Everything on the grass below had vanished. Even the thin jets of blood squeezed out of the bodies had disappeared, leaving not a trace behind, as though no one else had ever been there.
Li Yan curled a finger, and several rings turned into streaks of shadow, flying out of the ground and straight into his hand.
With another thought from Li Yan, a yellow ball of light suddenly appeared before him. Within it was a tiny figure just over two inches tall, looking exactly like the female cultivator surnamed Yuan. Her eyes were tightly shut, and she was unconscious.
Li Yan beckoned into the air, and the yellow ball of light flew over. His palm settled over it, and his magical power instantly surged into the tiny Nascent Soul's head...
A tea's time later, Li Yan hovered in the air, his face expressionless, betraying neither joy nor anger. His five fingers tightened slightly.
Bang!
The female cultivator surnamed Yuan's Nascent Soul truly perished while she lay unconscious. Faintly, her three ethereal souls and seven corporeal souls drifted out.
Li Yan did not destroy her souls. Instead, with a sweep of his sleeve, he sent them out of Tuban and fully into the great path of reincarnation.
He was no utterly vicious monster. He had killed her and obtained the information he needed, so naturally, he would let those unconscious souls enter the Underworld.
This time, Li Yan had obtained a great deal of useful information from the female cultivator surnamed Yuan's memories. Just as Chongyangzi had suspected, she had been bought off by Heart Refining Valley, one of their hostile forces.
Not even the Nascent Soul disciples of Heavenly Mountain Garden and Spirit Subduing Manor knew about the female cultivator surnamed Yuan's plan for this operation.
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