Free Web NovelChapter 382: Chapter 246: Cultivation World 36_2
The Heavenly Sound Demon Palace towered majestically in the city center, its eaves draped with black silk adorned with star-like demon cores, each sealing the spiritual essence of a cultivator’s spirit vein. Liquid demonic qi flowed along the palace walls, sometimes condensing into struggling human shapes, sometimes bursting into shrieking flocks of crows.
In the distance, a rumble was heard as a squad of Demon Generals, draped in Soul-locking Chains, galloped past on their Skeleton Beasts. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
"Search for the rebels! By order of the Demon Lord, kill all the outer city refugees without exception!" A fleeing person curled up at the street corner was pierced through the chest by an iron chain, black blood splattering onto Jin You’s dress.
Si Lingle enshrouded the blood droplets with Demon Breath, whispering, "It’s the remnants of Glazed City... Heavenly Sound Demon City has just suppressed a rebellion, and the vigilance is even higher."
This was the intelligence Si Lingle had uncovered by probing the Divine Souls of the Demon Clan.
They came to Heavenly Sound Demon City to investigate some matters about the Bai Family of the Demon Clan, which was exterminated twenty years ago.
Jin You only learned from her mother three years ago that she had the bloodline of the Bai Family of the Demon Clan.
Jin You’s mother, Zhai Huaiyu, was a Tiger Demon in the Transformation Stage, severely injured by a Human Cultivator in the Ancient Secret Realm and was saved by Bai Xingye.
Later, the two gradually became acquainted and, after leaving the Secret Realm, went on adventures together.
It took over two hundred years before they finally came together.
Bai Xingye, being a direct member of the Bai Family, was banished from the Bai Family for falling in love with Zhai Huaiyu of the Demon Clan.
Bai Xingye took Zhai Huaiyu with him and hid their identities to settle in the Human Cultivation World.
Later, Jin You was born.
During Jin You’s Foundation Establishment Stage, Bai Xingye died while training in the Desert Sea.
Zhai Huaiyu’s mother died three years ago due to a mishap in her cultivation, revealing her father’s true identity before her death.
After learning about her father’s identity, Jin You, having buried her mother, wanted to investigate the Bai Family in the Demon Realm.
However, she discovered that the Bai Family had been exterminated twenty years ago.
Jin You didn’t want to avenge the Bai Family but was seeking the Bai Family’s hidden sanctuary.
The Blue Spirit Key on Jin You is the key to opening the Bai Family’s hidden sanctuary.
Due to the rebellion, Heavenly Sound Demon City is heavily guarded, making it difficult for Si Lingle and Jin You to inquire or investigate.
They had to first settle in an inn.
Eight days had passed, and the vigilance in Heavenly Sound Demon City had relaxed. The two went their separate ways to inquire about the Bai Family situation.
Si Lingle discovered some information, and at the third watch, they sneaked into the Nine Nether Tavern.
The bone wind chime hanging from the tavern flag chimed with the wind, while a drunken Demon Clan swordsman tapped a broken blade on the table, singing a broken ballad: "Blood-stained copper bell fell into the dry well, where even bones turned green..."
The two sat across from the swordsman, and Jin You communicated telepathically: "The purple blade and firefly illuminate the Netherworld."
The swordsman replied telepathically: "What do you want to ask?"
"The events concerning the Bai Family twenty years ago."
The swordsman squinted and said, "It was a night of bloodshed, led by a Human Cultivator wearing a Bronze Compass mask, with internal support from the Demon Clan to open the gates of Heavenly Sound Demon City."
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The story wasn’t long; ultimately, the Bai Family was wiped out by Lingbo Palace together with other sects.
None of the Bai Family members in Heavenly Sound Demon City survived; they were all killed.
As for the Bai Family members training outside, they were hunted by some Demon Clan families, leading to the total extinction of the Bai Family.
Jin You was utterly horrified after hearing this!
"Why did Lingbo Palace unite with other sects to exterminate the Bai Family? Among so many Demon Clan families, why the Bai Family? Why would members of the Demon Clan hunt down Bai Family members?"
"It’s said that a treasure from the Lingbo Palace vault was stolen, rumored to have been done by a Bai Family member, so Lingbo Palace brought the Cultivation Sect to annihilate the Bai Family in search of the lost treasure."
"As for the Demon Clan families, they naturally sought to divide the Bai Family’s assets."
Jin You asked a few more questions, paid with demon crystals, and then proceeded with Si Lingle to the abandoned Bai Family site.
Upon entering the Bai Family ruins, they found only charred walls and weathered family emblems.
When they reached the Bai Family’s ancestral hall, the tarnished copper bell on the cobwebbed offering table suddenly chimed by itself, its sound waves shattering the floor tiles to reveal a dry well.
Jin You manipulated the formula to ignite the phosphorescent fire, and along with Si Lingle, they descended into the dry well.
Beneath the dry well, there was a secret chamber.
This secret chamber required Bai Family bloodline and the Blue Spirit Key to open.
Jin You used her blood and the Blue Spirit Key to open the secret chamber. At the moment it opened, Jin You vanished from where she stood.
Then the door of the secret chamber disappeared as well.
Si Lingle tried to communicate telepathically with Jin You and couldn’t reach her, thinking to herself: It seems Jin You must have gone to a special space.
Si Lingle waited there.
