The giant tortoise and the white snake trembled as Yang Cheng questioned them.
If practitioners of Taoism and Buddhism were to discover that they were absorbing the power of incense offerings and vows, they would be utterly destroyed.
What is incense offering and vow power? That's something only the top Taoist and Buddhist sects, as well as some other major religions, are qualified to touch.
Those two little demons actually dared to plunder incense offerings and vows for cultivation; they were practically courting death.
Yang Cheng said calmly, "Get up. I'm not a member of either the Taoist or Buddhist sects, so I won't kill you for this."
Although your rescue was somewhat motivated by self-interest, I will not punish you for your meritorious act and the fact that you possess very little bloodthirsty aura.
The giant tortoise and the white snake possessed a bloodthirsty aura, proving that they had been involved in killing, possibly by killing other monsters or humans.
However, it would be strange if a demon who has cultivated all the way to this point didn't have a bloodthirsty nature.
The bloodthirsty aura emanating from them was very faint, which meant that they had not experienced much killing.
The two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Beizhen thanks Your Excellency!"
"Bai Jie thanks Your Excellency!"
The two monsters bowed and prostrated themselves at the same time.
Yang Cheng and Cui Laodao were both taken aback when they heard the name of the white snake, and then looked at each other with strange expressions.
The meaning in Cui Laodao's eyes was: You, a guy who has no interest in women, have seen this?
Yang Cheng's gaze conveyed the message: You're so old, how could you have seen this before?
Old Master Cui: Pshaw, back when I was active on the forums, my ID was "Rainy Night with a Knife but No Umbrella".
Yang Cheng: You're really amazing...
Bei Zhen and Bai Jie didn't dare to say a word, and Li Ruowei couldn't help but feel a little strange watching the two of them exchanging glances.
Especially that Taoist priest Cui, he seemed to have a very sleazy air about him.
Yang Cheng coughed and said, "How many years have you two been cultivating in the Huai River?"
Bai Jie said softly, "Your Majesty, Old Bei has been cultivating here for over a thousand years, but he only began to take human form in the last three hundred years."
The little demon's cultivation time was relatively short, but it had still been in human form for over two hundred years.
"Do you have any communication or interaction with the demon race outside?"
Bai Jie and Bei Zhen exchanged a glance, unsure how to answer the question.
However, given the current situation, they dared not lie to Yang Cheng and could only honestly say, "Although we cultivate in the Huai River, we sometimes go ashore to trade with other demon races, so there is some communication. But we have never joined them in wantonly killing innocent people."
Yang Cheng asked, "Are you aware of the recent rampage by the Blood Demon of the Nether Spring?"
Bai Jie subconsciously wanted to say something, but Bei Zhen glanced at her, seemingly warning her to watch her words.
Yang Cheng said calmly, "Speak freely. Since you two saved people today and didn't kill innocent people, I naturally won't kill you."
Bai Jie considered her tone carefully before speaking: "Youquan Blood Demon is actually the leader of the demon race in my Yan Kingdom. Of course, he himself has no intention of being a leader, nor does he have any subordinates."
However, his strength is the strongest among all the demon races, so our Yan Kingdom demon race also reveres Youquan Blood Demon.
On several occasions, when the demon race held a council, Youquan Blood Demon was invited out by several senior members of the demon race, but he only said a few words impatiently before leaving.
The Blood Demon of the Nether Spring is powerful, with an eccentric and arrogant personality; one could even say he is domineering and tyrannical.
Let alone human cultivators, if any of our demon race members accidentally wander into his territory, he will swallow them whole and turn them into pus and blood.
However, the Blood Demon of the Nether Spring does not actually cultivate by devouring blood.
His true form is formed from the blood of an ancient powerhouse, so the blood within the Nether Spring Blood Demon's true form is of an unbelievably high level, and he doesn't even look down on the blood of ordinary demons or humans.
The Blood Demon of the Nether Spring has stayed inside the Blood Tomb for a long time because there is still some of the blood left behind by that powerful figure in the Blood Tomb, and the Blood Demon of the Nether Spring needs to spend a lot of time refining it.
This is something that all the demons in the Yan Kingdom know, so we generally don't dare to go to the Blood Tomb, which is a forbidden area for the Netherworld Blood Demon.
But since the monks from Pudu Temple led several outside monks into the Blood Tomb a few months ago, they escaped in a sorry state, probably having suffered a loss at the hands of the Netherworld Blood Demon.
Less than half a month after that incident, the Blood Demon of the Nether Spring went mad, leaving the Blood Tomb to slaughter and devour all living beings it could see.
Not to mention humans, even the demons living in the Youdu Mountains could not escape, and many of them died at the hands of the Youquan Blood Demon.
Afterwards, Abbot Cihang of Pudu Temple intervened to suppress the Youquan Blood Demon and took his anger out on the entire demon race of the Yan Kingdom.
Actually, our Yan Kingdom's demon race is different from the outside world. The Youdu Mountains are vast and rich in resources, enough for us to cultivate.
Countless demons lurk within the vast Huai River.
So even though some demons like to eat people and cause trouble, most of them actually live in the Youdu Mountains and the Huai River area and rarely show themselves.
Of course, it is also related to the strength of the Yan Kingdom's court and the large number of demon-slaying alliance members in this area.
From then on, the monks of Pudu Temple searched everywhere for demons, killing or severely injuring them and throwing them into the Demon-Suppressing Tower, regardless of whether they were good or bad.
"Since we took human form, we have never harmed anyone; on the contrary, we have saved many lives. We have no connection whatsoever with that Netherworld Blood Demon, yet we have been implicated without cause. Where is justice?!"
Bai Jie became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, and her eyes even reddened, making her look incredibly pitiful.
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