Chapter 594 - 270: Blood River Demon Venerable Scared Stiff

The way Lu Wenwu commanded his subordinates immediately made the Blood River Demon Venerable’s expression freeze, and anger began to simmer in his heart.

Even if you’re powerful, can’t you insult me like this?

After all, I’ve been a well-known demonic power for over a thousand years, and you barge into my mountain gate just to have me run errands for you?

If word gets out, where will my reputation go?

How am I supposed to survive in this Demonic Dao?

Thinking of this, the Blood River Demon Venerable wanted to act out on the spot.

But before he could move, Lu Wenwu casually took out a handful of top-grade spirit stones and tossed them over.

At least twenty or so.

It even caused a small range of spiritual power turbulence in the air.

The surrounding demonic cultivators were wide-eyed at the spirit stones, which emitted a shocking spiritual power fluctuation!

Never mind twenty or so, they haven’t even seen double digits of top-grade spirit stones, alright!

These are treasures for breaking through bottlenecks, even increasing the success rate of crossing tribulations and ascending; usually, no one would bring them out for trade!

Even in the Blood Refining Demon Palace, after all these years, getting a top-grade spirit stone as compensation was extremely rare, only given as a reward for great service—Blood River Demon Venerable himself also craves these dearly.

He needs a large amount of top-grade spirit stones to help him take the final step, to enter the domain of the Immortals and summon Thunder Tribulation to the Lower Realm.

"These top-grade spirit stones are your reward for running errands for me on behalf of the Blood Refining Demon Palace; do well, and there will be more rewards. How about that, it won’t trouble you too much, right?" Lu Wenwu asked with a laugh, hugging Mao Mao.

Blood River Demon Venerable’s hands trembled as he collected all the top-grade spirit stones, immediately showing a somewhat ingratiating smile.

He wasn’t sure if Lu Wenwu’s record in Celestial Secret City had embellishments, not as outrageous as imagined.

He was only very clear that Lu Wenwu’s financial prowess was without a hint of exaggeration, generously fat.

This zero-frame start, kicking off with over twenty pieces of top-grade spirit stones, who can withstand that!

"No, no, no, no trouble, no trouble, certainly no trouble." Blood River Demon Venerable unwittingly bent over with a smiling face, "Our Blood Refining Demon Palace’s resource collection speed is absolutely unrivaled in the Cultivation Realm, Fellow Daoist, you have a keen eye!"

That’s the beauty of the Demonic Dao; it emphasizes flexibility.

This is also why Lu Wenwu chose to engage with demonic cultivators.

The Immortal Dao Alliance is full of absurdities; sometimes even when kneeling inside, they must appear dignified and pretend to uphold integrity on the surface.

The demonic cultivators are straightforward.

As long as you show extreme strength and financial power, they’ll immediately submit without hesitation.

Very clean and efficient.

As for the demon cultivators?

Because someone covets Mao Mao, Lu Wenwu dislikes them, simple as that.

Though he doesn’t know, the demon cultivators are no longer coveting Mao Mao.

They’re coveting you!

In the Blood Refining Demon Palace, the Blood River Demon Venerable personally led Lu Wenwu into the reception room, accompanied by several Supreme Elders who couldn’t be driven away.

Originally, Lu Wenwu thought that the Demon Sect would resemble the depiction in some online novels, with piles of bones, blood and mud everywhere, a stench permeating, and everyone being mentally unstable, like raising gu insects attacking each other.

The reality was quite the opposite.

All the way, there was no sight of corpse mountains or a sea of blood, and the reception room was adorned very quietly and elegantly, reminiscent of vacation resorts themed around Buddhism from the past life.

The Vice Sect Leader known as South Peak was entrusted by Blood River Demon Venerable with procurement tasks, disappearing with a determined expression as if facing death unflinchingly.

The others gradually began discussing the current state of demon cultivation under Lu Wenwu’s inquiry.

Modern demonic cultivators have indeed restrained themselves significantly.

Unlike ancient demon cultivators who completely negated, trivialized, and even despised life, seeing everything as expendable, they somewhat understand sustainable development.

For example, Blood River Demon Venerable reluctantly set a rule upon sort of governing the Demonic Dao: if demonic cultivators want to kill a person as cultivation material, they must cultivate three more people to maintain the quantity of materials.

Suppose Zhang San wanted to kill ten thousand young men to refine the Human Emperor Banner... Ten Thousand Souls Banner, he’d need to find a mortal county, become the magistrate, and govern the original ten-thousand-person county to three times its populace, cultivating twenty thousand young men, then he could kill and refine treasures.

Although it doesn’t sound like a good thing, it’s much more appeasing than before.

This is why there are figures like the Yellow Springs Ascendant, willing to risk hiding in the Righteous Dao rather than returning to the Demonic Dao’s territory.

If you kill someone in the Righteous Dao, minor killings within the Immortal Dao Alliance may go unnoticed, and even if they know, they might not spend their cultivation time capturing a Late-stage Nascent Soul demonic cultivator who has many tricks up their sleeve.

But if you kill someone in Demonic Dao?

You’re killing crops that other demonic cultivators have carefully nurtured!

Like stealing and eating someone else’s pigs; wouldn’t they go all out against you?

A simple truth.

Compared to the rough livestock farming of modern demonic cultivators, ancient demon cultivators truly went on a spree of killings.

If not for their low numbers, coupled with being besieged by all other intelligent life forms, the Cultivation Realm might not suffice for their slaughter.

However, the dominance tactic promoted by Blood River Demon Venerable also involves another issue.

Would you prefer to be free-range under the rule of the Immortal Dao Alliance, or be well-fed and well-treated under the governance of demonic cultivators?

Like the writings in a science fiction novel.