Qin Li killed his way into the Thousand Mile Villa.
Under his feet was a field of corpses, blood flowing into a stream, the originally gorgeous manor house was a mess, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, as well as the stench of corpses.
Originally, the anger caused by the killing of the academy’s disciples, when he saw this scene, Qin Li froze.
“This matter, is by no means simple.”Qin Li’s brows furrowed greatly as waves rose in his heart.
“Head Qin, we’ve come to support you!”Yang Jianyi, Wan Qingshan, and a group of disciples rushed over, expecting a big battle, but not a ground full of corpses, frightening them to death, revealing horrified eyes as they stared at Qin Li in death:
“Senior brother Qin, did you kill all of these? You’ve only rushed in for a few breaths ah?”
Qin Li cried and laughed, explaining, “It wasn’t me who killed them, you guys look at these corpses, they already stink, they’ve obviously been dead for more than three days.”
Wan Qingshan was shocked, “The Thousand Mile Villa is the lair of the Spirit Eyes Ancestor, who could have gone on a killing spree here, could it be that it’s someone from the academy?”
Yang Jianyi squatted down and carefully observed the wounds of the corpse and concluded, “The murderer is a transcendent swordsman, killing one person with a single sword, and looking at the traces of the wounds, it’s definitely not someone from the academy.”
“Everyone spread out and see if there are any living people.”Qin Li gave the order for the senior brothers and sisters to disperse to look for clues.
Soon, the crowd scattered in all directions.
Qin Li, on the other hand, went straight deep into the Thousand Mile Mountain Villa, heading to the main hall in the centre.
It had to be said that the Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor had very unique tastes, actually building the mountain villa like an imperial palace, with gold painted and silver plastered everywhere, arches and beams painted, while the central palace was simply a golden palace.
Creak-
Qin Li pushed open the door of the palace.
On the white jade floor, there were also many corpses.
Looking up, deep within the palace was a row of white jade staircases, with a golden dragon chair placed at the highest point, on which lay a dead man, wearing a bright yellow dragon patterned robe.
“Hiss! This is the Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor!”Qin Li couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cool air, who on earth, had killed a Half Immortal King.
Wan Qingshan followed suit and was also shocked when he saw the scene in front of him, “The Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor is actually dead and his eyes have been poked out.”
Yang Jianyi retorted, “It doesn’t look like he was poked blind, rather it looks like his eyes were gouged out.”
Qin Li rose up in the air and landed next to the golden dragon chair, a pair of eyes surveying the corpse back and forth, noticing that before the Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor’s death, his finger was pointing in one direction.
“This direction is ……”
Qin Li followed the direction of the finger and happened to see a white jade pillar, two people embraced, supporting the beams of the room, it looked plain and ordinary, and there was nothing special about it with a sweep of his divine mind.
“No, what the Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor referred to before his death, must be hiding some secret.”
Qin Li pulls out the Green Face Sword and slashes out with a sword, the immortal power shakes and crushes the white jade pillar, the debris splashes and surprisingly drops out a jade slip.
“This jade slip is so peculiar, the divine mind can’t actually see it.”
Qin Li raises his hand and takes it, the jade slip falls into his hand, blowing away the dust, fixing his eyes on it, there are a few small words written on it, “Treatise on the Formation of the Dao by Different Cultivators – Volume 7”, a careful flick through it is shocking.
“Ghost talent, really ghost talent, there is actually this kind of promotion method, it opened my eyes. No wonder my husband said that this is a strange book that can speed up the pace of promotion to Immortal King, so it’s because the stone of its mountain can attack jade.”
Wan Qingshan came over and laughed hehehehehehehe, “Quintessence Qin! What a good thing you found!”
“You guys take it and read it!”Qin Li tossed out the jade slip.
Wan Qingshan, Yang Jianyi took the jade slip and took a closer look at it, and couldn’t help but be shocked by the whimsical ideas in it, “What an alternative Dao, it happens to deepen my understanding of the Immortal King realm, just such a volume has shortened my promotion time by a year.”
Qin Li laughed, “Promoting to the Immortal King Realm requires condensing the Immortal King’s Crystal, and this book is so original that it actually condenses the powder of the Blood Crystal, and although its strength is not comparable to that of a true Immortal King, it is far superior to that of a normal Immortal Zun 9th Grade.”
“What’s even more marvellous is that the blood crystal powder combined with the eyes can practice a ninth grade Immortal Art, Urei Devil Light, blinking to kill, it’s truly terrifying.”
Yang Jianyi pondered, “It seems that the Orchid Seven Cultivators didn’t figure out the promotion method on their own, but rather obtained some ancient inheritance.”
The three were exchanging their insights.
A group of senior brothers and sisters walked in, all startled by the corpse of the Spirit Eye Ancestor.
Lin Xiu Xiu exclaimed, “What’s going on, Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor is dead, who the hell did this.”
Wan Qingshan guessed, “There aren’t many traces of battle here, I suspect that an Immortal King struck and killed the Spirit Eyes Old Ancestor with a single blow.”
Yang Jianyi shook his head, “Impossible, 30,000 years ago, above the four great Immortal Kings, it was agreed that ‘Immortal Kings do not leave the domains’, it is impossible for the other three domains’ Immortal Kings to come to the Western Region, and our School Immortal Kings will not leave the secret realm. Thus I surmise that the murderer is one of the other half-immortal kings.”
Qin Li also nodded and said, “My guess is that it was infighting among the seven Orchid Cultivators, after all, these few evil cultivators are not ironclad. It’s likely that a Half Immortal King that Spirit Eyes Elder Ancestor was familiar with, suddenly struck out and killed him by surprise, hence his pointing to the Treatise on the Formation of the Way of the Fey Cultivators – Volume 7 before he died, which was a hint.”
The crowd had a discussion and got an inkling.
Wan Qingshan arched his hand and asked is, “Head Qin, what should we do next?”
Qin Li smiled playfully and asked, “Senior brothers and sisters, have you ever killed anyone?”
The people of the academy shook their heads in bewilderment.
Qin Li said, “We’ll first stay at the Thousand Mile Villa for the night, you guys use these corpses as targets, stab a few swords to see the blood first and experience the feel of it, so that you won’t be at a loss for words when it comes to bloody killings in the future.”
This time, there were many tasks to go down the mountain, firstly, to find out the murderer, secondly, to avenge the old man who relied on the mountain, and thirdly, to exercise the senior brothers and sisters, so that they would be more bloodthirsty.
“I don’t want it!”Yang Xiaomiao bulged her mouth and said with great reluctance:
“Killing people is nothing but head pointing, these people were killed innocently, they are already pitiful, now we have to desecrate the corpses, what a delusion to call it benevolence and righteousness, I, Yang Xiaomiao, will never do such a thing.”
“Will you shut up!”Lin Xiu Xiu finally couldn’t stand it anymore and stood out to refute, “These people were all evil cultivators who plagued the Western Region and deserved to die. What’s wrong with their corpses being able to serve a little purpose now.”
“Yang Xiaomaku, can you stop being pretentious!”
Clang!
Lin Xiu Xiu drew her sword.
With a chop, he cut off the head of the Spirit Eyes Ancestor.
The crowd of the academy was violently shocked, all surprised at Lin Xiu Xiu’s boldness and ruthlessness.
Qin Li’s eyes lit up as he secretly nodded. This little ninny had a domineering spirit in her bones, and if cultivated, her future achievements would not be small.
“All disperse!”Qin Li waved his hand.
The crowd of senior brothers and sisters were looking for corpses to practice on, and although this matter was a bit disgusting, it gave them quite a few otherworldly feelings. After all, the academy competitions were on point and rarely saw blood, not to mention killing.
The only one of the 300 disciples who didn’t make a move was Yang Xiaomiao, she was like an anomaly, out of place and isolated from the group, only his brother Yang Jianyi went over to comfort him.
The next day!
The rising sun rises in the east with golden light.
Three hundred disciples of the academy gathered in a group, ready to depart.
Wan Qingshan asked, “Head Qin, what’s our next move.”
“Go to the Great Drum Mountain and look for the Godly Skinned Old Monster.”Qin Li explained, “Of the seven Orchid Flower cultivators, Spirit Eyes Elder Ancestor is the weakest, and Divine Skin Old Monster is the second from the bottom; they’re hard to get along with, and thus have an extremely good relationship, and I suspect that it might be him who killed Spirit Eyes Elder Ancestor.”
In fact, there was another important reason why Qin Li chose the Great Drum Mountain, and that was to be able to pass by the Leaning Mountain City, and he promised the Leaning Mountain Old Man to see how the city was doing.
Half a day later!
The people of the academy arrived at Leaning Mountain City.
In the past, this place was the Pill Capital of the Western Region, bustling and lively with traffic, all sorts of gorgeous buildings standing and countless cultivators travelling through them, interweaving a picture of a flourishing world.
Nowadays, looking around, there were ruins and collapsed houses everywhere.
The Ten Thousand Medicine Building had disappeared, the Penglai Building had collapsed, and the Peach Blossom Lane, which used to be bustling with activity, was also empty.
The entire city was filled with dead silence, and there were only a few Lesser Immortals in the middle, like scavengers, rummaging through the ruins, hoping to find something useful.
“You guys take a look around, maybe there are some clues.”
Qin Li dismissed his senior brothers and sisters, and came to the Panbo Lake by himself, this was the place where he and Blood Ji had met again, it was the Lantern Festival back then, and there were lanterns everywhere, but nowadays, the water in the lake was black and smelly, and there were many corpses floating in it, which should be the guards of the City Lord’s Mansion.
“Sins!”Qin Li’s heart was covered in a layer of dark clouds, one could imagine the vicious battles that had been fought here, the aftermath of the battles alone had destroyed a city, it was definitely a strike by a Half Immortal King level expert.
“Eldest Senior Brother, I found some clues.”Lin Xiu Xiu ran over with a broken sword in her hand, rushing over, “This broken sword is buried in the rubble, and it glows with a different divine splendour.”
Qin Li took a look and was surprised, “This is an artefact of the Eastern Immortal Palace.”
