Stranger Danger

Beside him, Feng Qingyou looked at Ye Qing and congratulated him, “Congratulations on stepping through the profound gate and becoming a Trueman, Joyless.”

“You too!” Ye Qing laughed. He could clearly sense that Feng Qingyou’s aura was stronger and deeper than it was before she entered the Six Livestocks Market. Clearly, she had made a good amount of progress herself.

A thought occurred to Ye Qing then. “Oh right, I need to ask you something. Do you remember what happened inside the Six Livestocks Market? I don’t know why, but I remember a person teaching us and answering questions about the Dao.”

It was commonly known that everyone who entered the Six Livestocks Market would remember the fact that they were practicing and nothing else. For example, he clearly remembered himself purifying his yin god and manifesting his yang god. That wasn’t the only memory he possessed, however. There were two more.

First, he remembered a person of untold power annihilating a heart demon with one hand and leaving behind a mark containing the origin power of the Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon and the Heart Demon of Bewitching Desire in his forehead.

Second, he remembered a person answering their questions and talking about the Dao while surrounded by eager disciples.

He remembered the person’s words and actions as clear as day, but for some reason, he could not remember his name, his appearance, his gender or even his age. It was odd to say the least.

“It’s the same for me,” Feng Qingyou responded with the same puzzlement. “I don’t think something like this has ever happened in the Six Livestocks Market.”

“Strange. Who is that person?” Ye Qing rubbed his nose.

“I could be wrong, but it is probably the champion who left behind the Six Livestocks Market.” Feng Qingyou smiled. “In any case, there is no need to overthink this. The senior harbors no malice toward us, and we even owe him for the lessons he taught us. Let’s just regard it as good fortune and leave it at that.”

“Agreed.” Ye Qing shrugged. He had gotten far more than what he was anticipating during this trip. What was there to be dissatisfied about? “If there is nothing else, then let us depart.”

“Oh right, where is Tao Chong?” Feng Qingyou glanced around once before smiling a little. “Did he run away?”

“What do you think? Of course he did.” Ye Qing shrugged again before chuckling. “Not only did he run away, he’s at Moon Bay already. That’s over fifty kilometers away from our current location.”

“Moon Bay, huh? He sure is quick-footed!” Feng Qingyou chuckled as well.

“Oh, he’s not just quick-footed. He’s harboring evil designs as well,” Ye Qing’s chuckle turned into a sneer.

“Evil designs?” Feng Qingyou asked, “Are you saying that he is planning to spread the word regarding our kidnapping of the disciples of Nine Nethers Sect and the Seventy Two Water Land Alliance to delay us?”

“If only. The greedy bastard is hoping that they will do him a favor and wipe us out once and for all!” Ye Qing smirked.

“Say, how do you know his location and thoughts so clearly?” Feng Qingyou asked puzzledly.

“Because he told me, of course.” Ye Qing favored Feng Qingyou an enigmatic smile.

He was telling the truth. He knew because Tao Chong had told him about his plans, but of course, he didn’t mean that the fake goatherd had spoken to him. He had “heard”, or more accurately, “felt” Tao Chong’s thoughts from tens of kilometers away.

This sounded unbelievable. After all, not even famous Magias and secret arts such as the Buddhist’s “Telepathy” or the Taoist’s “Heavenly Heart” etc could listen to another person’s thoughts from tens of kilometers away. It was the truth though. It was all thanks to his new ascension and the mysterious mark on his forehead.

After he forged his yang god and became a Trueman, his “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra” had entered the adept level and become much stronger than before. Combined with the mysterious mark containing the origin power of the Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon and the Heart Demon of Bewitching Desire, his spiritual power had multiplied in quantity as well. On top of that, his demonic thought and mind had undergone a qualitative transformation, which caused his “Heavenly Demon Captures The Soul” and “Boundless Heart Demon Tribulation” to become way stronger than before.

Without exaggeration, one thought was all he needed to summon heart demons in thousands and thousands of people’s hearts and influence their desires. If he wanted to, he could tempt tens of thousands of people into depravity and turn, say, a commandery into a living hell in an instant, all without leaving a single trace behind. 𐍂ＡNȪΒĚ𝒮

Besides that, he had learned a new Magia named the “Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent”. To put it simply, he could inject his demonic thought into another person’s mind and convert them into his Heavenly Demon Dependent.

He had absolute control over a Heavenly Demon Dependent’s life. If he wanted to, he could kill them with a single thought. Not only that, they would provide him with an endless source of heart demon and desires to nourish and strengthen his mind. At a critical moment, he could even drain their strength for his own use in an instant.

Best of all, so long as one Heavenly Demon Dependent was still alive, he could return to life through them even if his original body was slain.

One might say that the “Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent” was the true core and essence of the “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra”. Only by mastering the “Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent” could he truly become undying and eternal like the true Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon itself.

Even better—or terrifying, depending on how you looked at it—there was no requirement he needed to meet to use the Magia. He could convert literally anyone be it a completely ordinary mortal or a heaven-blessed genius into his dependent so long as he injected his demonic thought into their mind.

Generally speaking, converting a genius was much better than converting an ordinary mortal. The latter possessed limited potential and could not really aid him in a meaningful way. On the other hand, the former was extraordinarily useful be it in terms of cultivation or other applications.

That said, converting mortals wasn’t completely meaningless. In fact, they boasted two advantages that the other method did not possess, and that was one, sheer quantity and two, ease of control.

With enough sand, you could make a tower. With enough leather, you could make a robe. One man’s power was limited, but a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand? That was a completely different story.

At his current strength, Ye Qing could seduce an entire commandery of people into depravity and convert them into his dependents without breaking a sweat. Ignoring the consequences, he could absolutely grow his strength to an insane rate in just a short amount of time.

But of course, practicing this way came with severe, unignorable consequences. First, the civilians he converted would suffer severe mental damage and fall to insanity. Second, this method was against the natural order and would tempt the wrath of heavens. Third, practicing on top of a mountain of mixed heart demons and desires could easily destabilize his own foundation. If he wasn’t careful, his mind could become corrupted, and he would suffer a deviation.

However, this consequence did not apply to Ye Qing. This was because his yang god was forged using the Profound Yellow Mother Qi, meaning that it was immune to all evils and influences. He could never be mentally corrupted and dragged into deviation. In other words, he absolutely had the choice to convert everyone he met into a dependent and use them to grow powerful as quickly as possible.

Ye Qing could not do that though. He could never view people’s lives like grass or exploit an innocent person’s life to further his power.

Villains who deserved a fate worse than death were a different story, of course.

In conclusion, the “Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent” was an unbelievably potent and useful Magia. It was why he could sense Tao Chong’s thoughts despite being tens of kilometers away from the man.

Earlier, he had planted a demonic seed in Tao Chong’s mind in order to control him. This demonic seed was, in fact, a basic way of employing the “Paranirmita Boundless Heavenly Demon Dependent”. It was thanks to the demonic seed that he was partially connected to Tao Chong’s mind. To put it in simpler terms, Tao Chong was already his dependent. That was why he could sense his malice and hear his thoughts from so far away.

In fact, he could sense the malice of anyone who was his dependent even if they were thousands and thousands of kilometers away from him.

For now, thousands and thousands of kilometers was his absolute limit. In the future, as his mind and cultivation improved, and the potency of his Magia grew stronger, the distance and depths of his senses would also improve.

“Tao Chong knows our name, and he has seen our true faces. It would be troublesome if he told the Seventy Two Water Land Alliance and the Nine Nethers Sect what we did,” Feng Qingyou remarked.

The point here was that it would be troublesome at most.

“Don’t worry. He won’t get the chance to speak.” Ye Qing gave her an enigmatic smile.

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