My Master Knows It All

Moreover, I shouldn't be so unlucky, so soon...

The thought just emerged in Cao Zhen's mind when a noise came from the cave he was hiding in.

Someone's coming?

Cao Zhen remained motionless, leaning against the inside of the cave. But soon, a series of footsteps sounded, coming closer and closer.

Could it really be my bad luck?

Cao Zhen thought to himself that it was unfortunate. What kind of person is this? You see a cave, come in just to sense the aura, don't feel a human presence, then you should just leave. Why bother coming further to check?

The footsteps in his ears grew ever closer. In just a few breaths' time, the person would enter the cave.

Closer, even closer.

Listening to the footsteps, Cao Zhen sensed the aura approaching, almost appearing before him the next instant, and a chilling gleam suddenly flashed in his eyes.

This person's aura is at the Indestructible Period, I still have a chance. If I can strike fast enough to prevent the person from making a sound, I can kill him.

This is within the cave. Silently killing him, I can disguise myself as him.

I can't let him raise an alarm!

As the sounds neared his ears, in the next instant, the aura within Cao Zhen erupted. Dense demonic qi surged out, and a demonic mountain suddenly materialized behind him.

It's not difficult to kill someone at the Indestructible Period, where the challenge lies is to do so silently.

Were the Five-thunder Righteous Method or other spells to be used, their loud noises would instantly alert others.

The best way to silently kill is letting the opponent fall into an illusion technique.

Previously, he hadn't cultivated any illusions; most spells directly attacking the soul require entry into the Immortal Path Domain and cultivating after acquiring that domain.

And he hadn't entered the Immortal Path Domain.

However, he had previously encountered the Demonic Lord Qing Shi, who possessed soul-targeting spells. So he changed his aura into demonic qi to cast the Demonic Lord Qing Shi's spells.

In the cave, as a disciple of the Darkish Demonic Sect reached its depths, suddenly, a once aura-less cave erupted with dense demonic qi.

Someone's here!

His face changed dramatically. In this cave, shockingly, there really was someone. He just casually entered a cave to take a look, and actually encountered someone!

Quick, signal an alarm!

He's just someone at the Indestructible Period; the one who acquired the chaos energy should be at least at the Immortal Path Domain, and possibly even at its peak. I'm certainly no match, I must quickly signal for senior brothers to come.

As he was about to release demonic qi to raise the alarm, the person's figure appeared within the cave.

It was someone he'd never seen before, but crucially, it was the other's demonic mountain.

Only fifty feet high?

It's someone at the Longevity Period?

Could someone at the Longevity Period obtain chaos energy?

His heart paused in shock, then he felt elated. The senior brothers had told everyone to search for that escaping figure, yet even if they found him, obtaining chaos energy wasn't guaranteed.

Even if they were truly lucky enough to get the chaos energy, it couldn't possibly belong to a small disciple at the Indestructible Period like him.

But now, he encountered someone holding chaos energy, and the person was merely at the Longevity Period. If he silently killed the person and took the chaos energy, who could tell it was him?

As for killing the wrong person, the person was just hiding here and wasn't the chaos energy holder, it doesn't matter.

Such misfortune could only be blamed on the other.

But if luck favored him, and this person truly was the one with chaos energy, then by killing him, he would obtain the energy and soar to the skies.

First, kill him!

Hmm?

Why did the demonic qi disappear?

Has it reverted to the way it was before? No matter, just a Longevity Period brat. Even without demonic qi, I could easily kill him.

A black sharp sword appeared in his hand.

The next instant, his spirit shook abruptly. No, the aura felt earlier, the other was clearly not at the Longevity Period; that demonic qi was far stronger!

Suddenly, the previously trembling figure before him vanished, replaced by a sword descending from the void!

Illusion technique!

I fell for an illusion!

His heart quivered in terror, wanting to react, but the opponent's sword was already plunging down.

Cao Zhen was confident that, when facing someone at the Indestructible Period, his full-power strike wouldn't be evaded.

The difference with using the illusion was that after falling into his illusion, the opponent's reaction slowed and wouldn't circulate demonic qi!

Thus, even without much of a commotion, this strike would be enough to kill!

But when watching the Demonic Lord Qing Shi use this illusion before, it lasted longer after the opponent fell for it.

It had never been seen through so quickly.

This partly because Demonic Lord Qing Shi cast spells on those unable to use demonic or immortal qi, and because he wasn't truly in the Immortal Path Domain himself.

A larger reason was, he felt, because he didn't possess an Innate Allure Body, thus wasn't fit to use this spell.

While musing, Cao Zhen had already launched his sword, slicing across the disciples' neck, severing the Darkish Demonic Sect disciple's head, with a few splashes of blood hitting the ground and their clothing.

Cao Zhen quickly shed his outer garment, discarding it while stripping the opponent's clothing.

A flick of his hand produced a stream of water, swiftly washing away bloodstains from the clothing and the cave floor.

Such a small-scale spell would never attract attention.

Subsequently, he tossed the corpse into his Qiankun Bag, using demonic qi to evaporate moisture from the clothes and the water from the ground instantly.

After glancing around and seeing no issues, he changed his face to match the opponent's, altered his aura similarly, and swiftly flew out of the cave.

Now, simultaneously becoming a disciple of the Darkish Demonic Sect.