Chapter 86: Demon Path

Only then did Dugu Qingli realize that as long as Lu Xingzhou wasn't spending time with women, he and Anu were inseparable. This time, Anu wasn't around, and he strangely entered the house, intending to see what she was doing.

As soon as he stepped in, he felt a sudden explosion inside the room. Anu's whole body was like black charcoal, only her eyes blinking white.

Dugu Qingli said strangely, "Anu, what are you doing?"

Anu sniffled, "I dug up their Yuan Magnetic from the secret vault of the Incense Burning Pavilion. I wanted to try controlling it myself, but I failed..."

"Yuan Magnetic..." Dugu Qingli looked at Anu's palm. A strange black hole-like magnetic field was flashing with fine electric light.

"How does the Incense Burning Pavilion have this thing..." Dugu Qingli was a bit puzzled, "This thing restrains us sword cultivators greatly. Even Dao cultivators with mixed-metal magic tools will be disturbed and restrained. It doesn't look like something an organization like the Incense Burning Pavilion could possess and control."

If they could really control it, the Incense Burning Pavilion could use this to attack sword cultivator sects, and it would make those sects very uncomfortable.

But this group of things looked small, perhaps the influence range wasn't large?

Anu said, "The Incense Burning Pavilion also has ancestors, you know."

"Uh..."

"Sister Qingli, do you think it's good for me to refine this into my own magic tool? My own pancake is becoming increasingly difficult to use... um, or should I knead it into my pancake?"

"Then the material for your pancake needs to change. You need to find something non-metallic yet tough enough." Dugu Qingli didn't like this thing. She felt she could barely hold her own sword, so she retreated outside the door, "Don't hold it. Put it away first... put it in a jade box."

Lu Xingzhou's voice came from behind, "Is this the attitude a sword guest with ambition to temper her sword should have towards something that can restrain her?"

Dugu Qingli was slightly startled, "It's just this small group of dead things. What do you want me to do, fight it and conquer it?"

"Even a melon girl knows to trace the source..." Lu Xingzhou sighed and took out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

The remnant soul of Yiyang Zhenren appeared in front of him blankly.

Lu Xingzhou stretched out a finger and pointed at his brow, "What is the origin of this Yuan Magnetic?"

Yiyang Zhenren said, "At the bottom of our Incense Mountain, there is a large strange magnetic field. It was born within the magnetic field... This magnetic field changed the soil quality of Incense Mountain in the early years, making it suitable for planting many types of medicinal herbs. But in recent years, it has been expanding, already affecting life a bit, and it has already started to interfere with the growth of medicinal herbs, which is why we targeted Danxia Mountain."

So there was this reason... Dugu Qingli's heart moved slightly, "Have you all explored the magnetic field?"

"We explored it and took away the Yuan Magnetic. But the magnetic field is still expanding, and we have no way."

"What special effects does the magnetic field have? After you explored it, did you feel it was man-made or natural?"

"It interferes with cultivation and seems to have a bit of a mind-interfering effect, no benefits... It should be natural."

Lu Xingzhou looked towards Dugu Qingli, and Dugu Qingli was also looking at him.

Lu Xingzhou laughed, "How about it, does it count as a good place for you to cultivate against sexual energy?"

"It should count." Dugu Qingli said straightforwardly, "But you still have to go on site to see. Blind guessing won't work."

Lu Xingzhou nodded, "I'll go with you. The remnant soul of Yiyang Zhenren can provide a lot of experienced reference."

"Okay." Dugu Qingli sacrificed her Frost Heaven Sword, appearing to want to leave by sword. She hesitated again and turned her head to look at him, "Can you fly?"

As her words sounded, the wheelchair floated up.

Dugu Qingli: "..."

This wheelchair is actually a flying magic tool... This Lu Xingzhou is too good at hiding.

Lu Xingzhou knew what she was thinking and explained, "Dao cultivators need to enter the middle three grades to drive a flying magic tool. A few days ago, I was only at grade seven and couldn't use it... Grade six was when my leg was connected, I just broke through."

Dugu Qingli looked at him sideways, "Then why did you sit in a carriage for the round trip to Dongjiang County?"

This white-haired man, is he asking knowingly?

Lu Xingzhou simply didn't answer her and shouted towards Anu inside the house, "Anu, you play at home first. Sister Qingli and I will go see the magnetic field and then come back. It won't be long."

Anu twitched her nose, really wanting to say that Anu could also fly on her pancake... Forget it, Master likes the little white hair. It's better not to be a third wheel. Anyway, there's definitely no danger there. The people of the Incense Burning Pavilion have all explored it.

Recently, Anu felt increasingly unable to help Master... Because Sister Shen Tang and Sister White Hair are both very powerful, Anu also needs to become more powerful.

The little girl indignantly put the Yuan Magnetic stuff she couldn't figure out into a jade box and hid it in her ring. Then she took out a handful of pills and popped them like a meal.

Grade four before turning eighteen is very impressive? Wait, Anu can do it at ten years old!

A journey that only took half a day by carriage was almost no distance when flying. Even though the two of them flew very slowly now, they only used half an hour to arrive.

Looking down, there were still many cultivators from nearby Dongjiang County searching for things in the ruins of the Incense Burning Pavilion, hoping to find some leftover resources. It's really not easy for ordinary people without a background or sect to cultivate in this world. Resources are too scarce, and techniques are missing. The ruins after this war are often their opportunities.

You know, there are still many corpses in the ruins that haven't been cleaned up...

To say there are gains, there really are... Some low-grade medicinal herbs and magic tools that the Tianxing Sword Sect and the Dongjiang Gang often look down on, and medicinal herbs planted in the medicine garden that haven't grown yet, are big gains for ordinary people.

Some people even fought over a bottle of grade nine Qi Gathering Pills, each of them bruised and bloody.

Lu Xingzhou was used to this kind of thing. His own childhood might have been more miserable than this... Instead, Dugu Qingli overlooked for a while, her expression somewhat dazed, as if it was the first time she had seen such an ecology of fighting over trash. She was a bit shocked.

They say she held a sword and hesitated in a glacier from a young age, that only tempered the harshness of the environment. In terms of resources and techniques alone, she might not be lacking. After all, she has the world's number one Master and the world's strongest sect.

Lu Xingzhou looked at her, somewhat amused. What kind of machine person, what kind of ice block, in the end, she was just a girl with insufficient experience in the world's affairs, and her database was not rich enough.

"Let's go, don't let them discover us, to avoid trouble."

Dugu Qingli looked at him strangely, "According to reason... everything here belongs to you all. You... don't mind them taking it?"

Lu Xingzhou shook his head, "Everyone is not easy. Why bother making things difficult."

Dugu Qingli fell silent and said nothing more.

With Yiyang Zhenren leading the way, it was like returning home. They easily found the underground passage in the mess. Lu Xingzhou set up an array to seal the entrance, and then set up an array that could perceive the outside situation. The two of them went straight down.

Not long after, they arrived at the center of a hollow mountain belly. Indeed, there was nothing else, only a vague magnetic field spreading here, which made Dugu Qingli unable to hold her sword steadily, and her mood was even more inexplicably irritable.

Yiyang Zhenren said honestly, "In the early days, the Yuan Magnetic just hung in the center. Originally, we thought that taking away the Yuan Magnetic would solve everything. Later, we only realized we were wrong. The magnetic field was not caused by the Yuan Magnetic. Instead, the Yuan Magnetic gathered and formed because of the oscillation of the magnetic field."

This magnetic field oscillation was very unfavorable to soul bodies. Yiyang Zhenren had just finished this sentence when he felt a bit like he was going to be shaken apart. Lu Xingzhou immediately took him back into the banner, touching his chin and pondering.

This so-called magnetic field is not the same concept as the magnetic field in physics. It belongs to the earth vein things of the immortal path. Physics is not very useful in this world... So-called "spiritual mountains and treasure lands," this is actually one type, only not a type suitable for living, but a very good choice for creating a special trial field.

For example, for Dugu Qingli to practice her sword control force, stability, and exercise her heart with the cold river mind method, it was all very beneficial. Similarly, it was a very good place for Lu Xingzhou to practice the stability of his spiritual platform. It was not certain that this magnetic field oscillation had a certain use for fusing water and fire.

In addition, there is still a certain possibility that there are treasures hidden inside... The Incense Burning Pavilion explored it and thought there were none, but that doesn't mean there really are none.

"How?" Lu Xingzhou asked Dugu Qingli, "Do you plan to cultivate directly here or survey a bit with me to see if there are treasures?"

"It's not in the form of a treasure." Dugu Qingli shook her head, "This is an earth vein phenomenon. My sect has records of it, named 'Xuan Magnetic Earth Vein'. It has both good and bad aspects. If this magnetic field continues to spread, the people of the Incense Burning Pavilion will probably not live long if they stay in it for a long time. But it can also treat some special illnesses and change the nature of the soil, etc."

Lu Xingzhou pondered for a moment, "Then okay, you cultivate. I will try to set up an array to stop it from spreading. We still have use for this mountain."

Dugu Qingli didn't say anything more. She sat down cross-legged directly, her sword across her knees.

The sword trembled uncontrollably. Dugu Qingli didn't hold it with her hand, but concentrated her spirit to control it, borrowing this to temper her flying sword control force.

In fact, in such a place, her strength was greatly weakened. Lu Xingzhou was a bit better than her. Although the Ten Thousand Souls Banner was also quite restrained, his main skill now, the Yin Yang Extreme Intent Skill, was an empty-hand skill that didn't rely on any weapon.

It was equivalent to Lu Xingzhou being her protector now.

But if you talk about the influence on the spirit, she was much better than Lu Xingzhou. She could almost ignore that kind of interference and irritable feeling on the spirit, while Lu Xingzhou needed to suppress it strongly.

Enduring the nauseating irritability, Lu Xingzhou researched for a while, then frowned and shook his head.

He couldn't figure out how to stop the magnetic field from spreading... This thing was too formless, it felt unstoppable.

Could it be that he had finally occupied the mountain with difficulty, and now he had to abandon it? Abandoning it was a small matter, but what if it continued to spread? What about Dongjiang County?

This matter should probably be discussed with Wan Cheng of the Town Demon Division. Perhaps the officials have an idea.

Just as he was planning to say hello to Dugu Qingli and go out to find Wan Cheng, Lu Xingzhou's heart suddenly moved.

The array he had set up outside earlier had feedback. He vaguely heard screams from outside, and then someone sternly shouted, "Who are you all! Even the Tianxing Sword Sect couldn't stop us, what do you all rely on... ah!"

Lu Xingzhou's brows furrowed tightly. He didn't think that there were still people killing and occupying in these ruins?

Carefully perceiving the outside, the array feedback transmitted a vague image—a group of black-robed people suddenly appeared in the ruins, killing and refining corpses without a word.

The hem of the black robes was embroidered with skull patterns.

Lu Xingzhou, who came from the demonic path, naturally knew who they were. He had intersected with them in the past.

The famous demonic path Yin Corpse Sect.

In Da Qian, where the official and righteous path forces are very strong, most people from the demonic path act secretly and are rarely seen. The most arrogant Yan Luo Hall, that was only Yuan Muyu being arrogant. Other people still hid quite well. He, Lu Xingzhou, needed a code to find his old subordinates. He didn't know where they were hiding.

This was the first time Lu Xingzhou had seen people from the demonic path being so arrogant, appearing in broad daylight in front of a large group of ordinary cultivators and killing them randomly, and still on his Lu Xingzhou's territory!