The Ascension of the Evil Path: Starting from Refining Gu

Before the old woman finished her message, she saw the expression of the controlled servant change slightly. She looked into the inner room and saw a light smoke like rouge floating out, and a woman's charming laughter could be heard in the mist.

The women and servants around were each doing their own thing; ordinary people could neither see the rouge smoke nor hear the women's laughter with their naked eyes.

"Hey, this house is hiding a dead old woman monk. If I catch you and hand you over to the City God, I can get a lot of incense."

"And you, are you new here? Why don't you come over and have some fun with me? I won't complain to the City God if I'm comfortable."

A woman with long brown hair walked out from the pink mist. She had big eyes, cherry lips, a rosy face, and a pair of cat ears sticking out from her hair. She was wearing only a gauze like a dancer in the building, and her protruding parts were faintly visible.

The old woman washing clothes by the pool had a look of fear on her face, her cultivation was almost exhausted, and she used a magic weapon to transmit the sound. Because she was relying on luck this time, she was discovered by the lustful god Yanzhili in the inner room.

This little god often possesses the girls in various brothels and has fun with the customers. He can attract many repeat customers and is worshipped by not only the girls but also the servants.

Because of this, any unusual movement on her part would be easily exposed.

"Fellow Daoist, she is a raccoon cat that gave up her demon body and became a god through the worship of incense. Her cultivation is comparable to that of the late ninth realm." The old woman reminded in a voice transmission.

During this time, the rosy mist had enveloped the tea-serving servant, and the cat-eared goddess reached out with her slender fingers and grabbed the poisonous insect out of the servant's body.

Seeing the strange-looking insect with an eyeball on top, the lustful god showed a look of disgust.

"You have spiritual power, so I can refine your spirit and explore your true form."

The old woman stood stiffly by the pond, watching the boy opposite her fall to the ground, and then watching the lustful god grab the poisonous insect to refine the spirit.

However, before she could despair, a cold lightning like a splash of water penetrated into the lustful god's eyebrows.

There was not even time for him to utter a scream, let alone make any noise, as the scantily clad cat-eared figure instantly cracked into pieces from the center of the eyebrows downwards, with pieces of gold flakes falling off.

The rouge smoke and gauze disappeared, and there was only a poisonous insect gnawing on the gold flakes on the ground.

With a "click", a barely audible cracking sound came from the inner room, and one of the human statues with a raccoon cat's head cracked.

The old woman was surprised by the domineering cold lightning. With her experience as a member of a great sect, she could not recognize this divine thunder, but she quickly came to her senses.

"Fellow Daoist, the girls in the building also worship a statue of a deity called Hu Xiangu. All the prostitutes in the city worship her and get close to this Rouge Raccoon. Now that the raccoon is dead, Hu Xiangu may come over."

After the Yantongzi Gu finished eating the gold crumbs, it flashed into the old woman's body and immediately responded with a voice transmission: "You don't need to worry about this matter. Who are you, why did you stay here, and the secrets of this divine way of heaven and earth, please tell me one by one."

The old woman nodded and went back to the poolside to wash clothes. She whispered to herself while scrubbing the clothes in the basin, wanting only to tear up the dirt.

Now that she had the chance to escape, she was filled with resentment for the decades of enduring the smelly and dirty work she had endured.

"Fellow Daoist, my real name is Ding Zhilan. I was once a deacon of the Rebirth Sect. I came here with the Saint Girl of the sect ten thousand years ago. I was left behind by that bitch to ward off disaster. Fortunately, I survived."

"I have been cultivating for 20,000 years to become a true immortal, but now it has all gone to waste. I have relied on evil methods like those demons to devour people and have survived until now. I have fallen to the point of washing the stolen goods of these filthy people. I hate it so much..."

"I am not interested in your hatred. Tell me the secrets of this world that you know."

After being interrupted by Liu Feng, Ding Zhilan, with an old and sad face, began to recount the secrets she had discovered over the past ten thousand years.

The conversation stopped after a while. Apart from the secrets concerning the golden bodies of the gods, the more critical matters all pointed to the origin of the gods' practice methods, the Divine Court.

There is only one great dynasty in this world, named Taiwei Divine Dynasty. Its capital is not on earth, but hidden in the sky. Usually, spiritual officials come down to pass on messages. When something big happens, it will be the turn of the gods and generals in the Divine Court to descend to the earth, or even the more powerful True Lords.

"Most gods are living beings who have given up their physical bodies. Their spirits are worshipped with incense and burnt to form golden bodies. No wonder they can nourish the spirits of others in addition to their power of will."

"As for the strength of the gods... the gods and generals are comparable to the early stage of the immortals, and the true monarchs are stronger, but not more than the immortals. This inner world can nurture so many immortals!"

Liu Feng pondered in his heart. After the three souls in his body merged into one and refined the Taiyin Thunder Spirit, his strength increased again, but it was only equivalent to an ordinary early stage immortal.

Killing the City God is indeed enough, but one needs to be careful to lure out the gods from the Divine Court. Even if one is killing the gods to steal the medicine, one must not be as arrogant as Yuwen Shangwu said.

"After coming here, the vitality of the cultivators in the outside world has collapsed even more than that in the virtual world. Do you know why?" Liu Feng asked even though he knew the answer.

Ding Zhilan shook her head without any delay.

"When I was still at the peak of my cultivation, I investigated this matter many times and even went underground to investigate, but I found nothing."

Liu Feng understood what he meant and didn't ask any more questions.

Zi Gu's eyes popped out from Ding Zhilan's shoulder and looked up at the big sun above the sky. The sunlight was not white, but the possibility of being obscured by the divine way could not be ruled out.

He stayed here for a moment while thinking, and suddenly said: "Your body is useless, and your soul is also seriously damaged. I will take your soul away."

"Are you serious? Thank you for your kindness!"

Tears flowed from the corners of Ding Zhilan's eyes. She just held on to a glimmer of hope and didn't expect this Taoist friend to really save her.

If it were any other cultivator from the Void Realm, they would wait until she finished speaking and then kill her to silence her, or refine her remaining soul. This kind of thing is completely common. If she was not about to die, she would not expose herself immediately when she saw the cultivator.

Just by trying it out with courage, I met someone who was willing to rescue me. This is really a great fortune.

"I used to be a deacon of the Rebirth Sect. I have quite a bit of experience. I will be of some use to you after you return to the Void World with me. I am willing to serve you as your slave."

As Ding Zhilan spoke with gratitude, the old woman's body stiffened at first, and then she continued washing clothes as usual, but her eyes looked a little empty.

Leaving behind an empty shell that was poisoned by the Gu technique, the Yantongzi Gu took away Ding Zhilan's incomplete soul, drilled into the body of a nearby fallen servant, and walked back to the third floor.

At this moment, a girl with pigtails jumped and skipped into the building, then looked back at the street outside.

There were two female beggars on the street. The girl with pigtails was waiting for them to follow in, but when she saw that the two were not going to be fooled, she curled her lips, snatched the teapot from the servant, and went upstairs with the herbal tea.

When she entered the guest room on the third floor, she saw that the bully possessed by Liu Chushen was calm and composed, while the bully possessed by Yuwen Shangwu was acting unruly.

"what!"

Glancing at the two women who were almost stripped naked, Ouyang Shuiling stole a glance at Yuwen Shangwu, let out a strange cry, and moved closer to Liu Feng.

She told Liu Feng about her encounter with Zhou Wan and the people from the Blood Spirit Cult, and wanted to wait for him to arrest them, but the beast Liu just shook his head indifferently, showing no interest at all.

Liu Feng did not explain to Ouyang Shuiling. He was not afraid of the Blood Spirit Sect's Blood Spirit Sons, but if he attacked one person from the Blood Spirit Sect, it would definitely attract more Blood Spirit Sons. There was no need to take action unless it was necessary.

Yuwen Shangwu smiled and looked at Ouyang Shuiling, his eyes full of interest, and said in a voice transmission: "Miss Ouyang, don't you find it boring to follow Brother Liu? If you practice with me in the future, I guarantee you will have endless elixirs to eat."

Ouyang Shuiling snorted lightly and did not respond.

She was not stupid. Following Liu Feng, she could only eat leftovers, but her progress in cultivation had not fallen behind, and that beastly Liu had not done anything to ask her to sleep with him.

If it was Yuwen Shangwu, a pure magic cultivator, she might be tortured in various ways.

Yuwen Shangwu had a smile on his face, and was about to persuade her a little more, when his expression suddenly turned serious and he glanced sideways at the stage downstairs. The dancers on the stage were dancing gracefully, but at some point, their movements became stiff. He glanced at the spectators in the other guest rooms, and most of them seemed to have lost their souls.

"Brother Liu, my pupil technique is not very good, come and take a look." Yuwen Shangwu looked at Liu Feng.

Liu Feng's face was indifferent. He took note of the fact that this person's pupil technique was poor, so that he could plot against him in the future.

In fact, he didn't need the other party to remind him. He transmitted his voice: "We just killed a small god. Most likely, we have provoked Hu Xiangu, a lustful god worshipped by the brothel. She is now investigating each room."

"The lustful fairy? I haven't tasted the taste of a god yet. Brother Liu, don't make any move yet. Leave it to me." Yuwen Shangwu let go of the two women in his arms at once. He lost interest in the two mortal women.

Upon hearing this, Liu Feng stood up and called Ouyang Shuiling over. He had no intention of just standing there and watching Yuwen Shangwu waste his time.

"Brother Liu, take care. Remember to kill the City God tonight."

As Yuwen Shangwu watched, the door opened and closed, and the two disappeared.

In order to avoid the fox spirit that had already arrived, Liu Feng used the method of teleportation to leave the Flower God Tower.

Outside, on the street near the Flower God Tower, in the thin smoke, two female beggars walked to the street corner and sat down.

"Senior Sister Liu, you have a magical weapon with you. He has been a Buddha for less than a thousand years. Are you still worried that you can't defeat him?" Zhou Wan muttered in a low voice.

Liu Dai glared at Zhou Wan coldly and said in a deep voice: "There is another person beside him. The person who can sit opposite Liu Feng must be very powerful. I will wait until they separate..."

Before he finished speaking, two more people appeared in the crowd in the distance. One was a bully with a crooked mouth and squinting eyes, and next to him was a girl with pigtails.

The two women looked at each other, stopped pretending to be lame, stood up and quickly followed.

A hundred feet forward, Ouyang Shuiling turned her head and looked at Zhou Wan from a distance, smiling provocatively.

She retracted her gaze and said, "They followed us. It's obvious that they have ill intentions towards you, my master."

"Don't worry about it. I'll take care of them when they get in the way."

Under Ouyang Shuiling's expectant gaze, Liu Feng turned and walked into the dark alley.

Walking deep into the alley, he quietly activated his eyes, looked up at the sun in the sky and down at the ground beneath his feet, and his brows couldn't help but frown.

His current clairvoyance was unable to see through the sun as it was obscured by the thick golden light. He also looked two thousand feet underground but could not see anything strange.

Looking outside the city, one could see a great battle between cultivators and gods in the distance. The people brought by the major sects and clans to ward off disasters suffered heavy casualties. With these abandoned people distracting the gods' attention, many true immortals must have already hidden themselves everywhere.

"Right now, it seems that no gods from the Divine Court have yet to descend."

Thinking of this, Liu Feng passed by the sun and turned to look carefully at the clouds in the sky, and his sight suddenly fixed on a dome in the southeast corner.

He couldn't see the location of the temple through the clouds, but he caught a glimpse of a thick death aura in the southeast sky, and the range of the death aura vaguely outlined a vast space.

"Could it be that the place where the gods are hiding? Why is there a deadly aura emanating from it?"

Before he could take any further look, Liu Feng's expression changed and he realized that the connection with the two people had been cut off. It was Yu Zhenzi and Yu Ye who had an accident.

Without saying a word, he took Ouyang Shuiling and immediately changed direction, heading straight for the scene of the accident.

The two female beggars at the back walked very fast, following the induction of the strange insects and following behind at a distance of a hundred feet.

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The city is a thousand miles long. In the north of the city, near the city wall, there are low tiled houses within a radius of twenty miles. They are the residences of the laborers who come into the city.

Where miserable people gather, the gods they worship are mostly the gods of wealth, and also evil gods and wild gods that are not on the official list.

In front of a dilapidated courtyard, people with sinister faces were coming in and out. Those who came to worship the gods were not good people, and the statues enshrined in the courtyard were also not kind at first glance, with thousands of arms and angry eyes, fangs protruding outward, various weapons in their hands, and their entire bodies were scarlet as blood.

"I beg you to help me, Master. The shopkeeper Chen from the rice store in the west of the city is too much of a bully. He insulted my sisters and took my wages. I can't vent my hatred unless I wipe out his entire family."

"Master, please bless me. I will go to Ruyi Tower tonight and kill that bitch. She has cheated me of all the money I have accumulated over the past ten years."

"I beg you to grant me the power to avenge me. If I can avenge myself, even if I die, my spirit will be your servant after death."

Nine out of ten people who come here to burn incense come with the intention to kill, but very few of them actually dare to kill, and even fewer can succeed.

Regardless of whether it can be accomplished or not, the killing intentions of all living beings are exactly what this "killing god" needs.

The believers coming in and out at this moment had mortal eyes, and no one could see the two open blood-red doors above their heads.

Inside the door is a divine world with rolling blood mist and dense evil spirits. Cold and stern voices float out from it.

"I have been a god for six thousand years. You wild gods covet my power and wish to divide my followers. Those of you who are not afraid of death, come in."

"As for the outsiders who sneaked into the city, don't hide too much. If you want to refine my golden body or take my elixir, just come and take it."

The voice was filled with murderous intent and carried into the alleys with interlaced gates.

At this moment, above the dilapidated courtyard, none of the believers noticed that hundreds of wild gods with gloomy auras had arrived, some in human form, and some with animal heads and human bodies.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes had gloomy looks, all hesitating whether to enter Wanhun's inner world to kill its real body.

Just when they were hesitating, there were flashes of light in the alley. First, more than twenty blood-robed blood demons appeared, followed by a group of black-robed people holding lanterns. The two waves of monks rushed into the blood-colored portal one after another.

Both groups of people have strong auras, and the leader's aura is no weaker than that of the City God. After realizing this, hundreds of wild gods became ready to make a move.

"You all gathered here because you probably heard about Wanhun getting the fragments of the golden body of the God Ancestor of the Divine Court."

"Several waves of monks rushed in before, and now there are more than fifty foreign monks. They are not afraid, so why should we be afraid?"

"The Divine Court only scatters 300 fragments of the Divine Ancestor's golden body every thousand years. Wanhun was lucky enough to get one. Regardless of whether this is true or not, we must capture Wanhun before the City God brings his men here."

After some debate, hundreds of wild gods became furious, and ninety percent of them headed towards the bloody gate.

The two doors were wide open, shrouded in blood mist.

On the blood-stained land, dozens of scattered human cultivators were fleeing, searching for the elixir that had attracted them here.

Two of the figures, Yu Zhenzi and Yu Ye, came in with gloomy faces. After a while, apart from killing some evil spirits that blocked their way, there was no trace of the elixir at all.

They had only smelled the strong aroma of medicine before, and Yu Ye said it was a better medicine than ordinary fairy products, so Yu Zhenzi dared to follow in. However, he failed to find the medicine and was unable to get out.

(End of this chapter)