Zi Yun released Bai Jing and disappeared into the room.
Bai Jing painfully climbed up from the ground, rubbing her neck. Her eyes were filled with resentment as she looked at Jiang Wen: "You took so many liberties with me just now, couldn't you have shown some tenderness?"
"Who told you to try and kill me?" Jiang Wen laughed.
"Alas, the situation is stronger than the demon." Bai Jing wasn't angry. She conjured a comb in her hand and slowly groomed her tail.
"I've told you everything you wanted to hear. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
"I just want to know, is the reason your white foxes follow Chi Yao simply to survive?" Jiang Wen asked curiously.
"What else could it be? Do you really think my people enjoy serving others?" Bai Jing scoffed, her expression somewhat黯然.
The room fell into a brief silence, which Jiang Wen eventually broke: "I knew there was something different about you compared to the other demons in this Pleasure Quarter."
"Oh? What's different?" Bai Jing asked curiously.
"When I looked at you with my Dharma Eye, I didn't detect any turbid energy on you. This means you haven't harmed anyone recently." Jiang Wen said slowly. The reason he chose Bai Jing was also because he saw that this fox demon was pure and clean, with no karmic entanglements.
"This is the Corpse Refining Pool, specially used to refine the corpses of cultivators who have been drained dry," Bai Jing said, pointing to the mountain of corpses.
In the past, he could only see baleful aura, but now he could distinguish right from wrong. As for what he would become in the future, Jiang Wen was also looking forward to it.
"Transformation Pill?" Jiang Wen asked, puzzled.
With Bai Jing as his guide, Jiang Wen recorded many of the hidden places in the Pleasure Quarter.
This Bai Jing is almost a thousand years old. If I can bring her to my side, she'll be a great help. After all, the ancestral war strategy is to make more friends and divide the enemy. That's the best strategy.
"And you also saw that Huai spirit just now. I also saved her. Now she's a good friend, and we live together."
"You actually have such a treasure." Bai Jing stared at the Realm Pearl with wide eyes.
"Do you know where this Soul Scattering Water comes from?" Jiang Wen took out a jade bottle containing the Soul Scattering Water from his storage bag and placed it in front of Bai Jing.
"No need, thank you for your kindness." Jiang Wen politely refused Bai Jing, and then had her take him around the Pleasure Quarter.
Now that there was a chance to escape, Bai Jing no longer hesitated.
In the highest palace of the Pleasure Quarter, he discovered corpses buried underground.
"…" Bai Jing was silent, simply sitting across from Jiang Wen and looking at him.
Jiang Wen was mesmerized, and Bai Jing's laughter reached him: "Do you need me to help you?"
"You're really willing to let us in?" Bai Jing asked again.
"Of course, I can even make an oath with you. If I go back on my word, may I be struck by lightning and never be reincarnated." Jiang Wen said seriously.
"Alright! I promise you!" Bai Jing made up her mind, her eyes filled with determination. She didn't want to stay in this Pleasure Quarter any longer, nor did she want her people to continue being playthings. Few demons who came to the Pleasure Quarter were willing. Who wouldn't want freedom?
Although she was a demon, she had heard of the Sumeru Realm Pearl. It should be known that the Immortal Sect gatherings are all located in other secret realms, while the Realm Pearl is an even higher level of existence. It is independent of the world and self-contained. Even if the heavens and earth are destroyed, the Realm Pearl will not be affected. It means transcending the Three Realms and not being within the Five Elements.
"What do you want me to do?" Bai Jing asked him.
Hearing this, Jiang Wen smiled without saying a word.
"Does Your Honor not know? Although these cultivators are dead, their spiritual roots are still there. Extracting these spiritual roots can be used to make Transformation Pills that demons crave."
He spread out one hand, and the Realm Pearl appeared in the palm of his hand. The pearl emitted a faint blue light, with starlight scattered throughout, as if thousands of stars were hidden within it.
At that time, he knew that this fox demon was an outlier in the Pleasure Quarter, without the black smoke that surrounded other demons. As long as one had taken a life, demons would have more black smoke on their bodies. This was a recent change in his Dharma Eye, allowing him to see a person's good and evil.
"I am the Abbot of the Quiet Void Temple, and the sect's territory is within this Realm Pearl. Isolated from the world, it is difficult for outsiders to find. If you agree to help me, I will let your clan move into it."
Chi Yao was not a good person. Bai Jing naturally knew what happened to the demons who disappeared from the Pleasure Quarter.
"You? What can you offer?" Bai Jing sneered as she looked at him. "Chi Yao is not trustworthy, so why should you, a cultivator, be trustworthy?"
"That's natural. I'm much more trustworthy than Chi Yao. At least I won't force you to entertain guests, nor will I force you to do anything. You only need to abide by the rules I set, and you can live freely." Jiang Wen threw out the bait. "I once saved a white fox before. You can ask her about it if you have the chance."
"How about it?" Jiang Wen smiled as he played with the Realm Pearl, looking at Bai Jing.
The corpses were like mountains, piled up. All were thrown into the pits in this underground cave, slowly turning into blood.
"What's the use of this?" Jiang Wen asked, looking at the pit, puzzled. What could be done with the corpses that had been drained of their magic power?
"I only know the general location. Chi Yao won't take us there," Bai Jing shook her head regretfully.
She had the good fortune to witness that scene, and it would be difficult to forget even after another thousand years.
"That's fine." Jiang Wen smiled. Then he took out two talismans and handed them to Bai Jing. "This talisman is called the Thousand-Year Sound Transmission Talisman. When Chi Yao returns, you can use this to transmit a message to me. If cultivators come to attack the Pleasure Quarter at that time, you will follow Chi Yao."
"You must gather your people as soon as possible. When the Pleasure Quarter is in chaos, I will send them into the Realm Pearl. You only need to protect Chi Yao and go with her to the place where the Soul Scattering Water is refined. At that time, I will also send you into the Realm Pearl, and you won't need to worry about the rest."
It's just that this Realm Pearl is hard to find and rare in the world. Only the immortal sects that have existed for tens of thousands of years can obtain one or two. This young cultivator in front of me actually has a Realm Pearl as well, and judging by its quality, it's an extraordinary treasure.
"The Transformation Pill is used by demons to transform. Your Honor should know that it's difficult for demons to transform without hundreds of years of cultivation. With the Transformation Pill, even if they only have decades of cultivation, they can transform into human form," Bai Jing explained. "And the main ingredient for this Transformation Pill is the spiritual roots of cultivators."
"There's actually such a thing?" Jiang Wen couldn't help but feel the wonder of the world. Cultivators use the spiritual essence of demons to increase their cultivation, while demons can use the spiritual roots of cultivators to refine Transformation Pills.
Between this pouring and sipping, everything is truly destined.
