You'd Better Turn into Cultivation

Twenty years of cultivation had only barely raised the Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield to minor mastery.

Counting from the original Golden Bell Shield, he had already invested forty years of cultivation into this martial art.

Suddenly, Wei Fan felt the carriage come to a stop.

"Master Tiger, I've brought Wei Fan, the one who dared to kill Master Hu Jiu..."

Wang Meng's fawning, submissive voice rang out, utterly lacking the toughness he had shown at the yamen.

"Wei Fan, get out here already. Your time to die has come."

As Wang Meng spoke again, the sound of tiger roars began to fill Wei Fan's ears.

Those Tiger Demons had come!

Wei Fan leaped down from the carriage with his saber in hand. A pack of enormous tigers stood in the open ground ahead of Five Mile Village.

Meanwhile, Five Mile Village in the distance had long since been reduced to ruins. Not a single house remained intact.

"These beasts!"

A chill flashed across Wei Fan's face. Five Mile Village had clearly suffered retaliation. He did not know whether those people from yesterday had listened to him and left.

Wei Fan counted carefully. Six Tiger Demons had come in total, every one of them larger than Master Hu Jiu had been yesterday.

The largest stood over two meters tall. Yesterday's Master Hu Jiu would have looked like a cub before it.

For a moment, demonic stench mixed with a foul reek assaulted his nose.

The largest Tiger Demon fixed its gaze on Wei Fan. "Is he Wei Fan, the one who dared to kill Little Jiu?"

Wang Meng hurriedly nodded. "That's him. I personally escorted him here from the city."

The largest Tiger Demon's nose twitched slightly before it nodded. "He carries Little Jiu's scent. It is indeed him. Wang Meng, you have done well. In a while, I will reward you with a Human Pill!"

It nodded in satisfaction. They did not actually want to charge into Cloud City and kill there. Making small moves outside the city and secretly eating a few people was one thing, since they had an unspoken understanding with the yamen.

But if they truly charged into the city in broad daylight, then no matter how much the Cloud City Lord feared demons, he would have to deal with the matter.

Besides, if they did that, they might even draw the Demon Suppressing Division here.

The Demon Suppressing Division was the blade hanging over the heads of every demon in Great Chu. Whenever demons did anything, they had to consider the consequences of attracting the Demon Suppressing Division.

Delight appeared on Wang Meng's face. "Thank you, Master Tiger!"

"Human Pills? Is that why you and Li Shen colluded with the Tiger Demons?"

Wei Fan spoke.

He had heard of Human Pills. They were something utterly wicked, medicinal pills refined from living people as raw materials and supplemented with certain herbs. After martial artists consumed them, they could increase their vital energy and elevate their true qi.

Eating such things was no different from demons eating people.

He had always thought that constables like Li Shen and Wang Meng might fear the Tiger Demons behind the Fierce Tiger Gang, but they had no need to become accomplices and help those Tiger Demons find people to eat. So it was all for Human Pills.

"Every man for himself, or Heaven and Earth will destroy him. Just go over there and die obediently. Maybe you'll suffer a little less."

At this point, Wang Meng had no reason to hide his collusion with the Tiger Demons. In his eyes, Wei Fan was already as good as dead.

Wei Fan said softly, "Go over and die? Do you really think I came here to throw my life away? Even you know that every man for himself, or Heaven and Earth will destroy him. Do you really think anyone would be so selfless as to give up their life for someone else?"

Wang Meng shook his head. "Of course no such person exists. You're relying on the expert behind you, aren't you? Master Tiger and the others are not trash like Li Shen and Jiang Chuan..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Meng's pupils violently contracted as he watched a flash of saber light slice across his neck.

In that instant, he understood that there had never been any expert behind Wei Fan. Wei Fan himself was the expert.

Unfortunately, he had understood too late. If he had realized it sooner, he would have fled from Wei Fan at the first opportunity.

Killed Wang Meng, obtained twelve years of cultivation

"You've got a bit of brains, but not much. Your task is over. You'd better turn into cultivation."

Wei Fan flicked the blood from his blade and looked at the Tiger Demons in the distance. The Tiger Demons showed no strong reaction to his killing Wang Meng.

With Wang Meng dead, they could save a Human Pill instead.

"You have some skill. No wonder you had the nerve to kill that useless Little Jiu. I came only to avenge that useless Little Jiu, yet I unexpectedly encountered a martial arts genius like you. What a pleasant surprise.

"I've never eaten a human genius like you before."

The largest Tiger Demon extended its long tongue and licked its lips, staring at Wei Fan with keen interest.

To be able to kill Wang Meng, a True Qi Fifth Level martial artist, with one slash before he could react, Wei Fan's cultivation had to be above True Qi Seventh Level. It was the first time it had encountered such a young human expert.

"I've never killed a demon as powerful as you either. Yesterday's one was too weak. I killed it with one slash, and it was no fun at all. I hope you can withstand a few more slashes."

At the same time, information about this Tiger Demon began to appear on the panel.

Tiger Demon: Initial Realm Ninth Rank, consumes human souls and spirits, can assume human form

Kill it to obtain thirty years of cultivation

Initial Realm Ninth Rank was equivalent to the human True Qi Ninth Level. However, demons possessed enormous bodies. Under normal circumstances, a True Qi Ninth Level martial artist could not defeat an Initial Realm Ninth Rank demon.

"Thirty years is a little low, but it'll do."

With his saber in hand, Wei Fan began walking toward the Tiger Demon. "Where is that old Tiger King? I slaughtered his own son, yet he didn't come? Beasts really are beasts—no sense of family at all."

"Roar!"

The Tiger Demons all roared. Ever since gaining intelligence, what they hated most was being called beasts.

"I'll eat you, then draw out your soul and seal it inside an oil lamp, so that you suffer the agony of burning every day!"

The giant Tiger Demon stomped all four limbs into the ground, causing the earth to cave in. Then it leaped high into the air and pounced at Wei Fan like a small mountain.

Wei Fan felt his vision go dark as the giant Tiger Demon's body filled his sight.

"Taking the initiative? Looks like you want to return my cultivation to me quickly too."

"Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield!"

With a low shout from Wei Fan, a huge golden bell rose around him. The bell rapidly expanded until it was nearly as large as the giant Tiger Demon.

The Golden Bell was almost tangible. Upside down above Wei Fan's head, it spun madly.

In an instant, a terrifying gale rose from the flat ground, sending sand and stones flying everywhere.

"Is that your Golden Bell Shield? How can a Golden Bell Shield be so huge?!"

In midair, even the pouncing Tiger Demon's voice changed, carrying a hint of terror.

It was not that it had never seen a Ninth Level Golden Bell Shield before. But even at the Ninth Level, other people's Golden Bell Shields only covered parts of their bodies, and one could tell at a glance that they were constructs of true qi.

Yet the Golden Bell surrounding Wei Fan looked as though it had truly been cast from gold. If it had not constantly flickered between illusion and reality as it spun, it would almost have believed it was not a martial skill.

"Ignorant fool!"

As he spoke, Wei Fan rammed headfirst into the pouncing Tiger Demon with the Golden Bell over him.

With a thunderous boom, it was as though two small mountains had collided.

The Tiger Demon felt pain explode through its body as its enormous form was blasted away. Who knew how many tiger fangs had shattered.

Its two forelegs, which had been lunging forward, had been broken into several sections by the rebounding force, their flesh and blood mangled beyond recognition.

In that instant, it felt as though it had slammed into an object that emitted an terrifying vibration frequency. The demonic power throughout its body was instantly scattered.

Was this really the Golden Bell Shield?

Could the Golden Bell Shield withstand an impact of twenty to thirty thousand jin?

Damn it, was I ignorant, or were you ignorant?

"Roar..."

Demonic power surged as it suppressed its wounds. The giant Tiger Demon rose from the ground, demonic aura billowing around it, and opened its mouth to roar at Wei Fan.

Bang bang bang...

Under that terrifying roar, a beam of light seemed to erupt from the Tiger Demon's mouth and crash into the Golden Bell.

In an instant, ripples spread through the air, fine stones on the ground shattered, and everything within a dozen meters suffered terrible devastation. Even the other Tiger Demons showed pained expressions.

Beneath the Golden Bell, Wei Fan's expression remained unchanged. The Tiger Demon's roar did not reach him within the bell's protection.

"A tiger roar sonic attack? I have one too. You can have a taste..."