Shifting the Blame onto the Hall of Souls

After killing Xiao Yan, Jiang Xing first placed Xiao Yan's corpse into his Storage Ring before extending his Soul Strength into Xiao Yan's Storage Ring.

He wanted to see what other good things Xiao Yan had inside his Storage Ring.

His Soul Strength entered it and began searching.

Before long, Jiang Xing really did find several items.

The first thing that caught Jiang Xing's attention was an ancient jade fragment with a pale green hue.

"Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment!"

That was right—this was a Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment!

As for how Jiang Xing recognized it, he had noticed that one edge of the ancient jade was distinctly different from the others. That upper edge looked more like a mark left by being forcibly cut apart.

This Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment was connected to the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy.

Within the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion was an Emperor Pill Embryo, as well as the Strange Fire inheritance in Strange Fire Square.

Either of these could allow a Dou Saint Peak expert to step into the Dou God realm.

However, to open the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, one needed an extremely complete Tou She Ancient God Jade.

The Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments were each held by one of the Ancient Eight Clans. As for why it had been split into eight pieces, even Jiang Xing did not know.

In the original work, Hun Tiandi had plotted for a thousand years just to seize the fragments belonging to the other clans.

Looking at this ancient jade, Jiang Xing truly did not know how to deal with it for a moment.

This jade was a hot potato. Possessing it without sufficient strength would bring catastrophic disaster.

The Spirit Clan, Stone Clan, and Yao Clan were perfect examples. Even ancient Dou God Clans could not protect this jade, much less him.

Jiang Xing was afraid to keep this jade in his hands.

But he could not simply toss it to the Soul Clan or another ancient Dou God Clan.

If he gave it to the Soul Clan, they would gather all the ancient jades ahead of time and open the cave mansion.

If he gave it to another ancient Dou God Clan, then the secret that he had killed Xiao Yan would definitely be exposed.

Moreover, those ancient Dou God Clans might not necessarily be able to protect the ancient jade either.

Jiang Xing felt that these ancient Dou God Clans had simply been hit with a stupidity nerf.

Such an important ancient jade was not carried by the clan leader, but instead placed in an ancestral hall under the guard of Dou Saint elders.

Not only was that a waste of manpower, it also gave the Soul Clan's spies an opening to steal the ancient jade.

Jiang Xing felt that if Gu Yuan had personally safeguarded it, then even Hun Tiandi would have been unable to snatch the ancient jade from him.

Therefore, there was no way someone without strength like him could hold onto this ancient jade.

He had to find somewhere to throw it away, but where could he discard it so that the ancient Dou God Clans would not find it?

"Right, the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion!"

Even the Soul Clan had only found that place after gathering all eight ancient jades. As long as he threw this ancient jade down there, they would never find it.

As long as they could not gather all eight Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragments, even Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan would have no choice but to obediently remain at the Nine-Star Dou Saint Late Stage and wait for him to slowly catch up!

"Ahahaha, I really am too smart."

Jiang Xing could not help admiring his own great intelligence.

The second item was a damaged jade fragment. Jiang Xing suspected that it contained the first volume of the Heavenly Flame Three Transformations.

However, it was not convenient to take it out now, so Jiang Xing decided to leave it for the moment and deal with it after returning.

The third item was two scrolls of Dou Skills. They were the "Emperor Imprint Skill" that Gu Xun'er had given Xiao Yan.

The Emperor Imprint Skill was a secret, untransmitted Dou Skill of the Gu Clan, a high-grade Earth Rank Dou Skill. It was divided into five seals: the Mountain Opening Seal, Sea Overturning Seal, Earth Covering Seal, Heaven Annihilating Seal, and Ancient Emperor Seal. When all five seals were combined, their power could rival a Heaven Rank Dou Skill.

Jiang Xing's grandfather was a Six-Star Dou Saint. He could not claim to possess many Heaven Rank Dou Skills, but he certainly had quite a few.

Besides, there were only the first two volumes here. Jiang Xing was not interested in the power of the Emperor Imprint Skill; what interested him was the identity it represented.

The Emperor Imprint Skill was a secret, untransmitted Dou Skill of the Gu Clan. With it, he could pretend to be from the Gu Clan and do things like he had just done in the future!

Apart from these three items, everything else was useless to Jiang Xing.

After looting the Storage Ring, Jiang Xing finally began examining the strange fires stripped from Xiao Yan's body.

This strange fire was golden-red. As Ji Feng had said, it somewhat resembled the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, but it was not the same.

After Jiang Xing separated the flames, their true appearances finally emerged.

The flame in Jiang Xing's left hand was earthen yellow. It was the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.

The Wind Fury Dragon Flame ranked eighteenth among the strange fires. It was formed from the fusion of wind and fire and took the shape of a tornado. When unleashed, it was like a massive fire dragon roaring forth, turning everywhere it passed into a sea of flames in an instant.

A strange fire combining wind and fire attributes—it happened to match Jiang Xing's own attributes.

Unfortunately, its ranking was too low. Jiang Xing felt that the Wind Fury Dragon Flame might not even be able to improve him by much.

Meanwhile, the flame in Jiang Xing's right hand was golden.

When he saw this flame, Jiang Xing was stunned for a moment, because he recognized it as well. It was the Golden Emperor Burning Flame.

Oh no, more accurately, this was the Golden Emperor Burning Flame's Child Flame.

The moment Jiang Xing saw the Golden Emperor Burning Flame's Child Flame, he did not need to think to know that Gu Xun'er had given it to Xiao Yan again.

"She really is devoted!"

Worthy of being the fourth-ranked Golden Emperor Burning Flame—even its Child Flame was more powerful than the Wind Fury Dragon Flame in his left hand.

Unfortunately, Jiang Xing could neither absorb it nor dared to.

He could not absorb it because if he did, Gu Xun'er would definitely sense it. Then his disguise this time would become a complete joke.

If Gu Xun'er followed that sensation to find him, he would be completely screwed.

He did not dare absorb it because Jiang Xing feared that if he used this Child Flame against Gu Xun'er's Golden Emperor Burning Flame later, he would suffer a backlash.

After putting away the two flames, Jiang Xing headed toward the Hall of Souls.

Jiang Xing felt that the testimony of that Gu Clan Dou Zong alone was not enough. He needed to fabricate another piece of evidence.

He would make the Hall of Souls completely guilty of killing Xiao Yan and stealing the Ancient Jade!

Near the Hall of Souls branch hall stood a massive, pitch-black palace. It was terrifyingly enormous, blackish-gray throughout, and gave off an intensely oppressive feeling.

Jiang Xing sighed that the environment certainly suited the Hall of Souls' villainous identity.

No outsiders would ever come to such a gloomy, eerie place, so Jiang Xing directly tossed Xiao Yan's corpse not far from the hall.

Then he placed the Golden Emperor Burning Flame's Child Flame beside Xiao Yan's corpse.

Mm, this was truly a perfect crime!

Now, aside from the Soul Clan, all the other ancient clans would believe that the Ancient Jade had fallen into the Soul Clan's hands!

Jiang Xing remembered that every branch hall had a Venerable Elder. Afraid of being spotted, he fled at top speed.

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