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

……

Cao Meng originally planned to kill Xiao Huohuo and then have Shishi refine the entire Xiao family with her blood.

But now that Xiao Huohuo has escaped, Cao Meng has decided to let the Xiao family go.

The main advantage of keeping the Xiao family around is that they can serve as an early warning system.

Now the Xiao family is also Xiao Huohuo's enemy. If Xiao Huohuo ever comes back to take revenge, his first target will definitely be the Xiao family.

Rather than killing the Xiao family, it's better to keep them around as a warning!
The final result was that Xiao Cheng, the eldest elder of the Xiao family, succeeded to the position of head of the Xiao family.

The first thing Xiao Cheng did after taking power was to order the arrest of Xiao Huohuo and the extermination of Xiao Huohuo's faction!
Xiao Cheng knew very well that he and Xiao Huohuo had reached a point of no return, and he wouldn't feel at ease until Xiao Huohuo was dead.

Of course, with Cao Meng's matchmaking, the Xiao family and the An family successfully formed a marriage alliance, and the Xiao family took in those old men and women!

The Xiao family was forced to give Cao Meng a lot of spirit stones as a dowry, just to buy peace of mind!

……

Cao Meng, accompanied by Shi Shi and Hong Qi, emerged from a secret entrance on Qianyu Island.

"I thought this secret realm was a great secret realm, but it turns out to be the tomb of a rogue cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage!"

Hongqi, nestled in Cao Meng's arms, grumbled, clearly dissatisfied with her gains in this secret realm.

Not only was Hong Qi dissatisfied, but Cao Meng was also dissatisfied.

This secret realm is the one that the Chu family, An family, and Xiao family jointly discovered. It is precisely because of this secret realm that the three families have a very tense relationship!

After the matters between the Xiao family and the An family were settled, Cao Meng set his sights on this secret realm.

At first, he was quite happy to see that the secret realm had not yet been opened by the three families, but after he opened the tunnel and entered the secret realm, he was speechless.

What kind of secret realm is this? It's just a tomb.

The most valuable parts of this tomb are the seal on the entrance to the secret realm and the coffin containing the body of the tomb's occupant.

The tomb's occupant was a rogue cultivator at the half-step Void Refinement stage in life. With his lifespan nearing its end, he sealed himself in a secret realm to undergo a life-and-death retreat, attempting to break through the realm and prolong his life. Predictably, he failed!
The only consolation for Cao Meng was that the body of the tomb owner was well preserved, and he could take it to the Corpse Yin Sect to sell for money when he had time.

After everything was settled, Cao Meng and An Yingji continued their trials, seeking someone to refine their cultivation levels.

As for Lanzhi and An Laodeng, since it was inconvenient for them to follow, they parted ways. Under An Yingji's arrangement, Lanzhi and An Laodeng, a married couple, went to Chunfeng City.

As for An Jia, let's not talk about him!
……

After Cao Meng and his entourage left Qianyu Island by flying boat, they headed towards the Zhuyue Dynasty.

Of course, their main destination was the Liuyun Dynasty, and they were only passing through the Zhuyue Dynasty, since the Zhuyue Dynasty and the Liuyun Dynasty were neighbors.

Why go to the Flowing Cloud Dynasty?

Because the Liu family, the royal family of the Liuyun Dynasty, is Liu Ruyan's kinship.

Now that Cao Meng has something good, he naturally wants to give Liu Ruyan, his senior sister from his previous life, a great gift.

I hope she'll like it!

When Cao Meng and his party passed through the Zhu Yue Dynasty, they made a special trip to see Huang Yu and Zuo Yue Rong.

Cao Meng explained the task to the two women and what they were to do next. He also left them a few Immortal Inquiry Machines before leaving decisively without lingering.

Cao Meng's flying boat entered the territory of the Liuyun Dynasty. Cao Meng found a secluded valley and stopped the flying boat.

Cao Meng looked at Xiao Yuanzheng in front of him and sneered:

"Old man, are you ready to welcome a new life?"

The gift he wanted to give to Liu Ruyan was Xiao Yuanzheng, which was also the reason he spared Xiao Yuanzheng's life.

"You villain, if you have the guts, kill me! My son will definitely avenge me!"

Xiao Yuanzheng is now determined to die. He believes that his sons will avenge him, especially his eldest son Xiao Fan and second son Xiao Chen, who are both cultivating in top-tier sects.

The only thing he can't let go of now is his third son, Xiao Huohuo, who escaped from Cao Meng and whose whereabouts are unknown.

However, he felt that it was a good thing that the other party was missing, at least it meant that the other party had not been caught.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you. I'll give you a chance to become stronger and take revenge!"

As Cao Meng spoke, he took out a jade bottle.

Since Cao Meng obtained this item, it has been gathering dust in his storage ring. Originally, Cao Meng intended to use it to deal with the Xuan Tian Sect.

However, Cao Meng felt that this thing was a bit low-grade and not suitable for dealing with the Xuan Tian Sect, so he planned to give it to Xiao Yuanzheng.

Upon seeing the jade bottle in Cao Meng's hand, Zi Rou'er involuntarily took a few steps back, exclaiming in horror:
"This is... Chi Liyu's corpse poison!"

She recognized the jade bottle in Cao Meng's hand at a glance. After all, it had been inside her body before being taken out by Chi Liyu and then put away by Cao Meng.

Zi Rou'er thought Cao Meng had destroyed the corpse poison long ago, but she didn't expect that Cao Meng would still keep it.

After Cao Meng poured the bottle of corpse poison into Xiao Yuanzheng's body, he ignored everything and simply left him in this desolate valley.

Cao Meng's final act of kindness was to place Xiao Yuanzheng in a remote valley within the territory of the Liuyun Dynasty.

As for how big the waves will eventually be, Cao Meng felt that it was none of his business. After all, he had already shown great mercy by not abandoning the other party in the crowd!

Liuyun Dynasty: Cao Meng, you are really merciful! We are a second-rate power, and you send us a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator infected with corpse poison. You are really vicious!

"Roar!"

No sooner had Cao Meng and his party sailed through the valley than a bloodthirsty roar echoed from within!

Undoubtedly, Xiao Yuanzheng had already turned into a bloodthirsty ferocious corpse under the corrosive effects of the corpse poison.

It has to be said that the corpse poison given by Chi Liyu is really powerful, and the corpse transformation effect is really fast!

……

"Father~"

In a small valley north of Daozhou in the Eastern Region, a mass of rotten flesh suddenly sat up. It turned out that this mass of rotten flesh was a person!
Dan Chen used Xiao Huohuo's body to inflict unprecedented injuries on Xiao Huohuo, to the point that Xiao Huohuo was unconscious until now and only now has he become familiar with the body.

Xiao Huohuo had just had a nightmare in which his father turned into a bloodthirsty monster, and he was immediately awakened by the nightmare.

After Xiao Huohuo came to her senses, she felt pain in all the meridians of her body.

Where is my right arm?

"what!"

After Xiao Huohuo came to her senses, she found that she could not feel her right arm.

He was immediately terrified when he saw it, because he didn't have a right arm at all, only a terrible wound!
Xiao Huohuo got excited and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his lower body.

He touched his groin and was so frightened that he fainted.

Where is my bird?

After some time, Xiao Huohuo finally woke up again, but he still couldn't accept the fact that he had been castrated.

Xiao Huohuo wanted to know what Dan Chen had done after he lent his body to him, and why he had become the one-armed swordsman, the Taoist without a concubine.
If he had known things would turn out this way, he wouldn't have lent his body to Dan Chen. This master is really too much of a jerk. Xiao Huohuo felt disgusted by the filth and blood all over his body, so he quickly cast a cleansing spell to cleanse himself.

Xiao Huohuo was so frightened by the body cleaning that she almost fainted.

Who is this old man with a full head of white hair, a face showing yellow spots, and a one-armed, hunchbacked posture?
Is this you?

How did I, a dashing young man, turn into a hunchbacked old man?
Xiao Huohuo quickly sat down and used his divine sense to check his own condition. He was shocked by what he saw. His lifespan of over 500 years, with his Golden Core cultivation, was reduced to only three years!

This means that if he cannot advance to the Nascent Soul stage and extend his lifespan within three years, he is doomed.

More importantly, all his meridians and the golden core in his dantian were eroded and burned by a terrifying force.

His golden core was damaged, and his original cultivation level of the sixth level of the golden core was reduced to only the first level.

He only has three years left to live, and with his current cultivation level of only the first level of the Golden Core stage, he doesn't even dare to use his cultivation to reconstruct his severed limbs.

Once his cultivation is damaged and his limbs are reconstructed, if he falls out of the Golden Core stage, there will only be one outcome for him—death!

At this moment, Xiao Huohuo was filled with hatred!

Dan Chen not only failed to rescue his father, but also got him into this mess. He wanted to know if his master, Dan Chen, could get him into even more trouble!
At this moment, Xiao Huohuo discovered a jade slip, and he quickly picked it up to examine it:

Huo Huo, when you saw this jade slip back then, your master had already fallen into a deep sleep due to damage to your primordial spirit and true soul...

This jade slip was left to Xiao Huohuo by Dan Chen. In this jade slip, Dan Chen told Xiao Huohuo about the situation.

As for burning five hundred years of lifespan, losing an arm... he blamed it all on the Hehuan Sect.

At the same time, he also told Xiao Huohuo about the current situation and how to deal with it in the jade slip.

As for whether Dan Chen has truly fallen into a deep sleep, only he himself knows.

"Master, I was confused for a moment, and I even blamed you!"

After learning about the situation from the jade slip left by Dan Chen, Xiao Huohuo felt very guilty. He hadn't expected the situation to be so dangerous.

The miserable state that I and my master are in now is all the fault of the Hehuan Sect, all the fault of that traitor Cao!
I will definitely not let Cao Cao and the Hehuan Sect get away with it, nor those traitors from the Xiao family!

However, Xiao Huohuo knew that his immediate priority was to kill someone and quickly get a right arm reattached.

"Use the limbs of others to complete your own body"—this was the advice Dan Chen gave Xiao Huohuo in the jade slip.

This is the simplest, most effortless, and fastest method.

Although Xiao Huohuo was somewhat resistant to Dan Chen's suggestion, he had no other choice at this point.

In order to avoid becoming disabled, he had no choice but to have one arm reattached.

Regarding the matter of Kun Kun, Xiao Huo Huo felt it was inappropriate to use someone else's, so he did not plan to first reach the Nascent Soul stage and then use his cultivation to reconstitute Kun Kun!
Xiao Huohuo has already set off to work on his right arm!
……

Tens of thousands of years ago, the righteous and demonic paths of the Eastern Dao Continent fought a great war, with the two sides battling it out in the Yunfu Kingdom of the Eastern Dao Continent.

In that battle, a total of three top-tier forces were wiped out, and four top-tier forces were reduced to first-rate forces.

The righteous and demonic paths lost more than ten Nascent Soul stage ancestors, more than a hundred Void Refinement stage ancestors, and countless Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

As for the losses of other insignificant cannon fodder, neither the righteous nor the demonic paths have made significant statistics.

All that is known is that after that battle, both the righteous and the demonic paths took a long time to recover their strength.

As for the battlefield of Yunfu Kingdom, it has become a ghost realm and ghost kingdom, nourished by the blood and gore of cultivators' corpses and the evil and resentful aura.

The original Yunfu Ghost Kingdom could have been easily wiped out by the combined strength of the top sects of both the righteous and demonic paths.

However, the top sects of the demonic path were unwilling to intervene because the Ghost Kingdom of Yunfu was an excellent place to raise corpses and evil spirits, which would benefit the demonic sects.

The righteous sects do want to take action to wipe out the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom, but the problem is that while they are gathering their forces to attack the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom, they also need to be wary of the demonic sects!
Faced with this thankless task, the righteous sects chose to abandon their attack on the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom.

Finally, the righteous and demonic sects discussed and decided to seal off the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom to prevent the evil spirits and demons within from emerging, and to use the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom as a training ground for their disciples!
……

Cao Meng's flying boat arrived at the outskirts of the Ghost Kingdom of Yunfu. It wasn't that Cao Meng wanted to come, but rather that An Yingji wanted to come.

Cao Meng looked at the area where the Ghost Kingdom of Yunfu was located. It was shrouded in dark clouds all year round, and the sun never shone. It truly deserved to be called a very ominous place!
He couldn't help but frown, because according to the rumors he had heard about the Ghost Kingdom of Yunfu, there were fierce corpses and evil spirits there that were no weaker than those in the Integration Stage.

Cao Meng estimated that the rumor was probably true, after all, tens of thousands of years ago, more than ten Nascent Soul stage cultivators and so many Void Refinement stage cultivators perished on both the righteous and demonic paths. At least one or two of them turned into evil spirits and reached the seventh level.

Cao Meng felt that his sister, Yuanzi, had gone too far. Even though he was her protector, she shouldn't have gone to such a dangerous place!

To improve cultivation levels, just find a few second-rate forces to hunt down those Nascent Soul stage cultivators!

"A rare Corpse Demon General has appeared on the outskirts of the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom. I have accepted a mission from the Mission Hall to hunt down the Corpse Demon General and obtain its Ghost Fang!"

"Junior brother, you'll help your senior sister complete the mission, right?"

Since An Yingji was going out to test and hone her skills, she decided to take on a few missions to earn some rewards.

The task of hunting down the Ghost General's Ghost Fang was the one with the most generous reward she had ever accepted.

A single Ghost Fang costs 100,000 low-grade spirit stones, while a whole Corpse Ghost General would cost as much as 10 million low-grade spirit stones.

Such a high reward shows that the Corpse Demon General is quite powerful.

An Yingji dared to accept this task mainly because of Cao Meng and Shishi.

An Yingji believed that with them around, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Convex (fuck dish)
Cao Meng looked terrible. He should have taken on a few missions when he came out.

Now that everyone else has come out, it's too late to take on any more missions.

No, even though we are out there, we have people in our Hehuan Sect who can take on the missions for us.

"Uncle Xia, go to the Mission Hall and get me all the missions related to the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom!"

Cao Meng promptly sent a message to Xia Yulan, saying that since he had arrived in the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom today, he would book all the missions related to the Yunfu Ghost Kingdom.

"You little rascal, all done!"

Soon Xia Yulan sent Cao Meng a message, followed by a task list, with more than a hundred tasks of all sizes!
Just as Cao Meng was about to put away the divine inquiry, Xia Yulan sent him a message:
"You little rascal, the mission rewards are split 50/50!"

When Cao Meng saw the message from the great fairy Xia Yulan, he felt that she had gone too far.

While I'm bleeding and sweating here, the great demon Xia Yulan is living a life of luxury in the Hehuan Sect, and even wants to split the profits 50/50. Is that fair?

"I, Martial Uncle Xia, choose to refuse!"

Cao Meng retorted firmly, indicating that he would not be taken advantage of!
"Refusal is invalid because these tasks are all assigned to me; only I can submit them. You won't get the task rewards if you submit them, you little brat!"

"You little brat, as long as I don't abandon the mission within the allotted time, no one else can take on those missions!"

Xia Yulan had anticipated Cao Meng's protest, so she deliberately prepared a backup plan.

"Uncle-Master Xia, you'll lose me if you keep doing this!"

Left with no other choice, Cao Meng opted to appease and beg for mercy.

"You little rascal, I'll take pity on you and ask for less. I'll take 30%!"

Xia Yulan also chose to back down, after all, it wouldn't be good to really push Cao Meng too far. (End of this chapter)