My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Chapter 364 - 223: The Villain is Imprisoned (Part 2)

The only reason this Demon Saber was still Tier Three was that its owner worried they wouldn’t have enough Magical Power to control it after it advanced, so they had deliberately restricted it to Tier Three.

"Guan Guangqing, what else do you have to say?"

He sheathed the Demon Saber and turned his gaze to Guan Guangqing.

Guan Guangqing felt the Governor’s gaze land on his shoulders like a mountain, pinning him in place.

"Governor! Governor! That’s all just Yang Jing’s side of the story! You mustn’t believe him!"

He spoke in terror, his eyes darting about as he scrambled for words to defend himself, but nothing came out. When he had filed a malicious report against Yang Jing, Canyuan True Monarch had immediately dispatched a Golden Core Cultivator to investigate. How was it that when Yang Jing filed a report against him, the Governor immediately took it as fact?

This double standard was a bit too obvious, wasn’t it?

"Hmph! If you could produce a Demon Saber like this, I would naturally believe your words as well!"

With a wave of his sleeve, Canyuan True Monarch sent a blast of Magical Power that threw Guan Guangqing backward, coughing up blood.

"You contribute nothing on a daily basis, yet you treat the important affairs of my Northern Army Governor’s Mansion as a tool for your power struggles and petty schemes. It is because there are too many vermin like you and too few talents like Yang Jing that our Six Sects have failed to fully occupy the Western Continent!"

Guan Guangqing knew the Governor was truly enraged, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably.

"Take him away and throw him in the dungeons! We will determine his punishment after this matter is resolved!"

Two soldiers immediately came forward, sealed Guan Guangqing’s Magical Power, and escorted him away.

Although the soldiers only had the Magical Power of the Qi Cultivation Stage, Guan Guangqing didn’t dare struggle in the slightest, allowing himself to be led away with complete obedience.

He knew that if he struggled even a little, the Governor would have a legitimate reason to execute him on the spot.

"Hmph! Bringing the ploys of the Noble Families into my Governor’s Mansion."

Canyuan True Monarch snorted coldly, his anger still simmering.

"Xiaohan."

"Here!"

An Gongyu immediately replied.

"The Governor’s Mansion cannot be left unattended. You will return and take charge of the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion."

Canyuan True Monarch wrote a transfer order on a golden Jade Talisman and handed it to An Gongyu.

"Yes, sir!"

An Gongyu accepted the Jade Talisman with both hands and replied solemnly.

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Yang Jing was continuously refining his Magical Power with the True and False Five Elements Wheel, trying to regain meticulous control over it.

The sudden, massive surge of Magical Power from refining the Other-Transformed Self-Free Celestial Demon was simply too much. If he greedily rushed his cultivation now, trying to refine his Magical Power later when he hit a bottleneck would be twice as hard for half the result.

Even though the Other-Transformed Self-Free Celestial Demon was dead, Yang Jing didn’t rush ahead. Instead, he chose to remain encamped and wait for the Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Array.

He didn’t have to wait long. Seven days later, Iron Head returned, piloting the Flying Boat. Onboard were the Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Arrays retrieved from the secret treasury.

There were three sets of the Array in total, and all of them had been brought out.

With the Array Masters hard at work, it only took three hours to complete the Array Formation for all three sets.

The underground Spirit Veins had originally run right along the edge of the Demon Realm, restricting its expansion. But after the Demon Realm retreated, they were now parallel to it.

Under the influence of the Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Array, the three Tier Three Spirit Veins instantly changed direction and surged straight toward the Demon Realm.

"I have used the Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Array to alter the course of Spirit Veins several times before, but it has never gone as smoothly as this," an Array Master remarked, clicking his tongue in amazement.

The one they were using was a Tier Two Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Array. To alter the flow of a Tier Three Spirit Vein, it would normally take at least twenty days, and in some places with difficult terrain, it could even take three to four months.

Altering the Spirit Veins’ course this time felt a little too easy and smooth.

Yang Jing looked up at the heavens.

"Perhaps we have the aid of heaven and earth."

The Array Masters dismantled the Qi-guiding Dragon-shaking Array from the Spirit Vein and installed it on the others.

In just over a day, all the nearby Spirit Veins had changed direction.

The Spiritual Qi washing over the Demon Veins instantly increased several-fold. Even the Demon Veins buried deep underground were forced to buckle and protrude from the earth.

Some of the Demon Veins, under the immense pressure of the Spiritual Qi, even began to spray Demonic Qi into the sky like fountains.

For a time, the rising Demonic Qi transformed into a Demon Fog that shrouded the land.

However, this Demonic Qi was ultimately rootless. Under the scouring of the Spiritual Qi, it quickly faded away.

After two days, the Demonic Qi finally stopped seeping from the Demon Soil.

"Move the Array!"

The Array Masters were already prepared, having dismantled a Tier Two Array from one of the Spirit Veins in advance. Under the cover of the Flying Boat, they advanced to a position three hundred zhang from the Demon Realm and set up the Array with the utmost speed.

Although they had never faced a Celestial Demon directly, from the words of the Demon Suppression Army soldiers who had experienced that night, the High Tier Celestial Demons had become figures of absolute terror.

The Array Masters were on edge, and their efficiency in Array Formation was unprecedentedly high.

Yang Jing, fearing they might make a mistake in their haste, double-checked their work. Only after confirming that all the Array’s Spirit Vein nodes were correctly placed did he have the Flying Boat transport the Demon Suppression Army soldiers into the Array.

Repeating this process, the entire defensive line was finally moved to the edge of the Demon Realm.

A Black Heaven True Demon had charged out of the Demon Realm at one point, trying to destroy the Array. But a Tier Two Array could easily withstand a Black Heaven True Demon for a day, and Yang Jing immediately flew in on his sword, slaying the stubbornly resisting demon.

’Looks like there aren’t many shells left in the Demon Realm,’

Yang Jing stored the Black Heaven True Demon’s body in the Demon-Catching Tripod, using Celestial Demon Blood Transformation to refine it into a Blood Pearl.

His control over his Magical Power was still unstable, so it wasn’t a good time to refine more Celestial Demons.

After the defensive line was re-established, a steady stream of Demon-Catching Tripods was thrown into the Demon Realm, each filled with captured Celestial Demons before being pulled back out.

They resumed their previous pace of advancement.

In fact, without the interference of High Tier Celestial Demons, their advance became even faster.

Yang Jing had his disciples, Iron Head and Yinjiao, take the Wanhua Child to collect the Celestial Demons from the Sealing Demon Altars, while he himself remained seated within the Grand Array, refining his Magical Power.

When he had free time, he would also order the Demon Suppression Army soldiers to excavate the various Demonic Materials from what were once the Demon Veins.

These Demonic Materials were actually Spiritual Materials that had been buried deep underground and scoured by the Demonic Qi within the Demon Veins for a thousand years.

Even now that the Demon Veins had been converted into Spirit Veins, it would still take a hundred years for these Demonic Materials to shed their Demonic Qi.

Yang Jing collected these Demonic Materials for himself. In the future, he could trade them with Wei Ying—if Wei Ying managed to survive this great war.

He spent the rest of his time dismantling Demon Sect Treasures and infusing the Essence Qi from within them into his Celestial Waterfall Sword.

Thanks to his Divine Technique, True Martial Demon Vibration, he was able to collect even more Essence Qi after purifying the Demon Nature.

With this Essence Qi, he finally managed to acquire the long-coveted Talent for Sword Heart Clarity.

Upon fully possessing this Talent, Yang Jing fell into a state of epiphany. All the Sword Techniques he had ever learned surfaced in his mind.

The Five Dragons Sword Scripture, whose progress had been slow due to his lack of time, suddenly became clear to him.

Various True Registers manifested in his mind, continuously evolving and transforming, before finally settling in his Dantian and erupting in a brilliant golden light.

Yang Jing suddenly opened his eyes. A sharp gleam flashed within them, and the room brightened immensely.

He formed a sword seal with his fingers. A dazzling white light suddenly whistled out, coalescing into a Golden Dragon Magical Sword that glinted with a cold light.

Because it belonged to the Metal Element, which was the most compatible with the Sword Dao, the Magic Sword radiated a sky-piercing sharpness that shot into the heavens, even obliterating the clouds above.

The already dilapidated Tier Three Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Array flickered with Spiritual Light.

After gaining the Talent for Sword Heart Clarity, Yang Jing even developed a mysterious, profound perception. With a single glance at anything in the world, he could tell whether the sword in his hand could cut it or not.

Like the damaged Grand Array he was currently in—he could pierce it with a single strike.

Such an astonishing commotion naturally drew the attention of his disciples.

Iron Head and Yinjiao, who entered first, met their master’s gaze for only an instant before a chill ran down their spines, as if they would be cut down in the very next moment.

"It’s nothing. I have just comprehended a new Sword Technique."

As he spoke, Yang Jing took out a Jade Scroll, recorded the White Dragon Sword Scripture into it, and tossed it to Yinjiao.