Uncle-Master, You’re Really Unreliable!

The Soul Palace was packed with Shadow Clones, working overtime to produce Demon Devouring Gu. The current stockpile simply could not keep up with the number of demons in the Demon Imprisonment Tower.

After finally making the trip here, he could not let it go to waste.

The Demon Imprisonment Tower had ten floors. The top floor was used to seal the Demon Sword, leaving nine floors below it. Chu Yang was currently sweeping through the ninth floor, slaughtering demons.

There were not many demons on the ninth floor. First, some time ago, the Great Demons had charged up to the top floor in an attempt to escape the Demon Imprisonment Tower. Everyone wanted to be the first to leave, but infighting broke out here. After a fierce battle, the number of demons had plummeted.

Second, after failing to break the seal, the Great Demons had been driven back into the Demon Imprisonment Tower by the Sword Saint. Disheartened, they had brought many demons back down to the lower floors, where they continued ruling over their own territories.

The farther down one went in the Demon Imprisonment Tower, the more the number of demons multiplied.

Before long, Chu Yang had slaughtered his way from the ninth floor to the seventh. He even split every ant he passed in half. He had killed until his eyes were red, and demons fled at the very sight of him.

If the supply of Demon Devouring Gu had not become critically low, he would likely have slaughtered his way all the way to the bottom already. Now, he could only rest briefly, carefully record the internal structure of the Demon Imprisonment Tower, and send it back to the Soul Palace.

Outside, Qing Wei and the others who were monitoring the Demon Imprisonment Tower suddenly changed expressions, their faces filled with disbelief.

"How is there not even any Demon Qi left on the upper floors of the Demon Imprisonment Tower?"

"What is Chu Yang doing in there? We sent him in to repair the formation. Why has he started a massacre instead?"

"If this continues, how can his body hold out until the bottom floor and repair all the formations?"

"You little brat! Even if you hate evil, you still have to consider the bigger picture!"

"After calculating everything, we never accounted for his temperament. Senior Brother Sect Leader, what should we do now?"

Qing Wei pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "Wait a little longer…"

The elders could only stare anxiously at the Demon Imprisonment Tower.

"Brother Xu, the elders look really worried," Li Xiaoyao asked uneasily. "Did something happen to Brother Chu inside?"

Xu Changqing said gravely, "The Demon Qi on the top two floors of the Demon Imprisonment Tower has decreased drastically. Junior Brother is probably clearing out the demons there."

Tang Xuejian asked curiously, "Didn’t we enter the Demon Imprisonment Tower to slay demons and eliminate evil?"

Xu Changqing explained, "The powerful demons are mostly gathered on the lower floors. If Junior Brother expends too much true essence fighting on the upper floors, the battles will only become more difficult as he goes down. More importantly, the Demon Imprisonment Tower is filled with Demon Transformation Water and seals, making it very difficult to replenish spiritual power."

"Under normal circumstances, Junior Brother should avoid fighting on the upper floors as much as possible. He should repair the formation, then immediately proceed to the next floor."

"Junior Brother hates evil by nature. He probably never considered this…"

Only after hearing Xu Changqing’s explanation did the others understand why the Shu Mountain elders were so anxious. By their reasoning, if Chu Yang kept killing like this, he would never reach the very bottom.

Tang Xuejian cried out, "Doesn’t that mean Daoist Chu is doomed—"

Jing Tian hurriedly covered her mouth, thinking, Little miss, is this really the time to be spouting nonsense?

"Brother Xu, we should go in!"

Li Xiaoyao grabbed Xu Changqing and prepared to fly to the top of the tower with the Sword Control Technique.

Xu Changqing glanced back at Sect Leader Qing Wei and Elder Cang Gu, then shook his head. "Since the Sect Leader has said nothing, it means things have not reached their most critical point yet. Wait a little longer…"

Li Xiaoyao roared, "What if it’s too late by then?"

As the two argued without end, the Demon Qi within the Demon Imprisonment Tower began weakening again. Everyone knew this was a sign that Chu Yang had continued onward.

"Then we’ll wait a little longer…"

Li Xiaoyao gradually calmed down.

Inside the Demon Imprisonment Tower, Chu Yang was not nearly as miserable as everyone imagined. On the contrary, he was delighted.

Although all the demons he had killed so far were minor demons with only one or two hundred years of cultivation, there were simply too many of them. Added together, they amounted to five or six Red Ghost Kings.

A quantitative change brought about a qualitative one. Chu Yang’s Sword Control Technique proficiency was steadily shooting upward, and he had even comprehended the Myriad Swords Technique.

Once the new batch of Demon Devouring Gu had been replenished, he continued slaughtering his way down.

There was no need to hide his strength within the Demon Imprisonment Tower. He went all out, using whatever he had. The Malevolent Shrine alone was enough to kill through the upper floors.

Those demons that had lost their physical forms and only had souls remaining were all fed to Fengdu as well.

Ever since returning from the Demon Realm, the netherworld aura around Fengdu had grown increasingly dense. Chu Yang had a feeling that it was about to reach the level of Bankai.

When he descended from the fourth floor to the third, Chu Yang encountered the first thousand-year Great Demon he had met inside the tower. Its strength was comparable to the Red Ghost King’s.

Then…

Chu Yang instantly killed it with the Malevolent Shrine.

The second one…

The third one…

Once Chu Yang came back to his senses, he discovered that the third floor was filled with thousand-year Great Demons. Compared to the previous floors, it undoubtedly took more effort, but fortunately, none of them were particularly outstanding.

It took Chu Yang half a day to clear the entire floor. The cultivation he had absorbed had also reached more than ten thousand years.

Using that ten-thousand-year cultivation, Chu Yang deduced all his martial arts to their limits, including using the Ten Styles Martial Arts to reverse-engineer the Black Tortoise Divine Art.

The Source Martial True Body received another epic enhancement.

At that moment.

Outside the Demon Imprisonment Tower, an extreme silence fell. No one had expected Chu Yang to nearly slaughter every demon in the tower by himself.

This was something that had never happened in the countless years the Demon Imprisonment Tower had stood in Shu Mountain.

Before this, the Demon Imprisonment Tower had been a place of death. A place of death for demons, and a place of death for Shu Mountain disciples.

No one had ever walked out of the Demon Imprisonment Tower alive.

Those words were like a curse!

"Good lad! Only the final two floors remain now!"

"This is a feat never seen since Shu Mountain was founded!"

"Hahaha! Splendid! Splendid! Those damned demons should have been killed long ago. How could letting them repent within the tower possibly do justice to the innocent commoners who died?"

"Well said! It’s just a pity that this old Daoist had no chance to enter the tower alongside Nephew Chu Yang. What a regret!"

Several elders laughed heartily. Although the Demon Imprisonment Tower could torment demons for hundreds or thousands of years until they slowly died, for these Shu Mountain sword immortals, killing the demons on the spot was far more satisfying!

They had been suppressing their anger for years because of sect rules. Seeing Chu Yang nearly slaughter all the demons inside now, they felt indescribably relieved.

Li Xiaoyao and the others also clapped and cheered nearby!

Tang Xuejian asked with a smile, "Only the final two floors remain. What kind of demons are down there?"

The elders’ laughter gradually faded, and solemn expressions appeared on their faces again.

Seeing this, Tang Xuejian timidly moved behind Jing Tian. "Did I say something wrong again?"

Jing Tian shook his head with a bitter smile. The Tang Family’s eldest miss had an astonishing talent for conversation.

"The second floor holds the Heavenly Demon Emperor. That demon is extraordinary and cannot be compared with the other demons in the tower!"

The Drunken Sword Immortal suddenly appeared beside the group.

"Three hundred years ago, the Heavenly Demon Emperor led countless demons in an invasion of the human world. Even the combined strength of thousands of Shu Mountain disciples could barely hold them back. The then Sect Leader of Shu Mountain used the ancient art of God Invocation to deceive the demons and lure them into the Demon Imprisonment Tower, then ordered the disciples to form the Five Spirit Formation and activate the Demon Transformation Water inside the tower to refine those fiends."

"After forty-nine days, most of the fiends had been subdued. Only the Heavenly Demon Emperor remained unaffected due to the strength of his demon power. You must understand, the Demon Transformation Water was a treasure bestowed by the God Realm. At the time, this was simply horrifying."

"Not only that, the Heavenly Demon Emperor even tried to borrow its power to break out of the tower. At the critical moment, Shu Mountain disciple Wei Jing entered the tower with the Demon Suppression Sword and battled the Heavenly Demon Emperor for three days. He severely wounded it, but he himself died from exhaustion. From then on, the Demon Suppression Sword was lost within the Demon Imprisonment Tower."

The Drunken Sword Immortal took a huge gulp of wine, soaking his collar, then let out a long breath. "Demon Lord Chonglou probably destroyed the Demon Imprisonment Tower for the Demon Suppression Sword, but mistakenly took the Demon Sword instead. He probably never expected the Demon Suppression Sword to be at the bottom of the tower rather than the top."

Tang Xuejian poked Jing Tian’s lower back with a finger and whispered, "That Demon Suppression Sword was your sword in your past life, wasn’t it?"

Jing Tian nodded and sighed. "That’s exactly what caused today’s predicament. That red-haired freak is infuriating."

Li Xiaoyao said solemnly, "Senior, do you mean Brother Chu might not be able to defeat the Heavenly Demon Emperor?"

The Drunken Sword Immortal explained, "The Heavenly Demon Emperor truly is extraordinary. Even the Demon Transformation Water bestowed by the God Realm could do nothing to it. Brute force alone will not be enough to defeat it. He must find the Demon Suppression Sword if he wants a chance."

"It just depends on whether the Heavenly Demon Emperor will give Nephew Chu Yang that opportunity…"

The moment he finished speaking.

The Demon Qi on the second floor vanished completely as well!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The Drunken Sword Immortal looked as if he had been struck by lightning. The wine gourd in his hand fell to the ground and rolled all the way to Li Xiaoyao’s feet.

Li Xiaoyao picked up the wine gourd and handed it back to the Drunken Sword Immortal.

He looked at the man as though he were some Jianghu swindler, even patting his shoulder sympathetically. "Senior, every time I see you, you look unreliable. You’re not young anymore, so you really shouldn’t behave so disgracefully in your old age…"

"Just thinking about having to call you Uncle-Master after joining the sect makes me worried."

The Drunken Sword Immortal’s blood rushed to his head. His handsome face turned dark purple as ten thousand curses lodged in his throat.

Jing Tian and the others could not help laughing as well, and the oppressive atmosphere instantly became much lighter.

What they did not see was that Qing Wei and the others wore expressions much like the Drunken Sword Immortal’s, equally shocked.

Compared to the cheerful atmosphere outside the tower, Chu Yang was the unhappy one now.

He stared mournfully at the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s corpse, which had turned into a pool of blood. The Demon Devouring Gu had vanished along with it.

Chu Yang had not expected the Demon Devouring Gu to be forcibly burst apart by the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s cultivation!

"The Heavenly Demon Emperor had at least ten thousand years of cultivation…"

"For the Demon Devouring Gu, devouring ten thousand years of cultivation seems to have exceeded its limit. The excessive burden caused it to explode."

"A miscalculation. I should have realized long ago that the Demon Devouring Gu had an upper threshold for devouring demon power."

"It seems the plan to build a fully automated demon-refining tower must be made an urgent project. If I waste another one like that, I’m definitely going to have a heart attack."

Before entering the final floor, Chu Yang learned from his mistake and entered the Soul Palace with the Demon Suppression Sword.

Within the Soul Palace, Magic Chu Yang had already voluntarily halted the production of Demon Devouring Gu. He and Pirate Chu Yang were studying the structure and formations of the Demon Imprisonment Tower.

Even so, they had still stockpiled several hundred Demon Devouring Gu.

"The Demon Devouring Gu has an upper threshold for devouring demon power. The one that devoured the Heavenly Demon Emperor just exploded. We lost ten thousand years of cultivation for nothing!"

Upon hearing Xianxia Chu Yang’s words, Magic Chu Yang and Pirate Chu Yang suddenly felt as if their hearts had stopped.

"Fuck! What a massive loss!"

Pirate Chu Yang looked as though he wanted to cry.

"Let’s treat it as tuition. We overlooked the limits of living creatures. If we used a magical artifact instead, this problem probably wouldn’t occur again."

Magic Chu Yang quickly adjusted his mood and said calmly, "Refining a demon-refining tower isn’t difficult. Besides, we don’t need to build one as large as this tower. As long as we solve the Five Spirit Power and energy issues, we can build one very soon."

Xianxia Chu Yang said, "Once we repair the Demon Imprisonment Tower and restore the Sacred Relic Pearl, we can use the Five Spirit Orbs to replenish the Five Spirit Power."

Pirate Chu Yang worried, "The spiritual power in the Five Spirit Orbs isn’t endless either. If we keep doing this, won’t we ruin them?"

Xianxia Chu Yang smiled. "The Five Spirit Power within the Five Spirit Orbs does not come from nowhere. It can slowly recover by absorbing the five spirits between heaven and earth. Of course, external force can also speed up that process."

"With the ten-thousand-year cultivation I obtained in the Demon Imprisonment Tower, I should be able to meet the requirements to accelerate the recovery."

Magic Chu Yang smiled knowingly. "Most likely, we won’t need to do it ourselves. Someone will solve this problem for us."

At those words, a figure immediately flashed through Xianxia Chu Yang’s mind, and he smiled as well.

After chatting for a while, Xianxia Chu Yang left the Demon Suppression Sword in the Soul Palace and returned to the world.

After returning, Chu Yang glanced at the blood covering the ground and stepped toward the final floor.

At the same time.

The Drunken Sword Immortal was vividly explaining just how terrifying the demons on the bottom floor of the Demon Imprisonment Tower were!

The demon suppressed on the lowest floor of the Demon Imprisonment Tower was Jiang Ming, a Shu Mountain Sword Sect disciple who had fallen into demonic cultivation.

"Several decades ago, the Sword Sect had a genius disciple named Jiang Ming. He was the adopted son of the Sect Leader of that generation, Jiang Juezhi."

"Jiang Ming had cultivated under Sect Leader Jiang Juezhi since childhood. Daoist arts and swordsmanship came to him effortlessly. There were no bottlenecks or shackles in his cultivation at all. In just over a decade, he had become an expert who overwhelmed the younger generation."

"In those years, our Sword Sect used the name Shu Mountain Sect when dealing with outsiders, rather than Xianjian Sect."

"It was only after that disaster that the Sword Sect fell into decline. To this day, we have not won a single Sword Qi Competition."

At this point, the Drunken Sword Immortal let out a sorrowful sigh.

"The root of that disaster was that Jiang Ming fell in love with a Fox Demon while descending the mountain to cultivate in the mortal world."

"Love between humans and demons was taboo to begin with, not to mention that Jiang Ming was a Shu Mountain disciple. After the affair was exposed, Sect Leader Jiang Juezhi dispatched a large number of disciples to hunt down the Fox Demon and intended to imprison her in the Demon Imprisonment Tower."

"Jiang Ming rushed over after hearing the news and saw the Fox Demon barely clinging to life before the Demon Imprisonment Tower. On one side was his master’s kindness in raising him and the bond with his fellow disciples. On the other was the love of his life. Torn between the two, Jiang Ming fell into a demonic obsession and ultimately became a demon."

"He was sealed in the Demon Imprisonment Tower at the same time as the Evil Sword Immortal. However, compared to the Evil Sword Immortal, Jiang Ming was far stronger. He had originally been the most gifted seed of the Dao before falling into the demonic path, and when the Evil Sword Immortal was born, he was further tainted by the aura of the Extraterrestrial Demon."

"This time, with the Demon Imprisonment Tower’s seal broken, it was already a blessing amid misfortune that only the Evil Sword Immortal escaped."

"If Jiang Ming had escaped instead, Shu Mountain would have been wiped out long ago."

After hearing the Drunken Sword Immortal explain the whole story, everyone felt chills run down their spines. If Jiang Ming was truly so powerful, how was Chu Yang supposed to deal with him?