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In Martial Emperor City, only one type of person possesses a golden soul: those who have experienced reincarnation.

Huang Lingtian's soul was also golden, but he was already crippled.

The other person with the golden soul can only be Yan Mingyu.

Qin Yu's fingers hovered on the table for five breaths.

Zhou Yaoyun said that Wudi City was conducting a large-scale search for the Reincarnation Empress, whose whereabouts were unknown.

There has been no news of Yan Mingyu since she was taken away by two human elders.

But what if Meng Hanbing finds her first?

Or to be more precise, what if Meng Hanbing had blocked the path taken by the human elders when they were sending Yan Mingyu away?

"Did that person show any signs of resistance?"

"No, his soul is suppressed by the four Soul-Eating Insects and is in a dormant state."

The person's dormant state indicates that their independent consciousness has been stripped away by the Soul-Eating Worm, making them no different from a living puppet.

If that person really is Yan Mingyu, then her current situation is even more dangerous than Kui Hong's three years at the Demon Locking Peak.

Because once the Soul-Eating Worm has devoured the host's soul, the host's body will become Meng Hanbing's puppet.

Qin Yu dared not imagine what it meant for the Reincarnation Empress's body to become a puppet.

"Are you sure you didn't see wrong? A golden soul."

Zhuge Chuchu glanced at him with an expression as if he were an idiot.

"My Glass Eyes have seen the fortunes and souls of more than 20,000 people since birth, and I have never made a mistake."

Qin Yu stopped asking questions. He stood up and walked to the window. The purple signal flare from the direction of the city gate was still hanging in the air. Lei Ming's lockdown order could at least last until tomorrow morning.

The entire city was under lockdown; he couldn't get out, and neither could Meng Hanbing.

Everyone was imprisoned in Tian Shu City.

Qin Yu glanced back at the direction of the spirit tower. Kui Hong was sleeping inside, Ye Qingxue was guarding her, and Kui Wu was kneeling beside her.

He glanced at Zhuge Chuchu and Meng Qianyun again.

Then he made a decision that no one expected.

"I'm not leaving tonight."

Meng Qianyun thought he was going to the East District to rescue someone, because that person was Qin Yu's wife.

Zhuge Chuchu thought he was going to seek revenge on Meng Hanbing because Meng Hanbing had used the Qingfeng Sword as bait to threaten his people.

But Qin Yu said he wasn't leaving.

"What do you mean by not leaving? The city is under lockdown, yet you're still sitting in Tingyuxuan drinking."

"It's not about sitting and drinking, it's about waiting."

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait for Lei Ming to come knocking on our door."

It took Meng Qianyun a couple of moments to understand Qin Yu's meaning.

After Lei Ming discovered the fake medicine, his first reaction was to seal off the city and search for the young man with the minotaur he had met at the checkpoint outside the city.

However, the Thousand-Machine Veil rendered that face useless data, and the only clue Lei Ming had was the 500 spirit crystals of toll Qin Yu paid outside the city.

The spirit crystal smelled of Qin Yu's sweaty hands.

The Thunder God Sect possesses a spiritual object called the Thunder Tracking Spirit, which can track extremely faint residual auras. As long as Lei Ming extracts the aura from those spirit crystals and hands it over to the Thunder Tracking Spirit, Qin Yu's location within the city can be pinpointed within half an hour.

Qin Yu knew this.

He wanted Lei Ming to come knocking on his door.

He needed a big enough commotion to attract the attention of the entire Tian Shu City and make everyone's eyes focus on Ting Yu Xuan.

Then, while everyone was focused on Tingyuxuan, he could quietly accomplish what he really needed to do in that secluded courtyard in the East District.

"You should use a feint to the east while attacking in the west."

"What I want is not a feint, but a complete upheaval."

After saying this, Qin Yu took something out of his storage ring and placed it on the table.

The Heaven-Defying Pill.

The pill that Yan Mingyu gave him was a heaven-defying pill that would allow him to directly leap to the Nascent Soul stage after breaking through the Golden Core stage.

Meng Qianyun and Zhuge Chuchu saw the pill at the same time, but their reactions were completely different.

Meng Qianyun recognized the pill, and her face turned pale instantly. Zhuge Chuchu didn't recognize it, but her crystal-clear eyes contracted sharply the moment she saw the pill, because she saw the aura swirling around its surface.

That's no ordinary luck.

That's a heaven-defying aura that can attract calamity.

"You are about to undergo a tribulation."

For the first time, Zhuge Chuchu's voice showed a fluctuation.

"You will undergo your tribulation in Tian Shu City."

"It's not a tribulation, it's breaking through to the Golden Core stage, and incidentally, it draws down a bolt of lightning."

Qin Yu pressed his finger on the Heaven-Defying Pill. He had been suppressing his cultivation level on the Martial Emperor Continent, waiting for the right opportunity.

The journey from the peak of Foundation Establishment to the Golden Core stage requires the baptism of heavenly lightning, and the journey from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage requires the test of the Heavenly Dao. The effect of the Heaven-Defying Pill is to skip the Golden Core stage and go directly to the Nascent Soul stage, but the cost is that the heavenly lightning it attracts is three times stronger than the normal Golden Core tribulation.

Under normal circumstances, no one would undergo tribulation in the city, because heavenly lightning is indiscriminate and will affect all living beings within a radius of a hundred feet.

But that's exactly the kind of impact Qin Yu wanted.

When Lei Ming came knocking, he was undergoing his tribulation. The heavenly lightning struck within a hundred feet of Tingyu Pavilion, and all the cultivators on the street could see it.

All eyes in the city are on this place.

Attention will be diverted to that detached house in the East District.

"Are you crazy? People will die if they try to undergo tribulation in the city."

Meng Qianyun's voice has changed.

"That's why I'm waiting for Lei Ming to come. When he arrives at Tingyu Pavilion with his demon-slaying team, the surrounding civilians and ordinary cultivators have already been frightened away. Only the people from the Heavenly Thunder Sect and I remain within a hundred feet."

"You used the people of the Thunder God Sect as human shields."

"They're not meat shields, they're sparring partners. They practice lightning magic, so they shouldn't die from taking a couple of lightning strikes."

Logically, there is nothing wrong with this statement. Cultivators of the Heavenly Thunder Sect have a natural resistance to lightning. Although they will be injured after being hit by tribulation lightning, it will not be fatal.

From a moral standpoint, only Qin Yu would do something like using others as tools to overcome tribulations.

Zhuge Chuchu stared at Qin Yu for a full ten breaths with her crystal-clear eyes.

"Your fortune is changing; it was silver just now, but now it's turning gold."

"What's the meaning."

"It means that Heaven has taken notice of you. The heaven-defying energy of this pill in your hand is resonating with your destiny. If you swallow it now, the heavenly tribulation will descend within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn."

A stick of incense.

It would probably take an incense stick's time for Lei Ming's tracking and Lei Ling to pinpoint his location.

The timing was perfect.

Qin Yu put the Heaven-Defying Pill in his mouth but didn't swallow it; he was waiting for the final signal.

The signal arrived after about half a cup of tea.

The streets outside Tingyuxuan suddenly fell silent. The once bustling night market crowd seemed to be pushed aside by an invisible hand, and everyone was retreating to both sides.

A streak of purple lightning flew from the end of the street and stopped at the entrance of Tingyuxuan.

Thunder is coming.

Behind him followed the remaining three core members of the demon-slaying team, along with twelve elite disciples, each holding a magical weapon, ready to unleash their power.

"Wang Ergou, come out."

The sound of thunder penetrated the soundproofing of Tingyuxuan and reached the ears of everyone in the private room on the third floor.

He was referring to Wang Ergou.

The source of the aura that Lei Ling traced was in this building, and it perfectly matched the sweaty aura on the two thousand spirit crystals.

Qin Yu looked down from the window and saw that all the civilians and ordinary cultivators on the street had fled. Within a radius of a hundred feet, only the people from the Thunderclap Sect and a few terrified maids from the Listening Rain Pavilion remained.

The innkeeper trembled behind the counter, never dreaming that the private room he had booked out was occupied by someone wanted by the Thunder God Sect.

"Come out, or I'll tear this building down."

Qin Yu turned his head and glanced at Meng Qianyun and Zhuge Chuchu.

"You two go into the Spirit Tower."

Meng Qianyun did not object. She knew what was going to happen next, and staying outside would only cause her to be affected.

Zhuge Chuchu didn't hesitate. She used her Crystal Eyes to examine Qin Yu's aura and knew this man wouldn't die tonight. (End of Chapter)