Having been given a second chance at life, I choose to join the Demonic Sect!

Chapter 122 Using one's own kind as bait!
After Cao Meng and Xing Lan completed their transaction, Xing Lan took out a snake-shaped chisel with a photographic stone in its mouth.

The Coiled Serpent, also known as the Soul-Devouring Pendant, is a high-grade fourth-tier spiritual artifact whose ability is related to extracting and refining souls.

Xing Lan unleashed the Soul-Devouring Pendant, piercing it into the space between Xiao Shenglin's nascent soul's eyebrows, and began frantically absorbing Xiao Shenglin's power and memories!
Xiao Shenglin's nascent soul began to wail and struggle under the torment of soul devouring, but who would care about a trapped beast!

Nearly an hour later, the task was finally completed. Xing Lan handed the image stone from the snake's head in the Soul-Devouring Pendant to Cao Meng. As for Xiao Shenglin's nascent soul, it had been tortured to the point of near death.

"Fellow Daoist Xing Lan, do you sell this Soul-Devouring Pendant?"

Cao Meng thought the Soul-Devouring Pendant was a pretty good and interesting artifact; he was quite interested in it.

It's the perfect tool to deal with the people of the Xuantian Sect!

"Do not sell!"

Xing Lan directly refused Cao Meng. Just as she was about to leave with Xiao Shenglin's Nascent Soul, Cao Meng stopped her and said:
"Fellow Daoist Xing Lan, how about you extract their memories for me as well? Their souls will be yours in return!"

Those three disciples of the Xuantian Sect are all disciples of the peak master. Who knows if they know anything about their respective masters' dirty secrets!
"it is good!"

Xing Lan did not refuse and agreed immediately.

Three disciples of the Xuantian Sect thus happily received a soul-extraction and spirit-refining package, while Cao Meng began to examine Xiao Shenglin's memories and, as expected, found some scandalous information.

However, these scandals are mostly from the Enforcement Hall.

For example, the disciples of the Enforcement Hall used torture to extract confessions, took money to do things, and played with the dirty secrets of some female disciples. There were even cases of murder and robbery committed by the Enforcement Hall!
Although these scandals are too much to bring down the Xuantian Sect!

However, if this gets out, the Xuantian Sect's Enforcement Hall will probably be doomed.

To thank the crowd for their support, Cao Meng immediately showed them the exciting scene captured in the photo stone.

"The Enforcement Hall of the Xuantian Sect is practically a small demonic sect!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Even the Enforcement Hall of our demonic sects, like the Xuan Tian Sect, isn't this corrupt!"

"This is what a righteous sect looks like? It's clearly a den of iniquity!"

"The Enforcement Hall of the Xuantian Sect is truly despicable!"

……

As onlookers gazed upon Xiao Shenglin's memories captured in the memory stone, both righteous and demonic figures erupted in curses.

Those who follow the demonic path accuse the Xuantian Sect of being hypocritical and falsely righteous, since these righteous sects criticize their demonic sects every day.

Those who follow the righteous path, being disciples of righteous sects, naturally have even more reason to criticize.

After all, if they don't curse, wouldn't that indirectly prove that they are in cahoots with the Xuantian Sect?

Despite the criticism, everyone understood that Xuantian Sect was going to lose face big time this time, even more so than Wenjian Sect.

Actually, besides the scandals, there are other memories as well.

For example, Xiao Shenglin knew the Xuantian Sect's techniques, but Cao Meng didn't show these to the general public.

When the time comes, wouldn't it be better to separately carve out the Xuan Tian Sect techniques that Xiao Shenglin knows and sell them?
As time passed, Xing Lan extracted the memories of the three direct disciples of the Xuan Tian Sect and imprinted them into the memory stone.

It has to be said that Xing Lan truly lives up to her reputation as a direct disciple of the Soul Refining Sect. Her ability to extract souls, refine spirits, and capture memories is professional and efficient!

……

As Cao Meng was examining the memories of the three direct disciples of the Xuantian Sect within the memory stone, a sudden change occurred.

"Hoohoo!"

With a roar, countless third- and fourth-tier demonic beasts, the Ice Crystal Nether Bears, burst forth from the Ten Thousand Lotus Valley, charging towards the cultivators of both the righteous and demonic paths. Seeing the beast horde erupt, the cultivators of both paths immediately sensed impending doom.

However, the Ice Crystal Nether Bear had already attacked, and they had no time to think before they were forced to fight back and battle with it.

Cao Meng and his gang all retreated to the side, dragging Zi Rou'er away with them as they did so.

After all, this is the niece of the female demon's old lover. If something goes wrong, how will the female demon explain it to her old lover, Zi Xixue?

As for fighting alongside the various sects against the Ice Crystal Nether Bear and shedding blood together to kill enemies, Cao Meng thought to hell with it!

If you go to help those people now, who knows, after you help them fight off the monsters, they might turn around and bite you back.

Moreover, Chi Liyu, that cunning little girl, was lurking in the shadows, and Cao Meng was afraid of being tricked by this treacherous little girl.

At the same time, he suspected that the Ice Crystal Nether Bear Clan's sudden attack might be the work of this treacherous little girl.

Who knows, it might be this treacherous little girl who forced the Hehuan Sect to take action, making him order Shishi to make a move.

Although the number of people from each sect was not as large as that of the demon beasts, each sect was not to be underestimated, and they all used talismans and magical artifacts to defend themselves.

Looking at the achievements of the cultivators from both the righteous and demonic paths, Cao Meng couldn't help but sneer inwardly. He knew that the Ice Crystal Nether Bear Clan was marked on the map, and there were three fifth-order transformed demonic beasts among them.

Even the appearance of a single fifth-tier transformed demonic beast would be enough to give these sects of both the righteous and demonic paths a hard time, not to mention that the Ice Crystal Nether Bear Clan has three.

"Human cultivators, is this all you can do, relying solely on external objects like talismans?"

A burly man draped in animal skins suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and his appearance immediately gave both the righteous and demonic cultivators a terrifying sense of oppression!
"A fifth-tier transformed demonic beast!"

After confirming the identity of the man in the animal skin, both the righteous and demonic cultivators panicked completely.

Because of the rules inside the secret realm, they can only use 4th-tier top-grade talismans at most, but 4th-tier top-grade talismans are not very threatening to 5th-tier transformed demonic beasts.

"Overwhelm him with fourth-tier talismans!"

It is unclear who made the suggestion, but subsequently, both righteous and demonic cultivators began using fourth-tier talismans.

One after another, talismans were unleashed, attacking the transformed demon beast like a violent storm.

At this moment, both the righteous and demonic cultivators were gambling that the burly man was a fifth-tier demonic beast that had only recently advanced in cultivation.

After all, a newly promoted fifth-tier demonic beast can still be killed by overwhelming it with fourth-tier talismans.

"Roar!"

Behind the burly man, a phantom of an ice crystal bear, hundreds of feet tall, materialized. The phantom roared and opened its blood-red maw, spewing out a storm of blood-red ice, which dispersed the talisman's fierce onslaught with a single blow.

"Today, you human cultivators are my Bing Sha's prey!"

As soon as Bing Sha finished speaking, he transformed back into his true form, a hundred-foot-tall ice crystal bear, and began to frantically slaughter cultivators from both the righteous and demonic sects.

In an instant, cultivators from all sects suffered heavy losses. Some were directly devoured by the Ice Fiend, while others with more serious injuries crushed the teleportation jade talisman, giving up the opportunity in the secret realm.

Some people were unwilling to give up the secret realm and began to break out in an attempt to escape Wanlian Valley!
"puff!"

Ice Fiend suddenly coughed up a mouthful of black blood and collapsed to the ground. The third and fourth-tier Ice Crystal Nether Bears immediately formed a circle to protect Ice Fiend.

The remaining dozen or so human Golden Core cultivators were quite surprised to see the fifth-order Ice Crystal Nether Bear Ice Fiend in this state. What on earth is this?
After transforming into human form, Bing Sha clutched his chest and roared at the remaining human cultivators:

"You human cultivators are truly despicable, actually using your own kind as bait to poison me!"

"Hand over the antidote, and I, Bing Sha, will spare your lives and let you leave this place!"

(End of this chapter)