Chapter 242: Blood Crystal (1)

Translator: Daoist6fubtiW

As a famous tributary of the Emperor River in Dayuan, the Qinyang River was hundreds of miles wide and tens of thousands of miles long.

Although it was a tributary of the Emperor River.

However, Qin Yanghe’s reputation was not low in Dayuan.

Three days later.

When Chen Daoxuan rushed to the Qinyang River.

The two banks were already filled with experts who had come to participate in the Demon-Slaying Festival.

Chen Daoxuan silently watched the scene in front of him without saying a word.

He used breath control.

Chen Daoxuan stood in the crowd like an ordinary body cultivator, not attracting any attention.

At the riverside.

A group of people in black official robes stood on a towering altar that was about a thousand feet in diameter.

The leader was a middle-aged man with a fierce gaze.

Two men and a woman stood beside the middle-aged man.

The man on the far left was nearly fifty years old. He carried a long sword on his back and wore a green robe. He stood there and emitted an unstoppable aura.

Beside the man with the long sword was an old Taoist priest with white hair and a youthful face, holding a floating dust in his hand. However, this old Taoist priest’s muscular figure ruined his sage-like appearance.

The woman beside the old Daoist wore a bamboo hat and a veil over her face. Her face could not be seen clearly, but only her graceful figure under her clothes.

Seeing these three.

Chen Daoxuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Even though he was tens of thousands of feet away, he could still feel the aura of the other party, which was as intense as the sun.

This aura was completely different from that of cultivators who walked the path of Qi Refinement.

The three of them stood there like three huge furnaces, emitting a scorching aura.

Chen Daoxuan knew.

These three should be the Qingzhou Sword Saint, Dao Being Yan Shen, and Palace Head Linghua whom the customers in the inn had mentioned.

Flesh and blood derivation realm!

This was a physical cultivation that even he had not reached.

Although Chen Daoxuan’s path was the path of Qi Refinement, it did not mean that body refinement was not important.

On the contrary, a cultivator’s physique was very important.

The reason why Qi Condensation cultivators ate spiritual rice so often was to strengthen their bodies and prepare for the Foundation Establishment stage.

For Foundation Establishment cultivators to break through to Zifu Disciple, the requirements for their fleshly bodies were similarly quite high.

If one wanted to convert Quintessential Essence into higher-quality Dharmic powers, one had to have a Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s Sea of Qi and physical body meet the requirements.

Otherwise, if his body wasn’t strong enough, the moment his Quintessential Essence transformed into Dharmic powers, his body would also collapse.

As for condensing the Golden Core…

The requirements for a cultivator’s physical body were even higher.

Putting aside the rigid requirements on the cultivator’s physical body during the process of condensing the golden core, if the physical strength and recovery ability of the lightning tribulation after condensing the golden core were insufficient, they would be blasted into ashes by the lightning tribulation in minutes.

“Brother, excuse me.”

Chen Daoxuan cupped his hands at the young man beside him and said,” May 1 know who the official next to the Sword Saint of Qingzhou is?”

The young man became impatient when he was suddenly questioned.

However, when he met Chen Daoxuan’s gaze, the young man instinctively trembled and hurriedly cupped his hands.”You’re too polite, Daoist Priest. That’s Lord Wu from the Patrol Department, he’s responsible for supervising the experts of Qingzhou in killing demons!”

“Killing demons requires supervision?”

Chen Daoxuan frowned.

Hearing this, the young man looked at Chen Daoxuan in surprise.

“You don’t know?”

“Don’t know what?”

Seeing that Chen Daoxuan’s expression didn’t seem to be fake, the young man shook his head.””Every year, there are many casualties in Qingzhou. If it wasn’t for someone supervising the battle, who would come to kill the demons?”

Hearing this.

“Heavy casualties?” Chen Daoxuan thought. How disastrous?”

The young man laughed self-deprecatingly.” There aren’t many injuries, but there are too many deaths. Every Demon-Slaying Meet, 6,000 experts die.” “So many died?”

Chen Daoxuan’s pupils constricted.

The young man stretched out his hand and pointed ahead.”Do you see that high platform?”

Chen Daoxuan nodded slightly.

“Everyone said that it was an altar. Every ten years, we have to sacrifice a large number of living people to the demons.”

“Sacrificing the living? Are you talking about the experts who came to kill the demons?”

Hearing this.

The young man sneered.” How can we be considered experts? Although this is my first time participating in the Demon-Slaying Festival, I’ve never killed a demon in all these years. Every time, the demon would leave after eating and drinking.”

At this point, the young man lowered his voice.”I feel that we are not here to kill demons, but to feed them!”

As expected.

No one was a fool.

Chen Daoxuan could see the problem at a glance, so how could the others not?

“If that’s the case, why don’t you run?”

Chen Daoxuan frowned.

“Escape? Where to?”

The young man raised his head and mocked himself.” Once the demons can’t eat enough people, they will rush to the riverbank and massacre the city.

There is one thing that the Patrol Department is right about. What we are doing is to protect the ordinary people.

Besides, it would be the same if they escaped to other places.

This kind of Demon-slaying Festival would be held in every city. It would be held once every ten years if the interval was relatively long. It would be held almost every year if the interval was close.”

“Oh, right, the Demon-Slaying Banquet isn’t without benefits. Every time we defeat the demons, those of us who survive will be rewarded with blood crystals in addition to money.

I see that you have a high cultivation base. You should have heard of blood crystals, right?”

“Of course I have.”

Chen Daoxuan smiled.

He was finally certain.

How was this a Demon-Slaying Festival? This was simply a breeding farm!

The countries and cities here were farms of various sizes.

The Demon-Slaying Banquet was held every once in a while, and it was the time for the Realm Demons to come and reap the harvest..