Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments

Chapter 490: Chapter 220: Yin Corpse Sect, Treasure House, Spirit-Extinguishing Nail

The Celestial Sound Sect had also sent people to explore the relic, but whether that was a good thing or a bad thing remained to be seen.

In the past, there had been many occasions where several Major Sects would meet, then join forces to seal the entrance to a relic, prohibiting unaffiliated cultivators from entering to pick up scraps.

If that were to happen, the nearby Loose Cultivators could only stare helplessly and accept their bad luck.

Xiao Chen was currently a Loose Cultivator with no connections in the Eastern Domain, so of course he hoped to avoid such a situation.

Thus, he couldn’t help but pay them a little more attention.

As it happened, Cao Mingjie noticed his gaze.

He glanced toward the southeast corner and shook his head slightly. "Golden Light Taoist, you’d best be careful. I’ve heard that the female cultivators from the Celestial Sound Sect are all rather ill-tempered."

"There have even been incidents where Loose Cultivators were beaten until they were coughing up blood and severely injured, just for staring at them."

Huh?

Xiao Chen retracted his gaze. "Something like that really happened?"

’That’s probably more than just being ill-tempered, isn’t it?’

"Oh, it happens all the time. Similar incidents occur almost every year."

Cao Mingjie’s tone held a hint of schadenfreude. "Especially the Celestial Sound Sect’s current head disciple, Fairy Suruo. Her cultivation is profound and she’s utterly ruthless. I heard she destroyed the ’family jewels’ of several Loose Cultivators."

"But it looks like she didn’t come. The ones sitting over there are probably just a few sect managers."

"Oh, right, there’s something else you should be careful about."

Cao Mingjie lowered his voice. "I’ve heard the female cultivators of the Celestial Sound Sect are particularly fond of youth-preserving techniques."

"Even though they might look young, they could be even older than you and me."

Most cultivators don’t pay special attention to their appearance. After all, once their cultivation reaches a high level, they won’t be ugly as long as they don’t have any obvious congenital defects.

At the same time, they don’t deliberately control the changes in their appearance, so one can roughly judge their age based on how they look.

The exception, however, are cultivators who have taken things like the Youthful Appearance Pill. You can’t tell their true age from their appearance alone.

As they spoke, a series of murmurs suddenly came from the entrance.

"Aren’t those disciples from the Yin Corpse Sect?"

"I think so. Why would a normal person wrap their entire body up like that?"

"Keep your voices down, don’t let them hear you. Oh no, why is he coming this way?"

The table of Loose Cultivators by the door immediately lowered their heads and focused on their food, nearly burying their faces in their bowls.

Soon, Xiao Chen saw the inn’s Host at the entrance leading three peculiar guests inside.

In the lead was a young, black-robed cultivator with a gloomy face and a cold, indifferent gaze.

Following him were two companions whose bodies were wrapped up tightly in black cloth from head to toe, not even revealing their eyes or noses.

"There’s an empty table over here. Please, have a seat."

The Host gestured for them to sit at a table in the northwest corner of the hall, which was next to Xiao Chen’s group, about six feet away.

This wasn’t intentional; the main reason was that too many guests had arrived in recent days, and the main hall was nearly full.

However, although all three of them sat down, the young man alone ordered three dishes and poured only a single cup of tea for himself.

His two companions, despite sitting with him, kept their backs ramrod straight, sitting rigidly proper.

Their hands hung naturally at their sides, fingers and knees held together, and then they remained motionless without saying a word.

This peculiar situation immediately drew Xiao Chen’s attention.

The other cultivators in the hall also began casting intentional and unintentional glances in their direction.

The young man, however, seemed accustomed to being stared at and continued to sip his tea alone with a blank expression.

"How disgusting. Let’s go!"

Suddenly, a delicate female voice rang out, and the three female cultivators from the Celestial Sound Sect all stood up.

One of them went to settle the bill with the Shopkeeper, while the other two frowned and each shot a glare at the black-robed young man.

Then, they quickly walked to the entrance to wait for their companion, seeming unwilling to stay in the same room a moment longer.

Then, a faint, placating voice could be heard. "Senior Sister, don’t be angry. We’ll find another place to eat."

"Forget it. How could I have any appetite now? Bringing dead people to the table... they’re just a bunch of perverts."

Hm?

Xiao Chen re-examined the two cultivators wrapped in black cloth. They were still motionless, seemingly oblivious to what was happening around them.

Hearing this, the black-robed young man frowned slightly.

But after glancing at the pouch on the female cultivator’s belt, he didn’t say anything more.

On the other hand, many cultivators, especially those who had rushed here from the Inner Sea for the relic, widened their eyes in astonishment.

*Hiss!*

Xiao Chen couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.

The main reason was that a long time ago, the Eastern Domain had claimed that Demon Cultivators had been completely wiped out, and there were no more Demon Sects causing trouble.

So he really hadn’t considered that possibility before.

Who would have thought that the Yin Corpse Sect would be so blatant about it, openly raising Corpse Puppets and daring to bring them out onto the streets in broad daylight.

’Wait, how the hell is this not considered the Demon Dao?’

’If this were the Southern Domain, they would have already been reported to the nearest sect, which would be gathering forces for Demon Extermination and Protection of the Dao by now.’

Then Xiao Chen realized that the most powerful sect in the Sea of Darkness was the Yin Corpse Sect itself.

’Ah... but that’s not right either. What about the other Righteous Sects?’

’Doesn’t anyone do anything about them?’

’Especially the Demon-Vanquishing Sword Sect. What are they doing?’

Xiao Chen really couldn’t figure it out. But since the facts were right in front of him, he figured there must be some special, hidden reason for it.

Thinking back, there hadn’t been a single whisper about this in the Inner Sea.

It seemed this level of secrecy was not something an ordinary Golden Core Cultivator could be privy to.

"Golden Light Taoist, are you finished eating?"

Yu Zhenyang asked in a low voice, "Should we leave now, too?"

Following the Celestial Sound Sect’s lead, cultivators from two other tables also got up to pay their bills.