The Burial Tower of Immortals buries the heavens, the earth, and all the immortals.

This longsword, forged entirely from an incredibly hard tortoise shell and engraved with mysterious runes, was now fully activated and slashed straight at Qin Changye.

However, he never expected that Qin Changye's second sword strike would be "Sword Slaying the Emperor".

Perhaps it was because practice makes perfect, but Qin Changye's second sword strike was even more powerful and invincible than the first.

Click!

Under this sword light, Zhao Tiangui's tortoise shell sword was instantly severed.

Then, the sword light, which still had at least 50% of its power remaining, continued to hurtle towards Zhao Tiangui.

Zhao Tiangui was shocked and realized he had miscalculated.

In the midst of lightning and thunder, it was too late to dodge the sword light. All he could do was instinctively turn his body to the side, avoiding a fatal blow to his chest.

However, he was still hit in the shoulder.

puff!

With a chilling sound, his right arm was severed.

With the cultivation of a sixth-level Emperor Martial Realm cultivator, severing the shoulder of a pseudo-Saint Realm cultivator is something that has never been seen or even heard of in the Great Wilderness.

The next moment, Zhao Tiangui also acted decisively, burning his essence blood to increase his speed and fleeing at full speed.

Qin Changye did not pursue. Unleashing the "Sword Slaying the Emperor" twice had taken a huge toll on him, especially since his ultimate goal was to protect Xiu'er, who was undergoing her tribulation.

With countless people watching him intently from all sides, Qin Changye could not leave his side even for a moment.

"He ran away, so be it. If you want to run away too, that's just wishful thinking!"

Qin Changye unleashed a sword strike.

The sharp sword light instantly caught up with Hao Caiyi, who was preparing to quietly escape when he saw that the situation was not good.

Before Hao Caiyi could even curse, his head was separated from his body, and his corpse was buried by Qin Changye on the third floor of the Burial Immortal Tower.

A rather thick stream of yellow energy flowed back to Qin Changye, including his mutated Vajra Whip body.

Qin Changye, whose cultivation had already reached a bottleneck, broke through it instantly and advanced to the sixth level of the Imperial Martial Realm.

Qin Changye tried it out briefly and discovered that his golden whip could indeed be lengthened or shortened at will.

Then, Hao Caiyi's major life experiences flashed through Qin Changye's mind like a fleeting glimpse:

Ninety-eight years ago, Hao Caiyi was born in Tongqian Town, in the northeastern corner of the Great Wilderness.

The town is named after a type of yellow spiritual stone that is abundant in the area. The spiritual stone is shaped like a copper coin and can be used to mint coins or for cultivation.

Most of the people in the town had spent most of their lives working in the mines. Hao Caiyi's father was also a miner, and his mother ran a stall in town selling knee pads and gloves used by miners. The family wasn't wealthy, but they were able to eat their fill and stay warm.

Ninety-three years ago, Hao Caiyi was five years old and showed an extraordinary talent: an almost instinctive sensitivity to money.

When his father returned from the mine, he poured the remaining yellow spirit stones from his pocket onto the table. He didn't need to count them; a glance was enough for him to know how many there were.

His mother was setting up a stall to give change, and he sat next to her listening, calculating faster than an abacus.

The townspeople all say that Hao's son is smart and will definitely amount to something when he grows up.

Eighty-six years ago, on Hao Caiyi's twelfth birthday, his father had an accident at the mine.

The mine collapsed, burying his father and three other miners. The mine owner said that rescuing them would cost a lot of money, so it was better to give up.

Hao Caiyi's mother cried and begged the mine owner to save her son, but the mine owner ignored her. Hao Caiyi then found the mine owner and said that he knew the mine owner's accounts of tax evasion over the years and also knew how many yellow spirit stones the mine owner had hoarded.

His purpose in doing this was not to get the mine owner to rescue his father, but to extort a thousand spirit stones from the mine owner.

Eighty years ago, Hao Caiyi left Tongqian Town. His father had died in the mine six years earlier, and his mother was still running a stall. On the day he left, his mother gave him a cloth bag containing spirit stones she had saved up for half her life. Hao Caiyi accepted it and said, "Mom, I'll come back to get you when I make a lot of money."

His mother smiled and waved, saying, "Okay, Mom will wait for you."

Seventy years ago, after being away from home for ten years, Hao Caiyi became rich and powerful thanks to his excellent business acumen, but he never thought of going back to bring his mother back.

Later, his mother died of illness in town, and he didn't go back to see her one last time.

Twenty years ago, Hao Caiyi joined the Jin Xin Chamber of Commerce and climbed step by step to the position of the Chamber's Grand Elder. He earned more and more money, but he never felt it was enough.

He never trusted anyone, including his wife, Liu. Liu had been married to him for twenty years, managing the household affairs for him, navigating the business world for him, and supporting him in front of outsiders. But Hao Caiyi discovered that Liu was also secretly saving money on her own.

He didn't expose Liu, but silently kept track of the amount of her secret savings. Later, Liu died in a mysterious fire, her body burned beyond recognition.

Eight years ago, Hao Caiyi's two sons, Hao Huagui and Hao Shehua, had come of age. He doted on his two sons, and everyone thought he was a good father, but in reality, this was just a facade.

He implanted two extremely precious natural treasures into his two sons' bodies.

The eldest son, Hao Huagui, had a dragon pearl implanted in his body. It was a priceless treasure that he had acquired at auction with half a lifetime's savings. It needed to be nurtured in a living person's body for a hundred years and then removed after thirty years. Its value was enough to buy an entire dynasty.

The second son, Hao Shehua, had a Phoenix Pearl implanted in his body. It was also a rare treasure that required a living human body to grow, and it could only be removed after thirty years of nurturing. Its value was even greater than that of the Dragon Pearl.

From the moment his two sons were born, he treated them as vessels, but they themselves did not know that their greatest value in this life was those two things inside them.

Once the Dragon Pearl and Phoenix Pearl are fully mature, their bodies will be drained of their essence by those two things, turning them into two dried corpses.

He never cared about the life or death of his two sons; he only cared about the quality of the dragon pearl and the phoenix pearl.

Several days ago, Qin Changye killed his two sons, which is why he was willing to pay any price to offer a bounty for Qin Changye's death.

He wasn't heartbroken for his son; he was heartbroken for those two beads.

The Dragon Pearl and Phoenix Pearl have been nurtured for eight years and will be ready to be retrieved in another twenty-two years. Now, the two sons have died, and the pearls have disintegrated.

Today, he died at the hands of Qin Changye.

"That Hao Caiyi is such a good actor. He even fooled me. I thought that although he was greedy, despicable, and bloodthirsty... at least he was a good father. Now it seems he's more vicious than a tiger!"

Qin Changye couldn't help but sigh.

Rumble...

At the same time, the fourth bolt of purple lightning roared down and struck Xiu'er hard.

The aftershocks spread far and wide, creating an unprecedented spectacle.

After several dozen breaths, when the aftershocks subsided, Xiuer had endured it.

He had many more wounds on his body, but thanks to the Nine Tribulations Overlord Body's extremely exaggerated self-recovery ability and the relentless consumption of various healing pills, he was not seriously injured.

However, this is not the end.

Within the purple thunderclouds, a fifth, even more powerful wave of heavenly lightning had begun to brew wildly.

However, judging from the relentless force of the purple thunderclouds, this fifth wave of lightning is the final wave.

At this moment, another group of people arrived in a grand manner.

They were none other than the high-ranking members of the First Saint Sect.

Leading the group were the Sixth Elder of the First Saint Sect, who had previously fought the Vine Demon in the Medicine Valley, and the Ninth Elder of the First Saint Sect.

Especially the Ninth Elder of the Initial Saint Sect, whose small eyes lit up instantly when he saw Qin Changye.

"I searched high and low without finding you, but then you appeared right here without any effort!"