Record of a Demon's Cultivation

Chapter 236: Progress of the Righteous vs. Demonic Battle



Translator: Cinder Translations

After bidding farewell to Zhao Dapeng, Song Wen arrived at the rented courtyard.

The previous tenant of the courtyard must have left not long ago, as it was still quite clean.

After tidying up the courtyard briefly, Song Wen stepped out the door. He needed to buy some daily necessities to make the small courtyard feel more lively.

Although he likely wouldn't need these daily items, he still needed to maintain his disguise, lest someone with ulterior motives discover his true identity. After all, he was posing as a Qi Refining stage cultivator, who needed to eat.

As Song Wen wandered through the market, he noticed, just as Zhao Dapeng had said, that there were significantly more cultivators around.

Whether they were rogue cultivators or members of Beastmaster sects, there were three or four times as many as before.

Finding a secluded spot, Song Wen changed his appearance, transforming himself into a light-footed cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining. After turning a few corners, he arrived at the Hehuan Heavenly Spring Courtyard.

The outside of Hehuan Heavenly Spring Courtyard was bustling with activity, filled with the sounds of laughter and conversation.

As Song Wen stepped inside, a lightly dressed young woman immediately approached him.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

She appeared to be around twenty, with an attractive appearance, ample bosom, and a curvy figure, possessing the cultivation level of six levels of Qi Refining.

She hooked her arm around Song Wen's, pressing her ample chest against his right arm.

Her eyes sparkled like autumn waters, glimmering with emotion as she gazed at Song Wen.

"Young master, I see you're unfamiliar here. Is this your first time?"

Her voice was soft and delicate, like a babbling brook, stirring something in Song Wen's heart.

In that moment, in that place, Song Wen suddenly understood Ai Kun a bit more.

Nodding, he replied, "It's my first time."

The woman's eyes brightened, as if the first-time visitor to Hehuan Heavenly Spring Courtyard was some extraordinary treasure.

"Please follow me, honored guest."

The woman seemed to assert her claim, leaning half her body against Song Wen as she led him to the third floor.

"My name is A Yao. How shall I address you, young master?"

"Chen Feihe!"

"Such a resounding name, young master."

Upon reaching the third floor, the two entered a fragrant room, where A Yao seated Song Wen at a table and poured him some drinks.

"Honored guest, A Yao offers a toast to you."

As she spoke, A Yao sat directly on Song Wen's lap.

He opened his mouth to drink, and as the alcohol flowed down, it was caught by the Saint Armor Bug in his abdomen and swallowed.

Feeling the suppressed desire rise within him, Song Wen's hands instinctively moved to explore A Yao's delicate form beneath her thin garment.

Sensing the heat beneath him, A Yao covered her mouth and giggled lightly.

"Young master, you're quite eager."

Although Song Wen felt a bit uncomfortable from the buildup of desire, he wasn't mentally affected. Suddenly, he thought that among the comings and goings of the establishment, it was an easy place to gather information, so he asked, "Do you know why there are suddenly so many rogue cultivators in the market?"

A Yao's expression turned slightly surprised.

"Young master, you really don't know?"

Song Wen felt somewhat dumbfounded, as her reaction suggested something significant had happened that everyone knew about.

"I've been in closed-door training for a while and just emerged today."

A Yao gently twisted her slender waist, pushing against the remaining heat as she spoke.

"That makes sense; I thought so. How could anyone not know about such a major event as the end of the Righteous vs. Demonic Battle?"

"The Righteous vs. Demonic Battle has ended!" Song Wen's voice suddenly rose a few

notches.

This news was truly shocking to him.

Grabbing A Yao's wrist with his right hand, he urgently asked, "What was the outcome? Which side won, the Righteous or the Demonic?"

A Yao's expression suddenly turned aggrieved, her eyes glistening with tears, looking pitiful.

"Young master, you're hurting me."

Song Wen quickly released her hand. "Hurry and tell me, what was the result?"

A Yao rubbed her slightly reddened wrist before slowly replying.

"Actually, it can't be said that the Righteous vs. Demonic Battle has ended; it's just that both

sides have temporarily ceased hostilities."

"A little over a month ago, the five major sects allied with the Lei family, deploying nine Nascent Soul cultivators, and successfully broke through the protective array of the Corpse Demon Sect, which had held for four years."

"The Corpse Demon Sect has been destroyed!" Song Wen exclaimed, a hint of surprise in his

tone.

If the Corpse Demon Sect was destroyed, he wouldn't have to worry about retribution from

them anymore.

"Not exactly!" A Yao shook her head and continued.

"When the righteous cultivators entered the Corpse Demon Sect, they found that the entire Corpse Demon Mountain was already deserted."

"Everything of value that could be taken had been removed. It's said that even some ancient halls had been dismantled and taken away by the Corpse Demon Sect."

"All the core forces of the Corpse Demon Sect-the Nascent Soul elders, Golden Core experts, and direct disciples were all missing, leaving only some weak outer disciples and miscellaneous servants, who were mostly slaughtered by the righteous cultivators to vent

their anger."

"While the righteous cultivators were looting Corpse Demon Mountain, suddenly, a formation activated without warning, trapping all the righteous cultivators who had

entered."

"The nine Nascent Soul cultivators from the righteous side combined their efforts, exhausting great amounts of mana to break the formation, only to discover that high-level cultivators from the Corpse Demon Sect, Profound Yin Sect, and Blood Fiend Sect had launched a surprise attack, catching them off guard."

"Originally, with nine Nas Soul cultivators, full counterattack of the Demonic three sects."

righteous side could have withstood the

"But no one expected that the Nine Palaces Sect would suddenly betray them and launch a

surprise attack from behind, injuring two Nascent Soul masters from the Mixed Sect and an ancestor from the Lei family."

"With the Nine Palaces Sect's involvement, the strength of the Demonic side surged, and

under this shift in power, the righteous side was quickly overwhelmed and soon retreated

from the Demonic faction's territory."

Listening to A Yao's account, Song Wen felt a deep bitterness in his heart.

When the Corpse Demon Sect retreated, they even took away the ancient palaces, leaving no

trace of the soul lamps that contained soul remnants.

He still hadn't been able to completely escape the Corpse Demon Sect and might face

retribution from them at any time.

Previously, he had held a sliver of hope, thinking that the Corpse Demon Sect wouldn't go to

great lengths to pursue a mere outer disciple like him.

However, as Song Wen learned more about the cultivation world, he began to understand it

more clearly.

For someone like him, who fled in a time of crisis and betrayed the sect, both Righteous and Demonic factions would see him as utterly contemptible.

If they couldn't execute a few as a warning, how could they expect future disciples to risk their

lives for the sect? If they faced danger, they would abandon the sect and flee.

According to A Yao, the core forces of the Corpse Demon Sect had been preserved, and their

strength hadn't been significantly weakened.

Song Wen suddenly recalled the time he had escaped the Corpse Demon Sect, coincidentally encountering Lu Chan, Zhang Xiaofan, and others, who had brutally killed Chen Yi.

At that time, Song Wen had been puzzled as to why Zhang Xiaofan and his direct disciples were staying away from the Corpse Demon Sect during the Righteous vs. Demonic Battle.

Now it seemed that the Corpse Demon Sect had long been making secret preparations.

They had quietly sent out some lower-strength direct disciples to protect them. Although

these disciples weren't strong at the moment, several years down the line, some of them would grow to become the backbone of the Corpse Demon Sect.

What was even more surprising was that the Nine Palaces Sect had actually betrayed the righteous side and colluded with the Demonic side.

The Nine Palaces Sect's actions had always straddled the line between Righteous and Demonic, but the mainstream practices within the Nine Palaces Sect were still considered righteous. Many disciples secretly trained in the Demonic sect's secret techniques, but for hundreds of years, the Nine Palaces Sect had claimed to be righteous.

What could have prompted the Nine Palaces Sect to switch sides and join the Demonic

factions?

(End of the Chapter)

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