Brother Chicken Truly Was a Selfless Good Man... Good Chicken!

"Why was that dead chicken flying so fast?"

Jiang Chuan held his great spear. He had just crossed another ridge when Big Rooster had already vanished from sight.

"Keep chasing! We can't let that dead chicken hog it all!"

Gritting his teeth, Jiang Chuan continued chasing in the direction Big Rooster had disappeared.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Before he had even run five kilometers, Jiang Chuan heard the thunderous roar of explosions.

"That dead chicken has already started fighting the guards of the Sparrow Demon King's cave!"

With that thought, Jiang Chuan involuntarily picked up his pace again.

Soon, a valley came into Jiang Chuan's view.

The valley lay between two towering Mountain Peaks. Ancient trees soared within it, and lush greenery blanketed the ground.

A stream babbled along, while wildflowers bloomed in rivalry beside its banks.

Rather than a demon king's cave, it looked more like an earthly paradise secluded from the world.

Above the valley, Big Rooster was locked in fierce battle with a Tiger Demon.

The Tiger Demon was nearly thirty meters long, like a small mountain.

Most eye-catching of all were the pair of Blood Red wings on its body, with a wingspan of fifty meters.

This Tiger Demon looks far too much like Qiongqi, the divine beast from ancient myths and legends. Jiang Chuan mused to himself.

Under normal circumstances, Big Rooster could never have been a match for this Tiger Demon.

But this Tiger Demon had clearly gone through a great battle. Not only had it lost its forepaws and tail, but blood was still continuously streaming from one necrotic eye.

Even so, Big Rooster was clearly beginning to fall into a disadvantage against the Tiger Demon.

"Roar!"

After the two demons had exchanged nearly a hundred moves, the Tiger Demon seized an opening and let out a roar. A violent gale sprang out of thin air, swifter and sharper than blades as it slashed across Big Rooster's body.

Big Rooster was sent flying, blood pouring all over its body.

"Hu Xiang! You old bastard, how are you still this strong?!"

Then it turned and fled without looking back.

"You dared disturb my king's cave! Leave your life behind!"

Hu Xiang had no intention of letting Big Rooster go. Beating its wings, it gave chase.

"What a chance! Brother Chicken, you really are a good man... a good chicken!"

Although Jiang Chuan was too far away to sense the two demons' Divine Sense conversation, their actions told him exactly what had happened.

He looked at the many demon beasts in the valley and checked the wind direction.

After confirming that it was a Southeast Wind, Jiang Chuan immediately took out the Spirit Confusing Smoke from his Backpack and threw it into the valley.

Bang!

The Spirit Confusing Smoke landed in the valley with a crisp crack and exploded at once.

Jade-green smoke drifted into the valley on the breeze.

"Roar!"

"Screech!"

The demon beasts in the valley were immediately alarmed, but it was already too late.

Spirit Confusing Smoke was a medicine designed specifically to target souls. So long as one had not Cultivated to Completion the Yang Spirit, whether human or demon, merely catching a whiff would send them into slumber.

Wherever the breeze passed, demon beasts toppled to the ground one after another.

Jiang Chuan tore apart the clothes beneath his armor, already soaked through with sweat, and used them as a crude poison-proof mask before sprinting toward the Sparrow Demon King's cave.

Great spear in hand, Jiang Chuan trampled over an unknown number of sleeping demon beasts before arriving at the enormous cave entrance.

The sight before him at the Sparrow Demon King's lair made Jiang Chuan pause in surprise.

There were countless stone tables, stone bowls, stone chairs, and stone beds.

"Could this have been the cave abode of some cultivator from ancient times?"

The more Jiang Chuan thought about it, the more convinced he became.

This was most likely the cave abode of an ancient cultivator, discovered and occupied by the Sparrow Demon King after the Immortal Light descended, becoming its lair.

"Judging by the scale, it might even have been an ancient sect."

Muttering to himself, Jiang Chuan dashed into the Sparrow Demon King's lair.

After passing through the area filled with stone objects, a gray Rock Wall appeared before him.

The gray Rock Wall was densely carved with characters the size of fists.

"This is Bird Script, the Bird Script created by Ancient Cultivators!"

Jiang Chuan recognized the origins of these characters at once.

Some Ancient Cultivators believed that the supreme existence was the Heavenly Dao.

Birds could soar through the skies from birth, clearly favored by the Heavenly Dao and closest to it.

Thus, they created Bird Script based on birds.

"Just as I thought, this place was once an ancient sect. The scriptures carved here were most likely for newly initiated disciples to cultivate."

Excitement appeared on Jiang Chuan's face. He hurriedly used the camera on his Electronic Smart Communicator to photograph all the Bird Script on the wall.

Wu Jing had said during class that many ancient sects regarded anyone below the fourth realm as a mortal.

At his current realm, cultivating these techniques should have been just right.

Halfway through taking the pictures, Jiang Chuan's expression abruptly changed. "Sparrow Demon King, may you die a horrible death!"

The Sparrow Demon King was too large. To make entering and leaving easier, it had directly chiseled apart the Rock Wall, destroying the cultivation technique.

After cursing the Sparrow Demon King some more, Jiang Chuan took the photos of half the cultivation technique, gripped his great spear, and continued racing deeper inside.

Clack! Clack! Clack!

His Alloy Combat Boots continuously struck the stone walls, producing crisp sounds.

Before long, a huge pill furnace appeared in Jiang Chuan's sight.

The pill furnace stood around eight meters tall, entirely black, with two lifelike crimson dragons coiled around its twin handles.

"With such a huge pill furnace, the sect that was here back then definitely wasn't some minor sect!"

After taking a photo, Jiang Chuan continued sprinting ahead.

The Ancient Dao Book recorded: those who ate grain became wise; those who ate meat became brave; those who ate pills grew sleek and never aged.

As one's strength increased, the body required ever more nutrition.

If one only ate ordinary meals, the amount one needed to consume would likewise grow greater and greater.

Even eating an entire cow in one meal would not have been strange.

Eating was simple, but once the body digested it, the waste produced had to be expelled.

If one truly ate a whole cow, the time spent relieving oneself each day would be terribly long.

The reason ancient Alchemy Path flourished was inseparably tied to the fact that pills could provide cultivators with the nutrition they needed.

After advancing nearly another thousand meters, a rich medicinal fragrance entered Jiang Chuan's nose and mouth.

Steaming vapor rose from hot springs of varying sizes scattered across the ground.

The hot springs seemed to have been steeped in Spirit Medicine for countless years, and every spring was a different color.

Shrouded in vapor, they emitted hazy, multicolored light, creating a dreamlike and illusory scene.

What drew Jiang Chuan's attention even more was the enormous bird nest at the center of the many hot springs.

"There are even so many places for Medicinal Baths. This sect was Not Simple in its day!"

A fiery gleam appeared in Jiang Chuan's eyes. "If this place is truly as I suspect, merely a cultivation ground for Outer Sect Disciples or newly initiated disciples, then the sect's true mountain gate back then must have possessed incredible treasures!"

"Screech!!!"

Just then, a piercing cry rang out.

"The Sparrow Demon King has returned!"

Hearing that familiar sound, Jiang Chuan's pupils contracted. Then he realized, "No! It's not the Sparrow Demon King!"

Focusing his gaze, Jiang Chuan saw a Bird Demon with a wingspan nearing ten meters and an entirely black body fly out of the enormous bird nest.

"So it's the Sparrow Demon King's offspring!"

Before Jiang Chuan could breathe a sigh of relief, the Bird Demon beat its wings and shot toward him like a bolt of black lightning.

Fast!

Too fast!

In the blink of an eye, the Bird Demon had reached Jiang Chuan.