After knocking Gu Butong unconscious, Gu Zheng immediately began to Soul Search.
This time, Gu Zheng did not use a destructive Soul Search, because the situation this time was different from what he had encountered on Peach Island. After all, Xu Sheng and Gu Butong had threatened him before, saying that their Sect Leader would be back soon and that they were not far from here.
Although Gu Zheng did not use a destructive Soul Search on Gu Butong, his method was not gentle at all. Therefore, Gu Butong woke up in pain as soon as the Soul Search began, screaming like a pig being slaughtered.
As Gu Butong's Soul Search continued, Gu Zheng's anger grew. Originally, there were more than 3,000 islanders on Violet Yan Island, but because of the Heavenly Demonic Sect, there were only about 500 left. The cave residence on the island that belonged to Meow Meow had also been turned into a blood pool by the Heavenly Demonic Sect. It was completely destroyed.
"Heavenly Demonic Sect!"
After Gu Butong's Soul Search ended, Gu Zheng squeezed the name out of his teeth.
"I didn't expect that you didn't have a communication jade token with you. Since that's the case, then you deserve to suffer! "
Gu Zheng looked at Gu Butong, the smile on his face making his hair stand on end.
"What, what are you doing?"
Gu Butong's cultivation had been destroyed, and there were restrictions placed on his body. He could not move at all. When he saw Gu Zheng take out a few silver needles with Corpse Qi lingering around them, the fear in his heart turned into extreme fear.
"Aren't you a Demonic Cultivator? Why are you so afraid when you see the tools used by Demonic Cultivators? "
Gu Zheng's words received a reply from Gu Butong, but it was only the sound of his teeth chattering.
Demonic cultivators had many cruel methods. When these cruel methods were used on others, they might feel better, but they would never want these methods to be used on themselves.
"Sect Leader!"
Seeing the silver needles surrounded by Corpse Qi in Gu Zheng's hand, Jian Ying called out in horror. After all, they were Cultivators from a reputable sect.
"A knife can be used to kill people, but it can also be used to save people. Jian Ying, you're thinking too much."
Gu Zheng shook his head with a smile, and then said, "Moreover, this isn't some extremely dangerous weapon. You don't have to worry about your mind being affected by it."
"It's my fault!"
After Gu Zheng said that, Jian Ying smiled embarrassedly.
Gu Zheng was not a person who liked to stick to the rules. Let alone these silver needles that had been refined by the Devil Path, he had even used the Thousand Corpses Oil and Corpse Qi to refine corpses. He had even used them to cook and treat people in pain.
However, this time, Gu Zheng did not use the Devil Dao item to save people. He wanted to use it to speed up his journey to Ziyan Island.
Although all the things related to the final inheritance of the Thousand Corpse Fiend had been destroyed in the Skull Palace, Gu Zheng still obtained many things that could be used by Demonic Cultivators. The silver needles in his hand and the method to use them were from the Skull Palace.
Using the silver needles and a special technique, Gu Zheng successfully invaded Gu Butong's mind with his Divine Thought after stabbing him until he cried out in pain. It sounded simple, but it was a very advanced Evil Art. The Righteous Cultivators would never be able to do it. After invading another person's Divine Thought with one's own Divine Thought, one could control the other person's Divine Thought, which could be very useful in certain circumstances.
After invading Gu Butong's Divine Thought, Gu Zheng immediately ordered Gu Butong's Divine Thought to fly out of Ziyan Island.
From Gu Butong's Soul Search, Gu Zheng learned that Yu Yang, the Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect, had taken a few Demonic Cultivators to explore a relic on the sea. If nothing special happened, it would take them a few days to return.
If Gu Butong and the others had something like a Communication Jade Token, Gu Zheng would not have to go through so much trouble. He could just enter an emergency message into the Communication Jade Token. However, Gu Butong and the others did not have such a thing, so Gu Zheng could only let Gu Butong's Divine Thought go there.
Since Gu Butong knew where Yu Yang and the others had gone, after receiving Gu Zheng's order, his Divine Thought flew straight to the destination.
In fact, Gu Zheng could have gone there himself to kill Yu Yang and the others. However, he did not want to waste time. Since he still had things to deal with on Ziyan Island, he would deal with them while waiting for Yu Yang and the others to return.
"Let's go!"
Gu Zheng called out to Jian Ying, and the two of them flew to the sky above Ziyan Island with Gu Butong and the others.
The scenery on Ziyan Island used to be beautiful, but now it had been destroyed and emitted a gloomy and unpleasant aura. This was because the Heavenly Demon Sect had set up a formation under Ziyan Island that was suitable for them to practice Demonic Cultivation.
Seeing Gu Zheng and Jian Ying fly over with Gu Butong and the others, the Demonic Cultivators on the island were immediately thrown into chaos, like ants in a nest that had been exposed to the sun.
The Demonic Cultivators on the island naturally knew that the four Highest Elders had all been dispatched to defend against foreign enemies. Now that the enemies had returned with four Highest Elders, it would be strange if they did not panic.
However, not everyone on the island was an ordinary disciple of the Heavenly Demon Sect. There were two Immortal Cultivators among them! However, these two Immortal Cultivators were only in the Qi Transformation Realm, so they did not participate in the previous battle.
Two immortal cultivator level demonic cultivators were currently hiding in the crowd of Primal Chaos, trying in vain to avoid being discovered by Gu Zheng.
However, Gu Zheng's condescending gaze still landed on the two of them.
"Who the hell are you? Do you know that offending the Heavenly Demon Sect will not end well for you? "
"Let our people go, and we can still talk!"
Being stared at by Gu Zheng, the other disciples also looked at them. This made the two Demonic Cultivators, who wanted to pretend to be Gu Zheng, unable to continue. They shouted fiercely.
"Talk? Are you qualified to talk? "
Gu Zheng frowned. The energy of heaven and earth was mobilized, and the two Demonic Cultivators, who were only in the Qi Transformation Realm, were immediately bound and floated up.
"Spare our lives, Exalted Immortal, please spare our lives!"
"Exalted Immortal, we were forced to join the Heavenly Demon Sect! We have no grudge against you, Exalted Immortal, and we don't deserve to have a grudge against you! Please have mercy, Exalted Immortal, spare our lives! "
Once bound by the energy of heaven and earth, the two Demonic Cultivators immediately gave in. They begged for mercy at the top of their lungs, almost crying.
"No grudge? You two have done a lot of things to the people of Ziyan Island. Today, I'm going to avenge the people of Ziyan Island! "
With killing intent surging in his eyes, Gu Zheng waved his hand, and the pressure of heaven and earth intensified. The two Demonic Cultivators, who were only in the Qi Transformation Realm, exploded into a rain of blood at the same time.
"Run!"
"Spare our lives!"
The scene was instantly chaotic. More than three hundred disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect on the island fled in all directions.
A strong wind blew, and the surging energy of heaven and earth surged. The disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect all floated up.
"I didn't want to kill, but your hands are stained with the blood of the people of Ziyan Island, so you must die!"
Gu Zheng closed his eyes and waved his hand. More than three hundred disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect exploded into a rain of blood in an instant. This was the most number of people Gu Zheng had killed so far.
"Young Master!"
"Master!"
The islanders were not frightened by the bloody scene in front of them. They knelt down toward Gu Zheng in the air and shouted almost fanatically.
The islanders had not spoken before because they were not sure whether the person floating in the air was Gu Zheng or not. After all, they all knew that Gu Zheng had ascended to the Untainted Land only a few years ago. However, when Gu Zheng mentioned "the people of Ziyan Island" twice in a row, they realized that what was happening in front of them was not a dream. Their faith, their God, had returned!
"Get up, everyone!"
Gu Zheng raised his hand, and all the kneeling islanders were lifted up.
"Don't worry. These people of the Heavenly Demon Sect won't have a good ending! Now that I'm back, it's time for us to take revenge! "
Using some tricks, Gu Zheng's voice went straight to the hearts of the people of Zi Yan Island, causing them to cheer and shout.
When the islanders calmed down, Gu Zheng signaled them to be quiet. Then, with a wave of his hand, Gu Butong and the other three people floated in the air in front of him.
"These people are the higher-ups of the Heavenly Demon Sect. You must know what they have done to you. I'll punish them right away! After that, I'll hand them over to you temporarily. You can torture them in any way you want, as long as you don't kill them! "
An eye for an eye was Gu Zheng's style of doing things. His words shocked the islanders, and then they became excited. They had never thought that they would be able to do something to the higher-ups of the Heavenly Demon Sect one day! After all, they were all Immortals, and their Taoist skills had made the islanders feel desperate. But now, what they had never dared to imagine before was about to become a reality. How could they not be excited?
Gu Zheng did not hand Gu Butong and the others over to the islanders immediately. He wanted to search their souls in public.
Gu Zheng's main purpose was to recover the island and find Jiaojiao's lost spirit. However, when he searched Gu Butong's soul, Gu Zheng found nothing about Jiaojiao.
"Eh, that's strange. I found nothing!"
After searching the souls of the Demonic Saber Esteemed Being and the others, Gu Zheng was surprised. He also found nothing about Jiaojiao in their memories.
"That's impossible. Jiaojiao was injured when the Heavenly Demon Sect attacked Mount Emei!"
Gu Zheng was puzzled, but there was nothing he could do now. He could only wait for Yu Yang, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect, to come back and search their souls.
"Gu Butong hurt you. You can do whatever you want to him!"
Gu Zheng threw Gu Butong to Jian Ying, who was howling in despair.
"Leader, I don't want to do anything to him. I just want to kill him. Is that okay?" Jian Ying looked at Gu Zheng and asked.
"Not now. Once he dies, his Divine Thought will dissipate. What I've done before will be in vain."
Gu Zheng patted Jian Ying's shoulder and said, "I know you hate him, but revenge is not urgent. After Yu Yang and the others are dealt with, I'll hand him over to you. Now, since you don't want to kill him, let the islanders vent their anger! "
"Then I'd better collect some interest first!" Jian Ying gritted her teeth.
Regardless of how Jian Ying wanted to collect interest from Gu Butong, Gu Zheng still had something to deal with on the island.
The people of the Heavenly Demon Sect had set up a Celestial Formation that was suitable for them to practice Devil Magic. The Celestial Formation was powered by the corpses of more than 2,000 islanders.
After destroying the Celestial Formation, Gu Zheng went to Meow Meow's cave abode.
There was no trace of Meow Meow's aura in the cave abode. There were only a few pools of dirty blood. Gu Zheng had destroyed them all.
Whether it was the Green Peach Island or the Purple Yan Island, after being captured, the temples on the island no longer existed. The only thing that was relatively well-preserved was the immortal field that Gu Zheng had once set up on the island.
If it weren't for the fact that the Celestial Grain produced in the Celestial Field was a resource, it would have been destroyed by the people of the Blood Transformation Sect and the Heavenly Demon Sect. One of the reasons why the Devil Cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Blood Transformation Sect had left some islanders on the island was that they wanted to use the islanders to provide the Power of Will for the Celestial Field Formation.
After destroying everything on the Purple Yan Island, Gu Zheng began to cook food for the islanders.
The islanders on the Purple Yan Island were not poisoned like the islanders on the Peach Island. They lived on the Celestial Formation set up by the Devil Cultivators, so it was inevitable that there would be some Evil Qi in their bodies. It wouldn't be a problem to remove the Evil Qi for now, but Gu Zheng still had to wait for Yu Yang and the others to come back, so he could make good use of the time.
It also took time to cook the food for hundreds of people. When Gu Zheng was halfway through cooking, he sensed something and found Yu Yang and the others with his divine sense.
"Grand Elder, why are you here?"
Yu Yang, with a dark face and a dignified appearance, asked Gu Butong through voice transmission.
Gu Zheng frowned and replied to Yu Yang through Gu Butong's divine sense, "Sect Leader, something bad has happened. Mount Emei joined forces with several cultivators from Shu Mountain to attack the Purple Yan Island. I was lucky enough to escape, but I've been seriously injured. As for Reverend Demonic Saber and the other two, they're still on the Purple Yan Island and most likely dead. "
"You're courting death!"
Yu Yang roared and asked, "How many of them came this time? What are their cultivation bases? "
"Six. Three of them are at the pinnacle of the Return to Void Stage, and the other three are at the late-stage of the Return to Void Stage!" Gu Zheng replied.
"Let's go. The Purple Yan Island has been attacked by Mount Emei and Shu Mountain!"
Yu Yang immediately called out to the people beside him, and the group flew toward the Purple Yan Island at top speed.
Gu Zheng was still cooking the food for the islanders and answering Yu Yang's questions from time to time, waiting for them to return to the Purple Yan Island.
By the time Yu Yang led the four demonic cultivators to the island's protective immortal formation, the islanders had already taken the food.
Since they had already conquered the Purple Yan Island, the demonic cultivators were naturally very familiar with the island's protective immortal formation. However, the Grand Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect, Jiang Siyuan, frowned when he saw that the immortal formation hadn't changed at all!
"Logically speaking, they should have made some changes to the Immortal Array after taking back Ziyan Island. However, the Gate of Life of the island's Immortal Array hasn't changed at all since we left," Jiang Siyuan said to the demonic cultivators.
"An unchanged immortal formation means that we can pass through it as quickly as possible. Could they have set up an ambush inside?"
"I don't think they've changed the gate of life. They're just being arrogant. As for whether or not they've set up an ambush, it has nothing to do with the gate of life of the immortal formation. "
The other two demonic cultivators, Qin Huo and Gu Qingjiang, each said something.
"Hmph!"
Yu Yang snorted. "When we attacked Mount Emei last time, they relied on the Mount Emei Sword Formation and Mount Emei Pagoda to avoid being wiped out. We just haven't had the time to deal with them recently, yet they still dare to attack us! An ambush? Do they really think I care? Let's go! "
As a late-stage Jin Xian cultivator, Yu Yang didn't take Mount Emei seriously even though he had to suppress his cultivation base to the pinnacle of the Return to Void Stage. As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Yang entered the immortal formation first.
After successfully passing through the immortal formation, Yu Yang and the others stopped when they were halfway to Purple Yan Island. This was because they saw Gu Zheng standing in the void.
"You're from the Shu Mountain Sect?"
Seeing that Gu Zheng was alone, Yu Yang's brows furrowed instead.
Yu Yang wasn't afraid of Mount Emei, but he was still a little wary of Shu Mountain. After all, Shu Mountain was a major sect in the Wilderness. They had sent people back to Earth to prevent their orthodoxy from being destroyed.
"Heh."
Gu Zheng sneered and looked at Yu Yang and the others as if he was looking at a group of dead people.
"I'm not afraid even if I'm from Shu Mountain. What are you so arrogant for …"
Yu Yang's eyes widened before he could finish his sentence. "You, you're Gu Zheng?"
Yu Yang had searched the souls of the Emei Sect members, so he knew what Gu Zheng looked like. However, there was no need for him to remember someone who had already ascended! In fact, Yu Yang wasn't the only one who was like this. All the demonic cultivators that Gu Zheng had met so far were basically the same as him. This was similar to how Gu Zheng didn't have to remember everyone he saw when he searched the souls of others. If he hadn't acted very differently, if he had only brushed past these demonic cultivators, they would never have remembered that he was Gu Zheng, the Emei Sect Master!
"You're not too stupid. You remembered me so quickly!"
As he spoke, Gu Zheng stretched his muscles and looked like he was about to make a move.
Gu Zheng wouldn't have bothered to waste his breath on Yu Yang and the other demonic cultivators. However, when he saw Yu Yang, the Weapon Spirit asked him to wait for a while. She had noticed that Yu Yang was a little strange! It was also because of this that Gu Zheng spoke a few more sentences to him, but it was only a few sentences.
"You ascended a few years ago and came back a few years ago. How high can your cultivation be? Today, I, Yu Yang, will teach you a lesson! "
Yu Yang roared and took out a high-grade immortal weapon in the shape of a handstove, which he smashed toward Gu Zheng.
Although the handstove-shaped immortal weapon looked ordinary, the momentum it brought was very big, like a gust of wind blowing through a cave.
Moreover, this handstove-shaped immortal weapon could be considered top-notch among high-grade immortal weapons. When the immortal weapon flew out, the pressure it produced was enough to slow down the movements of cultivators at the peak of the Return to Void Stage.
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