Demon Exorcism Bureau Arrives

[You have obtained a Half-Step Boundary Breach Fox Demon Core. It seems to contain extraordinary power. You decide:]

[1. Absorb it directly, converting the Demon Core's energy into cultivation, consuming 500 experience.]

[2. Prepare medicinal ingredients and refine pills, consuming 700 experience.]

[3. You seem able to absorb the Demon Core's special power. This special power might be of use to you, consuming 1000 experience.]

It was here. Lin Jun perked up; this was always when he was most excited.

Without hesitation, Lin Jun chose the third option.

[You decide to begin comprehending the Demon Core's energy. You inject its energy into your body. In a daze, you see a white fox blotting out the sky and covering the earth. It smiles at you. (-1000)]

[You see a brand-new world. Heaven and earth are filled with demons and monsters, while humans linger on the ground in miserable existence, like ants. The white fox sees you and bites at you. (-1000)]

The simulation continued.

[Yet this is only an illusion. You awaken in terror. Your body is completely unharmed, but your hair has turned white and your eyes cloudy. You feel utterly weak. (-1000)]

[You actually spent an entire fifty years in a dream, yet to you it was merely an instant. You have grown old, but you sense unfamiliar power within your body. (-1000)]

[You have obtained part of the Sky Fox Bloodline.]

Lin Jun abruptly awoke from the simulation, staring at the words "Sky Fox Bloodline" on the panel in confusion.

Its description was simple.

[Sky Fox Bloodline: With a human body, enjoy the physique of demons and monsters.]

Human bodies were innately weaker than those of demons and monsters. That was decreed by heaven.

Yet Lin Jun did not feel any changes in his body. Everything was as usual.

Could something have gone wrong?

On second thought, Lin Jun decided that probably was not the case. Judging from the description, his physical strength should have increased. He could find an opportunity to test it later.

With that thought, Lin Jun decided to set it aside for now and begin improving his cultivation.

At present, four of his Eight Extraordinary Meridians had been opened, while nine of his Twelve Primary Meridians had been opened. He was still some distance away from a Boundary Breach.

Moreover, if he truly wanted to reach the Boundary Breach, he would need to prepare a cultivation technique for it.

But that was all for the future. Right now, cultivation was what mattered most.

Lin Jun simulated the True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting, pouring in experience and converting it into cultivation.

[Your body has reached the limit of the Shattered Realm, but the remaining energy of the Demon Core nourishes your entire body. You naturally break through your fifth meridian. (-700)]

[You train by day and cultivate by night, absorbing the energy of heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are willing to give diligent people opportunities as well. Three years later, you open another meridian. (-700)]

[Your talent limits the speed of your cultivation. After ten years, you accumulate enough energy to strike at the next meridian, but fail. Yet through a twist of fate, you accidentally open the Three Yin Foot Meridians. At this point, all twelve of your primary meridians are opened, and the energy of heaven and earth flows freely through your body. You have grown stronger. (-1400)]

[Another ten years pass. You gain nothing, yet your understanding of the True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting deepens. (-700)]

[Thirty years later, your understanding of the True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting has grown even deeper. It can be said that no one in the world understands this cultivation technique better than you. Yet even so, you still fail when striking at the next of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. True Scripture of Body-Melting and Furnace-Casting (Transcendent Realm). (-1500)]

Lin Jun stopped the simulation.

He had three thousand experience left. He needed to save that much for survival, otherwise he would be in trouble if he encountered another vicious Fox Demon like Zhang Ju.

At present, he was only two meridians away from fully opening all the meridians in his body. Then he could attempt to break through to the next realm.

There was no rushing this. He could take it slowly.

Achieving what he had in three months was already quite impressive. Lin Jun was rather satisfied.

Once he reached the Demon Exorcism Bureau, he would see whether he could obtain some better martial arts. Of course, he also needed to get himself a good blade.

He could not possibly borrow a blade from someone every time he fought an enemy, could he?

Over the following days, Lin Jun lay in bed for another three days.

Because his meridians had expanded, and because he had asked Shopkeeper Song to cook the old fox's meat for him every day, his body had made an initial recovery under the nourishment of demon flesh. At the very least, he could get out of bed and move around.

That day, just as Lin Jun was eating in the courtyard, an eagle's cry suddenly rang out from the sky.

Not far from Green Forest County, an enormous cloud of dust was rapidly closing in on Azure Forest City.

Standing atop the city walls, Duan Yan and Li Gui watched the dust billowing to the heavens in the distance and could not help swallowing.

"Now this is going to be lively. The Demon Exorcism Bureau has deployed an army."

Normally, even against powerful demons and monsters, at most a small team of demon exorcists would be needed, or several teams would form a temporary force. Deploying an army often carried a different meaning.

Either the demons and monsters were too vicious, requiring the combined might of the entire army to suppress them, or it was a display of the authorities' stance, showing how seriously the Demon Exorcism Bureau regarded the matter.

The current situation was clearly the latter.

Such powerful demonic energy had suddenly erupted in a place that had been peaceful for years. Did that not mean the Demon Exorcism Bureau had been sitting around eating for nothing all this time?

Duan Yan looked at the army. They were all light cavalry riding half-demons, numbering roughly more than five hundred.

An army formed from more than five hundred demon exorcists. Even the lowest-ranked among them were at Origin Transformation. With this force, in less than half a day, every demon and monster in the Demon Exorcism Bureau's jurisdiction would be uprooted completely.

Sure enough, the army had no intention of entering the city. Instead, it split directly into several smaller teams and headed in all directions.

"Let's just wait here. Unless something unexpected happens, none of the demons and monsters here will survive the night."

Li Gui leaned against the city wall, watching the Demon Exorcist Army scatter into the distance.

"But tell me, with Lin Jun's achievements in exterminating demons, what kind of badge will they give him when he is entered into the records?"

Li Gui weighed the identity badge in his hand. A silver wolf's head was depicted on it.

"At the very least, he should get a Wolf-Insignia Exorcist. Maybe even something higher. After all, Lin Jun was the one who exposed and resolved the entire Green Forest County situation."

Duan Yan shook her head repeatedly as she looked at her own Fox Mark badge.

After all these years, why was she still only a fox head?

He had caught up to her in just three years. Comparing people truly made one furious enough to die.

As the Demon Exorcist Army scattered, one demon exorcist squad slipped into Green Forest County.