Formless Demonic Body!
If that demonic path youth had still been alive, he would surely have cursed, "You little demonic path brat, and you want to uphold the righteous path? What a load of bull!"
Unfortunately, he couldn't hear it anymore.
Before he knew it, Ye Chen had arrived in Spirit Yang City. As the only county seat for hundreds of li around, Spirit Yang City was naturally the center of the region. The Blazing Sun Sect was not far from the city either, only fifty li away.
Over the past few days, he had contacted Fourth Junior Brother and learned that he was also in Spirit Yang City, so he had come to meet him.
Before long, Ye Chen found Fourth Junior Brother Yang Yang in a tavern in Spirit Yang City. He was gnawing on a Demon Beast's leg of lamb, taking a bite of meat and a swig of wine, his face wreathed in a satisfied smile.
"Eldest Senior Brother, you're here." Yang Yang spotted Ye Chen and invited him to sit, then called to the waiter, "Another leg of lamb."
Ye Chen hurriedly said, "Fourth Junior Brother, I'm not hungry."
Yang Yang looked innocently bewildered. "Eldest Senior Brother, I didn't order it for you. I'm almost done with this leg, and I just wanted another one."
"..."
Ye Chen was speechless. He had thought Fourth Junior Brother was treating him.
And so Ye Chen sat watching from the side. After a while, he began to feel hungry himself. Yang Yang was eating with such relish that he ordered a leg of lamb too and joined Fourth Junior Brother.
Once they had eaten and drunk their fill, the two paid and left.
On the street.
Ye Chen asked Fourth Junior Brother Yang Yang, "Fourth Junior Brother, have you just been eating in Spirit Yang City all this time? How are you doing with the task Master assigned us?"
"I have been eating, but I've been working hard on the task too, all right?" After saying that, Yang Yang went and bought a dozen or so buns, popping them into his mouth whole until he could barely speak clearly.
"Fourth Junior Brother, haven't you had enough to eat?" Ye Chen asked.
"Enough? I can't get full. I can't eat as fast as I refine the food. The Furnace Body Refining Technique refines food so quickly that not even a scrap is left. With all I eat, I only take a dump once a month at most," Yang Yang said proudly.
Ye Chen clutched his head. He suspected that Fourth Junior Brother had been eating all this time and had done nothing else.
Soon, the two arrived at an inn, where Yang Yang was staying in its most luxurious suite.
"Eldest Senior Brother, have a seat."
Yang Yang sat down, then took some more food out of his Storage Bag and ate it bite by bite.
"Fourth Junior Brother, could you stop eating? We need to have a proper discussion about the task Master gave us: spreading the Black-Yellow Sect's fame, punishing evil and promoting good, and killing more bad people. Only then can we repay Master for nurturing us," Ye Chen said.
Yang Yang said with a perfectly serious expression, "Eldest Senior Brother, I'm not eating. I'm cultivating. Do you think I'm indulging my appetite? Wrong. I'm doing this so I can grow stronger faster."
"Oh? So you're eating buns, pancakes, and candied hawthorns for cultivation too? Can the energy in them compare to Demon Beast meat? To heavenly materials and earthly treasures?" Ye Chen shot Yang Yang a look of disdain.
"Ahem, let's not talk about that." Yang Yang finally stopped eating and began discussing how to spread the Black-Yellow Sect's name with Ye Chen. "Eldest Senior Brother, I really have given some thought to spreading the Black-Yellow Sect's fame."
"For example?"
Ye Chen asked.
"There's a great opportunity right now. The young lady of the Bai Household, one of Spirit Yang City's three great Lineages, is holding a martial arts contest to find a husband. Martial artists under twenty can enter. Eldest Senior Brother, you could enter in the name of a Black-Yellow Sect disciple," Yang Yang suggested.
"What does that have to do with spreading the Black-Yellow Sect's name?" Ye Chen asked, puzzled.
Yang Yang continued, "The Bai Household is very well known. If you take first place and then publicly refuse to marry its young lady, countless people in Spirit Yang City will definitely talk about it. Wouldn't the Black-Yellow Sect's name spread then?"
"That's the rotten idea you came up with?" Ye Chen exploded. "If that's your plan, why don't you go?"
"I'd like to, but my bearing and appearance aren't up to it. If I went, the Black-Yellow Sect would probably earn a bad reputation. But you have a fine bearing, Eldest Senior Brother. You're handsome too, and there's a slightly wicked quality about you. Women would definitely find you very attractive."
"This..."
Ye Chen suddenly found himself a little tempted by Fourth Junior Brother's words. Master had told them to spread the Black-Yellow Sect's name and make it known to more people. This was one way to do it.
"Wouldn't that offend the Bai Household?" Ye Chen was worried about that.
"Don't worry. The Bai Household isn't very powerful. It has only a little over twenty Body Forging Realm martial artists and one True Qi Realm martial artist. Over a minor matter like this, that True Qi Realm ancestor of the Bai Household won't make a move against us. If it's the other Body Forging Realm martial artists, I can handle them." Yang Yang was very confident. He had consumed quite a lot of spirit medicines and food over the past few days, and his cultivation had broken through again, reaching the Body Forging Realm Fourth Layer. He was even close to the Body Forging Realm Fifth Layer.
With the Cultivation Method and martial arts he practiced, he could handle even Bai Household members at the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer, so naturally he had no fear of the Bai Household.
"All right, I'll do it."
Ye Chen agreed.
There were still a few days until the Bai Household's martial arts contest, so Yang Yang took Ye Chen around to eat and drink.
Changping Valley.
Han Bing had absorbed a large amount of corpse Sha Qi again, making his body stronger and stronger. His cultivation had broken through once more, reaching the Body Forging Realm Sixth Layer. After the tenfold feedback, along with the gains brought by the breakthroughs of his other disciples, Lin Ye broke straight through to the Innate Realm Second Layer, greatly increasing his strength.
"My strength has improved nicely, and I still have one monthly sign-in. Time to sign in."
"Sign in."
"Congratulations, Host. You have signed in and obtained the Profound-grade high-tier Secret Method Formless Demonic Body, one Profound-grade low-tier Storage Bag, one bottle of Blood Extreme Body Refining Pills, one Profound-grade high-tier instant teleportation talisman, and one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones."
"The rewards are all right. So-so, I suppose."
Lin Ye claimed the rewards, including the Profound-grade high-tier Secret Method Formless Demonic Body. Only after claiming it did he understand how powerful this Secret Method was.
"Once mastered, the Formless Demonic Body can alter one's own Qi signature, even a demonic path Qi signature. Unless someone probes inside the body, they won't be able to tell, even if one has cultivated demonic path True Qi."
Lin Ye was excited. This Cultivation Method was excellent, second only to his own Heaven-grade Secret Method, the Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique. But the Heaven-grade Secret Method was too difficult to cultivate, which was why he had not let his disciples cultivate it. If they wanted to master the Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique now, it would undoubtedly take them a very long time.
He had been able to master it because the newbie gift package had forcibly granted him comprehension, allowing him to grasp the Secret Method completely.
Now that he had the Formless Demonic Body, this Profound-grade high-tier Secret Method was well suited for his disciples to cultivate. If they mastered it, they could hide their demonic path Qi signatures when they made a move. For example, even if the Blood Demon Finger, White Bone Claw, and Blood Escape Technique were given different names, they still looked too much like demonic path martial arts when used.
He had fooled these disciples into believing they were righteous path martial arts, but would people from other factions accept them as such? That was hard to say.
Moreover, his eldest and fourth disciples were still out gaining experience, and he was worried they would be mistaken for demonic path disciples. But with the Formless Demonic Body, that problem would be solved.
"Once they break through to the True Qi Realm or the Innate Realm, I'll pass the Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique on to them. At the Body Refining Realm and Body Forging Realm, they'll cultivate the Formless Devil God; at the True Qi Realm and Innate Realm, they'll cultivate the Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique. Who would still dare say we're a demonic sect?"
"Hahahaha!!!!"
Lin Ye burst out laughing. He immediately altered the contents of the Formless Demonic Body, turning it into the Formless Secret Method, then transmitted its contents to his eldest and fourth disciples through their identity tokens.