Guo Shan Feng finished marking Lin Xue and her companions.
Leaving them behind, he walked toward the campfire and began barking orders at several minor demons to grill more food.
The minor demons bowed and scraped incessantly, nodding their heads.
Guo Shan Feng turned around and gestured for Lin Xue and the others to come over.
Lin Xue led the group of girls to the edge of the campfire.
With a stern face, Guo Shan Feng told them, “This Chief will give you half an hour to eat, rest, and recover your energy. When I return in half an hour, if anyone makes even the slightest excuse, you will suffer the consequences!”
After speaking, he didn’t spare the female demons another glance before turning to walk away.
The female demons found individual stones to sit on.
For a moment, Hua Yingying and Xiao Mili were distracted by the food before them, and the tension on their faces relaxed slightly.
Seeing eight beautiful and youthful Yaojing sitting by the campfire, several minor demons who had been focused on grilling the meat suddenly stared with wide, fixed eyes.
Their hands stopped moving efficiently as they gawked.
One minor demon became so enchanted by Lin Xue that he accidentally stuck his hand into the fire, howling in pain as he clutched his burnt paw.
Lin Xue remained expressionless on the surface, but her heart was filled with anxiety.
She looked at the black ring on her wrist with a growing headache.
Hong Yanzhi sat beside her, her face also etched with worry.
None of them had expected Guo Shan Feng to possess such a method.
This black ring mark was emitted from Lieyun, and Lieyun had come from Hei Pi Yao Wang.
Therefore, it was highly likely that Hei Pi Yao Wang could use this mark to track their location at any time.
They had thought that once they escaped the Array, they could finally use a Teleportation Spell to flee successfully.
However, this mark had plunged their spirits back into the abyss.
The destination and direction of the Teleportation Spell were completely random and uncontrollable.
If they were transported near Human Territory, things might still work out.
Lin Xue could teach the [Heavenly Demon Transformation Art] to Hong Yanzhi, Hua Yingying, and the others, allowing them to hide their animalistic features and pose as human women to blend into a city.
Hei Pi Yao Wang and Guo Shan Feng likely wouldn’t be arrogant enough to break into a human city just to capture them.
But if they were transported in any other direction, it would be trouble.
With Hei Pi Yao Wang’s flight speed, it would be easy for him to catch up to them.
When that happened, their fate would be miserable.
‘Do I really have to become a Luding for that dying pig?’
Lin Xue held her head in her hands, feeling an intense headache.
Soon, the meat was cooked.
With broad grins and fawning smiles that almost split their faces, the minor demons placed skewers of large grilled meat onto a Wooden Tray and brought it over to Lin Xue and the others.
Perhaps because they hadn’t eaten for two days, the grilled meat looked particularly fragrant and delicious.
Despite being full of worry, Lin Xue still found her appetite. She ate heartily, devouring one skewer after another.
Even if the sky was falling, she had to eat first!
She ate more on her own than Hong Yanzhi and the other six female demons combined. The sight made the minor demons’ eyelids twitch.
‘This most beautiful Yaojing looks so delicate and fragile, so how can she eat this much?’
‘How can such a small stomach hold so much food?’
‘Could she be a reincarnated hungry Ghost?’
They couldn’t grill the meat fast enough to keep up with her pace.
Guo Shan Feng had instructed them to ensure these ladies were fed well, so the minor demons could only scramble back to continue grilling.
While Lin Xue devoured the meat, she contemplated her next move.
The thought of killing Guo Shan Feng crossed her mind again.
‘I wonder if there’s a chance to kill that fellow using Hong Yanzhi’s fan…’
She checked the skills recorded on her [System Panel].
Aside from the last one she had learned—the [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual (Fragment)] used for absorbing a man’s Yang Energy—all her other techniques were already at the max level and fully mastered using Experience Points.
She hadn’t used a Crystal Stone to complete the [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual (Fragment)] because she felt it was merely a wicked, harmful technique.
Furthermore, it required Dual Cultivation with a man to be used and didn’t increase her attack power, so she felt learning it would be a waste.
However, seeing the technique now, Lin Xue suddenly remembered what Hei Pi had said when he killed Zong-Lie.
He had said Zong-Lie tried to use Jiaojiao as a trump card, teaching her the complete [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual].
He then offered Jiaojiao up to be used as a Luding, intending for her to drain Hei Pi’s Yang Energy and suck him dry during Dual Cultivation.
A flash of inspiration struck Lin Xue’s mind.
‘Maybe I have a chance to kill Hei Pi Yao Wang using this technique?’
Right now, Hei Pi Yao Wang was currently plucking from Du Niangzi.
Du Niangzi was her servant. Lin Xue could complete the manual now, master it using her Experience Points, and then transmit it remotely to Du Niangzi through the Soul Link.
Once Du Niangzi mastered the complete [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual], wouldn’t she be able to drain Hei Pi Yao Wang to death?
And they could wait for the news of Hei Pi Yao Wang’s death before using the Teleportation Spell to escape.
Guo Shan Feng’s goal in bringing them here was to have them absorb Yang Energy to extend Hei Pi Yao Wang’s life.
If Hei Pi Yao Wang died, these female demons would be useless to Guo Shan Feng.
After they escaped, Guo Shan Feng likely wouldn’t make a big fuss or waste energy trying to find them.
Lin Xue immediately accessed her panel, converting 1,000 Experience Points into a Crystal Stone, and applied it directly to the [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual (Fragment)].
[The Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual has been completed]
Lin Xue then spent another 500 Experience Points to fully master it.
A vast amount of knowledge regarding Dual Cultivation instantly flooded her mind.
Only then did Lin Xue realize that her previous thoughts about this technique had been too narrow.
This technique was not the purely wicked path she had assumed.
The manual originated from the chaos, observing the mysteries of Yin and Yang’s mutual coexistence and transformation.
It argued that Yin and Yang do not exist in isolation.
Healing and plucking were two sides of the same coin; it could harm people, but it could also save lives.
The transformation depended entirely on one’s intent.
The manual contained dual paths.
[Pulse of Vitality]: Guides the harmony and resonance of Yin and Yang energies. It focuses on “giving” and “merging,” transferring the practitioner’s own cultivation and life essence to the partner to heal their Dao companion.
[Pulse of Extinction]: Creates a vortex of Yin-Yang imbalance. It focuses on “plundering” and “devouring,” forcibly extracting the partner’s essence for one’s own use.
The Xiyang Art Du Niangzi taught the female demons and the life-extension plucking Hei Pi Yao Wang used on them were both techniques from the Pulse of Extinction.
They forcibly extracted and plundered the life essence within the target’s body to nourish oneself. They were simply of different levels.
The [Pulse of Extinction] was divided into three levels.
The first level consisted of techniques like the Xiyang Art that the female demons learned, which could be used against targets who had not practiced the [Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Secret Manual].
The second level was the [Plucking and Supplementing Technique] Hei Pi Yao Wang used on the female demons, drawing the Yang Energy stored in their bodies into his own to extend his life.
The third level was the [Art of Extinction] that Zong-Lie had Jiaojiao practice.
It extracted both the target’s life essence and cultivation simultaneously to kill them.
If Lin Xue wanted Du Niangzi to absorb Hei Pi Yao Wang’s Yang Energy and kill him, she only needed to transmit the complete manual of the Pulse of Extinction to her.
Lin Xue immediately activated her [Soul Link] with Du Niangzi and began transmitting the techniques one by one.
She believed that for the sake of survival, Du Niangzi would know what to do.