Vampire Cultivation Notes

With this sudden attack, Li Jieqing had already achieved half of his goal: the traces of the Wangyue Valley cave must have been left in the Jiang family's storage bag.

But the other half is still left.

Before he could immediately check his storage bag, Li Jieqing put down the robe in his arms, untied his cloak and flung it open, revealing his true face. Under the new moon, he cast a lightness spell and leaped out of the hole.

Outdoors, in a small courtyard.

Jiang Wei hurriedly checked on his wife's condition. When he turned her over in his arms, he discovered a short, blue sword stuck straight in her chest, protruding from her body.

His wife, however, was still alive, clinging to life, and tremblingly raised her hand to point.

"careful……"

Li Jieqing leaped out just then, without saying a word, he picked up four thunderbolts with his five fingers, and with a flick of his wrist, the thunderbolts came whistling towards him.

Jiang Wei was caught off guard and was suddenly hit by the lightning bolts.

Several loud bangs followed.

The protective array around the courtyard was operating at full capacity. At its center, spirit stones shattered, replenishing spiritual energy and suppressing the impact of the lightning bolt.

In the front courtyard, smoke and dust filled the air, and lightning flashed intermittently, refusing to go out for a long time.

The small courtyard, complete with all the necessary organs and protected by the magic array, was actually half destroyed.

In the dust.

Jiang Wei was not dead yet, but blood tears streamed from her eyes as she roared wildly in the direction from which the thunderbolt was coming.

"We treated each other with sincerity, and yet you want to kill me?!"

He even revealed his greatest secret in life—the existence of that cave dwelling—and then, after two years of silence, he suddenly launched an attack overnight.

Who could possibly...!

call out!

Before Jiang Wei's roar had even faded, a blood-red longsword pierced through the air, deflecting his protective magic weapon and striking him squarely in the chest.

The flesh was pierced through like a rag, without any obstruction.

The magic power attached to the blood-red longsword exploded, sending Jiang Wei, her flesh mangled, flying backward and pinning her directly to the courtyard wall.

The blood in his body flowed backward from this brutal blow, spilling onto the ground. Jiang Wei, being a long-time rogue cultivator, barely managed to maintain a semblance of consciousness, groping to grip his magic sword with one hand.

With his other hand, he touched a charred corpse on the ground.

She was Jiang Wei's wife.

This time, she couldn't even cry anymore.

Jiang Wei was pinned to the wall, unable to move. He could only turn his head and focus his gaze on his wife's corpse, which left him with only endless sorrow.

Suddenly, he noticed the blue dagger stuck in his wife's body.

A chill ran straight from my heart to my head!

"It's you!"

Jiang Wei's mouth bled again, and his eyes frantically searched for a certain figure in the dust.

"It was indeed you who went to Brother Li's residence that night!"

"I've always suspected that you look somewhat alike, but I couldn't be sure before... What kind of nephew or cousin are you to Brother Li?"

"Was it because he knew he had lost his potential that he came to you in the market, and gave you his furniture as well?"

"If you want to avenge Brother Li, I have nothing to say..."

"But—such is the way of Heaven! Cultivators have no choice but to contend!"

Jiang Wei's face was flushed red.

"Brother Li embarked on the path of immortality, yet at his advanced age he remained ignorant of this principle; his death was not in vain!"

"He didn't die unjustly!"

After exhaling all the air from her chest, Jiang Wei's breathing gradually subsided.

In the dim and uncertain light, no one appeared, nor did anyone respond.

Beyond the dust.

Li Jieqing summoned a mid-level concealment talisman and frowned.

What is this guy babbling about?

Even after being strung up like a string, they still have such a strong voice, which shows that their cultivation is truly profound. They deserve to be killed!

However, on the other hand, they've already been nailed down, so they can't cause any trouble.

Just consider it a careful finishing blow.

Li Jieqing has no intention of getting close.

He rarely engaged in magical duels, so when he made his move, he overestimated the abilities of Jiang Wei and his wife.

First, they ambushed and killed Jiang Wei's injured wife, then seized the opportunity to steal the most important Jiang family storage bag, and finally, while Jiang Wei was distracted, they sent him a few lightning pills as a gesture of comfort.

As a result, only 10% of the preparations were made, and before any effort was even put in, the opponent collapsed.

After putting away the other four thunderbolts, Li Jieqing clasped his hands together and spat out a mouthful of thick blood from the tip of his tongue, which turned into a blood arrow that shot straight into the smoke and dust.

"The Great Law of Blood and Heart Freedom!"

The blood arrow emitted a bright crimson light, but it missed Jiang Wei as it approached. Instead, it spun in the air and transformed into a crimson vortex.

As Jiang Wei's breath rose and fell, enveloped by the crimson halo, strands of his essence blood were forcibly drawn out from his seven orifices by the vortex and gathered there. Even the charred corpse of Jiang Wei's wife, which was nearby, was stripped of its essence blood because it was enveloped by the crimson halo, and strands of it rose up.

Unable to utter another word, Jiang Wei finally loosened her grip on the magic sword, her essence blood was drawn away, and she fell silent.

After the crimson vortex absorbed all the essence and blood of the two, it slowly stopped and transformed into a blood bead floating in the distance, its surface smooth and flawless, like a crimson jade bead.

After a while, the smoke and dust dissipated.

Fearing that Jiang Wei might be deceived by her feigned death, Li Jieqing raised another Vajra Talisman and approached. Seeing the results of the battle, he was finally relieved, raised his hand to summon the blood bead, and drank it down in one gulp.

This is the strongest technique within the new cultivation method, specifically designed to steal a person's essence and blood.

It originally required the concentration of blood and heart to unleash, and could only be used at close range.

Li Jieqing had already condensed half of his blood heart, and he didn't hesitate to use his own essence blood to fly out as a catalyst to unleash his magic power, thus bypassing one of the limitations of the technique and being able to unleash it from several feet away.

To this end, he had already tried to acquire and use the corpses of demonic beasts, and had already achieved results, preparing to wait for Jiang Wei and her husband.

"Brother Jiang, you and your wife died because of this move that I painstakingly mastered. You can consider it a blessing."

Li Jieqing nodded slightly at the shriveled corpse, sighed, and looked away.

With the magic array in his courtyard operating at full power, this fighting did not attract the attention of outsiders.

Jiang Wei and his wife were incredibly lucky, and they died just in time for the tail end of the beast tide. With these two missing from Taiping Market, no one would notice anything amiss.

Li Jieqing only needed to repair the damaged parts of the courtyard himself, then send the bodies of Jiang Wei and his wife to the wilderness, find a monster to dump them in, and he could save himself from further trouble.

As for their daughter Jiang Ping?

Li Jieqing wasn't in a hurry, not even considering whether he could be found after destroying the evidence.

The Ruyi Sect has strict rules, and few disciples can go down the mountain before they reach the Foundation Establishment stage, let alone return to this remote and undeveloped land.

The reason the Yu family dared to seek trouble with Jiang Wei and his wife was because they were certain that their daughter wouldn't be able to return for at least several decades.

Therefore, we need not worry about the potential consequences for now.

At the ruins of the small courtyard, seeing that things had settled down, Li Jieqing finally had a moment to take out the Jiang family's storage bag from his pocket.

The Blood Heart Freedom Secret Record's magical power broke through the lock on the restriction, and the ties loosened, revealing the contents inside.

The space is about one zhang in diameter, making it the smallest storage bag.

Using his telekinesis, he probed into the bag and surveyed the Jiang family's chaotic collection.

"Is there no longer a map of the cave in Wangyue Valley?"

"Indeed, you two are quite cautious. If only we could... this precious treasure of Biyang!"

Li Jieqing's pupils contracted, and his hands trembled.

A wisp of blue light emerged from the opened storage bag, and an endless fragrance spread throughout the courtyard.

Just smell this fragrance and see this blue light.

Within Li Jieqing's body, the well-established microcosmic orbit began to operate on its own, eagerly inhaling and exhaling pure spiritual energy.

"Oh my gosh, this is so good!"