Chapter 401: Providing Convenience

“Is this the Nine Nether Earth Fruit that can control the Essence Soul?”

In the coffin, Jiang Li held two Nine Nether Earth Fruits that he had just plucked and was studying them in his hand.

In terms of appearance, other than the additional black line that surrounded the entire fruit, these two fruits were not much different from ordinary Earth Fruits.

However, Jiang Li sensed an aura similar to the Dao Essence Fruit on it.

This upgraded fruit could not only control the soul transformed from the Essence Soul, but it could also assist living beings in comprehending the Dao Essence. It was really a great supplement.

‘The expenditure of trying to capture and transform an existence at the Soul Formation realm was truly heart-wrenching.

Not only had it taken him a long time to condense these two Earth Fruits with his two Nine Nether Wood, but it had also consumed more than a third of his reserves.

In terms of Soul Formation cultivators, it would take two Soul Formation cultivators to condense a Nine Nether Earth Fruit that could control a Soul Formation cultivator.

Under the circumstances that it did not affect his combat strength, these two Nine Nether Wood could only grow these two Nine Nether Fruits.

It seemed that even the Nine Nether Wood could not casually control the combat strength of the Soul Formation realm before growing a third tree heart.

Suppressing the crazy idea of starting a massacre in his mind, Jiang Li walked to his two clones.

In the coffin space, there were two almost identical Nine Nether Wood.

The original Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard had already been completely swallowed by the fifth Parallel Mind and became his clone.

Moreover, he used the Immortal Peach to grow a second tree heart. He could be considered to have recovered a portion of his strength back then.

As long as the spiritual qi was enough, he would quickly recover his former glory.

On the trees, three powerful creatures were tied.

‘One was Mu Yulan, who was possessed by the Ghost King, Yang Ruozhi.

One was the Armored Troll with combat strength equivalent to the Soul Formation realm that Jiang Li had defeated long ago.

As for the last one, it was the Treasure Hunting Rat that he captured not long ago because of greed.

These three guys had been locked in the coffin for a long time.

There were also many prisoners locked up with them.

‘Two of the Asura World creatures had already become sacrifices for the coffin, helping it successfully advance to the medium-grade Earth-rank not long ago.

‘The Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard was swallowed by the parallel mind and became Jiang Li’s latest clone.

The Five Banishment Demons were the most sensible and decisively chose to surrender.

Therefore, only the three unwilling captives were left.

As for the Ghost King, Yang Ruozhi, among the three of them, although she was still trapped in the tree, she had actually been sentenced to death.

Due to her non-cooperation, Jiang Li treated her as a large experience bag and gave it to Qin Shuman.

Now, only these two fellows were left. They were still resisting stubbornly.

Of course, Jiang Li had left them behind for so long naturally because they still had their uses.

Treasure Hunting Rats were the best thieves in the world. They could search for secrets and steal treasures.

After subduing it, even if it was only released every few days, it could bring him endless income.

As for the Armored Troll, it might not be able to show itself in the Azure Cloud Continent.

However, in the future when facing the Armored Trolls, it might be able to have a huge effect.

These two Nine Nether Earth Fruits were not wasted if used on them.

Jiang Li pried open their mouths.

He stuffed the upgraded Nine Nether Earth Fruit inside.

The two demons that had reached the level of the Soul Formation realm naturally had very precise control over their own conditions.

Even Nascent Soul cultivators could sense the threat of the Nine Nether Earth Fruit controlling their minds, so they naturally could too.

‘They were very resistant to these two spiritual fruits worth a million spirit stones.

As a result, Jiang Li could only knock out their teeth and stuff them into their stomachs along with the spiritual fruit.

When the spiritual fruit landed in their stomach, it instantly turned into a ball of energy that spread to their limbs and bones. That could allow their cultivation and strength to advance further.

In the pure energy, a wisp of Nine Nether black qi emerged and rushed towards their Essence Soul.

The Treasure Hunting Rat also had the ability to eject its Essence Soul.

However, being bound by the Nine Nether Wood, its Essence Soul had no chance of escaping and was firmly sealed in its body.

Then, as the black qi entered its Essence Soul, the rat’s bean-sized eyes immediately lost their luster.

As for the Nine Nether black qi, it began to change the fundamental consciousness through its own method.

Looking at the Armored Troll, it seemed to be in an even worse spot.

How could a Nascent Soul that had been forcefully raised be the match of a Ghost King?

It had to be said that it was already a miracle that Mu Yulan could last until now.

He could only use the Ghost Lantern Cold Flame to restrict Yang Ruozhi as much as possible, but doing so would also harm Mu Yulan.

Under such circumstances, there was really not much he could do.

Jiang Li put down the girl and walked out of the coffin.

Outside, it was the office center that Jiang Li had just built.

The place was chosen to be the original location of the Five Banishment City. The geographical location here was not bad, and it was convenient to coordinate all the surrounding inns.

He walked to the highest banquet hall on the top level of Prosperous Jiang Hong. It had already gathered all the famous demons in the periphery of the Ten Directions Region.

Be it tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, snakes, insects, rats, or ants, those who had no grudges against each other had all come.

No one dared to disrespect the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn’s owner.

It was a small matter to come here to eat. Their collective appearance meant that from now on, no one in this area would dare to challenge the authority of the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn.

Jiang Li had finally opened up a channel that connected the Ten Directions Region to the outside world.

There were very few people who stepped foot on this piece of uncivilized land, which meant that great benefits had yet to be developed. It was the kind that could make people fat from profits.

For example, if Jiang Li shouted, the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn could easily pull up an army of 100,000 demons.

“Thank you for your support. I, Water Grave Ascetic, am the shopkeeper of the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn. Please make things convenient for me in the future.”

The person who walked forward was not Jiang Li, but one of the tree hearts of the Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard, the Water Grave Ascetic.

He cupped his fists at the 69 demons below.

A vigorous aura spread out.

‘The Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard had been crippled by Jiang Li earlier and had yet to recover its ability to fight more than ten people at once.

However, the aura that was as cold as the Nine Nether Earth could still make the group of demons below swallow nervously.

Behind the Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard, the first Nine Nether clone, Green Mountain Ascetic, the fused Black Jade and White Jade, the Five-Tailed Spirit Fox Tu Mountain’s Wu Ya, and the Five Banishment Demons also took a step forward and stood behind him.

They revealed their auras to let the demons below understand that they were all existences of the same level.

With such a large number of demons combined, the power they formed was an existence that the demons below could not resist at all.

After displaying this power, the group of demons below lowered their heads, not daring to look up.

Previously, the five demons could even suppress them who were in a state of disunity. Now, the number of demons directly doubled in this Prosperous Jiang Hong, so it was even more not a problem.

Jiang Li naturally could not stay here for a long time.

However, this place was very important, unlike the cultivation world of the Eastern Region, which was divided by the various large factions. There were huge prospects here.

If he handled it well, he could quickly establish a huge demon beast faction in his hands. By absorbing more demons, he could connect a large number of undigested spiritual materials in the Ten Directions Region to the outside world. No matter what he did, there were many benefits.

Therefore, he planned to leave the main body of the second Nine Nether clone and the Five Banishment Demons here and only bring away one tree heart of the second clone.

‘As long as a Demon King did not appear, it was enough to make the local demons not dare to have any thoughts.

After stabilizing, it would be enough to leave one or two demons behind.

“In addition, thank you for coming from afar. In the future, I’ll have to rely on you to cross the river.”

After flexing his strength to the demons, Jiang Li controlled the Nine Nether Wood in the graveyard and turned around to look at an extremely ugly demon with a mouth that reached his ears and had eight large lumps on his head.

It was the Nine-Headed Dragon Fish that occupied one of the parts of the Flowing Sand River.

If he wanted to connect this area to the outside world, it was impossible without this fellow’s help.

“Hahaha, Water Grave Ascetic is too polite. If there’s anything you need my help with, feel free to tell me. As long as you raise the flag of the Prosperous Jiang Hong in the future, I will ensure their safety in the water.”

“However, I, the Nine-Headed Dragon Fish, also want to ask Water Grave Ascetic for your help today.”

After all, he was a Greater Demon who controlled the key water path that connected the inner and outer regions of the Ten Directions Region. He believed that no one could do anything to him underwater.

Therefore, compared to the other demons, the Nine-Headed Dragon Fish was more arrogant and confident. They had yet to do anything, but he had already proposed conditions.

Jiang Li could not take out the third advanced version of the Nine Nether Earth Fruit for the time being. Even if he was killed here, that region of water would quickly be occupied by other water demons. It would create a lot of trouble for no reason.

Therefore, he did not directly refuse. If the request was reasonable, at most, he would agree first.

“Brother Nine-Headed, please speak. In the future, everyone here will be brothers. You can express your thoughts.”

Jiang Li controlled his clone to appear very magnanimous.

Then, the pair of fish eyes of the Nine-Headed Dragon Fish passed through the demons and looked at Jiang Li’s main body who was sitting in a corner and drinking tea silently.

He even walked towards him with ill intentions.

“Thank you, Water Grave Ascetic.”

“A few days ago, a human cultivator secretly crossed my water body and entered the Ten Directions Region. Now, he’s even bold enough to sneak in here.”

“It just so happens that he’s the enemy of two of my friends. As long as Water Grave Ascetic is willing to help me take his head away, I’l agree to help you..”