The Tribulation Water in the well was forbidding, still as dark and heavy as ink.
Apart from the rings of ripples slowly spreading, nothing else had changed.
Yet perhaps no one could have imagined that, in a fleeting instant of lightning and morning dew, a Golden Core True Person had met a miserable death here.
He had not even sent out a magical message for help before all life had left him.
Chen Heng was in no hurry to examine the Blue-Robed Daoist's possessions. Instead, he first summoned the Five-Qi Cosmic Ring and released a beam of radiance, sweeping the Blue-Robed Daoist's corpse into the ring's Inner Landscape world for safekeeping.
Only then did he collect the several spirit talismans nearby and erase the traces.
The reason he had been able to kill the Blue-Robed Daoist instantly just now-
Aside from catching the man completely off guard with Changing Form-
Was largely that the Blue-Robed Daoist had been alone, with no companions nearby to lend him aid.
Had there been one more person accompanying him-
It would truly have been no easy task for Chen Heng to take down two True Persons without alerting anyone outside. He would inevitably have had to expend considerable effort.
Now, after removing the spirit talismans and wiping away a few almost imperceptible traces of blood essence-
Chen Heng gazed down the well, a faint glimmer passing through his eyes. A moment later, he reached a decision.
He first formed a Spell Formula and silently circulated the Nine Palaces Mystery One Jade Guideline, splitting off an Emanation and transforming it into the Blue-Robed Daoist's likeness.
Then his true body moved as well, once again turning into a wisp of faint mist and flying toward the cavern beneath the well.
"Success or failure, everything rests on