Three Corpses City
"This is impossible. The swamp spirit field is over a thousand miles away. Extreme Yin only has the Qi Refining Third Layer of Qi Refining. How could he possibly cross such a long distance in a single day?"
Yan Gao immediately denied it.
Yan Qiu also found it somewhat unbelievable, but then he thought that since all six people who were chasing Extreme Yin, Yan Feng, had died, Extreme Yin must have been hiding his cultivation level.
If Extreme Yin possesses the Qi Refining Middle Stage realm, and with the assistance of travel talismans, traveling a thousand miles in a single day would be quite reasonable.
Yan Qiu then voiced her suspicions.
After listening, Yan Gao said, "What you said isn't entirely impossible. What should we do then?"
Yan Qiu said, "The best course of action now is for you and Third Uncle to continue pursuing Extreme Yin, while the rest of us take Ghost Three back to the Lineage and bring back news of Extreme Yin. In case we fail to catch up with Extreme Yin, the Lineage needs a contingency plan."
Yan Gao, who was physically Yan Gao but simple-minded, couldn't offer any better suggestions, so he nodded in agreement.
"Okay, let's do it that way."
He casually waved his hand, took out a flying boat, and said, "Xiao Qiu, come on up. We'll take this flying boat to chase after Extreme Yin."
The two boarded a flying boat and headed towards the Corpse Demon Sect.
The others, escorting Ghost Three, also boarded the flying boat and returned to the Yan Family's residence.
After getting away from Ghost Three, Song Wen dared not slack off at all and kept traveling at full speed.
He knew that since he had accidentally run into Ghost Three, he could be caught up by the Yan Family at any time, so now was not the time to let his guard down.
So he traveled at full speed, constantly using the Swift Movement Talisman and employing the Blood Escape Technique.
As the sun gradually set in the west, a small city appeared in front of Song Wen.
This city is called Three Corpses City, and it is a city directly under the jurisdiction of the Corpse Demon Sect.
The Three Corpses City is rich in black iron ore. Almost all the mortals in the city are miners enslaved by the Corpse Demon Sect, mining black iron ore for the Corpse Demon Sect generation after generation, with no hope of ever rising above their circumstances.
In order to ensure the perpetuation of the mortal mining slaves, the Corpse Demon Sect specially cultivated a race of humans, selecting naturally tall men to rape female mining slaves and force them to give birth to offspring.
For these miners, suffering was endless; whether in life or death, it was all suffering.
Even after they die, these miners will still be put to good use.
Although they suffered greatly and could not extract even a few drops of Essence Blood from their bodies, they could still be put into the <Corpse Refining Baleful Transformation Array> to refine the Corpse-Baleful Qi and assist the disciples of the Corpse Demon Sect in their cultivation.
In other words, Song Wen was also tainted by the karma of these mine slaves. His cultivation of the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art> required far more Corpse-Baleful Qi than ordinary disciples, and a large portion of this Corpse-Baleful Qi came from the vertical shaft in the cave abode.
The souls of the miners would also be extracted to refine various insidious magical Law Artifact.
Song Wen planned to spend the night in Three Corpses City. The reason he didn't travel at night was that he knew the Yan Family would definitely mobilize all their resources to search for him. Traveling at night would mean fewer cultivators on the road, which would only increase the risk of him being exposed.
The Three Corpses City is only about two hundred miles away from the Corpse Demon Sect, and there are many Corpse Demon Sect disciples and Rogue Cultivator traveling between the two places.
For this reason, large spacecraft travel between the two locations.
Song Wen plans to return to the Corpse Demon Sect by spaceship tomorrow.
With only one Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Yan Family, their power is insufficient to affect the large merchant ships belonging to the Corpse Demon Sect.
From afar, Song Wen could see that outside the gates of Three Corpses City, there were not only city guards but also several Yan Family cultivators.
A jolt went down his spine as he suspected his whereabouts had been exposed.
Then, he looked down at his chest, where he found the six Storage Bag he had taken from Yan Feng and his group of six.
In the Cultivation World, cultivators can split their spiritual power and attach it to their junior disciples or objects, forming a spiritual imprint.
Cultivators can sense the approximate location of their junior disciples by using their spiritual imprints.
However, Song Wen dared to carry six Storage Bag on his person, so he must have come prepared.
The spiritual power of Qi Refinement cultivators, and even the Divine Sense possessed only by Foundation Establishment cultivators, are actually a type of soul power.
All soul power would be devoured by Song Wen's physical body and become nourishment for his Sea of Consciousness.
When Song Wen first heard about spiritual imprints, he had this conjecture.
To verify his hypothesis, he asked Chen Yi and Senior Brother Xu to conduct tests.
Without exception, the spiritual imprints they left on the objects were easily devoured by Song Wen. When Song Wen held the objects with their spiritual imprints, he could clearly sense that the spiritual energy on them was being absorbed by him.
Later, he confirmed with the two individuals that they had indeed lost their ability to sense objects.
I chose Chen Yi to do the test because we are familiar with each other and it's easier for me to talk to her.
I chose to take the test with Senior Brother Xu because his abilities surpassed mine.
The two tests, one strong and one weak, fully proved that his guess was correct.
Calming himself down and relying on his faith in the cheat system, Song Wen dismissed the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
"The Yan Family cultivators appeared in Three Corpses City, presumably because they discovered traces of the deaths of Yan Feng and the other six, roughly estimated my speed, and then came to Three Corpses City to conduct a thorough investigation."
Before entering the city, Song Wen used his physical body to control his aura, first fully revealing his Qi Refining Fourth Layer of Qi Refining, and then concealing the corpse aura all over his body.
Then, using the mortal technique of Disguise Art, he changed his appearance and became a middle-aged cultivator.
As a result, Song Wen's appearance changed, and even his aura became completely different. Even Guo Tao, who had spent many days with him, had difficulty recognizing him.
Song Wen did not show his outer disciple token of the Corpse Demon Sect to enter the city. It was obvious that the higher-ups of the Three Corpses City had been infiltrated by the Yan Family. Showing his outer disciple token would only expose his identity.
Song Wen, posing as Rogue Cultivator of the demonic path, successfully entered the Three Corpses City after paying a Spirit Stone.
The Three Corpses City was bustling with people, including many cultivators and a considerable number of ordinary people.
Most of these mortals were poorly clothed and emaciated; they were the mine slaves who had been exploited by the Corpse Demon Sect for a long time.
However, not all people are poor; there are also those who are well-dressed and healthy.
In every era, there has never been a shortage of people among the Human Race who would betray their own kind for personal gain.
These well-dressed ordinary people are of this kind.
They aided and abetted the evildoers, helping the Corpse Demon Sect enslave mortals. They were obsequious to cultivators, but they commanded and ordered around the mine slaves, who were also mortals, treating them like pigs and dogs.
Song Wen watched all this with an indifferent expression, showing neither anger nor pity.
Song Wen went straight into a cultivator's Inn, spent one Spirit Stone to book a cheap room, and settled in.