A moment later.
The headless female corpse collapsed to the ground.
The dwarf elder coughed repeatedly and crawled to his feet, looking at Fang Qing with a face full of bad luck. "This old man yields. Sir, do whatever you wish..."
"Running into a Harmonious Bliss Sect demoness the moment I stepped outside—what rotten luck... Pah!"
Fang Qing was washing his hands with clean water. Hearing this, he glanced at Xu Hei. "You and that woman both seem to inherit the lineages of major demonic sects. How did you end up in such a state?"
"Cough, cough... I do not know about that woman, but the cultivation art and True Qi I cultivate were obtained by chance when I went out seeking the Dao in my youth. The art I cultivate is called the Yin Origin Dao-Extracting Formula. It did indeed come from the southern demonic Dao's great sect—the Corpse Yin Sect. There was even a message left in the Dao scripture, saying that after I used 'Yin Corpse Qi' for Qi Ingestion, I could go to the Corpse Yin Sect and take a master... But I kept my guard up. After secretly investigating for a long time and learning the habits of that great demonic sect, I did not dare go..."
Xu Hei answered with a bitter smile.
"Oh? Tell me in detail..." Fang Qing became interested.
"Those great demonic sects call themselves demons. Could there possibly be good people among them?" The bitterness on Xu Hei's face deepened. "The Human Pill method first spread out from the demonic Dao... The arts they pass down often contain hidden traps and restrictions... People like this old man, who join midway, are either driven like slaves or refined into some kind of magical artifact. Or, as our cultivation rises, we become