txolops Chapter 310 Yin 9 Shepherd, Observing the Sword
Chapter 310 Yin 9 Shepherd, Observing the Sword
Somewhere in the wilderness.
The blood streaked across the sky, then suddenly dissipated, revealing a woman with a seductive figure and a pair of enormous blood wings growing from her back.
The next moment, a flash of light.
The woman and Bloodwing vanished without a trace, replaced by a refined-looking man in a blue robe, though his face appeared slightly pale.
It was Li Ping who killed Shao Guang and then fled the scene at top speed.
He forcibly used the Bloodwing Escape Technique and escaped nearly a thousand miles in a short time.
Having escaped such a long distance in such a short time, even a Nascent Soul cultivator, let alone a Core Formation cultivator, would not be able to find his trace, even with the vast range of his divine sense.
With that, Li Ping could finally rest assured.
However, after escaping for so long using the Bloodwing Escape Technique, his essence and lifespan had been greatly depleted. If it weren't for the power of the Life Preservation Technique, he really wouldn't have dared to play like this.
As the power of the health-preserving technique circulated throughout his body, and he felt the fullness of his lifespan slowly returning, Li Ping breathed a sigh of relief.
The next moment, he patted the storage bag at his waist.
Zhou Lingyan, wearing only her undergarments, appeared before Li Ping. Li Ping pointed with both hands, and a sword light pierced through the unconscious Zhou Lingyan's head. Then, a fireball landed on the lifeless corpse.
The reason for cremating Zhou Lingyan is that
Besides destroying the evidence, the corpses of Core Formation cultivators have been tempered by magical power for a long time. If left here, they might even turn into zombies and cause harm to mortals.
Burning it to ashes will prevent this from happening.
Glancing at the corpse that was rapidly burning to ashes in the high temperature, Li Ping nodded slightly, and then a streak of light rose into the air, flying westward.
Hidden high in the sky, Li Ping urged the flying boat forward while silently pondering.
After this incident, Li Jingyu's disguise can never be used again under any circumstances.
After all, Li Jingyu was involved in the deaths of two Core Formation cultivators from the Hehuan Sect, and he also possessed the Two-Element Star Flame, which was coveted by the Crimson Thunder Old Monster and the Black Demon.
Once exposed, they will inevitably be hunted down as mortal enemies by the Hehuan Sect.
However, Li Ping had anticipated this, so he wasn't too concerned. It wouldn't affect him much; he had plenty of aliases, he could just switch to another one.
Shaking his head, Li Ping flipped his hand, and a green storage bag appeared in his hand.
This storage bag was taken from Shao Guang's waist. He scanned it briefly with his divine sense and found that there were quite a lot of spirit stones, spirit herbs and other materials inside. No wonder he was in charge of logistics, his wealth was even greater than Zhou Lingyan's.
What he found regrettable was that Shao Guang's natal magic weapon was shattered into pieces by the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, and many talismans and magical artifacts were also destroyed along with it.
While he was quite satisfied with the power of the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, its tendency to destroy magical artifacts at will... caused its owner heartache, and Li Ping felt even more heartache.
After all, those were all his spoils of war.
"A natal magic weapon that a Core Formation cultivator has nurtured for hundreds of years!"
"But it couldn't even withstand one strike from the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine. This kind of trash magic weapon should just be destroyed!" Li Ping silently comforted himself.
Then, he transferred the useful items from the storage bag to his own storage bag, and threw the rest of the items, along with the storage bag itself, over a river as he passed by.
Li Ping took out "Detailed Explanation of Teleportation Arrays" and began to study it carefully.
……
The leader of the Hehuan Sect was an elderly man in the late Foundation Establishment stage with white hair and beard.
After hearing his disciples' report, he couldn't help but stand up, his face full of disbelief: "What? You said that the life tablets of Ancestor Zhou and Ancestor Shao are both shattered!"
After confirming the matter was true, he paced back and forth in the hall, muttering to himself, "Disaster! Disaster! I must report to the Grand Elder!"
……
Above the desolate mountain, a handsome young man dressed in a black robe stood in mid-air, looking down at the scene below.
He was surrounded by demonic energy, his eyes were fierce, and he exuded an imposing aura without anger. His vast divine sense directly covered an area of nearly twenty miles, examining every remaining trace inch by inch.
If any Core Formation cultivators who participated in the great war between good and evil a hundred years ago were present, they would recognize him at a glance.
This handsome young man in black robes was none other than Yin Jiumu, the Grand Elder of the Hehuan Sect and a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.
After examining the area with his divine sense for a moment, his gaze fell directly on the barren mountain, where he sensed the aura of the cultivation technique practiced by Shao Guang.
This is very likely the place where Shao Guang met his end... at least Shao Guang fought with someone here.
"Was it Zhou Lingyan who killed him? But Zhou Lingyan is also dead!" Yin Jiumu's expression was gloomy.
Before leaving the sect to track down the trail, he had already learned the details from those cultivators who knew the inside story.
They knew that Zhou Lingyan had suddenly returned to the sect to examine the treasures in the Secret Arts Pavilion, and they also knew that Shao Guang had followed and chased after Zhou Lingyan after she left the sect.
He was well aware of the origins of the conflict between the two.
However, he believed that such trivial matters should not escalate into a life-or-death conflict.
Core Formation cultivators aren't that stupid; they wouldn't fight over such a trivial matter.
"Unless there's something else." Yin Jiumu waved his hand, and a fragment of a magical artifact floated in front of him. "It actually managed to shatter Shao Guang's natal magical artifact... This isn't the Great Zhou Dynasty; no one should be able to kill two Core Formation cultivators in such a short time. Perhaps someone is lurking in the shadows!"
Yin Jiumu guessed that after Shao Guang caught up with Zhou Lingyan, the two fought fiercely and were both injured. At that moment, another person suddenly made a move.
This person first destroyed Shao Guang's natal magic weapon with a special treasure, killing him. Then, he chased after Zhou Lingyan, who was fleeing in panic, and killed her in another place.
"However, Shao Guang's pursuit outside the sect was impulsive, and no one could have predicted it. He was probably killed by mistake. The person lurking in the shadows was most likely after Zhou Lingyan." Yin Jiumu quickly reconstructed the truth of the matter in his mind according to his own logic.
But at the same time, another question arose in his mind: "After Zhou Lingyan hurriedly returned to the sect's secret arts pavilion to check the information, she hurriedly left the sect again, so... did she obtain some treasure? Or is she unsure about something? And who exactly killed them?"
He looked up, his gaze fixed on the west, as if he could see directly through space to the majestic Donghua Mountain: "Zhou Lingyan has been staying on Donghua Mountain. Chi Lei should know the specifics, right? I'll send someone to Donghua Mountain to inquire with him and he'll find out."
"However, regardless of the circumstances, wantonly killing two Core Formation cultivators from my Joyful Union Sect, heh heh..."
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A few days later, Li Ping stood on the flying boat, gazing at the gradually enlarging Donghua Mountain in the distance, a hint of joy in his eyes.
After several days of patient research and comparison, he has determined the specifications and form of the teleportation array in the Cloud Mist Mountains, as long as he collects the corresponding materials.
With the inheritance of the third-tier array Dao inheritance "Mo Yun Zhen Jie", repairing the teleportation array can be said to be a piece of cake for him, given his mastery of the third-tier array Dao.
"Among the many materials needed to repair the teleportation array, apart from the Void Crystal, the other materials are all common second-tier array-refining materials, not particularly rare. With a little more spirit stone, I can gather them all at the Donghua Mountain Market." Li Ping pondered to himself.
As for Void Crystal, it is a third-order spatial attribute spiritual material. He estimated that even if it had appeared before, it should have fallen into the hands of those Core Formation cultivators. He might have to wait until the grand auction held once every forty years to exchange it from those Core Formation cultivators.
However, the next auction is only six or seven years away, so he doesn't have to wait too long.
Of course, before that, he would also pay attention to collecting them. If he was lucky enough to get one, he wouldn't have to wait for the exchange event.
Whoosh!
The flying boat landed outside the market gate. Li Ping put the flying boat away and slowly flew into the market.
Previously, he had always come to Donghua Mountain under the identity of Li Jingyu. Li Ping's appearance at Donghua Mountain dates back to before the war between the righteous and the demonic, during the period when the academy ruled Donghua Mountain.
However, the identity card from that time is definitely useless now, so he can only re-certify it.
A moment later, Core Formation cultivator Li Ping entered the Donghua Mountain Market.
After quickly determining the direction, he flew directly towards the location of the large shops in the market, making large purchases at several shops and gathering most of the materials needed to rebuild the teleportation array.
The remaining materials are also in progress, but he will have to wait a few days before he can pick them up.
As expected, he found nothing with the Void Crystal.
Fortunately, Li Ping was mentally prepared for this, so he wasn't too disappointed.
Upon arriving at the inn, Li Ping booked a superior room, sat down cross-legged, and took out the spiritual herbs to begin refining pills.
To avoid suspicion, he deliberately mixed the materials needed for the teleportation array with various spiritual materials when purchasing them, including the pills he was currently refining.
More than thirty years have passed since I returned to the Western Wilderness, and I have spent most of my time cultivating in a third-grade high-quality spiritual vein environment.
The Earth Spirit Rat has already reached the threshold of the late stage of the second tier. During this period, the Earth Spirit Rat has made great contributions to him, so he naturally wants to prepare the resources needed for the rat to break through the bottleneck.
He even planned to use Gray Island again to cultivate a thousand-year bloodline fruit with pure bloodline for the Earth Spirit Rat.
The Thousand-Year Bloodline Fruit has little effect on the Wildfire Sparrow, but consuming a few more will easily purify the Earth Spirit Rat's bloodline to the third tier.
……
Cloud-shrouded mountain range.
Above a river that is tens of miles wide.
The white-robed, frowning cultivator looked at the cold, sword-wielding youth opposite him with a suspicious expression: "Fellow Daoist, you seem unfamiliar. May I ask what brings you here, my lord?"
The aloof young man suppressed his anger, his tone unusually calm: "I have a sword; please witness it!"
Upon hearing this, Qu Youkong was taken aback at first, then his expression turned ugly as he sensed the provocation in the cold young man's words.
"I, Qu, have never offended you, but if you are deliberately trying to cause trouble, I will gladly oblige!" Qu Youkong's voice also turned cold.
To be able to form a Golden Core in a resource-poor place like the Western Wilderness, who wouldn't be a chosen one of heaven? How could he not have his own pride!
"Alright!" The cold-blooded youth didn't waste any words, but simply drew the sword from his back.
As he drew his sword, the entire world trembled violently, and a thousand feet of cold light hung across the sky, seemingly about to sever the entire world!
Upon seeing this, Qu Youkong's expression changed instantly, and without hesitation... he turned and ran!
Such power was beyond his ability to withstand.