Die, All of You

"Being in the Golden Core Realm makes you so impressive? Who gave you the courage to act so insolently before me with your mere Golden Core cultivation?"

Qin Yi felt he was qualified to talk big now. At least, he was qualified for the next ten minutes.

"Every other word out of your mouth was about killing me. So who's dying now?"

Qin Yi stared at Xiahou Tai. He was no fool who liked talking so much that he gave his opponent a chance to strike back.

Immediately after breaking Xiahou Tai's arms, he slammed his palm into his forehead, smashing his head to pieces like a watermelon.

A [Heaven's Chosen Son · Villain] had thus died not at the hands of [Heaven's Chosen Son] Hua Yunfeng, but prematurely at Qin Yi's hands.

"You... you..."

At the sight, Song Xianming's legs went weak with terror.

Xiahou Tai was, after all, a bona fide Golden Core Realm expert. Among the younger generation of the entire Famous Sword Sect, he was the only person besides Hua Yunfeng to have reached that realm.

The other Golden Core Realm experts were essentially all elders.

In terms of cultivation realm, Xiahou Tai was fully qualified to be an elder himself.

Yet at this very moment, such an expert had had his head smashed apart by that new disciple from Emerald Bamboo Peak, who had joined less than a month ago, dying on the spot.

"How could... how could this happen..."

Song Xianming frantically tried to crawl out as though he had seen a ghost.

But the terror seeping into his very marrow had robbed his legs of all sensation.

He could only drag his upper body along, crawling over the ground with his hands in an attempt to escape.

But how could Qin Yi let him get away?

"Get over here."

With the power of the Nascent Soul Realm, Qin Yi reached out and seized Song Xianming through the air, pulling him over.

"Didn't you want to kill me? Why is running all you know how to do now?"

Qin Yi patted his face.

Song Xianming's legs trembled with fear, and liquid trickled from his crotch. "Don't kill me... I... I don't want that bitch anymore. You can have her, she's all yours. I don't know anything, and I won't say anything. Please don't kill me... I'm begging you, don't kill me..."

Song Xianming prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowing to him with all his might.

Qin Yi sneered inwardly at his groveling posture.

As the saying went, fail to kill a snake, and it would turn around and harm you.

He had always believed in just one principle: never make enemies, but once you did, fight until one of you was dead.

Indiscriminately playing the saint and sparing an opponent would inevitably disgust you later, and might even leave you with regrets beyond remedy.

In any case, there was no benefit to keeping an opponent alive, and no harm in killing them. Since that was so, why keep them?

"Xinran is my woman. Do I need you to give her to me? You can go along with Xiahou Tai."

Qin Yi raised his hand and brought his palm crashing down, smashing Song Xianming's head apart as well.

After killing the two men, Qin Yi dragged their bodies together and searched them.

Song Xianming had nothing good on him, but Qin Yi found a black skull ring on Xiahou Tai.

The moment he put the black skull ring on his finger, he sensed a strand of black Qi lying dormant within it.

When he sent his divine sense into the ring, he could even see a skeleton sitting cross-legged inside.

The skeleton seemed to possess life still, sensing Qin Yi's divine sense as soon as it entered.

It raised its head to meet his gaze, then let out a sinister cackle. "Remarkable, remarkable. To think you could kill Xiahou Tai. Young man, you've got what it takes. Since this ring has fallen into your hands, are you willing to accept this Demon Venerable's inheritance?"

A Demon Venerable's inheritance!

Presumably, it was the cultivation method for the [Heavenly Demon Dao].

"Tch, the Heavenly Demon Dao. If cultivating it means turning into someone like Xiahou Tai, with nails that long, I don't want it."

Even if it was powerful, Qin Yi had no interest in this Dao lineage. It was simply too ugly.

He promptly took off the ring and crushed it on the spot with a crack.

After the ring shattered, a wail came from the space within it. A plume of thick smoke then emerged and dissipated in an instant.

Without a doubt, a remnant of the Demon Venerable's soul had lingered inside that ring. Whoever obtained the ring and accepted its inheritance would become his emissary.

They would make every preparation for his future resurrection.

As a son of the system, how could Qin Yi think much of a mere demonic inheritance?

Besides the ring, Xiahou Tai had also carried plenty of spirit stones and pills. As someone whose fame rivaled Hua Yunfeng's in the Famous Sword Sect, he certainly would not have lacked resources.

After taking these spoils, Qin Yi set both bodies ablaze.

Burning under the power of the Nascent Soul Realm, the two bodies were soon reduced to ashes.

To avoid becoming a burden, Xu Xinran had run deep into the cave and found a secluded place to hide.

She had not seen what had happened outside.

Only after resting for a while did Qin Yi go in and find her.

Xu Xinran followed him outside, trembling with fear, but Xiahou Tai and Song Xianming were nowhere to be seen.

"Husband... where are they?"

Qin Yi did not deceive her. He pointed at the ashes on the ground. "There. Those are their ashes."

Xu Xinran jumped in fright, then stood dazed in disbelief for a long while. "Husband... did... did you do this?"

"Yes. Thanks to that kiss of yours, I gained strength again. That's how I managed to unleash that burst of power."

Xu Xinran smiled bleakly.

The first time Qin Yi had said that, she had believed him.

But this was the second time, and he had killed an expert like Xiahou Tai. However much she was a woman in love, she could still sense something strange about it.

"Your cultivation realm must be very high, right, husband?"

Seeing her expression turn despondent, Qin Yi immediately pulled her into his arms. "No matter how high my cultivation realm is, you're my woman. Whatever happens in the future, I won't abandon you."

As he spoke, he gave her all the spoils he had found on Xiahou Tai.

Apart from a storage pouch he kept for himself, he gave her everything.

Suddenly receiving a great pile of pills and spirit stones, Xu Xinran became dazed once more. "Husband... you're... giving all of this to me?"

"Of course. I told you, from now on, I'll cover all your cultivation resources. You're my woman, after all."

Xu Xinran's eyes reddened at his words. These were no small quantity of resources.

A disciple like her could work hard in the sect for ten years and still never obtain so many resources.

The pills included [Great Rejuvenation Pills], [Qi Gathering Pills], and [Foundation Establishment Pills].

And they came by the bottle.

With these resources, she could be said to have nothing to worry about in the future, even if she stopped taking missions.

And these things were equivalent to luxury mansions and sports cars in later times.

When a man obtained a woman and then, without another word, promptly gave her luxury mansions and sports cars, it would certainly be impossible to say she was not moved.