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Chapter 48 Can We Kill Them All?
Lu Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gaze quickly swept across the many Qingwu Sect disciples present.

These outer disciples of Qingwu Sect are all practicing Qi training, most of them are in the late stage of Qi training, and three of them have reached the peak of Qi training and are only one step away from breaking through to the foundation building stage.

Such strength is already considered impressive among independent cultivators, but in a sect, it is only the lowest level, one level higher than the menial disciples.

According to Xie Yun, examining the traces of the Demonic Path is not an easy job.

The demonic monks have many methods, and they often use spells and secret methods to damage people's souls. Even when facing a demonic monk with lower cultivation than you, you still have to be extremely careful.

These Qingwu Sect's outer disciples did not show any seriousness on their faces. They all looked down at the numerous independent cultivators with a condescending attitude. Some even went so far as to comment on the female cultivators in the crowd. This further confirmed Lu Yan's guess.

The outer disciples of Qingwu Sect knew very well that searching for the Demonic Path was just a name, and that destroying the reputation of Qinggu Market was the main purpose. Naturally, there could be no danger in this situation.

There was a commotion among the group of casual cultivators. After a while, a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training, wearing yellow clothes and with an old face, walked out of the crowd.

The old monk bowed to Xie Yun and said:

"My name is Bai Kang, and I am from the Bai family in Yulin.

"My Bai family's young patriarch entered the Qingwu Sect many years ago and has now become an inner disciple of the Qingwu Sect. I hope this senior will let me go for the sake of my young master, okay?"

Bai Kang's words immediately caused a commotion among the casual cultivators.

"Yulin Bai family?"

"That's a family of immortal cultivators with two foundation-building cultivators in charge!"

"Old Man Bai is actually from the Bai family? Why have I never heard of him?"

"Haha! This old man Bai has been in Qinggu Market for several years, and no one knows his identity as a member of the Bai family.

Now that he is under investigation, he suddenly reveals his identity in order to get away with it. I'm afraid he has some big secrets."

Bai Kang didn't pay attention to the people behind him, but looked at Xie Yun respectfully, already anticipating the outcome in his mind.

The Bai family is a family of immortal cultivators with a five hundred year history. There is also an inner disciple of the Qingwu Sect in the family. Xie Yun should give this face.

He could tell that Xie Yun was only in the initial stage of foundation building, so it was not worth it to offend an immortal cultivation family because of such a small matter.

But who would have thought that after hearing Bai Kang introduce himself, Xie Yun's indifferent face suddenly showed a look of surprise.

"presumptuous!"

The tremendous magic power of the foundation-building cultivator exploded at this moment, and the vast amount of magic power turned into a big hand and slammed down heavily on Bai Kang.

Bai Kang, with a confused look on his face, was suppressed by the giant magical hand before he could even react. His body instantly turned into a pool of flesh and blood, and a handprint several feet in size appeared on the ground.

After killing Bai Kang, Xie Yun righteously rebuked loudly:
“The demonic cultivator actually wanted to impersonate a member of the Bai family in Yulin and use Junior Brother Bai’s name to escape investigation.

If Junior Brother Bai knew about this, he would draw his sword and kill you right here!
As a fellow disciple of Junior Brother Bai, I naturally don’t want to see a demon cultivator like you who uses Junior Brother Bai’s name to continue to cause trouble to the world.”

As Xie Yun spoke, he stretched out his right hand and the storage bag in the pool of blood and flesh flew into his hand.

The magic power dispersed the blood and flesh on the storage bag, and Xie Yun probed his spiritual sense into it to observe the contents of the storage bag.

After a while, the smile on Xie Yun's face disappeared, he snorted coldly and said in a deep voice:
"It's indeed a demon monk!"

After that, Xie Yun took out several talismans from his storage bag. "This talisman is called the Essence Talisman. It is a talisman drawn with the essence of the cultivator. After using it, it can improve the efficiency of practicing.

However, because excessive loss of essence will damage the foundation of the cultivator, this talisman has long been banned from circulation in the market. It is a demonic talisman!"

Xie Yun's words immediately made many casual cultivators look strange.

The Essence Talisman has a special name in the market for casual cultivators, called the Blood-Selling Talisman.

Although the circulation of Essence Talismans is expressly prohibited, the price of this thing is high. Some independent cultivators who really can't make it will sell some of their Essence, which is not much different from ordinary people selling blood.

The independent cultivators are all very clear that those who purchase the Essence Talismans are usually from aristocratic cultivation families or disciples of sects.

Only those disciples who come from powerful forces and whose talents are not very good will use Jing Yuan Talisman to help speed up their practice in order to create a false image of a genius in practice.

On the contrary, the demon cultivators don't even think highly of the Essence Talisman. What they want is not just the Essence, but also the flesh, blood, soul, and even the corpse after death.

In the eyes of casual cultivators, linking the Essence Talisman with the demonic cultivators is pure nonsense, but from the perspective of a sect, it can be considered a reasonable explanation.

Lu Yan, who had watched the whole process, now fully understood Xie Yun's intention.

Bai Kang was carrying the Jingyuan Talisman. Once it was exposed, it might implicate the young patriarch of the Bai family, so he took the initiative to reveal his background in order to escape scrutiny.

Bai Kang's actions made Xie Yun believe that the other party really had something related to the magic way on him, and he wanted to use this thing to stigmatize Qinggufang City and substantiate this inspection action.

When it comes to the dispute over the true teachings, Xie Yun doesn't care at all about a mere family of immortal cultivation and ordinary inner disciples.

But in order to reduce trouble, Xie Yun still claimed that Bai Kang was a cultivator of the devil's way and took the initiative to sever the relationship between Bai Kang and the Yulin Bai family and the Bai family's young patriarch.

After killing Bai Kang, Xie Yun only found the Essence Talisman, but the value of the Essence Talisman could only be considered as a barely sufficient explanation to his superiors, and it could not completely stop Qinggu Market from allowing the evil to wreak havoc.

The only benefit should be that after Xie Yunzhen killed Bai Kang, he intimidated many cultivators.

Even if these monks have other backgrounds, they dare not say it out now, which saves a lot of trouble.

The noisy crowd gradually quieted down, and the independent cultivators with a clean background walked to the entrance of the market town and took out their storage bags and handed them over to the outer disciples of Qingwu Sect for inspection.

Most of those who are still staying where they are now have the same dirty background as Bai Kang.

Naturally, Lu Yan is also among this group of people.

As the number of people in the crowd gradually decreased, the outer disciples found two more people among the independent cultivators and identified them as the lackeys of the evil sect.

One of them had several magical instruments with extremely strong Yin energy in his storage bag, which were suspected to be obtained from digging up a Yin tomb.

The other one had a tattered robe that was tainted with the aura of the devil, and it looked like it had been stripped off a corpse.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that these two casual cultivators had no connection with the evil path, but they were still labeled as members of the evil path. This made many casual cultivators feel a sense of grief for the other cultivators.

As for Lu Yan, he was looking at all the cultivators at the entrance of the market town, secretly calculating in his mind.

"If we use the Hundred Souls Banner, can we kill everyone present?"

(End of this chapter)