The group wandered through the mountain following Ye Yuyan. Any fallen beast they came across or uncanny spaces they would defeat and dispel. Knighted Maven occasionally teased Ye Yuyan and Nesilia toyed with me any chance she could get.

"Why not share your methods with me." She said with an innocent smile and big begging eyes.

"What would you like to know?" Ye Yuyan responded plainly.

"Your sealing scrolls, how do you produce them?" She asked keenly as her eyes landed on his robes.

"I'm sorry but I didn't produce these. I only came upon them by luck in the past." He said as he shook his head.

"Fine be like that." Nesilia pouted as she walked away from him. Ye Yuyan couldn't help but wryly smile.

"Wait that doesn't mean I don't have other things to trade." He said and Nesilia stopped in her tracks and turned back to him.

"Really?" She said with a hopeful voice.

"Yes, why don't you tell me about your family origin and I will tell you about where I found these scrolls." He asked intently, his eyes threw Nesilia off.

"Why do you want to know that..." She asked with a bit apprehension in her voice.

"Have you heard of the law of kings and those who bear it?" Ye Yuyan asked mysteriously

"Yes! The children of heaven and earth that found a grand Dao." She said astutely

"Yes and no, A Bearer of the King's Law weeds out the old and comes out with the new. They bring forth their own path to the peak. Making a bearer almost invincible and the peak of the world!" Ye Yuyan said

"But they are far from children of heaven as they just like anyone, can have their path cut short." Ye Yuyan said shaking his head.

"That can't be true! How could a bearer be defeated?" Nesilia said in a disbelieving tone.

"It's not that hard, you just need to kill them before they grow." Han Yi coldly responded.

"That's it precisely your highness." Ye Yuyan said as he nodded his head.

"But why would anyone kill a bearer? They are the peak of our race!" Knighted Maven said quizzically.

"I wouldn't know, such matters are far beyond my station." Said Ye Yuyan self depreciatingly

"But I have heard a certain tale in the eastern lands." Ye Yuyan said eerily

"Legend has it that a bearer was the creator of all the paths of divination. But they died before they could unite all the paths and create the new from the old."

"But such is merely an ancient legend, most of the divination paths have dissipated into the rivers of time."

"Which makes me only question what kind of background your family has to possess such augury skills." Ye Yuyan said as a calculating look flashed in his eyes.

"What a story, but that is all it merely is." Han Yi said.

"You're correct your highness but there is a hint of truth in every tall tale." Ye Yuyan chuckled.

"We're here." Ye Yuyan said as he abruptly stopped and in front of them was a completely obliterated village.

Strawn everywhere was debris that was intertwined with strong icy energies. All the homes were decimated from the lowest huts to the most finely crafted artisan homes.

No corpses or blood remained as if everyone from the village had disappeared. At the center of the village was stone and brick debris with the remnants of a tower.

Of behind the tower was a mountain that had a massive sword scar. To the untrained eye, it would look like a landslide.

"How horrid!" Nesilia couldn't help but blurt.

Knighted Maven's normally lackadaisical expression seemed to harden with seriousness. Han Yi looked on coldly and looked at Yunshi and gestured to him.

"Open the seal." He said coldly

Without a word, Yunshi reached for his greatsword and suddenly an unending stream of demonic howls emanated from him. Grabbing the hilt of his sword with one hand striking down suddenly.

The howls intensified as a greatsword slammed onto the ground, the area around them started to rumble. The howls started coming from underground like the stamping feet of hundred bulls. It flew towards the village as the sound decreased the further it got.

'Earth auditory! It's an incorporeal class demon, but what kind...' Ye Yuyan thought as he followed the howls with his eyes until they landed on the tower.

A blue mist emanated from the ground all around the village as the howling died down. The mist rapidly gathered in the center becoming a heavy blue mist. It looked as though it was about to condense into something terrifying.

"Nesilia, move now!" Han Yi intoned with haste. Nesilia tapped on the air and the chalice materialized in front of Nesilia as runic incantations flew out of the cup.

"Disappear!" She roared as the incantations exploded out of the chalice and landed onto the mist. The mist started to decrease in size with each incantation.

1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16....

It kept getting smaller and smaller until the point where it became almost like a point mass. With all the energy condensed Han Yi commanded: "Maven!"

"Yes! Your Highness!" He laughed as he unsheathed the sword on his waist. The sword unlike a normal sword was not shining but rather dull and rusted around the edges. It looked as though it was an old butcher's knife rather than an expert's sword.

Around Maven stirred a strange aura. Ye Yuyan eyes looked on with surprise as a torrent of sword forces surrounded Maven.

'Such a sword force, he's definitely peak second step!' Ye Yuyan thought with a curious look on his face.

The originally white sword forces around Maven suddenly changed color becoming a metallic chrome. Maven struck out with his rusted sword and the sword forces stirred with him shooting out a powerful sword beam.

The sword forces struck the point mass splitting it into two and then stirring more sword forces it caused more slashes. Slowly the point mass got shredded by a current of sharp metallic winds. Maven sheathed his rusty sword as the point mass disintegrated and then faded away into nothingness.

'What is his cultivation code?' Ye Yuyan wondered as he examined the remnant sword forces. It was definitely a powerful code maybe even a 3 essence code.

With Chivalrous cultivation, until one gets a totem, they could only stir the worldly energies using their codes. Each code was unique in that it could shape the use of force. Otherwise, sword force in it's purest form is just independent energy.

But with a code becomes almost anything under the sun. Han Yi's eyes scanned the village before he gestured for Ye Yuyan to continue leading.

This process may have seemed tedious but without purification entering an area where a demon was summoned could get one infected. They wouldn't even realize that it happened, that's why humans never colonized the desolate valleys.

They hurried over to the tower walking across the remains of the village. Nesilia looked over into a stone cottage out of curiosity when her eyes filled with confusion. Against the wall of the cottage was a shadow of a child next to it was a mother and adjacent to them was an old man on a rocking chair.

"Shadows, that's all that remains of the people of this village." Ye Yuyan said as he shook his head. Nesilia felt a little fear build in her heart. A demonic ritual like this wasn't common, very rarely were whole villages annihilated like this.

"How cruel even in death they remain." Knighted Maven said with a serious tone.

"Such is the way of the world, cruel and capricious." Han Yi said flatly

They reached the tower at the center of all the remnants was the corpse of a fat man in fine silk clothes. His body was laid against a wall, and across his chest was a deep gash. The blood was completely drained from his body.

"Split up and look around the area. Maven checks the cottages, Nesilia goes to the tower remains Yunshi head to the scarred mountain, and Ji Shu stays here with me." Han Yi commanded flatly as his eyes focused on the corpse.

No one protested the command, Maven was the first to run off, then Yunshi suddenly jumped on the rooftops and went off, and the last was Nesilia who flew over the tower rubble using her divine clouds.

Which left Ye Yuyan and Han Yi together in front of the corpse. Han Yi walked up to the corpse and scanned it slowly as Ye Yuyan stood still to the side.

"Do you know who this is?" Han Yi asked probingly

"I presume him to be the village elder Gulan." Ye Yuyan replied rapidly

"In your report, you said you expelled the devil yet the area was still corrupted. So how exactly did you get up to here and get this gourd from the corpse?" Han Yi asked as he showed Ye Yuyan the gourd with a 9 pointed star.

"Sire, why would you be aware of such details." Ye Yuyan said as a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Cut the crap! Who sent you?" Han Yi roared as his knuckles crackled

"I don't know what you're talking about." Ye Yuyan sneered as he reached for his robes.

Suddenly Han Yi's eyes flashed with intense electrical powers and he punched out with an exterminating lightning force. His fist lit up the tower with a powerful blue light as it streamed towards Ye Yuyan. Ye Yuyan stood still as his lips bloomed into a pursed and cold smile.