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Boom.

A dark gray, long shuttle-shaped warship, shrunk to forty feet in length, tore through layers of white mist high in the sky as it sped onward.

Even though the violent fluctuations of Heaven and Earth essence it produced might draw the attention of demon mountain strongholds below, Lie Longqi could no longer worry about that.

At this moment, he had only one thought in his heart.

Run.

The farther away, the better.

Ideally, he would flee back to the Yinglong Guard's valley encampment within the Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh.

Even if that meant failing the assessment and being unable to join the Yinglong Guard this time, it was still better than facing that gray-clad youth who resembled a fiendgod.

"They're dead. They're all dead... Even my strongest arrow couldn't cause him the slightest injury."

Inside the warship, Lie Longqi's expression was incomparably grim.

Among the Myriad Manifestations Immortal cultivators participating in this Yinglong Guard assessment, he was the only master archer skilled in using a bow.

Lie Longqi knew very well.

The moment he fired that arrow, his identity had been doomed to exposure.

Since embarking on the path of Immortal cultivation, one had to do everything possible to fight for that sliver of hope of becoming an Immortal.

Even if it meant making enemies, he would not regret it.

But he also knew that Xia Manggan was born into the imperial family and was a disciple of the Black-White Academy, the strongest of Anchan Commandery's eight top factions.

Once Xia Manggan completed the three-month assessment period and returned to Anchan City—

The retaliation Lie Longqi would face was likely more than even his clan could bear.

His clan might even choose to sacrifice him to give an explanation to the Black-White Academy, and especially to the Xia Mang Clan behind Xia Manggan.

And in his desperation, the only path to survival he could think of was to leave Anchan Commandery immediately, conceal his identity, and start anew.

But—

"My Fiendgod Body Refining is at the Myriad Manifestations level. Changing my face and appearance is easy, but changing the aura of my soul is extremely difficult."

"Besides, I'm not a member of the Yinglong Guard. I can't use the teleportation arrays. If I want to leave Anchan Commandery, I'll have to fly out slowly myself..."

After forcing himself to calm down, Lie Longqi realized that he had thought too simply before.

Even if he truly managed to leave Anchan Commandery, the entire world was territory of the Xia Mang Clan's dynasty, and the Yinglong Guard monitored all under Heaven.

If Xia Manggan mobilized the Yinglong Guard's power, could he hide for a while and still hope to hide forever?

"No."

"He has to die."

"Only if he dies can I live." A trace of ruthlessness flashed through Lie Longqi's eyes.

"Sheng Xuan is the Heavenly Saint Sect Master's only son. Now that Sheng Xuan is dead, his Life Slip must have shattered. The Heavenly Saint Sect Master should have already received news of his son's death and may be rushing to the Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh."

Thinking of the Heavenly Saint Sect's consistently overbearing methods, Lie Longqi gradually revealed a cold smile. "If I reveal to the Heavenly Saint Sect Master that Xia Manggan was the killer..."

"If you can speak to the dead in dreams, you can give it a try."

A mocking laugh suddenly rang out within the warship.

Lie Longqi's eyes widened as he stared at the enormous figure that had appeared in front of the warship.

Instinctively, he raised the bow in his hand—

Whoosh~~~

An invisible flood of Divine Sense swept over him.

Xia Manggan stretched out his hand and seized the dark gray warship, which had lost the Origin Force supplied by its owner.

His five fingers tightened.

Bang!

The protective barrier around the warship instantly shattered.

Then, with nothing more than a flick of his finger, Lie Longqi, who stood less than eight feet tall, had his Divine Body explode. The Southern Bright Separation Fire bursting from Xia Manggan's fingertip then reduced him to ashes.

"There is a road to Heaven, yet you refuse to take it. There is no gate to hell... yet you insist on charging in."

Xia Manggan shook his head slightly and put away the magical treasures Lie Longqi left behind after his death, along with the dark gray shuttle-shaped warship.

Divine Sense secret arts were rare, but they were not invincible. Only when one's own soul was sufficiently powerful could the Divine Sense secret art one wielded be powerful enough.

Just as Daoist Gufang had said when Xia Manggan exchanged for the Soul Bewilderment Technique, with a soul level comparable to a Void Return Earth Immortal, ordinary Wanxiang Daoists would simply collapse unconscious upon encountering it.

Thus, he had not originally intended to attack the other assessment participants.

They were too weak.

Even though he knew full well that killing these Immortal cultivators would bring far greater rewards than killing Wanxiang Great Demons, he disdained slaughtering them casually.

Moreover, these Wanxiang Daoists were mostly talented members of the younger generation from the major powers of Anchan Commandery.

For example, the Lielong Clan to which Lie Longqi belonged had previously sent a Primordial Spirit Daoist responsible for their Anchan City outpost to visit him at Di Ta Peak. They had even asked Beishan Hu to leave behind a gift, so they could be said to share a slight connection.

But since Lie Longqi had sought death himself, he had no one else to blame.

Putting away the great divine abilities of Law of Heaven and Earth and Three Heads and Six Arms, Xia Manggan returned to his original size.

He glanced at the Personal Panel in his mind.

After annihilating all the demons of Single Horn Peak, then killing Sheng Xuan and the other four from the Heavenly Saint Sect as well as Lie Longqi, the [Fortune Value] section of the panel had changed to 921/10000.

The [Merit Points] section had also surged from 271 to 1456. Before long, he would be able to exchange for three more uses of "Super Epiphany."

"Killing Immortal cultivators grants one to three tenths of the Fortune Value they possess?"

Xia Manggan pondered the changes in his Fortune Value gains.

"Or does it have something to do with obtaining their magical treasures and wealth?"

Unfortunately, after the system generated by the Primordial Chaos Universe had communicated with his consciousness at the very beginning, it had never answered any of his questions again.

It was like a game after the beginner phase ended, when system prompts no longer appeared.

But it did not matter.

At least he knew that killing living beings could grant Fortune Value.

He simply had yet to figure out the pattern behind its growth.

Whoosh!

Ripples spread through the void.

Xia Manggan's figure vanished from where he stood.

In that stretch of sky, only the long trail of clouds left by rapid flight showed that a warship had once disappeared there.

...Single Horn Peak.

Jiu Lian and Luo Qing had already cleared away the demon corpses covering the mountain. They were continuously refining Storage Magical Treasures and examining the treasures left behind by the demons after their deaths.

For Immortal cultivators, important treasures were generally carried on their persons.

Because only what was at one's side was truly safest.

And if one died, there was no point in hiding one's treasures.

The same was true for demons.

"Young Master Xia Mang." Seeing Xia Manggan teleport back, Jiu Lian smiled and handed him a Storage Magical Treasure that had already gathered the wealth of numerous demons. "You've made quite a small fortune this time."

"Oh? How much?" After refining the Storage Magical Treasure, Xia Manggan saw that the various magical treasures inside had been sorted by rank and type. He was immediately quite pleased with Jiu Lian's tactfulness.

"There are twenty-six Earth Rank magical treasures in total. One of them is Dao Soldier Armor worn by a Wanxiang Daoist. Together with a thousand sets of Human Rank Dao Soldier Armor that allow Purple Mansion cultivators to combine their strength, as well as several thousand Human Rank magical treasures... their total value is around twenty-three thousand jin of Essence Liquid."

Jiu Lian smiled. "The treasures I have are all from demons at the Purple Mansion Myriad Phenomena level. The unranked magical treasures from the remaining tens of thousands of Xiantian demons are with Qingqing. Although there are more than a hundred thousand of those treasures, they are not worth much Essence Liquid in total, so I did not include them."

"You've worked hard." Xia Manggan nodded lightly and looked toward the demon caves halfway up Single Horn Peak.

Although the earlier battle had affected the area, it had not destroyed many of the caves. He therefore decided to rest here for a while and wait for Ah Huang.

Through their mental connection, he could sense that Ah Huang was drawing ever closer.

At the same time, he could examine the Storage Magical Treasures of Lie Longqi, Sheng Xuan, and the other five.

Especially someone like Sheng Xuan, a second-generation heir of a top faction. There might be some pleasant surprises.

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