Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 896 - 464: Demon Sect

The large mass of rotten meat slowly wriggled, as if blown by a gentle breeze, spontaneously aggregating into a pile. The pink chunks of flesh adhered to themselves, forming a smooth wound surface at the rough and broken ends, gradually covering it with a thin membrane, stopping bleeding and preventing infection.

Then, from the center of the wound, a cluster of tiny flesh sprouts began to grow, arching out. These sprouts rapidly developed and grew robust at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually forming cone-shaped fleshy strips. These cone-shaped tentacles with tube feet quickly sprouted like spring bamboo shoots breaking through the soil, the meat wall constantly grew, darkened, and hardened, eventually forming organs, bones, torso, and arms almost identical to the original ones.

Meanwhile, hundreds of flesh sprouts and tentacles all over the body were replicating this process simultaneously, ultimately reshaping the blurred mass of flesh, crushed into a bloody mire by the dragon bone, into a humanoid figure amidst the movement of a wave of flesh and the nauseating rustling sound.

Thus, as Fen Yun opened his eyes, he saw Tie Dan squatting beside him, glaring at him with a foul-smelling face and big eyes staring into smaller eyes.

"Uh... thank you, Sect Leader, for your rescue..."

Tie Dan brushed off his sleeves, wrapped the pieces of flesh hidden in his hand,

"No need to be polite, I didn’t do anything, you grew back on your own overnight."

As Tie Dan spoke, he scanned him up and down,

"Where did you catch that starfish from? Are there any left on Fire Flame Island?"

Fen Yun shook his head, struggled to get up,

"I picked it up when I went to the sea as a child; I just threw it into a messy stew, not necessarily a starfish... huh? The ship capsized?"

As he lifted his eyes, he saw the wreckage of a treasure ship impaled upside down on the hillside, scattered across the field like it had dropped out of the sky, debris and containers littering the ground. Fen Yun was equally dumbfounded.

Tie Dan stood up and tossed a talisman to him,

"I’ve set up a sword array around here. Stay and watch the boxes while I go check around for usable vehicles."

"Ah, yes, yes."

Since Fen Yun could naturally heal and regenerate, Tie Dan immediately left him behind, escaped with a sword rainbow, and flew off towards the nearby town.

The storage jade has limited capacity; unless specially customized like the Jiezhi Space magic treasure, it can be filled with only one or two containers of cargo.

Now, Tie Dan has two hundred and seven containers at hand; without a flying treasure ship, he would need hundreds of ox carts to transport them.

If he wanted to travel by land, traversing the Central Plains, crossing mountains and ridges, and passing through war zones unharmed to deliver the goods back to the Sword Sect, it would be as difficult as climbing to heaven.

Or perhaps he should resort to human transport, carrying them with sword escape back and forth for around two hundred trips? But with Fen Yun’s limited skills, could he guard so many items...

Thinking about a large group of Mystic Sect trash lurking around to scheme secretly, Tie Dan became increasingly anxious, nearly had a manic outburst; thus, as he stepped out of escape light, he roared, echoing through the mountain beam,

"Let the leader come out here!"

In an instant, everyone on the ground was alarmed. The villagers looked up at the Immortal in the sky, skillfully took out knives, guns, and crossbows to defend themselves.

This place is a common village scattered across the Central Plains, likely due to the chaos throughout the world, the scramble of heroes to resist various marauders, demons, and ghosts. Nearby the rich families, landlords, kinship villagers have relocated here, dug trenches and built fortresses, gathered people to safeguard themselves, utilizing a strategic location leaning against mountains and adjacent to rivers, transforming into a large fortress for refuge.

Tie Dan’s sword light circled around the vicinity, knowing this place has the most population, then barged over impatiently, shouting,

"Who is in charge! Come out!"

Seeing the Immortal’s irritable temper, the crowd was trembling and dared not aim their bows and arrows at him. After hesitating for a while, an old man got pushed out, bowing with a tight face,

"Immortal Master arrives at Beiliu Village, may I inquire what business brings you here."

Tie Dan remained cold-faced,

"I want a flying ship."

The village head was stupefied,

"Flying... ship?"

Tie Dan remained cold-faced,

"A ship that can fly."

Village head, "Can a ship fly?"

Someone else interjected, "Immortals can fly, why is it strange that a ship can fly."

Village head insisted, "That’s different, people can cultivate, can ships cultivate too?"

Tie Dan was also troubled, realizing that unsophisticated country people were like this, some people hadn’t even been to a county city in their entire life, let alone seen a flying ship...

"No ship means no ship, are there craftsmen here?"

The village head hastily pointed,

"Li Si is a carpenter."

Thus, Li Si got pushed out by the crowd, cautiously,

"Does the Immortal Master want to build a ship? I can at most patch together a dinghy..."

Fortunately, Tie Dan was already prepared, retrieving a notebook from his Divine Sense, traced back to the Artifact Refining Manual by Qing Guang Scholar, and drew out a method of preparing a flying treasure ship, his eyes emitting brilliant light, projecting it into a full-scale hologram in mid-air.

"Wow!" "This is a treasure ship!" "Such magical means!" "Indeed, Immortal means!"

The villagers applauded, women, and children ran out of the houses to watch the spectacle.

Tie Dan was deeply annoyed, casually removed those unnecessary functions and decorations, leaving only the basic functions for the ship to fly, and directly drew a diagram to explain to Li Si.

"Although my ship is wrecked, the dragon bone remains intact, no need to build from scratch, bring some manpower, use the Artifact Catalogue to reconstruct it, help me fix the ship as soon as possible. Can it be done?"

Li Si saw this magic had projected all the parts in original size, processing accordingly, couldn’t help but nod,

"That’s not too difficult. It’s all labor work, I’ll just find more people to help."

Tie Dan sighed with relief,

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"Alright, as long as you accomplish this for me, name your price."

Li Si was still processing, when the village chief rolled his eyes, rushed over, and kneeled to kowtow on the ground,

"Immortal! We don’t want money! We only wish for the Immortal to choose some children with exceptional talent from our village and accept them as disciples! We don’t want to farm for a lifetime anymore!"

This shout made the villagers realize, and they all began to kneel around Tie Dan, kowtowing while calling out "Immortal~~".

They probably thought that such an Immortal Fate might hit them, so they had better kowtow a few more times.

To their surprise, Tie Dan was even more straightforward, saying just one word, "Alright." Then he waved and drew a Qi Refining Technique of the Sword Sect on one wall.

"Once the ship is repaired, those who can cultivate Qi Sensation can become disciples of our Sword Sect.

If you have no fate with our sect, it’s no problem. I’ll leave a chest of basic Elixir Pills as payment."

"Thank you, Immortal Master!"

This was indeed a blessing falling from the heavens. The villagers were thrilled and came forward to help.

Tie Dan also cooperated with Li Si, creating parts based on the Artifact Catalogue; the crucial Flying Wings naturally had to be personally processed by Tie Dan, painting talismans on sturdy sails, and preparing several sets for replacement and repair at any moment. As for strengthening the deck, hull, and masts, wood would suffice; no matter how crude it looks, as long as it can support reaching Nine Yin Mountain, it will do.

But after working fervently for half a day, as night fell, sword light surged in the distance, thunder shot out - clearly, fighting had erupted near the crates again, forcing Fen Yun to activate the array with talismans.

Tie Dan, without hesitation, unleashed a Sword Rainbow and rose to the sky for rescue. From afar, Demon Winds howled, black clouds loomed. At a glance, countless demons and monsters surrounded the Sword Array.

A catastrophe indeed; troubles everywhere. These crates, impossible to detect with Divine Sense, had a flying boat that exploded and crashed - no Treasure Light was seen, yet they attracted numerous demons to attack.

Moreover, these demons had clearly been instructed by a skilled figure, not directly crashing into the Kaiyang Yongfeng Sword Formation to die, instead they spewed Demon Light and Demon Qi in the sky, consuming and eroding the formation’s Spiritual Qi, while excavating tunnels around, attempting an underground assault, to unearth the Array Base Sword Talisman.

Tie Dan wasted no time, swung a forty-meter sword to slash through! "Swoosh—!" It raised a tide of blood, pounding mutilated limbs and flesh to fly!

The demon horde was utterly caught off guard by Tie Dan’s deadly demeanor, stunned that they, a mix of weaklings, were meritorious of his Sword Rainbow face assault - thrown into chaos, they were rushed by the blue-white Sword Rainbow into their midst, sliced through, wrought havoc. In the bloody chaos, within a few fleeting moments, three sweeps cleared the skies, slaughtering most, leaving remains falling like hail.

The demons underground dared not linger more, incited by this fierce reaper, they fled in panic, heads covered.

But fleeing doesn’t mean getting away!

"Star Stream Sword Rain! Earth Store Like Forest!"

North Beichen Sword Qi exploded in the sky, transforming into thousands of sword energies, descending like meteors. Upon entry, they became Returning Dust Sword Qi, piercing the soil, nailing all demons underground. Blood and water burst, forming a spring; beneath a spectacle was wrought—a dense thicket of Sword Tomb bamboo forest rose.

Tie Dan grasped, sword energy became a claw, seizing the scattered remains, meat, and blood from the ground, twisting them into suspended blood-streaked spheres. The demon horde, half-alive, howled in agony; the scene was unspeakably cruel, inducing dread, even Fen Yun covered his eyes, loath to stare.

"Wretched creatures! Dare steal from me! Whose mountain are you from? Tired of living!"

Tie Dan’s voice roared like thunderclap; few demons remained, alive or crushed, death was imminent, within moments, only whimpers lingered, squealing their last.

Tie Dan did not expect these beasts to answer, coldly scanning, with supreme power, the thunder echoed miles,

"You all target our Sword Sect materials, very well! Come and duel swords! Fight for it with skill!

If you can defeat me, take it all! Come out! Come out! Come out!"

Yet the mountain winds whistled, valleys remained void, none emerged from shadows to challenge.

After all, Tie Dan’s prowess was sufficiently exposed just prior, even Shangqing Dao’s quintet hadn’t matched him face-to-face, those schemers concealed were naturally loath to perish under the Cloud Platform.

Tie Dan scoffed, sweeping an arm to send a Sword Wind, slashing remaining demons to fragments, turning back to check the formation, only to find in such short time, that over half of the sword talismans in the Eternal Wind Sword Formation had been unearthed by the demon horde tunneling.

"Has anyone visited the array?"

Tie Dan frowned, though in urgency, surrounded without fitting earth vein spiritual springs, the sword formation was casually set with talismans and indeed buried shallow, but how could demons recognize this formation?

"Uh, not people, but a pig came."

"A pig?"

Fen Yun nodded,

"Just about to report to the Sect Leader, earlier in your absence, a Great Demon, pig-body, human-face, challenged the formation.

It called itself Xiu Yu Mountain God, claimed we intruded its Daoist field, demanded fifty boxes of treasures as compensation.

Naturally, I ignored this. So it sent minions to besiege."

Xiu Yu Mountain God? A pig-faced human?

Tie Dan’s eyes turned, calculating - with suspicion, how an ordinary rural Evil God Mountain Demon could break his Eternal Wind Sword Formation. Surely a Mystic Sect was covertly directing from behind. But knowing the enemy’s trace, it was indispensable to strike back, wipe them out entire families.

Tie Dan, wary of countermeasures, gathered the talismans, reshuffled the formation, deployed a Liquan Sword Formation.

"Alright, you continue guard, I’m off to slaughter pigs."

"Yes, obeying the decree."

Tie Dan departed, however his vigilance remained, soon heading to Beiliu Village, questioning the revered Xiu Yu Mountain pig and probing for residing Cultivation Sect local overlords.

Came Tie Dan’s Sword Rainbow, swirling above Beiliu Village, Divine Sense lightly swept, immediately he turned ashen, left staunched cloud gazing the blood sea below, speechless for long.

Indeed, within such brevity, entire village inhabitants slaughtered to extinction.

Men, women, children, village chief, foremen, Zhang San, Li Si, fleeting acquaintances, villagers and farmers alike. All killed for promising Tie Dan aid, working diligently, striving to repair his ship, begetting calamity, extinguished utterly.

Moreover, the wounds, mirror-smooth, muscle severed bones cleaved, necks instantaneously beheaded - unmistakably slain by swords.

Yes, precisely the Nine Yin Sword Technique Tie Dan casually inscribed on the wall.

As if someone glanced, mastered it, then tried their sword on passersby.

Demon Sect... Demon Sect...