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Chapter 212 Annihilation of an Entire Family?!
The old man died.

The moment Li Zhe pushed open the half-closed bamboo door and saw the scene inside...

A little bit shy.

Inside the bamboo house, the light was dim.

The air was filled with a strange, overwhelming smell, a mixture of the fragrance of herbs and the stench of blood.

Yao Chen was currently slumped in an extremely contorted position beside his beloved alchemy furnace.

His eyes were wide open, and his cloudy old eyes were filled with extreme terror and disbelief.

A trace of dark red blood, not yet dried, still clung to the corner of his mouth.

Beneath him lay a pool of congealed blood, like a blooming black lotus, eerie and horrifying.

The strangest thing is that he had no external injuries.

just like……

His life was forcibly drained from within by an invisible force.

And not far from him.

The demonic creature that Li Zhe had previously glimpsed through the window also collapsed in a mess of medicinal herbs in the same bizarre manner.

A strange expression lingered on its face.

But those captivating eyes had lost all their luster, becoming empty and lifeless.

Li Zhe's brows furrowed instantly.

He didn't step forward immediately, but instead held his breath and pushed his brain, which was comparable to a supercomputer, to its limit.

Not right.

Something is wrong!
The entire bamboo house looked like a mess, as if it had recently undergone a thrilling "academic discussion".

But Li Zhe could clearly sense that here...

There were no signs of a struggle.

There were no residual energy fluctuations from magic, and no scratches from the collision of magical artifacts.

There wasn't even the slightest trace of a third person's presence.

It's as if these two people died suddenly in a state of perfect harmony.

"commander……"

In his mind, Zero's voice, already extremely faint, crackling like a broken old radio, struggled to rise again.

The system has suffered an unknown, rule-based attack, resulting in severe damage to its core database.

Li Zhe's heart sank suddenly.

It's the rules system again...

Isn't this over yet?!
He pushed the detection capabilities of the muscle armor to their limit.

An invisible energy fluctuation, centered on him, instantly swept across the entire valley.

However, the result shocked him even more.

In the entire valley, apart from him and those two cold corpses, there was not a single living creature to be found.

Even the chirping birds and insects that used to flit through the grass have vanished without a trace.

A dead silence.

It was as if all the vitality of the world had been completely drained away in that instant.

"This...their entire family was suddenly wiped out?"

A cold glint flashed in Li Zhe's eyes.

This was an attack from the level of rules, one he had never seen before, filled with an eerie and ominous aura!
just like……

An invisible hand, in the darkness, plucked the strings of fate.

They completely altered the rules governing "life" in this area.

He immediately turned around and rushed out of the valley.

We must immediately find out just how far this strange force has spread.

as well as……

What exactly happened to the entire Qingluan Sect?
When Li Zhe rushed out of the mist-shrouded valley and returned to the outer disciple residential area of ​​the Qingluan Sect.

The sight before him made even his heart, hardened by countless battles, twitch slightly.

The entire outer gate still retains its familiar, bustling atmosphere.

Smoke curls from chimneys, and the sounds of chickens and dogs can be heard from afar.

Several outer disciples were still sparring in the courtyard and washing clothes by the stream.

but……

Everyone was motionless, like a movie scene that had been paused.

The expressions they wore before they died still lingered on their faces.

There was joy, anger, confusion, and hope...

But their eyes had long since lost all their sparkle, becoming empty and lifeless. Their lives were silently taken away in an instant, without them even realizing it.

No struggle, no pain.

just like……

Their souls were forcibly ripped from their bodies by an irresistible force.

Li Zhe's heart sank little by little.

He strode heavily through the desolate area toward the inner gate.

Everything I saw along the way was like this.

Whether it's those inner disciples who are usually aloof and arrogant.

They were still the same venerable and highly skilled deacons and elders.

Even……

The Qingluan Sect leader who was so full of vigor and pontificating at the Ascension Ceremony.

Everyone died peacefully in their caves and at their posts.

The entire Qingluan Sect is the only sacred place for cultivating immortality within a radius of a hundred miles.

In less than an hour, surprisingly...

It became a huge, silent...

grave.

Li Zhe stood atop the main peak of the Azure Phoenix Sect, looking down at the sect shrouded in deathly silence below.

The mountain wind was biting, making his clothes flutter loudly.

His face was completely expressionless.

But in those deep eyes, a storm raged, filled with a chilling killing intent.

"zero."

His voice was hoarse and deep.

【……exist……】

"I will concentrate all the computing power I can currently mobilize to conduct a high-precision, comprehensive scan of the entire Qingluan Mountain Range."

"I want to know... what secrets are still hidden here."

Yes, sir...

Zero's voice was still faint, but it was filled with an undeniable firmness.

An invisible yet incredibly vast torrent of data erupted from Li Zhe's body in an instant, enveloping the entire Qingluan Mountain Range like an invisible spider web.

Mountains, rivers, vegetation, rocks...

Everything was deconstructed, analyzed, and reassembled under that incredible computing power.

Time passed by minute by minute.

A fine layer of sweat had already seeped onto Li Zhe's forehead.

This full-power scan also puts a huge strain on his mental energy.

at last……

After a half-hour period of intense, almost self-torturing mental concentration.

The sound of zero rang out once more.

[Commander...scan...complete...]

[In...in the back mountain...in Yaochen's...bamboo hut...underground...]

[A...hidden...secret room has been discovered...]

An unprecedented glint flashed in Li Zhe's eyes.

Without the slightest hesitation, he swayed.

Like a ghost, it charged once again toward the valley filled with death and eeriness.

……

When Li Zhe returned to the bamboo house filled with the scent of herbs, it was still as desolate as ever.

The corpses of Yao Chen and that evil demon from the demonic sect still lay there quietly.

It was as if it were telling the story of everything that had happened not long ago.

Li Zhe ignored all of this and walked straight to the alchemy furnace that had long since been extinguished.

He reached out and, following the coordinates provided by Zero, gently pressed down on an inconspicuous protrusion on the cold furnace wall.

"Click——"

A crisp click of a mechanism rang out.

The heavy alchemy furnace slowly moved aside.

A dark entrance leading underground was revealed...

(End of this chapter)