Chapter 52: Explosions Are Redemption!

Through the visitor from Small Golden Light Temple, Su Ping learned of the background of that Immortal Master Guilingzi.

This person was actually the same as him—also an Inspector!

No wonder there was no mention of this person in his memory.

After all... for a Cultivator who considers their cultivation hopeless and descends to the mortal world to retire, who would bother to record their name when compiling a list of famous people?

The large city where Guilingzi is located is called Jin Feng City, a straight-line distance of five or six hundred kilometers away from the Jinque City where Su Ping is! This Guilingzi has much more seniority as an Inspector than Su Ping; ten years ago, he became disheartened after failing to break through to the Qi Refining Late Stage and chose to return home to retire.

According to Small Golden Light Temple, this Daoist Guilingzi is fond of beautiful women, operas, fine wine, and delicacies.

For the past few years, he had been holed up in Jin Feng City without coming out.

Yet in these last two years, his temperament suddenly changed; not only did he leave the city, but he also chose a large mountain to build a Daoist temple and styled himself as the Temple Master.

This Guilingzi also began to train Loose Cultivators and martial artists in batches, recruited a large number of tenant farmers, and annexed vast amounts of farmland, making himself, if not hated by heaven and man, at least loathed by man and dog alike.

Rumors even spread among the wealthy and influential families of Jin Feng City, saying that this Daoist Guilingzi had fallen into the demonic path, was fond of eating infants, drinking human blood, and so on...

Hearing this, Su Ping knew why Small Golden Light Temple had come so proactively to snitch.

Tsk tsk tsk, annexing farmland—this was overlapping with the business of Small Golden Light Temple.

The fact that competitors are enemies holds true in the Cultivation World as well.

As for those rumors, Su Ping would certainly have been noncommittal before.

But now, seeing the other party so eager to send Loose Cultivators everywhere to scrape up the population.

Su Ping vaguely suspected that this fellow Inspector might have truly fallen into the demonic path, or had been tempted and influenced by something like an Evil Qi Jade Slip.

All these strange operations now were preparations for a Blood Sacrifice!

"Five or six hundred kilometers—it's not far, but it's not exactly close either."

"If it were just for Blood Spirit Crystals, that would be one thing, but if it's a sacrificial Dharma Array to summon an Evil Spirit, then even I will be in danger here!"

After gathering the intelligence, Su Ping already had a plan in his mind.

He returned to the practice room, busied himself for the better part of the day, and after configuring a Storage Bag full of sweet gunpowder explosive packs.

Only then did he summon the Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui.

He took out the Purification Spirit Medicine and evolved the two Spirit Mice, adding ingredients to turn them into self-detonating mice.

He had Xiaobai and Xiaohui carry the Storage Bag, leading the self-detonating mice and a group of ordinary mice to the temple where Guilingzi was located to find an opportunity and see if he could be "redeemed"! Having experienced the incident at the Jiuye Mountain Market, and clearly knowing that even the upper echelons of the Immortal Sects were currently in chaos.

Su Ping understood that for an Inspector like this, unless the target of retaliation was clear.

Otherwise, if they died, they died; the current Immortal Sects had no time to investigate to the end.

At the same time, once a person is dead, their connections in the Immortal Sect usually fade.

Without any benefits, the probability of someone from the Immortal Sect stepping up to help is extremely small.

Not to mention, if his guess was correct.

If the Immortal Sect sent people to investigate, they might discover some shocking intelligence the more they investigated.

Su Ping did not believe that the upper echelons of the Immortal Sect were unaware of the Blood Sacrifice method and the existence of those Evil Qi Jade Slips.

He was just a fisherman with a few small hobbies, and he was even famous for his kind heart.

Plus, he had no opportunity to commit the crime! He figured no one would suspect him!

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On a large mountain outside Jin Feng City.

Stood a magnificent three-tiered Daoist temple.

The temple was named Guiling Temple, the place of cultivation for Daoist Guilingzi.

On this day, many young Daoists knelt trembling outside the Main Hall, keeping their heads low and turning a deaf ear to the roaring and cursing inside the hall.

After a long while, two Loose Cultivators covered in bloodstains crawled out of the Main Hall in a panic.

"Can't even handle such a small matter, a bunch of idiots!"

Inside the Main Hall, Guilingzi, who was as thin and withered as an old monkey and wrapped in a green Daoist robe that felt slightly too large, roared with blood-red eyes.

Unlike Su Ping, who was in his prime, he was already ninety-five years old this year.

Considering the hidden injuries from his failed breakthrough and the accumulated pill toxins.

Guilingzi could sense that if he didn't find a way, he would die of old age! But he didn't want to die; he still wanted to live, wanted to enjoy more beautiful women and delicacies! Wanted to enjoy for longer the gazes of fear, terror, and jealousy from those around him.

"There is still a chance, I can definitely still do it." Guilingzi muttered to himself, subconsciously picking up the Jade Slip he wore as a pendant around his neck and pressing it to his brow.

Tens of seconds later, Guilingzi left the temple, hunched over.

He intended to head to the back mountain to select humans and livestock, hoping to receive more hints from the Great Existence through the sacrifice! Squeak, squeak, squeak! Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui arrived at the temple with the group of mice and released them to scout for information.

As the mice scattered, Su Ping, who was reading a book far away at Linyue Villa, was able to see the terrain and various secrets of Guilingzi's temple.

Some mice reached the underground space of the temple's Main Hall.

There, they discovered countless layers upon layers of skeletal remains.

There were those of chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows, as well as those of old people and children.

With the help of the mice's eyes scanning the surroundings of this underground space, he noticed the blood-red patterns on the walls that looked like ghost talismans.

Su Ping confirmed that this was an Altar for a Blood Sacrifice.

Guilingzi was in all likelihood the worst-case scenario: an Evil Cultivator seduced by an Evil Spirit! "An Evil Cultivator, everyone has the right to punish them!"

Su Ping whispered, just as another wave of mice discovered Guilingzi in the back mountain.

Realizing that the opportunity must not be missed, Su Ping put on his bamboo hat, draped his long robe over himself, and picked up his fishing gear to head to Linyue Lake to fish.

Meanwhile, Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui followed the mouse tunnels to the secret chamber beneath the Main Hall.

Then... the explosive packs, sealed and wrapped in kraft paper inside the Storage Bag, were taken out one by one and placed beneath the bones that covered the floor.

After leaving the two self-detonating mice behind as fuses, they quickly retreated from the temple with the empty Storage Bag.

The entire process could be described as lightning-fast.

When Daoist Guilingzi returned from the back mountain, his madness had recovered slightly.

Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui had long since run outside the great mountain to wait.

"Is there someone in the secret chamber?"

"No, that's not right, it's not a person, it's... a demon mouse?"

Guilingzi returned to the Daoist temple and discovered the abnormality in the secret chamber by relying on his astonishing five senses.

He first assumed the Altar had been discovered by the spirit pet of an expert, and his instinct was to run.

After staying outside the hall for several seconds, he discovered there was no further movement.

Furthermore, he gradually sensed that the spiritual power reaction seemed to be from a type of mouse with extremely weak spiritual power.

In Guilingzi's mind, he began to imagine a scene where two demon mice had accidentally broken into the secret chamber and were then stunned and bewildered by the Altar's layout.

As for those medicine packets that had no Spirit Qi reaction.

Guilingzi, whose attention was primarily on the self-detonating mice, did not sense them at all.

"Has my luck finally turned?"

"If I can capture these two demon mice alive, I can sell them for at least a hundred Spirit Stones!"

"With Spirit Stones, I can go buy more of the materials I need and complete the sacrifice ahead of schedule!"

Thinking of the sacrifice, Guilingzi completely lost his reason.

With a *swish*, he transformed into a blurred afterimage, and amidst the indifferent gazes of the Daoist temple's priests, he *banged* into the Main Hall and opened the stone slab to walk into the underground secret chamber.

"The fish has taken the bait!"

Su Ping, who was fishing, had his eyes brighten, and under the witness of the maids and servants, he *swished* and reeled in a large grass carp.

At the same time!

Guilingzi discovered that these two demon mice, with their glowing, bewitching blood-red eyes, were not afraid of him, a Mid-stage Qi Refining Cultivator, in the slightest!

Upon seeing him, instead of running, they actually let out shrill cries and lunged at him, advancing rather than retreating!

Guilingzi was stunned for a moment, and then a strong sense of crisis struck him, causing his body to instinctively shudder, and several protective talismans stuck to his chest and back were activated.

*Bang! * The demon mouse slammed into the protective shield, its body turning into a mass of mangled flesh.

But!

Before Guilingzi could see clearly or understand why the demon mice would do such a thing, the two demon mice exploded in front of him! This instantly triggered a chain reaction, causing the explosive packets beneath the corpses at his feet to be detonated as well!

*Boom! * Amidst the earth-shaking tremors!

A mushroom cloud exploded from beneath the Main Hall of the Daoist temple.

In an instant, the entire Main Hall was blown to smithereens! (End of chapter)