Becoming evil makes you ten times stronger, but becoming a demon gives you hundredfold strength

On a certain plane, what people hated most about Tang Clan's hidden weapons was that a mere scratch could let deadly poison take one's life. So, in the Cultivation World, what was the most loathsome thing about the Demon Gate? Take the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, for instance, a cultivation technique foul as dung. A single cut could leave one in a miserable state, lingering on a sickbed.

In battle, one had to dedicate a large part of their attention to guard against such things. However, this was the Ascension List, where Divine Artifacts cut off the interior from the exterior, and real injuries were but the loss of a strand of Divine Soul.

Everyone's expressions darkened as they looked at Meng Yu.

If it weren't for the consideration that he was the true inheritor of the Blood Shadow Patriarch, or the fear that it might be a scheme of the Blood Shadow Patriarch himself, perhaps someone would have already taken action against him.

"Fellow seniors, brothers and sisters, let's be reasonable," he pleaded with an oath to the heavens. "I swear I never colluded with the Blood Shadow Patriarch, I only met him once. You can send someone to inquire in Sleepless City. Someone from the Eternal Night Palace should have also entered here. Please ask them for the truth, wouldn't that be better?"

"Evildoers and heretics must be exterminated by everyone!"

The female Golden Core could no longer contain her rage as she charged at Meng Yu, reaching out to grab him with a palm.

Even though everyone present was at the Foundation Establishment level of cultivation, the battle power of those at the Golden Core was far superior within the Ascension List.

A martial arts expert who had achieved the Golden Pill of Achievement had at the very least grasped a true meaning of martial arts, making their Divine Soul exceptionally more powerful than that of someone at Foundation Establishment. Fighting a true Foundation Establishment cultivator was like an adult man dealing with a seven- or eight-year-old child.

This female Golden Core, after her family had been annihilated by the Blood Demon Sect, had trained herself bitterly. She had perfected the Grand Seizing Art of the Primal One Qi. Beyond her two hands, she also cultivated eight invisible arms, of varying lengths, twisting and crushing like divine demons, capable of cutting gold and breaking jade.

She reached Meng Yu and blocked every possible escape route with her eight void arms, trapping him in the middle as if a spider had ensnared its prey in a web. One gentle squeeze would be all it took...

"Slap."

A bamboo whip struck her face fiercely.

It was heavy and painful, leaving a trail from one eye, across the nose, and down to the corner of the mouth, bringing out the black, white, red, and green under the skin.

Despite the severe injury, her reaction was swift. The eight invisible arms continued their assault, forming an intricate battle array, capable of shattering the void...

"Slap."

Backhanded was another strike. This time, it diagonally swept across the other eye. Her already collapsed nose was gone for good, and an 'X' marked her face.

"Can't you understand human speech, sister?"

Meng Yu shook his head and continued to walk forward.

He had been merciful, only destroying her two eyes and nose. Moreover...

"I'm going to kill..."

The female Golden Core behind him resembled a fierce ghost at that moment. Her once beautiful face was now a bloody mess, and she charged forward without regard for anything else...

"Splat."

Meng Yu's retaliatory stab sent the bamboo whip through her mouth and out the back of her head.

The flesh of someone at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection was tough, but an open mouth was a true vulnerability.

A Golden Core of Foundation Establishment Great Perfection died before everyone's eyes.

Meng Yu blinked, paused, and stood beside the female Golden Core's body to verify something very important.

The entire street fell silent, all eyes on this young man in shock.

Everyone knew about the battle prowess of this Golden Core from Lingyun City, especially after entering the Ascension List. This martial arts Golden Core, with her spells suppressed, was formidable, yet how did she so simply fall to a young man with just three strikes of his whip?

Meng Yu quietly stood beside the female Golden Core's body, examining the corpse with its mangled, bloodied face and the new hole in the back of its skull. The corpse lay there motionless. Her figure was indeed impressive, with a towering chest and a slender waist. Cough... these points were not the focus, but rather, Meng Yu discovered to his surprise, this body was just like those found in the natural world. It didn't turn into white light, nor did it disintegrate into ash, nor did it drop a loot box. It simply lay there indistinguishable from a real corpse.

Ah, ah, ah, this, this is a massive bug!

Meng Yu suddenly had an idea. Was his Blood Sea Great Formation still possible?

"Little brother, what are you doing?"

Someone from a high building called down.

"Guarding the corpse, because I have many questions. For example, this deceased sister, when she logs off, her corpse remains here. So, what if another her logs back on, will she see another dead her?"

"Yes, why do you ask?"

"I'm...slap!"

Another retaliatory strike of the bamboo whip hit the face of another approaching male Golden Core, spinning him around.

"Mainly because I saw Blood Shadow Patriarch create the Blood Sea Great Formation and it gave me some ideas. Her body seems still useful," Meng Yu explained, while he played with the dead female Golden Core, paying no mind to the fact that he had just whipped another male Golden Core away.

She had just died, muscles still full of elasticity, especially in a cultivated Foundation Establishment body, clean without disembowelment or anything spilling everywhere.

"I have a thought, her corpse is also good material. Whether it be bones or quality, if used for Corpse Refinement, it would be an excellent resource," he mused.

Meng Yu's words angered the male Golden Core to the point of red-faced fury, yet he dared not cause any further trouble.