txolops Chapter 87 Aftermath and Framing
Chapter 87 Aftermath and Framing
This transaction lasted for nearly ten years, and the process was extremely secretive.
The specifics of the transaction were that the cultivator surnamed Ye asked Hu Feng to tamper with the pills refined by the Wang family patriarch, and in return, he promised to pay Hu Feng with the third-tier alchemist inheritance that the Immortal City possessed.
The demonic cultivator did this twice. Once was when the Wang family patriarch asked him to refine the "Spirit-Descending Liquid," which could help him break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. The other time was when the Wang family patriarch asked him to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill!
He tampered with the process of refining the elixir twice.
The first incident caused the Wang family patriarch to fail in his attempt to reach the late stage of Foundation Establishment, damaging his very essence and leading to his premature death.
The second time was that the unfortunate late-stage Qi Refining cultivator of the Wang family failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage twice, leaving the Wang family without a Foundation Establishment cultivator to oversee things.
After reading the contents of the jade slip, Li Ping couldn't help but admire the cultivator surnamed Ye.
He didn't make many plans or schemes when he attacked the Wang family twice. He simply took advantage of the flaws in the Wang family patriarch's personality and quietly delivered a divine move at the crucial moment!
According to the information Li Ping had heard before, the Wang family was likely to be expelled from the Immortal City for setting up a scheme to swindle spirit stones from rogue cultivators.
Once they are driven out of the Immortal City, given the grudges the Wang family has accumulated with others over the past few centuries, they will be exterminated before they can even leave the Immortal City by a thousand miles!
In other words, this monk surnamed Ye.
He single-handedly destroyed a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan that had been passed down for hundreds of years in less than ten years!
The entire process was meticulously executed; it appeared that everything was done by the Wang family patriarch himself. No one else, not even other families with which the Wang family had an alliance, was involved.
Seeing the Wang family's ultimate fate, everyone will only think that they brought it upon themselves.
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If Hu Feng were truly a master alchemist, he would have kept his mouth shut and not uttered a single word after obtaining the third-tier alchemy inheritance.
After all, if his tampering with the pills to kill the Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Immortal City were truly exposed...
He has not only completely offended the officials of the Immortal City, but will also be wanted by the Immortal City and hunted down to death.
Even if they manage to escape to another country in time.
However, if a master alchemist were to secretly tamper with the pills commissioned by his clients, his reputation would be ruined, and who would dare to hire him to refine pills?
His career was thus completely ruined.
Unfortunately, what the cultivator surnamed Ye didn't know was that Hu Feng, with whom he was cooperating, was actually a demonic cultivator in disguise.
This made his originally flawless plan utterly ridiculous.
Once the demonic cultivator leaves the Immortal City, Hu Feng's identity will completely disappear.
Would he be afraid that Hu Feng would be hunted down by the Immortal City? Would he be afraid that Hu Feng's reputation would be ruined?
The answer is of course no.
He couldn't wait to completely disrupt the Immortal City.
That's how Li Ping came to have this jade slip.
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"The demonic cultivator left the jade slip here, so the Meng family will definitely be the first to get it." Li Ping said thoughtfully, "Therefore, the Meng family should have a good relationship with the Wang family, but be hostile to that Ye surname cultivator and his faction."
Li Ping didn't know the specifics of the infighting among the cultivators in the Immortal City, but he could guess most of it from the jade slip left behind by the demonic cultivator.
"A cultivator surnamed Ye?" A hint of amusement appeared in his eyes: "Among the two people Dai Sangyu sent to 'invite' me to Qinglong Mountain, it seems that one of them was called 'Junior Brother Ye'!"
There weren't many Foundation Establishment disciples of True Immortal Fenglan to begin with, so the cultivator surnamed Ye and that Junior Brother Ye are most likely the same person!
Holding the jade slip, Li Ping's expression shifted between light and dark for a moment before a smile appeared on his face. He muttered, "These demonic cultivators in the ditch are simply exaggerating and spouting nonsense!"
How dare a mere early Foundation Establishment cultivator surnamed Ye plot against an early Foundation Establishment cultivator like the Wang family patriarch, a peak mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator?
"The cultivator surnamed Ye wouldn't dare to confront a Foundation Establishment Immortal Clan that has existed for hundreds of years; there must be someone behind him instigating this!"
Li Ping had already made a choice in mind regarding who was instructing the cultivator surnamed Ye.
There were two in total: Dai Sangyu, the swordsman from the ditch, and Xiong, the senior brother who exuded the aura of the martial arts world!
Since Dai Sangyu was able to instruct Senior Brother Xiong and Junior Brother Ye to "invite" him back to Qinglong Mountain, it was enough to show that they were in cahoots. Therefore, the two of them instructed Junior Brother Ye to deal with the Wang family.
That makes perfect sense.
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With this in mind, Li Ping immersed his consciousness into the jade slip and began to modify its contents.
Because he didn't know the details of the transaction between the two, Li Ping didn't make too many changes; he only changed two places.
One part is the part where Junior Brother Ye initially approached Hu Feng and made a deal with him.
Li Ping added a section detailing Hu Feng's inner journey.
During this period of emotional reflection, Hu Feng was quite worried about the plot to assassinate the Wang family patriarch and did not want to get involved.
However, the cultivator surnamed Ye told him not to worry and hinted that he had a senior brother in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage and a senior sister who was about to form her Core stage and was behind him.
It was also their idea to deal with the Wang family.
After understanding the implied meaning of the cultivator surnamed Ye, Hu Feng had no choice but to agree.
The other one is at the end.
Hu Feng stated that after obtaining the third-tier alchemist's inheritance through a transaction, he felt uneasy and guilty every day.
Therefore, he deliberately left behind this jade slip, to make everything public, and so on...
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"Good, that makes much more sense." Li Ping nodded in satisfaction.
He then put the jade slip back in its original place, and to be on the safe side, he made several more copies of the jade slip to take with him.
If the Meng family obtains the jade slip but holds back, he will secretly distribute the duplicated jade slips throughout the Immortal City.
He is determined to get justice for the Wang family!
Carefully erasing any trace of his entry into the demonic cultivator's cave, Li Ping manipulated the formation to exit the cave. Then, a fireball appeared in his palm, directly destroying the cave's entry and exit token.
Finally, he leisurely left Immortal Peach Mountain and headed towards the 'Ten Thousand Laws Pavilion'.
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Wanfalou is an official shop run by the Immortal City, mainly dealing in cultivation techniques, inheritances, and spells, while also dealing in cultivation resources such as magical artifacts, elixirs, and spirit talismans.
Li Ping had come here several times before when he was selling pills and buying medicinal herbs.
As usual, he entered the Wanfa Building wearing his "Black Market Walker" gear. With a slight aura of Foundation Establishment, he was led by the shopkeeper to the second floor, where he met the high-ranking deacons of the Wanfa Building.
The man who greeted Li Ping was a middle-aged man with a horse-like face and a goatee. Seeing Li Ping's strange attire, he said unsurprised, "Fellow Daoist, is there anything in this establishment that can serve you?"
Upon hearing this, Li Ping looked at the person in front of him with a strange expression. The person in front of him was none other than Han Xingyan, the elder of the 'Talisman Alliance' who had once visited Li Ping. Fellow Daoist Han!
However, with the mask covering his face, the other person couldn't see any change in his expression.
Li Ping sat down casually, lowering his voice and chuckling, "Hehe... No problem, no problem. I'd like to purchase a magical artifact. Does your establishment have any?"
"A magic treasure? Fellow Daoist, you actually need such a treasure?" Han Xingyan shook his head helplessly and patiently explained, "Treasures of this level, let alone the Myriad Laws Pavilion, are probably not available for sale in the entire Immortal City."
It's important to know that magical artifacts are generally only usable by Core Formation cultivators, and the materials needed to craft them are incredibly precious. Therefore, they are typically collected by Core Formation cultivators and crafted for their own use, and are not circulated among the outside world.
Upon hearing that there were no magical artifacts for sale, Li Ping lowered his voice and asked, "Does your establishment sell Foundation Establishment Pills?"
Han Xingyan couldn't help but look up at the cultivator in front of him, who was wrapped up tightly. He really wanted to ask if the other party was here to cause trouble.
But shaking his head inwardly, he still said, "Fellow Daoist is joking. This building is not qualified to sell Foundation Establishment Pills. If you are interested, you can keep an eye on the upcoming Immortal City Auction."
As he spoke, his tone became quite impatient.
"Heh... I can't buy anything here, what a lousy place." Li Ping stood up, feigning annoyance, and walked straight outside. Inadvertently, a storage bag that he had been hanging on his waist fell to the corner of the table.
Han Xingyan was drawn to his angry actions, and in order to avoid conflict with a fellow cultivator, she did not unleash her divine sense.
For a moment, they didn't even notice that a storage bag had fallen there.
However, shortly after Li Ping left, a servant of Wanfa Tower went to clean the secret room on the second floor and immediately found the storage bag he had dropped, which he then handed over to Han Xingyan.
When Han Xingyan came to find Li Ping again, he could no longer be found.
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After leaving the Myriad Laws Pavilion, Li Ping headed straight out of the Immortal City.
At his speed, he arrived at the outer city gate in no time.
Then, under the respectful gazes of the cultivators guarding the city gate and the passing Qi-refining cultivators, he leaped up and transformed into a streak of azure light, rushing towards the direction of Gaoji Mountain.
After flying for about a thousand miles, Li Ping found a turbulent river, held the storage bag containing the ashes upside down, and the ashes poured into the river like a waterfall.
Standing above the great river, witnessing all the ashes disappear without a trace under its wash, Li Ping nodded, turned, and flew away.
They dug holes in two remote valleys hundreds of miles apart, buried the two storage bags, erased all traces, and marked them on a map.
After doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief and slowly set off towards Gaoji Mountain.
As he flew, he also pondered in his mind the battle with the demonic cultivator and the process of dealing with him after he killed him, checking for any oversights.
There's no problem at Immortal Peach Mountain. Demonic cultivators are all selfish and self-serving. He's disguised as the alchemy master Hu Feng, so he shouldn't tell his other accomplices.
To the uninformed, what happened at Xiantao Mountain appeared to be a master alchemist fleeing in fear of punishment.
Among the relics left behind by the demonic cultivator, most of the items that Li Ping suspected were problematic, including pills and the Heavenly Mirror, were stored in the same storage bag and "inadvertently" left behind in the Dharma Tower.
Ultimately, it will most likely fall into the hands of the Immortal City authorities.
If a demonic cultivator's accomplice really came looking for him, the first people they would suspect would be the officials of the Immortal City, not a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator like him.
The remaining magical artifacts that Li Ping had inspected and found to be without problems but whose authenticity he couldn't fully confirm—the alchemy furnace and the blood-red armor plates—were instead placed in two storage bags by Li Ping and buried in different locations.
In this way, even if there are indeed methods left behind by demonic cultivators, it won't directly lead to Li Ping's exposure.
The worst outcome would be that he loses these magical artifacts.
While I was pondering, before I knew it, the high ridge mountain was already in sight in the distance.
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