When Yue Wen used the Demon-Revealing Mirror, that clump of ghost fire also caught the scent of the living. With a whoosh, its flames flared up, and it charged straight at him.
Yue Wen instantly brought out his flying-sword bracelet, gripped the sword in hand, and swung it through the air.
Chhh—
The sword qi sliced the ghost fire apart from several meters away, extinguishing it. Two torn halves of lantern skin fell to the ground.
“This little thing probably takes killing a dozen or so just to make one Evil-Suppressing Coin.” Yue Wen sensed it roughly, then said indifferently, “Win by quantity, I guess.”
As he spoke, he continued strolling forward.
From the direction of the woods, ghost fires drifted out every so often. It was clear that this public cemetery had indeed let them accumulate for quite some time before hiring anyone.
Fortunately, lantern monsters all had a sense of territory. They kept a considerable distance from one another, and no matter how many there were, they would not swarm him all at once. They simply could not cause Yue Wen any trouble.
If it was one-on-one against lantern monsters, then naturally, the more the better.
Wherever he passed, nothing could stand in his way.
This was also why the cemetery management only required someone at the Second Realm. Dealing with lantern monsters truly did not require any divine abilities or mystical arts. The lantern monsters themselves probably never imagined that a late Third Realm cultivator would be willing to spend so much time chopping them down.
Had he come here to stomp low-level mobs?
Just as Yue Wen was finding the chopping rather stress-relieving, he suddenly saw a different trace of aura in the Demon-Revealing Mirror.
Amid the wisps of hazy gray yin qi, a few faint strands of reddish smoke had suddenly mixed in.
Demonic qi?
Yue Wen immediately became cautious. A nightmare spirit might naturally arise in a cemetery, but a demon was definitely an outsider.
He had to handle this carefully.
With a leap, he sprang onto a tree branch, restrained his aura, and cautiously observed the source of the demonic qi.
He saw three furtive, catlike figures walking over from ahead.
All three had human forms and were wearing clothes, but the exposed skin on their bodies was more or less covered in fur. Cat ears grew from their heads, and long tails stood upright behind them.
Three half-transformed cat demons?
Yue Wen pondered inwardly, not knowing what purpose they had in coming here so late at night.
Walking at the very front was a black cat demon. Judging from his facial features, he looked like a young man. As he walked, he observed his surroundings, as if patrolling his territory.
Beside him was a plump white cat demon who looked somewhat simple and honest. He carried a large bag on his back and even wore a pair of sunglasses.
Behind the two demons followed a light and slender orange cat demon. Her appearance resembled that of a human girl, with delicate features and blue-tinged pupils. As she walked, her gaze was extremely timid.
Seeing that they were about to leave the wooded area, the fat white cat wearing sunglasses took out something shaped like a round disc from his robes and began muttering, “Seeking dragons, dividing gold, observe the coiling mountains; one layer of mountains is one layer of barriers…”
As he was reciting, the black cat raised a hand and smacked the back of his head.
Smack!
“What are you doing?” the black cat asked.
“I…” The white cat innocently rubbed the back of his head and said weakly, “I saw that grave robbers all do it like this.”
“Wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night—what are you, a rapper?” The black cat knocked off his sunglasses with one swat, then slapped away the thing in his hand. “And what car dashboard did you pry this off of?”
“I was just afraid we’d run into a zongzi…” The white cat retreated while getting beaten.
“You look like a big fat zongzi to me!” The black cat smacked his head again. “Who told you we’re here to rob graves?”
“Aren’t we?” The white cat grimaced in pain.
“We are only here to carry out the Cult Master’s mission: dig open the graves here, find the thing inside, and bring it back!” the black cat said.
The white cat said in confusion, “Isn’t that just the dictionary definition of grave robbing?”
“Hurry up and go dig!” the black cat urged irritably.
“Keep your voice down. What if you alert the gravekeeper?” the orange cat girl behind them advised quietly.
“What’s there to be afraid of?” the black cat said arrogantly. “How strong can a gravekeeper in a place like this be? If anyone dares stop us later, I’ll punch him so hard he calls me Grandpa!”
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【Juvenile Cat Demon: Its strength is still insufficient for complete transformation, but its physical body is tough and its movements agile. Although it has yet to comprehend any innate divine abilities, one must still be wary of its sharp fangs and claws. Its combat strength is equivalent to one hundred healthy human grannies.】
Yue Wen used the Demon-Revealing Mirror to investigate the strength of the three cat demons as well. He discovered that all of them were within the range the mirror could observe, and that even the strongest black cat only had a combat strength at the hundred-granny level. Only then did he relax slightly.
He continued hiding in the tree, wanting to see what these three little demons intended to do.
Strictly speaking, his mission was to clear out evil spirits. It was just that usually, there were only lantern monsters here. If something else appeared, then he was also responsible for it.
At most, they could just add money afterward.
If these little demons acted too viciously, Yue Wen would not mind making a move for free and earning himself a few more Evil-Suppressing Coins.
He saw the three cat demons below arrive before a section of graves with relatively new tombstones. The black cat looked them over and said, “The corpses that were newly brought in over the past few days should all be buried here. Start digging.”
The bag they brought contained pickaxes. The black cat and white cat began swinging them, clang, clang, clang, breaking open the cement ground and digging out the corpses inside.
The orange cat girl stood off to the side, keeping watch, looking around with some fear.
As a demon, what she feared was naturally not corpses or ghosts, but human cultivators.
During the time they had survived in the city, they had never dared show themselves in the light, afraid of being discovered by powerful cultivators. After all, no law would protect innocent little demons, so they lived every day in constant anxiety.
Of course, even so, it was still far better than life in the wild zones outside.
The black cat and white cat threw themselves into the work, digging open three graves in succession. Each time they opened one, the black cat would carefully inspect it. After discovering it was not their target, they continued digging the next.
Yue Wen watched for a while longer and confirmed again that there were no other demons around. Only then did he decide to make his move.
If he let them keep digging like this, the cemetery would be a complete mess tomorrow, and he would have a hard time reporting back.
The orange cat girl was looking left and right when Yue Wen directly flew down behind her and asked, “What are you looking at?”
“Of course I’m afraid there’ll be…” The orange cat answered subconsciously while turning her head, and then she saw a show-quality human of excellent condition with no trace of demonic qi at all. Her pupils instantly trembled. “A person—”
Yue Wen raised his hand like a blade and chopped her on the neck, knocking the little orange cat unconscious.
Over on the other side, the black and white cats heard the scream and immediately looked over.
When they discovered that a human had appeared and knocked out their companion, the black cat’s expression instantly turned vicious. His face became ferocious as he lowered his body and hissed at Yue Wen.
The white cat was even more direct. He raised the pickaxe in his hands and charged over, shouting, “Let her go!”
Against a little demon like this, Yue Wen did not use his Sword Control Art, because that would very easily kill it with one strike.
The cultivation methods that cultivators practiced were generally divided into three types: mental cultivation methods, martial arts techniques, and divine abilities or mystical arts.
Compared to divine abilities and mystical arts, the threshold for martial arts techniques was lower. Back when his cultivation was still weak, Yue Wen had once bought a martial arts technique called Roaming Dragon Sanshou.
It was more than enough to deal with these little demons.
Facing the white cat charging at him with a pickaxe, Yue Wen moved like lightning. He stepped forward, swept with his left hand, chopped with his right—bang!
A neck chop as lithe as a swimming dragon!
The blow was heavy and powerful. Even though the white cat was plump and large, he was chopped unconscious in one hit.
“Hah!” At the same time, the black cat darted forward, charging over with sharp and swift movements, his figure almost leaving afterimages behind!
Judging from this momentum, his strength was indeed much greater than the white cat’s.
But before the enormous gap in cultivation, it was still not worth mentioning. Yue Wen twisted his waist and threw a backhand punch, landing it squarely on the black cat’s face. It was as if the black cat had run into it himself.
Bang—
This punch sent the black cat flying straight back more than five meters. Two streams of blood instantly sprayed from his nostrils!
But this black cat did have quite a bit of backbone. He did not let out even a cry of pain!
He fiercely wiped away the nosebleed with one hand, stared straight at Yue Wen with bright eyes, raised both claws high, and then suddenly, with a thud—
Knelt down…
After sliding to his knees at the speed of light, he still held his head high with proud arrogance, a fierce look on his face, and shouted loudly, “Grandpa, spare my life!”
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