Chapter 109: You All Have Already Found a Way to Die!

Linyue Villa.

Su Ping, who had not been happy for long after gaining great assistance from drawing cards in the Pot Heaven.

Was currently sitting upright in his study, slightly frowning as he looked at the urgent report sent by Ji Hu.

It turned out that those foreign Cultivators besieging the Jiuye Mountain Market were becoming increasingly excessive.

In less than this week, they had not only extorted money and grain from the City Lord Mansion and surrounding towns several times.

Now, they had even sent people to directly rob the caravan that Jinque City had dispatched to procure goods from the coastal regions.

And they even euphemistically called it—borrowing first!

To be repaid double in the future!

Originally, at the very beginning, Su Ping had not intended to intervene and invite trouble.

He had even received a request for help two days ago, sent via a flock of immortal cranes by that Inner Sect female Cultivator at Jiuye Mountain Market, who was clutching at straws in her desperation.

It was just that... now, in the eyes of Su Ping, who possessed an upgraded Memory Scepter.

The behavior of these foreign Cultivators had already given them a path to their own deaths!

However, in order to hide his true identity, he could not just go along with the Inner Sect female Cultivator's request to gain benefits; he had to tactfully refuse.

With his fishing spot and his hometown, there was no need to increase the risk of exposure for a bit of potential reward!

Su Ping summoned the steward of the City Lord Mansion, had them use their channels to summon immortal cranes, and sent out his reply tactfully refusing the Market Master of Jiuye Mountain Market.

Then, Su Ping sat cross-legged at Linyue Lake, pretending to fish.

He created the ultimate proof that he was not at the scene!

On the other side, the Memory Illusion Exorcist Mage Yunkong was already stepping on a large sword condensed from ice, moving downstream!

Setting off for Nine Leaves Mountain!

Twenty miles outside the Jiuye Mountain Market.

Near the riverbank, the Cultivator Alliance had set up a logistics camp here for Cultivators to rest.

A team of Cultivators who had been besieging the Jiuye Mountain Market formation for a long time and had finally been rotated back to rest were eating meat and drinking wine in the camp, having a grand time.

A burly, bald Body Cultivator with vigorous Qi and blood walked out of a tent and shook his head to refuse the overtures of a few Loose Cultivators.

"This bone is truly hard to gnaw."

"I don't know when the backup plan of the Senior Brother over there can be used; if we keep dragging it out like this, there are too many variables."

The bald man was a Body Cultivator at the Body Refining Late Stage, just a hair's breadth away from the opportunity to reach the next level.

In this team, he could be considered a core force.

He was not fond of women or fine wine, only having a penchant for killing and looting.

Therefore, upon learning that there was such a good thing here, he immediately left his original team and joined in.

Yet, he did not expect that all he could kill these past few days were mortals, while that market could be seen but not touched; every time he went over, it felt more like being a human formation base than fighting, which had stifled him greatly.

Just as the bald man was bored and suddenly remembered that among the caravan robbed last night, there seemed to be a few martial artists whose gazes made him feel quite uncomfortable.

Just as he was thinking he could go to that camp and grab a few to relieve his boredom.

The bald man suddenly heard the Cultivators guarding the river channel let out exclamations.

The next second!

Accompanied by the exclamations, the Cultivators emerging from the camp could all see a white-haired youth stepping on a huge Ice Giant Sword, coming across the water!

"Ahead is the temporary Forbidden Land of the Cultivator Alliance!"

"No passage ahead! Stop immediately!"

At first glance, one could feel that this white-haired youth was not to be trifled with, but the Loose Cultivators guarding the river channel could only bite the bullet and shout, hoping to use the name of the organization behind them to scare the other party.

However, responding to these Loose Cultivators was the Ice Giant Sword that suddenly appeared in the sky and fell at high speed!

The watchtower on the riverbank where the Loose Cultivators were located was immediately smashed to pieces!

"Enemy attack!"

Under the loud noise, the Cultivators in the camp swarmed out, and under the command of a few leaders, they managed to form a formation that was barely passable.

Yet, they saw the white-haired youth Cultivator who had committed the provocative act leap lightly and land on the ground; facing them, he waved his hand gently, and several ice swords hovered by his side.

At the same time, a voice appeared above the camp: Those who fear death, you may scram now!

The Cultivators were stunned for a moment, then everyone's face flushed red with anger.

The bald man, however, sensed something was wrong; while shouting that the other party was too arrogant, he silently retreated behind the crowd.

"Such a powerful ice-type spell!"

"He is an expert at the Qi Refining Late Stage! But that is not enough to be arrogant in front of us!"

"The opponent is only one person, so what if he is a heaven-gifted genius! Let's go together and kill him!"

"A mere Qi Refining Late Stage dares to come and provoke our Cultivator Alliance? Does he really think we are all those small sects without heritage!"

The Cultivators in the camp were not afraid of a lone Qi Refining Late Stage; they had strength in numbers and also had one or two Qi Refining Late Stage experts to hold the line.

Moreover, the coordination over these days had given many newly joined foreign Cultivators the confidence to confront strong enemies.

Did you not see that the Market Master was a Qi Refining Great Perfection Cultivator, and was he not still forced to retreat to defend Nine Leaves Mountain?

Su Ping watched quietly as the enemies gathered from the camp ahead and began to surge forward; with a thought, Yunkong flicked his hands, and the weapon he had placed in the Storage Bag in advance fell into his hands.

Then, relying on the assistance of his Divine Sense and the layout vision already provided by Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, he pulled the trigger.

The Cultivators who were charging, taking out Talismans to tear open, and intending to channel Dharma Power into their Dharma Artifacts, could only see a black metal object nearly as tall as a person appear in the white-haired youth's hands.

In the next instant, before they could react, the metal object accompanied by *thump-thump-thump* sounds spat out tongues of scorching fire.

The formation they had composed was torn to shreds by the metal objects spat out by the tongues of fire in one fell swoop!

"What is that! Is it some kind of special Dharma Artifact focused on long-range attacks?"

"But why can a Dharma Artifact of such power have no fluctuations of Dharma Power!"

"This is simply cheating!"

The bald man lying on the ground felt his scalp tingle, grateful he hadn't been the first to rush out.

There were actually quite a few cultivators like him, and they had all instinctively sensed the best way to dodge at the very first moment.

But as Su Ping swept his Divine Sense across.

Every cultivator who wasn't dead was laid bare.

Thus, the white-haired youth dropped the Defense-type Heavy Machine Gun—which had run out of ammo and been contributed by a Registered Disciple—and switched to a battle-hardened heavy sniper rifle to begin picking them off.

"Not good! The opponent definitely has a long-range detection Dharma Artifact!"

The bald man saw that every time the opponent fired, an accomplice hiding on the ground would have their head blown off.

Not wanting his own head to be opened up, he roared, and with a flash of yellow light on his body, he rushed forward on all fours like a sprinting cheetah.

At the same time, there were also cultivators who realized they couldn't escape and chose to fight for their lives.

They all subconsciously judged from the rhythmic firing just now that the opponent's formidable Dharma Artifact had a firing rate limit!

"Hah!"

Su Ping smiled faintly; the heavy sniper rifle, which had been firing once every half-second, suddenly turned into a blur as it fired in all directions.

He even freed up a hand to pull out a new rifle and fire in bursts!

In an instant, all those attackers who wanted to make a desperate last stand were hit and sent flying backward under the immense impact.

The bald man was the strongest and most conspicuous among this group making a desperate struggle, and because of this, he was given special attention, taking an armor-piercing sniper bullet to both his head and chest.

The white-haired youth slowly loosened his grip and let go of the heavy sniper rifle, seemingly feeling that this battle was already over and it was time to clean up the battlefield.

Bang!

Suddenly, a short, gray-haired cultivator emerged from the soil behind the white-haired youth using an Earth Escape Technique, and with a hint of triumph, swung a poison-tipped dagger to stab at the other's back.

Proficient in Earth Escape and at the Qi Refining Late Stage, he had long relied on this move to ambush several opponents of the same level!

The attacker's triumphant expression froze on his face the very next instant.

He had not expected that his ambush, carried out by relying on the Earth Escape Technique, would be directly countered by the opponent, who grabbed him by the face first.

As his head was grabbed, his right hand holding the dagger was forced away from the opponent.

His Protective Spiritual Light was violently crushed by the opponent!

As his head was crushed flat and his facial features bled wildly.

His entire body was also pierced through by several ice Long Swords that suddenly appeared in the air.

"Earth Escape Technique is a bit rare, but it's a pity you didn't escape deep enough; my Divine Sense had already discovered you."

Su Ping shook his head inwardly, mocking him. After confirming with his Divine Sense and the multiple scans of the rat swarm that no fish had slipped through the net alive.

Only then did he begin to clean up the battlefield.

First, he picked up the Storage Bags, then put everything into the Storage Bags, cleaned up the traces of the battlefield, and used the Object Manipulation Technique to take the bullets out of the corpses and put them back into storage.

Finally, he piled up the corpses, placed them into a large pit he had dug, buried them, and burned them.

There was no shortage of corpses in the Burial Ground, and such a large battle would surely attract people to investigate later; if no corpse remains were found every time, they might suspect whether Yunkong was a Demon Cultivator who had a need for corpses.

By then, he might run into a High Monk from the Great Golden Light Temple...

Su Ping waited for a while, confirming the corpses were burned clean to prevent any Evil Spirit from appearing later and leaving them restless even in death.

After finishing all this, the white-haired youth slowly stood up and looked calmly toward the dense forest behind him.

Over there, the target that needed to be taught a lesson this time had truly delivered themselves to his doorstep.

Inside the dense forest a mile away.

The leader of this siege on the Jiuye Mountain Market, the True Disciple of the Xuanxin Sect, Xuanwu, looked at the white-haired youth Yunkong with a grave expression.

Xuanwu dared to lead a team to besiege a small Market, so naturally, he had some ability.

Seemingly at the Qi Refining Late Stage, he was actually using a concealment Dharma Artifact to deliberately lower his cultivation, with his true strength being at the Qi Refining Great Perfection.

His recent hard work in gathering fellow sect members to besiege the Jiuye Mountain Market was also to accumulate resources and experience to prepare for future Foundation Establishment.

In addition, his right-hand men, the two junior brothers who came with him, were also experts among the Qi Refining Late Stage.

One was a sword cultivator with extremely strong killing techniques, and the other was a talisman cultivator proficient in using fire-type Spirit Talismans.

Coupled with his own proficiency in Arrays, this was how they were able to gradually gain the upper hand in the siege of the Market.

They had rushed back without stopping after hearing that their rear camp had been raided by an expert.

Yet they hadn't expected that the opponent was not only one person, but had also wiped out the entire rear force in such a short time before they could arrive!

This forced Xuanwu to be cautious and careful!

"This Daoist, you have gone too far!"

Xuanwu suppressed his anger, slowly approached, and spoke.

At the same time, he released his own aura, letting his Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivation be revealed completely.

"Finally encountered an unprecedented opponent!"

Seeing Xuanwu reveal his figure and true cultivation, and gazing at the exuberant energy contained within the other's slender physique.

Su Ping did not continue to use modern weapons for dimensionality-reduction strikes this time.

Instead, moved by a whim, he controlled Yunkong to choose to have a formal, face-to-face cultivator duel with the opponent!

In any case, if he won, naturally no problems would occur, and if he lost, it was only the Exorcist Mage Yunkong who lost.

Furthermore, Su Ping still had a backup plan.

Before Yunkong came, he had also received the blessing of the Fox-Faced Shrine Maiden Sakura; the fox mark on his brow could release thunder to ambush!

In addition, there was the Thunder Light Fox Talisman with Foundation Establishment strength to save the situation!

The possibility of problems was not high, and it was within Su Ping's acceptable range!

Su Ping did not answer the other's question; he was here to kill those who had a path to death, not to argue.

"This guy!"

Xuanwu had already gone through the memories related to the Chiyuan Immortal Sect in his mind, confirming that there was no portrait of the white-haired youth before him in either the true disciples or the Inner Sect.

Sensing that the other party was only at the Qi Refining Late Stage, he suspected that the other party had achieved such results by relying on the Side-Door Path to ambush the camp, so he snorted coldly and warned his two trusted junior brothers to be careful of the other party's gu insects or poison.

Several streaks of Golden Light flashed on Xuanwu's body.

He had used multiple First Tier High Grade Talismans in succession, allowing him to avoid most of the sneak attacks of the Side-Door Path while simultaneously enhancing his own defensive power.

Only then did Xuanwu summon his Flying Sword to stab at the white-haired youth walking toward him.

Boom!

In the dense forest, a series of loud noises suddenly erupted.

From time to time, one could see Ice Giant Swords appearing in the sky and falling rapidly!

"This guy is actually a Body Cultivator!"

With the help of Xuanwu's junior brothers, an exclamation was soon heard.

"How is it possible, he dodged it again!"

"Oh no, Senior Brother, save me!"

At the beginning, it was three against one, with Xuanwu's side having the advantage.

The advantage was huge!

By the end, it had turned into Xuanwu alone barely resisting Yun Kong, whose moves became smoother the more he fought.

There was no help for it; under the Divine Sense, movements below Foundation Establishment were like slow motion in Su Ping's eyes.

Coupled with Yun Kong's own Body Refining Late Stage physical fitness and innate Ice-Type Spirit Body.

And the fact that although he did not use firearms, he could still crush the life and Mana Spirit Medicine in the tooth-socket capsules to maintain his combat power without diminishing.

Su Ping found that the Qi Refining Perfection before him seemed to be nothing more than this.

If it were his own true body, these three would already be dead men under the blessing of the Saint Body.

But it was quite good as it was now, allowing him to familiarize himself with the way of exerting force and the changes in Dharma Power fluctuations of Qi Refining Perfection.

It had some reference value, at least.

And it was rare to see a Qi Refining Perfection state struggling desperately.

"Wait... wait!"

Xuanwu retreated rapidly, covered in wounds.

His journey had been smooth sailing, and he had never imagined that everything would be ruined today because of a young prodigy who was both a Qi Refiner and a Body Cultivator.

No, this was not a prodigy, this was a monster!

How could there be a prodigy a whole realm lower than himself who fought him on Dharma Power and endurance, only for him to be the one crushed!

At the same time, facing the white-haired youth's eyes, which were so calm that they seemed to never have felt emotions like worry or fear.

Xuanwu could not help but feel a bit inferior, and fearfully recalled the humbleness and unwillingness he had once felt in front of those monsters from the great sects.

In his eyes, Yun Kong was already one of those core disciples of the great sects who were like monsters, a future true disciple with a hundred percent certainty!

"I surrender! I will agree to whatever you want!"

"I am a true disciple of the Xuanxin Sect, and I have quite a status in the Cultivator Alliance!"

Xuanwu was hit by a large Ice Giant Sword once again, and the dim Golden Light on his body finally shattered, causing him to cough up blood.

Hearing the other party begging for mercy, Su Ping sighed lightly and controlled Yun Kong to suddenly stop his movements.

Just when the other party thought this sentence had moved him, and that he could escape with his life today!

And while he was secretly memorizing the appearance of this white-haired youth in his heart, intending to use the power of his sect to find out the other party's background before considering whether to take revenge.

He heard the faint voice of the white-haired youth in his ears:

"Your fighting spirit is scattered; there is indeed no point in continuing to fight."

"So... you should die."

Hearing these words, Xuanwu widened his eyes and looked at the white-haired youth in disbelief.

Then he saw a wisp of white Qi condensing on the fist that the youth had suddenly raised.

A phantom of a Greedy Wolf appeared behind the white-haired youth.

Accompanied by the other party's lightning-fast punch.

"No!"

Before he could even finish the word, Xuanwu was swallowed by the large mouth of the Greedy Wolf phantom.

And then his whole body exploded.

A wave of air rose into the sky, overturning the trees in a circle all around.

It forcibly blasted a circular flat ground out of this dense forest.

"Hoo!"

Yun Kong, who had coolly executed the Beidou Tanlang Fist to blast the opponent to pieces, felt his whole body instantly wither.

However, this time, those reinforcement teams who had seen this astonishing scene from afar and heard the screams of Xuanwu in his death throes.

All tacitly stopped, and with everyone's unanimous agreement, began to retreat.

And then this group of people did not even flee back to the frontline camp, scattering and fleeing while still on the road.

Are you kidding me!

Even the leading Great Cultivator was beaten to death by someone!

And that momentum just now, no matter how you look at it, was more than just the power of the Qi Refining Late Stage!

Plus, since they set off, they hadn't encountered a single person from the reserve camp coming to report news.

How could everyone not understand that some powerful person was displeased with them and had come to crush them like ants!

And following the flight of these people.

The team currently besieging the Jiuye Mountain Market also quickly began to waver.

Even though they were far away and could not see the momentum brought by that punch.

There were still quite a few people in the reinforcement team who were acquaintances or even close friends with those left behind on the front lines.

There was no lack of people who used various methods to send warnings and spread the news that Xuanwu was dead.

Jiuye Mountain Market, at the summit.

The Inner Sect female cultivator on the summit, who had been so worried that she ate ten jin less of Spirit Rice every day, had just received an urgent reply brought by a crane not long ago.

There was no unexpected surprise.

None of the targets of her plea for help indicated they would come to assist immediately; most offered polite words to decline.

Just as she gritted her teeth and decided to agree to certain conditions from her clan to exchange for family support to tide over the crisis, she suddenly discovered with surprise.

The offensive besieging Jiuye Mountain suddenly weakened and even stopped.

The team launching the offensive was falling into chaos, and many Loose Cultivators acting as the foundation of the Array even broke away from the main force and fled in all directions.

This caused the Array protecting the enemy's war machines to collapse without being attacked!

"Is this an attempt to lure me into attacking?"

"The leader is clearly someone who knows the ropes, how could they commit such a low-level mistake?"

Out of caution, this Market Master chose to remain still.

Not until she saw those chaotic soldiers scatter in a rout, leaving the foot of the mountain in a mess with not a single person left, did she believe it.

Only then did the Market Master somewhat believe that they were truly in big trouble and had abandoned the siege.

"Who on earth did something to make them fall into such chaos?"

The faces of those who had not yet replied appeared in the Market Master's mind.

Suddenly, she remembered Su Ping, the trading partner who had left a deep impression on her.

However, she subconsciously shook her head, thinking this was impossible.

Although that Inspector of Jinque City was intolerant of evil and would indeed take the initiative to strike at evil cultivators and Demon Beasts.

But his strength was truly too weak; even with Body Refining Small Success, how could he possibly stir up the situation here?

Not long after, another crane flew over, bringing replies including one from Su Ping.

Seeing the content of Su Ping's polite refusal, the Market Master became even more certain that she was just clutching at straws and overthinking.

"Eh?"

This Inner Sect Market Master, who was just about to descend the mountain, suddenly saw a white-haired youth walk out of the dense forest and arrive quite naturally at the empty front-line camp.

He took out a Storage Bag, and then... he packed all the various supplies left behind in the camp, regardless of their value, into one Storage Bag after another.

During this time, a team of Loose Cultivators circled back, seemingly also intending to scavenge.

As a result, the few people in the lead immediately knelt and begged for mercy after seeing the white-haired youth.

After receiving a "scram," they fled this area with their team, feeling a sense of relief.

The Inner Sect female cultivator felt a chill in her heart; she had already guessed that the chaos just now was inseparable from that white-haired youth!

She had the intention to befriend the other party, but discovered that her messages were completely ignored; after taking the spoils, he picked up the bundles filled with Storage Bags and walked into the dense forest...

One hour later.

Su Ping headed to a nearby cave, where he received the bundles brought by Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui.

As for Yun Kong, just in case, he was still rapidly rushing toward the north while the duration was ongoing.

This way, even if he encountered pursuers, they would only be led toward the north!

A bit late today, mainly because I wanted to finish writing a plot point; next is obtaining a divine ability and then Foundation Establishment.