The Yue Kingdom's Current State, the Inside Story of Nascent Soul Formation; the Clash of Righteous and Demonic Paths, Finally Finding a Way In

"Whoosh!"

The black bone boat cleaved through the air, trailing a long wake of black light.

Lin Changheng stood aboard with his hands behind his back. Astral wind parted automatically before him, leaving his robes utterly still-the black bone boat's built-in rudimentary formation was working.

Through his earlier soul search of the demon cultivator Li Hun, Lin Changheng had confirmed three things.

First, the Yue Kingdom's demon cultivators really had reined themselves in, particularly in how they treated ordinary rogue cultivators, merchants, and lineages.

Although sordid acts still occurred in secret, driven by ingrained habits that were difficult to change in the short term, outwardly they had achieved a rudimentary standard of "leaving even an autumn hair untouched."

After all, with such oppressive orders hanging over them, anyone who violated the prohibitions without powerful backing had only one fate left: becoming "human material."

Human material meant being dismantled completely and refined into blood pills, bone materials, resentful souls, corpse puppets, and the like.

Second, even within the Blood Moon Cult, people were quietly discussing the rumors spreading outside about a second Nascent Soul cultivator.

Li Hun had a close friend in the cult, also a Foundation Establishment demon cultivator. This person had participated in the final battle "led by the Sacred Church to annihilate Purple Sky," and had secretly revealed quite a few inside details.

For instance, that battle had actually-not been difficult.

Nor had it involved any earthshaking spectacle.

By the time their demonic army arrived, the vanguard had already breached the mountain gate and was engaged in fierce clashes and deadly spell battles with the Purple Sky Sect cultivators stationed inside.

That demon cultivator friend said that, even while swept along amid a demonic army whose eyes gleamed green as it surged forward like a ravaging swarm of