A Feast of Slaughter
The two sides faced each other, neither daring to make the first move. Yet none of them noticed that the Spiritual Qi around them seemed to be growing denser. Qin Yi stood at a distance, watching Hong She cast its spell. It turned out that he, too, had failed to notice at the time that the problem lay with the Spiritual Qi around him. Hong She had mixed something else into the Spiritual Qi, making it impossible to guard against.
Sure enough, when the Spiritual Qi reached a certain density, an intense white light burst forth, causing everyone present to close their eyes instinctively. They stood motionless, as though they had turned to statues.
Hong She slowly slithered to the door of the Alchemy Chamber. A blood-red light flashed, and Hong She transformed into a giant python. The python opened its gaping maw and hissed toward the heavens, its serpentine eyes glowing with a soul-stealing red light. Before each person present, a soul identical to them slowly emerged.
Rather than swallowing the people, the python drew in a breath, sucking several illusory souls into its mouth. Those whose souls had been devoured instantly collapsed, and a hair-raising crunching sound came from the python's mouth.
Qin Yi signaled Hong She to stop, sparing Song Qingyun's life. Hong She returned to Qin Yi's side and became a tattoo once more.
Qin Yi stepped forward and glanced at Song Qingyun, who was still petrified. "If you died, who would help me escape?" After knocking Song Qingyun unconscious with a palm strike, he stepped forward and opened the doors to the Alchemy Chamber. Looking at the dazzling array of pills before him, Qin Yi finally smiled with satisfaction. As expected of a Golden Core True Person-his wealth was truly abundant.
But after collecting all the pills in the Alchemy Chamber, Qin Yi frowned. He had found no pills used by those at the Golden Core Stage. Hong She then reminded him that True Person Chiyu might have taken those pills to his cultivation room. After all, he had been hunted down back then and died of injuries that could not be treated.
Qin Yi did not linger. He continued toward the place Hong She indicated, the last treasure chamber: True Person Chiyu's cultivation room.
Not long after Qin Yi left, Song Qingyun slowly regained consciousness. As soon as he got up, he saw the corpses covering the floor and fell into a panic. All of them had died with expressionless faces, and he immediately recalled the scene of Song Yunfeng coming to take revenge on him. "A ghost! There's a ghost! Song Yunfeng has come to claim my life! It must be him! Big brother, don't kill me, don't..."
Song Qingyun shouted as he backed away, curling up in a corner and fearfully wrapping his arms around his trembling body. This once-arrogant second young master of the city lord's mansion had been scared witless by the corpses before him and the illusion he had just seen.
With Hong She's guidance, Qin Yi soon found True Person Chiyu's cultivation room. But True Person Chiyu had sealed it shut from the inside, leaving Qin Yi to find another way in. Yet how could the cultivation room of a dignified Golden Core True Person be so easy to break into?
Qin Yi searched for a long time but found no mechanism to open it. The walls of the cultivation room were protected by a formation. If he could not find an entrance, he could only break in by brute force.
In the end, Hong She advised Qin Yi to use brute force. With no other choice, Qin Yi reluctantly took one of the Thunderclap Pearls he had just acquired and placed it in front of the cultivation room door. When he infused it with spiritual power, the Thunderclap Pearl unleashed a tremendous force of thunder. A booming sound echoed throughout the cave abode, but when the thick smoke cleared, only a crack had appeared in the door.
Qin Yi's lips twitched. "If there aren't any treasures inside, True Person Chiyu, don't blame me for grinding your bones to dust and scattering your ashes."
He immediately placed three more Thunderclap Pearls in front of the door. In an instant, only two of the newly acquired treasures capable of blasting a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator to death remained. Qin Yi steeled his heart and detonated all three at once. A violent explosion rang out, shaking the entire cave abode.
At last, after Qin Yi's repeated bombardment, the door to the cultivation room was blown open. But when he saw what was inside, he was dumbfounded. There was only a dried-out corpse and an empty bottle on the floor. Fortunately, Qin Yi spotted the dust-covered Storage Bag at the corpse's waist. Otherwise, True Person Chiyu's corpse would not have been spared.
After examining the Storage Bag, Qin Yi finally smiled with satisfaction. Although True Person Chiyu had used a sword, that did not stop him from trading a Law Treasure-grade sword for other resources. There were also several bottles of pills for improving a Golden Core cultivator's Cultivation Method, as well as a spear martial technique that True Person Chiyu had placed in a corner: Dragon Soars Through the Nine Heavens.
Foundation Establishment cultivators could ride their weapons in flight, and with this martial technique, Qin Yi could turn his spear into a dragon and ride a true dragon as he roamed the nine heavens.
After putting the items into his own Storage Bag, Qin Yi turned to leave. The cave abode had been almost completely plundered, and he had already obtained the most valuable Law Treasure and pills. There was little point in searching further. Besides, the commotion just now had been so great that someone was bound to come investigate. It was better to leave first.
Just as Qin Yi was leaving, a large group was already rushing toward the sound.
"Quick, faster!" A handsome man dressed in fine clothes kept urging on the people following him. He was Liu Shihong, the young master of the Liu Household, one of the six great Households of Star City.
When he heard the violent explosion, he had hurriedly gathered his men and rushed toward Qin Yi's location. After spending so long inside, he had obtained only a few low-grade Law Treasures, and had lost quite a few men in the process.
Liu Shihong led the charge. Judging by the commotion, a priceless treasure must have appeared. No matter what, he had to stop whoever had obtained it. As long as he could bring the treasure out, no one would ever be able to shake his position as young master again.
When Liu Shihong and his men arrived outside the Alchemy Chamber, they were stunned by the corpses covering the floor. "Look, isn't that Song Qingyun? What happened to him?" One of the subordinates behind him pointed at Song Qingyun, who was curled up in a corner.
"It really is Song Qingyun." Liu Shihong narrowed his eyes. Looking at the deranged Song Qingyun not far away, killing intent suddenly rose in his heart. Everyone present was from the Liu Household, so wasn't this the perfect chance to kill him? Once Song Qingyun was dead, the city lord's mansion would have no successor, and the Liu Household might then be able to advance another step.
With that thought, Liu Shihong hesitated no longer. He quietly took a silver needle concealed weapon from his Storage Bag and threw it at Song Qingyun. But just as the needle was about to strike Song Qingyun, a flame appeared out of thin air and blocked it.
"Who's there?" Liu Shihong cursed angrily.
Qin Yi rushed out of the Alchemy Chamber and casually threw a large handful of low-grade talismans at Liu Shihong and his men. Then he pulled Song Qingyun up and charged toward the exit.
When the smoke cleared, Liu Shihong hurriedly ordered his men to give chase. Once Song Qingyun and Qin Yi got out, if Song Yunian learned that he had tried to kill his son, he would be the one in trouble.
Qin Yi was not flustered in the slightest. Even carrying a person on his back, how could a group of Qi Refinement rookies possibly catch up to a Foundation Establishment cultivator? Qin Yi deliberately kept his distance from the pursuers so that Song Yunian would see someone chasing his son down when they got out. If a fight broke out outside, he could take advantage of the chaos to escape.