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

The Hehuan Sect has already begun withdrawing its troops, but Cao Meng's side has not stopped yet.

Wenjing and Shishi were evenly matched in their fight, and Cao Meng became a little anxious after receiving Nangong Yan's notification.

"You old hag, stop right now!"

Cao Meng, holding Wen Jing's body, scolded her.

"You little devil, who are you calling an old witch!"

Wen Jing was furious. She, Wen Jing, had always been known as a fairy. When had she ever been called an old witch?

Although she is as beautiful as a demon, what does it mean that this kid puts "old" in front of her name?

"You!"

After confirming Wen Jing's identity as an old witch, Cao Meng stripped off some of Wen Jing's clothes, leaving her only in her undergarments.

"You old hag, I didn't expect you to be so well-endowed. Even through your undergarments, you can't hide it!"

Cao Meng commented on Wen Jing's figure through her undergarments, deliberately interfering with her.

"You little devil, stop right now!"

"Otherwise, even if I die today, I'll take you down with me!"

Wen Jing's face turned extremely pale, and she sternly rebuked Cao Meng.

If the other party continues, her body will really be completely naked!
"You old hag, are you trying to scare me?!"

Cao Meng was a tough nut to crack; he wasn't afraid of being threatened.

"Old witch, this protective treasure of mine was given to me by the old living Buddha, a great master in the Tribulation Transcending stage from the Western Regions Buddhist Continent."

Even a living being in the Fusion Stage might not be able to harm me, let alone a dead one and a ghost!

Cao Meng took out the prayer beads he was wearing and showed them off to Wen Jing.

"Stop right now and surrender, or I'll strip you naked!"

Cao Meng had already placed his hand on Wen Jing's undergarments. He was very skilled at threatening people, especially women.

"I'm not stupid. If I stop now, I'll just become your prey!"

Wenjing was so angry with Cao Meng that she stopped referring to herself as "this one" and started calling herself "old lady."

Even a fairy of her generation was so angry that she forgot her manners, which shows just how furious she was.

Upon hearing Wenjing's statement, Cao Meng immediately tore Wenjing's undergarments to shreds and began to fondle her wickedness.

"You little devil, I'll kill you!"

Wenjing was furious when she saw Cao Meng's body being so humiliated.

She had never been humiliated like this while she was alive, but she never expected that she would encounter such a great calamity tens of thousands of years after she died and became a ghost.

Her body was violated, and her private parts were played with.

Wen Jing, enraged and consumed by malevolent energy, charged towards Cao Meng like a demon.

"You old hag, do you really think I'm afraid of you?!"

"Take this move, Young Master's Star-Picking and Moon-Moon-Stealing Hand!"

Cao Meng was not afraid of Wen Jing's anger at all, and immediately launched a Star-Picking and Moon-Playing Hand attack.

"A petty trick!"

Although Wen Jing had been ambushed by Cao Meng earlier, she was no pushover. With a wave of her claws, she easily broke Cao Meng's attack.

Cao Meng didn't expect his move to stop Wen Jing at all; what he wanted was to distract her.

"One sword separates the worlds!"

Seeing that Wen Jing was distracted, Shi Shi realized that this was a good opportunity and used the Azure Rain Divine Sword to unleash the Sword of Separation from the World.

By the time Wenjing realized what was happening, it was too late; the world-destroying sword energy had already struck her.

Although Shi Shi's sword strike did not cleave Wen Jing in two, it severely injured her, causing Wen Jing, in her spirit form, to dim considerably.

"You launched a sneak attack, you outnumbered me, you used despicable tactics to distract me, you are shameless and despicable!"

Despite her serious injuries, Wen Jing was indignant. She argued that she would not have lost if Cao Meng hadn't ambushed her first and then threatened her with his body.

Wenjing was very unwilling to accept her defeat; she refused to accept it!

"Excuse me, I am a disciple of a demonic sect. Thank you for the compliment!"

Cao Meng felt that it was okay to be scolded; as long as he had thick skin, getting angry wasn't his own fault.

Just as Cao Meng had expected, Wen Jing was once again enraged.

In all her years of cultivation, she had never seen such a shameless person.

"Shishi, arrest her!"

Cao Meng was too lazy to waste any more words. As the saying goes, "Strike while the iron is hot."

Now that Wenjing is injured, it's the perfect opportunity to take action against her.

Shishi unleashed the Soul Banner, releasing several talisman locks to capture Wenjing.

Despite her severe injuries, Wen Jing resisted for a few moments but was ultimately captured and pulled into the Soul Banner.

Cao Meng was overjoyed when he saw the soul banner handed to him by Shi Shi:
"Shishi, you've done a great job!"

Cao Meng felt that Shishi was really great, and that raising her was worthwhile.

Unlike that vixen, who couldn't help at all.

"Little devil, what you said before about my achievements being erased by the Xuantian Sect, was that a lie?"

Wen Jing, who had been captured and placed inside the Soul Banner, transmitted her voice to Cao Meng.

She knew she was in trouble now, and all she cared about now was her reputation.

After all, he's gone. It's good that he can appear in the Xuantian Sect's history books and be praised by the younger generation occasionally.

"Um, do I need to lie to you?"

Cao Meng was speechless. Was this woman out of her mind?

They've all been arrested now. Instead of caring about what they should care about, they're here caring about what they shouldn't.

"Old witch, there are quite a few Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Xuan Tian Sect inside the banner. You can ask them about it!"

Cao Meng was too lazy to explain to the other party. Anyway, there were still many of Wen Jing's disciples and grand-disciples inside this soul banner. Let the other party ask slowly!
Cao Meng cast a magic seal on the Myriad Souls Snow Banner, trapping the opponent and those Xuan Tian Sect Nascent Soul stage cultivators together.

……

After Wenjing's matter was settled, Cao Meng and the other two left the place and went out to meet up with Jin Ning'er.

Jin Ning'er has almost finished dealing with things here. She dug up quite a few spirit stones and also lined her own pockets!
So everyone headed back home. Cao Meng wanted to settle accounts with Elder Xueyun, since he had almost been defeated by Wen Jing this time.

"Cao Meng, what about what you promised me?"

On the flying boat, Hongqi began to demand that Cao Meng fulfill his promise. She wanted to see her aunt so that she could accuse Cao Meng of his evil deeds and make him pay the price.

"Don't worry, I won't break my promise!"

Cao Meng pinched Hong Qi's cheek; he had already figured out how to handle his promise to Hong Qi.

To fulfill his promise to Hong Qi, he would need the help of the Corpse Yin Sect.

As for Liu Ruyan, Cao Meng has already made arrangements; the Zhuyue Dynasty will soon go to war.

After settling accounts with Old Man Xueyun, he will personally go to the battlefield and deal with the Liuyun Dynasty.

Four Symbols City...

After returning to the Four Symbols City, the first thing Cao Meng did was rush to the Blood Corpse Hall and block its door: "Old man Blood Cloud, you get out here for me."

The information that Patriarch Blood Cloud sold me was too unreliable. Fortunately, I have many people and resources, otherwise I would have been doomed!
"Boy, what are you yelling about? Don't you know how to respect the elderly and care for the young?"

Old Ancestor Blood Cloud strolled out of the Blood Corpse Hall. If Cao Meng weren't his benefactor, he would have slapped him long ago.

"Old man Blood Cloud, with the information you gave me, I almost died there. How do you think you're going to compensate me?"

Cao Meng doesn't want much today, just a few billion low-grade spirit stones will do.

"Kid, isn't it normal for a secluded cultivation place to have some restrictions and traps?"

Blood Cloud Ancestor mistakenly believed that Cao Meng had encountered a restriction trap there and was planning to cause trouble here.

"hehe!"

Cao Meng sneered and said angrily:

"If it were just a restriction trap, I wouldn't bother you."

"You can guarantee me that the other party is absolutely dead, but their soul turned into a ghost, and their strength has even reached the half-step Integration stage..."

Cao Meng recounted his entire ordeal.

"Boy, this was an accident. After all, I've never been to the other party's secluded cultivation place. How could I have known that the other party's soul would turn into a ghost!"

Blood Cloud Ancestor quickly spread his hands to show his innocence, but he also felt that Cao Meng was tough enough.

The other party most likely not only got hold of the corpse, but probably also captured the yin spirit that the other party's soul had transformed into.

"Old man Xueyun, give me two billion low-grade spirit stones, or twenty million mid-grade spirit stones, as compensation for my emotional distress. Then we can still be friends despite our age difference!"

Cao Meng put forward his conditions, saying that he had used every means at his disposal to capture Wen Jing.

Moreover, Wen Jing's fierce and aggressive appearance had given him psychological trauma. It wouldn't be unreasonable for him to ask for 2 billion low-grade spirit stones as compensation for his mental distress, would it?

"Kid, two billion low-grade spirit stones, why don't you just rob it?"

Blood Cloud Ancestor thought that Cao Meng could just open his mouth and say 2 billion low-grade spirit stones. Did he know how many mortals would have to mine 2 billion low-grade spirit stones?

This guy is used to being a ruthless bandit, and now he's robbing me? That's outrageous!

"Old man Blood Cloud, if you don't give me the compensation for your emotional distress, don't blame me for ruining your business and making sure you don't earn a single penny from me."

"When the time comes, I'll go support your competitor and help them grow bigger and stronger!"

Cao Meng simply didn't believe that with so many branches of the Corpse Yin Sect, Old Man Blood Cloud had no competitors.

Wherever there are people, there will inevitably be conflict and rivalry.

"Kid, isn't that a bit unfair of you?"

"Kid, think about how much debt I've put on your tab. Would anyone else put on your tab?"

Blood Cloud Ancestor played the emotional card with Cao Meng. Others might not understand Cao Meng's value, but how could he not understand it?

According to what he knew, the Bone-Dry Daoist had already advanced to the Integration Stage.

Now, as long as we control this kid, no one can say for sure that he will be the next one in the Corpse Yin Sect to advance to the Integration Stage.

"Old man Blood Cloud, I paid off the debt through my own skill, what does it have to do with you!"

Cao Meng, a seasoned and ruthless man, didn't buy into Blood Cloud Ancestor's schemes at all.

If he weren't currently lacking in ability, he would have preferred to renege on this debt.

"Young man, the information I gave you mainly concerned the location of the other party's seclusion. Now that the location matches, there is absolutely no problem."

The Blood Cloud Ancestor clarified the matter for Cao Meng and then absolved him of responsibility.

Putting aside the fact that this matter has little to do with him, even if it does, he won't admit it.

"However, since an accident has occurred, as an apology, how about I introduce you to a stunningly beautiful fairy?"

In order to ensnare Cao Meng, the Blood Cloud Ancestor decided to go all out and introduce women to him.

"Old man Blood Cloud, do you think I'm the kind of lecherous person?"

Cao Meng gave the old man Xueyun a look of utter contempt. How could he, Cao Meng, a model young cultivator, possibly be interested in women?

"Kid, it's yours!"

Blood Cloud Ancestor took out the Immortal Inquiry Machine and directly pushed the other party's Immortal Inquiry Machine account to Cao Meng.

Blood Cloud Ancestor and Cao Meng were old friends, and he knew very well why Cao Meng was directly called a "Five-Good" young cultivator!

Good food and drink, wealth, women, entertainment, and laziness – these are Cao Meng's five vices.

Even Blood Cloud Ancestor couldn't understand how Cao Meng, with his five vices, hadn't been ruined. Instead, in just four years, he had even reached the sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

The adage "Heaven rewards diligence" doesn't apply to this situation at all.

Cao Meng: I'm already cheating, why should I need to rely on hard work?
More importantly, Heaven rewards diligence. The Heavenly Dao here governs you local natives, while he, an extraterrestrial demon, is not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao here!

"Boy, the opponent is the strongest genius of my Corpse Yin Sect, the youngest Void Refinement stage cultivator of our time. He became a Void Refinement stage cultivator at the age of one hundred."

"Our Corpse Yin Sect's patriarch predicted that he would reach the Integration Stage within a thousand years!"

The Blood Cloud Ancestor first briefly explained the other party's conditions to Cao Meng, just to make Cao Meng understand the other party's importance, and then said:

"Young man, if you treat others better and be more generous, give them some gifts, then I can hope to attend your wedding."

Upon hearing this, Cao Meng was immediately displeased:

"What's so special about reaching the Integration Stage within a thousand years? At that time, the Living Buddha Xuan Yu even guaranteed that my minimum achievement would be the Tribulation Transcending Stage!"

It's as if he's begging for someone's attention, that he's some kind of extraterrestrial demon with cheat codes.

"A thousand years is enough to reach the Integration Stage," as if that were some grandiose claim.
Even if the other party is a goddess from the Nine Heavens, it is still her who is worthy of my status.

"Old man Xueyun, my fox spirit wants to see her aunt. Can you help her out?"

Cao Meng then shared another purpose with Blood Cloud Ancestor.

After all, Cao Meng was a man of his word; having promised Hong Qi, he had to keep his word.

"Kid, are you really tired of living?"

"Do you know who her aunt is? She's the Black Fox Empress of the Northern Continent, an early-stage eighth-order demon beast, with cultivation comparable to the second level of the Tribulation Transcending Realm!"

Upon hearing this, the Blood Cloud Ancestor was greatly alarmed. He feared that Cao Meng was unaware of Aunt Hong Qi's background and had deliberately revealed it.

Cao Meng thought that Aunt Hong Qi's title was quite imposing: Black Fox Empress!
"The Venerable One issued a decree to keep the Black Fox Empress outside the Eastern Continent in order to save your life."

"Right now, she's lingering at the border between the Eastern and Northern Regions. If you let her in, your Hehuan Sect will be executed a thousand times over for taking someone else's niece as a pet!"

It's not that Ancestor Blood Cloud looks down on the Joyful Union Sect; with the Joyful Union Sect's meager strength, the Black Fox Empress could easily annihilate it with a single stomp of her foot.

Excluding the Corpse Yin Sect, the strength of the top sects in the Eastern Region Dao Continent is about the same, and the strength of their Nascent Soul stage ancestors is all at the first or second level of the Nascent Soul stage.

Even if all these top sects were combined, Blood Cloud Ancestor probably wouldn't be enough to defeat Black Fox Empress in a single round!

"Old man Xueyun, to put it bluntly, you are not qualified to let the other party in."

"Have someone send her a fortune teller; I'll arrange for them to have a video call then!"

Cao Meng never even considered letting Aunt Hongqi in, nor did he ever consider letting Hongqi out.

She had promised Hongqi that they could meet, but a video call through the magic window would also count!
"This is easy to handle!"

Blood Cloud Ancestor felt that arranging for someone to send a Celestial Inquiry Machine to the other party was relatively easy, and he could even consider it a good deed!
After the matter of Hong Qi was settled, Cao Meng was about to leave when Blood Cloud Ancestor quickly stopped him:
"By the way, you got that corpse from the Nascent Soul stage. Let's talk about the price!"

According to what Elder Blood Cloud knew, Daoist Dry Bones had just advanced to the Integration Stage and had not yet refined a Corpse Puppet for the Integration Stage.

Although the Corpse Yin Sect possesses many corpses of Nascent Soul stage cultivators, they are not to be used casually; contributions are required for their use.

Once he gets his hands on the Nascent Soul stage corpse in Cao Meng's possession, he can easily sell it to the Bone-Dwelling Daoist for a profit. (End of Chapter)