Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 54 - Annihilation of the Hunshan Hall
Gao Shanyu, the head constable, was focused on the corpse. Although he had gotten to this position through his family connections, he clearly still had some professional ethics.

"Ignited directly with fire energy?" Xiang Lingfeng looked at the charred room and guessed the cause of the fire. "This level of intensity can only be achieved by those at the third or even fourth level of the cultivation level."

Xiang Lingfeng couldn't help but feel apprehensive about the three-story or even four-story buildings, after all, he was only at the fourth level.

"Old Xu, have you figured out the cause of death?" Xiang Lingfeng asked the coroner beside him.

The coroner put down the charred corpse and said, "The direct cause of death was that his throat was directly crushed."

"Indirectly?" Xiang Lingfeng asked.

"First, his body was bound by cloth, then another person tortured and killed him, and finally the first person delivered the final blow," the coroner said.

"How do their strengths compare?" Xiang Lingfeng asked.

“One of them should just be an ordinary martial artist; I found his blood at the scene,” the coroner said. “But it’s hard to say about the other one, but he must be at least at the fourth level of the Spirit Platform Realm to be able to suppress a victim who is only at the second level of the Spirit Platform Realm instantly.”

"The fourth level of the Spirit Platform." Xiang Lingfeng frowned. His idea being confirmed made him very uneasy, after all, there were only a handful of cultivators at the fourth level in Bailian County.

His side knew that Gao Shanyu was a member of the Xiang family and wouldn't make a move. The experts on the magistrate's side were also being closely watched, so there shouldn't be any additional experts appearing.

Where exactly did this fourth level of the Spirit Platform come from?
"Check all the cultivators who have recently stayed in Bailian County," Xiang Lingfeng said to the constable beside him.

"Yes." The constable stepped back.

On the other side, Lin Le was eating beef in big bites. With a tear of his teeth, he swallowed a large piece of beef. With a bite, he ground the bone marrow and bone together into powder.

True Qi circulates through the six internal organs. The food that has just been ingested is transformed into essence and then assimilated into True Qi. Fire-type True Qi emerges from the spiritual platform, permeates the body, and carries this powerful physique to climb to a higher level.

After finishing all the food, Lin Le let out a burp.

The Hun Tian Ling wrapped around his body, and some fine patterns appeared on its red surface. The two little ones were restrained.

This also means that Lin Le's physical strength has reached a new level.

Thirty-one thousand six hundred catties!

Lin Le picked up the tiger bone spear beside him and felt that the weapon, which had been somewhat handy before, had become unhandy again.

Unfortunately, this small county town has no famous weapon refiners. Even those with some skills rely on the Xiang family or the county magistrate for survival.

If he were to go to them, he would likely expose his combat capabilities and attract their attention.

Needless to say, the Xiang family is in the open while the Xiang family is in the shadows, which is Lin Le's advantage, and Lin Le naturally will not give up this advantage.

As for the county magistrate, that fat pig was also on his revenge list.

Lin Le didn't believe for a second that the magistrate was unaware that the Xiang family wanted to wipe out their family.

Although the imperial aura had not yet gathered, it did not mean that the officials had no control at all, nor did it mean that there was no imperial aura in the city at this time, it was just not strong.

Under the influence of imperial aura, the county magistrate can use official orders to find all the outcasts that have infiltrated the county. In other words, he can suppress certain outcasts at any time by gathering imperial aura whenever he wants.

But he didn't; instead, he allowed the outcasts to run rampant.

Lin Le didn't know what consensus he had reached with the Xiang family, but he didn't need to know the moment his parents died.

All he knew was that he had to kill him.

With a change in physique, Lin Le went out with a gun. Although Gao Shanyu was dead, Hun Shan Tang was not yet destroyed.

The three leaders of Hunshan Hall gathered here, and all three of them knew about Gao Shanyu's death.

Their expressions varied; according to the news they had heard, Gao Shanyu's entire family was wiped out, even his one-year-old child was reduced to a pile of charred remains. The man in the middle sighed with grief, "Alas, how could such a good man like Brother Gao suffer such a calamity!"

"Hypocrite!" the man on the left scoffed, his tone full of disdain.
The woman on the right said, "Third brother, aren't you saddened by the passing of our eldest brother?"

"Sadness, what a load of rubbish!" The man clicked his tongue. "Sworn sisters, and you really think you're siblings, Hu Si Niang!"

Hu Si Niang narrowed her eyes slightly: "Brother Scarface speaks so bluntly, do you perhaps think that you should be in charge of Hun Shan Tang from now on?"

“I can’t make the decision,” Scarface Brother shook his head. “And you shouldn’t either. Don’t you really know who’s behind Gao Shanyu?”

"Isn't it just Young Master Xiang?" Hu Si Niang said. "What, does he intend to personally become the head of the Hun Shan Hall?"

"He won't, he won't arrange for other members of the Xiang family to come in?" Scarface Brother sneered. "The Xiang family has been hoping for Hunshan Hall to become their private property for a long time."

"Does this mean that you're considering a different path, Brother Scarface?" The middle man put away his sorrowful expression and looked at Brother Scarface.

"Ha, how could I dare? I'd probably be fed to them by the afternoon if I left this morning." Scarface Brother chuckled. "Although it doesn't really matter now."

"What do you mean?" Hu Siniang asked, her voice somewhat shrill.

"What do you mean?" Scarface Third Brother glanced at Hu Siniang. "Stop fooling yourself. Gao Shanyu is dead, so the next ones to die will be the three of us. Do you think the person who killed Gao Shanyu will let the three of us cultivators go?"

The other two remained silent. Cultivators were considered the backbone of the fighting force in the county town. Even though the three of them were only at the first level of cultivation, they were still cultivators.

The enemy killed Takayama Yu, so they must be heading for the house. Those on the periphery must be eliminated.

"So, does Scarface Brother have a plan?" the middle man asked Scarface Brother.

“I have no other choice. My only option right now is to stay with you two. At least we can keep each other company when we die,” Scarface said irritably. “All we can do now is wait for the Xiang family to come and then set a trap to kill the person who killed Gao Shanyu.”

At that moment, a detached voice came from the side: "Then you probably won't have that chance."

"Who goes there?" The three leaders turned around in unison to look at the young man who was slowly walking into the hall.

"The people who killed you." Lin Le glanced at them.

Without hesitation, the three immediately fled in three different directions.

To be able to approach them silently, one must at least be a cultivator, and to dare to commit violence in broad daylight undoubtedly requires extreme confidence in one's own strength, enabling one to kill them in a short time.

Therefore, they immediately concluded that Lin Le was the one who killed Gao Shanyu.

They weren't stupid, so they naturally wouldn't assume Lin Le was bluffing just because he looked young.

Moreover, they can't afford to gamble, because if they lose, it's their life. Even if the probability of losing is one percent, no one wants to entrust their life to probability.

"Escape, ha." Lin Le flicked his finger, and a flash of golden light disappeared in an instant. The person who was trying to escape was already headless.

With a breath, black and white light arrived in the blink of an eye.

A white sword pierced her head, a black sword pierced her heart, and Hu Siniang fell down.

The spear was bound with a red ribbon and thrown again.

boom!
Scarface Brother's head was smashed open like that.

And all of this was just a matter of a single breath for Lin Le.

(End of this chapter)