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“There’s no need to lay bare your true feelings. I naturally know your loyalty to this Sect. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have promoted you to be the Spirit Pill Mountain’s Sect Master. I just feel a little puzzled about your approach.” The old man’s voice was mild and light.

“Thank you, Martial Uncle.” Tong Yu bowed respectfully, and slowly explained, “The reason that I did this is to retreat in order to advance1Make concessions in order to gain advantages..”

“Retreating to advance?” The old man touched his beard and showed a thoughtful expression.

“Yes, Martial Uncle, as I’ve said before, it’s easy to scare the snake if the traitors are eliminated now. So instead of that, it’s better to keep them in the dark. To entrust them with the responsibility of managing the sect’s affairs, and then throw them a great number of chores to do, their alchemy will naturally regress over time. So even if they betray this sect, as they’re just wastes, we wouldn’t suffer that much of a loss.

“Secondly, since they’re in charge of sect affairs, on the surface, they’re this sect’s core members. With them having a high-position, the news brought by their mouths would surely convince the major forces of the Righteous and Demonic Paths.”

“Hm, just like you did this time, deliberately making them reveal that this Sect has the Heavenly Dust Pill’s recipe, but being unable to refine it, which caused them all to withdraw.” A trace of approval flashed in the old man’s eye. His Martial Nephew was indeed a good strategist, seeing such a great disaster, he easily solved it.

“Thank you for the compliments.”

“But…” The old man touched his beard, and his voice became stern, “Even if those guys are good for nothing, we can’t tolerate any traitors who betray our sect.”

“Rest assured Martial Uncle, I have secretly poisoned them. Of course, it won’t attack immediately. Once I have given the verdict, I will urge the mother insect to begin. In this way, within three years, they will die tragically.”

“Three years, why is it so long?” The old man was a bit puzzled.

“This is also for insurance, if they died immediately after their betrayal, anyone will suspect that we did it. And those several forces will also hate us. Although with Martial Uncle’s power, we’d naturally not be afraid. But it’s not good to have too many powerful enemies. Our style of doing things has always been unobtrusive, and by fishing in troubled waters.”

“Well, you’re indeed more thoughtful than this old man.”

“Martial Uncle, I’m flattered.” Tong Yu’s expression wasn’t one of being happy for credit, “As the Sect Master of Spirit Pill Mountain, this is my responsibility.”

The old man closed his one eye and sank into his thoughts. After a short while, he reopened them and said, “But in addition to the news of the Heavenly Dust Pill, several traitors have also leaked that there are hidden forces in this sect. Did you do it deliberately too?”

“Mm.” Tong Yu nodded, “Martial Uncle Ming Jian. Originally, only a few disciples knew that there were many elders in closed-door cultivation. Although there are only a few of them, paper couldn’t contain fire anyway. Besides, it’s time to show our strength.”

“That’s right, now that the Big Three are at each other’s throats, and with the Demonic Faction on the move, the Extreme Demon Venerable is quite ambitious, and the realm of You Prefecture is about to be chaotic.”

“I think so too. Sects without strength may not be able to survive in such a complicated environment, especially our Spirit Pill Mountain, which is more likely to become a target.” Tong Yu analyzed calmly, “Although we are respected at ordinary times due to our Alchemy, it’s because the two paths of the Righteous and Demonic mutually restrain each other. Once they shed their skin, we’ll be the first ones to bear the brunt of their force.”

“Hmph! They clearly want to swallow this sect. I am just afraid they won’t have a good enough appetite!” The one-eyed old man sneered.

“You’re absolutely correct. If we really had the little strength that we showed on the surface, we certainly would have been bullied. But now, let’s see who’d be swallowing whom.” Daoist Tong Yu was also in high spirits.

“You did a good job. In these troubled times, we need to reveal a little bit of strength to deter the snakes.”

“Well, what’s more, I also have a backup plan. The news that I sent out only revealed that this Sect has a lot of Core Formation Stage Elders. As for the existence of the Nascent Soul Stage Martial Uncle, it’s ambiguous, neither did I confirm nor deny it.”

“Good, keeping it mysterious is the smartest and best course of action. By the way…” The one-eyed old man suddenly seemed to think of something and said slowly, “I heard that you have accepted a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator called Lin Xuan as a disciple, and also set him up as the next generation Sect Master. Is that true?”

“Forgive me, Martial Uncle, you were in seclusion back then, so I didn’t ask for instructions…”

“I didn’t mean to blame you.” The old man waved his hand, “It’s just that you have always been serious and prudent in doing things. Since Lin Xuan has joined this Sect for several years. So why did you…”

“Hehe, Martial Uncle knows me too well, how can this junior do things aimlessly, this is of course for the sake of this Sect, this Lin Xuan…”

Their voices gradually got fainter.

As for Lin Xuan who they were talking about, he was completely ignorant of this matter. At this moment, he already returned to his Cave Mansion and was working hard to cultivate the Heavenly Devil Corpse technique.

Lin Xuan had already successfully mastered the first level before he went to capture monsters

What he needed to do now was to refine the captured zombies according to the records on the Profound Demon Scripture and make them recognize him as their master.

First of all, Lin Xuan arranged a simple demon-refining array on the ground using Spirit Stone and other materials. Since it was his first time arranging this type of array, it took a full three days to complete it.

He checked it again carefully, and there was indeed nothing wrong with it. Lin Xuan then patted the ghost bag on his waist and released a zombie.

This zombie had only the cultivation base of the Spirit Condensation Middle-Stage, the weakest among the monsters caught. Lin Xuan intended to practice with it first.

As soon as the zombie came out of the ghost bag, it immediately pounced towards Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan flicked his sleeve, and used a Magic Art, soon it was pushed to the air. It was really easy for him to deal with such minor characters now.

He then used a Wind Binding technique to make the zombie immobile and placed it into the completed Array.

The next step was very simple: just use the Magic Art contained in the Profound Demon Scripture to refine it. According to the zombies’ cultivation base, the time consumed was also slightly different. As long as he was careful not to make any mistakes…

Translated by: James1kd2

Edited by: UnderTheMoon

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