Sheng Nian clamped his fingers over the devil cultivator's crown, a dark red, bloody glow rising from his palm.
As the Soul Search secret method circulated, the devil cultivator's convulsing body suddenly went still instead, blood slowly seeping from his seven orifices.
"Heh, just as I thought."
A moment later, Sheng Nian tossed the Demon Ruins cultivator aside, withdrew his Demonic Qi, and murmured to himself.
The corpse puppet A Yuan came forward, carried him away, casually killed him, and went off to deal with the body.
"Those people from the Seed Demon Way are getting on in years, yet they're still playing these tricks."
Sheng Nian sat squarely on a stone stool, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes.
Song Yan said with some disdain, "Get on with it. Stop muttering to yourself."
"Most of the Demon Ruins cultivators here belong to the Seed Demon Way."
"They originally came to Yijiang on an elder's orders to meet their Dao Child candidate."
"No one knows why that person came here, and there's no trace of his whereabouts. Yet the elder still hasn't sent any orders, so these people have no choice but to stay put and wait for him to appear. They probably won't be leaving anytime soon."
"Apparently, he once forced his practice of a devil cultivation method and suffered Qi deviation, only to reap a blessing from the disaster. His cultivation advances slowly, but his devil cultivation methods give him tremendous fighting strength."
"His head just doesn't work quite right. I hear he often goes mad for no reason. His mind is muddled now, too, and he spends all day muttering lunatic nonsense."
The term Dao Child was not exclusive to cultivators of devil Dao sects.
It referred to rising stars whom great sects, lineages, sacred lands, ancient