Chapter 228 The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and the villain of my villain is my friend.
Early in the morning, Lu Wenwu was stunned when he got the news after getting up.
Tianxing City is temporarily closed to prevent attacks from demons?
Why?
He thought about it over and over but couldn't figure out what the meaning of the city lockdown was.
What other purpose does it serve other than to create unnecessary panic?
It sounds as if this detection method can really detect the demon king.
"Fifth brother, it is said that the Yuanying elder of Tianxing Sect has led several Jindan cultivators and countless foundation-building cultivators and is on the way here."
"It's eight o'clock, let's eat first! Those have nothing to do with us."
In the inn, Xiaowu brought Lu Wenwu a steaming hot breakfast, enough for seven or eight people.
There are steamed buns, fried dough sticks, tofu pudding, dim sum, and several unique fruit juices made from spiritual plants and monster ingredients.
Although it has not reached the level of spiritual food, eating it over the years is enough to promote the progress of cultivation.
This meal alone is worth more than one hundred low-grade spirit stones, which is definitely a top luxury item in Tianxing City.
An ordinary low-level Qi-refining cultivator would not be able to earn this much even if he worked hard for a month without eating, drinking or practicing.
With a learning attitude, Lu Wenwu bought some of each and ate them with Maomao and Xiaowu.
Putting aside the spiritual power it contains, the taste is just average, not as good as the breakfast stall that had been open downstairs for decades in my previous life.
And also.
Lu Wenwu now has a very strange sense of déjà vu.
It's like a complaint in an old picture.
Level 1 crayfish.
Fight the violent crayfish at level 10.
Fight the Violent Crayfish Lord at level 50.
At level 100, fight the Violent Dark Gold Crayfish King.
Two hundred or so dozen violent and colorful crayfish gods.
The so-called "spiritual food" in this world of immortal cultivation is roughly like this. It is to add a bunch of buffs to an obviously ordinary thing. They all pursue more advanced ingredients, but there is no change in the cooking techniques.
It has a style similar to Xiaoxiba's "gourmet food".
I took the wrong road.
Lu Wenwu shook his head slightly and secretly warned himself not to fall into the same vicious circle.
We must go back to the basics, starting with cooking techniques, and explore the changes in food at a more advanced level.
"Fifth brother, where would you like to go today?"
Xiaowu swallowed the bun in his mouth with a look of satisfaction and gratitude.
If he were asked to spend his own money, he would definitely not be willing to buy such expensive spiritual food. It would be better for him to practice with the spiritual stones.
Lu Wenwu rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment, and made a decision: "Let's go to the street where they collect monster corpses first. There should be a market selling meat and vegetables in Tianxing City, right? We can go there when the time comes."
Since Tianxing City was temporarily closed, Lu Wenwu, who was not in a hurry to complete the mission, planned to first investigate the local species diversity to find out which creatures could be easily eaten.
Then, try some local specialties in famous restaurants, hotels, and food stalls to see if there are any cooking techniques, ways to use ingredients and seasonings, and cooking ideas that you can learn from them.
This is a good quality for a chef (I'm sure).
Let me explain this in two ways.
Just when Lu Wenwu started his journey to explore shops in Tianxing City.
On the other side, the real undercover agents of the demon clan and the evil cultivators had already sneaked out of the city.
Just as Lu Wenwu said.
Locking down the city is really a stupid thing and doesn't make much sense.
There are so many methods in the world of cultivating immortals, just like the URL of a pornographic website.
You can defend against one or two, but can you defend against all of them?
A teacher once said it well, if you want to prevent everything, then you will prevent nothing and be completely safe.
In the Fuhu Mountains adjacent to Tianxing City, the giant wood demon king who had successfully escaped from Tianxing City by relying on his innate ability slowly appeared and returned to the demon clan's base camp in a few seconds.
If the cultivators from Tianxing Sect and Tianxing City saw this, they would be shocked and terrified.
In this hunting ground where they have hunted for hundreds of years, there are so many terrifying monsters.
There are three demon kings at the Nascent Soul level, dozens of Golden Core demon beasts, and countless Foundation Establishment demon beasts!
Looking from above, it was a pitch-black mass, with endless demonic energy rising into the sky, almost turning into substance.
After rushing to a high place, it was blocked by an invisible wave, which eliminated the aura here.
A huge, muscular tiger was perched on the highest jade stone platform, with its eyes wide open, as it was giving a lecture to its demon subordinates.
Seeing the giant wood demon king with green hair on his head suddenly appear, the red tiger demon king immediately showed a look of joy in his eyes.
With a flash of crimson light, the Red Tiger Demon King transformed into a burly, short-haired man with a naked upper body and wearing a tiger-skin skirt.
"Third brother, why did you come back so soon? It must be because this trip went so smoothly!"
The Red Tiger Demon King, who was in the late Nascent Soul stage, walked down in three or two steps, opened his arms broadly, and smiled brightly.
"Brother, bad news."
The giant wood demon king in the middle stage of Yuanying bumped his chest muscles against his elder brother, but his face did not look good and his voice was low.
"Tianxing City seems to have discovered our movements. Starting this morning, entry into Tianxing City has been restricted, and Jindan cultivators are now monitoring the situation. I suspect they may have discovered our movements, and may even have discovered the situation below."
"No, absolutely not. Third brother, you worry too much."
The Red Tiger Demon King's smile also faded, but he was still full of confidence.
"The secret realm beneath Tianxing City was left behind by the former Skyfire Demon God, a powerful demon who was on the verge of ascending to heaven. How could a mere Jindan stage cultivator be able to comprehend the secret realm he left behind?"
"If I, your eldest brother, didn't have some of the blood of the Skyfire Demon God in me, even I wouldn't be able to sense it. That old immortal from Tianxing City has barely entered the early stage of the Nascent Soul. Even if he wanted to get involved in the Demon God's Secret Realm, does he have the courage to massacre the entire city?"
"I hope so."
The giant tree demon king nodded slightly.
"But I still have to say this, big brother. The other party has already noticed something. To avoid any further complications, I suggest we act in advance. Otherwise, if we attract the attention of the Immortal Dao Alliance and the Tianxing Sect, this matter will be difficult. How are the preparations going, second brother?"
"Tianxing Sect, Xiandao League, bah!"
The Red Tiger Demon King cursed indignantly.
"Third brother, what you said makes sense. The second brother is still a little lacking in skills, but if the three of us join forces, and after years of planning, we can easily destroy a small Tianxing City."
The Giant Wood Demon King's expression was stern and cold. "Since Second Brother is basically ready, I suggest we launch the attack at midnight tonight. Today happens to be the night of the full moon, so I have the perfect time."
"As the human race's military strategy says, 'Speed is the essence of war.' We've already seized the initiative, using our deliberate tactics. Furthermore, half of our men are nocturnal, but those humans sleep or train at night, and their vision isn't as sharp at night. We have the advantage of terrain."
"For hundreds of years, the human race has continuously hunted our people. Resentment has long been simmering in our hearts, a deep and irreconcilable blood feud. As the human military strategy states, 'An army of need will prevail.' We will rally the people."
"The right time, the right place, and the right people. My demon clan possesses three of these. This time, we will definitely win the battle!"
"Okay, then let's do as Third Brother says."
The Red Tiger Demon King slammed his fist into the palm of his hand and then roared like a tiger in the forest.
"Men, listen up! Today, at midnight, on the night of the full moon, is the time for us to conquer Tianxing City and exact our revenge! Kill to your heart's content, revel to your heart's content!"
In broad daylight, the world is clear and bright.
Tianxing City has already transmitted the news to the Xiandao League and Tianxing Sect respectively through the Thousand Mile Sound Transmission Array.
Both sides have sent Nascent Soul cultivators to lead their teams, either traveling via teleportation arrays or flying on immortal boats and magical instruments, to gather in Tianxing City to conspire to kill the demons.
The demon clan is plotting loudly in the heart of the mountains, planning to launch a beast tide to attack the city at midnight tonight, turning Tianxing City into a sea of corpses and blood, and turning all human flesh and blood into the key to unlock the mysterious realm of the demon god below the city.
As for the demon cultivators.
There is actually some action.
However, after receiving the report from his subordinates, the planner on the demon cultivator's side was even more confused than Lu Wenwu.
Master Huangquan, who was in the late Nascent Soul stage, looked at the news passed back by his ghost slaves and his mind was full of questions.
Is it that the disguise method I gave is too bad, or are the ghost slaves under my command too useless?
It can’t be that the people in Tianxing City are really too awesome, right?
He had found out a long time ago that the strongest person in the city was an old city lord who had barely advanced to the Nascent Soul stage.
The rest are only seven or eight Jindan cultivators and nearly a hundred foundation-building cultivators, who are not worth mentioning.
Located in the "barren land" of Donghuang, the fact that a third-level immortal sect like Tianxing Sect could emerge is a testament to the great virtue accumulated by their ancestors. Including the old city lord, there are only two Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect.
Tianxing City is just a subordinate monastic city of Tianxing Sect. What right does he have?
Therefore, Master Huang Quan did not doubt at all that his opponent was too strong. His first reaction was to suspect that his subordinates were too weak.
Otherwise, how could the original plan be completed less than 60%?
After all, the level of this place is really not that good.
The plan of taking things slowly was thwarted, and Master Huangquan decided to go and take a look in person.
If it really doesn't work, you can only take a gamble in advance.
Different from Lu Wenwu, a demon who pretended to be a monster and took advantage of the situation, Master Huang Quan was a real demon cultivator. He controlled several ghost slaves in the Jindan stage to do things for him, and also controlled a puppet in the early Yuanying stage.
More than ten years ago, he was stuck in the late Nascent Soul stage and could not make any progress.
As a demon cultivator with extremely radical cultivation methods, he naturally wanted to seek some unique cultivation methods of demon cultivators.
Therefore, Master Huangquan naturally thought of the benchmark of all the demon cultivators in the world - the Blood River Demon Lord.
The Blood River Demon Lord's famous work was to use the blood refining formation to massacre millions of lives in the territory of the Immortal Alliance in one breath, including a second-level "faction"-level immortal sect. The rest of the small sects and independent cultivators suffered countless casualties.
The Blood River Demon Lord condensed the countless bloody evil spirits after the massacre into a long river, forging the foundation of the supreme demonic path.
This ultimately helped him transform his Nascent Soul into his Primordial Spirit, earning him the name Blood River Demon Lord.
Today, Master Huangquan also wants to follow suit.
He did not have the powerful strength of the former Blood River Demon Lord, nor did he have such strong ambitions, nor did he have such courage.
Something like the Blood River is too conspicuous. Once it is used, it will be the target of siege by the entire Xiandao League.
As an old villain who has been lurking in the sphere of influence of the Immortal Dao Alliance for many years, Master Huangquan just wants to control Tianxing City, a city with a population of hundreds of thousands, imperceptibly.
Relying on soul seeds and formations, he extracted the souls of all people, refined them into pure soul power, and turned them into the nourishment for his own advancement to the Godhood.
The bloody and evil aura is too ostentatious, and Master Huangquan, who prides himself on being a smart guy, doesn't like it.
It's not just the demons who are worried about the long night and the many troubles.
As a top-level old man who has been hiding for nearly a thousand years, Master Huangquan also has a terrifyingly sharp sense of crisis.
He sensed something fishy from Tianxing City's actions.
When Master Huangquan thought about how he had to transform into a half-human, half-ghost appearance to survive until now, and that he only had a few decades left to live before his end was approaching, he felt a strong sense of urgency.
There is no chance to hesitate, at worst I can just rush in and go all out!
I have already made more than 50% arrangements in advance, and with my own cultivation level of the late Nascent Soul stage, is it possible that I cannot do anything to an early Nascent Soul stage cultivator who is already in his twilight years?
Just do it!
By then, I will have absorbed hundreds of thousands of souls and advanced to the God Transformation stage, and I will become a role model for the new generation of magic practitioners!
He had even thought of a title in advance, which was the Demon Lord of Ten Thousand Souls!
Listen, how domineering!
After making up his mind, Huang Quan and his men rushed to the outside of Tianxing City without stopping.
With a little trickery, he easily misled the Jindan Zhenren who was in charge of the inspection and swaggered into the city.
Tonight at midnight, on the night of the full moon, the concentration of yin energy explodes!
This will be the best opportunity for him, Master Huangquan, to kill a lot of people and advance to the realm of God!
Tianxing City, which was still under lockdown, had no idea that their situation had become extremely precarious.
There are demon tribes lurking outside, and Master Huangquan is lurking quietly inside. The city defenses have been penetrated by both sides and become a sieve.
The Xiandao League headquarters responded quickly, but even with the use of a teleportation array, it would take a long time from selecting to dispatching the combatants to gather in Tianxing City.
They only had to rely on an old city lord who would not live for many years, and the Tianxing Sect support team that had just arrived not long ago, but there were only two Nascent Soul cultivators.
One in the early stage and one in the late stage.
Not counting the Jindan stage battlefield, the two of them had to face a late Nascent Soul stage demon king, a late Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator close to becoming a god, two mid-Nascent Soul stage demon kings, and a puppet in the early Nascent Soul stage.
It's such a drop in the bucket that it makes people feel a little sad.
Putting aside the actions of the three parties, in Tianxing City, everyone has their own things to do and everyone is very busy.
For example, Lu Wenwu.
After exploring the store for a whole day, Lu Wenwu left with high hopes but returned disappointed.
The cooking techniques in the world of immortal cultivation are unremarkable, and most of them rely on just using raw ingredients, at least that’s the case in this city.
Now Lu Wenwu has rented a small courtyard and is busy preparing a large amount of ingredients unique to the world of immortal cultivation that he just bought.
Do it yourself and you will have enough food and clothing.
If you can’t learn it, then study it yourself.
Maomao can't show his special features in front of outsiders for the time being.
So, the people who helped Lu Wenwu became Xiaowu and a few cooks who were lured back by Lu Wenwu with high salaries to work on a daily basis.
Normally, rented assistants are not responsible for things like helping in the kitchen, and this is far beyond the scope of an assistant's duties and working hours.
The chefs in the big restaurants in Tianxing City will not go on strike to do daily wages. Not only would it be a bit unkind to abandon their old boss and suddenly run away, but daily wages would not last long, and the restaurants themselves would not agree to it.
But there was no way, Lu Wenwu gave too much.
When Lu Wenwu, with an expression of "I really can't do anything with you guys", threw out handfuls of high-grade spirit stones, even took out a few medium-grade spirit stones to play with, and released the pressure of his "Nascent Soul Stage" aura...
Xiao Wu and a group of chefs immediately surrendered shamefully and submitted to the tyranny of money.
Godfather, please accept my greeting!
(End of this chapter)
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