“Come inside. Fighting and making noise are not allowed in this city. Violators will be expelled.”
David nodded and walked through the city gates.
The streets in this city were narrow, and the shops on both sides sold all kinds of daily necessities—elixirs, magical artifacts, materials, and information.
There weren’t many people on the street; most were independent cultivators, and there were also some merchants from the beast and demon races. They glanced at David and Jiang Xuelan, but then looked away.
When David was looking for accommodation to stay, suddenly he heard a commotion in front of him.
“Let me go! What right do you have to arrest me!”
“Enough of this nonsense! If it’s Yingyuan’s business that needs to be taken care of, don’t interfere!”
David turned towards the voice and saw several demonic cultivators wearing black armor surrounding a group of heretical cultivators not far from the city gates.
There were seven or eight independent cultivators, led by a middle-aged man at the third level of the True God Realm, wearing a gray Daoist robe with a stern face.
Several young cultivators followed him from behind, some injured, others pinned to the ground by the demonic cultivators.
There were more than a dozen devil cultivators, led by a captain who was Tier 3 True Immortal Realm.
The armor he wore was emblazoned with the emblem of the Temple of Shadows, and he held a long black sword in his hand, the blade emitting a faint demonic aura.
“Your Hall of Shadows is too authoritarian!” shouted the middle-aged man. “This is Blackrock City, not your Hall of Shadows territory! What right do you have to arrest our people?”
“On what basis?” The demon captain sneered, “On the basis that you are in cahoots with the gods and intend to harm the Shadow Palace.”
“We don’t have any”
“Enough talk. Take him away!”
The devil cultivators, who were escorting several young rebellious cultivators, prepared to leave.
David frowned slightly when he witnessed this scene.
He didn’t want to interfere in other people’s affairs.
However, he needed to obtain the Reincarnation Core from Ying Wuji. If the Demon Clan’s Dark Shadow Palace ran rampant in Blackrock City, his next actions might be affected.
Moreover, those few rebellious cultivators reminded him of himself, an ordinary person who was oppressed by power and powerless to fight back.
“Wait a moment.”
David spoke up.
The sound was not loud, but it sounded clear to everyone’s ears.
All eyes turned to him at once.
The demon captain narrowed his eyes and studied David up and down.
At the peak of the eighth rank of the Immortal Realm, a lowly ordinary human cultivator was not even worthy of carrying his shoes in his eyes.
“Who do you think you are, to dare interfere in the affairs of the Shadow Palace?”
David didn’t answer. He walked over and stood in front of the demon captain.
“Free them.”
The demon captain’s face darkened: “Are you looking for death?”
He swung his sword at David.
That black sword light, filled with dense demonic energy, was powerful enough to finish off a cultivator of the second level of the True Immortal Realm with just one strike.
David raised two fingers and clamped the knife blade between them.
The sword tip disappeared from his fingertip, and the demonic energy disappeared without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea.
The demon captain felt as if his sword was being pressed down by a mountain, completely unable to move.
His expression changed.
“You……”
David swung his sword lightly, and it shattered into pieces, scattering the fragments everywhere.
The demon captain was pushed back several steps, his hands were torn and blood was flowing profusely.
“I said, let them go.”
The demon captain’s face turned pale.
He finally realized that this human cultivator, who seemed to be only at the peak of the eighth rank of the Upper Immortal Realm, was much stronger than he had imagined.
“Who are you?”
“David.”
The demon captain’s pupils suddenly narrowed.
He had definitely heard that name before.
In the Heavenly Fiery Pit, he severely injured Jin Huan with a punch, sent a God Clan representative flying with a palm strike, and uttered a single sentence that frightened all the God Clan cultivators, causing them to flee in disarray.
These past two days, the entire Fifteenth Heaven was buzzing about this name.
“Brother Daoist Chen… David.” His voice was shaking. “We are from the Palace of Shadows. If you…”
“I’ll say it again. Let them go.”
The demon captain gritted his teeth and waved his hand: “Let them go.”
The devil cultivators let go of some of the rebellious cultivators and stepped aside.
David looked at the demon captain and said, “Go.”
The demon captain hurried away with his men.
The city gate fell silent.
The middle-aged man stepped forward and bowed deeply: “I am Zhao Kang, branch leader of the Free Cultivator Alliance of Black Rock City. Thank you, Fellow Daoist David, for saving my life.”
David helped him up: “No need to mince words. Why did they arrest you?”
Zhao Kang sighed: “Recently, the Shadow Palace has increased patrols and is very wary of foreign cultivators heading to the Shadow Abyss.”
We were just passing through Protoss territory when they started targeting us, accusing us of colluding with the Protoss. Actually… they just wanted an excuse to capture us and send us to Shadowwhale as forced laborers.
David frowned slightly: “Work as a laborer?”
FAQ Novel
Q: How did David handle the Mist Shadow Beasts?
A: David displayed incredible strength, defeating over fifty True Immortal Realm beasts in under five breaths.
Q: What challenge did Jiang Xuelan encounter?
A: Jiang Xuelan’s soul was eroded by demonic energy, leading to a change in their travel plans.
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