A Man of Great Renown

"What are you going to do?" The three Hu brothers trembled as if they were sitting on a sieve.

Vice Leader Jin gave a standard cold laugh, "Do you know who we are?"

"No, I don't know."

"You deserve to die because even we didn't know!"

The three Hu brothers quickly replied, "No, no, no, we know who you are."

"Now that you know who we are, we can't let you live!"

The three brothers were almost in tears. "Should we have known who you were?" they cried.

Vice Leader Jin stopped toying with the three Hu brothers and easily crushed them to death.

The three brothers were merely a minor incident on the way home.

After the flying boat traveled for a while longer, several more powerful auras enveloped it, ranging from those at the half-step Spirit Transformation stage to the early Spirit Transformation stage.

"The three Hu brothers should have been in regular contact with us, but they weren't this time. Only you passed by during that period. Were you the ones who killed my men?" The eldest of the three Hu brothers wanted revenge for the three of them.

Lu Yang pondered, "Is this what they mean by 'beating the child and then the elders'?"

Lu Yang had heard of such legends before: the young hero would fight the bully, and after defeating the bully's father, the bully's grandfather would appear; after defeating the bully's grandfather, the bully's great-grandfather would appear, and so on, generation after generation, without end.

This spirit of the Foolish Old Man Who Moved Mountains deeply moved Lu Yang.

Needless to say, the eldest of the three Hu brothers was also killed by Vice Leader Jin.

The airship traveled for a while longer, and an even more powerful aura enveloped it.

"It was you who killed him..."

Vice Leader Jin: "... Are you guys never going to stop?"

As a powerful cultivator in the Body Integration Realm, he could not tolerate repeated provocations. He decided to go all out and stormed the enemy's lair, wiping it out completely.

When the airship returned to headquarters, Vice Leader Jin held a brocade banner, looking utterly dejected.

The banner was issued by the authorities, so no one suspected that Vice Leader Jin was a member of a demonic cult—after all, what demonic cult would rid the people of evil?

Upon learning of this, the followers whispered among themselves, expressing their deep admiration for Vice Leader Kim.

"As expected of the Vice Leader, he gets the righteous sects to present him with a banner, profiting from both sides, he has connections everywhere!"

"That's right! I heard that before joining the Demonic Sect, Vice Leader Jin was a prominent figure in the righteous path!"

Lu Yang was quite surprised to hear this. So Vice Leader Jin was also famous in the righteous path? He quickly asked, "He has such a background? What did the Vice Leader do in the righteous path before?"

"The night watchman."

"..."

"When Vice Leader Jin is on the righteous path, he can still control time, right?" Lu Yang finally asked after a long pause.

The believer who was talking to Lu Yang looked at him with surprise. "That's an idea we haven't thought of before!"

The follower went to Vice Leader Jin and told him about Lu Yang's idea, which pleased Vice Leader Jin. He then approached Lu Yang and praised his broad-minded thinking.

"Great idea! From now on, I'll tell everyone that I was once a prominent figure in the righteous path, and that I could even control the time of everyone in a city!"

For those who follow the path of demonic cultivation, the most important thing is to tell the truth while portraying themselves as as powerful as possible.

Although Lu Yang caused trouble in the initiation test he designed, that's all in the past. Now, Vice Leader Jin finds Lu Yang more and more pleasing to the eye.

Because the flying boat was delayed on the way, most of the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining geniuses from various places had already arrived, and Lu Yang and his two companions were among the last few.

Lu Yang disregarded the Qi Refining stage geniuses, as they were not considered a threat; he focused his attention on the Foundation Establishment Realm geniuses.

He learned about several of the most famous Foundation Establishment Realm geniuses from the introductions of passersby.

"Look at that monk in robes with a beard and beard, holding a golden alms bowl. He's called the Wine and Meat Monk. I heard he originally had the opportunity to enter the Hanging Temple, one of the Five Great Immortal Sects, but he resolutely gave up the opportunity and made a boundless vow to find the path to Buddhahood on his own!"

"And that guy next to him with the knife, could he be the legendary Sword Demon Guza? Legend has it that his demonic sword is extremely strange. The moment the blacksmith finished forging it, the demonic sword floated in the air and killed the blacksmith. Several subsequent owners of the demonic sword were all devoured by the demonic sword, even those at the Spirit Transformation stage. Only Guza has kept using it until now!"

"The most powerful one is Yan Fei. Everyone says he's a genius personally trained by the sect leader. He's skilled at drawing talismans and has even used them to trap several Golden Core cultivators, toying with and manipulating them before finally killing them. His methods are extremely cruel!"

Needless to say, all three of them are in the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Lu Yang transmitted his voice to the other two. "The three of us shouldn't get close yet. Let's pretend we don't know each other. We don't know the details of the test yet. We'll see if we should team up depending on the situation."

Only a few high-ranking members, including the sect leader, knew that Lu Yang and his two companions possessed deeply ingrained demonic nature; these Foundation Establishment Realm geniuses had never even heard of Lu Yang and his two companions.

The cult leader appeared in the air, hands behind his back, expression indifferent, and announced the rules of the competition.

Everyone noticed a mark on their hand with a single character ("1") in the center, and they didn't know when it had appeared.

"In this trial, you may fight freely. For every person you kill, you will obtain the number on their mark."

"The one with the most marks is the ultimate winner, and the ultimate winner will receive the blessing of an immortal."

The crowd displayed fanatical expressions. Apart from Lu Yang and the other two fake believers, everyone else was a true believer in the Immortal Immortal and had received his blessing, which was the highest reward of the Immortal Cult.

"The Foundation Establishment Realm will be one group, Qi Refining stage will be another group. Each group will have one winner, and the trial period will last for two days."

Lu Yang thought to himself, "As expected of the Demonic Sect, their test is killing people. Aren't they afraid of killing everyone and leaving a shortage of men?"

The cult leader waved his sleeve, and the crowd, having no chance to resist, vanished from their spot and reappeared in a dense forest.

"This place is a forest from the Great Yu period, containing all sorts of heavenly materials and earthly treasures. You can fight here, or you can seek fortuitous opportunity to break through your limits."

"Remember, the immortals are watching you." The sect leader said this to everyone, but only Lu Yang understood its true meaning.

"The match now begins."

After announcing the start of the competition, the sect leader respectfully asked the immortal immortal why this method was used to select the possessors. Wouldn't it be more convenient to select them directly based on their aptitude?

The immortal sage smiled kindly, "Child, what do you think is necessary to become the strongest? Is it a single Spirit Root? Or an immortal body? These are not important."

"Even if it's a useless body, as long as I'm willing, I can possess another body and cultivate to the Tribulation Transcendence stage or become an immortal."

"The most important thing is the compatibility with me."

"In the test of life and death, a person's potential is best revealed. What I need is for them to show themselves as much as possible. Through observation, I will select the lucky one who is most compatible with me."

The cult leader then asked, "What are the characteristics of the highest compatibility?"

"Those that I find pleasing to the eye."

"Do you find me pleasing to the eye?"

"I find you the most displeasing."

"I am your most devout follower!" the cult leader cried out in protest.