After collecting the leopard demon's soul, Su Rui originally planned to take it back to the gate of Heshan Dao to offer sacrifices and refine the black silk.
But then he thought, since this mountain road was designated by the Golden Horn King for patrols, if he discovered that the patrolling demon had disappeared, he might send his demon soldiers to investigate. If he harvested another wave of demons, perhaps the Black Silk quest assigned by Qiao Sandao could be completed in one go, saving him the trouble of searching for suitable souls in the next few days.
So he jumped onto the deer demon's shoulders and let it carry him to a secluded place nearby, intending to observe the situation first before deciding whether to take action.
The little deer demon was a native demon here and was very familiar with the environment. He quickly found a stone pit recessed into the mountain in the dense forest above. This location could block the sight from the people below the mountain, but also allow him to clearly see the patrol route. If something went wrong, he could quickly escape to the other side, so it was a good ambush position.
Su Rui jumped off the deer demon's shoulder, moved a few stones to elevate his sitting position, and then began to offer sacrifices to the leopard's soul.
Ever since he started practicing, he has felt that he does not have enough time, so he basically does not allow himself to have any free time.
In less than two quarters of an hour, he had a strand of black smudge silk in his hand. The difference was that this strand was noticeably longer than the two strands he had refined previously. He stretched out his hand and tugged at it, feeling the quality had noticeably improved. He couldn't help but sigh inwardly: the spirits of monsters were indeed of much higher quality than those of ordinary beasts. A sudden thought occurred to him: If human souls were used to refine black smudge silk, wouldn't the quality of the black smudge silk refined from the souls of highly skilled cultivators be even better?
As soon as the thought arose, he immediately suppressed it. Such thoughts were unacceptable. Once an evil thought arose, it would tempt people to try. Killing a villain to refine into a Black Blemish Silk would not be a problem for Su Rui. He had no moral qualms. If some evil people became brutal, the demon race would have no chance of survival. However, one must not indiscriminately kill innocent people. Once that line was crossed, one would embark on the path of evil.
The little deer demon lay obediently beside him and watched him slowly refine the leopard's soul into black silk. Fear in his eyes became even more intense. Thinking that he might also be refined into this appearance, he actually shed tears silently.
Seeing this, Su Rui didn't explain. He combined the strand of black silk with the one he had refined earlier and placed it in the small cloth bag. Then, he took out the small town magic mirror given to him by the woman in red and focused on slowly refining the Xuanyin Qi.
Previously, he had only imprinted his zhenqi within the mirror, without truly refining the three restrictions already established within, thus failing to fully unleash the mirror's true power. He was only able to use the mirror to immobilize the leopard demon because its cultivation level was too low. If it had been even a level or two higher, the outcome would have been disastrous.
Su Rui continuously infused Xuanyin Qi, refining it for nearly three quarters of an hour, yet he was only one-third of the way through the first restriction. This revealed the vastness and complexity of the restrictions within this small town's divine mirror. Of course, since this was a magical artifact refined by an authentic Kunlun Taoist, the more complex the restriction, the greater its power!
After reaching this point, Su Rui didn't dare to continue, because the Qi in his body was almost exhausted. He had to keep some to deal with the demon soldiers sent by the Golden Horn King!
The reaction of the Golden Horn King seemed a bit slow, and Su Rui waited for an hour before the two little demons appeared.
The two demons were a raccoon cat demon and a snake demon, each cultivating a half-human, half-demon form. The raccoon cat demon wore a scholar's robe, revealing its furry ears and tail. Its eyes, still glittering green like a cat's, held an iron fork and moved silently. The other snake demon, seemingly a forest python, wore tattered armor, its forehead still covered in scales. Its cultivated form had only two rudimentary arms, and its lower body still retained the shape of a snake's tail. It held an iron-tipped wooden spear, and its movements were somewhat comical. Their cultivation levels were slightly higher than those of the deer demon and leopard demon, but not by much.
After the two appeared, Su Rui asked the little deer demon: "What are the identities of these two little demons? Have they ever eaten human flesh?"
"These two are the patrol leader and deputy commander appointed by the king. Leader Civet Cat loves to drink blood. I heard that he once sucked all the blood of a human scholar. The robe he wears belongs to that scholar. Deputy Commander Forest Python likes to eat people alive, but I only heard about it from other little demons. I have never actually seen it." The deer whispered softly.
Su Rui had already mentally sentenced them to death upon hearing this. This time, he first used the Town Divine Mirror to blast out a beam of divine light, immobilizing the Linmang Deputy Commander. Then, he activated his "Mori Golden Light Pupil" and leaped out, subduing the civet cat demon with the pressure of his gaze.
Fortunately, he was fast, and the raccoon cat demon had already jumped onto a tree nearby and was about to dive into the grass below in the next second.
But at this moment, it was stared at by Su Rui and its whole body froze. It could only watch Su Rui jump out and cast a spell to take its soul out.
Elsewhere, Deputy Commander Lin Mang's body began to tremble, and he was about to break free from the divine light. Su Rui immediately picked up the iron fork that the raccoon demon commander had dropped on the ground and struck him in the neck, piercing him through.
Then he slowly took out its soul.
After obtaining the two souls, Su Rui quickly moved their bodies into the small cloth bag space, summoned the little deer demon, and let it carry them to the direction of the Heshan Road mountain gate.
It is said that the King of Golden Horns was a green bull demon with a pair of golden horns on his head. He usually did not discipline the demons under his command. When he summoned all the demons for a dinner one day, he found that two patrol leaders were missing. He ordered his demons to look for them, but they couldn't find them after half an hour. He immediately summoned other patrol demons to come and count them. After counting, he found that four demons were missing, including the two leaders, and immediately realized that something was wrong.
The King of Golden Horns was good in every way except for his bad temper. He could not sit still when his little demons disappeared, so he immediately summoned all the demon leaders, and a large group of them rushed to the place where Su Rui killed the two patrol leaders, the civet cat demon and the forest python demon.
However, there was only a pool of blood, nothing else.
"Moo..."
The King of Golden Horn roared, scaring all the birds and beasts within a ten-mile radius into hiding.
Su Rui, riding on the deer's back, could vaguely hear the Golden Horn King's roar, but paid no attention to it. The fawn on the deer trembled in fear, and then its pace quickened.
On the way, Su Rui had intended to ask the deer about the nearby sphere of influence, but the deer demon had never left the Golden Horn King's territory and was basically clueless. After asking a few questions, he was too lazy to ask anymore. He indicated the direction of travel and let the deer demon run on its own while he slowly recovered his Xuan Yin Qi.
The little deer demon walked lightly and nimbly as it jumped and hopped in the woods. Its speed was not much different from that of a horse running on flat ground. However, due to the long distance, it took it nearly an hour to bring Su Rui back to the gate of Heshan Road.
It was already dark at this time, and before Su Rui stopped, a thin golden light came towards him.
Su Rui looked carefully and found that the person coming was the little ant he had released to explore the way when he went out.
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