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Chapter 562: Chapter 510: Turmoil within the Demonic Cult
“We must follow up on this matter, we absolutely cannot miss it.” Xue Wuheng emphasized to his subordinates, attaching great importance to this matter: “For so many years, Pei Xuanjing has never made any pointless actions, since his rise to prominence, every move he has made has been part of a long-term plan, it must be of great importance.”
He simply did not believe in the purpose proposed by Pei Xuanjing. Instead, he trusted his own judgment more. Given Pei Xuanjing’s past, Xue Wuheng believed that Pei Xuanjing must have significant plans. He needed to send people to join them and probe what he believed to be Pei Xuanjing’s true purpose.
Although his Demonic Cult was currently facing some troubles, these issues were nothing compared to paying attention to Pei Xuanjing’s plan.
“Yes!” Immediately, a spiritual realm strongman from the Demonic Cult took the responsibility to handle this matter.
The current Pei Xuanjing, though unmoving as a mountain, is undoubtedly the focus of everyone, there is no doubt about that,
After making these arrangements, Xue Wuheng turned his gaze to another spiritual realm strongman, the Blood Slaughter Sovereign, and asked about recent events.
“Brother Blood Slaughter, How is the situation with Yang Yongxiu, have you been able to find any trace of them lately?” Xue Wuheng asked in a deep voice.
If there were someone Xue Wuheng hated the most today, it had to be the ungrateful Yang Yongxiu, who was the eldest son of the Blood Demon, Yang Tinghe. The thought of this disloyal ingrate made Xue Wuheng’s teeth itch with anger.
Back when he infiltrated Tiandu to assassinate the emperor, the Blood Demon, Yang Tinghe, indeed provided some assistance, so later even when Yang Tinghe was killed by Pei Xuanjing, and the Great Ming imperial court was hunting down Yang Tinghe’s family members, Xue Wuheng still intervened to cover them up, otherwise, Yang Yongxiu would never have been able to escape so easily.
Later on, even in the face of a tough character like Pei Xuanjing, he still took care of Yang Yongxiu, keeping him hidden from others and giving him the opportunity to break through the Spiritual Realm.
For such a great kindness, Xue Wuheng didn’t seek repayment. However, he never expected that shortly after Yang Yongxiu broke through the Spiritual Realm, he would collude with outsiders and attempt to harm him. If it weren’t for his recent surge in power, he might not have survived.
“Their tracks have been very well concealed recently, making them hard to trace.” The Blood Slaughter Sovereign shook his head.
By rights, Yang Yongxiu, as the son of the Blood Demon Yang Tinghe, should have attracted many followers from the Blood Demon Sect after breaking through the spiritual realm. The Blood Slaughter Sovereign, who had long been dissatisfied with Xue Wuheng, should have left with Yang Yongxiu.
However, when Yang Tinghe was in the Blood Demon Sect, the Blood Slaughter Sovereign was one of his biggest rivals. It was precisely because of Yang Tinghe’s presence that the Blood Slaughter Sovereign was forced to withdraw from the contest for the title of sect leader and became an elder of the Blood Demon Sect.
Although they both originate from the Blood Demon Sect, the Blood Slaughter Sovereign was not only not an ally of Yang Tinghe, they harbored significant enmity towards each other. If it hadn’t been for Xue Wuheng’s prior protection, as one of the few people in the Demonic Cult who had reached the Spiritual Realm at that time, he would have no doubt killed Yang Yongxiu, and he would not be alive today.
Afterwards, when Yang Yongxiu colluded with outsiders to try to harm Xue Wuheng, the Blood Slaughter Sovereign did not participate, but instead actively warned Xue Wuheng, disrupting the assassination attempt.
Relying on these events, the Blood Slaughter Sovereign earned Xue Wuheng’s heavy favor.
The task of tracking and finding Yang Yongxiu was also handed over to him.
“Keep looking, those folks are wounded, they definitely need some elixirs to heal. Go and seek Bai Xiaosheng’s help, get him to assist you,” Xue Wuheng commanded in a deep voice.
After his assassination attempt, Xue Wuheng was certainly not a man to silently tolerate injustice. He quickly launched a counterattack, killing a few of them and wounding some others. Although they managed to escape and conceal their traces, their injuries were undoubtedly not easily recoverable. This was Xue Wuheng’s confidence in his own powers.
Given his constant probes and searches, if they want to quickly change this situation, they need to heal their injuries and recover their strength as soon as possible. And for that, they would need some elixirs for recuperation.
However, for opponents injured by his demonic primal qi, although the herbs they need are not valuable, they are very unique. If he could control the channel of these herbs, he would be able to locate their hiding places.
But given that most of the Demonic Cult’s forces are now stationed outside the border for expansion, pursuing Yang Yongxiu and his group is important, but it cannot hold up the expansion of the Demonic Cult. After all, as Heaven and Earth are reviving more and more exuberantly, people from Sky Wasteland are gradually returning. He needs to seize the opportunity as much as possible, to enhance his own strength and that of the Demonic Cult, in order to have enough say in the coming Great World. Otherwise, even if the Demonic Cult doesn’t collapse, it will eventually become a vassal of others.
After all, since the Demonic Cult’s spies are currently insufficient, he has to seek help from Bai Xiaosheng.
“Will this Bai Xiaosheng be willing to help us?” Blood Slaughter Sovereign frowned.
Since Bai Xiaosheng took up residence in the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, especially after he joined forces with the Taoist School, he rarely accepted commissions from various parties. Under current circumstances, he might not be willing to help. After all, from a certain perspective, the existence of Yang Yongxiu brings more benefits than harm to Bai Xiaosheng’s group.
“If it were anything else, Bai Xiaosheng might just let it slide, wanting to watch us make a fool of ourselves. But he’d never ignore this matter.” Xue Wuheng smiled confidently and spoke to him, “Just tell him that the people allied with Yang Yongxiu are from Sky Wasteland.”
Yes, the reason Yang Yongxiu betrayed Xue Wuheng was precisely because he was swayed by the people from Sky Wasteland, aiming to overthrow Xue Wuheng, the leader of the Demonic Cult, so as to retake the Demonic Cult for himself.
At the very beginning, the people returning from Sky Wasteland chose to contact Xue Wuheng, the leader of the Demonic Cult from the Ancestral Land. They claimed to be from the Demonic Way faction in Sky Wasteland.
However, the Demonic Way factions of Sky Wasteland were all acting separately, and there was no one who could unify them, so these people were quite unhappy with the title of leader of the Demonic Cult, and they demanded that Xue Wuheng disband the Demonic Cult and submit to them, obeying their orders.
For Xue Wuheng, who had always been in a high position, how could he possibly accept such terms? It was a bigger fight than the previous one on Dragon Tiger Mountain. After all, when practitioners of the Demonic Way took action, it was almost always a fight to the death.
After a fierce fight, those Demonic Way powerhouses returning from Sky Wasteland didn’t expect that Xue Wuheng, the leader of the Demonic Cult from the Ancestral Land, possessed the strength of the fourth level of the Spiritual Realm, and even used the Divine Weapon of the Demonic Cult to defeat a stronger practitioner from Sky Wasteland and kill a Demonic Way powerhouse of the fifth Spiritual Realm level.
What they thought would be an easy mission turned out to be unsuccessful, and they suffered heavy losses. These practitioners of the Demonic Way found it hard to tolerate. After all, given the behavior of the Demonic Way, failure in their mission awaited severe punishment, even if they didn’t die, they would still have their skin stripped off.