Please Spare My Life, Disciple of the Demon Lord

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Tingwan was the only one left in the hall, and she, as the third elder, had no say at all.

That’s not right. Are Bai Wangshu’s words so ineffective?

Jiang Tingwan didn't understand why for a moment, and then he had to face another fact:

The meeting hall is located in the front mountain, which is some distance away from Canghua Hall and Tingfeng Courtyard, so he has to rely on his own strength to climb over the mountains and ridges to get back.

So after climbing all night last night and all day today, Jiang Tingwan hugged the pillar of Canghua Palace and vomited.

"Yue...I swear, I will never go out again..."

Jiang Tingwan almost collapsed on the ground with his back against the pillar.

At dusk, a shadow at the door was stretched out very long, and Jiang Tingwan didn't see it until he looked up.

"Senior Brother? You're back?" Jiang Tingwan was so surprised that he couldn't open his eyes facing the dusk light. He didn't know how long he had been standing at the door.

Hearing Jiang Tingwan's voice, Cang Shuzi did not move, but used his spiritual power to send a bottle to Jiang Tingwan through the air.

He was facing away from the light, so Jiang Tingwan couldn't see his expression. He only heard him explain his day's schedule in a solemn tone: "This medicine comes from the Zizai Sect. It can help mortals skip the path of cultivation and condense their own spiritual energy..."

Jiang Tingwan was shocked when he heard this, and even Cang Shuzi's tone paused slightly, as if he was ashamed for doing something that violated the sect's ancestral teachings.

"This medicine can help Junior Sister temporarily recover 80% of her strength, but it will only be effective for three days. This is already the best-quality medicine sold by Zizai Sect. But haste makes waste. Forcibly increasing spiritual power may backfire. I hope Junior Sister can think carefully before doing anything."

Jiang Tingwan took the bottle of pills in the air with surprise, opened the stopper nervously, and found that there were three pills in total. Judging from the number, they seemed quite expensive.

"Don't worry, senior brother. I know what I'm doing..." Jiang Tingwan assured him hurriedly. When he looked up, the person at the door had disappeared.

So this is the method that made Cang Shuzi embarrassed! Jiang Tingwan realized it later and understood Cang Shuzi's psychology. It was really embarrassing for him that a righteous cultivator who followed the correct cultivation method could convince himself to approach these unorthodox methods.

But Jiang Tingwan is different. She is not from this world. What's more, the setting of alchemy practice is just a shortcut for this world, but in the vast world and in other novel settings, this is also a kind of practice.

She had no bottom line and accepted the bottle of treasure happily. After recalling the plot where Mu Yun was set up and fell off the cliff, she frowned and thought deeply.

Looking back at Mu Yunzhong's life, it is nothing more than a few key plots: he possessed the Wuchen Pearl, had an encounter with a cheat under the cliff, killed his master and became a demon, studied the Sanyuan Jue on his own, was hurt by love, and had misunderstandings about his life experience.

As for his subsequent life, it has deviated from the plot track and has nothing to do with Jiang Tingwan's setting. As the author, she was chosen to travel into the book. Does that mean that the opportunity for Mu Yun to finally change is in the plot she wrote?

So could this adventure under the cliff be the opportunity?

This possibility suddenly occurred to Jiang Tingwan's mind. This was the second key plot in Mu Yunzhong's life. If he stopped him from entering that secret realm, would things be different?

Thinking of this, Jiang Tingwan felt more and more that he could not just sit there and wait for death, so he immediately poured out a pill from the bottle and swallowed it. Instantly, he felt a surge of heat gathering in his dantian, and then burst out to all parts of his body.

"What is this? The feeling of spiritual power running?"

Before Jiang Tingwan could react, the spiritual energy in his body had already circulated rapidly for seventy-two cycles and continued to expand as if it was about to explode. If Bai Wangshu had not passed the body-building period, this surging spiritual energy would have only burst the body of a mortal.

Although Cang Shuzi disdained such shortcuts, he still chose the most effective and suitable one for Jiang Tingwan based on her actual situation.

"You are too impatient. This sudden spiritual energy will kill you."

Sui Jiu in the void appeared worriedly, only to see Jiang Tingwan on the ground with smoke coming out of his head and his face red.

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Tingwan gathered his strength and struck out with his palm towards the outside of the hall. A stream of spiritual power burst out of his body and hit the flower trees outside the courtyard, causing all the trees to wither.

Then he sensed a huge illusory space in his body, and a spiritual sword emerged from his heart and appeared out of thin air in front of Jiang Tingwan and Sui Jiu.

Even Sui Jiu looked at Jiang Tingwan in surprise. She actually adapted?

Jiang Tingwan on the opposite side smiled confidently at Sui Jiu, "It seems that I, Jiang Tingwan, am not a complete loser."

Jiang Tingwan stood up with sweat all over his forehead and raised his eyebrows at Sui Jiu.

The pair of little hands that were originally going to support Jiang Tingwan were withdrawn in a daze.

Jiang Tingwan touched Suijiu's little head, then confidently stood on the magic sword and said pretentiously: "Mu Yunzhong, the master is here to save you!"

After he finished speaking, he moved his two fingers, and the spirit sword started moving, accelerating instantly.

During the rapid flight, Jiang Tingwan remembered the things he had forgotten in the sky, which instantly turned into a scream that resounded through the sky: "Ahhhhhh... Help... It's too high..."

Jiang Tingwan was in a state of panic and could not control the flying sword. He could only let it carry him through the air quickly, and screams of fear rang out one after another...

“Ah~ah~ah…”

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As night fell, Meng Ziyuan and others had been searching for dozens of miles around the village for several hours, and finally found the bodies of several outer disciples on a cliff.

"Brother Meng, look!" Mo Shaoyang was the first to discover the bloodstains, and also saw the corpse torn into pieces by the monster on the edge of the cliff.

Looking at the scattered limbs, Meng Ziyuan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, "It seems that the monster has at least the strength of the middle stage of body forging."

Mo Shaoyang looked at the traces of battles around him, puzzled. "But the demon beast that Master saw in the village man's memory was clearly only at the level of general wisdom. Even if it had broken through the bone refining stage in the past few days, it wouldn't have reached the middle stage so quickly."

Mo Shaoyang pointed out a horrifying fact. Indeed, generally speaking, the journey of demon cultivation is more difficult than that of human cultivation. Most of them take decades or even hundreds of years. It is even more unreasonable for a demon beast to break through a large section in just a few days.

Meng Ziyuan's brows slightly furrowed, and he could not give an answer for a moment. After examining the bodies of the three people, he stood up and said, "For now, we still have to find the monster as soon as possible to find out."

Mo Shaoyu also remembered something and asked, "Then do we still need to continue teaching Mu Yunzhong a lesson?"

Hearing this, Meng Ziyuan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "What are you going to continue? Now the strength of this monster is unpredictable. Whether it lives or dies is up to us!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Shaoyu followed Meng Ziyuan in laughing. Mo Shaoyu on the side also smiled awkwardly, and then looked at the bloodstains on the ground.

Elsewhere, Mu Qingge and Mu Yunzhong also found orange-red bloodstains on the ground.

Mu Qingge wiped some liquid on the ground with his finger, put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, his expression solemn.

"What's wrong?" Mu Yun finally noticed Mu Qingge's abnormality and walked up to ask.

But just as Mu Yun finished speaking, he saw the orange-red blood on Mu Qingge's fingertips. Then his face changed.

"This is?"

"Discolored bloodstains!" Mu Qingge took over his words and emphasized in a more certain tone.

"This means that the monster has entered the critical period of forming a pill!" Mu Yun finally revealed a terrible fact.

After looking at each other, both of them showed horror.

Whether it is human cultivation or demon cultivation, there are nine stages. Human cultivation is divided into nine stages: gathering Qi, absorbing spirit, tempering the body, forming the elixir, transformation, lower heaven level, middle heaven level, upper heaven level, and overcoming tribulation.

Demon cultivation is divided into nine stages: gathering qi, gaining wisdom, refining bones, forming elixir, transforming into a form, Hinayana, Mahayana, combining the way, and overcoming tribulations. In addition to being more difficult than human cultivation, all of them start with gathering qi and end with overcoming tribulations.

Among them, Danjie is also the critical period for demon cultivation. The blood in the bodies of all demon beasts that have entered the critical period will gradually change from normal red to another color. This is also the main way to distinguish between humans and demons with the naked eye after they have transformed.

Now that the monster's blood has turned orange-red, it means that the monster has entered the critical period of cultivation.

"The monster was able to advance from the Tongzhi stage to the Jindan stage in just a few days. This is not only against common sense, but also extremely dangerous. This matter must be reported to Master and the uncles as soon as possible."

Mu Qingge, realizing that the situation was unusual, said solemnly.

Just as he finished speaking, a huge roar suddenly came from a direction not far away, followed by the explosion of two colliding spiritual energies.

"Senior Brother Meng and the others encountered it!" Mu Qingge confirmed.

Mu Yun finally turned around and was about to go, but was stopped by Mu Qingge.

He turned around in surprise, only to see her frowning and giving instructions and arrangements: "That monster is extremely dangerous. We need someone to report this to the sect. Please ask Senior Brother Mu to make this trip."

Mu Qingge took Mu Yunzhong's cultivation level into consideration and made the decision first. With Mu Yunzhong's strength, he would not be able to survive a single blow from the monster.

After saying that, he put down his hand and walked towards the source of the sound alone, but after passing Mu Yunzhong, he grabbed his hand instead.

When she turned around, she saw him staring into her eyes and asked seriously, "You want me to escape alone?"

Mu Yun finally said what she meant directly, and Mu Qingge could only continue: "Senior Brother Mu, I don't mean anything else, but there is danger ahead. This matter is very inexplicable, and we should inform the sect as soon as possible..."

"If we need to report this to the sect, Junior Sister should go back. With my cultivation level, it will take me an hour to fly the sword."

Mu Yunzhong looked in the direction behind Mu Qingge and refuted slowly. When it comes to demon cultivators, others may not know so much, but he, Mu Yunzhong, knows it very well. After all, there is a transformed thousand-year-old fox demon by his side.

From the movement in front, he knew that the monster was extremely powerful. It would be fine if Meng Ziyuan and the others died, but since Mu Qingge wanted to save him, he couldn't just watch her die.

So he suggested, "In my opinion, Junior Sister Mu should handle this matter. She can also bring back the news earlier than me."

What Mu Yunzhong said did make some sense, but the battle was imminent, so how could he abandon them and leave?

The spiritual energy in front collided and exploded again, and the roar of the monster became more ferocious. Three people and one beast came out of the woods fighting each other. Mu Qingge had no time to think, and broke free from Mu Yunzhong's hand and flew away.

Only one person was left standing there.

Mu Yunzhong narrowed his eyes slightly, and saw a red monster with deer horns and a lion body knocking Meng Ziyuan and the other two to the ground, then howling towards the sky. The invisible sound waves it emitted made Mu Yunzhong's mind disturbed, and the Meng Ziyuan and the other two who were closest to him vomited blood and felt dizzy.

Just as the monster flew into the air and was about to step on Meng Ziyuan's chest with its front hoof, Mu Qingge arrived in time, used magic to build a barrier to block the monster's kick, and then quickly helped Meng Ziyuan up from the ground.

Mo Shaoyu and Mo Shaoyang also took the opportunity to jump behind the monster and thrust their swords into its back. The monster, in extreme pain, furiously lifted its feet off the ground and threw the two out, then turned around and was about to step on them again.

As a spectator, Mu Yun eventually became a player in the game because of the distance between himself and the Mo brothers.

He didn't leave just now, and it would be inappropriate to leave now. Since he was already present, if he stayed out of it, and the inner disciples were wiped out, he would have a hard time explaining when he returned. He could only hold his sword and stand in front of the Mo brothers.

Mo Shaoyu and Mo Shaoyang exchanged surprised glances when they saw Mu Yunzhong standing in front of them.

At the same time, Mu Qingge looked up at the stars in the sky. The clouds had just cleared and the stars were shining. He then turned his fingers to draw down the power of the stars and cast a spell to form a seal.

Mu Qingge instantly leaped into the air, with the gravity of the stars behind him, and his whole body was shining brightly. The monster that was originally about to fly into the air and step on him was instantly restrained by several beams of light and condensed in the air, unable to move.

Meng Ziyuan took the opportunity to shout, "Form a formation!"

Hearing the sound, Mo Shaoyu and Mo Shaoyang hurriedly stood up, summoned back the spirit swords from the monster, and stood in a triangle with Meng Ziyuan. The three swords in the air instantly split into two, two into three, and instantly became hundreds of flying swords, stabbing towards the monster.

The bound monster sensed the actions of the three people, and immediately struggled and roared, its strength gradually increasing with its long roar.

Finally, after two of the flying swords pierced his eyes, a red light shone brightly around him. The beams of light that bound him were instantly shattered by the red light. Mu Qingge, who was closest to him in the air, was repelled by the spiritual energy and instantly spat out a mouthful of blood.

The powerful spiritual energy exploded with the monster as the center. It was both energy and red flames, and everything it touched was reduced to ashes. A total of five people were burned and knocked to the ground.

Mu Qingge in the air was the most seriously injured. The monster resented being restrained by Mu Qingge, and even though it was blind, it still sniffed Mu Qingge's scent and walked towards her.

Mu Yun finally looked at the direction the monster was moving and realized its target. He immediately stood up to help Mu Qingge. However, as soon as he pulled her up, he became distracted and confused due to the sonic attack. He then fell to the ground with Mu Qingge, unable to get up.

Meng Ziyuan hurriedly stepped forward to help Mu Qingge up, and the monster also ran over instantly and charged towards the direction he had confirmed.

"Senior Brother Mu!"

Mu Qingge screamed as her consciousness gradually became unclear. She only felt someone pulling her away, but Mu Yun was still there.

In an instant, the monster slammed hard into Mu Yunzhong who was on the ground.