Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 361 Reciprocity

Above the devastated Mo family cemetery.

Upon hearing the words "jade slip" from Li Ping's mouth, Wei Yiling finally snapped out of her shock at him taking all the spoils of war, and an embarrassed expression appeared on her face: "Fellow Daoist Li..."

Li Ping ignored her and continued, "A few months ago, a low-level cultivator came to Cai Baixuan and handed me a jade slip. Inside the jade slip, someone wrote a letter in the voice of the Four Fiends of the East Sea, severely humiliating me and threatening me never to set foot in the East Sea again."

"But just now, I searched the soul of one of the four villains and found that after their conflict with you, Fellow Daoist Wei, they went straight back to their lair to rest. They didn't go to Lingxiao City to sell the stolen goods, and they didn't have the chance to write a letter to threaten me."

At this point, Li Ping coldly looked at Wei Yiling: "Does Fellow Daoist Wei have any explanation for this jade slip?"

After hearing Li Ping's words, Wei Yiling knew that he already knew the truth. It would be pointless for her to deny it any longer, and it would only further damage their relationship.

Her eyes darted around, and she sighed awkwardly, saying, "Fellow Daoist Li, you guessed correctly. That jade slip was indeed written by me in the voice of the Four Fiends of the East Sea. My purpose was to provoke you and get you to help me kill the Four Fiends of the East Sea."

"Fellow Daoist Wei, your methods are truly remarkable! I, Li, am impressed!"

Li Ping's guess was confirmed. At this moment, while making sarcastic remarks, he used his divine sense to examine the storage bags of the Four Fiends of the East Sea without any politeness.

"I really had no other choice," Wei Yiling said, sensing the sarcasm in Li Ping's words. She immediately explained, "It's your fault for refusing to help. Look, with the three of us working together, we can kill the Four Fiends of the East Sea without paying any price, reaping a large spoils of war for free, and even getting half of the Golden Dew. This is also very beneficial for you, Fellow Daoist Li!"

At this moment, Li Ping had already found the half of Golden Dew he had been dreaming of from a storage bag.

"For my own good?"

Hearing Wei Yiling's words, he didn't bother to say anything more. He directly counted the items in the four storage bags in front of the two of them, putting all the valuable items into one of the storage bags.

Upon seeing this, Wei Yiling couldn't hold back any longer.

However, Li Ping controls the Mo family's protective formation, possesses a third-tier puppet, and has an extremely powerful magic weapon. Even if they join forces, they will find it difficult to gain the upper hand.

However, she was naturally unwilling to simply give up all the spoils, so she immediately tried to break the awkward silence by saying, "Fellow Daoist Li, you just used the Bloodwing Escape Technique, didn't you? Although this escape technique..."

Before she could finish speaking, a storage bag was thrown in front of her.

At the same time, Li Ping's voice came from beside you: "This contains the tokens for the Four Fiends to enter the Mirage. Their lair and the resources within it are all yours. In addition, you can take the evidence of killing the Four Fiends to the Demon Slaying Division of Ningtai County to claim your reward."

"As for the magical treasures and spiritual materials they possess, they are all mine!"

Upon hearing this, Feng Xishuang was alright, but Wei Yiling's expression instantly turned ugly.

Most of the wealth of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator is tied to their carefully cultivated natal magic treasures, and they also carry spirit stones and spiritual materials with them at all times.

Not to mention the Four Fiends of the East Sea, who are cultivators who are ready to wander the world at any time, and it is even less likely that they would leave any treasures in their lair.

As for the reward offered by the Demon Slayer Division, it is tens of thousands of spirit stones.

However, compared to the treasures on the four fierce beasts, these spirit stones are probably less than one or two tenths of what they possess.

Li Ping's way of distributing the spoils was essentially no different from taking them all for himself.

"Fellow Daoist Li, don't you think this is going too far?" Wei Yiling suppressed the anger in her eyes.

Li Ping chuckled: "Hehe... I once saved your life in the Western Wilderness, and you send me this jade slip to scold me and trick me into making an enemy of the Four Fiends of the East Sea. In terms of going too far... I'm afraid I'm not even as bad as you, Fellow Daoist Wei."

As they spoke, the lightning cage formed by the third-order grand formation was about to unleash its power.

The commotion caused Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang to turn slightly pale. They realized that Li Ping was determined to sever ties with them and was prepared for a major battle.

In the ensuing stillness, Feng Xishuang tugged at Wei Yiling's sleeve.

Wei Yiling nodded slightly: "Alright, this time my sister and I will apologize to Fellow Daoist Li. However, Fellow Daoist Li, you don't need to be so angry, after all, I had no ill intentions."

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On the vast sea, the dark silver flying boat sped along at high speed.

Li Ping stood in the flying boat, gazing at the distant sea, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

He believed that Wei Yiling's last sentence, "There was no malice," was true.

Perhaps in the other party's eyes, this is simply a harmless "provocation tactic".

The saying goes, "It's better to provoke than to persuade." Since he's unwilling to help even with polite words, we should provoke his anger with insults and threats, luring him to the East Sea to join us in killing the Four Fiends of the East Sea.

The other party did not intend to harm him.

Therefore, after killing the Four Fiends of the East Sea, Li Ping only took all the spoils from them and did not attack Wei Yiling.

However, he also considered that if he hadn't been cautious by nature and secretly listened to Mo Gui, he would have almost fallen into the danger of being ambushed and besieged by Mo Gui and the Four Fiends of the East Sea, and would have been in danger of dying!

Therefore, he wouldn't mind setting a trap for Wei and Feng.

From the memories obtained from the hook-nosed youth during the previous soul search, he had already figured out that the Great Harmony Society was indeed a Nascent Soul level force, and the Four Fiends were forced to join the Great Harmony Society as peripheral members under the coercion of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Even the old lair in the mirage was obtained from the Datong Society after they made contributions.

However, the Datong Society members only communicated through a single line, and they were unaware of the identities of other members.

The reason they knew each other's identities with the Mo family elder was because the Mo family elder had joined the Datong Society under duress from the four of them, making him their subordinate.

The Datong Token in the hands of the Mo family's patriarch was also obtained from within the association and given to him.

The only thing that Li Ping regretted was that neither the Four Fiends nor Mo Gui were peripheral members of the Datong Society.

They will be assigned tasks by higher-ups and can exchange their merits for spiritual materials, cultivation techniques, etc., but they cannot access the core secrets of the organization.

All they knew was that there were Nascent Soul cultivators within the Great Harmony Society, and that the Great Harmony Token contained the aura of the Holy Maiden's spirit beast.

As for the identities of the Nascent Soul cultivator, the Holy Maiden, and the spirit beast itself, they had no idea.

However, when they joined the Great Harmony Society, a wisp of their divine consciousness was taken away and made into a life tablet, so the higher-ups in the Great Harmony Society knew that they had been killed.

The island in the mirage originally belonged to the Great Harmony Society.

Li Ping specifically left the Datong Order for entering and exiting the mirage to Wei and Feng.

If the two of them happily make that hidden spirit island in the mirage their resting place, they will most likely encounter people from the Great Harmony Society who come to investigate.

"The matter of you lying to me is now settled!"

"I hope you can be as cautious as I am!"