His poison technique, however, absorbs the venom of the Five Poisonous Divine Centipede from the Sect!

Even though, as the leader of the Evil Cultivators, the portion of venom he got wasn't the most pure, long-stored kind.

Yet its toxicity far exceeded that of ordinary Five Poisonous creatures.

The Evil Cultivator leader couldn't fathom that someone could completely withstand his Five Poison Divine Skill!

The man in black was, of course, Lu Ye, who was traveling overnight to Cloud Leaf City.

Midway, he suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood in the air from afar.

Following the bloody trail along the way, he happened to overhear the leader of the Evil Cultivators making lame excuses for harming ordinary villagers.

Even if he really had been harmed, what does it mean to then turn the sickle on those barely surviving?

Lu Ye didn't immediately kill him off because he wanted to expose the seemingly reasonable lies.

Once you've fallen into the Evil Dao, there's no easy way to wash yourself clean.

As for the poison technique...

Lu Ye calmly sniffed the faint green poisonous mist around him, finding it merely irritating rather than harmful.

One could only say that this poison technique needed more training.

Looking at the Evil Cultivator leader, who appeared to have seen a ghost, Lu Ye shook his head indifferently, having no interest in speaking further with such a thoroughly fallen Evil Cultivator.

With a hand outstretched from behind his back, an immense, irresistible pressure descended upon him.

The Evil Cultivator leader immediately sensed trouble and wanted to flee.

But soon, he was horrified to find that he couldn't escape at all!

He then fully realized that he had run into a real brick wall.

This kind of suppression, leaving him completely powerless, had to be at least Innate Eighth Layer!

Or it might even be... Top Innate!

Watching helplessly as he was drawn in, the Evil Cultivator's once bloodthirsty eyes suddenly turned clear and fearful.

"Spare me, elder!" The Evil Cultivator immediately knelt down, begging for mercy.

"Elder, what I said earlier was all fake! I was forced into the Evil Dao!"

The Evil Cultivator pleaded incessantly, "Elder, those were lies I used to deceive others; I was forced into this line of work."

"You don't know, elder, since becoming an Evil Cultivator, I've lived every day in agony! That's why I fabricated such a story, trying to lessen my sense of guilt."

"If I had the chance, I'd have left that place long ago! Elder... spare my life, and I promise I'll turn over a new leaf!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Ye was a bit taken aback, a fabricated story? A story to deceive oneself... was this really Sitting and Forgetting Dao?

Though slightly puzzled, Lu Ye had no time to discern the truth in what these fallen Evil Cultivators said.

"Tell it to the villagers you've harmed."

Lu Ye swung a palm down, releasing Grandmaster's Source Qi, causing the heart of the Evil Cultivator to instantly shatter.

Black blood trickled from the corners of his mouth.

Thud... in the next second, the body, from which life quickly vanished, collapsed to the ground.

After collecting the Storage Ring in his hand, Lu Ye looked at the Postnatal Realm Evil Cultivators attempting to flee and effortlessly killed them all in no time.

These Postnatal Realm Evil Cultivators didn't have Storage Rings on them.

After a brief search of the bodies, Lu Ye returned to the clearing in the village.

Gazing at the few martial artists tied up, Lu Ye hesitated briefly before untying all the ropes binding them.

"Thank you, elder, for your timely rescue!"

The members of the anti-Evil squad expressed their gratitude to Lu Ye, joyful to have survived the ordeal.

The captain of the squad, at the Innate Fourth Layer, also sincerely thanked Lu Ye, with a hint of astonishment at his strength.

"Thank you, elder, for saving us. I am Xu Shan from the Eastern Territory. We left in such haste this time, but if there's a chance in the future, I hope you can visit the Eastern Territory, so I can repay this life-saving grace."

This time, coming to the Northern Territory to capture Evil Cultivators, Xu Shan barely brought anything worthwhile, thinking nothing would be a fitting compensation for his life-saving grace.

Xu Shan's life wasn't that cheap.

"You're people from the Eastern Territory?" Lu Ye was somewhat surprised. He had been in seclusion for a few days and had no other way to get news, so he didn't know that the Eastern Territory had sent an anti-Evil squad over.

"The Lord of the Xuanzhou Capital heard of the rampant Evil Cultivators appearing in the Northern Territory, slaughtering villages, and was greatly enraged, thus ordering Eastern Territory martial artists to be assembled to form an anti-Evil squad to handle the matter in the Northern Territory."

At this point, Xu Shan said with some embarrassment,

"But we didn't expect that among the rampaging Evil Cultivators were high-level individuals. We came in response to the news, only to end up as prisoners."

"Had they not just recently absorbed a lot of blood energy and couldn't digest more in the short term, planning to use us as future blood sustenance, we might have already..."

Nodding, Lu Ye thought deeply.

Though these Evil Cultivators didn't give away their identities,

Just from that poison technique alone, Lu Ye suspected they were likely associates of the Five Poison Sect.

The Five Poison Sect and the Three Yin Sect were clearly not Righteous Sect, yet the Three Great Sects remained largely inactive.

This indicates that the two sects must be strong, strong enough that the Three Great Sects choose to wait and see instead of easily suppressing them.

However, Lu Ye was not optimistic about letting them develop in secret.

If the Three Sects don't join forces now to suppress them, even at the cost of some sect prowess,

They are playing the Evil Dao game here, their growth speed can't be compared to the Righteous Sect.

If they wait until the two sects fully reveal their bloodthirsty fangs...

It will be too late to suppress them then.

"By the way, I still haven't asked for your respected name, elder?" A moment later, Xu Shan realized they hadn't yet asked for their benefactor's name.

If they wanted to repay the favor, they'd need a name, or they'd never be able to find him.

"Chen Nanxuan."

Lu Ye once again gave a false name, slightly altered.

The Three Great Sects did not wish to start a war with the two sects, and Lu Ye didn't want to draw their attention for now.

Being a Grandmaster only meant entering the ranks of top experts in the Northern Territory, not yet possessing the power to suppress it.

He had enmity with the Cyan Thunder Sect and had repeatedly thwarted the plans of the two sects.

The two sects were strong and their mysterious main and deputy sect leaders extremely powerful. Him being only Grandmaster Second Layer, meant using a false identity was the best option.

...

It took half an hour for the effects of the Soft Bone Powder on their squad members to diminish enough for them to move.

"Thank you, elder, for standing guard."

Seeing that Lu Ye hadn't left, Xu Shan and others understood that he had been protecting them, aware of their insufficient self-defense ability.

Feeling the anti-Evil squad members slowly recovering their strength, Lu Ye nodded slightly, "Since you're on the mend, go back soon. I have my own matters; I'm leaving now."

Watching Lu Ye, whose body seemed to cover a distance in just a few steps despite moving slowly, Xu Shan and others were filled with gratitude.

"The direction our benefactor left in seems to lead towards some Cloud-something City..." Xu Shan speculated.

Could it be that Elder Chen is from that Cloud Leaf City?

On the other side,

Lu Ye didn't use Shrinking Inches in front of Xu Shan and the others.

He only began rapidly traveling across large areas towards Cloud Leaf City once out of their sight.

Cloud Leaf City was already late at night, with few pedestrians on the streets.

At that time, Jiang Qingge was not resting.

She was inside her family's Library Pavilion, holding a Martial Arts Secret Manual, engrossed in reading.

Although she lacked martial arts potential, she had been well-read since childhood and held a keen interest in martial arts-related books.

Perhaps, in her heart, she hoped that if one day she was blessed, she'd start cultivation,

not needing to start from square one, blind to all Martial Arts Secret Manuals.

After seeing about a quarter of this Palm Technique Martial Arts Secret Manual, Jiang Qingge glanced towards the section with assorted books.

Moments later, she pulled out a peculiar book titled "From Love to Intimacy".

Seeing this odd title, Jiang Qingge couldn't help but blush.

This book... seemed quite improper at first glance.

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