Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 365 Bad News

Xiao Cangyu opened his eyes and looked at the statue in front of him surrounded by red light, a series of doubts in his mind.

The statue was carved by Xiao Cangyu himself from dark wood. After the carving was completed, it was soaked with the blood of more than a hundred people, and then combined with some special rituals and secret techniques to finally complete it.

This is not an ordinary statue of evil god, but a statue of the evil god of the heart, the main statue used for worship.

At that time, when Xiao Cangyu was desperate and mentally collapsed, he saw the "Evil Scripture" confiscated from an elder of the Huashen Sect and some secrets and secret methods of the Huashen Sect. He immediately felt that this might be the way God pointed out to him, so that he could change his fate.

As a result, with his mentality collapsed and his beliefs in chaos, Xiao Cangyu resolutely embarked on the evil path of Huashen Sect.

And because he had no guidance at all and had to rely entirely on his own thinking and the descriptions in the "Cultural Scripture", although Xiao Cangyu's approach was within the system of Huashen Sect, it was very different from that of ordinary Huashen Sect disciples.

Of course, Xiao Cangyu himself didn’t know how the real disciples of Huashen Sect practiced. At the beginning, he just targeted the evil god statue and wanted to practice using the method of collecting evil thoughts by the evil god Jiang Yuhe in "Cult".

However, because there were no magic stone pillars and no corresponding condensation methods, Xiao Cangyu gained nothing at the beginning. It was like seeing the power in the door, but being blocked by the threshold and unable to enter.

He could only rely on some gains in Qi and blood, and figure out the sense of Qi, slowly hovering in the starting stage of the cultivator.

At that time, Xiao Cangyu couldn't be said to have stepped into the door of evil cultivation. At most, he had only touched a little bit of dust on the surface.

The only consolation for Xiao Cangyu was that although he was unable to condense evil thoughts, his strength was still increasing rapidly. At least he would soon be able to fight with some demon cultivators who could only be killed at the cost of human lives when they were seen before.

It was also from that time that Xiao Cangyu began to think about his position in Shuangqing Mansion, as well as the tiny bit of distorted "good intention" that remained in his heart and could not be let go.

Xiao Cangyu felt that instead of fighting in vain, only to be slaughtered like pigs and sheep in the end, it would be better to change the path and strive for more survival and psychological ignorance of death.

It is better to live in fear until you are in your teens or twenties and then die, or to live in ignorance until you are in your thirties or forties and then die in a dream. Even more than half of the people can live without being threatened.

Is this a great thing for Shuangqing Prefecture?
From Xiao Cangyu's perspective, which has clearly collapsed and is gradually forming based on the new perspective of Jiang Yuhe's deeds in "Cult", what he is doing is a "great good deed".

Since you've done such a great good deed and saved so many people, there shouldn't be any problem with accepting some benefits, right?

Therefore, the guilt in Xiao Cangyu's heart caused by the killing was eliminated through this self-excuse.

At this point, Xiao Cangyu completed the initial transformation from an able official to a sinister and vicious man-eating evil cultivator.

But although the idea is easy, it is difficult to do it. At least at the beginning, Xiao Cangyu made very slow progress because no one paid attention to him. Even if he could deal with some demon cultivators, he was only a level 1 soldier. He was spared because they did not want to anger the Immortal Alliance.

After several struggles, Xiao Cangyu became distressed again. He found that he lacked something fundamental: strength.

Without sufficient power, it is impossible to do "great good deeds" in Shuangqing Prefecture.

Until one day, the statue suddenly came to life, and for the first time took the initiative to guide Xiao Cangyu, letting him know a method of cultivation: blood crystal.

But the blood crystal involves a threshold. That is a special and ancient magic array method. Xiao Cangyu does not know this method.

So Xiao Cangyu went to the fox tribe to seek information, and finally he got what he wanted.

Therefore, Xiao Cangyu got the blood crystal, and his cultivation and strength soared rapidly afterwards.

The power of the blood crystal was so great that Xiao Cangyu felt that it could only be described as heaven-defying. It was not inferior to the "evil thoughts" cultivated by the evil gods in "Cult". Not only could it transfer the blood disasters that would inevitably occur when practicing evil ways, but it also freed Xiao Cangyu from the limitations of his talent, and improving his cultivation was as easy as drinking water. The only drawback was that the blood crystal could not be used freely, and there was an upper limit to its use. As a result, Xiao Cangyu could only completely transform the blood and souls of no more than fifty people at a time. And it took a long time to slowly digest it after each swallow.

In order to prevent his blood crystal from being noticed by others, Xiao Cangyu created a gimmick to use it as fog to confuse the people in the city.

The gimmick is "insect plague".

Since the beginning of the insect plague, those who should know the truth have already known it, and those who should not know have been kept in the dark.

In less than thirty years, or twenty-one years to be exact, Xiao Cangyu has leaped from an early stage of Qi training, who barely stepped into the threshold of a cultivator with the help of the evil god statue "The Evil God Statue of the Heart", to the middle stage of the out-of-body realm.

If the blood crystal had no restrictions, Xiao Cangyu's cultivation would be even higher!

At this time, Xiao Cangyu no longer took the benefits he gained after doing "great good deeds" for granted, but felt that they were "not enough" and he longed for more.

Because there are two high mountains in front of Xiao Cangyu, one is Feiyun Valley and the other is Chansi Cave.

And a secret.

The Chansi Cave and the Feiyun Valley are guarding the Wanli Bamboo Sea tightly and refuse to come out no matter what. They are also determined to keep the secret even if the Huashen Sect is driven away.

What would that be? Xiao Cangyu wanted to know.

Therefore, Xiao Cangyu temporarily did not want anyone to destroy the new order that he had spent twenty years to build in Shuangqing Prefecture. As long as he could continue to accumulate strength slowly with the blood crystals, he would be able to break the destiny and enter the fusion realm in another thirty years at most.

As for the heavenly tribulation, Xiao Cangyu believed that the blood crystal would definitely help him resist it. Even the "Evil God Statue of the Heart" had conveyed similar information to him more than once.

Therefore, Xiao Cangyu has almost 100% confidence in his ability to enter the fusion realm.

However, a piece of bad news made Xiao Cangyu fall into an unprecedented panic.

Several months ago, Xiao Cangyu discovered that his blood crystal suddenly seemed to solidify and shrank directly into the chest of the "Evil God Statue of the Heart", leaving only a small tip exposed. The scarlet light unique to blood crystal lingered around the "Evil God Statue of the Heart", as if it had become a part of the statue and no longer paid attention to his requests.

No matter how Xiao Cangyu activated his spell, it was useless. Xue Jing just ignored him.

Even every time he approached the "Evil God Statue of the Heart", he always had a strange feeling, as if the evil god statue seemed to be brewing something.

Today's attempt failed again. Xue Jing still ignored Xiao Cangyu completely.

After packing up, Xiao Cangyu came out of the secret room and saw his trusted guard, Zhang Wan.

"Sir, Yang Qian has appointed a new Jiazi Banner Chief Constable and has started spreading the word in the city that he will thoroughly investigate the causes of the "unexplained deaths" in the city."

"Oh? Who was appointed? The Deputy Attendant Hu?"

"No, sir. It's... it's an old man under your command, a constable named Wu Daquan."

(End of this chapter)