The Modern Martial Immortal

”Three demon kings?! Over a thousand great demons?!” When Lu Li heard those words, he suddenly came to a halt.

He looked at Yaoguang, his eyes filled with disbelief.

The Penglai Immortal Sect stood at the very front line of clearing out the demon race in the Deep-Blue Sea. Before he had taken up the responsibility of overseeing the Biyou Immortal Market, he had lived in the outer sea for three hundred years.

Over those three hundred years, dozens of demon kings had fought him, yet the number of demon kings he had slain could be counted on one hand.

Demon kings were still relatively rare even in the outer sea, and once they sensed something was wrong, they would flee in panic and call for help from demon emperors, or even demon sovereigns comparable to the human race’s Void-Shattering cultivators.

Under such circumstances, one could well imagine how difficult it was to kill a demon king.

But Yaoguang... How long has it been since he reached the Void-Piercing Realm? How long has it been since he came to the Deep-Blue Sea? Yet he has already slain three demon kings?! How is that possible?! Lu Li thought.

Yaoguang saw the shock and doubt in his eyes and replied with a smile, ”My luck was fairly good. I discovered a newly built demon lair, then found another demon lair through that one. Also, perhaps because our lineup looked rather weak, three demon kings led their forces to intercept and kill us halfway.”

The result went without saying. The corpses of the three demon kings were the best answer.

”Three demon kings!” Lu Li glanced at Yaoguang, then at Qi Sha standing behind him.

There were only so many Void-Piercing Realm cultivators among the Ten Great Immortal Dao Sects, so he had naturally heard of this Void-Piercing Realm expert from the Heavenly Dao Sect.

A thousand years ago, he was also considered an exceptionally brilliant genius. I didn’t expect that his strength would become this formidable. If he can slay three demon kings, his combat power must be at the peak among Void-Piercing Realm cultivators, Lu Li thought.

”To defeat three demon kings while outnumbered was difficult enough, yet the two of you even managed to kill all three of them. Your strength is truly astonishing, and your divine abilities are extraordinary.” Lu Li could not help offering praise.

Qi Sha seemed to hear that Lu Li’s praise was mainly directed at him, so he hurriedly explained, ”The three demon kings were all slain by the young sect master alone. I merely stood by and held the line.”

”The young sect master?” Lu Li was startled, then his gaze once again turned to Yaoguang.

”It was also thanks to Qi Sha’s deterrence from the side, which prevented the three demon kings from acting as one. That was what gave me the chance to break them one by one.” Yaoguang gave a simple explanation.

He did not have much desire to show off. Instead, he wanted to finish what needed to be done as soon as possible. ”Shall we go to Demon-Slaying Hall first and confirm the value of these demon kings? Allocating the materials afterward will probably take some time, right?”

Lu Li looked at Yaoguang, still finding it hard to believe. He could not tell whether Qi Sha had been trying to hype Yaoguang up or whether Yaoguang was really that strong.

However, since Yaoguang had already spoken about going to Demon-Slaying Hall, Lu Li could not delay them any further. ”Let’s go. I’ll take you two there.”

He also wanted to see whether Yaoguang and his group had really slain three demon kings and over a thousand great demons.

Soon, the group reached the Demon-Slaying Hall.

Several officers responsible for maintaining Demon-Slaying Hall’s operations personally greeted them at the entrance, then led the group into the inner hall.

After entering the inner hall, Yaoguang did not waste time. He quickly took out one demon king corpse after another and placed them onto the array that had already been prepared.

Each of these demon kings had already formed a heavenly demon true body. This kind of true body could contain a Great Dao seed and was similar in principle to the grotto-heaven of a Void-Piercing Realm cultivator. Within it, it seemed almost to form a space of its own.

Yaoguang had put them away with ease. But that was only because the moment his true body had achieved the grotto-heaven, his grotto-heaven had already become equivalent to a Primordial Void existing in another world. Plucking stars and seizing moons was nothing difficult to him.

Normally, if a demon king’s body were placed in the outside world, a single drop of its blood could crush a star. Even on the North Sea Star, specialized array arts were required to contain and store them.

Otherwise, if the demonic qi on the heavenly demon true body was released, it could instantly demonize every cultivator below the Heavenly Fire Realm in all of the Biyou Immortal Market. Heavenly Fire Realm and Eternal Light Realm cultivators would only last a little longer.

As the three corpses were placed into the array one after another, Lu Li abruptly stepped forward, as if doing so would let him see these three demon kings more clearly.

”This is... the Blazing Demon King?! Thirteen years ago, a team led by a true disciple of my sect who had cultivated an Azure Golden Core was attacked by this demon king. Even though there was also a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal traveling with them at the time, all thirty-two people in the group perished!” Lu Li quickly recognized the identities of these Void-Piercing Realm demon kings. ”And the other one... That’s the Azure Flame Demon King. Back then, Deputy Sect Master Leng Qingqiu of my sect chased it for ten days and ten nights, yet it still escaped!”

He had originally thought that Yaoguang and Qi Sha had joined forces to kill only some ordinary demon kings. He had not expected that two of these demon kings were actually powerful demon kings that had rampaged through the deep sea region for decades.

Not only were these two demon kings worth three hundred million contribution points each, but they also had additional bounties of a hundred million and two hundred million contribution points respectively. Added together, that was nine hundred million.

Judging from the heavenly demon true body of the remaining demon king, it was not the kind of demon king that had only just advanced either. It was worth more than two hundred million.

In other words, these three demon kings alone were equivalent to 1,100,000,000 contribution points, almost a fifth of a Dao Artifact.

Hearing Lu Li’s words, Qi Sha’s expression changed slightly as well. ”Named demon kings...”

When these three demon kings had fought Yaoguang, they had displayed impressive divine abilities. However, since Yaoguang easily crushed them, Qi Sha had only felt that these demon kings were quite powerful and had not been overly moved.

But now, it seemed like every one of these demon kings actually possessed a fierce reputation!

A three hundred million contribution point bounty... The Penglai Immortal Sect’s base contribution reward for slaying a demon king was a hundred million, but a hundred million referred to demon kings that had only just broken through. It was the same as cultivators who had just advanced to the Void-Piercing Realm.

Whether demon kings or Void-Piercing Realm cultivators, those at this stage rarely came out and moved around. Usually, only after stabilizing their condition would they show their might in the outside world.

A Void-Piercing Realm cultivator or demon king who had stabilized their grotto-heaven and transformed their divine ability into a Dao Technique was considered to have reached the second stage, or in other words, the middle stage of the Void-Piercing Realm. Their contribution value would reach two hundred million.

Above that were Void-Piercing Realm figures who had been famous for many years and possessed an overwhelmingly fierce reputation. These were the late-stage Void-Piercing Realm experts.

The final level consisted of peak Void-Piercing Realm experts whose grotto-heavens had reached the mastery stage and who had planted their Dao Seeds, preparing their breakthrough to the Void-Refining Realm. Lu Li and Qi Sha were both in this category.

But when Qi Sha asked himself honestly, if he were made to face two late-stage Void-Piercing demon kings and one middle-stage Void-Piercing demon king, whether he could even maintain a stalemate was highly questionable.

Yet Yaoguang had actually killed all three great demon kings. And he had won so easily?!

Even compared to those who had only recently advanced to the Void-Refining Realm, Yaoguang’s strength was probably not far off.

”Young Sect Master Yaoguang, you really helped us a lot.” Lu Li offered a fist-and-palm salute toward Yaoguang.

”Driving out the demon race is a duty every member of the human race should fulfill.” As Yaoguang spoke, he took out the demonic cores and Recording Stones of one ordinary great demon after another, allowing the staff of Demon-Slaying Hall to verify them one by one.

Before long, the staff had finished counting them. ”The total value of the various seventh, eighth, and ninth-tier great demons comes to 81,610,000 contribution points.”

Yaoguang glanced over it and nodded. A profit of roughly 1,200,000,000 contribution points was about the same as he had expected.

”I’ll have to trouble you to help me exchange all these contribution points for cultivation resources,” Yaoguang said.

”Do you not want to save some of them? If you maintain this pace for a little longer, you might even be able to exchange them for a Dao Artifact,” Lu Li said.

Qi Sha glanced at him. A Dao Artifact? You probably have no idea just how wealthy this young sect master of ours is.

However, when he saw that Yaoguang really intended to exchange these contribution points into cultivation resources for the members of Heavenly Ruin Hall, Qi Sha still said, ”Young Sect Master Yaoguang, whether it was hunting the three demon kings or the other demons, you were basically the one who handled everything. Therefore, this batch of contribution points should belong to you—”

”If not for the members of the Heavenly Ruin Hall searching for the demon race and locating their lairs, how could I have hunted so many demons? Everyone will get a fair share.” Yaoguang waved his hand and cut him off.

”As members of the Heavenly Ruin Hall, they were supposed to obey your orders as hall master,” Qi Sha argued.

”I promised them, so I naturally have to keep my word,” Yaoguang thought for a moment and said. ”If you really insist, we will remove the contribution points from the three demon kings. Exchange the remaining eighty million or so contribution points entirely into Pure Yang Grand Pills and distribute them among all members of the Heavenly Ruin Hall.”

”Eighty million or so...” When Qi Sha heard Yaoguang’s words, he still drew in a deep breath, shaken by his generosity.

More than eighty million contribution points, if exchanged into cultivation pills, would be equivalent to at least eight million Pure Yang Grand Pills.

Heavenly Ruin Hall only had a little over four hundred people in total. On average, each person could receive twenty thousand Pure Yang Grand Pills.

This was income many Azure Golden Core cultivators could not obtain over an entire year. The key point was that this was the average.

The Heavenly Ruin Hall had quite a number of seventh- and eighth-realm Golden Core battle immortals. Their annual income was only around a thousand Pure Yang Grand Pills, or even just a few hundred. Once this was distributed, each of them would effectively receive gains they could not accumulate in ten years, yet they had followed Yaoguang to the Deep-Blue Sea for less than a year.

”Hall Master—”

Qi Sha wanted to say more, but Yaoguang had already said, ”It’s decided. Also, I noticed that you don’t even have decent protective battle armor on you. This Lightning Marsh Divine Armor worth 130 million contribution points looks rather good. I’ll exchange it for you as a gift.”

”Hall Master, you can’t! This is far too valuable!” Qi Sha hurriedly said.

”It’s already decided. I am the hall master, so you can only obey.” Yaoguang made the decision without allowing any argument. At the same time, he handed over a list. ”For the remaining billion contribution points, exchange all of them for the materials listed here. With the Biyou Immortal Market’s resources, providing these materials shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

Lu Li looked at the exchange list Yaoguang had given him, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

The Biyou Immortal Market’s annual goods transaction volume was actually only around ten million Pure Yang Grand Pills, which converted into less than a hundred million contribution points.

Of course, the Biyou Immortal Market also had other businesses, such as cave dwelling rentals and the like. But now, Yaoguang wanted to exchange one billion in one shot...

”Golden Core Realm resources are still manageable, but the materials you want... I’m afraid you’ll have to wait a few days. After all, these materials look quite precious, and the Biyou Immortal Market’s level simply isn’t high enough... However, please rest assured. We will gather the items you need to exchange for as soon as possible,” Lu Li said with a bitter smile.

Yaoguang smiled and did not mock him.

In the end, this was only an immortal market on the outskirts of the Penglai Immortal Sect. It was still millions of kilometers from the Penglai Immortal Sect’s headquarters.

It was only reasonable that they could not immediately redeem materials worth more than a hundred million Pure Yang Grand Pills.

”Then I’ll wait for news,” Yaoguang replied.