bdsm-fiction Chapter 269 Soul Thunder Appears, Instantly Killing Nascent Souls
Chapter 269 Soul Thunder Appears, Instantly Killing Nascent Souls
Chapter 269 Soul Thunder Appears, Instantly Killing Nascent Souls
The old valley master's heart stirred. Relying on his special nasal passages, he sensed the direction Chen Yi had hidden, and his mind raced as he quickly devised a countermeasure.
Soon, he no longer hesitated, looked up at Golden Collar True Monarch and agreed: "Alright! Without further ado, I will start the furnace to refine pills for Fellow Daoist Golden Collar."
Xiaoqing, go and prepare the purple copper alchemy furnace in the alchemy room!
"This is..."
The Azure Fairy was filled with doubt, not understanding why the old valley master had suddenly changed his mind, but she dared not ask any more questions. She could only turn around and walk towards the alchemy room as instructed, secretly worried.
"Haha! A wise person knows when to yield!"
Seeing this, Jinling Zhenjun smiled with satisfaction and said in an increasingly relaxed tone, "Fellow Daoist Saint Hand, just go ahead and refine it. Since that lord promised to ensure the survival of your Medicine King lineage, he will definitely keep his word and will never break his promise."
Just as the group was busy preparing for alchemy, Jinling Zhenjun suddenly frowned slightly. His divine sense detected that a fluctuation of blood energy from a third-level cultivator was rapidly approaching his two subordinates.
He focused his senses for a moment, then looked at the old valley master, a knowing smile playing on his lips: "Fellow Daoist Saint Hand, I didn't expect your friend to be so loyal, daring to come over at a time like this."
"Heh, so you're not afraid of death."
The old valley master's heart tightened, but he feigned ignorance: "I don't understand what you're talking about, fellow Daoist. Medicine King City is weak now, what friends would dare to come at this time?"
"It doesn't matter, whether you understand or not is not important."
Jinling Zhenjun waved his hand, his tone full of disdain, "He's just a third-level body cultivator who knows the Vajra Technique. My two stewards, Jinfeng and Hansha, are both at the late Core Formation stage. They're more than capable of dealing with him. There's no need for me to lift a finger."
He never got up to help, clearly not taking that fluctuation of qi and blood seriously.
Deep within the Medicine King Immortal City, in a third-tier medicinal garden several miles away from the alchemy room, Jin Feng and Han Sha, two late-stage Core Formation stage deacons, were rapidly plundering high-grade spiritual herbs from the ground. Their jade shovels swung continuously, digging up mature spiritual herbs by the roots and storing them in their storage bags, completely disregarding the damage to the medicinal garden.
Suddenly, a tall, muscular, bald man appeared on the ridge at the other end of the herb garden.
He was dressed in coarse cloth shorts and walked straight to the spirit herb. Like Jin Feng and Han Sha, he reached out and plucked a third-tier spirit herb, his movements casual and natural.
"Who goes there?!"
Han Sha Zhenren was the first to notice the anomaly. He suddenly straightened up and instantly swept his divine sense toward the bald, muscular man.
When he saw the other person's appearance clearly, his expression changed drastically, and he shouted sharply: "Are you the bald man who committed the crime in Snake King Valley and possesses the Vajra Body?"
"How dare you show your face here and try to steal our medicine? You're asking for death!"
Before he finished speaking, Master Han Sha casually waved his hand, and the internal energy surged out, transforming into a pale blue frost that shot towards Chen Yi's location.
Wherever Danli passed, a series of crystal-clear ice flowers instantly condensed in the air, the temperature plummeted, and the spiritual herbs on the ground were instantly covered with a layer of white frost.
"Junior brother, be careful! This person dares to come alone; he may have come prepared!"
Jin Feng, who was standing nearby, also stopped collecting herbs and gave a stern reminder.
As he spoke, a crisp "clang" rang out, and a golden light about an inch long flew out from his fingertip. The golden light grew longer in the air, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a flying sword about a foot long. Golden flames spewed from the sword, and it slashed towards Chen Yi with a speed far exceeding that of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator. Wherever it passed, the air was torn apart, and a piercing shriek was heard.
A magic weapon-grade metal-attribute flying sword?
Chen Yi narrowed his eyes, feeling no fear whatsoever. With the strength of his fourth-level body refinement, he was not afraid of attacks from Core Formation cultivators, or even sword cultivators.
But to make the performance convincing, he deliberately dropped the medicinal herbs still covered in mud, turned around and ran out of the herb garden, shouting, "Why are you law enforcement officers allowed to steal herbs like robbers?"
Can't I, a rogue cultivator, take a few spiritual herbs?
"It's all robbery! Your official actions at Dongtian are far too domineering!"
A golden lotus phantom appeared beneath Chen Yi's feet, and his figure instantly transformed into several golden afterimages. With each step, he covered hundreds of feet, his direction and speed constantly changing, making it extremely difficult for the two people controlling his magic power and flying sword to keep up with him.
Several times, Han Sha Zhenren's icy elixir and Jin Feng's golden flame flying sword narrowly grazed his clothes, but could never hit him.
Jin Feng and Han Sha exchanged a glance, a hint of solemnity flashing in their eyes. Jin Feng said in a deep voice, "Hmph, no wonder you dared to come closer and provoke us. It turns out you've cultivated the Vajra Step to its peak."
Han Sha, in a moment, use ice magic to control his movements, and I will take the opportunity to launch my flying sword to kill him.
"A mere third-tier body cultivator dares to defy his superior? He's courting death!"
"good!"
Han Sha Zhenren nodded in agreement, and the two of them simultaneously unleashed their rich inner energy. The blue inner energy transformed into icy light, while the golden inner energy condensed into flames. Both streaks of light reached the peak speed of the Core Formation stage and chased after Chen Yi from the left and right at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, the three of them were out of the Medicine King Immortal City's territory during the chase.
Jin Feng and Han Sha relentlessly pursued Chen Yi from the air. Jin Feng frequently launched surprise attacks with his golden flame flying sword, while Han Sha continuously unleashed frost spells in an attempt to restrict Chen Yi's movements.
Chen Yi seemed unable to completely dodge all attacks. Sometimes he could only prioritize dodging the more powerful Golden Flame Flying Sword, and was inevitably grazed by the frost spells. Gradually, a layer of light blue frost covered his body, and his movements seemed to be affected, with his speed noticeably slowing down.
Inside the alchemy room of the Medicine King Immortal City, more than a hundred miles away, the Golden Collar True Monarch was using his divine sense to investigate the battle situation in the distance. Upon seeing this scene, a smile appeared on his lips. He was completely relieved and no longer intended to take action. "Hehe, I wonder where you hired this little guy from. His physical body is quite tough."
"But this is good too. It lets my two men stretch their muscles, so this mission won't be too easy; they'll rust if they don't work out for too long."
The old valley master naturally sensed the situation outside through his divine sense and instantly understood Chen Yi's intention: to lure Jin Feng and Han Sha away from the protection of the Nascent Soul cultivators and then defeat them one by one.
He immediately realized that his task at this moment was to delay as much as possible, cooperate with Chen Yi's plan, and not let his arrangements go to waste.
So the old valley master pretended to be confused and interrupted Jinling Zhenjun: "What is Fellow Daoist Jinling talking about? This old man really doesn't understand."
That's just a petty thief who stole medicine. Since the deacons of the Enforcement Hall are here, they should naturally be dealt with as well.
"Qinglan, stop standing there! Quickly activate the alchemy furnace and start the Earth Fire Array!"
The old valley master's stern shout rang out, but the Azure Fairy was somewhat bewildered. She clearly remembered that her senior uncle had refined a wisp of Nanyang Fire decades ago. When refining pills, he only needed to use his own flames and did not need to activate the Earth Fire Array at all.
Moreover, she has been maintaining and using this Earth Fire Array for the past few decades; her senior brother has never touched it.
However, she understood that the situation was special and was not foolish enough to ask questions. She simply bowed in agreement and turned to activate the Earth Fire Array.
She deliberately followed the most complicated steps, adjusting the array's core and injecting magic power bit by bit, her movements slow but meticulous, in order to buy more time.
The Golden Collar True Lord, standing to the side, glanced at the actions of the old Valley Master and the Azure Fairy, and clearly saw that the two were deliberately acting to buy time.
But there was no anger on his face. Instead, he stood with his arms crossed, a faint smile on his lips, and said with a touch of emotion, "Fellow Daoist Saintly Hand, you must be 1,100 years old this year, right?"
For cultivators who have lived past a thousand years, you should understand one thing: in the world of cultivation, strength is always the most important thing; everything else is just fancy moves.
In the face of absolute power, any delay is futile.
As soon as he finished speaking, a soft "poof" sound came from the alchemy room. The Earth Fire Array was finally activated, and a blue flame burst forth from the ground, striking the bottom of the three-zhang-tall purple copper furnace with precision, producing a dull "whoosh" sound, and the furnace body trembled slightly.
At that very moment, in a ten-mile-long frozen land two thousand miles away, the situation suddenly changed.
Chen Yi's lower body was firmly fixed in place by the ice-binding power of the third-tier peak, unable to move an inch.
In the air, a golden flame flying sword with an attack power reaching the near fourth rank was shooting toward him with a piercing sound, the golden flames on the sword scorching the air and causing it to distort slightly.
"Baldy! Hand over the Medicine King you took from Snake King Valley, and I might spare your life!"
Dozens of miles away, Master Jin Feng hovered in the air, his fingers clasped together, his magical power surging as he remotely controlled his golden flame flying sword.
His gaze was sharp as a knife, fixed on the bald, muscular man who was trapped in place. Although he had the upper hand, he did not rush in. He knew that body cultivators had strong physical bodies and did not want to give the other party a chance to fight back.
The next moment, the golden flying sword accurately hit its target. The bald, muscular man frozen in ice was instantly shattered by the golden flames of the flying sword, turning into countless fragments of magical power that scattered in all directions before disappearing.
"Huh? How come it's an illusion? When did he set up this illusion? Where is his real body?"
Master Jin Feng's expression changed drastically. He turned around and quickly searched his surroundings, his eyes filled with vigilance.
"Hehe, looking for this humble monk?"
A gentle voice suddenly rang out, seemingly echoing around Jin Feng from all directions, yet also sounding as if spoken close to the back of his head and ear, carrying a somewhat eerie quality.
In an instant, Jin Feng felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, and a strong sense of crisis surged into his heart. He subconsciously tried to activate the internal energy to activate the protective golden light.
However, he was a step too slow. Just as the protective golden light was about to burst out of his body, a pair of huge hands containing terrifying power reached out from behind him and grabbed his shoulders on the left and right.
The immense force was as heavy as two mountains, instantly suppressing the magical shield within his body that was about to erupt.
"Snap!"
A crisp cracking sound rang out, and Jin Feng felt an excruciating pain in both shoulders. He felt a sweet taste in his throat and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which turned into specks of blood mist in the air.
"Leave this humble monk with a complete corpse? It seems the cultivators of the Enforcement Hall are quite polite."
The gentle voice rang out again, but carried a hint of chilling killing intent, "Unfortunately, this humble monk doesn't have the habit of leaving others with a complete corpse, heh heh."
Before he finished speaking, a terrifying, piercing force suddenly erupted from the large hand gripping Jin Feng's shoulder.
The power surged into Jin Feng's body like a raging torrent, annihilating all his golden core magic power and destroying his internal organs at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, Jin Feng Zhenren's body slumped down.
"Fellow Daoist, spare my life! We can talk this over; there's no need to kill me!"
Jin Feng felt death approaching amidst the excruciating pain. He could no longer care about the dignity of a cultivator and quickly begged for mercy, his voice trembling.
Chen Yi ignored this completely. With a slight clench of his right hand, a golden crystal core shimmering with metallic luster instantly sprang from his fingertip and plunged straight into Jin Feng's dantian. The crystal core instantly blasted apart his dantian, destroying his golden core, and golden energy scattered everywhere.
"Ah—!" Jin Feng let out a shrill scream, feeling his life force drain away rapidly like a kite with a broken string, and his consciousness began to blur.
In Jin Feng's last divine sense perception, he saw a figure flashing with golden spiritual light use the Vajra Step to catch up with the icy blue escape light ahead with a speed exceeding that of a quasi-fourth-level cultivator. It was the escape light of his fellow disciple, Han Sha Zhenren.
The next moment, the two figures collided violently, and Han Sha Zhenren's scream rang out clearly and piercingly.
"He's actually... a near-fourth-tier body cultivator! Even if the elders came in person, they might not be able to... kill him..."
These were Jin Feng's last thoughts. As the thoughts faded, his consciousness completely dissipated, and his body limply fell from the sky, his life ending in death.
This place is more than two thousand miles away from Medicine King Immortal City, which is exactly outside the range of Elder Jinling's divine sense.
Elder Jinling could only vaguely sense that the auras of his two subordinates had suddenly disappeared, but he had no idea what was going on over there.
At this moment, the flames in the fire array inside the alchemy room had just burst forth, hitting the bottom of the furnace in no more than three breaths.
The smile on Elder Jin's face vanished, replaced by a sudden dark expression.
He realized something was wrong. It was impossible for two late-stage Core Formation cultivators to perish at the same time in such a short period of time, unless they encountered a far more powerful enemy.
He glared fiercely at the old valley master, his eyes filled with murderous intent, but there was no time to pursue the matter further.
Elder Jinling instantly activated his Nascent Soul Escape Light, which shot towards the sky like a meteor, chasing after Chen Yi, who was two thousand miles away, at top speed. Wherever the Escape Light passed, the air was torn apart.
"Senior Uncle, what should we do? Should we intervene to save that fellow Daoist?"
As the Golden-Collar Elder's departing figure was being watched, Fairy Qinglan quickly sent a telepathic message to the old Valley Master, her voice filled with anxiety.
"No need." The old valley master slowly shook his head, his gaze falling on Fairy Qinglan, his tone solemn, "Qinglan, now take out all the materials you have for refining the Nascent Soul Pill."
My senior master will teach you one last time how to rapidly refine the ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill.
How much you learn depends on your own comprehension.
"Senior Uncle...you!" Fairy Qinglan's expression changed drastically as she instantly understood the old Valley Master's plan, her eyes filled with shock and panic.
"Xiao Qing, don't feel sorry for your master."
The old valley master sighed softly, his voice carrying a hint of relief, "My master has lived for 1,100 years, and his lifespan has long since reached its limit. Even if he does nothing, he will not have more than 30 years left."
It's already worth it to be able to use this worthless lifespan to do something for the Medicine King's lineage.
Moreover, how can I rest in peace watching my Medicine King Valley, which I have painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years, fall into the hands of an evil man like the Black Serpent?
"Alright... I understand! I will definitely study hard!"
The Azure Fairy forced back her tears and nodded vigorously, her voice choked with sobs.
"Hahaha, that's more like a disciple of Medicine King Valley! Just you wait and see!"
The next moment, the old valley master suddenly burst into loud laughter, his laughter carrying a sense of determination.
He raised his right hand, and a blazing red flame suddenly appeared in his palm. The spiritual energy fluctuations of that flame reached the level of the mid-stage of the fourth rank, exceeding his cultivation level of the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage.
Above the flames, a miniature alchemy furnace, about the size of a palm, flew out from his sleeve, hovering steadily above the flames.
At the same time, the old valley master's originally gray hair and beard turned black at a visible speed under the reflection of the flames, and the wrinkles on his face also faded quickly. He seemed to have regained his youth and transformed into a young man in his thirties, and his aura also became more profound.
His movements were steady, accurate, and fast as he took out the materials for refining the Nascent Soul Pill one by one and precisely put them into the miniature alchemy furnace in his palm. This was a high-level skill that only alchemy masters of his lineage could master: the Palm Furnace!
The Azure Fairy was deeply shocked. While wiping away her tears, she focused intently on observing the old valley master's every move, and at the same time, she activated several recording spheres to record this final scene completely.
She knew in her heart that after this pill refining was over, she would probably be the only one left to support the Medicine King's lineage.
Thousands of miles away in the sky, a golden flame streaked across the sky like a meteor, and within the flame was the enraged Golden Collar True Lord.
He stared at the fleeing figure ahead and gritted his teeth, shouting angrily, "You brat, how dare you be so arrogant!"
"How dare you openly murder a steward of my Qingyun Grotto! Today, I will teach you a lesson that your grotto cannot be insulted!"
Ahead, Chen Yi stepped on the golden lotus phantom, appearing several miles away with each flash, leaving only a faint golden lotus afterimage in place. His speed had already exceeded the limit of a peak Core Formation cultivator, and was astonishingly fast.
"Hmph, nothing special."
Seeing that the other party remained within his sight, Jinling Zhenjun's eyes flashed with disdain. He casually waved his hand forward, and a condensed Nascent Soul power shot out, chasing after the bald, muscular man's figure like a golden arrow.
Although this magical power was just a casual strike from him, it contained the powerful might of the early stage of the fourth rank. In an instant, the magical power flew hundreds of miles away and landed precisely on the bald man.
With a muffled thud, the bald man was struck by the magic and instantly snapped out of his escape state. He seemed to let out a short scream and swayed.
But he only paused for a moment before activating the Golden Lotus Step again, changing direction and continuing to escape at high speed without slowing down at all.
Jinling Zhenjun was slightly taken aback, thinking to himself, "This body cultivator is really tough. He was able to escape so quickly after taking a hit from my Nascent Soul magic power. He's quite difficult to kill."
He immediately stopped speaking and abandoned this long-range, single, small magical attack. Attacks of this magnitude were not enough to seriously injure the opponent; they would only waste magical energy.
Jinling Zhenjun decided to speed up and catch up quickly before unleashing his killing move to take down his opponent in one fell swoop.
Thus, high in the sky, the golden flames closely pursued the golden lotus phantom, chasing and fleeing, and soon they had traversed a distance of tens of thousands of miles.
Sensing the approaching presence behind him, Chen Yi thought to himself, "That's about right, this distance is sufficient."
Although battles at the Nascent Soul level can still be sensed by formations or cultivators above the Nascent Soul level within tens of thousands of miles, minimizing the disturbance can reduce trouble to the greatest extent possible.
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the bald, burly man ahead seemed to be running out of energy, his speed gradually slowed down, and finally he disappeared into a hidden underground cave below.
As soon as his figure entered the cave, he became completely silent and disappeared from the sight of the Golden Collar True Lord.
"Ha, little bug, trying to play these tricks on me?"
The Golden Collar True Lord's eyes turned cold, his face full of disdain.
Without the slightest hesitation, he rode the golden flames and chased after them, stopping above the cave entrance.
The next moment, his profound Nascent Soul power surged forth, and the golden flames suddenly flared up, transforming into a huge fiery blaze in the blink of an eye. As the flames churned, they emitted terrifyingly high temperatures capable of incinerating mountains and rocks.
The Golden Collar True Lord roared, "Die, you insect!"
Before the words were even finished, the enormous fiery basin slammed down into the cave.
"boom--!"
With a deafening roar, the fiery brazier exploded at the cave entrance, and golden flames instantly engulfed the entire area surrounding the cave.
A short while later, when the flames subsided, a deep crater, tens of feet deep, appeared on the spot. The rocks were burned into a glassy state, but the crater was empty, with no one in sight.
"Huh? What happened? Could it have been vaporized by the flames?"
Jinling Zhenjun frowned and descended rapidly through the air, simultaneously releasing his divine sense to carefully explore the lava pit and surrounding area, attempting to find the other party's trace.
Just then, a very soft whisper suddenly sounded in Jinling Zhenjun's ear: "I'm sorry."
Then, a sharp blue-purple whip shadow suddenly appeared in his consciousness. The whip shadow was faster than he could imagine, and its surface was wrapped with countless complex lightning spirit runes. Almost the instant his consciousness captured it, it unleashed an irresistible power of lightning paralysis, invading his soul through his consciousness.
At this moment, time seemed to slow down considerably.
The blue-purple lightning whip shadow rapidly magnified in his senses, seemingly in an instant, yet also like eternity, completely occupying his entire range of perception.
The Golden Collar True Monarch was utterly horrified. Even with all his magic power and divine soul, he could not escape the time-locked state by the lightning whip at the divine soul level. Only his early fourth-order divine soul could barely move, but it was like a tree insect encountering a woodpecker. Facing its natural enemy, it could only howl in fear and could not move an inch.
"Crackling—"
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A crisp crack of whipping exploded at the level of the soul, and an extremely condensed cyan-purple soul lightning instantly struck the soul essence of the Golden Collar True Monarch.
It felt as if something in the world was being torn apart, and for the Golden Collar True Lord, he felt an excruciating pain in his soul, as if an invisible hand had suddenly pierced his head and forcibly split his soul in two.
The indescribable pain almost made him faint instantly.
The fatal injury to his soul caused the golden magic power he maintained around his body to dissipate, and he fell headfirst to the ground like a mortal who had lost his support.
The nascent soul within his dantian also bore a deep, bone-revealing lightning whip mark. Blood flowed from the seven orifices of the nascent soul, and under the paralysis and damage of the soul lightning, it could not even leave its body.
"What kind of whip is this...?"
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He was filled with utter despair. He had never imagined things would turn out this way. How could he, a promising Nascent Soul cultivator with hundreds of years left to live, die at the hands of an insignificant Core Formation cultivator? "Just who did I offend...?"
Jinling Zhenjun barely maintained his last shred of clarity, and through the blur, he saw a cold-faced, bald, burly man appear in front of him.
The other party reached out with a pair of large hands containing terrifying power, firmly grasped his shoulders, and then suddenly tore them apart with a "ripping" sound.
Half of Jinling Zhenjun's body was torn apart, and blood mixed with his internal organs gushed out.
Immediately afterwards, the other person's hand suddenly reached into his dantian, and that palm, which shimmered with the luster of crystal marrow, precisely grasped his dying nascent soul.
"Bang!"
The nascent soul exploded in the palm of his hand, and an incomparably rich metallic spiritual energy of heaven and earth exploded in the air above the molten lava cave that was emitting smoke, and the energy shock wave created a series of air waves.
At the epicenter of the explosion, the bald figure stood firmly, one hand gripping the dying body of the Golden Collar True Monarch. His voice was calm yet tinged with coldness: "In this life, I have rebuilt the sect's Soul Thunder Secret Technique. You are the first cultivator to die under this divine power. You can rest in peace now."
Upon hearing the last words, Jinling Zhenjun's eyes flashed with understanding. He closed his eyes peacefully. It turned out that he had offended a powerful figure from the ancient Thunder Soul Sect who had been rebuilt. In that case, his death was not unjust.
As his last wisp of soul dissipated into the world, True Monarch Jinling forcibly activated a secret technique, using a special soul fluctuation to trigger the pre-death information transmission mechanism exclusive to cultivators of the Qingyun Cave Heaven's Enforcement Hall. A faint yet subtle divine thought was transmitted towards the direction of the cave heaven:
Don't investigate further; we can't afford to offend them.
Chen Yi constantly activated his ability to perceive the heavens and earth, observing the changes in the causal energy around him.
He discovered that after killing the Nascent Soul Elder of the Law Enforcement Hall, the causal power bestowed upon him by Qingyun Cave Heaven did increase, but it was far less than the intensity he had imagined from killing a Nascent Soul cultivator. He figured that his previous arrangements to lure away the pursuers and hide his whereabouts had taken effect, weakening the causal connection.
But now is not the time to relax.
Chen Yi raised his hand and released the Golden Core True Fire. The pale golden flames instantly enveloped the Golden Collar True Monarch's body. The flames were extremely hot and quickly burned the body to ashes.
Then, he opened the Golden Collar True Monarch's storage bag, casually scanned it with his divine sense, and took out the most valuable golden alms bowl magic treasure inside, holding it in his hand.
Chen Yi activated the system, a faint light emanating from his palm. He began to absorb the essence of the metal-attribute treasures within the Golden Bowl magic weapon. The golden light on the surface of the magic weapon quickly faded, and the metal spirit essence inside was continuously drawn out and poured into his body.
As for the other relics in the storage bag, such as pills and talismans, Chen Yi devoured all that he could through the system, and destroyed those that he could not.
Now that he has cultivated to this level, he no longer lacks ordinary fourth-tier spiritual items, so there is no need for him to leave any trace.
After a while, the golden alms bowl, which had originally radiated golden light, was completely reduced to a pile of dark gray scrap iron ash. Chen Yi casually burned it into ashes with a flick of his wrist, and the ashes scattered in the air.
Meanwhile, the metal-attribute spiritual power within Chen Yi's body swelled to an unprecedented degree, carrying a metallic heaviness as it circulated.
However, he knew very well that now was not the time to refine these golden spirit essences and improve his Vajra Technique; he had to deal with the follow-up matters first.
Chen Yi carefully examined the scene again, wiping away some bloodstains and signs of battle, eliminating all clues that could be used to track him down through physical means.
After doing all this, he prepared to leave and head to Medicine King Immortal City to check on the situation of the old Valley Master.
However, as soon as he turned around, he suddenly sensed a violent causal upheaval in the world. The fluctuation clearly entered his senses, causing Chen Yi to freeze in place.
He sensed that, tens of thousands of miles to the southeast, the life force of a Nascent Soul cultivator was burning at an extremely rapid speed. At the same time, this cause and effect of death was converging towards him, blessing him.
Chen Yi closed his eyes and concentrated, rapidly calculating for a while, finally letting out a long sigh: "Alas—"
Old Valley Master, why are you doing this?
He risked his life to rush back to Medicine King Immortal City because he didn't want to cause the death of the old valley master, the female disciple, and half of Medicine King Immortal City because of his own actions.
Unexpectedly, although he successfully lured away and killed the enemy, the old valley master still chose to burn his last bit of life force.
Through his perception of cause and effect, Chen Yi clearly knew that the reason this cause and effect was tied to him was because the old valley master had burned his life force to prepare a great opportunity for him, most likely the high-quality Nascent Soul Pill he had mentioned.
"Alas, even if I can sense the cause and effect of heaven and earth, how can I possibly change a person's predetermined fate?"
At this moment, a sense of bewilderment arose in Chen Yi's heart for the first time.
He rushed back with all his might, trying to save the old valley master, but in the end he still couldn't save his life.
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