Chapter 50: Once the People Are Killed, No One Will Know

"Wu Yaoqi?" As soon as the brocade-clad elder moved, Gu Zhao sensed a wave of Wu Yaoqi, similar to Bai Ke's, though slightly different; overall, the feeling was much the same.

"Are you a mage?" the brocade-clad elder asked, eyes wide.

The brocade-clad elder's face turned ugly; he saw that Daoist Yan Song's Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo was formidable and dared not engage, but Gu Zhao was young and stood by Daoist Yan Song's side, so he instinctively looked down on him, not expecting to kick a steel plate.

Gu Zhao nodded. "You could say so."

"We have no grudge between us. Return the Blood Spirit Pearl to me, and we will no longer meddle in your feud with Xu Kongting; otherwise, the Three Extremes Mountain and you will fight to the death!" the brocade-clad elder threatened.

Bai Ke let out a soft gasp. "Three Extremes Mountain?"

Gu Zhao asked Bai Ke, "What kind of power is the Three Extremes Mountain?"

"It is also a major power in Changping Prefecture. The leader is a great demon who kills for pleasure, eating flesh and drinking blood," Bai Ke replied.

Gu Zhao nodded, showing no concern at all; instead, he pulled out a yellow paper, recited a spell: "Eyes like the sun and moon, opening and closing the universe. Once the One is listed, the Four Images are completed. Yin and Yang transform, transforming the spirit into Shangqing."

The yellow paper turned to flying ash; the Shangqing Spirit Transformation took effect!

Gu Zhao not only cast the Shangqing Spirit Transformation talisman on himself but also cast one on Daoist Yan Song.

"Whoosh—!"

The Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo advanced like a wall; the wind force and fire intensity increased by another third.

The white-robed man Xu Kongting and the brocade-clad elder's faces changed wildly; both flew back with all their might, darting out of the ancestral hall window.

But as soon as they emerged, they felt the sky darker than before; the sun was not shining down through faint mist, but seemed directly blocked.

The brocade-clad elder suddenly looked up and saw a small cloud gathering above their heads, blocking the sunlight while faint purple light flickered within.

The brocade-clad elder leaped to flee, but the moment he moved, he found that Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo surrounded them on all sides.

Outside the ancestral hall, Daoist Yan Song waved his sleeve and transformed again, becoming a black-faced figure with vertical eyebrows and round eyes, radiating fury; under his full effort, he completely covered the surrounding heaven and earth with Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo, forming a wind-fire cage that trapped a ghost and a demon in the center.

The violent wind and fire made the brocade-clad elder's clothes begin to curl and burn, causing him to cry out in shock, "Who exactly are you people?"

Xu Kongting looked at the thunderclouds above, then at the surrounding wind and fire; his face turned even paler. He gritted his teeth and leaped toward the withered well beneath the old locust tree nearby.

The next moment, a voice like a death sentence came from behind the several people: "Heavenly Thunder, Earthly Thunder, ringing and shaking all directions. Destroying mountains and overturning peaks, fiercely piercing the Heavenly Granary."

"Boom!"

More than a dozen bolts of Lei Ting suddenly appeared from the thunderclouds, striking down at the brocade-clad elder and the well mouth.

The brocade-clad elder roared fiercely; his body expanded three feet, bursting his brocade robes, revealing the original form of a yellow ape over two meters tall. He crossed his arms over his head, his body filled with Wu Yaoqi, and stubbornly resisted the Heavenly Thunder.

A thick stench of corpse Qi suddenly rose from the well mouth, forming a visible black-red mist that layered and spread around the well mouth, protecting the withered well completely.

The next moment, thunder and fire intertwined; purple lightning and Jin Guang, red flames and black smoke, shining for ten thousand feet!

"Eh? There really is Sha Qi!" Daoist Yan Song retracted the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo, and his eyes couldn't help but brighten.

Several strands of Sha Qi were sucked into the thunder seed in Daoist Yan Song's sea of consciousness, then transformed into waves of spiritual power, merging into Daoist Yan Song's body, accelerating his cultivation and enhancing his cultivation base.

Gu Zhao's perception was deeper, because the Five Thunder Token not only enhanced his cultivation but also began to condense a new thunder seed.

"Are they all dead?" the embroiderer asked softly.

"That old man is dead," Bai Ke wagged his tail. "The whole person, no, the monkey, has turned to charcoal."

Just now, Heavenly Thunder rained from above, and wind and fire surrounded them; thunder and fire attacked from all directions, raging wildly. Although the brocade-clad elder was not weak, half of the Thunder Spell directly struck him to the brink of death, then the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo swept over him like wind sweeping away scattered clouds, turning him into a piece of charcoal.

In Gu Zhao's view, this elder was only on par with Ren Tian; with merely over a hundred years of cultivation, how could he hope to stubbornly resist the Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder and Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo?

As for the issue of the Three Extremes Mountain and us fighting to the death, hasn't that been resolved now?

"What about the ghost in white clothes?" the embroiderer asked.

Gu Zhao, Daoist Yan Song, and Bai Ke all looked at the withered well beneath the old locust tree.

Strands of red smoke rose from the well mouth, accompanied by a strong stench of corpses, then a voice of gritted teeth came from below: "You injured my soul and shattered my Red Sha Corpse Art. I will make you die!"

The next moment, a figure suddenly rose from the well mouth, wearing white clothes with green-black skin; looking at his features, he was clearly the white-robed man Xu Kongting from just now.

But this figure was also different from before.

Just now, Xu Kongting broke through the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo and was struck by Gu Zhao's Palm Thunder; his ghost body was about to scatter, and the whole person had a heavy sense of illusion, but now he clearly possessed a physical form, with mud on his robes and skin clearly visible.

Moreover, although his aura was unstable, it was clearly stronger than the brocade-clad elder who just revealed his original form.

However, when he saw the blackened charcoal a short distance away, which still clearly showed the shape of a tall ape, the whole person couldn't help but pause. "You killed Huang Ping Gong?"

"Why? Was he not killable?" Gu Zhao asked.

"He is the Yellow Robe Envoy of the Three Extremes Mountain!" Xu Kongting snarled, baring his teeth, full of hatred and anger.

If Huang Ping Gong died here, the Three Extremes Mountain would never let it go; even if he killed the three people and the fox before him, he would still be held accountable by the Three Extremes Mountain.

"How does the Three Extremes Mountain compare to the Golden Wind God Sect?" Gu Zhao asked.

Xu Kongting couldn't help but freeze. "Are you people from the Golden Wind God Sect?"

Both the Golden Wind God Sect and the Three Extremes Mountain are major powers in Changping Prefecture; although the Three Extremes Mountain has three Mountain Lords, they would not look down on the Golden Wind God King, who has been famous for decades.

"No." Gu Zhao smiled slightly. "I have already killed five guardians of the Golden Wind God Sect."

"What?" Xu Kongting's pupils contracted.

"The same logic applies. If I kill you, who will know we killed this ape?" Gu Zhao snapped his fingers. "Heavenly Thunder, Earthly Thunder, ringing and shaking..."

Seeing the thunderclouds in the sky reassemble, Xu Kongting let out a fierce howl and lunged fiercely at Gu Zhao.

"Whoosh—!"

The sound of wind rose, heat waves gathered, and the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo blew straight at him.

Surrounded by Red Sha Corpse Qi, Xu Kongting was confident his corpse body was as hard as iron; disregarding everything, he stubbornly endured the wind and fire attacking his body, intending to drill through the wind and fire and kill the several people with martial force.

Although his Red Sha Corpse Art was broken and he could not exert his full strength, the several people opposite clearly were not skilled in close combat; once he got close, he could tear them all apart with claws comparable to a diamond.

"Swish swish swish!"

But, having just consumed more than half of his Red Sha Corpse Qi and finally breaking through the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo, several strands of Gang Qi containing the light of the sun, moon, and heavens suddenly rose before his eyes, then transformed into waves of Heavenly Gang, rushing at Xu Kongting.

At the same time, Daoist Yan Song's magic power circulated within his body; he waved his hand, and the Taiyi Taiyi Fenghuo became even more condensed, simultaneously spinning into a tornado that trapped Xu Kongting entirely in the center.

The next moment, endless purple lightning poured down from the thunderclouds!