Chapter 500: Order Starters First, Finally Gather Complete, Encounter the Clever Bear Again, Yuan Jun Breaks Through Again, The Three Corpse Giants
After the Floral Goddess Sect incident, Yi Chen didn't stop there; the reform movement within the Demon Sect continued in full swing.
The reason for this was twofold; the first was because the Great Qin State Master's Deep Red Points KPI was not yet met.
As for the second reason… National Master Yi Chengzi discovered that after so many years of accumulation, the Human Realm's Demon Sect still had a lot of potential to be tapped into.
This place was truly an undiscovered "blue ocean" in the "Deep Red Points leek field," a perfect stage for him, Yi Chengzi, to flex his muscles.
One must know that everything has a window of opportunity; once the Demon Sect reaches a consensus and quickly kneels in submission, it would then be difficult for Yi Chen to deal with them.
On the track of harvesting leeks, the Great Qin State Master had an astonishing sense of smell.
He immediately decided to seize the opportunity, go big, disperse quickly, and initiate multitasking operations!
On the following day, facing the multitude of Armored Soldiers who had temporarily joined the Hidden Dragon Alliance, the Great Qin State Master immediately issued an important directive.
"Sharp Soldiers, nurturing corpses and refining spirits goes against the harmony of heaven. Such perverse and deceitful methods are certainly not the intention of the Demon Lord. This is not the honorable path of the Demon Path, and even the leader of the Demon Sect, Wuding Divine Sect, acknowledges this."
"Brothers, the Demon Sect intends to kill people who have not yet been killed; it's a valley full of them!"
"Up to this day, striking down Chen Haichao and rescuing the True Demon Path has become an urgent matter."
"All are to heed the edict of this poor Taoist!"
"Ghosts and ghouls, kill!"
"Corpse Giants and evil spirits, kill!"
"Anyone who dares to resist is an accomplice of Chen Haichao, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"
As Yi Chen gave the command, in an instant his many Sharp Soldiers split into hundreds of teams, large and small, rushing towards the Demon Sects of the Eastern and Central Continents like tigers descending a mountain.
The smallest team actually consisted of just one man. For a moment, Yi Chen saw in these men a semblance of the grandeur of Great Han's angels.
"The son of the old General Wang Jian, Wang Zhong, is indeed talented."
"It seems I must speak to His Majesty again; such a talent is truly the glory of the empire and deserves great cultivation."
"In the future, I can invite this Wang Zhong to go fishing; he's a promising young man!"
With a long sigh in his heart and an encouraging glance at Wang Zhong, Yi Chen then swept towards Sea Dragon City.
"All the people have been sent out; now we just wait for the troublemakers to jump out."
"Now that it has come to this, it's better to go back and have a meal with His Majesty."
With this thought, the Great Qin State Master immediately took out the Golden Tome and started ordering dishes for His Majesty.
Order a Great Qin sturgeon first—that freshness!
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Just like a grain of sand in a soap opera that becomes a mountain when it falls on the head of an ordinary person,
Yi Chen's decision became a thunderclap out of a clear sky for the Demon Sects of the Eastern and Central Continents, worsening an already dire situation.
When the leaders of the many Demon Sects received the news, their heads buzzed. Initially standing on the shore enjoying the spectacle, they realized they had also become the spectacle, and they could no longer laugh.
Listen, what does "strike down Chen Haichao and rescue the True Demon Path" mean?
Yi Chengzi, are these words even human?
They recognized all these words, but why don't they understand their meaning when strung together?
Yet reality is not swayed by human will.
To this, the Great Qin State Master, the magnificent World-Shaking Pure Yang, also had something to say.
You Demon Sect understand shit about the Demon Path; the true understanding of the Demon Lord rests with me, Yi Chengzi.
"That day, while I was meditating, the Demon Lord entered my dream."
"There was a heavy downpour from heaven, and the Demon Lord, seeing me, cried. I understood; it was because he knew I understood him!"
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"State Preceptor, are you sure there won't be any issues with the way you're handling this?"
Inside the Imperial Palace, the Great Qin State Master was wrestling with a huge sturgeon, and the majestic woman sitting next to Ying Si twitched her mouth corners and, her head full of black lines, couldn't help but ask.
"Your Highness, you don't understand."
The Great Qin State Master, while eating the sturgeon, didn't forget to tear off a pig's trotter and place it in Lin Luo's bowl, explaining while laughing,
"People are like this."
"Facing those similar to them, they may despise you, but when facing an unreachable existence, they will only look up to you."
"The battle at Mount Kutuo has once again made my name known across the land."
"Even the Supreme Daoist Sect has to give me some face; before taking action, I even made a special trip to the Wuding Divine Sect."
"Your Highness, tell me, facing such a true cultivator from the Dao Sect, do those Demon Sect Cultivators who have suffered many losses hate me, or do they hate Chen Haichao even more?"
Yi Chen picked up a small lamb chop, and with two rows of stark white teeth like blades, he crunched it all to pieces and coolly showed it off as he swallowed. After doing all this, he grinned, a flash of a white star twinkling in the corner of his mouth.
"Even so, will they still harbor resentment towards the Taoist Priest? What can the Taoist Priest do about it? Since ancient times, the human heart has been unpredictable. Those Sect Cultivators who have seen their Sects destroyed but narrowly escaped disaster, can we really keep the Ministry of Justice watching them forever?" the majestic woman asked again.
This time, before Yi Chen could speak, Ying Si laughed softly and patted the back of Yue Ji's hand, speaking loudly, "Yue Ji, you still haven't experienced the State Preceptor's methods."
"The State Preceptor once talked to me about the transformation of contradictions, and if I'm not mistaken, he must have accumulated many Demon Sect classics during his previous actions."
"What if, after the fact, the State Preceptor distributes some of the classics—perhaps just a selection of upper-middle grade, not truly top-tier Treasured Sutras—that he got from those stubborn Demon Sects, and gives them all to the Demon Sect factions that have behaved well this time?"
"Yue Ji, guess, those big and small Demon Sect factions, facing the classics and secret techniques leaked from the Floral Goddess Sect, the Controlling Spirit Holy Puppet Sect, will their hearts be moved or not?"