Demon God Valley.
The Underground Cavern.
After Qin Wuyou slaughtered several groups of Foundation Establishment Realm demons in succession, someone finally noticed him.
Not far away, dozens of Seven Kills Hall disciples secretly trailed him.
These Seven Kills Hall disciples thought they were being discreet, but nothing they did escaped Qin Wuyou's eyes.
Qin Wuyou had not intended to deal with these Seven Kills Hall disciples yet, but now he had to dispose of them first.
"Boss, where do you think this guy came from? He can kill so many Foundation Establishment Realm demons in one go. He's downright terrifying."
"Do you think this guy could be the Qin Wuyou we're looking for?"
Someone took out a portrait. The Qin Wuyou depicted in it was a potbellied man.
"That transformation technique is practically a miracle. Never mind us—even his own parents wouldn't recognize him. With a technique like that, it wouldn't be strange for Qin Wuyou to turn into this guy."
"Boss, if this guy really is the Qin Wuyou we're looking for, should we keep following him or not?"
"Follow him, my ass! If he's Qin Wuyou, I'll be the first to fucking run! Forget me—even our Deputy Hall Master would flee overnight. Didn't you see how terrifying this guy is?"
"Boss, why do I feel like he's coming toward us?"
"What?"
The dozens of Seven Kills Hall disciples all looked ahead in shock.
When they saw the handsome young man descend from the sky, every one of them was dumbstruck.
"Holy shit, Qin Wuyou!"
"Boss, I guessed right! He really is Qin Wuyou!"
One of the Seven Kills Hall disciples holding a portrait raised the picture of Qin Wuyou's true appearance in front of his boss.
Looking at the Primordial Spirit Realm expert who had suddenly transformed into Qin Wuyou, the leader of these Seven Kills Hall disciples nearly burst into tears.
He fiercely glared at the fellow holding the portrait before his eyes, wishing he could kick the idiot to death.
"I'm not fucking blind!"
"No, I am blind! It just happened!"
With a rustle, the boss rolled up the portrait and said with feigned composure, "What nonsense are you spouting? What Qin Wuyou? What does he have to do with us? We're just here to look for demons. If anyone fucking stirs up trouble again, I'll kill him!"
With that, he hurriedly signaled his men to flee.
"Things are heating up—scram!"
But before he could escape, his head had already flown off.
In the final instant as his head flew through the air, he saw the heads of his Seven Kills Hall disciples parting from their bodies one after another.
It was over!
Completely over!
That was his final thought.
The dozens of Seven Kills Hall disciples, whose strongest members were only at the Foundation Establishment Realm, had no chance even to fight back against Qin Wuyou before every last one lost his head.
After slaughtering these dozens of Seven Kills Hall disciples, Qin Wuyou once again carved a message into the ground with his sword.
"The killer was Qin Wuyou!"
By the time the bodies of these Seven Kills Hall disciples were discovered, a quarter of an hour had passed.
Looking at the headless corpses strewn across the ground and the heads scattered farther away, the Seven Kills Hall's Deputy Hall Master nearly spat blood in fury.
Their Seven Kills Hall was no great sect. They had only a few hundred members in all.
He had never expected them to lose forty or fifty people in such a short time.
The Foundation Establishment Realm assassins among them, in particular, had been the backbone of their Seven Kills Hall.
Now they were all gone.
Looking at the corpses littering the ground and the six large words, "The killer was Qin Wuyou," the Seven Kills Hall's Deputy Hall Master seethed with towering rage.
"Qin Wuyou, the Seven Kills Hall will not rest until one of us is dead!"
His furious roar carried for hundreds of miles, echoing throughout the fourth level of the Underground Cavern.
By then, however, Qin Wuyou had already chosen a cave and begun another period of secluded cultivation.
Although he heard the Seven Kills Hall's Deputy Hall Master roar, Qin Wuyou simply ignored him.
Was someone already doomed to die worth his attention?
"Seven Kills Hall, it looks like you'll be going ahead of the Lin Lineage!"
A cold smile curled Qin Wuyou's lips.
Very good.
After his rebirth, the Seven Kills Hall had become another entry on his kill list.
Clatter!
Qin Wuyou dumped out a great pile of demon blood essence, and a brilliant smile appeared on his face.
"With all this Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Blood Essence, I should have enough to cultivate my God and Devil Tyrant Body to the first revolution!"
This was all Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Blood Essence. A single bead was worth dozens of beads of Essence Condensation Realm Demon Blood Essence.
As he refined bead after bead of Demon Blood Essence, the innate god and devil qi within Qin Wuyou began to grow rapidly.
There was no denying the potent effects of this Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Blood Essence.
With all this Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Blood Essence, he could now condense dozens of strands of innate god and devil qi in a minute, more than ten times faster than before!
"At this rate, my God and Devil Tyrant Body will be ready any moment!"
Xuantian City.
The Lin Lineage's main hall.
"Father, was there something you needed us for? You had Yue'er call Lin Fan and me back."
Lin Qingxue stood beside Lin Fan, though she deliberately kept some distance between them, and asked with a pale face.
Seeing that something was wrong with Lin Qingxue, Lin Nantian asked worriedly,
"Xue'er, what's wrong? It's only been a month since I last saw you. Why do you look so haggard? Are you sick? Or is something wrong with your dantian?"
"Don't worry, Father. I'm fine."
Lin Qingxue seemed reluctant to speak, and she looked listless.
Seeing Lin Nantian's concern, Lin Fan stepped forward and said, "Uncle, it's all because Qin Wuyou ruined Qingxue's reputation. The disciples who don't know the truth are wagging their tongues too. Qingxue has been troubled by it all these days. She hasn't had a decent night's sleep in days."
Lin Fan was putting it mildly.
In truth, what Lin Qingxue was going through in the Xuantian Holy Land was far worse than he described.
Ever since Qin Wuyou exposed the matter of the Heaven-High Bride Price and the Marriage Pact, Lin Qingxue's once-lofty image as an untouchable goddess had collapsed in an instant.
Now, throughout the Xuantian Holy Land, the disciples' comments about her were vicious beyond belief.
Two-faced bitch, fake innocent, cheating wife—those were already the nicer ones.
There were plenty of other filthy insults so foul they could not even be repeated.
And that was not the end of it. Over the past few days, people had even begun carving words outside Lin Qingxue's courtyard.
All manner of ugly remarks cropped up in an endless stream.
Some people in the Xuantian Holy Land, eager to fan the flames for their own amusement, had even written little booklets about the love and hatred between the three of them and passed them around.
There were already dozens of different versions of these pamphlets, with titles like "Am I Diamond-Studded? Is Thirty Million Too Much to Ask?", "I Demanded a Heaven-High Bride Price—So What?", "I Only Cheated, and You Want Your Bride Price Back? What a Turnoff!", and "I Broke Off the Engagement—Can't You Just Kneel and Apologize?"
The problem was, passing these things around among themselves was one thing, but some people eager to stir up trouble even sneaked over in the middle of the night and tossed the various booklets into Lin Qingxue's courtyard.
When Lin Qingxue saw those booklets, she did not even have the courage to open them. She burst into tears of anger on the spot.
These past ten-odd days had been nothing short of torture for Lin Qingxue.
Now, she did not even dare leave her room in the sect.
Of course, to avoid arousing suspicion, she had not even seen Lin Fan these past few days.
Lin Fan had visited several times, but she had turned him away at the door every time.
If Lin Nantian had not specifically invited Lin Fan this time, she would never have appeared together with him.
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