Xiayang Five Ghosts, the Male Contestants' Regret

Bai Hongxiao's intervention frightened everyone, including Hunter Xu, Wang Yanran, and Tang Yiqian.

The audience was the same.

The host at the recording venue cried out, "What a fast strike! We didn't even see this Sword Saint draw his sword. The Demonic Cultivator contestants are in danger now!"

The stadium instantly erupted as everyone began discussing it.

"So there's a rule like that. No wonder the contestants have to hide their identities."

"This is the martial world. Some people simply cannot tolerate the demonic path."

"Now this is getting interesting."

"Bai Hongxiao calls himself the Sword Saint. Then shouldn't he be able to tell at a glance who's a Demonic Cultivator?"

"You're overthinking it. The contestants here are all rookies, weak as hell. The Demonic Cultivator contestants don't even really count as Demonic Cultivators."

"How miserable..."

Seeing that Demonic Cultivator contestant die on the spot, five people immediately lost their nerve and turned to flee, hoping to escape.

Bai Hongxiao did not move. Five sword phantoms shot out from behind him.

Slash! Slash! Slash...

The five were almost simultaneously decapitated and died on the spot.

One notification after another announcing contestants' eliminations rang in Yi Xiaofeng's ears.

His eyelids twitched.

This Sword Saint was way too domineering!

He killed whenever he felt like it!

Wasn't he afraid of killing the wrong person?

The others were frightened as well. The entire scene fell deathly silent, and no one dared speak.

Bai Hongxiao swept his gaze across everyone and calmly asked, "Are there any other Demonic Cultivators?"

Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

"He's a Demonic Cultivator too!" A woman suddenly pointed at a nearby man and shouted.

The man froze for a moment before flying into a rage from humiliation. "Bullshit! You're slandering me! How am I a Demonic Cultivator?"

The woman ignored him and looked at Bai Hongxiao. "Please uphold justice, Senior. He revealed his identity to me earlier and even tried to..."

She did not finish the rest.

A flash of sword light.

The woman's head flew into the air.

Everyone was stunned.

Why had the accuser died this time?

Expressionless, Bai Hongxiao said, "You are all too weak, and your auras are faint. But Demonic Cultivators will inevitably carry a trace of baleful aura. Though that alone is insufficient as evidence, if several people testify against someone, it is most likely true. This woman also carried a trace of baleful aura, but the person she accused did not."

Everyone suddenly understood and became even more awed by him.

This time, no one dared play tricks again.

"It is fine if the rest of you refuse to admit it, but if I discover any of you causing trouble, I will execute you on the spot!" Bai Hongxiao snorted.

The Demonic Cultivator contestants shuddered in fear.

The Righteous Contestants, however, grew excited.

It seemed Bai Hongxiao might become their protector!

Yi Xiaofeng thought so as well.

Good thing I was smart and chose the righteous path, Yi Xiaofeng thought smugly.

You could not play games based on interest alone; you had to use your brain too.

If the Alliance Government had not been heavily promoting this, he might have followed his heart and chosen to become a Demonic Cultivator or Evil Cultivator.

But considering the show would be livestreamed and would surely promote positive values, choosing to be a righteous cultivator was undoubtedly the wisest option.

In this materialistic society that belittled chivalry and worshipped the strong preying on the weak, there would definitely be more people choosing to become Demonic Cultivators and Evil Cultivators.

The more that was the case, the greater the righteous faction's chances of winning.

"From now on, with me here, the murderer will not dare strike again. You may search for clues without restraint. I will give you only four days. If you cannot find the murderer after four days, I will leave," Bai Hongxiao said again.

His true purpose was to find the real culprit behind Master Wang's murder. City Lord Tang was merely incidental, so he would not personally investigate City Lord Tang's murder.

At those words, all the contestants were delighted.

No matter which faction they belonged to, they all feared being killed by the murderer.

Seeing that Bai Hongxiao had finished speaking, Hunter Xu picked up the thread. "The Imperial Court has decreed that anyone who contributes to capturing the murderer will be rewarded according to their merits. Please give it your all."

His words only delighted a small number of people. The contestants did not care about the Imperial Court's rewards.

Not long after, Hunter Xu finished speaking and dismissed everyone.

A woman in blue walked up to Hunter Xu and said, "Sir, could you bring City Lord Tang's corpse here? I suspect City Lord Tang may not truly be dead."

The nearby cultivators also gathered around, talking over one another.

"That's right. Based on the clues I gathered, City Lord Tang died with his face completely disfigured. It cannot be confirmed with absolute certainty that he was City Lord Tang."

"I heard City Lord Tang suddenly refined Pure Yang Pills before this, causing a huge stir in the nearby martial world. I suspect it is related to the Pure Yang Pills."

"I also learned that Pure Yang City is connected to the Pure Yang Sect. The Pure Yang Sect was once a major cultivation sect, but its enemies wiped it out. Now it can only hide under the protection of the Imperial Court."

"In the Cultivation World, many people suspect that Pure Yang City is the Pure Yang Sect. But Pure Yang City belongs to the Imperial Court, so no one dared offend it. Yet once the Pure Yang Pills appeared, many people risked everything to sneak into Pure Yang City."

Listening to them, Yi Xiaofeng silently cursed his bad luck.

The target of his Main Quest had still been exposed.

Hunter Xu's face darkened. "I have already looked into what you mentioned. Last night, I ordered men to retrieve City Lord Tang's corpse, but it had vanished without a trace."

Everyone erupted in an uproar.

Had the corpse really risen?

Tang Yiqian was moved and murmured, "Could it be..."

Hunter Xu turned to her and asked, "Miss Tang, do you know something?"

Tang Yiqian took a deep breath. "Have you heard of the Xiayang Five Ghosts? They studied under many evil sects, including the Blood Palm Sect and the Corpse Ghost Sect. Besides being proficient in the Blood Fiend Palm, the Xiayang Five Ghosts also enjoy collecting corpses. Once the deceased have passed the first seven days after death, their corpses will be taken away by them. Furthermore, the fifth of the Xiayang Five Ghosts suffers from insufficient yang energy and is in urgent need of Pure Yang Pills."

The Xiayang Five Ghosts?

Everyone looked at one another.

A man suddenly looked at Yi Xiaofeng and asked, "Why does Young Master Zhang look so much healthier? Could he have taken a Pure Yang Pill?"

The moment he said that, everyone looked toward Yi Xiaofeng.

Hunter Xu frowned deeply as well.

He had only heard Tang Yiqian say that Wang Yanran had become thinner. He did not know about the transfer of yang energy, since it involved the Wang Family's old secrets.

Wang Yanran immediately stepped forward. "Young Master Zhang's yang energy was transferred to him by me. It has nothing to do with Pure Yang Pills."

A woman transferring her yang energy?

Everyone wore mocking smiles.

Bai Hongxiao spoke from not far away. "I can testify to that."

The moment he spoke, everyone's doubts vanished.

"That's right. This is Miss Wang Yanran. You must have seen her before. Young Master Zhang risked his life to save her and suffered fatal injuries, leaving him on the brink of death. Yanran then transferred the yang energy and cultivation power within her body to him," Tang Yiqian added.

The contestants could not help staring in astonishment.

This stunningly beautiful woman had actually been the fat woman from before?

Wang Yanran had not merely been fat before. She had weighed at least three hundred jin and looked like a ball of flesh.

Who would have thought she had such a hidden side storyline?

Seeing Wang Yanran's breathtaking beauty, every male contestant felt regret in his heart.

Had they known, they should have flirted with Wang Yanran more.

"Wait, what do you mean by the yang energy and cultivation power inside Miss Wang? Could Wang Manor be the former Pure Yang Sect?" the woman in blue suddenly asked with a frown.

Her words instantly shifted everyone else's attention to the key point.