How did a demonic witch become the leader of the righteous path?

Sun rises and sets, time flows on.

Before they knew it, the forty-ninth day had arrived. Today was the day that Shen Yunshu and the senior with the big beard had agreed to help remove the dragon energy from it.

At midday, the bearded man took off his shirt and sat down in the big pot.

He was very muscular, and Yu Zhao envied his physique, which was the body she had dreamed of in her previous life.

She noticed a hole in the bearded man's left chest, as if he had been pierced by some sharp weapon. The wound was a dark purple color, and dark brown blood was seeping out from the edges.

This greatly surprised Yu Zhao. How could someone still be alive after having their heart pierced through? Is this what a great cultivator is like?

Horror!

While staring at the person, she fiddled with the small bronze coffin in her hand, the very one that the bearded senior had given her.

The coffin can be large or small, which is quite mysterious.

Yu Zhao's gaze was too unrestrained, making the bearded man feel somewhat uncomfortable. He angrily rebuked him:

"You shameless girl, what are you looking at? Turn your head away!"

Tch~ So stingy.

Yu Zhao muttered something to herself and obediently turned her head away, no longer looking.

After chasing away the brat, the bearded man's gaze swept over Shen Yunshu, his voice as gentle as an old father's, "Young friend Shen, I will later use a secret method to activate the dragon energy within your body, and what you need to do is very simple."

All you need to do is draw this symbol on the palm of your right hand with your blood, and then point your palm at me.

As he spoke, the bearded man raised his hand and drew a talisman in the air. The talisman was not complicated; the runes looked like a few crooked lines.

However, it exuded a Daoist charm, which made Yu Zhao unable to help but turn around and stare at the talisman.

They attempted to comprehend the profound meaning within it.

The bearded man didn't seem to care about any of this. He just left the talisman in mid-air. After a while, Shen Yunshu said that she had memorized it.

The bearded man nodded. "Then let's begin."

As he spoke, he sat cross-legged in the pot, and his aura began to surge. Yu Zhao and Shen Yunshu saw blood-red lines appear on his body, like tattoos.

But for some reason, Yu Zhao felt that it was a kind of formation, a formation engraved on his body.

She was curious about the purpose of this formation, whether it was inscribed by the bearded senior himself or by someone else.

However, despite her curiosity, she was still mindful of boundaries and knew better than to ask about things that involved other people's personal secrets.

She silently memorized the blood-red patterns on the bearded man's body, thinking that she might find out what kind of formation it was from elsewhere later.

The instant she memorized these patterns, the external light screen activated again:

[Detected demonic array Three Corpse Soul-Locking Array, purification in progress... purification complete... Three Corpse Soul-Locking Array purified into Three Talents Ascension Array]

Immediately, a message appeared in Yu Zhao's mind: the setup method and abilities of the Three Corpse Soul-Locking Array and the Three Talents Ascension Array.

The Three Corpse Soul-Locking Formation, as its name suggests, is used to lock souls.

However, setting it up is not easy. First, you need to find three corpses: the Heavenly Corpse, the Earthly Corpse, and the Human Corpse. Then, you need to fuse them together to make a kind of ink called the Three Corpses Ink. Next, you need to add the blood of a child with an extremely yang destiny. Finally, you need to use a thousand-year-old locust tree with an extremely yin nature to make a pen.

They used a locust wood brush to apply ink made from a mixture of ink from the Three Corpses and the blood of a child to draw the array patterns.

As for what exactly these Heavenly Corpse, Earthly Corpse, and Human Corpse are?

According to the description of the formation that Yu Zhao received, the Heavenly Corpse could be replaced by the body of an immortal, the Earthly Corpse could be replaced by the body of an Earth Immortal, and as for the Human Corpse, it was simple: the body of a cultivator in the Mahayana stage would suffice.

However, the inherited memories did not explain what the Earth Immortal Body was, and Yu Zhao did not know either. Perhaps the former owner of this formation thought it was something that everyone knew, so there was no need to explain in detail what the Earth Immortal Body was.

But Yu Zhao, this seemingly hopeless cultivator, was someone she truly didn't know; she had never even heard of him.

After briefly reviewing the relevant information about the Three Corpse Soul-Locking Array, Yu Zhao put it out of his mind and began to focus on studying the purified Three Talents Ascension Array.

Compared to the Three Corpses Soul-Locking Array, the Three Talents Ascension Array is much simpler to set up.

Three different grades of rare and precious materials are needed to represent the three elements. The higher the grade of the rare and precious materials representing the heaven and earth, the stronger the formation.

Make array flags from the three elements, then place the flags in specific positions, and then perform specific hand seals to complete the task.

Very simple.

As for its effects... it's simple and straightforward: it can heal injuries.

However, Yu Zhao discovered that the Three Talents Ascension Array's healing ability did not discriminate between friend and foe.

This is ridiculous. If you set up this formation when fighting an enemy, the enemy can't kill you, and you can't kill the enemy. What's the point?

Huh?

Wait a minute!

Yu Zhao studied the formation carefully and suddenly realized that the healing time of the formation was subject to the will of the formation owner. In other words, if the formation owner wanted, the healing time could continue indefinitely.

So what would happen if someone was initially uninjured but was continuously treated?

Treatment should essentially be an infusion of vitality. But what if this infusion far exceeds the target's tolerance limit?

Yu Zhao felt that the Three Talents Ascension Array was not as useless as she had imagined; it had a lot of potential for development, and in an instant, she thought of many ways to play with it.

For example, what if the rare and precious materials used to make the Three Talents Formation Flags were themselves highly poisonous? Or what if these rare and precious materials themselves had hallucinogenic effects?

If that's the case, then what will the power of this formation become?

At this moment, Yu Zhao's mind was filled with inspiration, and he was eager to find rare and precious materials to make array flags to try out the Three Talents Ascension Array.

"Senior sister, senior sister~"

A call brought Yu Zhao back to her senses. She looked up and saw Shen Yunshu blinking her large eyes at her. She instinctively asked:

"Weren't you removing the dragon's energy from your senior? Why are you staring at me?"

"It's all done."

"So fast?" Yu Zhao was a little surprised. She had only been distracted for a moment, how could it be over so quickly?

She wanted to see what this so-called dragon energy was all about.

"Junior sister, what does the dragon aura that senior mentioned look like?" Since we missed the chance, we can only ask this little green tea.

This question really stumped Shen Yunshu. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Actually, it's not much different from spiritual energy, but it should be considered a special kind of spiritual energy. As for the specifics, I don't quite understand it either."

It wasn't that Shen Yunshu was hiding the truth from her senior sister, but rather that she herself was somewhat confused. Just now, she had done as the bearded senior had instructed.

She only felt a special, spiritual energy-like thing surge into her body for a moment, and then the bearded senior said it was okay.

As for what was so strange about this so-called dragon energy, she didn't understand; she only felt that this energy was nourishing her physical body.

At this moment, the bearded man had already come out of the pot, put on his shirt, and spoke directly:

"Now that this is over, you can leave."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Yu Zhao, Shen Yunshu, and the sleeping Qingxuan were sent out of the cave and reappeared in the place where they had disappeared.

This left both women somewhat bewildered. Yu Zhao muttered to herself:

"Why does this guy seem so eager to get rid of us? And does he not want the merit he mentioned?"

Yu Zhao couldn't understand what the other party was thinking, but she felt that she had made a profit. Originally, they had agreed to exchange merit for the coffin, but now she got the coffin without paying any merit, and she also obtained a kind of formation.

This bearded senior must be a money-giving spirit!

What a good person!

Yu Zhao touched the small coffin hanging from her waist as a jade pendant, feeling exceptionally happy.

Shen Yunshu then woke up her master, Qingxuan. Qingxuan had been asleep for forty-nine days, and when she woke up, she was still a little dazed and felt dizzy.

She subconsciously raised her hand to scratch her head and asked the two women:

"My disciples, what happened earlier? Why do I feel like I've forgotten so many things?"

"Nothing happened. Master, you must have encountered some problem in your cultivation, which is why you fell into a deep sleep."

Yu Zhao didn't even blush when he lied. Since the other party had forgotten about meeting the senior with the big beard, he would just pretend that it never happened.

That saved her the trouble of making up excuses to fool people.

Qingxuan felt there was something wrong with this statement. His mind was foggy and his memory was incomplete, but he felt that his disciple had no reason to lie to him, so he stopped thinking about it.

They believed Yu Zhao's explanation.

"I see. How long did I sleep?"

"It's been more than forty days."

"So we've been here for over forty days?" Qingxuan was shocked. In this desolate wilderness, these two children had been guarding her for over forty days?

"Of course, Master, you suddenly fell into a deep sleep. We didn't know what to do, so we could only stay here and take care of you."

"You've worked so hard." Yu Zhao's words deeply moved Qingxuan. This desolate mountain wilderness must be quite dangerous, and the two children must have suffered for more than forty days.

Poor Qingxuan, she was completely fooled.

After a brief chat, Qingxuan led his two younger disciples on their way to the central region of the Western Regions.

Leaving aside the three women's journey westward, on the other side, after seeing Yu Zhao and the others off, the bearded man let out a long sigh of relief.

My initial fear subsided.

Not long ago, after Shen Yunshu removed the dragon energy from him, the bearded man was no longer affected by the dragon energy, and his spiritual senses returned to their peak.

The instant his spiritual senses returned, he felt as if he were being locked onto by some terrifying being.

Upon careful sensing, he confirmed that the aura was emanating from Yu Zhao and Shen Yunshu.

At that moment, the bearded man realized that these two little girls were more dangerous than he had imagined. Their fates and fortunes were peculiar. The bearded man had a premonition that if he continued to get involved with them, something bad would happen to him.

These two are walking jinxes!

So he decisively sent them away, even abandoning the merit exchange he had agreed upon with Yu Zhao.

Just kidding, who would dare to accept the merits of such an evil person? Accepting them would likely be a death sentence.

He must have lost his mind. How could he have dared to talk about merit with someone like that?

Wait a minute!

The bearded man suddenly realized that a strong person like him should not be so foolish. Even if the dragon energy was suppressing him, it should not have made him so careless.

Could it be...?

The bearded man subconsciously looked up at the sky, carefully calculated with his fingers, and was instantly terrified.

"Calamity... Calamity is imminent! A great calamity is about to befall us!"

"Damn it, I knew there was something wrong! I was completely blinded by the evil energy!"

At that moment, the bearded man finally understood that he had been bewitched by the aura of calamity from the moment he approached the two men.

Moreover, it wasn't a calamity set up by the Heavenly Dao of this world, but a great calamity of the Great Dao. The Great Dao influenced him invisibly, causing him to seek out those two women and create karma between them.

In other words, he became a servant of the Great Way, specifically providing the two women with protective items.

Having realized this, the bearded man was extremely grateful that he had suddenly had a premonition and hadn't taken Yu Zhao's merits. If he had, he would surely have been tricked to death by the Great Dao.

This is outrageous! They're treating me like a tool and trying to ruin me!

The bearded man was angry for a moment, but only for a moment.

The one who's trying to frame him is the Great Dao; how can he retaliate?

All he could do was hide. Anyway, he had completed the task given by the Great Dao, so he could earn some merit points, which would be enough for him to survive.

As long as you are careful and avoid getting involved in karma, you won't die.

"We can't stay in this world any longer. Being in the same realm as two people destined for tribulation is too terrifying... Let's go to the outer battlefield!"

Having made up his mind, the bearded man didn't hesitate at all, tearing open space and fleeing into the distance.

Meanwhile, on the other side, inside the main hall of Luoyue Gate.

Luo Yue Zhenren was still immersed in the joy of finally killing the old demon. She was certain that she had succeeded this time. The old demon's physical body had been annihilated and his soul had been scattered.

Even if the old demon had thousands of clones, he couldn't possibly possess and escape in such a short time, as that would not conform to the rules of possession.

If possession were that simple, the cultivation world would have been in chaos long ago.

Therefore, the old demon is definitely dead this time!

"Hahahahaha!"

Thinking of this, Luo Yue Zhenren couldn't help but burst into laughter. She had finally avenged herself. Her parents, her brother, and everyone in the village who had died unjustly could rest in peace.

"How does it feel to take revenge with your own hands?"

At that moment, a hoarse voice rang out in the hall, and then a figure appeared there.

This person was none other than the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Souls.

Upon seeing him, the joy on Luo Yue Zhenren's face vanished, replaced by her usual cold demeanor. "Ancestor Wanhun, are all the people of your Ziji Sacred Sect as rude as you?"

Clearly, Master Luoyue was very unhappy with his sudden appearance.

But the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Souls seemed oblivious to the displeasure in True Person Luo Yue's tone, and said with a smile:

"It's not your Purple Extreme Holy Sect, but our Purple Extreme Holy Sect. Fellow Daoist Luo Yue, don't forget you're now an elder of the Purple Extreme Holy Sect. Does the Holy Sect help you, and now you want to sever ties with it?"

"First, I owe your Purple Extreme Holy Sect nothing; this is a transaction. Second, I am not acquainted with you, nor do I wish to be your fellow Daoist."

Luo Yue Zhenren made no attempt to hide her disgust for Wan Hun Lao Zu; the things he had done made it difficult for her to like him.

He had even harbored murderous intent towards him long ago.

"Tsk tsk tsk" The Ancestor of Ten Thousand Souls tsked at Luo Yue Zhenren's disgust, his face showing undisguised sarcasm. "You righteous cultivators are really hypocritical. You look down on us demonic cultivators, but you still want to cooperate with us."

Is this like trying to have your cake and eat it too?

"Shut up!" Luo Yue Zhenren was both embarrassed and furious, her defenses completely broken by those words...