The Demon Slayer Martial Saint Begins with Insect Refining

Chapter 330 Encirclement and Suppression of Tianqing Mountain

Fu Conghan agreed without hesitation and made a pledge in front of the three town magistrates.

This is an opportunity to redeem oneself and also a chance to climb the ladder.

Only by doing this well and taking the initiative can Fu Conghan stand out in this matter.

Zhao Wenyuan nodded and then said, "The Seventh Division is responsible for annihilating the remnants of the Poison Man Sect in Tianqing Mountain. The Eleventh, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Seventh Divisions will assist in cutting off Tianqing Mountain's connection with the surrounding prefectures. This must be done secretly, and no information is allowed to leak out. The Third Division will make a trip to the border of the Eastern Wilderness Prefecture, and the Second Division will go to the border of the Western Prefecture."

Soon, Zhao Wenyuan had already made arrangements for the personnel of each department, and neither Xi Hebo nor Xian Ying raised any objections.

"Subordinates obey orders"

The officials in charge of the government received their orders, and their expressions toward Fu Conghan varied. Shan Junyi's eyes gradually turned cold. The fact that the eleven departments could only provide assistance undoubtedly filled him with dissatisfaction.

'Those who don't know their own mortality'

Shan Junyi strode out of the main hall. Although he didn't know much about Tianqing Mountain, it was definitely an important stronghold of the Poison Man Sect.

Although Fu Conghan is at the Dharma Aspect Realm, he may not be able to truly defeat him.

The current situation involving the remnants of the Poison Man Sect is only the tip of the iceberg; beneath this surface, their influence likely extends far and wide.

Although the brief meeting emphasized the seriousness of the matter, the entire Demon Suppression Guard remained completely calm on the surface.

The troops from the Eleventh, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Seventh Divisions quietly left the capital under various pretexts and made arrangements at various passes.

The three governors, Shan Junyi, Xu Lu, and Zhuo Suzhi, had already contacted the Demon Suppression Army with their warrants and simultaneously launched a quiet operation to seal off the border.

The undercurrents are already evident.

The Second and Third Divisions went to the border to guard against unforeseen circumstances. Meanwhile, several other divisions, seemingly having received orders from Zhao Wenyuan and his group, had secretly made arrangements around the officials and nobles associated with the Poison Man Sect, awaiting concrete evidence.

……

Su Yan's merits have been verified. It is a Class B Upper-Tier mission. If completed normally, it will be worth 10,000 merits. However, since it involves the remnants of the Poison Man Sect and nearly massacred the city, this mission is much more difficult than a regular Class B Upper-Tier mission, even if the follow-up matters are not yet resolved.

However, when Fu Conghan reported to Zhao Wenyuan, he directly approved 20,000 merits.

20,000 merit points are roughly enough to exchange for a low-grade fourth-tier martial skill or the first half of a cultivation technique.

Such a reward is not low; it's enough for some demon-suppressing warriors to rise to high positions.

Su Yan was not lacking in cultivation techniques, so he exchanged all 20,000 merit points for cultivation insights and secret techniques for breaking through to the Dharma Aspect Realm.

With over ten volumes of notes, no more, no less, Su Yan stayed in the library for three days straight.

The Demon Suppression Guard has existed for four thousand years since the founding of the Dali Dynasty. During this time, countless Demon Suppression Guards have broken through to the Dharma Aspect stage. Even if some did not leave behind their breakthrough insights, the remaining ones are enough for Su Yan to understand the path to Dharma Aspect condensation.

For thousands of years, there have been only a few options for condensing the Dharma image: the three paths of primordial unity, the convergence of all forces, and the uniqueness of one's own Dharma.

Although there have been variations, they are all derivatives of these three methods.

The so-called "unification of all things" is the most traditional and normal approach.

Su Yan's own senior martial brother, Huang Shouzhen, achieved his breakthrough in battle using this method.

Since the beginning of his cultivation, under the guidance of the sect leader Chu Qidao, Huang Shouzhen has focused on cultivating a true meaning—the Yellow Dragon.

From the true meaning to the elixir aperture, there was no wavering in his heart. He continuously refined it, and finally the true meaning of the Great Yellow Dragon completed its transformation, becoming the Yellow Dragon Dharma Form, which helped him break through to the Dharma Form Realm.

This approach is the most straightforward and unpretentious, and it can be said to be suitable for all martial artists with the potential to break through to the Dharma Aspect Realm.

The continuous refinement of the same true meaning will eventually lay an excellent foundation for the formation of the Dharma form.

This method has both a high lower limit and a high upper limit; it all depends on the hard work the individual puts in.

If an ordinary person cultivates multiple true meanings, some martial artists will disperse their other true meanings and unify them into one when they are on the verge of breaking through to the Dharma Aspect stage, thus forging a unique and powerful true meaning.

However, Su Yan knew that this method was not suitable for him.

He had cultivated too much true meaning, which caused him to be conflicted, so why would he choose this path?

His techniques and celestial phenomena directly point to the universe of ferocious insects. Naturally, the method of constructing a world with ferocious insects would not be like this.

The concept of "stars surrounding the moon" distinguishes between primary and secondary meanings among many, with the primary meaning representing the sun and moon, and the power of the secondary meanings being attached to the primary meaning. This connection between primary and secondary meanings helps to condense the Dharma image.

This method is actually suitable for Su Yan. It would be possible to condense two or three Dharma forms in the future. However, the difficulty of condensing multiple Dharma forms is probably a hundred or a thousand times greater than that of condensing multiple True Meanings. Few people do this.

If Su Yan wants it, he needs to make a choice.

This third method—which is essentially creating a method—uses many truths as stepping stones and materials to create a completely different Dharma form, unique to oneself.

While they may seem to follow the same methods as the previous two, their foundation is not based on learning the methods from predecessors, but rather on their own path.

Once the Dharma form is established, the true meaning beforehand can be retained or discarded at will, without affecting the path ahead.

From then on, he went his own way.

"Creating Laws"

After pondering for a long time, Su Yan finally focused his attention on creating a new method.

No matter how powerful the Tiger King and the Nine-Headed Poison Dragon are, they are not his. The ferocious insect is exceptionally gifted and its condensed true intent is second to none, but in the end, its transformations are still the power of the ferocious insect itself.

If Su Yan wants to control the Ferocious Insect Cauldron, the Ten Thousand Insect Prison Tower, the Poison Dragon Sword, and many other ferocious insects, then he needs his own things.

"To unravel the true meaning and comprehend the origin, it will take quite a bit of effort..."

True intents emerged before Su Yan, with the Nine-Headed Poison Dragon and the Subduing Tiger King at the forefront, followed by a series of ten other ferocious insect true intents...

He has refined far more than eight ferocious insects, but the contracts were made at different times. The Moon-Eating Insect, Black-Scaled Insect, White Elephant Moth, and others that were contracted later have not yet been able to comprehend their true meaning.

He concealed nine of the true meanings, leaving only the one true meaning of the Wind and Thunder Insect.

Thunder rumbled intermittently, and arcs of electricity appeared continuously, making the pale blue phantom of the Wind and Thunder Insect appear particularly majestic.

With a thought, Su Yan extracted a wisp of wind and thunder power, thinner than a hair, from the Wind and Thunder Insect, dismantling it bit by bit and merging it into his body's star apertures, gradually comprehending the power of wind and thunder...

Disassembling is not about losing power, but about gaining insight. Only by gaining insight can one continuously extract every bit of power, which is not something that can be achieved in a day.

However, as Su Yan began to comprehend the true meaning of the origin, his cultivation in the Star Sea Realm slowly increased.

A blue star gradually formed at the center of the ferocious insect universe, growing ever brighter.

……

Inside the Seventh Division, Fu Conghan was already fully armored, holding a long straight sword in his hand, his eyes sharp as knives, revealing his murderous intent.

Before him, the First Banner Nan Anlian, the Second Banner Deng Shangyi, the Third Banner Gu Yuxuan, the Fifth Banner Tang Xuanlang, the Sixth Banner Gao Xiang, the Seventh Banner Su Yan, and the Ninth Banner Lu Qihua were all gathered.

"You all already know about the remnants of the Poison Man Sect, so I won't repeat it. The Azure Medicine Valley on Azure Mountain is called a Medicine Valley, but it is actually a branch of the Poison Man Sect. The Tenth Division has already gathered some intelligence and confirmed that they are secretly refining poisonous corpses."

Fu Conghan said, "Our Seventh Division has made a pledge to capture the entire Tianqing Medicine Valley and prevent them from leaking out."

"Only our Seventh Division?" Gu Yuxuan frowned slightly, but Fu Conghan remained expressionless: "Only the Seventh Division, but the remaining divisions are all under defense."

Gu Yuxuan remained silent. If the Seventh Division couldn't do it, then other divisions would step in at any time.

When a lion hunts a rabbit, it uses its full strength; this situation implies that there is still internal power struggle.

She wasn't naive either; she knew the situation, so she didn't say anything more.

Fu Conghan nodded slightly: "The Heavenly Azure Elder of the Heavenly Azure Medicine Valley is at the fourth level of the Dharma Aspect Realm. There are no fewer than twenty other valley masters, elders, and martial artists at the Dan Aperture Realm. There are three to four thousand disciples and servants in the sect. Although the Seventh Division has fewer people, it is enough to deal with them."

"Master, how should we make the arrangements?"

Nan Anlian is a direct subordinate of Fu Conghan and is of the same kind as Fu Conghan. He has already realized that this is an opportunity to make a name for himself.

“I will hold off and even take down Elder Tianqing as soon as possible. Nan Anlian and Tang Xuanlang will attack the mountain from the front, Gu Yuxuan and Zhuo Shuzhi will attack the mountain from the right, Deng Shangyi and Gao Xiang will attack the mountain from the right, and Su Yan will hold the back of the mountain.”

The main gate of Tianqing Mountain faces Xizhou Prefecture, while the side gate behind it faces Zhongzhou.

Even if the remnants of the Poison Man Sect in Tianqing Medicine Valley were still rampant, they wouldn't easily choose this direction to break through at this time.

Otherwise, they would face the entire power of the Demon Suppression Guard and the Demon Suppression Army stationed on the border.

Fu Conghan made this arrangement partly because Su Yan's Seventh Banner currently only has around forty full-strength men, so there aren't many people available to mobilize.

But his ulterior motives are also obvious: Su Yan is an insurance agent.

With the resources at their disposal being utilized to the fullest extent, the manpower in the back mountains has become thin, and a very strong person is needed to provide support.

Even if an accident occurs, it can be suppressed directly.

"Su Yan, is there a problem on your end?"

Su Yan raised his eyes slightly, shook his head and said, "No problem, but the Poison Man Sect is good at refining poison people, so it is probably not appropriate to only count the number of martial artists."

Fu Conghan felt a chill run down his spine. He was aware of the situation, of course, but the pledge had already been made, and whether it succeeded or not was up to him.

"set off!"

The Seventh Division left the royal city under the cover of night, where four Great Li Xuanzhou ships had been waiting for a long time outside the outer city.

The group boarded the Dali Xuanzhou and headed straight for Tianqing Mountain.

As soon as they officially left the city, within half an hour, some disturbances quietly broke out within the city.

Ignoring the consumption of Yuan Stones, the Dali Xuanzhou sped along, finally arriving near Tianqing Mountain at dawn.

As the sun gradually climbed higher, its bright red glow resembled a piece of burning charcoal just pulled from a furnace.

The rosy glow of the sunset painted the mountains and rivers red, and also bathed the area around Tianqing Mountain in a red light, filled with the misty atmosphere of the sunset.

The Dali Xuanzhou flew in, its chilling aura breaking through the clouds and mist, revealing the lush green of the Tianqing Mountains before its eyes.

"It is indeed a place where spiritual veins converge, making it a good place for alchemy."

Su Yan was an expert and naturally saw that this place was suitable for the growth of many rare and precious materials.

A thought struck him as he considered his inner world: it was newly formed and lacked rare and precious materials and spiritual veins, just like the insect realm. This was an opportunity.

Suppressing the Azure Medicine Valley is the mission of the Demon Suppression Guards, but that doesn't mean Su Yan doesn't have the capacity to do other things.

"Fellow Daoists of the Demon Suppression Guard, halt! May I ask what brings the Great Li Mystic Boat here with such force?"

An aged and kind voice came from mid-air, and an old man in a green robe with long eyebrows, with long sleeves trailing behind him, blocked the way in front of the Dali Xuanzhou.

He smiled, but deep in his eyes lay a chilling coldness, like a still lake.

Just in time!

Fu Conghan stepped forward and stood in front of the Dali Xuanzhou. He shouted sternly, "Old Man Tianqing has come at the right time. Surrender now, and perhaps I will spare your life."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man Tianqing's face darkened: "Fu Conghan, it's one thing to disrespect a senior, but I am upright and honest. Do you think I can just surrender like this? I need to produce evidence. Don't think that the Great Li Dynasty only has your Demon Suppression Guard."

Fu Conghan slashed down with his long straight sword, the blade light stretching for three thousand meters, almost engulfing Tianqing Elder.

The gourd at the old man's waist flew up; the jade-green gourd clashed with the blade's light, producing a series of cracking sounds.

The blade shattered, but the Azure Gourd remained intact. He opened the gourd and unleashed ten thousand sword beams, heading straight for Fu Conghan.

Upon seeing this, Fu Conghan manifested his Dharma image behind him, wielding his longsword to form a net. The clanging sounds were incessant, and the moment the sword light touched the net, it annihilated them all.

"He concocted poisonous corpses and sold them across the states; he truly deserves to die."

Fu Conghan attacked with the power of the Dharma Image. Tianqing Old Man's expression changed from kind to ferocious and sinister in an instant, and his aura suddenly changed, becoming as sinister as Wanshi Luo.

"Foolish Corpse Demon"

Elder Tianqing had been vaguely sensing something was wrong for the past two days, and he couldn't even contact Wanshi Luo. Now he could finally confirm that he had indeed been exposed.

His voice, booming like a bell, instantly echoed throughout the entire Tianqing Mountain: "Disciples of the Poison Man Sect, listen up! Open the Poison Blood Pool and release the poisonous corpses! All disciples, flee in different directions!"

Rumble

The gate of Tianqing Mountain shook, and at this moment the entire mountain seemed to split open from the middle, with cracks like a rift valley appearing.

A series of roars rose and fell, clearly emanating from the poisonous corpses that had been refined.

"How dare you, thief!"

Fu Conghan stepped forward to fight Tianqing Elder. He was stronger, but Tianqing Elder was also an experienced Dharma Aspect martial artist.

In an instant, the three Fiend Corpse Dharma Images appeared behind him, and they actually fought Fu Conghan to a standstill.

"Let's do it!"

As arranged, Nan'an Lian, Deng Shangyi, and other commanders had already flown to their respective areas aboard the Dali Xuanzhou the moment the operation began.

The Dali Xuanzhou landed, forming a fortress, upon which True Essence Cannons and Spiritual Weapon Crossbows were aimed directly at the mountain gate.

Hundreds of poisonous corpses burst forth from the massive rift, and the Poison Man Sect disciples who controlled them appeared one after another, rushing down the mountain.

swish swish

The attack was launched, and the two armies faced off. The poisonous corpses were pierced by heavy crossbow bolts, but with only two poisonous corpses stacked on top of each other, their tough flesh was enough to stop the heavy crossbow bolts.

kill!

Nan Anlian leaped out, his magical weapon blasting into the enemy's position, killing a large number of Poison Man Sect disciples.

Just as he was about to unleash a massacre, a mother and child poisonous corpse suddenly rushed out from the side. They were actually poisonous corpses at the Danqiao level, heading straight for his face.

(End of this chapter)