Urban Demon Refining System

A gentle breeze wafted through the wooden window, dispersing the wisps of smoke rising from the bronze incense burner. It was a quiet and elegant room. Beside a chess table made of nanmu wood, two elderly men with white hair and youthful faces sat facing each other.

"Brother Wu, it's been three hundred years since we last met, and your chess skills haven't improved at all!" The old man in blue on the left picked up a black piece and placed it on the chessboard, blocking all of the white pieces' escape routes.

"Hehe, chess is just a way to cultivate one's character, why bother to determine who is better!" The white-robed old man on the right held the white pieces and looked at them for a long time. "Fine, you win this game!" He swept his sleeve across the chessboard, and the originally precarious game immediately fell into disarray.

"You cheat!" The old man in blue laughed and shook his head, putting down the prepared black pieces without getting angry. "Come on! Let's play another game!"

"Hehe! I'm afraid it won't work today! We have a distinguished guest!" The old man in white robes suddenly looked out the window, where a lucky cloud was flying towards them.

"Seven Emotions greets Senior Brother! Please, Senior Brother, do justice for Junior Sister!" The auspicious cloud landed and transformed into a beautiful woman, none other than the spider demon who had escaped from the clutches of the Yellow Wind Monster!

"Oh? Has something happened to Junior Sister Seven Emotions?" The white-robed elder looked at her in surprise. Due to the severe injury she had just suffered, the spider demon was not in good condition at the moment, and her face showed a pale and sickly appearance.

"Senior brother! My entire family of seven from the Spider Cave was slaughtered by the Yellow Wind Monster!" The spider demon knelt on the ground. "Please, senior brother, avenge your little sister!"

"Yellow Wind Monster? Wasn't he always staying in Wuji Town stealing chickens? How could he have wiped out your entire family?" The white-robed elder was even more astonished. "Didn't I tell you not to provoke that guy? He's very useful to our plan!"

"Reporting to Senior Brother! This incident was entirely instigated by the Yellow Wind Demon!" The Spider Demon recounted the events with embellishments, portraying Zhao Baichuan and Biluo as highly powerful cultivators.

"In other words, traces of the Merfolk have appeared on Wuji Ridge! And the Bull Demon King is also there!" The white-robed elder finally lost his composure, stood up with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, as if he were thinking about something.

"Brother Wu! Is the Bull Demon King really behind this Black Chicken Ridge?" The old man in blue had lost his composure. The words "Bull Demon King" struck his heart like a heavy hammer.

"I don't know if the Bull Demon King interfered! But that Azure-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast definitely appeared here!" the white-robed elder said. "It's strange, shouldn't he be entangled with the Ten Thousand Year Demon King's little fox at this time? How could he have the energy to interfere in our affairs!"

"Senior brother! Wealth can be a powerful motivator! That Yellow Wind Monster was so respectful to me before, but today he's showing his true colors. If he didn't have a powerful backer, he wouldn't be acting like this!"

"Where are that human and the merman now?" The white-robed elder ignored the spider demon's words and instead asked.

"They should be with the Yellow Wind Monster, right?" The spider demon was taken aback, not expecting the other party to ask this question.

"Hmph! I want you to tell the truth!" The white-robed elder suddenly snorted coldly, saying unhappily, "Junior sister! You should know my temper! I hate being used by others the most!"

"I dare not conceal anything!" Spider's heart tightened, and she prostrated herself on the ground. "Everything I just said is true!"

"Hmph!" The white-robed elder flicked his sleeves and turned to the blue-robed elder, saying, "Brother Te! I wonder if what we just discussed still stands?"

"Brother Wu, rest assured! As long as the Bull Demon King doesn't make a move, the Three Eccentrics of Gongzhou City will definitely stand by your side! However, we will split the final spoils in half!"

"Alright! No problem!" The white-robed elder suddenly laughed heartily. "It's a deal! I'll release the children right now! I'm not afraid that golden rooster won't fall for it!"

"Haha! Brother Wu is indeed straightforward! I will go back and inform my two elder brothers to send troops to reinforce us!" After saying this, the old man in blue robes raised a cloud of auspiciousness from his feet and floated out of the house.

"Please wait patiently for good news, Brother Wu!"

"Senior brother! He..." The spider demon glanced outside, somewhat surprised.

"Don't worry! I've known Master Te for a hundred years! Although he's a bit greedy, he's still trustworthy!" The white-robed elder suddenly changed the subject, "But you! Junior Sister! Could you tell me again about that human and merman?"

The spider demon's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, knowing that her lie had been seen through. Gritting her teeth, she recounted the entire story again, "Senior brother! That Yellow Wind Monster is truly hateful! Of the seven of us sisters, I'm the only one left! You must avenge me!"

"Junior sister, don't worry! That Yellow Wind Monster still has some use for now. Once our grand plan is complete, his death will be imminent!"

"A grand plan? What grand plan?" The spider demon suddenly realized that she couldn't quite see through her senior brother.

Do you know why I sent you to the Yellow Wind Monster to monitor him?

"I don't know!" the spider demon thought for a moment and answered honestly.

"Haha! This concerns a matter of great importance that could allow us to attain enlightenment and ascend to immortality!" The white-robed elder laughed heartily. "There is a golden elixir hidden within Wuji Town!"

"Golden Core? What Golden Core?" The spider demon was even more confused.

"Hundreds of years ago, Kui Mulang, one of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, descended to the mortal realm without permission, violating the Heavenly Laws. He was punished by being banished to the Nine Heavens to meditate for 1,500 years! The other constellations were also implicated for concealing the truth and were sent to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations. Among them, the place where Mao Xingjun underwent his tribulation that day was none other than this Wuji Town!" The white-robed elder revealed a great secret. "If we can obtain his golden core, the path to the Great Dao is within our reach!"

"Senior brother! That golden rooster is the reincarnation of the Sun Rabbit Star Lord. If we act rashly like this, I'm afraid..." Spider's heart was filled with shock. He never expected that the white-robed elder would hide such a big operation from him!

"Haha! The Twenty-Eight Star Lords have all descended to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations this time. The Sun Rabbit Star Lord's strength is reduced to one-tenth, which is a great opportunity for us to share his golden core! The three monsters of Gongzhou City have already agreed to cooperate with us. Now we are just waiting for our children to find the hiding place of that golden rooster!"

As they were talking, countless centipedes suddenly crawled out from under their feet and scurried outside.

The spider demon fell silent, but a barely perceptible glint of hatred flashed in her eyes. She realized that she had been kept in the dark all along. What was even more infuriating was that the lives of her sisters were worthless in his eyes, merely pawns to control the Yellow Wind Monster. At this moment, her hatred for the white-robed old man surpassed even that for the Yellow Wind Monster!