From a scholar to a villain, I was a good person at the beginning

Birds flew away in fright and beasts scattered in fear.

From a stone cave blocked by rubble, waves of spiritual energy emanated, the aura became stronger and stronger, and finally reached its peak.

"What a broken spiritual root, it takes so long to build a foundation!"

Kong Qing was floating in the air, looking at Jiang Zheng, whose aura had reached the peak of Qi Refining, and yawned.

"Foundation building, breaking!"

Jiang Zheng suddenly opened his eyes and shouted coldly.

The aura on his body suddenly rose, and a bottleneck in his body was broken instantly!

A white light shone brightly in his lower abdomen, beating violently like a heart, absorbing and exhaling spiritual energy madly.

His eyes became sharp and he quickly swept over a dozen spirit stones on the ground. The spirit stones floated in the air, emitting rich spiritual energy that flowed towards Jiang Zheng's lower abdomen.

As spiritual energy continued to flow into the spiritual roots, the aura of the initial stage of foundation building was no longer erratic and became stable.

“Hahaha, it worked!”

The joy of successfully building the foundation made Jiang Zheng laugh heartily and he slowly clenched his fists.

The spiritual energy in my body has more than tripled. No wonder my foundation is so powerful. Now I have done it too!

He thought to himself and casually sent out a stream of spiritual energy that landed on the stone wall.

Bang--!

With a dull thud, the hard rock exploded.

"Okay, stop showing off."

Kong Qing said slowly. Jiang Zheng suppressed the joy in his heart and turned to look at Kong Qing.

At a glance, he saw the big white banner in the air, which made him even more delighted.

"The banner is ready?!"

"No, I just help you refine the materials, the rest is up to you."

"Ah? How can I know this?" The joy just now took a sudden turn for the worse.

I feel like crying but I have no tears. Where did you promise to help me practice the banner? Isn't this a lie?

"Nonsense, of course you can't. I will teach you. You don't know anything now. How can you become an immortal? If you learn this ritual, your future will be much smoother."

After saying that, Kong Qing didn't want to waste time and pointed a finger at Jiang Zheng's forehead.

Buzz——!

Jiang Zheng suddenly felt dizzy and his mind began to buzz violently. Mysterious and bitter runes appeared in his mind out of thin air.

Ten breaths later, he opened his eyes and felt a pain in his head, his whole body was soaked with cold sweat.

"Good, simple, rough and trouble-free!"

Kong Qing clapped his hands and finished his work with satisfaction.

"You're in luck, kid. This is the Blood Devil's weapon refining method that I snatched from an ancient ruin. The weapon refined from it is very powerful and can maximize the potential of the material.

The magic weapon forged is extremely strange and has the potential to grow. The more blood it drinks, the stronger its power becomes! Hehe..."

Kong Qing touched his chin and chuckled.

Boy, you have no choice, right?

Hate the devil, detest the devil, understand the devil, and become the devil.

For a moment, Kong Qing became interested, as if he had seen how Jiang Zheng had been trained by him to be a cold-blooded villain.

"Huff, huff..." Jiang Zheng gasped heavily and it took him a long time to recover.

After receiving the information in his mind, his expression was complicated, with great joy and great sorrow.

The reason for his joy was that the Blood Demon's weapon refining method was truly against the will of heaven. No matter what quality of spiritual treasure was forged, it would always be the most powerful among the same quality, and it could continue to grow!

In other words, if a low-grade spiritual treasure is refined, it can slowly grow into a mid-grade spiritual treasure, or even a top-grade spiritual treasure, but this is impossible for a Dao treasure.

If one wants to refine a Taoist treasure, one must be a person who has attained the Tao. Only by using one's own great Dao to refine a top-grade spiritual treasure can one refine a Taoist treasure with power that reaches heaven and earth!

The sad thing is, this thing has to kill people to work. If it doesn't drink blood or eat souls, how can it achieve top-level power?

Isn't this what the devil does? Although he has never seen a devil cultivator, he has seen them all in the books!

They kill people without blinking an eye and do all kinds of evil things, such as refining people, refining poison, and even refining the sky.

Refining in an instant! Is this something a human would do?!

Is this what scholars do???

But...why do I not feel any disgust when I think about killing people as sacrifices?

No, it's not that I don't feel disgusted, it's that I don't have any feeling at all, as if something is missing out of nowhere.

"Could it be that it's because I gave Ai to Kong Qing that I can't feel sadness anymore?!"

He suddenly realized the reason, was shocked, and immediately cold sweat broke out on his back.

But despite this, I still can't feel the slightest bit of sadness.

Only then did I understand how terrible it was to lose the seven emotions. Now I had only lost sorrow. What if one day all the seven emotions and six desires were gone?

Jiang Zheng couldn't imagine what he would become. A cold-blooded executioner? A demon who killed people without blinking an eye?

The more I think about it, the more frightened I become. It seems that anything can happen.

"Hehe..." Kong Qing smiled jokingly, as if he had guessed Jiang Zheng's thoughts.

But the next moment, his eyes widened.

Jiang Zheng pulled the jade slip off his neck, and the spiritual light in his hand condensed into a point, emitting a sharp meaning.

He carved something on it smoothly, and when the debris fell to the ground, six large characters appeared on the jade slip:

Innocent people should not be killed

"This...huh", Kong Qing was stunned at first, then smiled faintly and shook his head.

Holding the jade slip tightly, Jiang Zheng felt much more at ease, and the fear of losing Ai slowly dissipated.

"As long as this jade slip is here, my Ai will not die!"

He hung the jade slip back around his neck again, looked determined, stretched out his hand, and the snow-white banner in the air fell into his hand.

"Kong Qing, can this banner really carry the Blood Demon Weapon Refining Technique and the terrifying Blood Evil on this battlefield?"

He began to look at it. The flagpole felt like warm jade. He didn't know what material it was made of. It seemed to be made of white jade, but it was very tough.

The white flag feels like leather when you hold it, but it is very extraordinary, emitting a faint glow and full of spirituality.

"Don't worry, this flagpole is made of black jade, and the banner is made of rhinoceros skin from the middle stage of foundation building. They are all materials for refining low-grade spiritual treasures. You can use the blood demon pattern for casting low-grade spiritual treasures."

Kong Qing explained patiently, and Jiang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief after listening.

This blood demon ritual requires inducing blood evil to carve magic patterns on the treasure embryo. However, if the material used to cast the treasure embryo is too poor, it may explode directly.

This resulted in the loss of the precious fetus and all the efforts were in vain.

Jiang Zheng waved the big banner, and the rubble blocking the cave entrance exploded.

After breaking through the foundation-building stage, even a casual attack with the treasure embryo was far beyond what he could contend with in the foundation-building stage.

We have the ready-made treasure embryo and the blood evil, but there is still one thing missing... blood.

It was noon outside the gate and the weather was pretty good.

Jiang Zheng, dressed in a red robe, stepped on the ground, floated up and flew into the air.

After breaking through the foundation, you can fly in the air without relying on a flying sword.

"I don't have any requirements for blood. As long as it's fresh blood and the spirit is not dissipated, it's fine..."

Jiang Zheng flew slowly above the ancient forest, looking down for wild animals.

He had no intention of taking human blood, even though human blood was more spiritual, but he would not do so unless it was necessary.

If you want to refine the Blood Demon Banner in one go, you must hunt at least a large beast, preferably a demon beast.

Unfortunately, the aura emitted during the breakthrough just now scared away the nearby wild beasts, and now not even a bird feather can be seen.

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Several flying swords carrying human figures were flying at high speed in the air.

"Don't struggle, just hand over the token and surrender. We can even let you feel the pleasure of a woman before you die, hahahaha"

"Hahaha, I haven't tasted what it's like to be a female cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage. I'm going to have a good time soon!"

The two monks in yellow robes behind him kept muttering obscene words and had lewd smiles on their faces.

"hateful!"

Lan Xinyue gritted her teeth and used all her strength to drive the flying sword under her feet.

But she had very little spiritual energy left, and even with all her strength she couldn't get rid of two ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators.

A few days ago, she had just gone through a great battle and encountered two disciples from other sects one after another. After the hard battle, she was not only seriously injured, but also used up all her talismans and medicine powders.

Just when she was about to find a place to heal her wounds, she was secretly targeted by two Qi Refining Level 9 masters. However, she was seriously injured and could only exert 30% of her cultivation.

As a result, the tiger was bullied by the dog when it fell into plain water.

"puff--!"

She forced her spiritual energy to move, which affected the wound, and she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

His figure was shaky. Seeing this, a monk in a yellow robe behind him had his eyes lit up. He seized the opportunity and flicked his sleeves.

whoosh——!

A black shadow flew out from the sleeves, flashing with cold light and wrapped in spiritual energy, shooting towards Lan Xinyue.

"ah--!"

Lan Xinyue let out a scream as a black dagger pierced deeply into her back.