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Chapter 247 Cultivation World 36
Si Lingle and Jin You traversed the scorched wasteland of the demon realm, with sulfurous fumes seeping from the cracked earth beneath their feet, and the air filled with the sweet and pungent smell of rotting flesh.

The distant crimson mountain range suddenly trembled, and countless dark red beast eyes lit up like starlight—it was a pack of bone-winged demon wolves, with serrated bone blades protruding from their backs, and saliva dripping down their fangs, corroding the black rocks on the ground.

Jin You's blue spirit key trembled violently, and her expression changed drastically: "Something's wrong... these magical beasts are being controlled!"

Before he finished speaking, the beast horde surged forward like a tide. The leading wolf pounced on Si Lingle, and the shrill sound of bone blades tearing through the air almost pierced his eardrums.

Si Lingle leaped into the air, her Qingchu Sword emitting a purple sword light, and with one strike severed the head of the demon wolf, black blood splattering and poisonous mist rising from the spot.

The king and his companions charged out and began to fight the demon wolves.

Si Lingle took out an array plate and quickly set up an array. "Jinyou! Use demon blood to lure them into the array!"

Jin You bit her fingertip, and the aura of her mixed demon blood instantly erupted, igniting a dark purple demonic flame in her palm. The moment the flame touched the ground, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the ground, and the three-headed demonic wolf was entangled by the demonic flame, causing the beast pack's formation to be briefly thrown into chaos.

However, the number of monsters far exceeded expectations. A long-lurking eight-headed serpentine monster broke out of the ground, spewing putrid acid from its heads.

The central head of the serpentine monster suddenly opened its third vertical pupil. Wherever the blood-red light swept, the bodies of the other monsters swelled up, and barbs grew on the bone blades of the bone-winged monster, making its attacks even more frenzied.

Jin You couldn't dodge in time, and the acid grazed her left shoulder, instantly carbonizing her clothes and flesh. She groaned, her demonic fire turning dark gold as she forcefully burned the wound to stop the bleeding: "Yun Hua, this serpentine beast can catalyze mutations in its own kind; we must kill it!"

Using the momentum, Si Lingle stepped onto the back of a demonic wolf, her sword energy cascading like a silver river, severing two snake heads. Black blood poured down like a waterfall, condensing into poisonous blades in mid-air to counterattack! She spun to avoid it, but another demonic wolf circled around and attacked from behind.

"Oh!"

The wolf that ambushed them was killed by the Taiyi Spirit Arrow cast by Si Lingle.

The next instant, the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning struck, and a pack of demonic wolves fell!

Si Lingle's attack held back the demon wolf, giving Jin You room to maneuver.

Jin You roared, and the demonic fire transformed into chains that wrapped around the head of the serpentine beast.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Si Lingle attacked, her sword intent overwhelming the beast horde like a torrential downpour.

The serpentine monster's head exploded, revealing a beating, heart-shaped blood crystal at its core.

Jin You used demonic fire as an arrow to pierce the blood crystal. The explosive demonic energy sent dozens of demonic beasts flying, leaving a charred crater in the wasteland.

The remains of the beast horde gradually turned into black smoke and dissipated, but a sinister laugh echoed from the blood-red sky.

Si Lingyue pointed her sword into the void: "Who is controlling the horde of beasts? Show yourself!"

A dark figure emerged from the clouds, holding a Soul-Devouring Lantern, his voice hoarse: "It actually managed to break my Myriad Beasts Formation... The combination of a celestial swordsman and a half-demon, half-monster is quite an interesting sacrifice."

"Ah—" The shadowy figure screamed in agony. Jiu Jiu used her spatial magic to instantly appear behind the shadowy figure, who was then killed by Jiu Jiu.

However, this dark figure was not the real body, but a soul clone. The clone was weaker than Jiu Jiu, which is why it was killed by Jiu Jiu in one blow.

After killing the shadowy figure, Si Lingyue and Jin You continued on their way.

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Si Lingle and Jin You changed into a dark-patterned black satin robe, with blood crystals adorning the collar, and runes formed from demonic energy floating like living things on the cuffs.

This is a demonic energy talisman that Jin You extracted from the Blue Spirit Key, which can temporarily imbue the spiritual energy of the two of them with the violent aura of the demon race.

The city gate of Tianyin Demon City is a hundred feet high and is made of Netherworld Black Iron. Its surface is covered with reliefs made of the souls of the sacrifices. Twisted limbs and ferocious beast heads seep dark red blood beads under the moonlight, as if countless dead spirits are shouting silently.

The demon soldiers guarding the city were clad in white bone armor, and the purple flames dancing in their eye sockets swept over the two of them. Si Lingle's fingertips twitched slightly, and a jade tablet engraved with the name "Mo Huan" flashed into existence—this was the token obtained from slaying the demons the night before.

The demon soldier let out a low growl, like the grinding of gravel, from its throat: "Advance."

Upon entering the city, a blood moon hangs in the sky, and thousands of soul-devouring lamps float beneath the dark red canopy, their eerie blue flames reflecting the city's ghostly prosperity.

The street was paved with blood-stained jade, and when stepped on, it would release a thick mist of blood, which mixed with the suffocating smell of decaying bones wafting from the shops on both sides.

A seductive succubus leaned against a pavilion, a human skin lantern held between her fingertips as she chuckled at passersby; from inside the gambling den came the sounds of severed limbs colliding, as demonic cultivators used fragments of flesh as stakes, roaring madly.

Jin You suppressed the surging demonic energy, but Si Lingle pulled her into a dark alley: "Hold your breath, the Heart-Eating Flower at the street corner is spying on the emotions of outsiders." Before she finished speaking, the dense blood-red eyes in the flower's stamen turned towards the two of them, but found nothing, so the blood-red eyes turned away.

The Heavenly Sound Demon Palace stands majestically in the city center, its eaves draped with black veils adorned with star-like demonic cores, each sealing the essence of a cultivator's spiritual veins. Liquid demonic energy flows across the palace walls, sometimes coalescing into struggling human figures, sometimes exploding into a flock of shrill crows.

A booming sound came from afar, and a group of demon generals and skeleton beasts bound by soul-locking chains sped past.

"Search for traitors! The Demon Lord has ordered that all refugees in the outer city be killed without exception!" A fugitive huddled in a street corner had his chest pierced by an iron chain, black blood splattering onto Jin You's skirt.

Si Lingle enveloped the blood droplet with demonic energy and whispered, "It's a remnant of the Glazed City... The Heavenly Sound Demon City just suppressed a rebellion, so they're on high alert."

This is information that Si Lingle obtained by searching the souls of the demon race.

They came to Tianyin Demon City to investigate some of the past events of the Bai family, a demon clan that was wiped out twenty years ago.

Jin You only learned from her mother three years ago that she had the blood of the Bai family of the demon race flowing in her veins.

Jin You's mother, Zhai Huaiyu, is a tiger demon in the transformation stage. She was seriously injured by a human cultivator in the Desolate Ancient Secret Realm and was rescued by Bai Xingye.

Later, the two gradually became acquainted, and after leaving the secret realm, they went on adventures together.

They had known each other for over two hundred years before finally getting together.

Bai Xingye is a direct descendant of the Bai family. He was expelled from the Bai family because he fell in love with Zhai Huaiyu, a demon.

Bai Xingye and Zhai Huaiyu concealed their identities and settled in the human cultivation world.

Later, Jinyou was born.

When Jin You was in the Foundation Establishment stage, Bai Xingye died in the desolate sea during his training.

Zhai Huaiyu's mother passed away three years ago due to a mishap in her cultivation practice. Before her death, she revealed her father's true identity.

After learning her father's identity, Jin You wanted to go to the Demon Realm to investigate the Bai family after burying her mother.

However, to my surprise, I learned that the Bai family had been wiped out twenty years ago.

Jin You had no intention of avenging the Bai family; instead, she came to find the Bai family's secret location.

The Blue Spirit Key on Jin You's body is the Blue Spirit Key to open the Bai family's secret place.

Because of the rebellion, Tianyin Demon City is under heavy guard, and Si Lingle and Jin You are not in a position to inquire or investigate.

We could only find an inn to stay in for the time being.

Eight days have passed, and the security in Tianyin Demon City has become less tight. The two of them split up to inquire about the Bai family's situation.

Si Lingle found out some things, and at midnight, they sneaked into the Nine Nether Tavern.

The white bone wind chimes hanging from the wine flag jingled in the wind, and a drunken demon swordsman tapped the table with his broken blade, singing a broken ballad: "The blood-stained bronze bell fell into the dry well, and even the bones turned blue..."

The two sat down at the swordsman's seat, and Jinyou transmitted her voice, "Purple blades and fireflies illuminate the netherworld."

The swordsman transmitted his voice, "What do you want to ask?" "The Bai family's affairs twenty years ago."

The swordsman squinted and said, "It was a bloody night. The leader was a human cultivator wearing a bronze compass mask, while there were demons among the demons who colluded to open the gates of Tianyin Demon City."

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The story is short, but in the end, the Bai family was wiped out by the Lingbo Palace in conjunction with other sects.

None of the Bai family members in Tianyin Demon City survived; they were all killed.

As for the Bai family members who were training outside, they were also hunted down by some families of the Demon Clan, and in the end, the entire Bai family was wiped out.

Jin You felt a chill run down her spine after hearing this!
"Why did Lingbo Palace join forces with other sects to exterminate the Bai family? Why would the demon race, with so many families, choose to destroy the Bai family? And why are the demons hunting down the Bai family?"

"I heard that a precious treasure was stolen from the Lingbo Palace's treasury. Rumor has it that it was done by a member of the Bai family. Therefore, the Lingbo Palace brought a cultivation sect to annihilate the Bai family in order to retrieve this lost treasure."

"As for the demon clans, their aim is naturally to seize the assets under the Bai family's name."

Jin You asked a few more questions, and after that, she paid for the magic crystals and then went with Si Lingle to the abandoned Bai Clan ruins.

When the two stepped into the ruins of the Bai family, all they saw were charred broken walls and weathered family emblems.

Upon reaching the Bai Clan Ancestral Hall, a broken bronze bell suddenly rang on the cobweb-covered offering table, its sound waves shattering the floor tiles and revealing a dry well.

Jin You used a magic gesture to light the phosphorescent flames and descended into the dry well with Si Ling Le.

Beneath the dry well lies a secret chamber.

This secret chamber requires the Bai family bloodline and the Blue Spirit Key to open.

Jin You used blood and Jin You to open the secret room. The moment the secret room was opened, Jin You disappeared from the spot.

Then the doors to the secret room disappeared.

Si Lingyue tried to contact Jin You telepathically, but couldn't reach her. She thought to herself: It seems that Jin You must have gone to a special space.

Si Lingyue was waiting there.

Jin You found herself in a chaotic, dark purple space. Cracked black stone slabs floated on the ground, with molten red light flowing through the cracks. Countless jagged bone spikes hung from the sky, and the air was filled with the smell of sulfur and decay. Time seemed to stand still.

Suddenly, a stark white bone staff emerged from the spatial rift—the staff was over seven feet long, pieced together from hundreds of vertebrae, with half a beating, dark red heart embedded at the top, each strand of blood coiling like a living snake.

The man holding the staff was hunched over like a broken bow, draped in a tattered, charred shroud, with half of his scabbed face peeking out from his withered hair. His only intact eye was cloudy, like gray amber, yet a ghostly blue soul fire burned deep within its pupil.

Bai Puxiang's rough, hoarse voice rang out, "Half-demon, half-monster, how come the Bai family is letting in even a half-demon like this now?"

"The Bai family has been wiped out. I am the only surviving member of the Bai family," Jin You said calmly.

Upon hearing that the Bai family had been wiped out, Bai Puxiang suddenly burst into maniacal laughter. The ear-piercing laughter shook Jin You's very soul.

After a long while, Bai Puxiang calmed down and said, "After entering the secret place, there are three tests. As long as you pass the tests, you can obtain the treasure vault key."

The next moment, Jinyou entered a space.

There was a puppet in this space, and it was activated after she appeared.

Jin You's figure flashed, rushing towards the puppet like a ghost. Jin You stretched out her hands, her nails instantly becoming sharp as blades, gleaming with a cold light, and grabbed at the puppet's vital points.

The puppet reacted swiftly, swinging its mechanical arm to meet Jinyou with a whooshing sound. The two collided with a loud bang, and ripples of energy spread outwards.

Using the force of the impact, Jin You leaped backward, flipped in mid-air, and landed steadily.

Jin You muttered incantations, and a powerful demonic force condensed into a huge fireball in her hand. The fireball contained wisps of demonic energy and exuded an aura of heat and evil. With a forceful flick, Jin You sent the fireball hurtling towards the puppet like a meteor.

The puppet crossed its arms, and a transparent energy shield instantly appeared in front of it, blocking the fireball. The fireball exploded on the shield, radiating light, but the shield only trembled slightly and did not break.

Then, the puppet launched a counterattack. Two beams of blue light shot out from its hands, moving at lightning speed towards Jinyou.

Jin You lightly touched the ground with her toes, her body moving as gracefully as a swallow to avoid the attack. Upon landing, a black mist suddenly surged around her, within which faint demonic figures appeared. She shouted, and the black mist instantly rushed towards the puppet, thickening the air wherever it passed.

Seeing that the spell was not working, Jinyou rushed towards the puppet again and engaged it in close combat.

Her punches and kicks rained down on the puppet like a storm, each strike carrying immense power.

The puppet used its sturdy body and agile mechanical movements to defend and counterattack. Its fist slammed towards Jinyou like an iron cone, but Jinyou dodged to the side, grabbed the puppet's arm at the same time, and swung it away with force.

However, the puppet quickly adjusted its posture in mid-air and landed steadily. Suddenly, it spread its arms, and the mechanical parts on its body began to deform, extending two sharp blades from its arms, the blades gleaming coldly. It charged at Jinyou again, the blades flashing, drawing streaks of cold light.

Jin You skillfully dodged, looking for an opportunity to counterattack.

In the fierce battle, Jin You gradually discovered the puppet's weakness. Seizing the opportunity, her body suddenly became ethereal, a unique ability of her half-demon, half-monster constitution—the ability to switch between reality and illusion.

She bypassed the puppet's attacks, arrived behind it, gathered powerful energy in her hands, and struck fiercely at the puppet's core.

The blow was powerful and heavy, and a crack instantly appeared in the core of the puppet. The blue light flickered erratically, and its movements became sluggish.

Jin You pressed her advantage, launching another attack and finally destroying the puppet's core completely. The puppet collapsed to the ground, turning into a pile of parts.

The puppeteer was defeated, and Jinyou was teleported to a second space, where a staircase with five hundred steps appeared.

Jinyou needs to climb to the top!
The moment Jin You stepped onto the steps, she felt immense pressure, and she began to climb despite it.

When they reached the four hundredth step, an illusion appeared, and Jinyou was trapped in it.

Six days later, Jin You finally broke free from the illusion and, after resting, continued climbing the stairs.

After reaching the top, Jinyou passed the second test and was then teleported to the third space.

This space tests one's character, and Jinyou passed the test in five days.

Having passed the three tests, Jinyou obtained the key to the treasure vault.

But the treasure trove isn't here; it's hidden in the Rakshasa Mountains.

After Jinyou left the secret place, Bai Puxiang used her last strength to destroy it, and she was buried with it.

Bai Puxiang was the second patriarch of the Bai family. She later fell in love with a cultivator, but was betrayed by him, causing countless deaths and injuries to her family members.

After Bai Puxiang realized what had happened, she killed the human cultivator. After passing on the position of clan leader, she went to guard the secret place.

Later, she couldn't break through and died, but her spirit remained guarding the secret place.

No one from her clansmen entered the secret place, and her soul remained dormant.

Now, only the last bloodline of the Bai clan remains. In order to prevent other demons from knowing about Jinyou's existence, Bai Puxiang destroyed the secret place so that no one could find Jinyou.