Afterward, the events that took place in Baiyun County Town were more or less identical to what Chen Yi had experienced in the simulation.
Shen Qingshan managed to contact the families of the victims who had been wrongfully accused as murderers in the homicide cases he investigated earlier.
One of them was willing to stop the Inspecting Envoy on the street to cry out for justice and hand over that letter.
The rest stepped out from the crowd after his plea, successively voicing their own grievances.
"Magistrate Cao, with so many people crying foul, it seems you haven't been quite competent as a magistrate."
Zhang Miao said the exact same words as he did in the simulation.
That chubby Magistrate Cao, just like in the simulation, was sweating profusely from his forehead, feeling that his good days were coming to an end.
Feng Yucheng, with his quick wits, also acted just like in the simulation—he greased his soles and slipped away!
Chen Yi replicated his actions from the simulation, and the plan went incredibly smoothly.
However, in the simulation, Feng Yucheng successfully escaped.
Not only did he escape by himself.
He also notified the group of demons in Baiyun Ridge, and they fled together.
Because he couldn't bear to part with the Blood Demon Pills and wanted to continue consuming these wicked elixirs, he naturally had to keep this group of demons under his wing.
But this time, his escape route was destined to fail.
Feng Yucheng slipped away very decisively.
He didn't even return home or pack any belongings; he just headed straight out of the city and dashed into the mountain forest.
When he saw the look of trust on Zhang Miao's face as he faced the commoners stepping forward to voice their grievances.
And the letter in the hands of the unknown peasant woman, which supposedly contained the hiding spots of all the demons in Baiyun Ridge.
Feng Yucheng made a decisive judgment.
The matter had been exposed; he had to get out immediately!
"Rustle, rustle..."
Feng Yucheng sprinted madly through the mountain forest like a wild beast, chopping down trees and slashing through tall grass in his path, as if a vicious wolf were chasing right behind him.
"That damn fat pig surnamed Cao!
I told him long ago, if you're going to frame someone, sentence all of the wrongfully accused's family and relatives as well!
Even if they can't be exiled or beheaded, lock them in the dungeon and let them rot to death!
What a woman's mercy!!"
Feng Yucheng cursed his teammate furiously as he fled.
It didn't take long for him to enter Baiyun Ridge and find the place where Boss Hu and the other demons previously held their meetings.
"Boss Hu! Stop hiding in that broken karst cave! Everything is exposed! Hurry up and follow me! I'll take you to..."
Upon entering the cave, Feng Yucheng stood dumbfounded.
The ground was littered with the dismembered corpses of demons, and fresh blood dyed the cave red, emitting a pungent stench of blood.
In truth, he had smelled the blood from far away.
But he thought the demons were just eating humans, so he didn't pay it any mind.
If he had noticed the anomaly, the outcome might have been different.
This was also Feng Yucheng's only chance to leave alive this time, but unfortunately, his inherently cold-blooded nature ultimately ruined his path to survival.
Feng Yucheng remained decisive. He retreated from the cave without hesitation and turned to run.
"Star-Shattering Ripple Finger!"
Chen Yi, who had been lying in ambush here for a long time, didn't waste a single word. Standing on a large tree, he aimed a finger at Feng Yucheng to send him on his way.
"Urgh... Who... who are you..."
Clutching his pierced stomach, Feng Yucheng knelt on the ground, vomiting fresh blood as he looked in the direction the attack came from.
The corners of Chen Yi's mouth curled up slightly. Refusing to converse with him, he fired five fingers in succession!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!!"
Feng Yucheng's body was shredded into fine powder.
Chen Yi released the Myriad Soul Banner and raised his hand to summon Feng Yucheng's soul.
"Who exactly are you?! What grudge is there between us?! Why did you harm me???"
Feng Yucheng's ghostly face reflected on the banner's surface, still questioning.
Chen Yi cast a sidelong glance at him.
"What grudge did the commoners of Baiyun County have against you, and why did you harm them?"
"Stop pretending!! Who pleads for the people in this day and age?! You evil cultivator, don't you just want to kill people and refine their souls?!"
"You're right, I'm not pleading for the people. I'm taking revenge for myself. The two of us actually have quite a few grudges, so you deserve it."
"What grudges?! I don't even know you!!"
How could Feng Yucheng know?
The grudges Chen Yi spoke of were the grudges of being killed by him twice in the simulation.
This grudge was too abstract; even if Chen Yi told him, Feng Yucheng wouldn't be able to understand it.
"Myriad Soul Banner, take him... Huh?"
Chen Yi was just about to instantly refine this guy, making this menace's soul completely dissipate, when he suddenly noticed something.
Amidst Feng Yucheng's mush-like corpse, there was a black bead.
Chen Yi drew his Flaming Iron Heavy Sword and poked around in the disgusting pile, picking out the bead.
He tried attacking it with the Star-Shattering Ripple Finger.
Surprisingly, the bead remained completely unscathed.
"It's this tough?"
Chen Yi, in the Golden Body Realm, had unleashed an Earth-rank martial art at the minor completion stage, and it was the Star-Shattering Ripple Finger, an attack with its destructive power concentrated on a single point.
Yet it couldn't be broken?
It was definitely no ordinary object!
"I say, Chief Feng, what is this situation of yours? Are you an expert in the Golden Core Stage, or do you have a sarira within you? What is this thing?"
Feng Yucheng's soul dashed left and right within the Myriad Soul Banner, attempting to escape.
Although this guy was evil, one had to admit that he truly refused to accept his fate.
Even at a time like this, he was still struggling.
"Hmph! Don't expect me to tell you anything! You despicable wretch, only knowing how to sneak attack!"
The Myriad Soul Banner took the initiative to strike.
"Bro, why waste your breath on him? Watch this—Myriad Ghost Howl!!"
Inside the Myriad Soul Banner, the absorbed demon souls suddenly felt immense agony and began to wail and howl like ghosts and wolves.
The sound was extremely agonizing to hear, enough to make a living person want to bash their head in and die.
With the demonic sound piercing his ears in a continuous surround-sound loop, Feng Yucheng's pain was doubled.
Chen Yi motioned for the Myriad Soul Banner to pause, telling it not to break him from playing too hard.
"It's not that I'm despicable, but when dealing with you, I have to be careful. Who knows if you might suddenly transform?"
Chen Yi could see that the expression on Feng Yucheng's ghostly face on the banner changed, seemingly very surprised that he mentioned "transform."
However, in reality, when he attacked Feng Yucheng just now, the Alien Race's Father trait had not taken effect.
This proved that at this current point in time, Feng Yucheng had not yet mastered the transformation ability from the previous simulation; he was still human.
"That thing is called a 'Demon Seed.' I've spent my entire life trying to become stronger by hook or by crook, all to break free from it!"
Feng Yucheng was also out of options.
He was already dead, and having his soul tortured on top of that was simply too aggravating.
He might as well tell Chen Yi what he wanted to know and satisfy him, so he would stop the torture.
"Oh... Then you should thank me. Look, I've helped you break free from it now."
"I'm already dead! What's the point of breaking free from it?!"
Chen Yi's words were truly a hellish joke.
"What is a 'Demon Seed,' and why do you want to break free from it? Tell the truth now. You're in the Myriad Soul Banner, and if you lie, the artifact spirit will find out. The consequences will be severe."
The Myriad Soul Banner chimed in.
"That's right!"
Looking at the ferocious artifact spirit beside him, Feng Yucheng felt the urge to die all over again.
He forgot, he was already dead!
"This 'Demon Seed' has been hidden inside my body since the day I was born. I don't know how it got there.
But I do know that ever since I can remember, on every night of the full moon, it would forcefully take control of my body and use common things like dirt, branches, and stones to draw a baffling pattern on the ground.
Then, it would control me to stand inside this pattern and speak to the sky..."
"Say what?"
"Anchor point is in position!"
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