Chapter 504: Demon Planting Art of Mercury

Chapter 504: Demon Planting Art of Mercury

“What else is amiss? Oh right. On your second day here, there were a lot of more dead people than normal. Some of them must’ve been killed by you, right?”

Some things couldn’t bear to fall under scrutiny. If they did, then their lies would be exposed instantly.

Huo Linglong continued to walk down the memory lane when suddenly, her smile stiffened. “Wait... was it you who did that to me yesterday?!”

Yesterday was one of, if not the unluckiest days of her life. First, she had mistaken the Peach Blossom Smile for water and drank it. Then, when she was busy treating the blisters on her face, her back couldn’t stop aching, her concentration kept slipping here and there, and she couldn’t stop making one mistake after another. As a result, what should’ve been a one-hour task at most had taken up a whole day...

Then, she realized another thing. Sun Xuanzhen and Yue Juejiang had looked very odd today, and she wasn’t able to leave her room at all yesterday because of the string of ill fortunes. Assuming that Sun Xuanzhen and Yue Juejiang had experienced the same thing as her, assuming they hadn’t left their rooms as well because they didn’t have time to refine the Profound Yellow Qi they had already absorbed...

That would explain why they looked somewhat weak today, and why the aura of their Profound Yellow Qi wasn’t as thick as she expected.

This would also mean that yesterday’s stock of Profound Yellow Qi had all fallen into Ye Qing’s hands.

When she realized this, a kaleidoscope of emotions struck Huo Linglong. She felt shock, astonishment, suspicion, fear, trepidation and more. n0ve(l)bi(n.)co/m

Who would’ve thought that someone had been stealing their Profound Yellow Qi from right under their nose this whole time?

Who could’ve thought that none of them would notice it?

If she hadn’t acted on a whim today, heavens only know how much longer she would have been kept in the dark. Had Ye Qing’s plan gone perfectly, he could’ve killed all of them, and they might not even know who their killer was until the very end.

“Yes, it’s all me,” Ye Qing admitted without hesitation. “What else do you want to know?”

Huo Linglong was taken aback for a second. She wasn’t expecting Ye Qing to admit it so frankly, so for a moment she didn’t know what to say.

A short while later, Huo Linglong finally gathered herself and smiled like a succubus. “Hahaha... For now, I want to know your name. I’ve never met a man who could play me and my peers like a fiddle. I feel like swooning just being in your presence.”

“You’re not the first woman who fell in love with me, so let’s move on already, shall we?” Ye Qing said indifferently while sneering on the inside. The last person to call me hubby betrayed me as soon as she was done with me. Women!

Huo Linglong giggled. “Perhaps, but it’s much safer than killing them outright, isn’t it?”

Ye Qing fell silent for a moment before asking, “How reliable is this secret art of yours?”

Huo Linglong giggled. “Don’t worry, dearie. I can swear on my soul that my secret art is perfect.”

Suddenly, a new voice interjected, “Ahem. The Earthfire Palace of Demons has a secret art called the ‘Demon Planting Art of Mercury’. It plants a demonic seed in its victims and transforms them into living incubators that are hopelessly in love with the person who implanted the seed. In other words, she would be gaining two subordinates who are eternally loyal to her.”

“Besides that, the demonic seed could awaken the victims’ potential and drastically improve their cultivation speed. Am I right, Fire Princess?”

Yi Pin was the speaker, of course. He had been playing dead until this moment.

“Who are you, Reverend? How do you know my sect’s secret?” Huo Linglong looked at him in astonishment.

She knew that the old Taoist was awake from the beginning. She just didn’t pay him any attention because he was clearly a small fry. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have succumbed to her “Flames of Desire” at the first exchange.

She was clearly wrong. Not only did the old Taoist know about the “Demon Planting Art of Mercury”, he was clearly well-versed with it. In fact, the secret art was a taboo and an absolute secret even within the faction itself, and only the head, the Fire Princess, and a handful of influential figures of the Earthfire Palace of Demons knew about it. Most of them had never even heard of the name “Demon Planting Art of Mercury”, much less outsiders.

Naturally, she was stunned that this seemingly useless Taoist knew so much about her secret art.

“I’m just a small fry and a nobody. You have nothing to worry about.” Yi Pin stroked his beard to give himself airs. “I just happened to hear about the Demon Planting Art of Mercury from a friend, that’s all.”

Huo Linglong frowned. She was now taking Yi Pin much more seriously, so much so that she was weighing if the risk of silencing the old Taoist was worth the reward.

The way the old Taoist put it, the “Demon Planting Art of Mercury” wasn’t a heretical martial art. In fact, manipulative martial arts like this were a dime a dozen in the jianghu. Some people might even want to be an incubator since it would awaken their potential and drastically improve their cultivation speed. All it would cost was their love and loyalty, so why not?

However, that wasn’t all the “Demon Planting Art of Mercury” could do. When the demonic seed within the incubator had matured, the implanter only needed to fuck the incubator once to obtain all of their cultivation and martial arts. Of course, the incubator would lose everything and turn into a powerless cripple.

This was why the “Demon Planting Art of Mercury” was considered a taboo. This was why it was kept a secret even within the faction itself. The reason the heads, Fire Princesses and other influential figures in the Earthfire Palace of Demons progressed unnaturally swift in their cultivation was because they harvested the genius warriors of the jianghu, and their own disciples for their selfish desires.

If this secret were to be made public, the Earthfire Palace of Demons would be in serious trouble to say the least. They might not be attacked by the entire jianghu, but their lives would certainly become a lot more difficult than before.