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

Cao Meng looked at Su Qingyue's appearance and laughed:

"Su Qingyue, I have only just advanced to the third level of the Nascent Soul stage. If you make a move now, you might still be able to capture me!"

"If you capture me, the Xuantian Sect will be rid of one great enemy."

Now that Cao Meng has advanced to the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, he also wants to know how strong he really is, so he doesn't mind fighting Su Qingyue.

Su Qingyue didn't say anything more. After dressing herself, she left the cave in a daze.

If you look closely, you can see that Su Qingyue's originally black hair has started to turn silver.

"It's boring!"

Cao Meng watched Su Qingyue leave without stopping her.

Let this woman go back and see how the Xuantian Sect dealt with Daoist Tiancong, let her see how ridiculous their so-called sect rules and ironclad laws are!

……

After Su Qingyue left, Cao Meng pondered a question.

He had only been out for a short time when he advanced to the third level of the Nascent Soul stage. When he returned, he would definitely be questioned about what had happened.

Since we're definitely going to be interrogated anyway, why not spend some more money?
When the female demon questions you, just say it was caused by absorbing Su Qingyue's special yin essence.

"System, open the attribute panel!"

With this in mind, Cao Meng decisively summoned Tongzi.

……

Host: Cao Meng!
Cultivation level: Third level of the Nascent Soul stage! (Each level up in the Nascent Soul stage costs 250 million mid-grade spirit stones!)
Physique: Ten-Day Sacred Body (Triple Yang!) (Upgradeable with ten million mid-grade spirit stones!)

Innate Metal Body (Great Completion) (One hundred million mid-grade spirit stones, can be upgraded!)
Occupation: Rank 3 Refiner (100% success rate for Rank 3 Spiritual Weapons)
(100,000 mid-grade spirit stones, upgrade possible!)
……

Balance: 861 million mid-grade spirit stones! (Low-grade spirit stones will be automatically converted to mid-grade spirit stones at a ratio of 1:100)
Cao Meng decisively leveled up his cultivation by three levels!

"Ding! 750 million mid-grade spirit stones deducted. Cultivation level increased to the sixth level of Nascent Soul. Balance: 111 million mid-grade spirit stones!"

With his cultivation at the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage, Cao Meng felt that this feeling was excellent.

Cao Meng now felt that with his physique and cultivation techniques, he should be able to spar with someone at the half-step Void Refinement stage!

I have to thank Mingfeng the old dog and Su Qingyue, that silly woman, for their gifts to me with my current cultivation level.

Thank you, old dog Mingfeng, for the six million mid-grade spirit stones. And thank you, silly woman Su Qingyue, for the hundreds of years of primordial yin!

However, Cao Meng was a little puzzled about Su Qingyue's constitution, as her primordial yin energy allowed him to break through three levels in a row.

You need to know that because of your Ten-Day Sacred Body and Innate Geng Metal Body, you need to accumulate more power to improve your cultivation level than other cultivators of the same level!

He estimated that Su Qingyue's special physique and primordial yin were so nourishing that even a typical Void Refining stage ancestor might not have such a replenishment!
……

"She-devil, great vixen, it's time to re-rank the family hierarchy."

Cao Meng thought that with his current cultivation level, he should be able to suppress the great demon and have a friendly spar with the female demon.

Thinking of this, he immediately flew back.

I'm getting ready to go back and teach them new things; it's time for me to take charge!
Spring Breeze outside the city...

Cao Meng flew through the air for a long time before finally arriving outside Chunfeng City.

Cao Meng looked at Chunfeng City, wondering if they had managed to deal with Nangong Yan and the female demon.

If things go smoothly, Spring Breeze City will be our territory.

Cao Meng was about to enter Chunfeng City when he was stopped by the city's guards!
???

Cao Meng was bewildered. What was going on? What did these city-guarding disciples mean?
Seeing that facial recognition wasn't working, Cao Meng took out his identity token and rebuked him:
"Why are you stopping me? Has the sect issued some emergency and declared martial law?"

Cao Meng had already made a mental note of these guys.

These guys actually dared to block the future Lord of Spring Breeze City. Once I take office, they won't blame me for deducting their spirit stone salaries and sect contribution points!
The city's elder, Yin Xin, looked at Cao Meng before her, her scalp tingling with fear. She could only grit her teeth and say:

“Cao Qinzhuan, it’s not that we want to stop you, but the city lord has ordered that you are not allowed to enter Chunfeng City!”

"That sign was written by the city lord himself."

Cao Meng looked in the direction Yin Xin pointed and saw a plaque that read:

Cao Meng and dogs are not allowed inside!
Because of Nangong Yan's proposal to make Cao Meng the city lord of Chunfeng City, several of the Void Refinement stage elders in the forbidden area have already agreed.

They even summoned Nie Xuan to the forbidden area for a talk, just to test her attitude.

Although the Void Refinement stage elders did not directly remove Nie Xuan from her position during that meeting, they had already made her feel a sense of crisis!

Nie Xuan felt that if it weren't for her master's strong opposition and the help from Han Sijing's faction, she would probably have already lost her job.

Nie Xuan also knew that her position was only temporarily secured, as the Void Refinement stage elders had not yet reached a complete agreement.

What a cunning Cao Meng! On the surface, he calls me "Uncle-Master" all the time, but in private, he betrays me and tries to get me fired.

Nie Xuan, increasingly angry, wrote this sign: "Cao Meng and dogs are not allowed to enter!"

With a single glance from Cao Meng, the signboard turned to dust.

The oppressive aura emanating from Cao Meng made Yin Xin and the other cultivators feel as if they were suffocating.

"You've done a good job of being loyal to your duties, but your attitude makes me very unhappy!"

Please pass on a message to my Martial Aunt Nie Xuan: She's getting old, it's time to retire, she should find someone to marry!

After Cao Meng finished speaking, he ignored everyone and entered Chunfeng City.

As soon as Cao Meng left, the suffocating pressure dissipated, and Yin Xin and the others gasped for breath.

"Elder, why do I feel that the pressure emanating from Instructor Cao is even more terrifying than that of the City Lord!"

"I heard from a rumor that Cao Qin Chuan is going to compete for the position of city lord."

"If Cao Qinchuan becomes the city lord, will he make things difficult for us?"

"..."

The disciples guarding the city started discussing it, and the more they talked, the more frightened they became!
They regretted it; they should have known better than to defend the city for such a small reward.

"Defend the city with peace of mind!"

Yin Xin sternly reprimanded the disciples guarding the city. Despite her calm demeanor, she was actually quite panicked inside.

Yin Xin quickly took out the Inquiry Machine and contacted Nie Xuan:

"Lord of the city, Cao Qin has returned. He saw the plaque you wrote..."

Yin Xin reported the situation to Nie Xuan truthfully.

Xuantian Pavilion...

Nie Xuan was listening to music in a brothel at the moment; to be precise, she was dining and dashing.

Nie Xuan has been dining and dashing at Xuantian Pavilion for several days now, and her spending has far exceeded several million low-grade spirit stones.

Cao Meng was stabbing her in the back, trying to get her fired.

Since Cao Cao is so ruthless, don't blame her, his senior sister, for being unjust.

Given Nie Xuan's status as the city lord of Chunfeng City, Min Xue, the manager of Xuantian Pavilion, had no choice but to let her dine and dash!

"You scoundrel Cao, I'll marry you, you big-headed devil!"

"Damn Cao, you not only betrayed me, but you also dare to slander me behind my back! You're dead!"

After receiving Yin Xin's report, Nie Xuan, who was listening to music in the brothel, was furious and smashed the table with a slap.

Nie Xuan made up her mind; she would wait for Cao Meng to come to her in the Xuan Tian Pavilion.

Doesn't this traitor Cao want to become the city lord?

I'll beat him up later and hang him at the gate of Spring Breeze City to beat him. Let's see if he still dares to covet the position of city lord.

Nie Xuan instructed Min Xue, the manager of Xuantian Pavilion:
"Min Xue, send Cao Meng a message and tell him that I, the city lord, am waiting for him here. Tell him to get over here and get a beating!"

Left with no other option, Min Xue could only send a message to Cao Meng.

After all, Nie Xuan eats and drinks extravagantly every day at Xuantian Pavilion, and Xuantian Pavilion can't afford to do that!

...Upon receiving the message from Min Xue, Cao Meng immediately went to Xuantian Pavilion and gave Min Xue a brief instruction:
"Elder Min Xue, please prepare the bill for me. I'll settle the score with Martial Aunt Nie Xuan later!"

Through the message sent by Min Xue, Cao Meng already knew about Nie Xuan's dine-and-dash incident.

This woman clearly knows that Xuantian Pavilion is Cao Meng's territory, yet she still comes to dine and dash. Does she really think she's easy to bully?

"Cao Qinzhuan, this is the bill!"

Min Xue handed the bill to Cao Meng; she had prepared it in advance.

After all, Nie Xuan had already eaten a free meal costing several million low-grade spirit stones, so how could Min Xue not keep track of it?

Otherwise, how would she explain herself if Cao Meng and Xia Yulan questioned her later?

Cao Meng frowned as he looked at the bill that Min Xue handed him.

Nie Xuan's bill, excluding the private room fee, amounted to several million low-grade spirit stones.

If you include the private room fee, it's close to ten million low-grade spirit stones.

Damn, tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones are enough for me to support my nemesis senior sister for a long time.

Cao Meng took the bill and went directly to the private room to settle the score with Nie Xuan.

……

During this time, while Cao Meng was away, Nie Xuan directly occupied Cao Meng's private room.

Cao Meng kicked open the door to the private room, then waved for the maids to leave.

When Nie Xuan saw Cao Meng arrive, she mocked him:
"Cao Meng, you actually dared to come!"

Nie Xuan really didn't expect Cao Meng to dare to come. She originally thought Cao Meng would run back to Huanzong Suqin Peak to hide.

"Uncle-Master Nie Xuan, what are you saying? I haven't done anything wrong, so why don't I dare to come back?"

"Uncle-Master Nie Xuan, you've been feasting and drinking at my Xuantian Pavilion for so long, it's time we settled the score!"

Nie Xuan was only at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage; how could Cao Meng possibly be afraid of her?

Even when he was only half a step into the Nascent Soul stage, he wasn't afraid of his opponent, let alone now that he's at the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

If Nie Xuan doesn't admit her mistake and back down today, she shouldn't blame me for making her suffer.

"It really is time to settle the score!"

The moment the words "settling accounts" were mentioned, Nie Xuan's eyes turned cold. Cao Meng wanted to settle accounts with her, and she wanted to settle accounts with him too!

"You scoundrel Cao, you're quite something, daring to impeach me and try to seize my position as city lord!"

Nie Xuan felt that Cao Meng was a traitor. She had allowed him to open a brothel in Chunfeng City, but not only was he ungrateful, he even wanted to oust her.

“Uncle-Master Nie Xuan, I’m doing this for your own good. As the city lord, you have to worry about Spring Breeze City every day and don’t have time to cultivate.”

Even after hundreds of years, they're still only at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage!

Cao Meng was puzzled. He had put in a lot of effort, so why couldn't Nie Xuan understand him?

Was he trying to take Nie Xuan's place?
No, I just wanted to free Nie Xuan so that she would have more time to cultivate.

"Kid, you're pretty arrogant for beating Yuan Tai, who's only at the second level of the Nascent Soul stage!"

Nie Xuan's eyes burned with rage. This bastard actually dared to mock her low cultivation level in a sarcastic way!
You should know that you are only a little over four hundred years old. Being a third-level Nascent Soul cultivator at that age is already quite good for someone in the Nascent Soul stage.

Cao Meng, who lives off a woman and whose cultivation level was obtained through dual cultivation with Xia Yulan, what right does he have to laugh at me!
"Cao Meng, didn't you want to be the city lord of Spring Breeze City? Your martial uncle wants to test whether you are qualified!"

Nie Xuan moved her body, and her bones cracked and popped.

Nie Xuan felt that Consort Duanmu was too lenient with Cao Meng, so today she would teach Cao Meng what it meant to respect his teachers.

I'll capture him soon, hang him at the city gate and beat him, so he'll understand that the position of Lord of Spring Breeze City is not something anyone can covet.

"Since Martial Aunt Nie Xuan is so interested, I, as her junior, will gladly keep her company!"

When Cao Meng saw that Nie Xuan wanted to take action, he readily agreed.

Nangong Yan previously stated that her strength was not yet sufficient to become the city lord of Chunfeng City.

Today, he'll give Nie Xuan, the city lord of Spring Breeze City, a good beating and prove with his own strength that he's fit to be the city lord.

"Uncle-Master Nie Xuan, let's fight in the heavens!"

Cao Meng had no intention of fighting Nie Xuan at Xuantian Pavilion, which was his property.

If two Nascent Soul stage cultivators were to make a move against Xuantian Pavilion, Xuantian Pavilion would inevitably be reduced to ruins.

As soon as Cao Meng finished speaking, he flew out of the Xuantian Pavilion and headed towards the vast void.

"Boy, do you think I, the city lord, am afraid of you?!"

Nie Xuan followed closely behind, flying towards the void.

"Master, Master Cao and Nie Xuancheng have started their attack. You need to come and save the day!"

Seeing Cao Meng and Nie Xuan make a move, Min Xue quickly sent a message to Xia Yulan to prevent any irreparable consequences from occurring.

……

High above Chunfeng City, Cao Meng looked at Nie Xuan opposite him and smiled:

"Senior Aunt Nie Xuan, you are an elder, how about letting me, a junior, have a few moves?"

Although Cao Meng was capable of beating Nie Xuan, he still wanted to take advantage of any opportunity that presented itself.

"You're kidding me!"

Nie Xuan angrily shouted at the flying boat, and immediately took out a spiritual weapon, a delicate purple longsword.

This longsword is a fifth-grade high-quality spiritual weapon, named the Demon Python Thunder Blade!

Nie Xuan channeled her spiritual power into the Demon Python Thunder Blade, causing eerie purple lightning to surge forth.

Nie Xuan slashed down with her sword, and the demonic lightning transformed into a giant python that rushed towards Cao Meng, intending to devour him whole.

Cao Meng disdained to dodge, and after taking Nie Xuan's attack head-on with his bare body, he wiped the dust off his shoulder.

Cao Meng's move, while not causing any real harm, was extremely insulting.

"how is this possible?"

Nie Xuan was very surprised and found it hard to accept the result.

She's not some useless Nascent Soul stage cultivator like Yuan Tai from the Xuan Tian Sect. Cao Meng shouldn't have taken that attack!

You should know that although you are only at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, you are not far from the fourth level of the Nascent Soul stage!
"Uncle-Master, look, your move didn't hurt me at all. You should go into seclusion and focus on your cultivation!"

Cao Meng found Nie Xuan's attack just now rather dull and uninteresting, as it was neither painful nor effective.

Nie Xuan, you're at the third level of the Nascent Soul stage, can you please give me some support?
"You scoundrel Cao, aren't you just acting tough here because of your strong physique?"

"I was going easy on you earlier and didn't use my Dharma power, but since you don't know what's good for you, I'm going to get serious now!"

Nie Xuan realized that she had been careless and hadn't used her Dharma power, which allowed Cao Meng to put on a show.

"The laws of heaven and earth!"

Nie Xuan used the power of her Dharma Image, and a purple Dharma Image rose up from behind her.

Nie Xuan's Dharma form was wrapped in lightning and stood more than 390 feet tall.

Cao Meng looked at Nie Xuan's image and laughed:

"Uncle-Master, your Dharma Image seems a bit small!"

After witnessing the Buddha's statue, which was hundreds of thousands of feet tall, Cao Meng felt that those statues, which were only a few hundred feet tall, were too small.

"Humph!"

Nie Xuan snorted coldly and said sarcastically:
"You say my Dharma form is small, but yours isn't even that big yet?"

Nie Xuan felt that Cao Meng, who was at the half-step Nascent Soul stage, was just envious, jealous, and hateful.

Lacking a physical form, they can only vent their emotions in this way. (End of Chapter)