My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Yang Jing possessed the Bright Qi Talent, allowing him to directly smell and distinguish Spiritual Qi. He could also rely on his Water Escape to sense distant changes in Qi Mechanisms.

Tracking targets in the ocean was practically a sure thing for him.

The Vitality here was chaotic. In just three short days, at least a thousand Cultivators had passed through this area. Demonic Qi and Demon Qi were jumbled together. If not for the fact that Yang Jing’s Talent Divine Techniques had grown stronger after his Cultivation advanced to the Golden Core Realm, he truly wouldn’t have been able to distinguish between them all.

Yang Jing slithered his snake tail and returned to the Flying Boat.

"A thousand people have passed through here. I’ve sniffed their Magical Power, and about seven of them cultivate some form of illusion Magic."

He said to an impatient Sun Ruxiu.

"You can distinguish them in such detail?"

Sun Ruxiu was overjoyed to hear this. He never expected that a Snake Demon he had casually found would possess such talented Divine Techniques.

Yang Jing put on a proud expression.

He deliberately chose a scent that was heading east. Under his guidance, the Flying Boat followed the trail in the water, moving eastward.

In less than half a day, they found the group of Demon Cultivators.

These Demon Cultivators had an idea similar to Sun Ruxiu’s. They didn’t hold out much hope of finding Yang Jing and had instead set their sights on the Demons of the Demon Country.

They had slaughtered a colony of Demon Snakes. Most only had the Cultivation of a Little Demon; only their leader had reached the Realm of a Foundation Establishment Great Demon.

The Demons in the sea had almost no resistance to the Demon Cultivators’ illusion techniques. They were easily mesmerized and slaughtered before they even knew what was happening, with no time to activate their Demon-Seeding Talismans.

The Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Ore they had collected over many years were taken from the snake den by the Demon Cultivators, who were casually sorting through them and putting them away by category.

These Demon Cultivators didn’t even spare the Snake Demons’ corpses. The snake blood and flesh were high-quality blood offerings that could be used to serve Celestial Demons, while the skin, fangs, and bones were all excellent materials for Artifact Refining.

"Senior Brother, it’s all thanks to that thief stirring up trouble in the Demon Country that we can fish in troubled waters and slaughter all these Demons. We just have to pin the blame on him."

A Demon Cultivator said with a loud laugh, holding up a snake head whose eyes were still wide open in death.

"With a dragnet cast over the whole area, that thief won’t be able to escape for much longer. While he’s still on the loose, let’s take the opportunity to raid a few more villages and make a huge haul!"

The lead Demon Cultivator said proudly, his foot planted on the back of a Demon Snake.

Rather than taking the minuscule chance of finding the thief’s trail, it was far more practical to kill more Snake Demons and plunder their Spiritual Objects. The haul from the past few days was already more than what they would get from several years of diligent work.

Seeing this, Yang Jing’s eyes widened as he feigned extreme fury.

After all, he was currently in the form of a Demon. It would be unnatural for him to have no reaction upon seeing his "own kind" being slaughtered like livestock. Furthermore, his senses told him that a ball of Demon Qi was rapidly approaching from a distance.

Although Sun Ruxiu couldn’t care less, he still put on a show of righteous indignation. After all, he was still relying on this Snake Demon to find the treasure thief and couldn’t afford to offend him so rashly.

With a flick of his snake tail, Yang Jing leaped directly off the Flying Boat.

"How dare you people so wantonly slaughter the citizens of my Jade Poison Kingdom!"

The Demon Cultivators all had Foundation Establishment Cultivation. Seeing a mere Great Demon-level Snake Demon dare to charge at them, they were slightly wary of the Flying Boat behind him, but they still roared with laughter.

"You, a puny Snake Demon, dare to show yourself before us? Aren’t you afraid we’ll rip out your tendons and flay you alive?"

The lead Demon Cultivator kicked a snake corpse at his feet, sending it flying.

Yang Jing simply activated his Overturning Rivers and Seas Divine Techniques, immediately stirring up a colossal, surging wave in the sea that crashed toward the Demon Cultivators.

The giant wave stretched from the seabed to the surface, advancing like a solid wall.

The Demon Cultivators never expected that Yang Jing, who appeared to be just an incompletely transformed Snake Demon, could possess such a powerful Water Element Technique. They could only retreat in a sorry state. Two of them took the brunt of the attack; unable to dodge in time, they had to activate their Defensive Spiritual Artifacts to withstand the massive wave.

BOOM!

Within the massive wave, two streams of Defensive Spirit Light flickered like candles in the wind, on the verge of being extinguished.

Sun Ruxiu’s expression turned ugly. He hadn’t expected this Snake Demon, Si Bing, to have such a Water Technique up his sleeve.

"Senior Brother, should we intervene?"

His junior brother, Xiong Shuangquan, asked.

"Wait. If we act now, it will just be gilding the lily. That Si Bing might think he can handle those fellow sect members on his own. We’ll earn his trust only if we wait until he shows signs of losing and then step in to save him."

Sun Ruxiu said with a cold expression.

Yang Jing, pretending to have limited abilities, charged into the group of Demon Cultivators and engaged them in a chaotic melee. He would occasionally stir up a wave to blast a Demon Cultivator twenty or thirty zhang away.

These Demon Cultivators were bold enough to dive into the sea to plunder from Demons, so their skills were naturally formidable. With Yang Jing intentionally holding back, they soon managed to leave numerous wounds on his body.

Just as Sun Ruxiu saw that the time was right and was about to make his move, a loud shout echoed from above:

"A true hero of our Jade Poison Kingdom, as expected! To see your countrymen suffer and step forward to avenge them!"

The shout reverberated through the sea, causing the water to churn ceaselessly as if it were boiling.

The Demon Cultivators were caught in the vibrations, staggering about as if drunk and unable to stay on their feet. Even the Flying Boat bobbed and spun like a leaf on the water.