Jiang Liu slowly regained consciousness, opened his eyes, and looked around. Fortunately, he was still in his residence, and nothing unexpected had happened.
Jiang Liu rubbed his forehead, feeling the pain subside. He then dispersed his consciousness and immediately sensed something different. Everywhere his consciousness reached was crystal clear, like watching a high-definition video.
What's this consciousness? No, this is Divine Sense. Jiang Liu quickly used his mental energy to examine his internal body. Before, he could only vaguely sense the situation inside his body, but now he could directly examine it from within.
The small lake of consciousness that I had sensed earlier has now transformed into a boundless sea of consciousness, enveloping the entire brain space.
This means that his mental strength has advanced to the Grandmaster level. Now, with the Ice Blade and the Annihilation by Thought, he should be able to kill anyone below the Grandmaster level in an instant. This is why Jiang Liu felt that he had some self-protection ability. At least he was no longer afraid of the mental pressure of a Grandmaster.
Jiang Liu his residence, took a step into the air, and headed straight for the Ten Thousand Mountains.
They flew straight to the headquarters of the Deity Summoning Society, only to find that the place had been reduced to ruins.
It seems that the last great battle took place here. He then released his Divine Sense to explore, extending outwards continuously: 400 meters, 420 meters, 450 meters, constantly breaking through the previous limit, but the extension still did not reach the limit.
Jiang Liu continued to probe with his Divine Sense, and finally when he reached 500 meters, he felt a sense of exhaustion in his mental energy. It seemed that this was the limit of 500 meters, so Jiang Liu did not continue to test it.
Because the consciousness of an ordinary Rank 9 Martial Practitioner can only probe beyond two hundred meters. With Jiang Liu's spiritual power, he can truly Annihilation by Thought without even seeing their face.
It's likely that even the Grandmaster of Soul Valley wouldn't have expected that the Annihilation by Thought he casually gave Jiang Liu could be cultivated to this level so quickly. Although there's a suspicion of a higher level defeating a lower level, Jiang Liu's martial arts strength is only at the eighth rank right now.
Jiang Liu did not withdraw his Divine Sense, but turned around and headed deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains, exploring along the way, but did not encounter any high-grade Exotic Beast.
Indeed, even the Exotic Beast don't come out in this freezing winter. Jiang Liu was about to turn back when his Divine Sense suddenly detected something unusual.
The Jiang Liu stopped flowing, and suddenly a person appeared in the distance. In this deep mountain forest, he deliberately covered himself up, as if to tell others that he was doing something bad.
Jiang Liu immediately became interested. He had wanted to cause trouble at the Deity Summoning Society, but his team was wiped out by the Martial Prohibition Hall at the main altar, making Jiang Liu trip a waste. He didn't expect there to be a substitute here.
They followed the masked man in black from a distance.
The Man in Black walked cautiously forward, and after about seven or eight miles, he suddenly disappeared into a valley. Jiang Liu quickly followed.
As soon as the Man in Black entered the valley, he headed straight for a cave.
As soon as the Man in Black stepped into the cave, he removed his mask and lewdly said, "Ladies, I've arrived."
Upon seeing the newcomer, the cave guards hurriedly came forward, saying, "Young Master, everything is ready for today."
The Man in Black nodded and said, "Very good, I will reward you handsomely. You may leave now!"
"Yes!" The six guards filed out.
The six guards had not gone far from the cave when they felt themselves plunged into complete darkness. In a daze, they followed the instructions given by a mysterious voice, and after that, the whole world went completely dark.
Then, Jiang Liu gave each of them a Frost Nether Palm.
After listening to the six guards' accounts, they realized that this place was actually Pang Chunlong's secret training ground, and that Pang Chunlong had obtained some evil skills from who-knows-where.
In just two or three months, his strength increased from the Subordinate Sixth Rank to the Seventh Grade.
Every time Pang Chunlong practiced his skills, he needed a large number of martial artists, and these were the martial artists that Pang Chunlong sent out to help him capture and subdue.
Cultivation requires martial artists? Could it be that Pang Chunlong is practicing the Corpse Valley's techniques?
"Never mind all that, we'll just have to go in and see. "Jiang Liu darted into the cave.
Upon entering the cave, one can see that the entire cave is divided into four secret chambers.
Jiang Liu scanned the area with his Divine Sense and found that only two secret chambers were occupied, one with more people and the other with fewer. Pang Chunlong was practicing his martial arts in the less crowded chamber.
Pang Chunlong was seen pressing one hand on a martial artist's Baihui acupoint and the other on his Shenque acupoint. He was then circulating his internal energy to absorb the opponent's vital energy for cultivation.
The martial artist whose vital energy was absorbed gradually withered away, until his entire body was devoid of flesh and blood, resembling a skeleton. Pang Chunlong, however, seemed to have consumed a powerful spinach; his entire body began to swell, repeating this cycle three times before returning to normal.
Jiang Liu stepped forward and kicked open the door to the secret chamber. The loud noise startled Pang Chunlong, who immediately became enraged. He had just finished cultivating and felt a surge of violent energy that he couldn't vent.
He immediately shouted, "Which bastard dares to disturb my cultivation? Aren't you afraid of death?"
Before he could make any further moves, Jiang Liu's Yuan Qi Transformation Hand had already arrived, slapping him across the face with a loud "smack," and Pang Chunlong's face immediately swelled up.
Then a surge of spiritual energy enveloped Pang Chunlong.
In a daze, Pang Chunlong explained the matter clearly.
It turns out that he obtained his martial arts techniques from the Plum Blossom Sect, and he became a core member of the Plum Blossom Sect. His main task was to help the Plum Blossom Sect develop vigorously in Feng County.
Jiang Liu was taken aback. Wasn't the Plum Blossom Sect supposed to be a righteous sect? How could they have such an evil cultivation method? He then ignored it.
He unleashed the Frost Nether Palm, shattering Pang Chunlong with a single blow.
Then he opened the door to the secret room next door, unleashed a few bursts of energy to break the ropes binding the martial artists, and then left them alone.
Jiang Liu flew out of the valley and continued searching for traces of high-grade Exotic Beast.
However, after searching for dozens of miles around, they couldn't find any high-grade Exotic Beast and had to give up and return to Wind City.
Although we didn't find any high-grade Exotic Beast to test our skills on this trip, we did learn about the Plum Blossom Sect's plans in Wind City.
Jiang Liu then continued his cultivation of the mental techniques.
The next day, early in the morning,
Feng Yi knocked on the door of Jiang Liu's residence.
Jiang Liu scanned the area with his Divine Sense and, recognizing Feng Yi, was too lazy to even get up. Before washing up, he used his spiritual energy to open the door and let Feng Yi in.
Feng Yi entered the courtyard and saw Jiang Liu washing up, but ignored him.
He showed no embarrassment whatsoever and approached her with a grin.
"Brother Jiang, are you free today?"
"What's up? Something's up? I'm just busy today!"
"No, Brother Jiang, I apologize. That matter really wasn't something I could decide!"
"Oh? Then explain in detail?"
"Well, if you come with me, someone will explain this to you in detail. So, are you free now?"
Jiang Liu looked at Feng Yi's silly grin and wondered how he could be so shameless.
Then, they stopped deliberately making things difficult for him.
Jiang Liu nodded and said, "Alright! I'll go with you this way for your sake! Let's go!"
Jiang Liu followed Feng Yi out the gate. Seeing that the carriage was ready, he didn't say anything more and got into the carriage.
The carriage headed straight for the Feng Family.
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