Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1185: Chapter 1181: Jade Pendant

Since it’s the power condensed by the people’s will, naturally it requires the people’s heart. How can the people’s heart be obtained?

It is the common expectation.

Merely showing miracles to the people is not enough; one must also rescue and relieve difficulties to truly gain their hearts.

This case is just like that.

His gaze swept across.

Finally landing on two people in the crowd, who were father and son.

Through the Golden Sword, he could sense the owner among the people’s hearts.

Among these people, there were two who were abnormal.

Not showing gratitude and reverence, but rather hostility.

Super Sense did not detect them as Evil Demons.

Then why do they feel hostile towards me?

Is it because I blocked their path to obtaining the Lifespan Extension Pill by killing these evil demons?

He ignored the corpses in the woods, and quietly came to Ding Huanchun.

Ding Huanchun laughed, ”Mr. Chu, your skills are exceptional, bringing justice and satisfaction!”

Chu Zhiyuan smiled, ”These evil demons did not have strong masters, they were easy to defeat.”

Ding Huanchun shook his head.

Although he hadn’t personally fought, he could sense that these evil demons weren’t weak.

Weak evil demons would not dare to attack the city gates, nor would they send themselves to die needlessly.

In the end, it was Chu Zhiyuan’s cultivation technique that restrained these evil demons.

In a blink, he killed more than sixty evil demons, each being a master.

With this efficiency, even if the Evil Extermination Department were powerful, they couldn’t surpass him.

He opened his mouth, wanting to mention again, feeling unsatisfied with the Evil Extermination Department’s methods.

But Chu Zhiyuan spoke first, ”This time just happened by chance; they gathered together. If killed one by one, it couldn’t be done so quickly.”

”...Indeed.” Ding Huanchun sighed helplessly.

For Chu Zhiyuan, the most crucial thing is not killing evil demons but finding them.

And the advantage of the Evil Extermination Department is in finding evil demons.

Chu Zhiyuan smiled, ”As a lone person, I have no use for the Lifespan Extension Pill, no need to fight for it. One can kill as many as possible, it would be helpful to send the corpses over.”

”No problem at all.” Ding Huanchun said, ”These guys are really crazy!”

”Indeed strange.” Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

His gaze swept towards the father and son, as they gradually came under the Candle Demon Eye’s light.

The two maintained a calm demeanor, and after being exposed to the golden light of eight Candle Demon Eyes, they showed no change.

Four City Guards waved their hands.

The two walked inside, Chu Zhiyuan suddenly flashed behind them.

He gently tapped the young man’s shoulder and smiled, ”May I know, who might you be...?”

A breath of Demon Suppressing Divine Tree entered his shoulder.

The young man’s body instantly lit up with Golden Light, as if a Golden Light Shield was raised, blocking his arm.

An eerie aura suddenly appeared, like a mountain rising abruptly.

Chu Zhiyuan’s gaze fell on his neck, Super Sense had already detected that there was a Jade Pendant there.

This Jade Pendant at the moment, stimulated by the breath of the Demon Suppressing Divine Tree, emitted Golden Light.

Under the Golden Light, Super Sense had already Insight into his true aura.

The young man and the old man both frowned and glared at Chu Zhiyuan, looking unfriendly.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”This is an extraordinary treasure protecting you.”

”What are you trying to do!” The young man, with thick eyebrows and large eyes, a rough appearance, spoke in a rough voice, coldly glaring at Chu Zhiyuan.

The old man frowned and said, ”Sir, is there a problem?”

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, ”It’s surprising that such a treasure exists in the world, capable of hiding demonic aura!”

”Evil demon?!” Ding Huanchun asked anxiously.

Chu Zhiyuan nodded slightly, ”These two are both evil demons!”

”Nonsense!” The old man shouted in anger, ”You’re slandering us!... Perhaps you’ve taken a fancy to our protective treasure?!”

Chu Zhiyuan reached out his left palm.

The young man raised his right hand, his fingers spread like chicken claws, faintly showing black light.

Chu Zhiyuan’s left palm flashed with a touch of golden light.

”Boom!” A muffled sound, the young man’s body paused, his right claw grasped Chu Zhiyuan’s right palm but froze for a moment.

This is the wondrous effect of the Demon Suppressing Divine Tree’s breath, restraining the Evil Demon Power.

Chu Zhiyuan’s left palm reached out, easily removing the Jade Pendant from his neck.

Once the Jade Pendant left his body, the young man’s momentum suddenly surged.

The four City Guards who were using the Candle Demon Eye immediately shouted, ”Evil demon!”

Golden light shot from their eyes onto the young man, rolling black aura.

This is the most typical manifestation of the Evil Demons.

”Courting death!” the young man shouted, lunging at Chu Zhiyuan.

The old man also lunged at Chu Zhiyuan.

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, drew his Golden Sword from his waist, tracing an arc lightly through the air.

Golden light flashed, skimming across their foreheads.

Their actions came to a halt, and the anger in their eyes froze, then dimmed.

Chu Zhiyuan sidestepped to avoid their charge, watching them lunge forward, crashing heavily ten meters away.

Chu Zhiyuan sheathed his sword once more.

The Abnormal Power within the Golden Sword grew slightly stronger.

This made him realize that popular sentiment wasn’t something that could only appear once per person, nor was it fixed in amount.

Rather, it could fluctuate.

It could reappear in a person continuously, and the intensity could vary.

This time, the popular sentiment from the citizens earlier surged forth again, even stronger.

Clearly, they understood the grave consequences if these two Evil Demons entered the city.

The entire Imperial City would become unsafe, a true nightmare if people were caught unprepared.

Even they would not be exempt.

This was different from when they were protected by the City Guards earlier.

With even greater apprehension, the sentiment and power they contributed increased.

Chu Zhiyuan pondered privately; it seemed gaining popular sentiment truly had its mysteries, and he needed to return to consult Li Hongzhao thoroughly.

Chu Zhiyuan cast a glance at Ding Huanchun.

Ding Huanchun’s stern expression relaxed a bit as he called out, ”Don’t just stand there, continue letting people into the city!”

”Yes.” The City Guards nodded one after another.

They glanced at Chu Zhiyuan and then at the two men.

Then several City Guards went to the distant woods to carry back the corpses, arranging them beside the city gate.

More than sixty corpses were lined up neatly, creating a strong impact.

Ding Huanchun personally came before the old man, drew his knife to open the man’s chest, and picked up a Jade Pendant, holding it in his palm.

It was just an ordinary jade pendant, the size of a pinky, made of common material, extremely ordinary.

Only a pattern was on it, apart from that, there was not even a design.

He attempted to infuse True Yuan into it but found it no different from an ordinary stone.

He looked up at Chu Zhiyuan.

The Jade Pendant in Chu Zhiyuan’s hand flashed with golden light.

Ding Huanchun passed his own Jade Pendant over.

Chu Zhiyuan took it, and the new pendant also emitted golden light.

Ding Huanchun was surprised, ”This...?”

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”It requires a unique aura to activate; otherwise, it might get suppressed... Brother Ding, perceive my aura.”

”Truly remarkable!” Ding Huanchun marveled.

Upon careful perception, Chu Zhiyuan before him was no longer a Venerable but instead a person with weak Martial Arts.

The aura was slightly stronger than an average person but not by much.

Chu Zhiyuan handed one to him, and put one into his sleeve, ”Brother Ding, we have trouble.”

Ding Huanchun, with a stern face, accepted the Jade Pendant slowly, ”Mr. Chu, how did you realize they were abnormal?”

”A kind of intuition, I suppose,” Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Just felt something was off... These Evil Demons weren’t enough to break through the city gate.”

Ding Huanchun frowned.

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”You have so many City Guards, not merely for show, and can quickly retreat into the city. If they weren’t fully assured, why vainly attack, only arousing your vigilance and missing another opportunity?”

”So... it was to cover these two Evil Demons entering the city?”

”I also had a flash of insight, thought of these, so I carefully observed the citizens trying to enter the city and found them suspicious, though I wasn’t sure... But I’d rather make a mistake than miss it; upon testing, there indeed was an issue.”

Chu Zhiyuan said.

This was deduced from the outcome, naturally much easier.

Couldn’t directly say the Golden Sword could sense their hostility and detect the anomaly.

The Evil Demon orchestrating this event was overly cautious, as the saying goes, human calculations are not as good as heavenly calculations.

If they directly let these two Evil Demons into the city without the protective assault to increase success rate, without letting him use the Golden Sword, he might not have discovered these two Evil Demons.

The Jade Pendant they carried was incredibly intriguing, capable of completely concealing the Evil Demon Qi.

Had any Evil Demon previously carried such a pendant into the city?

If it was the first time, great, but if not, how many Evil Demons were already in the city?

If these Evil Demons unleashed havoc or were Death Soldiers, what scale of destruction would occur?

Just thinking about this made Chu Zhiyuan’s heart heavy.

Ding Huanchun felt even more grave and anxious.

After all, this matter was the responsibility of the City Guard; if any mistakes occurred, not only would the Court’s reputation be ruined, but none of them guarding the city gate could escape.