Dragon Tamer

Indeed, as soon as word spread that it was a Sword Master of Zheng Mei’s caliber, famous throughout this realm, a Summoning Demon Master with red hair, eyebrows, and beard promptly emerged from within the Demon Sect’s Inn. He stood beneath the inn’s banner, his eyes like those of a wild beast, fixated on the Sword Master Zheng Mei in the sky.

With his eerily gleaming eyes, the Red-bearded Summoning Demon Master began to recite a strange incantation, and suddenly a rift appeared in the mountains and the earth. A massive green arm burst forth from the soil and swung directly towards Master Zheng Mei in midair.

This green arm was thick and densely covered in ancient runes that resembled ancient sealing characters that had become demonized, emitting a terrifying and penetrating dark glow. It made the green demon arm seem even more fearsome, as if one punch could shatter the heavens!!

Zhu Minglang too witnessed this scene and was deeply shocked.

The owner of this arm must truly be a Ground Immortal Ghost.

The strength of a Ground Immortal Ghost was comparable to that of a Dragon King, and the mere emergence of this one arm suggested it had the power to annihilate everything; it felt as if even the sturdiest of walls would crumble under its blow.

Indeed, Master Zheng Mei also had a King Level cultivation base. While standing on her Flying Sword, she chanted a sword technique, conjuring four Green Swords. The Green Swords, under her control, flew towards the Ground Immortal Ghost’s demon arm, but the blades couldn’t even make a scratch on its rune-covered skin. In fact, all four Green Swords showed signs of cracking!

Zhu Minglang turned back to look at Ye Youying.

It seemed the woman from the Summoning Demon Sect hadn’t deceived him.

There was indeed a Ground Immortal Ghost here, and if it were to fully emerge, it would spell disaster for all the disciples of the White Robe Sword Sect present.

While the Master of the White Robe Sword Sect was in a standoff with the high-ranking Red-bearded Summoning Demon Master, Zhu Minglang deliberately waited for a moment to confirm there were no other high-ranking members of the Demon Sect in this peculiar inn, before stealthily sneaking in.

With the Charm Shadow Clothes, Zhu Minglang would be hard to detect by the followers of the Summoning Demon Sect, especially with his high cultivation base. Unless the Demon Sect had someone with special abilities, Zhu Minglang could easily walk several rounds inside the inn and tally the number of people and their genders without being noticed.

Unlike Dragon Shepherds, these Summoning Demon Masters had to concentrate fully during the summoning process, as they were controlling the minds of Demonic Beasts lurking around them with their own mental waves, turning them into their soldiers.

The more focused these people were, the better it was for Zhu Minglang.

After searching for a while, Zhu Minglang saw no trace of the so-called Black Moon Child.

Moreover, the inn housed far fewer members of the Demon Sect than he had imagined, at most only about forty to fifty people. The reason they could withstand the group attacks of so many swordsmen from the White Robe Sword Sect was mainly due to the surprisingly large number of Demonic Beasts they had summoned.

Having confirmed again, Zhu Minglang still couldn’t find the Black Moon Child meant for sacrifice…

“What’s this strange presence? You all, look around, see if any of those white-clad hypocrites have sneaked in,” a chilling voice came from the guest room floor at that moment.

Zhu Minglang looked up and saw a person with two red dots on his forehead, bright red lips, and unusually long eyebrows that made him look like a female demon from the plays. Yet, his facial features were sharp and broad, clearly belonging to a man!

With such bizarre makeup, it was hard to tell what rank this person held within the Summoning Demon Sect.

Zhu Minglang realized this individual’s cultivation was very high and naturally didn’t dare to linger. If he got trapped in the Demon Sect’s Inn, he would have no choice but to kill all of them…

…

After leaving the inn, he found the woman from the Summoning Demon Sect, Ye Youying.

“No Black Moon Child?” Ye Youying said, surprised.

“No, I’ve looked around twice, but there was one person who seemed a bit strange, he had two red dots on his forehead, and his eyebrows were drawn like a woman’s long brows…” Zhu Minglang described the man he had seen.

“That is Demon Lord Lujiang. It is he who takes some boys and girls to perform sacrifices to the River God, the Mountain God. Compared to worship with incense and candles, or offerings of slaughtered chickens and livestock, young boys and girls can enhance the power of Immortal Ghosts the most… Black Moon Children are hard to find, so they use a large number of children as substitutes,” said Ye Youying.

Black Moon refers to a lunar eclipse.

Children born on the day of a Black Moon are named Black Moon Children by the Demon Sect. Being born at the most yin moment, if they encounter the cruel fate of being sacrificed to the River God, the Mountain God, it fosters the birth of Immortal Ghosts!

Similarly, some more powerful Immortal Ghosts also require such children to truly break their bindings.

“There isn’t a single child in the inn,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Then perhaps they are not holding the sacrifices here. Don’t look at me like that, I’ve already told you, our faction has broken with theirs. Whatever they are planning to do, we have no clear idea,” Ye Youying said.

“Alright, since you did not run away while I was gone, I’ll take your word for it,” Zhu Minglang said.

…

There weren’t many Summoning Demon Masters in the Demon Sect’s Inn, and Zhu Minglang had already confirmed this.

As expected, after those Demon Guards were killed, the Demon Sect’s Inn was quickly overrun. The White-clad Swordsmen swarmed in and swiftly subdued several key Summoning Demon Masters.

Master Zheng Mei’s fight with that Red-bearded Demon Lord had also concluded. Master Zheng Mei overpowered the Demon Arm and wounded the Red-bearded Demon Lord with a sword stab.

The Red-bearded Demon Lord tried to escape but was stopped by Leader Lei.

Two powerful figures of the White Robe Sword Sect joined forces and captured the Red-bearded Demon Lord. In the inn, half of the Summoning Demon Masters were also captured, with only a few managing to flee.

Zhu Minglang also made a few moves, saving some reckless Sword Sect Disciples. After infiltrating the Demon Sect’s Inn, Zhu Minglang realized that the fight was largely one-sided.

However, it was also fortunate to have someone of Master Zheng Mei’s caliber present; otherwise, the Red-bearded Summoning Demon Master and the Demon Arm would have been enough to sweep away all Sword Masters, and no matter how many came, they probably wouldn’t have been able to capture them.

Perhaps it was relying on this Red-bearded Summoning Demon Master that they had been so rampant.

The White Robe Sword Sect emerged utterly victorious and took these people back to Sword Manor.

On his way back, Zhu Minglang did have some doubts.

That Demon Lord named Lu Jiang, he seemed to have not been captured.

Did he escape amidst the chaos?

In the Demon Sect’s Inn, that fellow gave Zhu Minglang a sense of danger, and he might very well be the outright demon lord of the Demon Sect as Ye Youying had said!

Not seeing Demon Lord Lujiang, Ye Youying was also very disappointed.

She truly wished that Demon Lord Lujiang had been killed, as it was because of his inhumane actions that they, all Summoning Demon Masters, were facing persecution, with nowhere to live in peace!