Chapter 111: Old Demons of the Past

He could, in fact, seek assistance from the Enforcement Hall of the Evil God’s Workshop. The three young masters at the Foundation Establishment stage represented the three most powerful families within the Blood Spirit Sect.

Befriending them offered boundless benefits.

Especially given his strong start, Zhuo Shouqing would certainly be willing to support him. Zuo Qiuming’s provision of the demon embryo secret spell already indicated an investment.

With Su Yulong’s downfall, the obstacle preventing him from changing allegiances had vanished. It would be natural to seize this opportunity and join Zuo Qiuming’s ranks.

However, herein lay the problem: among these three young masters, he had always considered himself Zhuo Shouqing’s subordinate and couldn’t pledge loyalty indiscriminately.

Furthermore, until the demon embryo secret spell was perfected, Zuo Qiuming’s investment in him would cease. The correct approach would be to seek him out after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, which would undoubtedly secure him a good position.

To maximize the benefits from this channel, using it in the future would be ideal.

For now, he could only exert himself, travel more, and gather more information, which would also sharpen his understanding of the sect’s internal situation.

This search lasted half a month.

At the same time, if he wanted to undertake the slave-capturing mission from Cold Blood Peak, he absolutely had to maintain his identity as a disciple of that peak. Therefore, the best Foundation Establishment cultivator to choose as a recommender would be someone from his own peak.

After much deliberation, Wang Yu narrowed his suitable and trustworthy candidates down to just two:

1. Yan Ling: This person had just returned to the sect, and it was an opportune time to pledge allegiance as they were actively recruiting. However, considering a potential future allegiance to Zuo Qiuming, it might not be ideal.2. Tantai Chan: She was the first Foundation Establishment cultivator Wang Yu had met. Their two interactions had been entirely satisfactory, and she was trustworthy. Yet, her identity as a human slave was highly sensitive, and she had once explicitly forbidden him from contacting her again.

If he didn’t choose either of these two as his recommender and instead sought another Foundation Establishment cultivator, he frankly worried that his spiritual stones would be swallowed up with nothing to show for it.

The recommendation fee was a staggering ten thousand spiritual stones, essentially a purchase of contribution points. This path was typically taken by rogue cultivators in the late Qi Condensation stage.

He did not want to waste time on contribution point missions, so this was his only option.

“What a headache~”

Inside his cave abode, Wang Yu leaned back on a folding stool, his legs propped on a low table, cradling a small, snow-white fox with pink, narrowed eyes.

It was no longer than his forearm, with floppy ears and a smiling, somewhat comical mouth, making him unable to resist picking it up and taking a deep sniff.

The little fox was a Snow Jade Fox. As for demon beasts, unless they were special breeds, their intelligence at the first stage was comparable to a three-year-old child, unable to remember things.

They would only gain human-like intelligence when they became powerful.

Only when they cultivated to the fourth stage, comparable to a human Nascent Soul, could they transform into human form.

Therefore, in front of the Snow Jade Fox, Wang Yu didn't mind showing his childish side. They say a man remains a boy until death. In his previous life, he was a promising young man living in a peaceful era.

After transmigrating and living a pampered life for sixteen years in this cultivation world, he only truly began to change after being captured and brought to the Blood Spirit Sect.

After all, living to thirty twice is a completely different mindset from living to sixty once.

When the body is young, the mind naturally remains young too.

For example, Wang Yu was currently 32, but his appearance was almost indistinguishable from a 20-year-old youth. Without taking rejuvenation pills, he wouldn't begin to age until 70.

At this moment.

He pressed the Snow Jade Fox's belly against his face, rubbing vigorously. Amidst its yelps and struggles, his agitated emotions gradually released. He then abruptly stood up from his slumped position.

“Tantai Chan, you’re the one.”

Throwing the Snow Jade Fox into his spirit beast bag, Wang Yu immediately set off.

Less than half an hour later.

Evil God’s Workshop, Tantai Herb Garden.

“Thump, thump, thump—”

Knocking on the inverted bat knocker on the door, he could sense the familiar Foundation Establishment aura inside, though there seemed to be another, slightly weaker aura as well.

“Is that you?” A familiar voice, tinged with surprise, suddenly sounded in his ear. She had clearly detected his cultivation level; truly, an elixir-refining master’s divine sense was far stronger than an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator’s. Wang Yu knew that even unactivated, his Night Concealment Charm could mask his aura, voice, and cultivation. He waited a moment, and hearing no further words, bravely said:

“Wang requests an audience with Senior Tantai.”

After another long pause.

The small door next to the main gate suddenly opened. Hearing the movement, Wang Yu quickly walked over.

Since he could get an audience, he was confident he could achieve his goal.

As he entered the familiar herb garden, beneath the wind chimes and flowing gauze of the Wind-Passing Hall, a woman with a magnificent bosom, exquisite beauty, and eyes as sharp as an ice peak sat there.

A lotus-leaf-shaped white, cut-out skirt fell from both sides over her plump, full thighs, revealing a pair of long legs with translucent, crystalline skin. Her feet were placed together.

Her calves were adorned with circular metal bands wrapped up to just below her knees, engraved with beautiful rose patterns.

Another small white-haired girl sat on Tantai Chan’s lap, blinking her large eyes at him and waving.

“Do you still remember me? Yu Tangtang!”

So it was her. Wang Yu certainly remembered. He had met this Yu Tangtang, who appeared to be five or six years old, many years ago. She had claimed to be the offspring of the sect-suppressing demonic dragon.

And Tantai Chan’s change in attitude was clearly due to Yu Tangtang.

With a thought, Wang Yu quickly called out:

“Sister Tangtang, I am Wang Yu. Long time no see.”

“Hehe.”

Yu Tangtang broke free from Tantai Chan’s embrace and excitedly ran over: “You really still remember me.”

However, Wang Yu sharply noticed that when Yu Tangtang expressed her closeness, the coldness in Tantai Chan’s eyes almost spread, filled with hostility towards him.

From this perspective, his previous guess was indeed correct.

The relationship between them: human slave and master!

“Hey, Wang Yu, what are you doing here? Did you take on another herb garden maintenance mission?”

“No,” Wang Yu shook his head.

“I wish to ask Senior Tantai to be my recommender for promotion to inner gate disciple.”

Upon hearing this, Tantai Chan firmly refused.

“Impossible. You may leave.”

Wang Yu raised an eyebrow.

“Ten thousand spiritual stones.”

“I said no.”

“No room for discussion?”

“None.”

“Alright then.” Wang Yu shrugged and turned to leave.

However, Yu Tangtang grabbed his hand, her voice urgent: “You can’t leave.”

Wang Yu understood. He had another purpose in coming to see Tantai Chan, and Yu Tangtang was it! The key, of course, was that third-stage Flood Dragon Inner Core.

This item would certainly be of great use to Yu Tangtang, who was also a flood dragon, far more important than Wang Yu using it as a spirit item for Core Formation. He had been consuming body-refining secret elixirs infused with the inner core’s power for years.

He carried some of this aura, and Yu Tangtang had smelled it, meaning his objective was achieved.

If he could trade it with her for a second-stage Foundation Establishment spirit item, plus other rare spirit items, and Tantai Chan’s recommendation for him to enter the inner sect and take on the Cold Blood Peak slave-capturing mission… and so on.

Ignoring the inherent value of the spirit items, he might incur a slight loss, but achieving all his plans would actually result in a gain.