Easy Way of Cultivation: Power Harvesting
Chapter 439 - 229: Chaos in Yunzhou—Will Wei Fan Be Scared Away?
After staying in the Yunhua Sect for three days and witnessing Ning Xiaoye’s apprenticeship ceremony, Wei Fan and Ji Qingyue left the sect.
White Mountain is the territory of the Elephant Race, located several hundred kilometers from the Yunhua Sect. As they approached, they saw a towering mountain, hundreds of meters high, emitting a silver glow and standing majestically on the earth.
"This is a natural Silver Mountain!"
Ji Qingyue exclaimed with some amazement, as it was her first time coming so close to it.
Numerous caves had been carved into the enormous Silver Mountain, resembling a beehive.
"Is that beast not here?"
Wei Fan slightly frowned; within him, the aura of the Double-headed Elephant Venerable showed no reaction.
The Qi Collection and Demon-Hunting Technique has a range limit, effective within a hundred kilometers, but beyond that range, it becomes challenging to track by aura.
Ji Qingyue nodded, "He probably left. Although he originated from White Mountain, he’s now a Holy Sect disciple and won’t stay at White Mountain."
"You stay here, I’ll capture a Demon Fiend to ask!"
Wei Fan disappeared from Ji Qingyue’s sight in a flash. Not wanting to startle the snake or alert the enemy, he didn’t act forcefully against the demons at White Mountain without destroying the Double-headed Elephant Venerable first, as it would only cause trouble for the Yunhua Sect and might scare the Double-headed Elephant Venerable into not appearing again.
After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Wei Fan reappeared beside Ji Qingyue, holding a burly man with an elephant head and a human body.
This Elephant Demon widened his eyes and opened his mouth to scream but couldn’t make a sound.
Ji Qingyue was somewhat impressed. Although it wasn’t the first time she saw Wei Fan’s mysterious body technique, each time it left a striking impression; it was utterly impossible to discern how he vanished and appeared.
The two of them took the Elephant Demon far from White Mountain before Wei Fan retracted the suppressing Will Power preventing the demon from speaking: "If you dare shout, I’ll kill you."
"Who are you, and why did you capture me?"
Once freed from the restraint, the Elephant Demon looked fearfully at Wei Fan. He was a Spirit Concentration Demon Monarch, cultivating inside his cave, and suddenly he found himself being held, unable to speak, with his Demon Monarch cultivation completely unresponsive like dead water.
At this moment, even if he were a fool, he knew that the person who caught him was at least a Martial Venerable level expert, and not just any expert, but a top-level one, or else he couldn’t have walked into White Mountain in broad daylight and taken him without anyone noticing.
"Tell me, where did the Double-headed Elephant Venerable go!"
Wei Fan sneered, and his Will Power descended to envelop the Elephant Demon, hypnotizing him. Instantly, the Elephant Demon’s initially shocked and resistant expression turned reverent.
The Elephant Demon bowed his head, "My lord, the Double-headed Elephant Venerable went to the Daqian Kingdom!"
Daqian Kingdom?
Initially thinking he might get nothing, Wei Fan hadn’t expected that this Demon Monarch knew the whereabouts of the Double-headed Elephant Venerable.
Wei Fan raised an eyebrow, "Where in the Daqian Kingdom did he go, and for what purpose? Tell me everything you know about the Double-headed Elephant Venerable!"
The Elephant Demon struggled, his willpower not weak. However, after Wei Fan increased his hypnotic Will Power, the demon’s expression became reverent again: "The Elephant Venerable went to Yunzhou in the Daqian Kingdom. He heard that Wei Fan, who killed the White Mountain Elephant Venerable, appeared in Yunzhou and killed the Flying Tiger Venerable.
The Elephant Venerable intends to find Wei Fan and avenge my Lord of White Mountain!"
Wei Fan nodded, "Come out!"
He reached his fingers toward the Elephant Demon’s head. Regardless of whether what had been said was true or false, he intended to soul-search to verify.
He hadn’t performed a soul search earlier due to concerns that the opponent’s Divine Soul might have been subjected to an Exotic Technique, preventing a soul search.
Capturing a miniature elephant, Wei Fan began performing the Soul-Searching Technique; it turned out the Elephant Demon’s Divine Soul hadn’t been subjected to an Exotic Technique. Wei Fan successfully retrieved the relevant information.
Indeed, the Double-headed Elephant Venerable had rushed to the Daqian Kingdom to seek him.
"Let’s go, to Yunzhou in the Daqian Kingdom!"
Crushing the Elephant Demon’s Divine Soul, he and Ji Qingyue soared into the sky.
In the Daqian Kingdom, since the Goddess of Killings from the Great Victory Dynasty arrived, the Jianghu in the Daqian Kingdom became filled with fear.
First, the Sect Leader of the Bright Moon Sect and a group of elders were killed, the sect’s mountain gate destroyed, and the Bright Moon Sect vanished from the Jianghu.
Soon after, Zhong Zhenyu, the General of Yunzhou, was also killed. Zhong Zhenyu’s friends—Sect Leader of Changchun Palace and the Grand Elder of the Mist Smoke Sect—sought out Wei Fan to warn him, but were all slain by that madman Wei Fan, one by one.
It was said that after the incident, Changchun Palace instantly dissolved, with all its elders and disciples abandoning the mountain gate, effectively annihilating Changchun Palace.
As for the Mist Smoke Sect, its Sect Leader still held things together, though the fear of Wei Fan showing up to slaughter them kept everyone on edge.
However, this time Wei Fan seemed to have no intention of destroying any sects. After killing the Grand Elder of the Mist Smoke Sect and the Sect Leader of Changchun Palace in Yunzhou, he vanished, leaving the Jianghu with no trace of him for nearly a month.
Yunzhou!
Though Wei Fan disappeared, the impact he caused had only begun to erupt.
In the battle of Yunzhou, Wei Fan not only killed General Zhong Zhenyu but also slew the Flying Tiger Venerable from the Flying Tiger Race. The aftermath of their clash killed many demons from the Flying Tiger Race.
The Heaven-Supporting Demon King was furious, and members of the Demon Heaven Alliance gathered in Yunzhou, vowing revenge on the Human Race.
After nearly a month of warfare, engagements involving Martial Venerable level experts erupted seven or eight times, with several commanders and demon monarchs perishing. Although no Martial Venerable level master fell, it was rumored that the newly appointed General of Yunzhou had his Golden Body shattered, leaving only a head and a few Golden Bones.
Despite not dying, such injuries would take decades of recovery to heal.
Thus, Yunzhou welcomed a new General called Liu Guangyu, whose Four-Colored Golden Body was at the Eighth Forging, making him a top-level expert among the Martial Venerables.
In fact, Liu Guangyu had another identity: he was one of the Garrison Commanders of the Daqian Kingdom’s Demon Suppression Bureau. It was only because Zhong Zhenyu’s subsequent Generals had been on the verge of being killed by joint demon attacks, and regular Martial Venerables couldn’t stabilize the situation in Yunzhou, that he took up the position temporarily!