Though the Seven Demon Sect practiced demonic cultivation,
it was still a sect of the human race.
Power itself was neither right nor wrong.
Even demon cultivators
were not all guilty of unforgivable evil.
Over the past ten million years,
no small number of demon cultivators had stepped forward to fight demons.
But conduct like the Seven Demon Sect's
was truly vicious.
They deserved to be called traitors to humanity.
Passing along a lengthy forest path
and beyond dozens of silver-white palaces,
Xiao Chen was brought to a sinister stone cave.
The cave was dark and deep, like the gaping maw of a savage beast, terrifying beyond measure.
"Halt!"
Two tall, imposing cave guards wreathed in eerie light raised their hands to bar the way, their crimson eyes fixed warily on Xiao Chen.
This was the Divine Medicine Purgatory.
It contained only a single cell.
It was reserved for human medicinal ingredients of divine medicine quality.
It was a vital sect stronghold.
Unauthorized people had no right to enter.
"By order of the Silver-White Elder, we are delivering divine medicine to the Divine Medicine Purgatory. Stand aside at once!"
A Seven Demon Sect expert with sharp rat teeth took a golden token entwined with the phantom of a silver rat from his sleeve and held it before the cave guards, his face expressionless.
"Divine medicine? Another specimen of divine medicine?"
The guards were stunned.
They gave Xiao Chen an incredulous look.
They seemed unable to believe
that this young man, his flesh mangled and his face despondent,
was actually a specimen of divine medicine.
To help the Seven-Blood Demon Flower take form,
Shu Yinbai, an outer peak elder of Silver Rat Peak, had begun planning to acquire divine medicine ten years ago.
But divine medicine was hard to find.
Too