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

Cao Meng: Don't overthink it. I don't have time to ambush you. I just want you to face off against Xiao Huohuo!

After the fierce corpse Xiao Yuanzheng was killed, Mo Dian ordered Liu Ruyan to lead Golden Core cultivators and some Nascent Soul cultivators to conquer the other corpse cities.

As for Mo Dian, he wouldn't take the risk. What if the Hehuan Sect really had ambushes in the other corpse cities and captured him?
With the cooperation of Liu Ruyan's side and the army of the Liuyun Dynasty, the corpse calamity of the Liuyun Dynasty was completely resolved in just a few days.

Princess Liu Ruyan of the Liuyun Dynasty took the lead by example, which further increased her popularity among the people and paved the way for her future path to becoming the Great Emperor Ruyan.

Mo Dian was the only one who was puzzled and didn't understand what the Hehuan Sect was up to.

Surely it's not just about throwing out a half-step Nascent Soul fierce corpse to annoy people, is it?

That's really disgusting. He was all prepared for a fierce battle, but when things went wrong, he ran away.

As expected, nothing happened, so all his worrying for so long was for nothing!

Suqin Peak...

Since Cao Meng and his group returned, An Yingji and Zi Rou'er have been diligently cultivating.

There will inevitably be many people coming to cause trouble at this Hehuan Sect celebration, and An Yingji, as the senior sister of the Hehuan Sect, will naturally be under immense pressure.

Although the Beast Soul Sect is an ally of the Joyful Union Sect, Zi Rou'er will still make a move this time to show off!

Cao Meng, on the other hand, lay there peacefully, feeling no pressure whatsoever.

With his cultivation at the half-step Nascent Soul stage, his true combat strength was comparable to that of a second-level Nascent Soul cultivator, making it easy for him to suppress his peers.

While playing with the divination tool, Cao Meng learned from the reports of Huang Yu and Zuo Yuerong from the Zhu Yue Dynasty that the corpse calamity of the Liu Yun Dynasty had been resolved and that the fierce corpse Xiao Yuanzheng had been killed by the Xuan Tian Sect.

This is exactly what Cao Meng wanted. The fierce corpse Xiao Yuanzheng died at the hands of the Xuantian Sect, and what he wanted was for Xiao Huohuo to set fire to the Xuantian Sect!

Cao Meng immediately used the Inquiry Tool to tag some people, instructing them to spread the information so that Xiao Huohuo would hear the news.

Hopefully, Xiao Huohuo can bring good fortune to the Xuantian Sect, like the saying goes, "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river," and not underestimate the old and poor. Or a three-year agreement would also be acceptable!
Hongqi was very unhappy to see Cao Meng lying on a recliner basking in the sun, while Shishi and Yurui served him and competed for his favor.

Her great Princess Hongqi was doing such a shameful thing, which made Princess Hongqi very angry.

"Pink-furred fox, you better incubate the eggs!"

Seeing that Hongqi wasn't working diligently, Cao Meng picked up a spirit fruit and threw it at her.

Cao Meng received a divine beast egg as a reward from the system. In order to hatch the divine beast egg as soon as possible, he handed the task over to Hong Qi.

"Cao Meng, you actually made this princess incubate the eggs! You've gone too far!"

Hongqi was furious when the topic came up. She, the dignified Princess Hongqi, was forced to incubate an egg. It was a disgrace!

"you are not human!"

Cao Meng ruthlessly exposed Hong Qi's deception, saying that it was going too far and that it was bullying people, but he himself was bullying a fox, which was not going too far!
Hong Qi was so angry at Cao Meng that she gritted her teeth. If the situation hadn't prevented it, she would have definitely fought this scoundrel Cao to rid the cultivation world of this scourge!

Despite her anger, Hongqi was puzzled as to how Cao Cao had obtained this golden egg.

This golden egg is extraordinary; its shell has large sun patterns, allowing it to absorb the power of the sun.

He secretly set the egg on fire with foxfire, but the foxfire was absorbed by the egg instead.

This golden egg is no ordinary egg; it would be wonderful to eat it!

"No no no!"

As soon as Xia Yulan came out of the house, she saw Cao Meng arguing with Hong Qi, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggle.

Xia Yulan beckoned to Cao Meng with her finger, and Cao Meng immediately understood and quickly followed her into the house.

"Cao Meng, didn't you want to learn the Life-Splitting Force? Today, your martial uncle is going to teach you!"

Xia Yulan had been hesitating about whether to teach Cao Meng the Jie Sheng Jin technique until today, when she finally made her decision.

She felt that with Cao Meng's cultivation level, he should be able to control the Life-Severing Force and wouldn't suffer a backlash.

"That's it!"

Cao Meng looked disappointed. He thought the great demon Xia Yulan was going to sacrifice herself to feed the demon? It turned out she was just going to teach him martial arts!

Cao Meng currently knows several advanced martial arts techniques, which is enough for him. He doesn't need a single life-severing technique.

"I obtained this secret technique after nearly dying nine times. Moreover, if I were to teach you the Life-Severing Force, it would damage my cultivation. Therefore, I cannot teach you for nothing. How about you hand over the business of seeking immortal secrets to me?"

Xia Yulan directly revealed her true intentions: she wanted to control Wenxianji's business.

During this period, she and Duanmu Fei refined the Immortal Inquiry Machine and sold it, but the production could not keep up with the sales.

With Xianji's business so thriving, she naturally wanted to take control of it.

As for An Yingji, that little girl can't handle this big business; it'll have to be Xia Yulan who does it.

This young girl doesn't know how treacherous people can be; she can't outmaneuver those old women.

Xia Yulan fought against those old women for so many years and was still not defeated by them. That's real strength!
An Yingji: Xia Yulan, you've been fighting with them for so many years, and the cafeteria business was almost dead. It was only thanks to Cao Meng that it was brought back to life.

You're such a loser, what right do you have to talk to me like that!
"Uncle Xia, can you please stop being so greedy?"

Cao Meng felt that Xia Yulan was being a bit greedy. She wanted to get involved in the business of Zhiyang Pearl and bubble tea, and now she wanted to get involved in Wenxianji. Couldn't she stop going so far?

Cao Meng used to be very interested in the "Intercepting Life Force" technique, but now he's just so-so about it!

He estimated that even if he learned it, he probably wouldn't know how to use it.

Because those killed by the life-severing force will die without a complete body and be reduced to ashes, making it impossible to sell their corpses.

"Woo!"

Xia Yulan suddenly started sobbing, crying out:

"Now that she's with you, she's being labeled as an old cow eating young grass."

Now all my peers are laughing at me, and you're still so heartless. I might as well just kill myself!

Xia Yulan cried and threatened to smash her head against a pillar while glancing at Cao Meng every now and then.

"You little brat, why didn't you stop me!"

Seeing that Cao Meng didn't make any move, Xia Yulan immediately stopped acting and gave Cao Meng a whack on the head.

"Uncle Xia, I was just afraid of disturbing your acting skills."

Cao Meng was speechless at Xia Yulan's dramatic antics.

With the opponent's cultivation at the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage, even if he smashed a mountain, he wouldn't die!

"You heartless little rascal, you've been cheating on me with other women behind my back. Are you thinking that if I die, they can make room for me?!"

"Is it Consort Duanmu, or An Yingji, or that little bitch from Wan Qifeng!"

Seeing that her gentle approach wasn't working, Xia Yulan decided to resort to force. She was determined to win Cao Meng over today.

You must know that she is Cao Meng's public Daoist partner, unlike those shady wildflowers.

"Uncle-Master Xia, what are you saying?"

Cao Meng was startled when he saw that Xia Yulan seemed to know about the matter between his vengeful senior sister and Ying Huai, but he dared not admit it.

"You little brat, you know perfectly well what I'm saying!"

Xia Yulan sneered when she saw that Cao Meng was still pretending with her.

Sometimes I really want to dig your heart out and see how many colors you have, since you're so fickle!

When Xia Yulan first met Cao Meng, she knew he was a womanizer; she had simply been careless and ended up on his treacherous path.

"I've seen it, my heart is crimson gold!" Cao Meng had indeed seen his own heart, which had been opened and examined by the cunning and immoral little girl Chi Liyu in the secret realm of the Longevity Sword Sect.

Because of the Ten-Day Sacred Body and the innate Geng Metal Body, my heart and essence are all reddish-gold in color.

"You little rascal, you already have me and Senior Sister Duanmu Fei, and you even went after that little girl An Yingji, and even hooked up with Wan Qifeng's little bitch."

Shouldn't you offer me something in return to make up for the heart you've broken?

Xia Yulan knew all too well that many people were eyeing Wenxianji's business, especially Consort Duanmu.

She must strike first to gain more benefits.

Otherwise, once Consort Duanmu makes her move, she might not be able to defeat her.

"Uncle-Master Xia, do you know about Yinghuai?"

Cao Meng is now certain that the great fairy Xia Yulan knows about Ying Huai's affair. She should know that she and Ying Huai have kept their relationship a secret all along!
He rarely saw the other person in order to avoid anyone discovering that he had faked his death through him.

"Lingering thoughts? Ha!"

Upon hearing this name, Xia Yulan sneered and said mockingly:
"Looks like this little bitch hasn't told you her real identity yet!"

Yinghuai is Shen Aoxue, and Shen Aoxue is Yinghuai.

Xia Yulan thought Cao Meng should already know, but it turns out that this little rascal still doesn't know.

"???"

Cao Meng was somewhat confused, but from Xia Yulan's words, he understood that Ying Huai's identity was not so simple, and of course, he also had some guesses in his mind!
"I'll give you ten percent of the profits from asking about the immortal secrets!"

Cao Meng decided to give 10% of the benefits from the divination to the great demon, while also keeping 10% for the female demon and Ying Huai, emphasizing equal treatment for everyone.

Cao Meng calculated that after deducting 10% of the costs, and then deducting 10% of the profits from the wronged senior sister, the female demon, the great demon, and Ying Huai, the total was 50%.

The remaining 50% should be enough for my needs.

"What do you mean only one-tenth?"

Xia Yulan felt it was too little, and that the other party was a bit heartless.

"You've certainly taken a cut from my profits with those Zhiyang Pearls and bubble tea!"

Cao Meng didn't even want to talk about Xia Yulan anymore. This girl has never been honest. She's always been greedy for the profits from the Zhiyang Pearl and the bubble tea.

"You little rascal, you should be close to advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, right?"

"I'll go and kidnap a female cultivator at the fourth or fifth level of the Nascent Soul stage who has primordial yin energy, so you can extract her primordial yin energy and thus help you advance to the Nascent Soul stage."

When the time comes, ask Xianji for the profits; how about we split them 50/50?

Even after her true colors were exposed, Xia Yulan was still unwilling to give up the benefits of Wenxianji.

It just so happens that some people in the Hehuan Sect are against her, so she decides to take action against them and help Cao Meng advance to the Nascent Soul stage!
"Uncle Xia, please stop hurting me. Because of what happened to Uncle Yuwen last time, I'm now too afraid to even pass by Hundred Flowers Peak!"

Cao Meng quickly refused Xia Yulan, as those at the fourth or fifth level of the Nascent Soul stage were basically at the peak master level.

If Xia Yulan gets into trouble and I take the blame, she'll get the benefits while I get punished—only a fool would do that!
"If you bring Uncle Yuwen here again, I reckon Grandmaster Xifeng will chop me in half with a single sword strike!"

Cao Meng seriously suspected that if he agreed to Xia Yulan's request, Yuwen Jing, the master of Hundred Flowers Peak, would likely become the first victim.

"Last time I let you touch me, but I didn't let you pinch me, and now you're blaming me? You're so heartless!"

Xia Yulan smacked Cao Meng on the head, scolded him, and signaled that Cao Meng could get lost.

She's in a bad mood today and doesn't want to teach Cao Meng the "Intercepting Life Force" technique; she'll do it again in a few days when she's in a better mood.

After Cao Meng was dismissed, Xia Yulan took out the Divine Inquiry Machine and sent a message to Shen Aoxue:

"Shen Aoxue, you should quickly confront Cao Meng and draw a clear line between yourself and him, so as not to affect Cao Meng's future competition for the position of sect leader!"

Xia Yulan can accept Cao Meng having an affair with anyone from the Hehuan Sect, but she cannot accept Cao Meng having an affair with Shen Aoxue.

Because if Cao Meng continues to have an entanglement with Shen Aoxue, it will give Cao Meng leverage against him.

……

"Pink fox, instead of properly incubating your eggs, what are you doing at the door?"

Cao Meng had just opened the door when he discovered Hong Qi eavesdropping at the doorway.

"This princess wants to stretch my body a bit!"

When Hongqi realized she had been discovered, she quickly pretended to stretch her body and prepare to slip away, but Cao Meng wouldn't let her get away and grabbed her by the tail!

"Cao Meng, Hong Qi is eavesdropping!"

Shishi ruthlessly exposed Hongqi's true intentions. In fact, she also wanted to eavesdrop, but she didn't go because she saw that Yurui, that vixen, wasn't.

Shishi couldn't help but feel glad that she was quick-witted; otherwise, it wouldn't just be Hongqi who got caught, but also her!

"Shishi, you actually betrayed me!"

Hongqi felt that she had known Shishi for a while and they could be considered friends, but the other party actually betrayed her in order to please Cao Cao. It was simply selling out a friend for favor!
"Go and incubate the eggs. If you overheard anything, don't say anything you shouldn't!"

Cao Meng pinched Hong Qi's cheek and gave her a warning.

"Cao Meng, I don't know what it will take for this egg to hatch. It might be a dead egg. Why don't we eat it and increase our cultivation?"

While Hongqi was incubating the egg, she was very tempted because she knew that the egg was extraordinary.

She felt that the golden egg should be taken and eaten, so that she wouldn't have to suffer the humiliation of incubating it.

"All you do all day is eat! I want to eat you to increase your cultivation level!"

Cao Meng was speechless at Hong Qi's gluttony. She couldn't do anything right except eat, and she was the kind of person who could eat all she wanted without gaining weight.

Its only use is for flirting with girls!

"You're disgusting, you're shameless!"

Hongqi was so frightened by Cao Meng's words that she quickly covered her body to prevent the beast from committing any evil deeds against her!
That traitor Cao really does lust after my body, after my virginity. I shouldn't have turned into half-human form in front of that beast last time.

o(╥﹏╥)oWuwu~
Now that Cao Cao has his eye on me, I am no longer safe!

Auntie, where are you?

Come save me right now, or this beast will ruin me!
"I really want to crack open your head and see what else is there besides color!"

Cao Meng gave Hong Qi a hard knock on the head. She was always thinking dirty thoughts. If her brain was useless, it could be donated.

After Cao Meng gave Hong Qi a nudge, he prepared to go out for a stroll. After all, the check-in map had long since cooled down, and it was time to check it out!

Of the eight main peaks—music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, tea, and flowers—he has already successfully checked in at the first four. His goal this time is Dream Poetry Peak. After receiving the check-in reward, he will also visit Ten Thousand Chess Peak to see Yinghuai!

Cao Meng hoped that this time the check-in point wouldn't be a disappointment, and that it wouldn't turn into a peak master's palace or a peak master's secluded training room.

Cao Meng's visit to Mengshi Peak was perfectly legitimate; he used the pretext of visiting Peak Master Song Yafei.

Being open and aboveboard has both advantages and disadvantages.

"Junior Brother Cao Meng, you came to Mengshi Peak to visit your senior sisters today. Did you bring any gifts?"

"What are you talking about? Junior Brother Cao Meng definitely brought it!"

"Junior Brother Cao Meng, what is the gift you gave us? Is it the Supreme Yang Pearl, or the Divine Inquiry?"

Cao Meng is now a big celebrity in the Hehuan Sect. As soon as he entered Mengshi Peak, he was surrounded by several personal disciples who asked him for gifts. (End of this chapter)