Virtue Rises One Foot, Evil Rises Ten; You Still Made It Out
[The flames grew longer in the wind, and within moments transformed into a gigantic Fire Crow with a wingspan exceeding a hundred feet.]
[The Lihuo Fire Crows blotted out the sun, casting a shadow over the six people.]
[The leader of the Dark Hall looked up, his face filled with horror.]
[Great Demon in its Transformation Stage!]
The leader of the Dark Hall was racing with thoughts, unable to understand how Transformation Great Demon could exist in such a place.
[The Dark Hall, having spent years doing dirty, clandestine work, possesses a keener sense of danger than hyenas.]
Almost simultaneously, the six people crushed the teleportation talismans in their hands.
However, the talismanic light, barely illuminating the scene, vanished like a extinguished candle.
[Transformation Great Demon, now capable of sealing off the vital energy of a region.]
[The teleportation of all six people failed.]
["Escape!"]
[The leader of the Dark Hall uttered only this one word.]
[The six people, with perfect coordination, didn't even turn their heads, transforming into six Escape Light and speeding off in six different directions.]
[But the Escape Light had only traveled a few dozen feet when the leader sensed something was wrong.]
A chilling, stagnant sensation surged upwards from my limbs and bones, rushing straight to my Dantian.
[His Nascent Soul seemed to be covered with a layer of gray, and its light quickly dimmed.]
[Not only him, but the other five Golden Core subordinates hadn't run far before their Escape Lights vanished, and they plummeted straight down.]
["Poisonous?"]
[The leader barely managed to stay upright, his mind reeling from the fall, a storm raging within him.]
[This Transformation Great Demon, whose combat power clearly overwhelms them, actually lacks martial ethics and secretly poisons them?]
[A Transformation Great Demon! Where is your dignity? Where is your shame?]
[The Lihuo Fire Crow, perched high above, slightly opened its beak and spat out a mouthful of Southern Bright Separation Fire.]
[The crimson flames split into six streams, engulfing the six people.]
Before they could even scream, the six members of the Dark Hall were reduced to ashes.
[If the Transformation Great Demon fails to defeat the Nascent Soul Nascent Soul affected by the Spirit-Chaos Lure and the Spirit-Winding Thread, it might as well commit suicide.]
[The six people turned to ashes, leaving behind six Storage Rings.]
[The Lihuo Fire Crow curled its wings and took away six Storage Rings.]
[The flames subsided.]
[The hundred-foot-tall demonic body transformed back into a normal-sized Crow and landed on a tree branch.]
[The Crow-Crow looked down at the six rings hanging from its paw.]
It sighed in a remarkably human way.
"What a penniless Patriarch Lu."
"Just for these six broken rings, I, a Transformation Great Demon, actually crossed realms to hunt them down."
"I had to be extremely careful with my strength, afraid that if I breathed out too much fire, I'd burn myself and the ring to ashes. Who knows what kind of trouble I'd face when I got back."
[Just as Crow-Crow finished her rant, your chilling voice echoed in my Sea of Consciousness.]
"We are one, yet you still have time to criticize me."
"It seems I haven't been giving you enough work."
"When you come back, the repairs on Xiaolai Peak —the roof repairs, pothole filling, road repairs, and weed clearing—are all still on your list."
[The Crow-Crow perched on a tree branch, its body stiffening.]
It quickly swallowed the six rings, shook its head helplessly, as if accusing some unscrupulous capitalist.
[Then, it flapped its wings and soared into the sky.]
[You sat cross-legged inside the cave abode on Xiaolai Peak, withdrawing your Divine Sense from the Crow-Crow, your eyes slightly darkening.]
[In the fourth simulation, you performed a soul search on several members of this squad.]
[However, the Dark Hall's soul- Restrictions were extremely ruthless. Anyone who touched the core information of the Dark Hall Restriction immediately suffer a backlash, causing the six people's souls to dissipate and them to self-destruct.]
[However, you still managed to glean some fragments of ordinary memories that didn't involve the core of the Dark Hall. For example, their whereabouts after arriving in the Yi Wood Middle Domain.]
[You were able to intercept this team in Crow-Crow thanks to the information left behind during the last Soul Search.]
[You had Crow-Crow secretly follow them so you could see if you could follow the trail and uncover more secrets about the Dark Hall.]
[It now appears that the Dark Hall did indeed deduce the "anomaly in the Heavenly Secrets."]
[But the Dark Hall didn't know its exact location either, so they circled all possible areas and carried out a carpet massacre.]
[Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free. This kind of approach is indeed typical of the Dark Hall.]
Unfortunately, the devil is always one step ahead, and you ultimately prevailed.
[Pah! You're not a demon!]
[The way this Dark Hall operates is truly demonic.]
[Or rather, despite all the scheming and plotting of the Dark Hall, in the end, it was you who came.]
[When you Spirit Transformation, you faced Karma Tribulations. And you, too, could become someone else's Karma Tribulations!]
[A few days later.]
[The Crow-Crow returned to Xiaolai Peak, opened its beak, and six Storage Rings floated to your front. Then, it eagerly shrank into your Dantian, transforming back into a Fire Crow Seed, as if afraid you would assign it another task.]
You chuckled softly. Picking up the Storage Ring belonging to the leader of the Dark Hall, you scanned it with your Divine Sense; it contained approximately three million Spirit Stones and a plethora of various materials.
[Although the Spirit Stones is less, the overall value is still somewhat greater than that of Han Shishan.]
[Since breaking through to the Spirit Transformation, the feeling of being "hundreds of meals" has finally found some relief with these rings.]
[While cleaning the ring, your Divine Sense once again encountered the lurking fragment of the Dark Hall leader's soul.]
[Back when you were still in the Golden Core Stage, this Nascent Soul fragment was a great tonic for you.]
[Your Divine Sense far surpasses that of others of the same level. At the Demon-Severing Cliff, devouring the Avatar of the Chunwu was a crucial step. And the Dark Hall leader's provision of Soul Splitting and Spirit Refining Techniques is undoubtedly a key to advancing you even further.]
But now...
The distinction between the ordinary and the sacred is indeed not just a matter of words.
[You look at that faint wisp of soul light. In terms of both quantity and quality, for someone at your current Spirit Transformation, it's barely a drop in the ocean.]
It's better than nothing, really.
[Or rather, it's completely dispensable.]
[You sighed silently once more, and with a sweep of your Primordial Spirit Power, completely annihilated it.]
[Renewable high-value resource points, decrease by one.]
[One month later.]
[You are currently counting Spirit Stones in your cave abode. In one month, your Passive Income has accumulated to 15,000.]
[Although the Dark Hall transport team has already delivered over three million Spirit Stones to you, this will not diminish the pleasure brought by your "Passive Income."]
After all, transport teams are all one-off deals. But Trait are your permanent companions.
[Just then, you receive a message from Shen Yaoxin.]
He politely stated that the Little Smart Communication Formation was basically completed and invited you to come and inspect it to see if the "Myriad Thoughts of All Beings" would be of any help to your cultivation.
Now that the stage is set, you, the main character, have to make your appearance.
[You ride your Escape Light to a side hall, where the main array of the Little Smart Communication Formation Array is located.]
[Inside the hall, Shen Yaoxin's face was beaming.]
[Over the past month, the increased sect efficiency and Spirit Stone gains brought by the Little Smart Communication Formation have far exceeded his expectations.]
He looked at you, and his eyes held a new sincerity.
"Senior Brother Lu, this Formation Technique is indeed profound. I wonder how well you've progressed in comprehending your own Cultivation Method?"
[Options pop up.]
[A: Pretends to contemplate the formation, praising its wondrous nature, and then announces that he has gained some insights and needs to go into seclusion.]
[B: You smirk, "Insight my ass! I was just bored and made up some nonsense to amuse you. You really think you can break through to a higher realm by harvesting some trivial thoughts? Little Shen, you're too naive." With that, you laughed and left, leaving Shen Yaoxin speechless.]
[C: Instantly Avatar a raging product manager, he kicked over the array's core, grabbed Shen Yaoxin by the collar, and spat as he spoke: "Insight my ass! My collaborative office OA System not only supports clocking in but also catches slacking off across domains! Selling it to you as a package deal was a complete rip-off! Immediately re-sign the contract as a SaaS subscription, with sect disciples paying per person per month! No extra money? Believe me, I'll be embedding splash screen ads and 'Bingxixi cuts' into the entire sect's main array tomorrow!"]