Chapter 103: The Baize’s Innate Divine Ability
The memories Jiang Li left with the Baize Dynasty were painful ones.
For human cultivators, the Baize Dynasty was the perfect training ground—a whetstone to sharpen their skills. Anyone who sought to improve their combat prowess longed to experience life-and-death battles against demon beasts in order to grow stronger.
After all, demon beasts reproduced faster than humans, matured quicker in the early stages, and at the same level, they were naturally stronger than human cultivators.
Jiang Li took this a step further. After reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, he felt that his cultivation was advancing too rapidly, which could be detrimental to his future progress. So, he deliberately slowed his pace and came to the Baize Dynasty.
At the time, the demon beasts had no idea that Jiang Li would one day become the Human Sovereign. Each and every one of them fought with the determination to kill him.
This was nothing new—they had done it many times before. Just as humans treated demon beasts as whetstones, demon beasts saw human cultivators as prey. To them, the young Jiang Li was just another target.
Who could have imagined that Jiang Li would go on to slaughter an uncountable number of demon beasts? Anyone who harbored murderous intent against him would be killed without hesitation.
To the vassal kings, Jiang Li’s greatest legacy wasn’t as the Guardian of the Nine Provinces—it was as the Butcher of Demon Beasts.
“Wait! Why is everyone acting scared?!” the Qilin King shouted. He had extraordinary luck—every time he faced a near-death situation, he would miraculously survive.
Since he couldn’t die, what was there to fear?
“Especially you, Golden-Winged Peng King! Didn’t you almost kill Jiang Renhuang once? Why are you running faster than anyone else?!”
The other vassal kings all turned to look at the Golden-Winged Peng King. That’s right—why were they afraid? If Jiang Renhuang was going to kill someone first, it would definitely be him.
The vassal kings often gathered privately to compare their battle records, but none of them could outshine the Golden-Winged Peng King. He was the youngest among them, having ascended by killing his own father four hundred years ago, but no one ever questioned his strength.
The Peng King had once drunkenly claimed that he had fought Jiang Li in a fierce battle and nearly slain him—unfortunately, Jiang Li had escaped.
Everyone knew that Jiang Li was synonymous with invincibility among those of the same realm. Yet the Peng King had supposedly bested him, proving his incredible power.
Now, the Peng King wanted to kill the Qilin King on the spot—how dare he bring that up?!
Back then, he had been in the late Soul Formation Stage while Jiang Li was only in the early Nascent Soul Stage. The difference in their strength was vast, so of course, Jiang Li had lost. He had even tried to kill Jiang Li but ultimately failed.
If Jiang Renhuang decided to settle old scores, he would never forgive the Qilin King—not even in death!
Before the vassal kings could cause trouble, Jiang Li casually waved his hand downward. Instantly, all the spiritual energy in the area was drained, turning the entire imperial palace into a spiritless zone.
Even more terrifying, the vassal kings found that their own spiritual energy was completely locked, leaving them unable to use their abilities. They could only rely on their physical bodies—most of their divine techniques were sealed.
They understood this was a warning from Jiang Li and quickly backed off.
In truth, aside from the hardheaded Qilin King, the rest had already wanted to leave.
Lucky?
If he thought he was so lucky, he could face the Human Sovereign alone—no one else was going to die with him.
The Qilin King rode atop auspicious clouds, bathed in golden light, looking like a divine being as he charged straight at Bai Xueling, determined to disrupt her evolution.
Even though Bai Xueling wouldn’t be able to kill him after becoming a Pureblood Baize, she would still have the power to punish him. She could imprison him, prevent him from leaving his domain, or even force him to eat only vegetarian meals. That would be worse than death!
He couldn’t allow it to happen!
Seeing the Qilin King’s crazed state, Jiang Li sighed. “A noble divine beast, relying on his inability to die… how did he end up like this?”
The Qilin King didn’t care. He was a heaven-blessed auspicious beast—no one could kill him!
Jiang Li flicked his fingers.
The Qilin King instantly exploded into a mist of blood, not even leaving behind a single fragment of flesh.
The Qilin King, protected by fate itself, had died just like that—without any mysterious coincidences saving him.
The six remaining vassal kings trembled in silence, not daring to linger a moment longer. They fled in terror.
For three days and three nights, Bai Xueling’s bloodline refinement process neared its conclusion. She divided her bloodline in two, completely extracting her Qilin bloodline.
Qilin blood was incredibly precious, and she was reluctant to simply discard it. So, using it as a foundation, she shaped a golden Qilin avatar.
Meanwhile, her true form became a Baize.
The moment she fully transformed, it was as if she had suddenly gained an immense amount of knowledge—about places she had never been, cultivation techniques she had never learned, and methods she had never even heard of. Every question that had ever troubled her about cultivation was now effortlessly resolved.
This was the Baize’s innate ability—the knowledge of all things.
Of course, this was how the Baize race described their own power. In reality, they weren’t truly omniscient. If they were, then they wouldn’t be limited to using their No Secrets divine ability only once at the Soul Formation Stage and three times at the Tribulation Stage.
Jiang Li sat in a pavilion, casually eating the Baize Dynasty’s specialty fruits. Fox-eared, fox-tailed palace maids eagerly competed to stand by his side, vying to serve him.
Demonkind revered the strong, and Jiang Li had naturally become the object of their admiration.
Jiang Li politely declined. “I have hands and feet—I don’t need to be served.”
“Thank you, Renhuang, for bestowing me the pill.” Bai Xueling, now in human form, performed a deep bow.
She waved off the palace maids. “What does Renhuang wish to ask?”
“Calculate where the Outer World Demons are hiding in the Nine Provinces.”
Bai Xueling’s hand trembled. She couldn’t believe what Jiang Li had just asked.
She knew Jiang Renhuang would never joke about such matters. Steadying herself, she bit her tongue, spitting out a drop of essence blood, which turned into a mist.
Bai Xueling silently repeated Jiang Li’s question in her heart, but the blood mist remained unchanged.
“There are no Outer World Demons in the Nine Provinces. Could Renhuang’s information be mistaken?”
Jiang Li frowned. “Could it be that the demons have hidden themselves, preventing you from seeing them?”
“Absolutely not.” Bai Xueling immediately denied it. “This is our race’s innate ability—a rule decreed by the heavens, one that ignores all obstacles. Just as Other Mountain Stone will always strike an enemy, our Baize race’s No Secrets will always reveal the truth!”
The Outer World Demons had once invaded the Nine Provinces and corrupted the Old Buddha of Mount Sumeru—that much was certain. But that was fifty years ago.
If there were no demons in the Nine Provinces now, there was only one possibility—
That Heavenly Immortal-level Outer World Demon had already left.
Since she hadn’t used up her ability, Jiang Li decided to ask something else.
“Then find out what kind of dangers the Outer World Demons left behind in the Nine Provinces.”
Bai Xueling once again let her essence blood scatter into mist. This time, the mist formed a series of symbols—ones Jiang Li had never seen before. Only the Baize race could understand them.
As Bai Xueling had just become a Pureblood Baize, she wasn’t yet familiar with the script and had to decipher it slowly.
She took out a jade pendant, translating the message into the Nine Provinces’ language before handing it to Jiang Li.
With a single sweep of his divine sense, Jiang Li immediately saw the first entry—teaching Jiang Yixing demonic cultivation techniques.
Other revelations followed: informing Daoist Nun Xuan’ai of the existence of the Mind-Control Gu, manipulating the Divine Repository Sovereign, and more.
Some of these schemes had succeeded, some had failed, and others had lost their significance with the passage of time.
Jiang Li’s expression grew grim.
The Outer World Demons had been weaving their plans across the Nine Provinces for a long time. Many things that had seemed like mere coincidences… had actually been orchestrated by them from behind the scenes.