Ji Yuan's First Dharma Treasure [Monthly Votes Requested]

"Qiu Qianhai?"

Blood Lady instinctively ran through the Nascent Soul old monsters of Shangdong. None were surnamed Qiu, so he was unlikely to be one of their sons.

Besides, they weren't young and beautiful like her. At their age, they probably couldn't father children even if they wanted to.

"Yes."

Jiang Hong nodded hard.

"A name can be made up. It's probably an alias. Which of the Six Immortal Sects of Shangdong did his methods come from?"

Blood Lady pressed him.

"Well—"

"Hmm?"

Seeing Jiang Hong hesitate even over this, Blood Lady frowned. "Don't tell me you couldn't even work that out?"

As she seemed about to return to her earlier manner, Jiang Hong hurried to speak.

"I did. He—he's a Demonic Cultivator."

"What?!"

Blood Lady, who had been holding Jiang Hong, sprang to her feet, sending him crashing back to the ground.

"A Demonic Cultivator? Since when does Shangdong have a Demonic Dao Nascent Soul cultivator? Don't tell me he came over from Shangxi. If he did, who would dare lay a hand on you?"

Blood Lady looked down at Jiang Hong, suspicion in her eyes.

Jiang Hong hurriedly pushed himself upright and leaned against the stone wall behind him. Then he began counting on his fingers.

"First, he has a Thousand-Soul Banner. Mother, you know how wicked that thing is. Forget Shangdong's Demonic Cultivators—even plenty of ours in Shangxi can't make one."

"Perhaps he killed another Demonic Cultivator and stole it."

Jiang Hong raised another finger. "Second, he has a sinister Formation Banner. Even the Formation it sets up belongs to the Demonic Dao."

At that, Blood Lady fell silent.

The Thousand-Soul Banner might have been stolen. But someone who could deploy a Demonic Dao Formation had to be a Demonic Cultivator. Without a foundation in the Demonic