After fifteen years of cultivation, he finally reached the pinnacle of the first rank!

Chapter 330 Daxuan Demon Sect
The Thief Saint's movement techniques and martial arts are indeed commendable. Once Li Musheng perfects this technique to its fullest extent, he will be able to obtain a martial art comparable to "Swift as the Shadow".

Moreover, this is much simpler than creating a new martial art with similar movement techniques that are ever-changing and unpredictable.

"I have taught you the Sunflower Acupuncture Technique. You can leave now."

Li Musheng glanced at Bai Xiaotang, who was slowly approaching him, and waved his hand.

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaotang stopped, but did not reply. She hummed a few times and then ran towards Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran, who were not far away.

"Sister Yin Yue, Sister An Ran, can I go to the capital of the Great Xuan Dynasty with you? I've never been to a big city before, and I've heard that the capital is very prosperous."

Bai Xiaotang affectionately hugged Cang Yinyue's arm and blinked her eyes obediently as she spoke.

In the past few days, Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran have been overflowing with compassion and have taken great care of Bai Xiaotang, the little beggar girl who has fallen on the streets. As a result, their relationship has become very good.

"Of course, no problem, it's just on the way."

Cang Yinyue nodded gently. These days, they had spent time with Bai Xiaotang.

It was discovered that the girl wasn't a bad person; she had just picked up some bad habits, probably because she had been a beggar for so long.

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaotang's face lit up with joy, and she then secretly glanced at Li Musheng in the distance.

Li Musheng, however, did not care about this and focused on deducing the Thief Saint's movement techniques and martial arts.

Next, Bai Xiaotang continued on her journey.

Several days later, Li Musheng and his party finally arrived at Xuan'an City, a garrison city located fifty miles east of the capital of the Great Xuan Dynasty.

The group planned to rest here for half a day before heading straight to the capital of the Great Xuan Dynasty. Then, Li Musheng would go to the Great Xuan Imperial Palace to rescue the people.

After rescuing the person, they will wait here for Taoist Qingye to deliver the key to the Heavenly Revelation Treasure, handing over the person and the goods, thus completing the transaction successfully.

However, they had only just arrived in Xuan'an City when they discovered that something seemed amiss.

There were an unusually large number of cavalry and armored soldiers on the official road, and the road was blocked by layers of checkpoints. Merchants and travelers were strictly checked before they were allowed to pass.

Li Musheng and his companions' carriages were lined up behind a long procession heading into the city. Cao Gaoshan, sitting in the coachman's seat, frowned as he looked at the densely packed Great Xuan soldiers guarding the entire Xuan'an City like an iron barrel. He said:

"I just overheard people around me talking about something that has happened in the capital of the Great Xuan Dynasty. The area within a hundred miles is now under military lockdown."

Upon hearing this, Shen Anran and Cang Yinyue, who were inside the carriage, exchanged a glance, and then looked at Li Musheng sitting opposite them.

“A few days ago, the Great Li Dynasty had already clashed with the three major sects. The four kingdoms of Great Wu, Great Xuan, Great Zhou and Great Chu have successively increased their troops by a million on the border, eyeing Great Li with covetous intent.”

"I never expected that the Great Xuan Palace would be on fire in its inner courtyard. I wonder what major event has occurred?"

Upon hearing their conversation, Bai Xiaotang's eyes flickered slightly, and she immediately raised her hand, saying:
"I can roughly guess what happened."

Upon hearing this, Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran both looked at her, and Li Musheng also raised an eyebrow and glanced at Bai Xiaotang.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaotang took out the item she had stolen from the Sun Moon Demon Sect members earlier and said smugly:
“This thing contains a ‘Demonic Essence.’ The reason why the Great Xuan Emperor is in this situation is probably because of this Demonic Essence.” Upon hearing this, Cang Yinyue and Shen Anran and the others showed strange expressions, clearly having never heard of such a thing as Demonic Essence.

At this moment, Cao Gaoshan, standing outside the carriage, changed his expression and said:
"It's demonic energy? I've heard of it before."

"The Great Xuan now has three major demonic sects, but these three demonic sects were actually one family a long time ago. At that time, a peerless genius, one in a thousand years, emerged on the path of demonic cultivation."

"That demonic prodigy was exceptionally talented. He roamed the martial world with his Devouring Heaven Demon Art, absorbing the power of countless martial arts masters and killing countless people, making all the martial arts sects in the world tremble with fear."

"This person was even revered as the 'Grandmaster of the Demonic Path' by countless fanatical members of the demonic cult. However, later, the righteous sects gathered martial arts masters from all over the world and devised a plan to besiege that Grandmaster of the Demonic Path at the Sun and Moon Sacred Mountain, and finally joined forces to kill him."

"It is said that when that patriarch of the demonic path was dying, he used his life's demonic cultivation to devour the martial arts cultivation and blood energy of most of the martial arts masters who were attacking him. In the end, he self-destructed and condensed into nine demonic energies that scattered in various places, and were then taken away by people of the demonic path."

……

Cao Gaoshan recounted what he knew about the Demonic Essence, and Cang Yinyue and the others nodded slightly. However, they then looked at Bai Xiaotang and asked:

"Could this demonic energy be something special? Otherwise, how could it have caused such a great commotion in the Great Xuan Dynasty?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaotang nodded slightly, tossed the item in her hand aside, and said casually:
"As far as I know, a single demonic primordial energy seems to have no effect, but there is a rumor in the Great Xuan Demonic Path that if someone can collect and consume all nine demonic primordial ...

Upon hearing this, Shen Anran and the others all showed strange expressions. Cao Gaoshan, outside the carriage, frowned and suddenly asked:

"Are you suggesting that someone might have already collected all nine demonic essences?"

Since a single magic element is of no use, it is naturally impossible for it to cause such a commotion.

The current situation clearly indicates that the demonic cultivators may have gathered enough demonic energy to pose a threat, which is why the Great Xuan Dynasty has taken notice.

Upon hearing this, Bai Xiaotang's expression froze.

He then let the object he had thrown fall to the ground, not daring to catch it at all.

Cao Gaoshan's words instantly woke her up; the demonic essence she was holding was a hot potato.

And now she's foolishly heading to the capital of the Great Xuan Dynasty. Isn't that just sending herself to her death?

Besides, she doesn't cultivate demonic arts, so taking the demonic essence would be useless to her; she might as well just throw it away now.

However, at this moment, the sealed demonic essence that had originally fallen instead flew into Li Musheng's hand.

Previously, Li Musheng had observed this thing and only sensed that it contained a very powerful force, but there was nothing special about it, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Now that he has heard about the origin and uses of the Demonic Essence, he has become somewhat curious.

Logically speaking, gathering nine demonic essences is no easier than gathering seven Heavenly Revelation Treasure Keys, yet these demonic practitioners managed to do it.

I wonder if the gains from gathering nine demonic essences are commensurate with the efforts of those in the demonic path.
(End of this chapter)