Canglingzi said disgruntledly, "The aura of slaughter I refined is extremely useful. Why does it need further purification?"
"Once you purify it, the killing intent within will be wasted. If you don't want it, then give it back to me. Why squander it like this?"
Though he had previously ordered the Heaven-Piercing Sect disciples to stir up a massacre, making the collection of this aura of slaughter seem easy.
If it were slaughter without cause, the aura collected would merely be deathly qi.
Only slaughter carried out in accordance with tribulation, answering Heaven's Dao above and the hearts of men below, could be called slaughter by heavenly punishment—living qi.
To be killed by such an aura of slaughter was to suffer heavenly punishment.
There was another term for it: killing without accruing karmic consequence.
Having gathered this aura of slaughter with such difficulty, he naturally could not bear to see Ling Qing waste it.
"Martial Uncle, please calm yourself. Look over this method first, then we can talk." Ling Qing passed the Sha Refining Technique to him.
He then personally gathered a strand of aura of slaughter and used the Sha Refining Technique to refine away its impurities, turning it into an incomparably pure strand of killing qi.
It bore no other attached properties, only sharpness—touch it and one would perish; brush against it and one would die.
If this killing qi were combined with the qualities of the Immortal-Slaying Sword, it would be enough to let it sever everything beneath heaven.
Even those illusory, intangible immortal affinities might not be beyond its cut.
After Canglingzi saw it, his eyes shone brilliantly. Setting all else aside, if he truly used such killing qi to refine the Immortal-Slaying Sword, he was confident he could rely on it to storm the Heavenly