A hundred lifetimes of cultivation, merely seeking immortality in the cultivation world.

Chapter 215 The deed is done, and one leaves without a trace.

Zheng Zhizhuo died unwillingly.

Thus, the two great families that had dominated Pingyang for hundreds of years were about to disappear with the death of their family leaders.

Upon learning that Bai Yuechan had no intention of continuing to support the Bai family, Lu Qingyun did not interfere further.

As for whether the Bai family would cause trouble, or whether outside rogue cultivators would try to seize the Pingyang spiritual vein, Lu Qingyun didn't care.

Firstly, the mayor of the neighborhood, Elder Li Fulai, is still alive; he was just frightened by his own actions, not dead.

Secondly, the Zhao family will soon be moving into this place.

Whatever the attitudes of the independent cultivators and the Bai clan members here are, it is completely irrelevant.

Faced with absolute power, none of these people's actions are meaningful.

Upon returning to the Bai clan's territory, no one came to disturb Chen Xiru and Bai Yuechan.

The two got along quite well. Seeing this, Lu Qingyun nodded and handed the pills refined from Zheng Zhizhuo's magic power to Chen Xiru.

Speaking of these pills...

If Bai Tianxiong himself wanted to turn Zheng Zhizhuo into provisions, he would have to use a secret technique to refine his corpse.

However, Lu Qingyun possessed the supernatural power [Refined Light], which made things much simpler.

This supernatural power is inherently adept at shaping the elixir and stabilizing the nature.

However, with a wave of his hand and the activation of his magic power, he was transformed into provisions.

at this time.

Having taken Zheng Zhizhuo's life for Chen Xiru, Lu Qingyun had no reason to stay in Pingyang any longer. So he activated the flying shuttle, soaring into the sky with a ray of light, and returned to the Yunxia Sect with Chen Xiru.

As for Bai Yuechan, it was inconvenient for her to go with them, since the two of them were still nominally undertaking missions on the outskirts of the Yunxia Mountains.

They did not come to Pingyang.

As Lu Qingyun flew aboard the shuttle, he felt a sense of relief.

He seemed to be deep in thought.

It seems that the end of another karmic cycle has made his soul feel much lighter.

I also feel fortunate that I did not take away the core of the spiritual veins in Pingyang in this life because of greed.

If one achieves foundation building without attachment, then naturally there will be no problem.

However, the karmic consequences of destroying the spiritual veins will likely make it more difficult for them to establish a foundation.

No wonder those Foundation Establishment cultivators are truly greedy, treating people as resources, yet unwilling to personally exploit the various spiritual veins to supply their descendants and families.

It is precisely because they fear cause and effect.

Upon returning to the Cloud Mist Sect, the cultivators in the General Affairs Hall immediately became much more respectful, some even with tearful voices, begging for forgiveness and apologizing to him.

When Lu Qingyun asked, he learned that Zhao Qingxuan had warned them, so they dared not gossip anymore and even apologized to him.

"Senior Sister Zhao is very thoughtful."

Lu Qingyun was both amused and exasperated. He shook his head and told them that he hadn't taken the matter to heart.

The Zhao family will no longer make things difficult for them.

Everyone was slightly relieved.

When Lu Qingyun returned to his cave, Zhao Qingxuan immediately greeted him. Dressed in a jade-green palace gown, she smiled and said, "Junior brother, you're finally back. This trip was quite successful."

"fine."

Lu Qingyun poured a cup of spiritual tea and offered it to Zhao Qingxuan, then began to recount his journey to Pingyang.

"Therefore, we still need Senior Sister to send one or two half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators to temporarily occupy that spiritual vein."

"Although Pingyang and even Dade will become the front line in the fight against the Demonic Sect's subsequent invasion, the profits from this are also quite substantial."

"Given the current tacit understanding between the Zhang and Zhao families, although Zhang Tianlie will surely take action against the Zhao family soon, he will only support proxies within the Zhao family, split the Zhao family, and then swallow it up."

"At that time, Pingyang was a good place to avoid danger because it was close to the front line of the Demonic Sect. This battle between Yunxia and Qingchi Demonic Sect was plotted against by all the True Immortals of our sect, while the battle between Zhang and Zhao was only fought by the True Immortal of the Zhang family."

"His goal wasn't even to destroy the Zhao family, but merely to elevate Zhang Tianlie's destiny to make him invincible."

Having returned from Pingyang, Lu Qingyun's horizons suddenly broadened. Perhaps it was because he was now far away from the True Immortal of Danfeng that he suddenly understood many things that had previously been unclear to him.

This made Lu Qingyun even more wary of that person, and at the same time, he realized that the current situation of the Zhao family was actually better than he had imagined.

Even when Zhang interfered in the Zhao family's affairs in her previous life, it was under Zhao Ruchan's name, with the aim of helping Zhao Ruchan eliminate the Zhao family.

They came to interfere under the banner of rebellion.

Now, as long as we can figure out which half-step Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Zhao family the Zhang family has been in contact with, we can take precautions against him in advance.

This was to buy time for Zhao Qingxuan's foundation building.

"Junior brother, I understand."

Zhao Qingxuan nodded.

Lu Qingyun gave her some more instructions, but then he heard some great news.

It turned out that in the Great Jing Kingdom, the young Marquis Xiao Daojue had indeed gotten into a conflict with the Zhang family in the Great Jing capital. The Zhang family members, relying on their status as a Foundation Establishment family, mocked and ridiculed him. The young Marquis, being an arrogant person, outwardly pretended to be friendly with them.

Who would have thought that not long after, he stopped targeting that person and instead set his sights on the young master's elder.

No one knows what methods he used, but he managed to kill three Qi Refining Level 8 cultivators from the Zhang family in succession.

Those people were like people sitting at home when trouble came out of nowhere.

After eliminating these people, his cultivation level has secretly broken through to the peak of the seventh level of Qi Refining, and there are faint signs that he is about to break through again.

Meanwhile, even the Foundation Establishment cultivator in the Great Jing Imperial City, who personally took action, was unable to find his whereabouts.

It was only because the Zhao family had been monitoring him beforehand that they realized he had caused such a huge disaster.

Now, even on the Yunxia Sect's side, Zhang Tianlie personally went to Dajing two days ago, firstly to appease the Zhang family cultivators there, and secondly to find out the whereabouts of the young Marquis Xiao Daojue and end his life, setting an example for others.

"Should we intervene and transfer that young marquis from the Great Jing Kingdom to another location?"

Zhao Qingxuan asked.

"The young marquis is blessed with good fortune, and with the protection of the Foundation Establishment stage behind him, it's best if we don't interfere."

Lu Qingyun shook his head.

"Now that his cultivation has reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, we've alerted the half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators over there to be more careful and have stopped spying on him."

"Otherwise, he might use some other amazing means to discover our observations and cause trouble."

"Besides, if we make things a little harder for him, he might be able to go toe-to-toe with Zhang Tianlie, which would be even better!"

In the Great Jing Kingdom, Xiao Daojue's recent situation can hardly be described as good.

Although he killed three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from the Zhang family in succession, making that young master of the Zhang family experience the decline of his family and the loss of his parents...

He suffered the pain of death, but the subsequent pursuit by several half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Zhang family, as well as the Foundation Establishment True Person from the Great Jing Kingdom, almost cost him his life.

It was only because he reacted quickly that, when that powerful divine sense swept over, he decisively sacrificed all three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators, thus temporarily concealing his aura and escaping from Zhang's mansion.

Subsequently, Zhao failed to provide him with any assistance and instead caused him considerable distress and trouble.

The Zhao clan members here are only a handful of people at the early or mid-stages of Qi Refining. Now, he doesn't even have the heart to offer a blood sacrifice to these ants.

In addition, he had to sign in at Zhao's alchemy room on time to avoid being noticed by Zhang's people.

They also had to deal with the Zhang family and that Foundation Establishment cultivator's investigation of this place.

After all, if something happens to someone from the Zhang family, the first thing anyone would think of is whether it's a conspiracy by the Zhao family.

Those people, using some unknown means, managed to intercept a trace of his presence left at the Zhang family mansion using a secret technique.

To avoid being tracked down by the Zhang family's half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators from time to time, Xiao Daojue expended two layers of his cultivation to perform a blood sacrifice, barely managing to conceal his aura.

thus.

Lu Qingyun had no idea that his cultivation level was no longer at the seventh level of Qi Refining, but had fallen back to the miserable fifth level of Qi Refining.

Zhang's people came to the alchemy room again to question them.

Although they knew that this small alchemy room could not possibly hide the cunning and highly skilled Blood Sacrifice Demon.

But it's not bad if this can cause some trouble for the Zhao family.

After Zhang left.

Xiao Daojue felt a murderous intent.

"You snobbish wretch, how dare you bully me like this, coming to humiliate me time and time again? Do you really think I'm someone you can easily bully?"

The manager of Zhao's alchemy room cried out, "I don't know when this will end. Fellow Daoist Xiao, you're only suffering some humiliation. At least you still have the young lady and son-in-law to take care of you. Even if you don't work, you can receive spirit stones just by signing in every day."

"But we are in a terrible situation. Every day, the Zhang family thieves exploit us under the pretext of the blood sacrifice to the demon. Our livelihood is about to be ruined, and life is really hard to go on."

"That hateful Zhang woman deserves to be killed by everyone."

Xiao Daojue also spoke angrily.

"We clearly did not provoke them, yet they humiliate us like this. In my opinion, this man will be killed sooner or later, and the Zhang family will perish sooner or later!"

The shopkeeper quietly pulled him aside and covered his mouth.

Now that the Zhang family is powerful in the capital of Dajing, they dare not speak so recklessly.

Otherwise, if the Zhang family heard about it, their lives would be even more unbearable.

That day.

Xiao Daojue concealed himself and, under the cover of night, found the place where Zhang had humiliated the man's elders during the day.

This person is at the seventh level of Qi Refining, and his cultivation is two levels higher than Xiao Daojue's.

However, Xiao Daojue was not in a hurry.

He first used a method of concealment to have the cultivator who humiliated him, along with several of his descendants, all killed through a blood sacrifice using the "Sacrifice of Life and Slaughter Scripture".

He forcibly raised his cultivation level to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

Then, he charged towards Zhang Yuanlang, a member of the Zhang clan's collateral branch who had reached the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Zhang Yuanlang was in a daze and couldn't sleep. Firstly, the Blood Sacrifice Demon had been killing people everywhere recently, causing panic among the Zhang family.

Secondly, they were originally Zhang Tianyan's faction, but now Zhang Tianlie is using the blood sacrifice as an excuse to investigate, which will inevitably lead to trouble with them.

The later stages of the refining process of Zhang Tianyan's faction were carried out.

Thus, not only could he not close his eyes to cultivate, he couldn't even fall asleep for a long time, and his spirit was extremely weak.

Zhang Yuanlang tossed and turned in bed, then got up and paced around the yard. After circling back and forth seven or eight times, he suddenly smelled a strong stench of blood.

His nose was naturally much more sensitive, and after practicing cultivation, it became even more so.

Therefore, upon smelling the blood, he realized something was wrong and quickly raised his magic sword to prepare for action.

However, Xiao Daojue reacted much faster than him, and before he could even make a move, he slashed across Xiao Daojue's arm with his sword.

Zhang Yuanlang was terrified, knowing the danger was immense, and immediately tried to flee.

Who would have thought that Xiao Daojue, having killed so many cultivators, had already mastered the art of swordsmanship, instantly cutting off his retreat and killing him with a single strike.

"Such a fool, no wonder he has such an ill-mannered junior."

Xiao Daojue sneered, looking at Zhang Yuanlang's terrified head with disdain.

After killing this man, Xiao Daojue was not worried at all about being traced back to him.

He immediately used a blood sacrifice technique to destroy Zhang Yuanlang's body and restore his cultivation to the peak of the sixth level of Qi Refining.

If an outsider were to investigate, they would only think that he had set his sights on Zhang Yuanlang, a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and would never suspect that the real reason for the deaths of Zhang Yuanlang and the other late-stage Qi Refining cultivators was that their descendants had offended him.

Xiao Daojue's lips curled into a smile.

In this way, it won't be long before he breaks through to the half-step Foundation Establishment stage.

At that time, those half-step Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Zhang family will have to pay the price, and the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Great Jing Kingdom will find it even more difficult to locate him.

Xiao Daojue was smiling.

"Where do you think you're going, you thief? Give me back the lives of my people!"

A cold, sharp voice rang out; it was Zhang Tianlie who had come with the life tablets of the Zhang Clan's Great Jing Kingdom.

Upon hearing this voice, Xiao Daojue was immediately terrified!

Although Zhang Tianlie's cultivation level was low, only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, all his magical artifacts were of the first-grade superior quality. Moreover, the talisman he raised was clearly the first-grade superior quality [Heavenly Thunder Talisman], the most powerful talisman in Qi Refining!

"Damn it, which of Zhang's legitimate sons is this, to be so extravagant!"

Seeing several [Heavenly Thunder Talismans] hurtling towards him in an instant, Xiao Daojue couldn't help but curse angrily.

He had seen magical duels and talisman battles, but this was the first time he had ever seen someone use a high-grade talisman so extravagantly.

Xiao Daojue quickly drew his sword to block the talisman in front of him and activated his protective spell to its maximum to hold on.

boom!

Xiao Daojue's face stiffened. The lightning talisman had finally shattered his superior-grade magic weapon, the longsword, and imprinted itself heavily on his body. This was not the first time someone had broken his weapon.

The Qi Yang Cui clan's Cui Jue, who had so humiliated him, was burned bald by his demonic fire. This time, he had specially captured this long sword and spent a lot of time refining it.

Xiao Daojue's killing intent surged, realizing that the eldest son of the Zhang family dared to humiliate him like this. He was determined to make Zhang Tianlie pay the price.

Zhang Tianlie's expression hardened. He hadn't expected that the successive [Heavenly Thunder Talismans] would only cause Xiao Daojue to cough up blood slightly. He knew that even a Qi Refining Perfection cultivator would be severely injured by these [Heavenly Thunder Talismans].

Knowing that he probably couldn't defeat Xiao Daojue alone, Zhang Tianlie quickly crushed a jade tablet and summoned a half-step Foundation Establishment cultivator from the area.

At that moment, Xiao Daojue's aura suddenly dropped, then surged rapidly, reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining!

"You scum, you're dead!"

Xiao Daojue said viciously.

This time, he sacrificed four layers of his cultivation. After killing Zhang Tianlie, he would have to start cultivating again. How could he not feel hatred in his heart?

Immediately, he delivered a powerful punch to Zhang Tianlie's head, intending to end his life.

Meanwhile, high in the sky above Danfeng, in a secret realm, the True Person sensed Zhang Tianlie's impending death, abruptly opened his eyes, flicked a willow branch, and coldly said, "Who has ruined my plans?!"