Yun Shan and Gu He's Shock: Is He a Freak? He Killed Us Twice

This was Ji Changqing's first time using a Heaven-tier Fighting Skill.

The instant the great sun manifested.

His expression changed despite himself.

The consumption was enormous!

The Great Five Elements Dou Qi within him had nearly been depleted by half in an instant!

Ji Changqing guessed.

Whether Fighting Skills or medicinal pills, the system's rewards were all perfect existences within their respective grades.

In other words, although the Great Sun Shattering Finger was a Heavenly Rank Low-tier Fighting Skill.

Its power was likely no weaker than that of a mid-tier Heaven-tier Fighting Skill.

Ji Changqing held a great sun aloft on his fingertip.

It was simply too dazzling!

It truly resembled a sun suddenly rising in the middle of the night!

Everything within a thousand-mile radius was illuminated!

Gu He, who was desperately fleeing for his life, felt a blazing fluctuation descend from overhead, one that nearly annihilated his soul.

Yet his heart was seized by an icy dread, as though he had fallen into an abyss.

His eyes widened until they nearly split, filled with overwhelming shock.

Who?!

Who exactly was it?!

He had never offended such an expert!

So... who had hired such an expert to kill him?!

As a Sixth-grade Alchemist, Gu He's mind was exceptionally quick and intricate.

In the span of an instant, Gu He thought of an enormous number of possibilities.

The faces of one enemy after another flashed through his mind.

But he ruled them out one by one.

Then, as if possessed.

A young, handsome face with a gentle smile constantly hanging on it abruptly surfaced in Gu He's mind.

"Ji... Chang... Qing?"

The very thought gave even Gu He a fright.

"Impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"Even if the Misty Cloud Sect emptied its entire treasury, it couldn't hire such an expert!"

"Much less a mere Ji Changqing!"

As these thoughts flashed through his mind.

The great sun overhead grew increasingly blazing, until even his skin began to sting in waves.

Gu He instinctively raised his head.

Then...

He saw a great sun fill his entire vision, carrying unimaginably vast energy as it crashed down upon him.

"No—!"

Gu He let out an unwilling roar.

Accompanied by an earth-shattering boom.

The formation concealing their auras was torn apart as easily as paper.

The entire Clear Wind Cliff was gone.

All that remained was a massive crater, wisps of smoke rising from it.

At the same time.

The Misty Cloud Sect.

Atop an ethereal mountain peak.

Yun Shan, who had been sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes. With a flash, he appeared at the summit.

His composed bearing was gone. His azure eyes stared toward Clear Wind Cliff, filled with profound shock.

"What terrifying energy fluctuations!"

"Could this... could this be a Dou Venerate?!"

"Why would a Venerate come to the Jia Ma Empire?!"

A trace of hesitation crossed Yun Shan's face.

After wavering for a while, he still shot toward Clear Wind Cliff at top speed.

In the courtyard.

Yun Yun sensed it as well.

She came outside and looked in the direction from which the energy had come.

"That is... Clear Wind Cliff?"

Yun Yun went to Ji Changqing's window.

Hearing the steady breathing from within through the window, she relaxed slightly.

Then, she summoned her Dou Qi Wings and vanished beyond the horizon in the blink of an eye.

"Go! Blazing Banner!"

"Return, souls! Return, souls!"

Ji Changqing had become increasingly proficient at this whole process of killing people and capturing souls.

He had to hurry.

Because the formation at home had been triggered.

Yun Yun had probably sensed it and then gone to check outside his window.

After collecting the two souls.

Ji Changqing wrapped his black robe tightly around himself, deliberately took a detour, and flew back toward the courtyard.

About a few minutes later.

Yun Shan arrived first.

He stood in the air, his white robes billowing in the wind. Looking at Clear Wind Cliff, which had already become a scorched wasteland, he could not help drawing in a sharp breath.

"This... this..."

Yun Shan's entire body tensed.

He uneasily scanned his surroundings.

He feared that the person responsible for Clear Wind Cliff's destruction was still here.

Too terrifying!

From the lingering aura at Clear Wind Cliff, Yun Shan sensed something that made his soul tremble!

He tried imagining it himself.

What would happen if he faced that attack?

The result was...

Certain death.

What the hell could that be if not a Dou Venerate?!

"Could it be the Soul Hall?"

Yun Shan thought with an ugly expression.

Among the forces he knew that could possibly be connected to the Jia Ma Empire, only the mysterious Soul Hall had Dou Venerate experts.

But he immediately shook his head and denied it himself.

"This aura is as blazing as a great sun, while the Soul Hall's emissaries possess increasingly sinister, dark auras."

"They are fundamentally not of the same nature. But if it isn't the Soul Hall, then who could it be?"

"The waters of the Jia Ma Empire... are getting murkier and murkier..."

For the first time, Yun Shan lost confidence in his own strength.

He felt that he might be unable to handle the increasingly chaotic Jia Ma Empire.

Just then, a streak of green light shot over.

"Teacher, you came as well."

Yun Yun clasped her hands toward Yun Shan.

Yun Shan nodded, placed his right hand behind his back, and calmly said:

"I have inspected this place."

"Yes, the expert who left behind this attack was quite formidable."

"Clear Wind Cliff has been destroyed. Gu He must have fallen."

"Gu He has fallen?"

Yun Yun's delicate brows furrowed.

This could not help reminding her of the conflict during the day.

After their daytime conflict, Gu He had fallen that very night.

In the Jia Ma Empire, someone with such strength...

"Could Mysterious Elder Grandma have done it?"

Yun Yun could only think of the mysterious expert who had instructed her.

Yun Shan noticed the change in Yun Yun's expression, and his heart skipped a beat as he asked:

"Yun'er, could it be that you know who did this?"

Yun Yun remained silent for a long while before shaking her head.

"This disciple does not know."

Yun Shan's brows knitted slightly. Feeling Yun Yun's powerful Eight-star Dou Huang aura, he continued asking:

"A few months ago, you were only a two-star Dou Huang?"

"Why has your cultivation advanced so quickly?"

"Could it be... that you have taken some crooked path?"

Yun Yun clasped her hands and said solemnly:

"Master, please forgive this disciple for being unable to tell you the reason."

"But this disciple guarantees that it is an upright method and will cause no harm to the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Forget it."

"If you will not speak, then I will not ask."

With a flick of his sleeve, Yun Shan rode a cloud and departed.

Yet along the way, he silently thought.

"Yun'er's increase in strength is truly terrifying, yet she will not tell me about it."

"It seems I must watch her movements carefully in the coming days. Hmph, I want to see who it is."

After returning to the courtyard.

Ji Changqing heard Yun Yun return and go back to her room.

Only then did he set up a formation and retrieve the Blazing Banner.

After pondering for a moment.

He sent his own soul into the Blazing Banner.

Within the Blazing Banner.

Gu He was speaking with Liu Ling.

"The one who killed us and the one nurturing our souls are definitely not the same person!"

"Is he a freak? He went to such lengths just to kill us twice!"

"Hmph, heaven never seals off every path. As long as I, Gu He, have not truly fallen, I will one day uncover the truth and kill that mysterious person to avenge myself!"

"Master, I'm with you."

Liu Ling gave him all the emotional support he could.

Then, a soft voice entered both their ears.

"Gu He, you have no chance..."