Blood Sacrifice Grand Array

Faced with Chu Mengxi's expression as though she had seen a ghost, Lin Feng secretly laughed, but outwardly explained without changing his expression:

"Perhaps I had accumulated deeply before this. Today, upon seeing a superior cultivation art like the Blazing Sun Art, I was struck by inspiration and luckily made a breakthrough."

Accumulated deeply?

A lucky breakthrough?

Chu Mengxi's mouth twitched. She really wanted to say: soaring directly from the Ninth Level of Body Tempering to the Sixth Level of Meridian Opening Realm was called a "lucky breakthrough"?

If word of this got out, those geniuses in the Demon Suppression Division would probably be so ashamed they would find a block of tofu and smash their heads into it.

Still, she knew that everyone had their own secrets.

Lin Feng undoubtedly harbored some heaven-shaking opportunity.

"Congratulations. With your current strength, you can be considered among the best even among Iron Token Demon Slayers."

With that, she turned and left. Yet her somewhat hurried retreating figure revealed the turmoil in her heart.

She needed to go back and calm herself down.

After seeing Chu Mengxi off, Lin Feng shut the door, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

After his strength had surged, he finally possessed a little ability to protect himself in this world.

However, he had not forgotten his little contributor.

"Huang Fugui."

"Hey! Master, you called for me!"

A yellow figure crawled out from beneath the bed. It was Huang Fugui.

It had also been badly frightened by that terrifying spiritual energy fluctuation just now. At this moment, it looked at Lin Feng with eyes even more fervent than worship, as though it were gazing upon a deity walking among mortals.

"You did well scouting Zhang Manor this time. Tell me, what reward do you want?" Lin Feng asked with a smile.

The moment Huang Fugui heard that, its mung-bean-sized eyes lit up. Rubbing its two front paws together, it grinned ingratiatingly.

"To serve Master is this little demon's blessing. I wouldn't dare ask for any reward... But if Master could reward me with one tiny roast chicken... no, two! That would be even better!"

This fellow had nothing but food on its mind.

Lin Feng found it amusing and shook his head. "You certainly won't go without roast chicken. But I plan to give you something better."

As he spoke, he took out the three Qi Replenishing Pills from his robes.

These medicinal pills were no longer of much use to him.

But for a low-level demon like Huang Fugui, they were rare treasures.

"Take these and eat them."

It was first stunned, then overjoyed!

As a wild yellow weasel, its cultivation had relied entirely on instinct and the pitiful bit of inheritance in its bloodline. It had stumbled forward step by step, and whether it could cultivate even a little power depended wholly on luck.

With human cultivation pills, it could achieve twice the result with half the effort!

"Master! You... you are my reborn parents!"

Huang Fugui was so excited that tears filled its eyes. Hugging the bottle of pills, it began gnawing on them while circulating its demonic power.

It already possessed some spiritual intelligence. With the aid of spiritual medicine, it was like a tiger that had grown wings.

A layer of eerie yellow light spread over its tiny body. Streams of pure medicinal power were rapidly refined by it and merged into its limbs and bones.

Its previously somewhat mixed demonic aura was becoming purer and more condensed at a visible rate.

Its aura was also climbing steadily!

First Order peak... bottleneck...

Boom!

A demonic aura far stronger than before erupted from Huang Fugui's body!

It had succeeded!

It had broken through the shackles of its bloodline, officially rising from an insignificant First Order little demon to a level comparable to the Dog Demon that had previously tried to seize its dwelling.

Its body had not changed much, but its yellow fur had become sleek and glossy, while its mung-bean-sized eyes had grown even more shrewd and lively.

"Thank you, Master, for the grace of remaking me!"

Feeling the surging demonic power within its body, Huang Fugui excitedly kowtowed madly to Lin Feng.

"Enough. Get up."

Lin Feng nodded in satisfaction.

The stronger Huang Fugui became, the more matters it could handle for him.

"You can now be considered a proper First Order demon beast. Your concealment and illusion abilities must have improved considerably as well. I have a task for you."

Lin Feng's gaze turned grave.

"The Moon Worship Cult's scheme cannot possibly be this simple. I want you to use every ability you have and turn the area within twenty li of Qingyang County upside down! I want to know exactly how many rats that cannot bear the light are still hiding here, and what they are plotting!"

"Master, just leave it to me!"

Huang Fugui patted its chest and confidently promised, "This little one feels full of strength now! Forget this tiny Qingyang County—even turning Nan Yan Commandery upside down would be no problem! I guarantee I'll find out even what color underpants those devil cultists are wearing!"

With that, its body flickered and transformed into a barely discernible streak of yellow smoke, slipping out through the crack in the door and vanishing into the night.

Over the next two days, Qingyang County appeared calm and peaceful on the surface.

Chu Mengxi and the other two studied the files on Zhang Manor every day, trying to uncover some clue, yet they found nothing.

The Moon Worship Cult's methods were far too secretive. The destroyed stronghold had left behind almost no valuable traces.

Even Chu Mengxi felt a trace of frustration because of this.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng consolidated his cultivation at the Sixth Level of Meridian Opening Realm while waiting for news from Huang Fugui.

He had a premonition that an even greater storm was quietly brewing beneath this seemingly peaceful little city.

Until the evening of the third day.

Huang Fugui's voice, hurried to the utmost, finally rang out in his mind.

"Master! This is bad! Something huge has happened!!"

"The entire county has been shrouded by a massive formation! I discovered that formation nodes are hidden in the Ancient Well in the east of the city, the Land God Temple in the west, the Mourning Hall in the south, the River God Shrine in the north... even deep within the County Office dungeon. They are all being activated at the same time!"

"This is a... Blood Sacrifice Grand Array!"