Shrouding the Sky: The System Arrived Thirty Years Early

Chapter 72 Yagami's Brutal Strength (Bonus Chapter, Please Vote)

More than 600 miles away from Shizhai, there is an ancient city, a relatively prosperous city in the vicinity, located on an oasis covering an area of ​​several hundred miles.

Luo Qianqiu and his group set off in the early morning and arrived close to noon.

Ahead, an ancient city built entirely of reddish-brown boulders stood tall, its golden brilliance shining through the sunlight.

According to Master Zhang, this city has stood here for a thousand years and has long been the center of this barren land.

Upon entering the city, the scene changed abruptly. The city was bustling with traffic and crowds of people, and redwood trees lined both sides of the road, giving it a vibrant and lively atmosphere.

Wang Shu and Er Lengzi were dazzled by what they saw, finding everything incredibly novel.

This was their first time here, and the first time they had ever known that there were so many people in the Northern Region.

"There are so many people!"

The Black Emperor chuckled and said, "What's so special about this? When I have time, I'll take you to the Holy City for a stroll. That's where the real excitement is."

"Really? Black Emperor, you keep your word." Er Lengzi and Wang Shu were very excited.

"It's fake. With that damned dog's temperament, once it goes to the Holy City, it will surely incur the wrath of heaven and the hatred of the people. If you follow it, you will suffer sooner or later." Luo Qianqiu chuckled.

Upon hearing this, Er Lengzi and Wang Shu immediately calmed down.

During this time, they also came to a complete understanding of what kind of dog Black Emperor was. Luo Qianqiu's words just now were not alarmist, but would become a fait accompli.

"Woof—" Black Emperor roared, baring his teeth and saying, "You've already caused trouble, what right do you have to talk to me?"

Both sides suffer heavy losses!

Luo Qianqiu remained silent, because he seemed to have quite a knack for causing trouble. Since he didn't know how to curry favor with the powerful, he was bound to clash with those arrogant scions of aristocratic families, which was unavoidable.

The group chatted and laughed as they soon arrived at a stone gambling workshop. Above the main entrance hung a plaque with the words "Purple Mansion Sacred Land Stone Gambling Workshop" written in a flamboyant style.

"Boy, I must say, your vindictive nature is really to my liking." The Black Emperor's dog-like face was full of satisfaction. He stretched out a paw and pretended to be dignified, saying, "How about this, you become my disciple and from now on you will be my number one general."

"Bang!"

A dull thud echoed as the Black Emperor's massive head slammed into the ground, cracking the bluestone floorboards inch by inch.

Without a doubt, its elixir was shaken again.

"Ptooey, ptooey—" Black Emperor opened his mouth wide, spat out the dirt, and said with some resentment, "It's always the same trick, kid, don't you get tired of it?"

"As long as it works, why would I get tired of it?" Luo Qianqiu chuckled and stepped into the Zifu Sacred Land Stone Gambling Shop first.

As a gambling stone shop opened by the top holy land in the Eastern Wilderness, even if it is just a branch, it is decorated very luxuriously.

The stone archway is quiet and elegant, with exotic flowers and trees planted in the courtyard, and source stones piled up in all directions, arranged in a pleasing manner.

The layout is very sophisticated, giving people a sense of freshness and nature. In particular, the flowing spring water is like a mountain stream, making everything seem natural and vivid.

Luo Qianqiu had changed his appearance, so the people in the Zifu Sacred Land gambling stone market did not recognize him.

As for Lin Jia, because she had reached a critical stage in her cultivation, she did not choose to come along, but stayed in the stone village to cultivate.

After entering the stone gambling workshop, Luo Qianqiu did not use the Great Power of Heaven and Earth to observe the stones. Instead, he began to select stones using the Origin Differentiation Chapter in the Origin Book, in order to cultivate his Origin Technique.

The first level of the stone garden is almost entirely composed of waste stones. After all, this is just a branch of the Purple Mansion Holy Land in Pingyan City, and it cannot be compared with the Holy City headquarters.

After picking two source stones in the first stone garden and earning three catties of pure source, Luo Qianqiu had no further goals.

Only then did he use his ability to observe the grand scheme of things to examine the source stones in the first layer of the stone garden.

"Very good, the rest are almost all useless stones. It seems that even if I only use source techniques, I can become rich."

Luo Qianqiu led everyone to the second stone garden, and using the same method, they earned about forty catties of pure source.

Then, the third, the fourth, the fifth—the ninth level!

The commotion he caused grew louder and louder, and as expected, it soon attracted the attention of the entire city. The steward of the Purple Mansion Stone Archway, who was stationed there, looked extremely displeased.

Although this stone archway is only a tiny fraction of the Purple Mansion Holy Land, it is everything to this steward.

Now that the entire stone archway has been ransacked, he doesn't know how to explain it to headquarters.

Without a doubt, this was a career-ruining act. The Purple Mansion Deacon's eyes were bloodshot, and his gaze toward Luo Qianqiu was filled with murderous intent.

Clearly, he was also preparing to orchestrate a melodramatic murder and robbery.

Luo Qianqiu was fully aware of this, but he didn't take it to heart at all.

After ransacking the jade gambling market in the Purple Mansion Holy Land, he began to patronize other jade gambling markets.

Because he had already displayed his prowess at the Zifu Sacred Land's stone gambling market, everyone in Pingyan City knew that he was highly skilled in source techniques. Even if he bought source stones and took them back to cut, others would know that he had gained something extraordinary.

Therefore, Luo Qianqiu simply cut the stone on the spot. In any case, with his current strength, no one in Pingyan City could threaten him. Even if all the people in the city were added together, they wouldn't be enough for him to crush.

With strength, confidence, and a powerful background, Luo Qianqiu's style of doing things became less cautious.

After all, if someone is low-key before they have the ability, and still low-key after they have the ability, then what was the point of becoming stronger?

However, Luo Qianqiu was much gentler with other jade gambling shops. Although he made a lot of money, he did not cross the bottom line of any of them.

For these stone gambling shops, what they fear is never someone making a fortune in the shops; that would actually be a disaster for them.

What they were truly afraid of was what Luo Qianqiu had done in the Zifu Stone Archway—it was clearly aimed at digging up the roots of the enemy.

"Damn it, damn it, this kid is only targeting me." The steward of the Purple Mansion Stone Archway gritted his teeth after witnessing this scene with the crowd.

At this moment, he understood perfectly well that Luo Qianqiu was targeting Zifu Stone Workshop alone, or even just him.

The steward of the Purple Mansion Stone Archway couldn't understand why the young man in front of him would do such a thing, since he didn't know him and had never been enemies with him.

Could it be that he has a grudge against the Purple Mansion Holy Land?

The Purple Mansion steward had a flash of inspiration, but then immediately felt that it was unrealistic.

If the other party truly had a grudge against the Purple Mansion Holy Land, their ashes would have been scattered long ago; how could they still be gambling on stones here?

With this in mind, he followed Luo Qianqiu's entire jade gambling trip, and his idea of ​​killing and robbing the treasure became even more determined.

That's outrageous! After visiting dozens of stone workshops, even though Luo Qianqiu toned it down later, he still managed to amass at least seven or eight thousand catties of source material.

With such abundant resources, even if the two had no enmity, the steward of the Purple Mansion Sacred Land's stone archway would still kill and plunder.

"Good haul, let's go."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Luo Qianqiu led his group away in a swaggering manner, making no attempt to conceal their presence.

This is clearly a case of entrapment!

Luo Qianqiu would not kill people on his own initiative, but if someone harbored murderous intent towards him, then he would have a legitimate reason to do so and would feel no guilt whatsoever.

The reason for this is not that Luo Qianqiu is bloodthirsty; it's all because the system panel forced him to do so.

After completing the task of slaying the prodigy, the panel issued another task, named "Killing one person makes you a thief, killing ten thousand makes you a hero," which required him to kill a total of ten thousand cultivators before he turned eighty.

Honestly, when Luo Qianqiu saw this mission, he thought the panel was crazy. Although he wasn't a good person, he was definitely not someone who would indiscriminately kill innocent people.

Therefore, although this task seems simple, it is the most time-consuming of all the tasks.

It was only after arriving in Pingyan City that Luo Qianqiu had a flash of inspiration and came up with the idea of ​​entrapment.

Those who commit murder and robbery can hardly be considered good people. Luo Qianqiu felt no guilt in killing such people, even though he had willingly thrown out the bait.

The people of Pingyan City were in turmoil, and eventually nearly a hundred cultivators left the city and intercepted Luo Qianqiu and his group more than two hundred miles outside the city.

Then, without any further words, Luo Qianqiu soared into the sky, his hands seemingly possessing endless magic, tracing the path of his debut.

"boom!"

At that moment, the void shattered, as if an ancient war chariot had rolled over it, making a rumbling sound.

"Yagami's Brute Force!" The steward of the Purple Mansion Stone Archway turned ashen-faced, utterly horrified.

He leaped into the air, preparing to flee back to Pingyan City.

However, he did not have that chance. The Thousand Autumn Mace trembled, grew longer in the wind, and transformed into a mountain about four feet long, bursting with a terrifying aura.

As the sun set, blood stained the boundless red earth, and nearly a hundred cultivators lay dead in pools of blood, their faces filled with terror as they died.

Especially the steward of the Purple Mansion, he never expected that his murder and robbery would actually turn against the Jiang family.

The moment that unparalleled secret technique—the Eight Gods' Savage Force—was unleashed, it was as if the gods were enraged. It was terrifying; a single strike took the lives of nearly a hundred cultivators!