Seeing the sinister smile on Xuan Qingzi's face, Baili Qiu outwardly appeared submissive, but inwardly he was already looking forward to it.
Li Xingkong hadn't contacted him, but Baili Qiu knew that he was always around him. Perhaps at this moment, Xuan Qingzi had already been targeted by Li Xingkong.
Let him run wild for a while longer; he won't be arrogant for long anyway.
"Although you've returned alive this time, you haven't accomplished your mission. You may escape death, but you can't escape punishment. This time, you'll serve a hundred years of labor in the Forge District."
A hint of smugness flashed in Xuan Qingzi's eyes.
It's good to be alive. Only by being alive can you keep causing trouble. Li Xingkong has brought so much trouble upon himself; someone has to pay the price, right?
The furnace zone is no pleasant place. It simulates the birth of stars and planets, absorbs energy from nebulae, and artificially creates planets.
Although it looks very high-tech, there are still many steps that require manual operation during the execution process.
Most positions are operated by phantoms, and only those who have been punished, like Baili Qiu, will actually take up their posts.
Li Xingkong squatted outside the main hall, listened for a while, and after confirming that the person inside was indeed Xuan Qingzi, he immediately began to take action.
His body transformed into light, and the effects of his Cloud and Rosy Mist Robe were activated, turning him into a wisp of smoke.
He had already prepared the supernatural powers in his hands in advance: the Yin-Yang Mountain-Severing Divine Light in his left hand and the Roof Bird Wall Fire Divine Light in his right.
Li Xingkong still remembered Fang Ritu's reminder: Xuan Qingzi possessed a life-saving device, possibly a weapon from some advanced civilization.
Li Xingkong had already experienced the effects of this ultimate weapon several times, and this time he wasn't going to give Xuan Qingzi the chance to use it.
With thorough preparations, Li Xingkong charged straight into the hall. A beam of light swept across the room, and even the soldiers and instruments guarding the entrance failed to detect his Li Xingkong.
After all, in their eyes, Li Xingkong is just a ray of light right now.
Who would think a beam of light is a little abnormal?
This is the Sihali Kingdom, not the Kingdom of Fixed Light.
"So what, as long as you beg me..."
Xuan Qingzi continued, but halfway through his sentence, he realized something was wrong.
My body is experiencing some abnormal symptoms.
Starting from his chest, a strange wound spread out at an extremely rapid pace.
His entire body seemed to be cursed by something, starting from that wound and spreading throughout his body.
Wherever the wound reached, whether it was skin, Flesh and Blood, bones, or clothing, everything turned to ashes.
Xuan Qingzi was still struggling, but he only managed to reach out and steady himself on the chair before being torn apart by more than half of his body.
Even the peculiar way it disintegrated caused the chair to disintegrate along with it when it touched it.
The people around were stunned, but fortunately, they were highly competent and quickly took action.
The soldiers guarding the main hall immediately rushed forward, trying to drag Xuan Qingzi out, but after being exposed to the disintegration phenomenon, their bodies also began to disintegrate.
All protective measures proved utterly ineffective against this bizarre attack.
Even shields are instantly disintegrated and dissolved upon contact.
The others in the hall were momentarily at a loss, and their feet began to retreat involuntarily.
Even Baili Qiu was no longer of concern; what they were more concerned about now was how long this attack would continue.
Before long, Xuan Qingzi was completely pulverized by this attack, leaving not even a single cell behind, and only then did the strange attack stop.
Were they really that easy to kill him?
Having withdrawn his supernatural powers Li Xingkong couldn't help but feel a little doubtful.
Although the Roof Bird Wall Fire Divine Light was indeed very powerful, and I had never used it before, judging from its performance just now, it was indeed worthy of being a type of Divine Light. However, Xuan Qingzi's death was too hasty.
This inevitably aroused Li Xingkong's suspicions.
"There's a backup; it's below."
Baili Qiu whispered something, his voice so low that it seemed only he could hear it.
However, Li Xingkong's Divine Sense had already spread throughout the entire hall, so he naturally heard the reminder clearly.
Li Xingkong didn't know the way down, but that didn't matter. Knowing where it was meant that not having a path was a minor problem.
Sure enough, someone like Xuan Qingzi couldn't possibly be without some kind of backup plan to save his life.
It might be a technology similar to gene cloning that allows him to be resurrected after being killed.
A large number of soldiers poured into the hall, and the entire hall, both inside and out, was completely surrounded.
The soldiers who entered took out a number of combat instruments and began searching for traces of the assassin.
Space scanning, stealth analysis, thermal imaging tracking...
Various combat readiness devices were activated, scanning the interior of the hall again and again.
Li Xingkong's current physical condition naturally made him immune to these scanning methods. To prevent Xuan Qingzi from immediately transferring after his resurrection, Li Xingkong slammed another beam of Divine Light directly onto the floor.
A hole the thickness of a finger cracked open in the floor of the main hall, extending rapidly into the ground.
There is one advantage to transforming into light: there are no size restrictions or collision volume limitations; as long as there is a gap, you can pass through it.
Divine Light cleared the way, Li Xingkong followed closely behind.
Although the hole in the ground had been discovered, the soldiers of the Sihali Kingdom were helpless against it and could only fire a few shots randomly into the hole with their weapons.
After traveling down for dozens of kilometers, a sudden bright light appeared before him, and Divine Light opened a passage, leading Li Xingkong to a large underground facility.
The entire facility resembles a biological laboratory, with hundreds of culture chambers arranged within it.
When Li Xingkong arrived, the incubation chamber at the far end had already been opened, and a familiar figure was moving about hurriedly—it was Xuan Qingzi.
The resurrection in the incubation chamber did not come without a price. Since Xuan Qingzi's memories could not be backed up at any time, he needed time to understand what had happened after his resurrection.
It was this delay that allowed Li Xingkong to charge down in an utterly unreasonable manner.
Another beam of Divine Light swept across, Xuan Qingzi, who had just been resurrected, fell down once again.
A few seconds later, the incubation chamber next to it opened, and another naked Xuan Qingzi was spat out.
Before he could regain consciousness, he was once again wiped out by Li Xingkong.
There are many cultivation chambers throughout the underground base; killing them one by one would be extremely inefficient.
Li Xingkong swept a beam of Divine Light across all the cultivation chambers, cleaving the entire Earthly Capital in two with a single strike.
Now that's good, let's see how he manages to revive.
Li Xingkong was cautious and threw out the Yin-Yang Mountain-Severing Divine Light from his other hand as well.
As long as Xuan Qingzi's soul still fluctuates, it means he has other means of resurrection.