Yaoguan City, Jujube Plum Manor.
Dawn was approaching, but the sky was still dark. Many people had not slept all night.
Inside the manor, the candles had already been replaced once, wax drippings piled high. Nearly a hundred figures had gathered in the front courtyard, surrounding the silver remains that had just been brought back, cleaved in two.
Half those present were martial cultivators of the Jiu Li Tribe's younger generation. Having long endured the trials of cultivation, they did not fear corpses. Instead, they clicked their tongues in amazement.
"That was Xue Zheng!"
"Before Xue Zheng transformed into a Pure Immortal Body, he had already ranked fourth in Seven Springs Hall."
"These past few days, the Xue Clan and the Sui Sect have been building momentum, claiming that Xue Zheng would surely break into the Nine Springs Ancestral Field. A Nine Springs Pure Immortal Body is exceedingly rare in any prefecture, fit to serve as the heir of Myriad Gate Families. They clearly intended to nurture him into someone who could contend with our Jiu Li Tribe."
"If this was the work of the older generation, or some underhanded means beneath the Five Seas Realm, then this matter will become huge! The Xue Clan and Sui Sect will never let it rest!"
Cangli crouched down and carefully touched the place where the body had been cleaved apart with a single sword strike, sensing it with his Battle Intent. In his mind, two figures took shape, and a vague image surfaced of Li Weiyi unleashing that final sword strike, as though he had witnessed it himself.
Disbelief showed in his profound eyes. Rising to his feet, he said, "It was done by his sword! And what he used was precisely that Heaven's Dao Mana Fusion ultimate technique he cultivated.