Sky Patrol Monitoring Formation

Otherwise, there would have been no chance to pull the beams from under the house and replace the Violet Star Palace elder's grave with a Demon-Nurturing Formation.

"Things seemed far more complicated than expected. I had to raise my strength as quickly as possible."

Su Fang thought to himself, a sense of urgency rising within him.

Faced with all manner of schemes in this Gods and Devils Cemetery, only increasing his strength could offer him some measure of safety.

Meanwhile.

Just as that Eighth-Stage Heavenly Demon fell.

Within Violet Star Palace, inside a luxurious hall, a powerful old man suddenly opened his eyes. He then took out an ink-black stone plaque from his person and examined it...

"What was going on? Why had Demon Nineteen's soul plaque cracked?"

"Something was wrong. At this time, he should still have been sleeping."

"How had he suddenly died?"

The old man was somewhat bewildered and uncertain.

Countless guesses began churning through his mind...

"Was it an accident? Or had our clan's plan been exposed?"

The old man muttered to himself.

"No, I need to send someone to investigate."

"I'll have Demon Eleven, Demon Twelve, and Demon Thirteen enter the Gods and Devils Cemetery ahead of schedule."

The old man made his decision.

He then began using a secret art to contact his subordinates.

Elsewhere.

After killing that Eighth-Stage Heavenly Demon, Su Fang left the grave and erased every trace he had left behind.

Next, he still needed to find more high-level Martial Artist bones for cultivation, so the digging had to continue.

However, he no longer dared to dig up Violet Star Palace graves.

He did not want to unearth another Eighth-Stage Heavenly Demon.

After all, he did not have many spirit stones left. If things went wrong, he might overturn his cart in the gutter.

Thus, Su Fang quietly left the area and began searching elsewhere for targets.

Before long, he found a suitable tomb. It appeared to belong to an elder of the Vajra Sect.

Unfortunately, the tombstone had weathered too severely, and the inscriptions upon it had long since become illegible.

So Su Fang had no idea what the tomb's owner was called.

Having found another set of high-quality remains, Su Fang began cultivating the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art with complete absorption.

The next day.

Three unfamiliar faces unexpectedly arrived at the entrance to the Gods and Devils Cemetery at the same time.

Seeing this, the gatekeeping disciple could not help asking curiously, "That's rare. Are you together? How did all of you get exiled to the Gods and Devils Cemetery at once?"

At those words, the three said nothing.

Instead, the disciple who had brought them over answered first, "These three offended Elder Zi Mo. That's why they were demoted here."

"Oh, so that was it. They actually dared to offend the Grand Elder? They really didn't know whether they were dead or alive," the gatekeeping disciple mocked.

He then opened the entrance to the Gods and Devils Cemetery and let the three inside.

After entering the Gods and Devils Cemetery, the three did not, like most newcomers, head to the residential area to learn about the place.

Instead, they went straight toward the Violet Star Palace graveyard deep within the Gods and Devils Cemetery...

"We're here. Nineteen had been sleeping inside this tomb," the leader said.

"Let's go in together and see who killed Nineteen."

The three exchanged a few words.

Then they entered the tomb together.

Yet the place was a complete mess...

Cracks covered the tomb chamber, and the coffin had shattered into pieces.

It had clearly gone through a fierce battle.

However, upon seeing this scene, the leading man frowned.

"No. Someone deliberately destroyed this scene. It wasn't caused by an ordinary fight."

"Indeed. If it had been a normal battle, there would definitely be traces of Nineteen using demonic qi. Yet there was nothing here. Clearly, this was not the original scene."

"It seemed that whoever killed Nineteen did not want us tracing him."

The group discussed it at length but ultimately found not even the slightest clue. Naturally, that was thanks to the destruction Su Fang had caused before leaving.

Meanwhile.

Just as they entered that tomb, Su Fang, far away in another tomb, sensed everything as well.

Before leaving, he had deliberately left behind a formation pattern for warning.

It was precisely to uncover the Heavenly Demon Clan spy hidden behind Violet Star Palace.

And now, the warning formation pattern had been triggered.

That meant the people investigating this matter had already entered the tomb.

At that thought, Su Fang immediately activated one of the Sixty-Four Heavenly Evolution Formations, the Sky Patrol Monitoring Formation, to monitor that area.

Outside the tomb, three people were currently standing there.

All three wore Violet Star Palace disciple robes. None of them appeared particularly unusual, yet Su Fang still noticed something strange.

"None of these three are human. They are Heavenly Demons in disguise," Su Fang immediately concluded.

He was far too familiar with the aura of Heavenly Demons, so he naturally spotted the flaws in their disguises.

"It seemed Violet Star Palace truly had a traitor within," Su Fang murmured.

He then used the Sky Patrol Monitoring Formation to draw closer, observe, and eavesdrop...

"Eleven, should we contact Prince Shaomiao? We can ask him about the situation here, as well as any suspicious people," one of them said.

Hearing this, Demon Eleven, the leader, immediately nodded in agreement.

"That works. I'll contact Prince Shaomiao right away."

Elsewhere.

Su Fang, watching through the Sky Patrol Monitoring Formation, was also somewhat shocked.

These people actually had ties to Prince Shaomiao.

"Could Prince Shaomiao, despite being human, be colluding with the Outer Heavenly Demons?"

Su Fang was puzzled and continued monitoring them.

Very soon.

After receiving the message, Prince Shaomiao arranged to meet with the three Heavenly Demons somewhere.

This was also Su Fang's first time seeing Prince Shaomiao.

He was a young man dressed in luxurious robes.

In this Gods and Devils Cemetery, where everyone looked gaunt and sickly, Prince Shaomiao's complexion was actually normal—indeed, even rosy.

That alone was a huge problem.

Besides a middle-aged man, Brother Meng, someone Su Fang knew, had also come with Prince Shaomiao.

After Prince Shaomiao's group of three met up with the three Heavenly Demons, they immediately began questioning them.

"Why did you enter the Gods and Devils Cemetery ahead of schedule?"

"There should still be more than a month before the once-in-a-thousand-years Yin Qi Tide. Why did you come in so early?"

Demon Eleven, the leader, lied, "We only came early to familiarize ourselves with the environment."

He then swiftly changed the subject. "I heard your cousin has disappeared. Doesn't that mean the Devouring Yin Tortoise Carapace is gone too?"

When the three brought up his cousin Jiang Chen, Prince Shaomiao also felt rather depressed.

"My cousin truly has disappeared. I have no idea what happened. And the Devouring Yin Tortoise Carapace has indeed vanished as well."

"Fortunately, the Devouring Yin Tortoise Carapace is not especially important. As long as the Nine Nether Map is not lost, everything is fine."

"As long as we replace it with a treasure capable of dealing with the Yin Qi Tide, we can continue searching for the Nine Nether Cavern."

Prince Shaomiao explained himself to the three.

Elsewhere, Su Fang, who was monitoring them through the Sky Patrol Monitoring Formation, roughly understood the conversation between the two groups.

Clearly, the three Heavenly Demons in disguise had not told Prince Shaomiao about the Heavenly Demon's death.

They seemed to be guarding against him in secret.