He Was the True Demonic Cultivator

"Junior Sister slaughtered her fellow disciples, killing while fully conscious to satisfy the prerequisites for cultivating her demonic art.

That is her first crime!

Junior Sister is vicious at heart. For the sake of cultivation, she willingly fell onto the wicked path and is beyond saving. Letting her enter Kan Prefecture would be like releasing a tiger back into the mountains. She will surely become a scourge to the righteous path.

That is her second crime!

While I was escorting her, she used an outbreak of her lust demon nature as an excuse to attempt to harvest my essence.

That is her third crime!"

Even facing a fragment of his master's consciousness, Li Yang showed no fear.

He declared with righteous conviction, "I have already notified the Sword Alliance. I will never tolerate such a vicious disciple in our Mystic Heaven Sword Sect, nor do I wish to disgrace you, Master!"

Lu Feng bristled with fury:

"The reputation of the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect and your master is none of your damned concern! Put away your sword and get back here at once!"

Li Yang remained unmoved.

Instead, his gaze sharpened further, and he raised his hand-

Pointing his sword at Lu Feng!

"Your actions run counter to the sword path I cultivate, Master! If you insist on shielding Shen Lou'er, don't blame your disciple for defying his superior!"

Lu Feng flew into a rage.

"You insolent wretch!"

He wanted to say more, but Li Yang had already charged at him with his sword.

"Master! Forgive me!"

When he had exterminated his enemies' entire families in his previous life, he had been clearheaded throughout. It had never been an impulsive act.

The same was true now.

As long as he remained true to himself-death was nothing!

"A mere Qi Refining cultivator dares draw his sword against his master! Li Yang, you have bared your edge too soon!"

Before his words had faded, Spirit Transformation pressure erupted from this fragment of Lu Feng's consciousness!

It was like a blazing sun hanging overhead, like a star bearing down upon them. Even the courtyard's stone paving shattered inch by inch.

Even Saintess Su Yao, powerful as she was at the Golden Core stage, paled slightly and circulated her spiritual power to form a barrier against that overwhelming pressure.

Yet Li Yang, who bore the brunt of it, remained utterly composed. The killing intent in his eyes nearly spilled over.

"Master shields a demoness. His disciple shall end this with his sword!"

Clang!!!

Li Yang's sword force stood proud like a blade, as though a sword pointed toward heaven, poised to pierce the firmament.

Even Lu Feng froze.

He looked at this disciple, who had scarcely ever made his presence felt, and saw that the sword intent radiating from him was so pure it contained not a trace of anything else.

He could not help recalling the Outer Disciples Competition. Though this young man's talent had been unremarkable, his ruthless disregard for his own life had allowed him to cut his way through the other Qi Refining disciples and earn Lu Feng's appreciation.

He had become the only personal disciple on Crane-Cry Peak with no connections or background whatsoever.

Lu Feng would never forget the look in Li Yang's eyes then. It had been just like this.

But now it was sharper than before, and his sword intent had grown even purer!

"Judging the deed, not the person... What a pure sword cultivator..."

Lu Feng lowered his raised palm.

As Li Yang slashed down, the enormous hand condensed in the air dissipated along with that fragment of consciousness.

"No! Master! Why didn't you crush this rebellious disciple to death?!"

Shen Lou'er was utterly terrified.

The Ninth Senior Brother before her dared to draw his sword even against their master, let alone her!

"Madman! You're a madman!"

She turned a pleading gaze toward Saintess Su Yao:

"Your Holiness..."

But Li Yang's sword was faster, sweeping viciously toward her delicate neck.

Then another sudden change occurred.

The demonic mark between Shen Lou'er's brows shone, illuminating the air above the vast Myriad Phenomena City.

A voice came from the City Lord's Mansion:

"The Six Desires Demon Venerable's demonic mark? Why has he come?"

The cultivators on the streets all looked up, unaware of what had happened.

"Who dares kill my daughter?!"

The furious roar thundered like divine lightning from the nine heavens.

Space burst open with a boom, and boundless demonic energy blotted out the sky, painting a scene of the world's destruction!

"He hasn't come in person. It's merely a projection?" A figure stepped from the City Lord's Mansion into the sky.

Countless formation patterns erupted from Myriad Phenomena City's defensive formation, holding all that might at bay.

A three-hundred-thousand-meter-tall demonic figure appeared, casting a gaze laden with boundless killing intent toward Myriad Phenomena City's residential district.

"Whoever you are, if you dare kill my daughter..."

His voice cut off abruptly.

Because at that moment-

Li Yang had already severed Shen Lou'er's head and used fire spells to burn her entire body to charcoal, then to drifting ash, eliminating any possibility of resurrection.

"No! Lou'er!!!"

Sensing what had happened, the Demon Venerable went berserk. Heaven and earth changed color, and rolling thunder rang out.

Some low-level rogue cultivators outside Myriad Phenomena City exploded outright, their bodies becoming clouds of bloody mist.

"Six Desires, why have you come to my territory to run wild?!"

The Myriad Phenomena Elder, Myriad Phenomena City's Lord, lowered his gaze, his expression hostile.

"Lou'er! My Lou'er is dead! Just now, inside your Myriad Phenomena City!" The Six Desires Demon Venerable's immense pressure smashed against the city's formation like a giant hammer, making the Formation Pattern flicker incessantly.

"Do you mean that little girl you placed in the Mystic Heaven Sword Sect's care?"

Li Yang paid no attention to what was happening outside Myriad Phenomena City.

He only felt relieved that he had made the right decision.

If he had killed Shen Lou'er in the Mystic Demon Mountain Range, the Six Desires Demon Venerable would surely have crushed him to death.

That old bastard must have been nearby all along. Otherwise, even a projection could not have arrived so quickly.

"Thank you for standing by and watching, Saintess Su Yao."

Li Yang cupped his hands and delivered the sarcastic remark.

Before leaving, he glanced back at one of the rooms in the residence.

After the Six Desires Demon Venerable unleashed his towering demonic energy, Li Yang had vaguely sensed considerable demonic energy coming from that room as well.

But its occupant was at the Golden Core stage, and the Sword Alliance could not kill a demonic cultivator without cause if he committed no evil or indiscriminate slaughter.

"You were too rash." Saintess Su Yao shook her head. "Now that you've killed her, the Six Desires Demon Venerable will never let you go.

Besides, even if she's a demonic cultivator, why couldn't you give her a chance to turn over a new leaf and redeem herself through good deeds?

Her crimes weren't beyond forgiveness. You could have tried to save her."

Hearing this, Li Yang

turned back.

"Would you dare say that to your Moonlit Holy Land's ancestor?"

Saintess Su Yao choked on her words.

"Also, as for Your Holiness secretly meeting a demonic cultivator in Myriad Phenomena City... whether my lips stay sealed depends on yours."

The moment he said that, Li Yang sensed a concealed surge of killing intent from that room.

He knew he had guessed correctly.

"Don't think about killing me to silence me. I wouldn't have come without something to rely on. You're welcome to try. My life isn't worth much anyway. I'm not even afraid of that Demon Venerable."

Li Yang walked out of the residence and slammed the gate shut.

"Stupid fucking woman!" he cursed under his breath.

"That Sword Maniac is gone."

Inside Saintess Su Yao's residence, the door to that room opened.

A young man whose face was as flawless as fine jade stood with a cold gaze, holding a Recording Stone.

When he looked at Saintess Su Yao, affection filled his eyes.

Ignoring the demonic energy enveloping him, Saintess Su Yao nestled into his embrace.

"Luoyuan, I'm so scared... I'm so scared that one day, you'll end up like her, killed by those righteous cultivators..."

Gu Luoyuan held Saintess Su Yao, his gaze fixed in the direction Li Yang had left:

"He's not righteous... He's a psychopath draped in the cloak of righteousness, using the excuse of slaying demons and defending the righteous path to satisfy his own lust for killing!

Demon Cultivators are demons because they act without taboos, remain absolutely steadfast in the paths they cultivate, and stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

All three of those traits were perfectly embodied in him.

To kill his junior sister, he even dared cut down a fragment of his master's consciousness...

He is the true demonic cultivator!"

Not long after Li Yang left-

A middle-aged male cultivator descended upon the residence with a gloomy expression.

"Lou'er..." He saw a pile of charred ash in the courtyard. His daughter's aura lingered there.

There was no anger on the Six Desires Demon Venerable's face, but the space around him twisted and cracked. His towering killing intent made heaven and earth change color.

"You're the saintess of the Moonlit Holy Land. Did you have anything to do with my daughter's death?"

Facing a Demon Venerable's interrogation and that almost despair-inducing malice, Saintess Su Yao could only grit her teeth and endure.

"It had nothing to do with us." The door to that room opened, and an impossibly handsome young man walked out.

An incomparably noble demonic mark adorned his forehead. Upon seeing it, the Six Desires Demon Venerable immediately withdrew his aura.

"It was the senior brother escorting her here. He defied his master's orders to kill her."

As he spoke, the young man tossed out a Recording Stone, which clearly recorded the entire sequence of Li Yang killing Shen Lou'er.

"Damn that sword cultivator!!!" After watching it, the Six Desires Demon Venerable's eyes turned bloodshot. Towering killing intent and demonic energy surged skyward, once again changing the color of the sky above Myriad Phenomena City.

"Li Yang-I'll remember that name. Not only will I kill you, I'll make you experience the agony of losing your loved ones. I'll make you regret what you did today every moment you spend inside the Soul Banner!"

"You might still catch him if you go now," the young man said.

"It's too late. Those old bastards from the Sword Alliance are hunting me. I'd like to ask you to do something for me, Demon Scion."

"What is it?"

"I want that brat's entire network of connections. I won't spare a single one of his friends or family! I'll craft a Soul Banner especially for them and inflict every vicious method I've learned throughout my cultivation on his closest loved ones!"

"Certainly. I wouldn't want a sword cultivator who loathes Demon Cultivators so utterly to rise to prominence either." The young man nodded.