The Great Ruler wanted to lie down but was thrown into the Spirit Road.

Chapter 76 The Mirror of Return

"Yu Shun is dead?" Jian Yuan stood on the Void Shuttle, looking at the jade piece in his hand with surprise and uncertainty.

How could Yu Shun, a man at the level of physical strength, and with the Void Shuttle as an aid, be so easily killed in the second and third cities? Could he have encountered some kind of accident?

"It's true. Qu Liang told you not to go looking for those three for now. He'll take the Soul Return Mirror to see what's going on with Yu Shun." The jade tablet flashed again.

"Phew—Where are Qu Liang and the others? I'm going to find them," Jian Yuan sent a message.

"They are heading to the place where Yu Shun died, not far from the Third City." The jade tablet transmitted the location where Yu Shun sent his last message to Jian Yuan.

When Jian Yuan arrived at the road between the second and third cities to search for Yu Shun's whereabouts based on the information on the jade piece in his hand, he happened to meet Qu Liang and others who were exploring the area.

"Qu Liang, did you gain anything?" Jian Yuan asked as he descended from the void shuttle.

"Yu Shun stayed here; his presence can be felt here, but he disappeared afterward," Qu Liang replied, his face grim, as he withdrew the patrolling spirit insect from his hand.

Beside him were three natives of the Supreme Road, all of whom were at the Tongtian Realm. They had previously searched with Qu Liang for a way to open the Heavenly Evolution Divine Stone on the path from the second to the third city of this road.

As the original inhabitants of Supreme Road, they have no way to retreat. Therefore, they all have their own encampments and generally do not easily enter the next city.

If an accident occurs in a city and the people in that city are unable to handle it, troops will need to be transferred from the preceding cities or the last city.

They also loathed this rule, but they had no choice but to comply due to the presence of the City Lord's Mansion and other powerful forces on the continent.

"So that means this is where Yu Shun was last seen?" Jian Yuan frowned and looked around.

There was no significant destruction of the scene here. Given Yu Shun's current physical strength, it would be very difficult for him to kill it without causing a commotion, unless he encountered beings with extremely high levels of power.

But that wouldn't make any sense. Although Yu Shun was arrogant, he wouldn't fight those people to the death.

"Search carefully around here again. If you find any signs of fighting, no matter how small, tell us immediately," Qu Liang said, taking a breath.

"Yes, Protector Qu."

Jian Yuan listened to his instructions without any objection. Since this was Yu Shun's burial place, they would find his body even if they had to dig three feet into the ground.

Once the body is found, there will be a chance to find out who did it, and those people are very likely the ones who stole the divine stone.

They were truly unwilling to accept this. They had just unearthed the divine stone and were looking for a way to open it, but before they could even enjoy it for long, it was stolen. If the news reached the Ninth City, it would be an absolute nightmare for them.

However, after searching for most of the day, those at the Tongtian Realm still hadn't found anything.

This made Jian Yuan and Qu Liang's expressions even more gloomy. "Let's make our move! Even if we have to shatter this land and fight our way to the third city, we will dig out Yu Shun's whereabouts. I refuse to believe that anyone would run away with a corpse!"

"boom!"

Without further hesitation, the two expanded their spiritual power to its limit, no longer caring whether Yu Shun's body was intact. They raised their hands and unleashed their power, striking downwards and causing the ground to crack and dust to explode.

And indeed, as they expected, no one carried the corpse into the third city.

"There!"

A corpse was thrown from the ground by their bombardment, then torn to pieces and scattered everywhere.

"It really is Yu Shun's corpse, not yet completely devoured by the spirit beasts." Jian Yuan flashed to the remains, looked at its unrecognizable appearance, sensed it for a moment, and continued, "The fatal wounds are sword wounds and spear intent. At least three people were involved, which matches the number of black-robed figures that night."

"It's alright, I brought the Soul-Reflecting Mirror. I was just about to see how Yu Shun died!"

A flash of light appeared in Qu Liang's hand, revealing a blue bronze mirror that shone on Yu Shun's corpse.

The Soul-Reversing Mirror can collect the last remaining fragments of a corpse, providing a brief recollection of its final moments before death.

"Buzz—"

A moment later, the mirror absorbed the remaining remnant soul in Yu Shun's corpse and slowly revealed a fragmented fighting scene, which was the scene of his sneak attack on Yun Mo and the other two.

"We have no idea what this divine stone you're talking about is—"

"A mere cultivator at the Heavenly Realm—"

"laugh----"

The scene ended as a sword and a spear struck Yu Shun.

"These three people—" Jian Yuan's expression was solemn. No wonder there was no serious damage nearby. The reason was that Yu Shun went silent immediately after exchanging a punch with that person.

"What's wrong with Yu Shun? He went to the wrong person, and he was so careless as to dare to go directly into the void shuttle. He didn't even have the slightest power to fight back. He's a piece of trash!" Qu Liang's face was ashen. There was no gain at all. It would be pointless for him to die.

"Although these three may not be the ones who stole the divine stone, it is a fact that they killed Yu Shun. We cannot turn a blind eye to this. We absolutely must demand an explanation from them. Moreover, it is too early to say whether they are the ones who stole the divine stone."

Jian Yuan was inwardly speechless. Yu Shun was even slightly stronger than him, yet he had been so careless as to be killed by the three of them working together.

"Alright, let's head to the next city now and look for these three. Also, something happened there, but the main purpose is to find the person who stole the divine stone." Qu Liang took a deep breath and threw Yu Shun's mangled body into the hands of those Tongtian Realm cultivators.

They were, after all, the original inhabitants of Supreme Road, and were a community of shared interests. They could still manage to collect the bodies.

Yun Mo and his two companions had arrived at the third city on the Supreme Road. They looked at the city filled with spirit-gathering arrays with surprise in their eyes.

"The third city is the Spirit Gathering City. The information given by the senior students from the academy was just to let us enjoy ourselves here, but we didn't expect the spiritual energy here to be so rich."

Yun Mo stretched out his hand and gently grasped it, as if the spiritual energy of this world was instantly controlled and condensed by his palm.

"This place not only has spiritual veins, but also a great many spirit-gathering arrays—this is probably a major city used to condense supreme spiritual liquid," Wen Qingxuan nodded slightly and said.

"It's a pity I can't stay here for long. Those indigenous people are disgusting. They even dared to issue a residency order!" Lin Jing said, holding the token in her hand and pursing her lips.

The token in her hand had been there ever since they entered the city; someone had been standing at the city gate with a very rude attitude, placing the token with—

I sent it to them.

The time specified above is the permitted duration for Yun Mo and his companions to stay in this place. Once the time is up, they will be driven away by the original inhabitants of this city.

In fact, the geniuses who came to the Supreme Road for training did not have a good impression of these natives, and some of them even fought with them.

However, their influence in this area is indeed very large. Most of the geniuses, for the sake of other opportunities in the city, are too lazy to bother with them unless they go too far, since the geniuses will not stay in this city for too long.

Of course, some of the natives were quite friendly, offering some conveniences to powerful individuals on the path to supreme power. This allowed the relationship between the natives and the prodigies to reach a fragile balance, which was then maintained.

However, if this fragile balance is broken, it is very likely that some chaotic battles will break out between the natives of the Supreme Road and the prodigies, after all, this has happened before.

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