Continue Our Great Undertaking of Slaying Demons

Cloud-Rolling Saber: Forged from Flowing-Cloud Iron, it was tough and sharp, cutting through iron and slicing gold with ease. 10 Contribution Points.

Shadow-Breaking Step: A movement technique. Once mastered, one's form became as elusive as a ghost, moving with one's shadow severed. 3 Contribution Points.

Eagle Claw Technique: Fierce and savage, it tore with frenzied speed. Using a unique mental method to temper both hands, one could tear through demon flesh with a mortal body upon reaching mastery. 30 Contribution Points.

Besides the Meridian-Opening Pill, there were quite a few other items on the list.

Weapons, martial arts, and even a unique reward that Shen Lin spotted on it.

Deputy Commander of Youzhou Demon Suppression Division makes one move. 1,000 Contribution Points.

After pondering for a while, Shen Lin sighed and said, "When the Demon Suppression Division sends over the information, help me choose two Meridian-Opening Pills and the Shadow-Breaking Step martial art. If anything is left over, it's yours."

"Yes!"

Sun Zhi nodded, rose, and left.

Watching him depart, Shen Lin pondered thoughtfully and murmured, "Whether I exchange for martial arts or Meridian-Opening Pills, I'll need quite a few demons. Captain Sun, don't disappoint me..."

After tossing and turning all night, dawn was gradually breaking, but Shen Lin did not rest. Instead, he took out the Meridian-Opening Pill Miss Zijing had given him earlier.

After studying it carefully and comparing it with the Meridian-Opening Pill he had previously obtained from Sun Zhi, Shen Lin confirmed that there was no problem. He then drew a deep breath and began deducing once more.

He had already deduced the Qingqiu Body Tempering Art to perfection, and its effects were indeed quite good.

His strengthened body could even withstand a direct blow from an iron sword.

Now, it was time to break open the two meridians associated with the Qingqiu Body Tempering Art.

In the first year, with the help of two Meridian-Opening Pills, your Blood Qi Power surged forward like a bamboo split by a blade, directly breaking open the sixth meridian. You even broke open half of the seventh meridian.

In the seventy-fifth year, without the help of Meridian-Opening Pills, you could only grind away at it through patient effort, using your Blood Qi Power bit by bit to strike at the blocked meridian. Finally, in this year, you successfully broke open the seventh meridian.

In the hundredth year, you continued deducing the Qingqiu Body Tempering Art and suddenly gained a trace of enlightenment. You seemed to understand what energy was needed for the next step of body tempering. It was a special aura that existed everywhere between heaven and earth. If you drew it into your meridians, you would surely break through your current realm and discover a new world.

Yet just as you were about to break through, you gained enlightenment from somewhere beyond the senses and canceled the process.

The seventh meridian, open!

Shen Lin

Martial Arts Mastered: Blood Battle Saber Technique (Perfection), Gale Sword Technique (Perfection), Qingqiu Body Tempering Art (Perfection)

Cultivation Arts Mastered: None

Remaining Lifespan: One year

Demon Lifespan: One hundred eighty-seven years

Another hundred years of Demon Lifespan had been consumed, but Shen Lin appeared exceptionally excited.

The insights from those hundred years surged into his mind, causing his understanding of cultivation to rise sharply.

This deduction had not only allowed him to break open the seventh meridian and raise the Blood Qi Power in his body to another level; it had also made him understand how to break through to the Innate Realm.

Now, as long as he focused and sensed carefully, he could feel that threadlike special aura between heaven and earth. With a thought, he could draw it into the meridians within his body and break through smoothly.

Yet during the deduction earlier, he had decisively stopped the process.

He could sense that if he broke through directly to the Innate Realm, the meridians in his body would become fixed. Aside from the seven meridians he had opened so far, he would never be able to open any of the remaining meridians.

Although Shen Lin came from an ordinary background and, unlike Sun Zhi and the others, did not know that the more meridians one opened before breaking through to the Innate Realm, the better, after hundreds of years of deduction, he had developed his own insights into martial cultivation.

The more meridians one opened, the more martial arts one could master.

This was an insight he had gained from somewhere beyond the senses.

Since he could break through to the Innate Realm at any time and extend his lifespan, and there was no longer any pressing danger, it was naturally better to open as many meridians as possible.

Shen Lin drew a deep breath, stood up, and stretched lazily.

His next goal was already crystal clear.

Acquire more martial arts and discover the locations of the remaining five meridians.

Slay demons to obtain Demon Lifespan, while also exchanging it for Meridian-Opening Pills from the Demon Suppression Division.

Over the next week, Shen Lin became extremely diligent, spending all day in the County Yamen waiting for cases.

Unfortunately, not a single case concerned demons.

The biggest case he encountered was a dismemberment.

At first, Shen Lin thought it had been committed by a demon hidden in the county town.

But after racking his brains to solve the case, he discovered a serial killer who had committed several murders.

After countless unsolved cases were cracked, the County Yamen had been full of praise for Shen Lin.

After collecting his reward from the County Yamen, Shen Lin returned to the constables' quarters, brewed a pot of tea, and sighed.

Indeed, demons were not something one could discover just by looking around casually.

Otherwise, Sun Zhi would not have worked with demons before.

Shen Lin did know of one place where demons gathered.

He had learned the location of Black Wind Stronghold from that wolf demon in the Meridian Opening Realm.

However, Black Wind Stronghold was the greatest demon den in Qiulin County.

There were countless great demons within. If Shen Lin went there alone, he would merely be delivering himself to their door as takeout.

Yet reporting it to the County Yamen and gathering all the forces in Qiulin County to slay the demons was not realistic either.

Setting aside how many demons Shen Lin could divide up if they acted together, based on what he had seen so far, quite a few people in the County Yamen had secret ties with those demons.

He feared that the moment he reported the location of Black Wind Stronghold, those creatures would already have moved elsewhere.

It was not as though such a thing had never happened.

Shen Lin remembered that once, a constable in the County Yamen had accidentally discovered the location of Black Wind Stronghold and reported it to the yamen.

But what was the result? When the large force arrived, all they found was an empty stronghold, its people gone and its buildings deserted.

Not long afterward, that constable was stabbed thirteen times in the back and died by suicide.

There had to be people among the County Yamen's higher-ups who colluded with those demons.

As Shen Lin pondered this, his ears suddenly twitched, and he turned toward the doorway.

Before long, a soft knock sounded.

"Brother Shen..."

"Captain Sun, come in!"

Before the other party could ask, Shen Lin spoke first.

From the sound of his footsteps, he had already determined that the visitor was Sun Zhi.

Sun Zhi pushed open the door and walked in.

When Shen Lin saw the wooden box in his hands, his eyes immediately lit up.

"The Demon Suppression Division's reward has been delivered!"

Sun Zhi's words confirmed Shen Lin's guess. Shen Lin impatiently opened the wooden box.

The Meridian-Opening Pills and Shadow-Breaking Step were finally in hand!

Seeing Shen Lin's excited expression, Sun Zhi tactfully bent at the waist and backed away. Just as he was about to leave, Shen Lin called out to him.

"Captain Sun, wait."

Shen Lin looked at him with a broad smile and said, "After recuperating for so many days, your injuries should have mostly recovered, right? Can we continue our great undertaking of slaying demons?"

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