Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Facing the dead spirit beast, Gu Xingzhuo stepped forward without any fear, casually placing his hand on the giant eagle's corpse and gently stroking its soft feathers.

He slowly closed his eyes, then frowned, pondered for a moment, and then opened his eyes again.

This action left Zhang Ruoxue and the others somewhat puzzled.

Yunping crossed his arms and asked, "How is it?"

Seemingly regretful, Gu Xingzhu shook his head and said, "My soul has begun to dissipate, and I can only see things from not long ago—"

"It seems to have died from exhaustion, its spiritual energy completely depleted. It appears to have been chased by someone and suffered severe injuries. It fled all the way to this area, but when it reached the sky, it was exhausted and fell from the sky, after which it ceased to live."

"Being chased... huh?" Yunping seemed to have thought of something and nodded slightly.

At that moment, Ye Yuchan glanced at Gu Xingzhuo with some curiosity, then turned her attention to Yun Ping.

She nudged Yunping, who was deep in thought, with her elbow twice, and then asked, "You old rogue, what's wrong with Fourth Senior Brother...?"

"I suppose this can be considered a kind of good fortune."

Before Ye Yuchan could finish asking her questions, Gu Xingzhuo, noticing his junior sister's confusion, smiled and explained, "As long as the soul hasn't completely dissipated, I have the ability to see the scene before any creature dies. The better the soul is preserved, the more I can see."

He gently raised his pale, corpse-like hand and laughed, "After all, I'm very close to death. If I have a good relationship with the Grim Reaper, it's not too difficult to get some information out of me."

Ning Xuchen's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Then...at that time..."

“No, that won’t work.” Gu Xingzhu shook his head regretfully. He knew what Ning Xuchen was thinking, so his tone and expression became more serious: “The people in the academy… their souls have all been refined… we can’t see who killed them at all.”

Lu Yingqiu's eyes dimmed, and she nodded helplessly, "That's true."

—Originally, I was thinking that this way we could at least find the group of people who directly killed our fellow disciples and destroyed Yuntian Academy.

But things don't seem to be that easy.

"Compared to this—"

Zhang Ruoxue finally recovered from her shock at this moment.

She pointed to the giant eagle spirit beast in front of her and asked curiously, "Where did this spirit beast come from?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Yuchan also recalled it.

She turned around, glanced at Huang Luo who was standing silently in the distance, still behaving very cautiously, and said, "Hey, um... what's his name again?"

“Huang Luo…” he answered softly.

"Sorry..." Ye Yuchan scratched her head and said, "I don't really remember names, let's get down to business—you seemed to have mentioned earlier that dealing with spirit beasts is the job of the Immortal Capital, right?"

"Yes...that's right."

Huang Luo nodded, then cautiously approached the giant eagle and glanced at the wound.

His expression suddenly turned somewhat strange, but after thinking it over again, he still spoke up: "These spirit beasts, generally speaking, should be handed over to the cultivators of the Immortal Capital to deal with... well, 'deal with' doesn't seem quite right."

"To be more precise... it should be called hunting."

“Hunting?” Lu Yingqiu’s face darkened—she didn’t really like that word.

“Yes.” Huang Luo was startled by Lu Yingqiu’s sudden darkening expression and took a few steps back. His voice trembled as he said, “Because, ever since the entrance to the Azure Secret Realm was discovered by the Immortal Capital, the Immortal Capital used a very… well, I don’t really understand method to forcibly open and fix the entrance to the secret realm. The spiritual energy emanating from the entrance spread out and affected the surrounding area, which is why that spiritual vein exists.”

"But at the same time, the spirit beasts born in the Azure Secret Realm also emerged through the expanding entrance. My seventh great-uncle, Huang Xiaoliu, told me that these spirit beasts are all made of pure spiritual energy, and are life forms condensed from the life energy of the Paradise of Living Beings."

"If one hunts down spirit beasts and absorbs their spiritual essence... one can rapidly improve one's cultivation level and greatly benefit the cultivation of immortal techniques."

"I see."

Ye Yuchan nodded knowingly: "So you've completely turned the Azure Secret Realm into a place for your own cultivation...?"

This practice may sound selfish, but almost everyone has probably done something like hunting.

In this broken world where strength reigns supreme, killing a hundred or a thousand people is no big deal. Heaven will turn a blind eye. As long as you don't fall into the demonic path, you won't be punished by so-called justice no matter how many people you kill.

Killing people is nothing, let alone killing these birds of prey and these mythical beasts?

It's no wonder that so many cultivators are now actively joining the Immortal Capital and the Demon Dynasty. You have to know that these are spirit beasts that have emerged from the Azure Secret Realm, life forms personally nurtured by one of the twenty-one ultimate beings. The spiritual essence contained within them is many times richer than that of spirit plants that take thousands or tens of thousands of years to form.

Few cultivators could remain unmoved by such temptation.

The Immortal Capital controls the spiritual veins, and the Demon Dynasty likely controls a similar region.

Zhang Ruoxue squatted down in front of the giant eagle that had slowly turned into blue light and disappeared, poked its no-moving head, and said, "So, this eagle was killed by the people of Xiandu?"

"Do not--"

Yunping denied Ruoxue's guess.

Unfortunately, he also denied the speculations of everyone present, including a certain chicken.

Just as Ye Yuchan was about to ask a question, she couldn't help but turn her gaze slightly to the front of the blocked road.

There, a group of people were slowly walking towards them.

"Wow, I didn't expect there to be a spirit beast here!"

Their clothes looked more like those of ordinary mortals, and each person's clothes looked slightly different, as if they were randomly pieced together.

That being said, each of the four men held a valuable and impressive magical artifact. All four were male, with the middle-aged man with a full beard at the head of the group being the most menacing.

Their gazes fell on the three-meter-tall scarred chicken, a hint of greed appearing in their eyes.

"Not bad, not bad, it's a good product."

Gu Xingzhuo seemed to sense that something was wrong, because the people who came looking for them were not wearing the Taoist robes of Xiandu.

He rose slightly, his tone icy: "You are..."

"Judging from your appearance, are you merchants coming and going?"

The middle-aged man at the head of the group glanced at Gu Xingzhuo, then turned his gaze to Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue, raising an eyebrow: "Wow... two beauties too... not bad, not bad!"

As he spoke, his gaze drifted to Lu Yingqiu again.

Upon seeing that petite figure and delicate face, the middle-aged man's eyes widened, and he even swallowed hard: "There's a little girl too...hehe...hehehe..."

—A complete lolicon.

The old rogue had probably already guessed who the other person was, but just in case, he still asked with a hint of amusement:

What are you trying to do?

"us?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man in the lead smiled, then turned around and exchanged glances with his three companions.

He silently raised the long sword in his hand and sneered.

"Robbery!"

……

……

Everyone stared in silence at the middle-aged man in front of them, whose cultivation had reached the initial stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

27. The multi-talented leader Huang

Chen Shuan saw a ghost.

Right after the seemingly harmless young man gave the order, "Don't kill him, go easy on him,"

In the next few minutes, he was brutally beaten by Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue, a brutal beating in which he was unable to resist.

To be honest, even if he had the will to resist, he didn't have the ability to do so. Especially when he sensed the saintly aura emanating from Zhang Ruoxue, he knew... he had not only kicked a steel plate, but a titanium alloy steel plate—and a thorny one at that.

A few minutes later.

The corpse of the giant spirit eagle had already turned into pure light blue spiritual energy and dissipated. A cold wind blew from the lush forest on both sides of the muddy road, blowing against the four male cultivators led by Chen Shuan, causing them to feel cold all over and shiver uncontrollably.

At this moment, Chen Shuan, a middle-aged man with a full beard, sat slumped on the ground with a bruised and swollen face. His body was bound by hemp ropes imbued with magic, his upper body was naked, and his trousers were tattered. Upon closer inspection, one could also see the bruises left by someone's fist on his chest and abdomen.

As it turned out, Ruoxue had held back, and Chen Shuan was the least injured of the four. The other three were knocked unconscious and lay motionless with their heads hanging down.

Chen Shuan is currently filled with regret, deep regret.

He never imagined that after spending so long on the border of the spiritual veins, he had seen all sorts of merchants and cultivators who had come down from the mountains to cultivate. He recognized anyone with a bit of skill, and he had robbed most of the incompetent ones of everything.

Over the years, I've lived a carefree life on the border of this spiritual vein, never expecting to run into a titanium alloy barbed steel plate today.

One is a sage, the other is a being who has penetrated the void...

Any one of them could beat a hundred of him.

Moreover, he had previously acted as if he really wanted to take these two ladies back as his wives...

Thinking of this, Chen Shuan suddenly shivered, large beads of cold sweat streamed down his forehead, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

"You old scoundrel, what do we do?"

Ye Yuchan clapped her hands and glanced back at Yun Ping.

She made a face as if slitting her throat, her expression incredibly grim: "How about... Naiyuzute? (Get rid of him)?"

These words naturally earned him a fatal blow to the head from Yunping.

thump.

With that flick on the forehead, Yu Chan's skull crackled with smoke, and she froze on the spot, ready to defend herself.

"We should be compassionate, instead of thinking about fighting and killing all the time."

Yun Ping rolled his eyes at the silly Yu Chan, then walked lightly to Chen Shuan and the other three.

He smiled slightly, squatted down, and then revealed an exceptionally gentle and harmless smile: "Don't worry, I've never liked fighting and killing. It's too violent and goes too far."

Ye Yuchan and Zhang Ruoxue: "..."

They wanted to retort, but considering they might get a smacked on the head, they swallowed back the words that were about to pop out.

Upon seeing Yunping's face, which was brimming with kindness, Chen Shuan swallowed hard, his expression softening slightly.

only--

The smile was still a heartwarming smile, but the words that came out of her mouth were a little strange.

“I used to have some knowledge of Buddhism and Taoism, and I was also a semi-monk. I once asked the old man Da Ri about a very special and effective method of deliverance. Today, you and I are destined to meet, and I will not do anything to you.”

"But I have a few questions for you, so please answer them honestly."