He had realized early on that the Taiqing Yuan Sect's cultivation methods were too overbearing, resembling demonic arts.
As his cultivation deepened, this idea grew stronger and he became more certain.
The Tianyuan and Diyuan Arts were fine, merely drawing upon the energy of heaven and earth.
The Renyuan Art seemed at first glance to be a dual cultivation method, appearing gentle and harmless.
With slight modifications, it could directly extract the essence, energy, and spirit of the other party, just like drawing upon the energy of heaven and earth.
However, compared to heaven and earth, humans were more profound and subtle, making the Renyuan Art even more refined.
Layer upon layer, there were nine layers in total.
Extracting a person's essence and energy was easy, but extracting their spirit was difficult, even to the point of extracting their soul and original yang.
A bit of original yang was lifespan.
Upon reaching the ninth layer, one could extract another's lifespan and convert it into their own.
This was the heaven-defying art of adding oil to the lamp.
The Renyuan Art was known as a forbidden technique, not to be practiced, seemingly because it was harmful to heavenly harmony.
However, Chu Zhiyuan felt that it was not just that; it might involve deeper mysteries, related to the secrets of heaven.
Of course, he didn't want to practice this forbidden technique, but he was wondering if such a domineering art could kill extraterrestrial demons.
If he could cultivate to the point of extracting souls, could he directly extract the souls of extraterrestrial demons?
If he extracted their souls, could he kill the extraterrestrial demons?
Currently, this was a method worth trying.
Under the Super-Sense Perception, in the adjacent courtyard, Xiao Ruoling and Shen Hanyue were practicing under the moonlight.
Their figures were like fairies dancing alone in the Moon Palace.
Strands of moonlight descended upon them, as if tangible, wrapping their graceful figures in a layer of light纱.
Making them even more ethereal and fairy-like.
Chu Zhiyuan shook his head with emotion.
Their progress, driven by the moonlight, was advancing by leaps and bounds, faster than his own cultivation speed.
More importantly, even if they broke through to the Grandmaster realm, they could still continue to cultivate upwards.
Unlike himself, who had to grind bit by bit, with progress so slow that it was despairing.
The next morning, he got up and practiced the Ziyang True Scripture once.
This had already become a habit; he felt uncomfortable if he didn't practice.
Even though the gains from this cultivation were minimal, with little difference from not practicing.
He still practiced it once.
He came to the adjacent small courtyard.
The three women were in a free-for-all.
They were all dressed in white martial attire, heroic and spirited, like three white jade butterflies, dancing.
Their jade palms fluttered, light and elegant yet incredibly fast.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Let's go out for breakfast."
"Let's go, let's go for breakfast!" Shen Hanyue immediately responded excitedly, retreating gracefully.
Xu Yingying floated to Chu Zhiyuan's side, carrying a delicate fragrance, and smiled, "What are we going to eat?"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Yingying, is there anything you want to eat?"
"I've heard of many delicious things, Bao's meat buns, Luo's fish balls, Chen's meat pies on West Street, all are excellent, we can slowly savor them, one each day."
"Are they all delicious?" Shen Hanyue asked quickly.
Xu Yingying said, "I've heard Senior Brother and Senior Sister praise them endlessly."
"Then let's go quickly, quickly." Shen Hanyue said, "I don't know if it'll be crowded, it would be bad if they closed up shop before we get there."
"Then let's go and experience the delicacies of Tianjing City, let's go." Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
The three women first went inside to change their clothes, each changing into a silk dress of different colors.
Their faces were covered with white纱, concealing their stunning beauty, only revealing their bright eyes, the four of them left the Four Directions Inn, and saw that heavy troops had already been deployed outside the Four Directions Inn.
The imperial guards were dispatched, already airtight, not even allowing a bird to fly in.
Chu Zhiyuan and the others were not surprised, it was probably to guard against the assassination of the evil sect demons.
The four of them left the Four Directions Inn, and immediately twelve city guards followed.
They were dressed in dark green martial attire, with red cloaks, looking majestic.
They were just following Chu Zhiyuan and the others at a distance of twenty meters, not too close, not too far, as if they could provide support at any time and prevent assassinations.
"This is" Shen Hanyue said in surprise, "Are they protecting us?"
Xu Yingying said, "Are they trying to scare away the evil sect?"
"It's useless." Xiao Ruoling shook her head gently, "The evil sect demons will not give up because of this."
"They will still come to their deaths?"
"They will definitely come."
"It's a pity that we haven't encountered any top experts."
If a few Grandmasters came, that would be truly enjoyable, maybe it could make my God Sealing Realm complete.
Now these are neither painful nor itchy, like flies, annoying without biting.
They are purely disgusting.
"The Grandmasters are very shrewd, how could they come to their deaths so easily?"
Chu Zhiyuan shook the gold and jade heart contract around his waist and shook his head, "I wonder if the Evil Emperor Jade Pendant can lure them."
The four of them chatted idly as they left the Four Directions Inn and walked towards the bustling street.
Four flying knives flew out from Chu Zhiyuan's sleeves, hovering in the void above his head, overlooking the surroundings, ready to shoot out at any time.
But to their surprise, not a single evil sect demon rushed out.
Chu Zhiyuan frowned.
This was a bit strange.
Had the evil sect demons changed their nature?
He had originally planned to continue killing wantonly, arousing the public's hatred for the evil sect.
Under the洞照, there were evil sect demons around, but they just didn't attack, just watching from afar, staring coldly.
The killing intent in their eyes was as if it were tangible, but they restrained themselves.
Chu Zhiyuan was thoughtful.
"Strange, why not assassinate?" Shen Hanyue said in surprise, "Scared off?"
Xu Yingying snorted, "How is that possible, are they brewing a bigger assassination? ---But the evil sect demons don't seem to have such planning ability."
Most of the evil sect demons are brute force, direct and straightforward hard kills.
Chu Zhiyuan was thoughtful and searched carefully.
He didn't find the existence of a leader.
The evil sect experts were in groups of three or five, without a real leader.
It seemed that their original mission had changed, no longer to kill him, but to stare at him.
Chu Zhiyuan was too lazy to pay attention and accompanied the three women to find and taste delicious food.
After they had eaten and strolled around, they returned to their small courtyard.
Ma Tianhe had already returned, waiting outside the courtyard, cupping his fists in salute, Chu Zhiyuan waved his hand and led him into the courtyard.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Ma Tianhe said, "Young Master, the handover has been completed."
"How is the situation?" Chu Zhiyuan asked.
"Sir Xu did a good job, the ears and eyes of Tianjing City are well-informed."
"That's good, you must find out as soon as possible which one is the newly appointed Listening Rain Platform."
"Yes!"
Chu Zhiyuan sighed and said, "Now it seems that there has been another change on the evil sect's side, they are going to crack my tricks."
The evil sect was not obediently waiting for him to kill, but was constantly responding.
I don't know what the next trick will be.
Ma Tianhe was silent.
The spies here can't help, there's no way to infiltrate the evil sect.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Sir Ma, be careful, don't get caught."
"Yes." Ma Tianhe nodded solemnly.
He was already prepared.
Xu Jingwen was relieved of his post, and he became the spy commander here, so his situation naturally became more dangerous.
However, throughout the ages, spy commanders of this level have not been caught.
Various defenses are enough to protect himself.
Chu Zhiyuan thought for a while, took out a flying knife from his sleeve and handed it to him: "Carry this with you, if you really encounter danger, drip blood on the knife."
As long as it is within a hundred miles, he can use the flying knife to expand the scope of洞照.
It should be able to protect him.
Ma Tianhe was overjoyed: "Thank you, Young Master!"
Chu Zhiyuan waved his hand: "Don't use it if you can, you still have to be careful."
"Yes." Ma Tianhe was relieved.
Soon news came from outside that two boxes of Venerable statues had been delivered.
