Chapter 100: Trip to the Red Plain

On the top of the Seventh Peak, Seventh Master looked coldly at the direction of the sea, and after a long while, withdrew his gaze.

"Come, continue playing chess."

The servant said yes, and after setting up the chessboard, he hesitated for a moment and spoke in a low voice.

"Seventh Master, the Third Prince and the kid there..."

Seventh Master looked at the servant and spoke lightly.

"You are quite concerned about the kid."

The servant lowered his head and didn't speak.

"Unscrupulous means is the nature of the Third Prince. He looks gentle on the surface, but in reality, there is no emotion in his heart. This is the way he stood out from the foot of the mountain and walked in front of me, and it is also the place I value him."

"As for the kid, whether he can see through the Third Prince's thoughts, and whether he can ponder some flavor from here, depends on his intelligence. In this troubled world, the stupid cannot live too long."

After Seventh Master finished speaking, he looked at the sky before dawn, where it was about to be dawn.

Under the sky, in the 79th Port, Xu Qing sat on the deck of the magic boat, his eyes carrying contemplation. As the morning sun rose, the dawn dissipated the darkness, and the moment it fell on him, Xu Qing's eyes became deep.

"One, the competition thirty years ago was in the Mermaid race. Since then, the Mermaid race has become an ally. The relationship between the two sides is naturally separated in appearance but divided in heart. And the Mermaid youth in the Sixth Peak shop saw the Second Prince's expression full of fear, indicating that the Second Prince probably killed a lot in the Mermaid race thirty years ago."

"Two, the disciples of the Seventh Peak Master should not openly violate their master's will. The Second Prince's attitude toward the Mermaid race explains the problem. Then, it is not incomprehensible that the Third Prince killed the Mermaid race!"

"Then, why did the Third Prince invite the Mermaid race to the Seven Blood Eyes? And killed them after they came... and did it in front of me?"

"The Third Prince has another purpose. If I were the Third Prince, under what circumstances would I do this, and under what circumstances would I kill in front of the visitors?"

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, and after a long while, he already had the answer in his heart.

"There is only one situation. I want to use the Mermaid race's handle to blackmail the Mermaid race, so I will do this. If there is no handle, I will also create a handle! At the same time, killing in front of the visitors is because I want to maximize the value of the slaughter. While blackmailing the Mermaid race, selling a favor is also cost-effective."

"Premise, this visitor has value."

Xu Qing remembered the scene where the captain looked at him with a smile that wasn't a smile and told him about the Sea Lizard Island matter. The other party clearly had some channels he didn't know about to inquire about some information.

The captain could have it, and the Third Prince might also have it.

In addition, Xu Qing remembered the aura that locked onto him when he fled from Sea Lizard Island that day. He was under the sea that day and couldn't see who it was. At this moment, a sharp glint appeared in his eyes, and he had more guesses.

"And the Seven Blood Eyes allowed this to happen, which can only mean... they are going to hit the Mermaid race!"

"No matter what, I have to leave for a while!"

Xu Qing was not sure if his analysis was completely correct, so he planned to leave for a while to see if this matter had any follow-up. If everything was really calm, then it wouldn't be too late for him to come back.

After all, he was only one step away from becoming a tenth-layer Qi Condensation cultivator. After that, if he broke through to Foundation Establishment, he would be qualified to go up the mountain and have the right to distribute the interests of the Seven Blood Eyes.

A harvest of at least 5000 spirit stones a month, and as long as the Seven Blood Eyes existed, it could be continuously obtained, which made Xu Qing heart-moved for a long time. Of course, compared to this, living was more important.

So Xu Qing didn't hesitate and chose to leave first to observe.

And he felt that he could just take advantage of this time of leaving to do a big thing that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

Killing intent flashed in Xu Qing's eyes. He wanted to completely pull out another thorn that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

That is... the Jin Gang Sect ancestor.

Without killing this person, Xu Qing would have some trouble sleeping at night.

After having such a decision, Xu Qing didn't waste time. At dawn, he put away the magic boat, flickered, and headed straight for the Arresting Division.

"The Jin Gang Sect is a sect after all. Even if its strength is relatively weak, its migration is difficult to hide. For the Seven Blood Eyes, everything moving within its sphere of influence is not a secret."

Xu Qing had been in the Seven Blood Eyes for this period of time. As a member of the Arresting Division, he had the right to flip through the files in the division, knowing that a large part of them recorded changes within the range of the Seven Blood Eyes.

Although the detail level was not as good as the Information Division, it was easier for Xu Qing to probe than going to the Information Division.

So soon, he arrived at the Arresting Division and headed straight for the file area.

And his fame in the Arresting Division was greater than outside. Besides his exposure in the Night Dove operation, more of it came from one wanted criminal head after another.

So the disciples in the file area were very polite to his arrival, letting Xu Qing check alone inside. Not long after, Xu Qing finally found the clues he wanted from some messy news that the Seven Blood Eyes didn't pay much attention to.

"Defected to the Litu Sect?"

Xu Qing looked at the file in front of him, his eyes slowly narrowing. The people of the Litu Sect were all crazy people. Other forces' attitude toward the Litu Sect was both disgusting and fearful, so many times they avoided them from afar and didn't have too much contact with them.

"It shouldn't be because of me that they migrated, but because the compensation the Second Prince wanted back then was too heavy, so that the Jin Gang Sect was severely injured after paying, and was full of fear, so they didn't dare to stay in the Seven Blood Eyes sphere of influence."

Xu Qing touched his chin, remembered the movement of the Jin Gang Sect marked in the file, and left the Arresting Division.

Walking on the street in the port area, Xu Qing pondered for a while, went to several shops, sold the sundries and some sea lizard skins he got on Sea Lizard Island, bought some items needed for going out, and even bought a lot of poison herbs.

Finally, he stood outside a shop specializing in talisman treasures. After thinking for a while, he suppressed the heartache for spirit stones and stepped in.

A moment later, when he walked out, he had a talisman treasure with a special purpose on him. This talisman treasure could change a person's aura and appearance. Although it was not perfect, it was enough for Xu Qing to use this time.

At this moment, it was noon. Although winter had arrived, the geographical location of the Seven Blood Eyes made the winter here mostly a warm winter, and the sunlight was quite thick at this time, slightly dazzling.

So in this sunlight, Xu Qing's figure disappeared into a corner of an alley. When he came out from the other end again, his appearance had changed. He was no longer delicate and handsome, but a sallow-faced horse-faced youth, and the Daoist robe on his body had also been changed into ordinary long clothes.

The cultivation fluctuation on his body had also changed, no longer the ninth layer of Qi Condensation, but the third layer of Qi Condensation.

He knew the outside world very well. Most of the ninth layer of Qi Condensation were people with status, very eye-catching. Only the level of scavengers like the third layer of Qi Condensation was both deterrent and not attracting attention.

Feeling the transformation power of the talisman treasure, Xu Qing was vigilant about the surroundings, but his face was expressionless, and he walked toward the teleportation array.

He didn't use the identity token to pay, but paid spirit stones. Not long after, standing in the teleportation array, Xu Qing, who was checking the surroundings vigilantly, disappeared as the light of the array flashed and his figure was drowned in the sea of light.

In the eastern part of Nanhuangzhou, at least tens of thousands of miles away from the former Jin Gang Sect mountain gate, there was an area with sparse population.

Because of a kind of red tooth-shaped grass growing here, the wilderness was called the Red Plain.

Looking from afar, the whole earth seemed to be stained with blood. While shocking, the alien substances permeated within were also thicker than other wildernesses in Nanhuangzhou, so the fierce beasts here were also more ferocious.

In this relatively harsher environment, there were naturally not many cities. Often one could only be seen every few hundred miles, and the architecture and style were mostly primitive and rough, and the slums here were mostly composed of scavengers.

Whether it was the terrain or the population, the Red Plain was a rather harsh place, so the various families of Purple Earth didn't look down on it, and the Seven Blood Eyes didn't pay attention to it at all. Only the Litu Sect, because of their doctrine, preferred to develop believers in such harsh areas.

Thus, the Red Plain became the sphere of influence of the Litu Sect.

At this moment, on the edge of the Red Plain, in the center of a simple city, the only teleportation array in the Red Plain, arranged by Purple Earth and the Seven Blood Eyes, was shining with light.

A middle-aged cultivator wearing a black long shirt and a sallow face appeared in the teleportation array.

It was Xu Qing, who had changed his appearance with the help of the disguise talisman treasure.

Just arrived, before even leaving the teleportation array, an aura of rot and stench drifted from all directions with the wind. If it were someone who hadn't experienced too much hardship, they would be a bit uncomfortable with this taste.

But for Xu Qing, these were the norms of the place he used to be, only that the stench here was thicker.

Xu Qing's expression was calm. Under the indifferent gaze of several lazy guards around, he walked out of the teleportation array.

The city that came into view had all buildings in gray-black, full of dilapidation, and the ground was full of all kinds of garbage, mostly feces.

There were few people in the city, most were very vigilant, and they strongly rejected each other.

And there were few women, even if there were, they all had fierce expressions. At the same time, in some corners of the alleys, there were also children hiding, each with no innocence in their eyes, only deathly aura and indifference.

From time to time, there were screams and curses, which came out in this city.

"More like a scavenger camp."

Xu Qing's gaze swept across the surroundings and walked forward calmly.

Along the way, for the gazes that looked at him with caution and flattery, Xu Qing didn't bother, didn't stay long in this city, and after leaving the city, his body speed erupted, whistling toward the wilderness.

The place where the Jin Gang Sect migrated was in this Red Plain, but it was some distance from the city where Xu Qing arrived.

When he came, Xu Qing had looked at the map of this place in the Arresting Division. Now he locked onto a direction in his heart and ran in the wilderness.

His speed was very fast. The wind coming toward him carried bone-chilling cold, and faintly, some snowflakes seemed to be mixed in. Even on some small hills in the distance, one could occasionally see thin white snow covering them.

For the warm winter of the Seven Blood Eyes, here, it was the gradually arriving severe cold.

This kind of cold awakened many memories in Xu Qing's mind, especially along the way in this wilderness, he also saw many fierce beasts and human bones.

"Troubled times." Xu Qing's gaze was calm, and his speed was faster.

Just like this, time passed, and night arrived. As the night cold permeated, the wind became stronger, and the snow also revealed sharpness. Xu Qing, who had left the city and completely walked into the Red Plain, suddenly stopped his footsteps and looked into the distance.

The wind blew from there, carrying some ferocious laughter and bloodiness.

Faintly, one could see in the wind and snow in the distance, there was a ground of corpses, including civilians, guards, and scattered goods and shattered carriages.

This was clearly a caravan that was going to the city.

And at this moment, beside these corpses, there were over a dozen desperate people with tattered clothes, disheveled hair, ferocious expressions, and bloodthirsty eyes, all with fluctuations of the second or third layer of Qi Condensation.

Some of them were finishing off the survivors, some were searching for items, some were dragging corpses to the distance, and a few were even lying on several naked female corpses, venting their bestial nature.

Further away, there was a faint fire, as if they were cooking, and the heat drifting with the wind.

Clearly, this caravan encountered such a group of desperate people here and all died tragically.

Xu Qing's arrival immediately attracted the vigilance of these desperate people here. At this moment, they all raised their heads, all looking at Xu Qing with fierce intent.

After noticing the third layer of Qi Condensation cultivation base on Xu Qing, these desperate people grinned one after another, fierce intent erupted, and they charged straight at Xu Qing without saying a word.

They thought that Xu Qing could also become their prey.

Xu Qing looked coldly at these desperate people charging over. For him, the slaughter before his eyes, he had seen too much, too much from childhood to adulthood.

And the experience of a scavenger let him know that the so-called wilderness caravan, daring to walk in the wilderness, was rarely a good person. Encountering the weak, in reality, most could turn into slaughter plunderers at any time.

Troubled times are like this, so killing and being killed are very common things. He didn't have so much sympathy to overflow and investigate who was good and who was evil.

But... since these people wanted to attack him, then it was different.