What bad intentions could my Daoist partner possibly have?

Chapter 19 "In a few days, your master will need to hide away for a while."

"Huh? Why did you come down? Where's Yinyin?"

Shen Jianwei glanced behind Li Qingan and asked curiously.

"Look over there at the empty shadow stone I've completed."

"Oh, I see. You weren't with me."

Why should I stay with you?

“Because…” Shen Jianwei paused, her expression turning suspicious: “Hey, I suddenly realized that you’re pursuing Lingyin like it’s a mission. Every day you see Lingyin in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, and then you go do other things.”

"If Lingyin doesn't ask you to keep her company, you really won't."

Li Qingan smiled and said, "I need to earn spirit crystals. I can't keep revolving around her all the time. Otherwise, let alone her, I'll start to despise myself."

Shen Jianwei thought it made a lot of sense: "Love others, love yourself first... but I still feel like you're doing a task..."

"Maybe it's because I've done too many tasks and I'm not very good at expressing my emotions."

"Nonsense, how could you not be able to express yourself..."

Suddenly remembering Li Qingan's gaze, Shen Jianwei almost blurted out, but quickly shut her mouth, blushing as she reached for the pastries on the table.

Li Qingan smiled and glanced at her twice, then said softly, "I've finished making all fifty Void Stones for today. I'm going to go outside and stretch my legs."

"Mmm...mmm." Shen Jianwei nodded quickly: "I'll give you the spirit crystal in a bit."

"Row."

Li Qingan walked out of Mingyue Tower and said to Huang Qingwu, "Master, let's go to the Dong family now."

"Aren't we going to wait until tonight?"

"No, I can't wait," Li Qingan replied. "I have to cultivate tonight, I don't have time to play with them."

“Alright.” Huang Qingwu understood Li Qingan’s meaning, and immediately mobilized some Yin energy. After Li Qingan left Mingyue Tower for a distance, she concealed her whereabouts and headed straight for the Dong family in the north of the city.

Thanks to Huang Qingwu's help, the distance between the south and north of the city could be covered at a speed far exceeding that of the Soaring Sky Realm.

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The Dong residence, the main residence.

After punishing the clan elders and dismissing everyone, Dong Bai stared blankly at the corpse on the ground, his mind filled with doubt.

The person who came to the Dong family to pick up the job last night doesn't match this person at all.

Although the person who died was also a newcomer to the Transcendent Realm, after examination, his foundation was completely inferior to that of the person who took over the job.

I can kill this kind of trash in the sixth realm with some effort.

Did the assassin hire someone else after taking half the deposit?
Do they have absolutely no professional ethics?

Dong Bai grew angrier the more he thought about it. He really wanted to tear that person from last night to pieces. If it weren't for him, why would he have had to pay Li Qing'an six million?
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He clenched his fists and unclenched them repeatedly, only to find that he really had no good solution.

My own cultivation level is the late stage of the Soaring Sky Realm. If I bring all the Soaring Sky Realm members in my family, I might have a chance to kill him. But he's not going to be stupid enough to just wait for me to kill him!
So, after a brief bout of impotent rage, Dong Bai smashed the table next to him to pieces.

After calming down slightly, Dong Bai quickly became agitated again. Not only had he suffered such a huge loss, but he had also offended Li Qing'an to the core. The Holy Maiden valued him so much, and the future of the Dong family...

"Go and seek refuge with the Daoist sect..."

Dong Bai murmured to himself, the more he thought about it, the more feasible the plan seemed. He could even help the Dao Sect as an inside agent in Yanzhou. In that case, once the Dao Sect had gained power, wouldn't the Dong family be able to do whatever they wanted in Yanzhou?
It would be acceptable to spend a high price to hire an even more powerful sixth or seventh realm expert to continue assassinating Li Qing'an before that!
Killing them would be best, but even if they aren't killed, the Dong family will have a way out!
The more Dong Bai thought about it, the more feasible the plan seemed. He immediately stood up and shouted, "Someone come here!"

It was completely silent outside.

Dong Bai, who had initially paid no attention, frowned slightly and shouted sternly, "Someone, why isn't anyone coming? Are they all dead?"

Dong Bai was very angry.

The servants of the Dong family are not outsiders; they are all members of the main family or branch families who do not have much talent. They are paid well on a daily basis, and their job is to be obedient and to avoid harming the geniuses within the clan.

When did they start daring to disobey even their own words?
"Somebody come!"

Dong Bai raised his voice a few decibels, but he also sensed something was wrong. Was it too quiet outside?

He felt slightly uneasy and was about to go out to check when a steady footstep suddenly sounded outside.

Dong Bai, who had breathed a slight sigh of relief, looked towards the door, but his expression changed drastically the moment he saw who it was.

Li Qing'an, dressed in white, stood confidently at the door, a long sword at his waist, his hand on the hilt, a slight smile on his face.

"Master Dong, why waste money trying to save my life?" Li Qing'an tapped his fingertips lightly on the hilt of his sword. "I'm right here now. You're welcome to come and kill me."

Dong Bai's eyelids twitched. Although he had already guessed the fate of the others, he still asked with hope, "You killed them all?" "Otherwise what?" Seeing that Dong Bai was not yet enraged and ready to attack, Li Qing'an slowly pulled the hilt of his sword: "Either don't do it, or do it thoroughly."

The moment he finished speaking, Li Qingan took a step forward, and the Qingwu sword in his hand flashed with a chilling blue light.

Dong Bai's expression changed drastically, his voice filled with rage: "Li Qing'an, you're a piece of trash who's been stuck in the Core Formation Realm for so long, and you still want to kill me?!"

"Mysterious Ice Cold Hand!"

Dong Bai shouted, his hands covered in ice, and the temperature inside the room suddenly dropped, with ice crystals spreading throughout the room.

A pair of large hands reached directly at the sword's edge without dodging or avoiding it.

Click-click——

In an instant, the hands covered in ice were torn apart by sharp sword energy, and the severed fingers flew wildly in the air.

The pain came late, and Dong Bai's eyes were filled with astonishment. He suddenly remembered something.

Although Li Qing'an had been stuck at the Core Formation Realm for a long time, he was invincible at that level.

If one's talent is truly lacking, can one achieve invincibility within the same realm?

"Li Qingan, let's talk this out. I can tell you what the assassin from last night looked like!"

"No need to trouble yourself, I already know."

The sword's edge swept across Dong Bai's chest, easily tearing half of his body apart.

puff-

His two halves fell to the ground, one in front of the other, and blood splattered everywhere.

After sheathing his sword, Li Qing'an removed the storage ring from the severed finger, stored all the spirit crystals inside into his own storage ring, and then turned and left.

He had already obtained information about the murderer's appearance from the clan elder who had previously confessed that the Dong family was the murderer.

The moment he stepped across the threshold, Li Qingan casually tossed a spirit stone inside. The fire-attribute spiritual energy contained within it instantly erupted, and the flames quickly engulfed the entire Dong family compound.

When the barrier that Huang Qingwu had set up in advance dissipated, the entire Dong family had become a ruin.

In front of Mingyue Tower.

Li Qing'an, leaning against the door frame, watched as many people headed towards the north of the city, but was drawn to another piece of news from passersby.

"The city lord's guards found the body of a Transcendent Realm expert outside the city. I just went to see it, and it was a terrible sight. He was embedded directly in the city wall, and it was a single sword strike to the throat. The strength and control of that strike must have been incredibly powerful to kill him."

"Transcendent Realm? Died without a sound?"

"Who knows?"

"Which big shot died?"

"I don't remember it. It doesn't look like Luoxia City."

"What does it look like? What if I recognize it?"

"Appearance, well..."

Listening to the conversation of passersby, Li Qingan deduced that the dead man was the assassin hired by the Dong family.

Someone will solve your problems?
But apart from the Dong family, no one else knew that the person had come to kill them.

Did we run into our enemy?
If that's the case, was the person from last night outsourced, or was he sent by someone else?
Li Qingan thought about it for a moment, but didn't take it too seriously, since the sixth realm wasn't a big deal.

Just as he turned to go inside, Huang Qingwu's voice suddenly rang out: "In a few days, your master may have to remain hidden in your sword heart forever."

"Hidden?" Li Qing'an was slightly surprised: "You still need to hide?"

"A premonition."

Upon hearing Huang Qingwu's voice, Li Qingan couldn't help but think of her expertise in time management, and immediately said without asking any further questions: "Okay."

Don't call me unless it's important.

"understood."

Li Qingan pushed open the door and walked in. In his line of sight, Shen Jianwei and Su Lingyin were chasing and playing around, stuffing pieces of pastry into each other's mouths.

His steps faltered involuntarily. Su Lingyin had this side to her?
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(End of this chapter)