I Become a Martial Arts God in the Chaotic Demon World-Chapter 137: The Fruits of the Way

After listening to Ye Liuyun's analysis, Han Zheng was momentarily stunned.

"Demons can also learn swordsmanship and martial arts?"

Ye Liuyun said, "Demons cannot naturally, but they can learn. Some Great Demons of the Xuan Gang Realm possess intelligence and comprehension not inferior to humans, so why can't they learn martial arts?

It's just that most demons don't need to learn martial arts. The innate divine abilities they inherently possess are already powerful enough, and some demon tribes have their own heritage."

Han Zheng nodded, then suddenly said, "Of course, there's also another possibility, and that is that there were two perpetrators.

One demon was absorbing blood essence, while another martial artist realized they were discovered by the Xuanjia Guards and thus acted to kill."

Ye Liuyun shook his head, "Who knows, all is possible. There are no more traces here, let's notify Lord Wen to come."

A moment later, Wen Tingyun arrived with her team. After examining the bodies, she also found no special circumstances.

Even the scholar who had his blood essence drained only had a faint trace of demon energy, which only Wen Tingyun could slightly detect.

So now, the only thing that could be confirmed was that the one who made the move should be a demon, or at least definitely related to demons.

"Does Kai Ping Prefecture often have demon appearances?"

Han Zheng asked Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun shook his head and said, "Rarely, most demons are quite intelligent and they know what kind of place Kai Ping Prefecture is.

With powerful warriors from the Demon Cleansing Bureau garrisoning, entering Kai Ping Prefecture and being discovered almost surely means death.

Thus, demons can massacre a town or even break a state mansion, but a prefecture like Kai Ping Prefecture, which has the headquarters of the Demon Cleansing Bureau, has never been breached.

If demons could breach the capital, then Great Zhou would truly be finished, I'm afraid we would return to the Ancient Times when demons were rampant, and the Human Clan was raised as blood food."

A thoughtful look appeared in Han Zheng's eyes, "So this demon dared to strike in Kai Ping Prefecture, either it has something to rely on, or it has a special requirement for blood essence, needing to absorb blood essence at regular intervals, which is why it would take such a risk."

Wen Tingyun said solemnly from the side, "There's no use speculating now. Without capturing that demon, anything is possible.

However, the demon has finally shown itself, giving us a direction to investigate.

The power of that single stroke was at least above the Peak of Innate Transcendence, and it may even have reached the might of the Xuan Gang Realm.

No matter if the one who acted is a human or a demon, such strength is not something the Xuanjia Guards of the Reserve Camp can withstand.

From today onward, the Xuanjia Guards of the Kui Character Camp who are not on missions will also participate in patrolling Kai Ping Prefecture.

Han Zheng, Su Wuming, both of you are the strongest in the Demon Cleansing Bureau at the moment, able to clash head-on even with Xuan Gang Realm entities.

So for the time being, you two will have a hard task. One will be responsible for patrolling during the day, and the other at night. If the Xuanjia Guards detect any anomalies and signal, you must immediately go to provide support."

"Yes, Lord!"

After arranging these matters, Han Zheng and Su Wuming discussed and decided that Su Wuming would take the night shift and Han Zheng the day.

Su Wuming was not good at dealing with people, and although nighttime was more likely for incidents to occur, it was better suited for him.

Han Zheng suddenly became much busier during this period, but he still made time to visit the Guardian Storage to look through various documents.

One reason was to understand the Martial World of the Great Zhou and various martial arts-related information.

The path of martial arts is not something you can progress in by merely practicing in solitude, of course, there are such geniuses, but they are after all the minority.

Wen Tingyun is a typical scholarly-type martial artist, with a terrifyingly vast reserve of martial arts knowledge. She managed to complete even the incomplete Faceless Heavenly Demon Skill, which, to some extent, makes her even stronger in martial arts theory than most martial arts grandmasters.

Another reason was that Han Zheng wanted to see if he could find any materials related to Tao seeds.

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The essence of the Tao seeds was within the Taotie Furnace, but the explanation the Taotie Furnace provided was only about collecting Tao seeds. After planting them, they could bear Tao fruits.

As for what these Tao fruits are, the Taotie Furnace did not explain, so Han Zheng had to search for the answer himself.

The Southern Mountain had many books, but some required a certain level of clearance to be viewed.

Han Zheng spent three days and sifting through nearly a thousand books before he finally pieced together snippets of text about the Dao Fruits and roughly understood what they actually were.

Dao Fruits can be described in a sentence as the crystallization of the Heaven and Earth rules and the condensation of origin power.

It is said that when Heaven and Earth were in chaos, the origins of various rules were entangled with each other, fire existed within water, wood was born from fire, life and death were indistinct, and the chaos was unclear and muddled.

With the beginning of Heaven and Earth, these origin rules were dispersed, but a small part that was shattered by the force that opened the heavens did not separate and thus turned into Dao seeds that fell to the earth.

Dao seeds contain the origins of Heaven and Earth's rules but are chaotic and indistinct; heaven knows what sort of rule powers they hold.

Therefore, to merge a Dao seed into one's soul and nurture it, one must continuously sort out the messy powers of those rules until it finally bears the Supreme Tao Fruit.

As for what powers these Dao Fruits actually possess, these books did not specify.

But putting this information together, these Dao seeds are definitely among the top treasures of Heaven and Earth!

However, such a treasure is useless to Han Zheng right now, because to plant a Dao seed, one must start from the Yang God Realm.

In the Yang God Realm, one can consolidate a Yang God who is capable of perceiving the power of Heaven and Earth, and only upon reaching this realm is one considered to have initially touched upon the rules of Heaven and Earth and thereby nurture the Dao seeds, sorting out the rule powers within.

No wonder Xu Cunbao kept saying that the object in the Blood Wolf Thieves' hands was a treasure, without the slightest fear that his Xuanjia Guards would covet it.

Martial Artists in the Innate Realm wouldn't be able to use a Dao seed.

Let alone the Innate Realm, even those in the Xuan Gang Realm and the Dan Sea Realm were not qualified; within the entire Southern Mountain Demon Cleansing Department, only the Garrison Commander Chen Baxian was eligible to merge with a Dao seed.

It was just that Xu Cunbao and the others didn't expect that the Dao seed fragment in the Blood Wolf Thieves' hands was not complete, as half of it was with the Smell Fragrance Sect.

Moreover, the Dao seed fragment they possessed was just an empty shell; its essence had already been consumed by the Taotie Furnace.

Putting away those books, Han Zheng no longer studied those matters.

Dao seeds were too far out of his reach; now, even if he collected the other half of the Dao seed fragments, it would still be useless.

Just as Han Zheng had stepped out of the Guardian Storage, Yang Tianqi came looking for him.

"Brother Han, Lord Wen is looking for you. It seems there is an urgent mission."

Han Zheng followed Yang Tianqi to Wen Tingyun's study, where Wen Tingyun asked, "Have there been any recent discoveries in the city?"

"There have been no abnormalities, and even the number of disappearances has returned to the levels of past years."

In fact, it is very difficult to trace missing persons in large cities like Kai Ping Prefecture with a population of over a million.

Those displaced beggars wouldn't report their disappearances, and the Government couldn't be bothered with such matters.

Then there are the large families; who could know if they beat their slaves to death and just threw them out in the Chaotic Burial Mound outside the city?

Hence, the number of disappearances recorded by the Government was only those citizens who owned property in Kai Ping Prefecture, and they actually made up less than half of the total disappearances in the whole prefecture.

"There was someone from the Tang Family at Yunhe Manor outside the city who came to the Demon Cleansing Bureau to report a crime, saying that someone within the Tang Family was killed by a demon. The described manner of death is consistent with the previous victims, all of whom died with their blood drained."

"That demon might not be within the city. You and Su Wuming will take a team of elites to investigate this matter."

"Yes, Sir."

Han Zheng took Wen Tingyun's order and found Su Wuming, then asked Ye Liuyun and Yang Tianqi if they were willing to go.

Of course, Ye Liuyun and Yang Tianqi would not refuse.

The strengths of Han Zheng and Su Wuming were evident to all; not only was it safe to carry out missions with them, but they also never came out at a loss every time.

As for the rest, Han Zheng directly asked Ye Liuyun to contact those Xuanjia Guards who had previously attacked the Dan Yang Sect together to see who was free and willing to join, and picked ten people.

When the Demon Cleansing Bureau was understaffed, the position of Team Leader was quite awkward.

Normally it was just a name, but when it came to executing missions, one could only temporarily draw some people to carry out the task.

In less than half an hour, everyone had gathered and they immediately headed straight for Yunhe Manor outside the city.