Easy Way of Cultivation: Power Harvesting-Chapter 108 - 72: Fishing for Demon Fiends, Ancestor God of the Ding Clan, Evil Spirits’ Golden Body (Part 2)
"Our patrol is meant to deter, to let those Demon Fiends and people know that the Demon Suppression Bureau is still looming over them."
Ning Xuan couldn’t help but say, "Are they out of their minds? Demon Fiends feed on humans, isn’t it right to eradicate them completely?"
Peng Mingjie shook his head, "You don’t think the struggle between the Demon Suppression Bureau and the Demon Fiends is just about life and death, right? The fight with Demon Fiends is too far removed from ordinary people. For ordinary folks, whether it’s the Demon Suppression Bureau or the Demon Fiends, their daily meals are the most important.
If the Demon Fiends don’t eat people here and even provide benefits, what do you think ordinary people will think?"
Wei Fan coldly uttered a few words, "Semi-colonial!"
He hadn’t expected that in the confrontation between humans and Demon Fiends, the Demon Fiends could play such a trick to create division.
The others didn’t understand his words, thinking he was talking to himself, so they didn’t pay him any attention.
Ning Xuan said, "Isn’t colluding with Demon Fiends a capital offense? How can the Demon Suppression Bureau tolerate such things?"
Li Fengyi said, "Do you think it’s just one or two people? In this town, at least tens of thousands of people think like this, getting real benefits.
The twelve big towns we patrol all have such situations. No matter how ruthless the Demon Suppression Bureau is, it can’t bring itself to massacre hundreds of thousands of people.
Even if they had the determination, the death of hundreds of thousands would surely give birth to something terrifying.
Besides, they haven’t done anything outrageous, just doing some business with the Demon Fiends to make a living."
Su Guangwen said, "The remote mountains and forests are basically territories of the Demon Fiends. The Demon Suppression Bureau supplies so many people’s elixirs and treasures, where do you think they come from? Actually, they also flow out from these places.
In such cases, it’s more like turning a blind eye."
The so-called patrol is actually just a deterrence, to keep the people here in line and prevent them from doing outrageous things.
An hour later, after wandering around Fengming Town, they didn’t find anything suspicious. They ate something there and then set out for the next town.
"Strange, how come not a single Demon Fiend has appeared in such a long time!"
Li Chuyang and Situ Ying emerged from the dark, thinking that maybe the bait of Horizontal Cultivation of Innate wasn’t to the Demon Fiends’ taste, unable to catch even one?
"Maybe they’ve smelled the bait and are on their way, perhaps also wary of a trap and hesitating to act, after all, you’re not the only smart one, when it comes to playing these games, Demon Fiends are the experts."
Just as Situ Ying was about to nod, he suddenly felt goosebumps rise all over, his Sword Intent surged involuntarily.
At the same time, Li Chuyang beside him also changed expressions drastically, his muscles swelling, showing a metallic luster.
They both turned their heads swiftly to see a young man with a stern face, carrying a giant sword on his back, approaching slowly.
Seeing the young man’s face clearly, the expressions of being ready for battle disappeared from both of their faces.
Situ Ying was delighted, "Senior Brother, you finally arrived, still love showing off like always, it’s just Sword Intent Perfection, do you have to scare people every time you appear?"
The stern young man walked up and stood before Situ Ying and Li Chuyang, saying, "I only entered a year before you, now my Sword Intent is perfected, and I’ve started comprehending Sword Momentum, what about you? Your Sword Intent is just at expertise level.
If you were a failure, I wouldn’t bother speaking, but you clearly have the potential to be stronger, yet you focus on climbing the bureaucratic ladder, dabbling in trivial pursuits, you’re a disgrace to sword practitioners."
Situ Ying put away his playful expression, seriously said, "Senior Brother, how many times do I have to tell you, the bureaucratic world is also a kind of momentum, even Master hasn’t said anything.
The path of a Demon Hunter isn’t for everyone."
The stern young man said no more.
Li Chuyang stepped forward and cupped his fists, "Greetings, Brother Xianlong!"
Zhang Xianlong glanced at Li Chuyang, giving a slight nod. "I’m in pursuit of a Nascent Soul Great Demon, I’ll catch up in at most ten days. You called me here, you’d better give me a good reason, otherwise each of you takes a cut from me."
Li Chuyang and Situ Ying twitched at the corners of their mouths, still ten days to catch up, yet the tone made it sound like you already did.
Situ Ying said, "It was Elder Huo who asked us to invite you. This time we loaded up big in hopes of catching a few Nascent Soul Demon Fiends, Elder Huo was worried the two of us lack strength, that the bait would be eaten.
If you want to swing your sword, go do it to Elder Huo, say one cut or a hundred, Elder Huo could take them all.
Still, we don’t even want to split this merit with you."
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Three days passed in a flash, Wei Fan finally started to understand what Yu Hong said about the time being on duty in the main hall being the most leisurely. He’d rather have a fight with a Nascent Soul Demon Fiend than do this tedious patrol.
Three or four days spent mostly in a carriage, often gnawing on dry provisions.
"We’ve arrived at Dingyang Town!"
The voice of Su Guangwen driving outside rang out, and the carriage came to a stop.
Jumping off the carriage, what greeted the eyes was a town not as large as Fengming Town — Dingyang Town.
It’s also their last stop on this trip, after performing the seven-day guarding mission here, they could return to the Demon Suppression Bureau.
"Such a dense Evil Qi!"
A huge shadow loomed over Dingyang Town, faintly exerting an uncomfortable pressure, the whole small town was eerily lifeless, as if devoid of all inhabitants, there wasn’t a hint of vitality.
Ning Xuan said, "With such dense Evil Qi, Senior Sister, are we here to guard a Great Demon Fiend?"
Li Fengyi nodded, "That’s right, we’re here to guard a Great Demon.
However, phrases like Great Demon, you can say outside, but once inside Dingyang Town, never say such words, because they refer to the evil spirit here as ’God’."
