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Chapter 16: Peace of Mind

As Chen Ze watched the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator crouching over a corpse, sucking its blood to cultivate, he knew his opportunity had come.

After taking a deep breath, he infused his legs with spiritual energy and then exerted force!

In an instant, he transformed into a blur and shot towards the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator inside the desolate mansion.

"So, you have ulterior motives! Don't blame me for being impolite!"

Hearing the sound of a strong wind behind him, the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator turned around abruptly and thrust out a sword as if he had been prepared.

In fact, he had only pretended to be cultivating by sucking blood, secretly taking out a hidden magic weapon, in order to guard against this unfamiliar Soul Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator he had just completed a transaction with.

Clang!

A resounding noise echoed as the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator felt a tremendous force from the magic weapon in his hand, followed by a burst of spiritual energy that directly hit him.

Bang!

With a muffled sound, the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator was instantly sent flying by the spiritual energy.

Before he could react, Chen Ze had already arrived in front of him, wielding the Xuanjin Sword.

Without any hesitation, he swung the sword, and a thin red line appeared on the Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator's neck.

The whole process was completed in one breath, taking only a few moments.

"You..."

The Blood Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator looked at the completely unfamiliar young man in front of him, feeling a bit confused in his mind. Unfortunately, his consciousness did not allow him to continue thinking.

After a moment of dizziness, darkness completely enveloped him.

At the same time his head fell to the ground, Chen Ze bent down and began to remove the Step Cloud Shoes from his feet.

These Step Cloud Shoes were a pair of leather boots, but they were covered with a layer of black cloth, so they looked no different from ordinary boots.

It is worth mentioning that the soles of these Step Cloud Shoes each had a groove with engraved formations, which seemed to be able to embed spiritual stones.

However, since this Demonic Cultivator cultivated demonic energy and couldn't activate the spiritual energy in the spiritual stones, he naturally couldn't use this function.

"What a treasure."

Chen Ze sincerely praised before putting it into his storage bag. Then he casually took the storage bag from the corpse and stuffed it into his pocket.

At this time, the Soul Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator had just walked out of the desolate mansion, less than a hundred meters away.

Seemingly hearing the movement behind him, the Soul Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator turned around to take a look.

Before he could figure out what was happening, he saw a Daoist figure shooting towards him from the desolate mansion.

"It... it's a cultivator! His cultivation is far above mine!"

The Soul Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator was shocked, and his eyes were instantly filled with despair.

He knew very well that he was doomed this time, but his will to survive made him instinctively turn around and run.

Whoosh!

After running for a distance, a sword light flashed, and the head of the Soul Demon Dao Demonic Cultivator soared into the sky. The body, without a head, continued to run forward for a while before collapsing to the ground with a thud.

Chen Ze walked to the side of the corpse, picked up the storage bag, and then picked up the head not far away. He then turned around and returned to the desolate mansion.

After returning to the mansion, he arranged the scattered corpses neatly, and finally hung the heads of the two Demonic Cultivators prominently at the entrance.

Although this was a desolate mansion, caravans occasionally passed by.

When they saw the situation here, the people in the caravan would naturally guess what had happened, and then the government officials would come to handle the matter and bury the bodies of these people.

After dealing with all of this, Chen Ze collected the magic weapons of the two Demonic Cultivators and put them into a storage bag.

He planned to bring these magic weapons back to the sect and exchange them for some contribution points.

Once the sect received them, they would use a method to destroy them.

Of course, compared to that, selling them for spiritual stones would be more profitable for him.

However, deep down, he didn't want these magic weapons to end up in the hands of other Demonic Cultivators after going through various channels, and continue to harm innocent people.

He wasn't a saint, but he didn't want to be involved in these karmic consequences.

On the other hand, the family he belonged to occasionally took on tasks to deal with Demonic Cultivators, and he was also afraid that one day someone in his family would be harmed by the magic weapons he sold.

So he would rather lose a little and seek peace of mind.

...

After leaving the deserted mansion, Chen Ze, for the sake of caution, directly left Pingshi City.

After traveling for most of the day, he returned to Azure Sun Sect's Rising Cloud Peak.

Upon returning, instead of going back to his own courtyard, he went directly to Maple Leaf Pavilion.

There's a saying that goes, "Giving gifts without expecting anything in return, and seeking help without giving gifts."

He couldn't wait a few days to borrow a spiritual weapon from Senior Sister and then send out the things he had prepared. That would change the nature of the gift.

It would make it seem like he was only giving the gift in order to borrow a spiritual weapon.

That wouldn't be sincere.

In short, this relationship needed to be maintained on a daily basis so that when he needed help, the other person wouldn't feel embarrassed to refuse.

"Sister, I'm back. I came specifically to inform you!" Chen Ze knocked on the courtyard door and said.

"Mm, Sister knows. You may leave," came Xia Qiuchan's somewhat lazy voice from inside the courtyard.

"Sister, I saw some interesting things in the mortal city, and I thought you might like them, so I bought some and brought them back," Chen Ze added.

As soon as he finished speaking, the courtyard door opened with a swish, and Xia Qiuchan, wearing a white practice robe, appeared before Chen Ze with excitement in her eyes.

"Is it true?"

"Hehe, of course it's true," Chen Ze replied with a smile, then took out a storage bag from his pocket.

In fact, he had already planned to bring a gift for Senior Sister before leaving.

But he didn't tell her in advance, which was also a technique.

If he told her in advance, she would develop a sense of anticipation, and the longer the time, the stronger that sense of anticipation would become. In the end, no matter what gift she received, the joy in her heart wouldn't be as strong as the surprise.

"Junior Brother Chen, you're really a good person!" Xia Qiuchan praised sincerely.

Chen Ze smiled awkwardly and began to take things out of the storage bag.

There were clothes of various styles and colors, dolls made of different materials, and a lot of food.

In fact, gifts should be given gradually. Giving too much at once would make it difficult to give gifts next time.

But after seeing Ye Tang, he didn't care about that anymore and decided to get through this trial first.

As Xia Qiuchan looked at the various miscellaneous items, the joy on her face grew stronger.

Before she could become wary, Chen Ze took the initiative to say goodbye, "Senior Sister, I've already delivered the items. I'll have to undergo the trial in a few days, so I'll go back first."

After saying that, he turned and left, not giving Xia Qiuchan any time to react.

...

Back at his own residence, Chen Ze washed away the demonic energy on the Step Cloud Shoes with Spirit Spring Water before putting them on his feet.

Then he tried them around the yard and found that after wearing the Step Cloud Shoes, his speed had faintly surpassed that of an ordinary Qi Refining eighth-layer cultivator, but was slightly inferior to a Qi Refining ninth-layer cultivator.

After that, he tried embedding two pieces of Low Grade Spirit Stones into the two grooves on the Step Cloud Shoes.

With the enhancement of the Spirit Stones, he burst out with a speed comparable to a Qi Refining ninth-layer cultivator!

Although it only lasted for a short period of time, the two Low Grade Spirit Stones turned into powder, but he was still very satisfied.

With these Step Cloud Shoes, even if he suddenly encountered Ye Tang, he wouldn't lose his life.

After all, Ye Tang's secret technique was also a burst of power, just like him, it couldn't last long.

With this thought, he felt much more at ease all of a sudden.

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