer you all the treasures in my cave mansion!"

"Oh, my arms and legs... they won’t obey me at all..."

...

Lan Shanying’s methods were ruthless. The five extremely guilty demon cultivators seemed fine on the surface but had obviously endured torture. Their health bars were each reduced to half, and the magic power within them was completely depleted.

When he entered, some pleaded for mercy, and others groaned on the ground. The grand Seven-Layered Glazed Treasure Tower suddenly became noisy.

"I am only curious about one thing about you." Jiang Yuan stepped forward, glanced around, and casually grabbed the nearest one to activate the Soul-Devouring Demon Skill, smiling as he spoke, "And that is, what is the difference between you and demon cultivators?"

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The demon cultivator, whose health bar dropped instantly from being absorbed, cried out, "Spare me! Spare me, fellow cultivator! The biggest difference between demon cultivators and demon cultivators is the absorption of demonic energy... Please spare me!"

With the health drained to a critical state, Jiang Yuan directly clicked to throw him into the instance with the eerie forces, "Is that so? You go first, I’ll be right over to see if there’s any real difference."

The remaining demon cultivators were terrified at the sight, but injured and crippled as they were, they neither had a Magical Treasure for protection nor magic power for replenishment, unable to deploy any skills, they could only await their fate.

Jiang Yuan adeptly maneuvered, and in no time, the five demon cultivators were thrown into the eerie territory, where they were promptly slapped around wildly.

"The few Jiang brought today seem a bit different from the previous cultivators," Elder Scholar pondered with his hands behind him, frowning, "But after looking repeatedly, I can’t quite tell what’s different."

He unveiled the answer directly, "These here are demon cultivators this time, who absorb and refine demonic energy, naturally different from the cultivators who absorbed Spiritual Energy before. I’m just curious if demon cultivators can also be tainted into eerie ones, if so..."

According to Jiu Mu and Jiu Qing, there are legions of detestable beings in the Demon Realm!

If we can find the whereabouts of Demon Lord Yun Li in the Ruins Realm and cooperate with him to procure from the Demon Realm, the eerie forces could grow even stronger.

"Wow, this is a rare thing indeed!" Elder Scholar had never had the chance to see a demon cultivator up close in his life, so he stepped forward to observe carefully, "They look just like anyone else with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I foolishly thought so-called demonic beings would have horns, tails, and ferocious faces instead."

Ugly Slave immediately withdrew into a smile, "Scholar, just call me by name. Though I look like what you described, I am a genuine demon cultivator!"

The eerie crowd watching from the side burst into laughter.

But the five demon cultivators couldn’t laugh as they were gradually tainted and transformed by the eerie aura, becoming eeries in no time.

The one who was crippled by Lan Shanying, despite being unable to move his arms and legs initially, was able to heal right away after becoming eerie. The pain in his body also faded slowly, making him the happiest among the five.

"Hey? That’s incredible! Earlier I could feel all my limbs were broken, even with magic power supplement, without a Healing Pill, I’d have to rest for at least ten to fifteen days to recover." He stood up, shook his arms, jumped a little, and said joyfully, "Now I’ve fully healed! What kind of healing method is this?"

Qi Baijun sneered, "Not only healing, but Mr. Jiang has also granted you the gift of eternal life. From now on, you’ve achieved what you’ve dreamed of cultivating for years: immortality and eternity. Aren’t you going to thank Mr. Jiang?"

The newly transformed eeries: ???

Immortality? Eternity? Do these folks have a screw loose, got waterlogged minds or what?

"There really is no difference, wonderful." Jiang Yuan was pleased, patting his hand, "I don’t expect these minions to know any Regent Throne secrets, just record everything they know, it might come in handy later."

Pausing for a moment, he added, "The immediate priority is to find out where each of their caves are, the Demon Realm is vast, make sure they explain clearly."

"Leave it to me, Jiang, don’t worry!" Elder Scholar stretched, taking a stocked Big Saber from his Storage Bag.

He swung the saber without hesitation at a newly turned eerie nearby, who was still clueless.

"Bang!"

The head rolled a few times on the ground before it realized what had happened, screaming and crying in pain, startling the other four newly transformed eeries to silence.

The most terrifying part was the head continued to squawk while rolling around; meanwhile, its headless body flailed its arms aimlessly, groping around on the ground.

After a chaotic moment, the head and body finally reconnected, restoring its wholeness once more.

"You, you just..." The one who had been smiling the happiest before was finally out of his laughter and said with a trembling voice, "What cultivation technique have you practiced, to the point where a head can be reattached?"

The great expanses of the world hold countless wonders, and in the Demon Realm, forced by circumstances, many come to practice bizarre cultivation techniques.

If it were an arm or leg, sacrificing a broken limb to survive might be reasonable, but no one had ever heard of a head dropping off and being readily put back on.

This is too damn eerie!

Elder Scholar weighed the Big Saber in his hand, chuckling, "You could try chopping too, want to give it a go?"

Though asked, he evidently wasn’t looking for an answer, swinging the Big Saber without warning to slice off half of the guy’s head.

"Ah! Help! It hurts! It’s killing me!" The eerie body shrank to a sit, its half head still rolling and whining.

Ugly Slave promptly stepped forward to put it back on and patted it, "No need to fuss, it’s just half a head missing, previously some eerie ones charged monsters and were chopped into pieces but could still come together."

"You couldn’t do this before, right? Look, I’ve proven the fact: Jiang has bestowed upon you immortality, aren’t you going to thank him?!" The Elder Scholar used the Big Saber as a crutch, tapping the ground which frightened the new eeries into hurriedly saluting in thanks.

He nodded with satisfaction, loudly announcing, "Now, let me explain the rules here. Share everything you know, including intelligence, gold, silver, treasures, and any other valuable information, fully intact."

If you satisfy Jiang, you can earn merit. Accumulate enough merit, and you can become a commander without having to do labor; but if you dare lie or withhold intelligence, heh heh..."

The Elder Scholar swung the Big Saber until it hummed, "Then I will have no choice but to make you taste the beheading experience again and again. Mm, perhaps everyone might find beheading boring and chop you finely into mincemeat!

With the flesh from your arms mixed with the flesh from your legs, guess—how long would it take you to find the right piece and fit together?"

The five newly transformed eeries, having never heard of or seen anything so eerie during their lives in the Demon Realm, were terrified to the point of wetting themselves, crying and scrambling to earn merit.