Chapter 266: Turns out it's Xiao Waisan

Shen Qing walked and killed all the way, arriving at the holy land of the Heaven Thunder Sect.

Shen Qing had already heard the howl of the Profound Thunder Saint.

"Shen Ancestor! Martial Emperor! Why!"

"Many of my disciples don't know anything! Why slaughter them!"

Before the Martial Emperor and Shen Wendao could reply, Shen Qing's voice rang out with a sneer.

"It's a racial conflict—do I still have to show you favor?"

The Profound Thunder Saint turned his head, looked at Shen Qing, and said, "Who are you again?"

"They're all innocent! Can't we let them go?"

"Smack!"

Shen Qing gave the Profound Thunder Saint a hard slap: "Innocent? Now you start talking about innocence? Then bring those evil spirits over—are the people they've wrecked and killed not innocent?"

"I hate your kind the most—wanting to be a whore yet erecting a chastity arch."

"But I have to say, your skin is thick—my hand hurts from slapping you."

The Profound Thunder Saint's face flushed red, unsure whether it was from Shen Qing's slap or his words.

"How dare you? I'm an eighth-layer Martial Saint Realm cultivator! How dare a junior like you!"

As he spoke, the Profound Thunder Saint let out a howl, lightning flashing in his eye sockets—but the thunder was loud and the rain small; he couldn't even move a finger, having already been doomed to stay here by the Martial Emperor and the Shen Family Ancestor.

Shen Qing chuckled: "Eighth-layer Martial Saint Realm? You good at fighting? What good is that?"

Shen Qing pointed at Shen Wendao: "When you're out and about, it's all about background."

Shen Qing then pointed at Zhu Wu: "It's all about power!"

Afterwards Shen Qing slapped the Profound Thunder Saint's face: "What path do you walk?"

At that moment, out of the corner of his eye he saw the evil spirit similarly nailed nearby, and sneered: "Turns out it's Xiao Waisan."

The Profound Thunder Saint was so angry he smoked, white vapor steaming from his body, his lips trembling uncontrollably, unable to speak.

Shen Qing walked over to the evil spirit at the side: "I didn't expect an unexpected bonus—we caught one red-handed."

"Not bad luck—we just killed an evil spirit yesterday, and another popped up today."

The evil spirit Jia Yu turned his black‑mist‑formed head: "You killed Jia Luo?"

Shen Qing chuckled: "I don't have the habit of asking a beast what its name is."

"But you, you ought to know a bit more than that beast."

Jia Yu glanced at Shen Qing, then at Shen Wendao and Zhu Wu, knowing he was surely doomed, so he simply shut his mouth and said nothing more.

The next moment, annihilation light shot from Shen Qing's pupils, he began to annihilate the evil spirit's body, intense white vapor rose, and Jia Yu started to scream in agony.

Obviously his backbone wasn't as strong as yesterday's evil spirit; Shen Qing had barely started when he gave in.

"Stop hitting—ask whatever you want."

Shen Qing said: "First, I need to know how many evil spirits have infiltrated our world this time, and how many Martial Saints have defected."

The evil spirit wailed: "I only know that three of my kind came with me to this world, but I don't know who they are. We each have our own mission, each following a Martial Saint, so as not to be caught all together—thus we don't know who the others are, and we don't interfere with each other."

Shen Qing narrowed his eyes; three evil spirits following Martial Saints had come to this world, which meant at least three Martial Saints had defected.

Shen Qing turned his head to look at the Profound Thunder Saint: "Do you know which other Martial Saints, like you, have defected without backbone?"

The Profound Thunder Saint snorted: "I don't know."

At this moment, Shen Wendao and Zhu Wu both turned their gazes to Shen Qing, wanting to know whether the evil spirit and the Profound Thunder Saint were telling the truth.

Shen Qing nodded.

Then he gave a cold snort: "If you don't know anything about anything, what are you still alive for?"

Saying that, Shen Qing drew the Slay Dragon from his waist and walked toward the evil spirit.

At that moment Zhu Wu said: "Shen Qing, wait a moment, let's keep this evil spirit."

"The Heavenly Craft Workshop and the Divine Medicine Pavilion over there have launched a project to study evil malignities, hoping to devise something that can seek out evil malignities."

"If we have this evil spirit, it might greatly speed up the progress."

Shen Qing lowered the Slay Dragon; "This is really necessary—we can't always rely on me."

"Moreover, this evil spirit is the emperor of the evil malignity side, so its research value is even higher."

"Besides, Shen Qing has already killed an evil spirit and seized a mental‑power trait; this evil spirit isn't much stronger than that one, so killing it probably wouldn't yield a trait either."

Shen Qing also looked at the Profound Thunder Saint: "What about this one?"

Zhu Wu waved his hand, indifferent: "Just a traitor—kill him."

At that moment, the Profound Thunder Saint laughed, somewhat maniacally: "Hahaha! I accept that winners are kings and losers are bandits—but Zhu Wu! Shen Wendao!"

"You're letting a Golden Pellet Realm cultivator kill me—isn't that going too far!"

"However you say it, I'm an eighth‑layer Martial Saint Realm cultivator—I could stand here and you couldn't cut me down!"

"If you want to kill me—come at me!"

Before his words finished, Zhu Wu had already rushed behind the Profound Thunder Saint, grabbed his remaining hair, and with a hard pull jerked his head back, exposing his withered neck.

At the same time, Zhu Wu sealed the Profound Thunder Saint's flesh and yuan qi with pure yuan qi.

Shen Qing raised an eyebrow: "Hey, in the countryside they kill chickens for New Year just like this."

Those words directly agitated the Profound Thunder Saint, who howled: "No! No! You can't treat me like this! I am a Martial Saint! I am a Saint!"

Shen Qing slowly walked toward him, the Dragon Elephant Roar echoing across Heaven Thunder Mountain, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Power running at full power, the Slay Dragon in his hand bursting with brilliant golden light, a purple python bellowed, golden dragon horns sprouted on his head, his scales turned golden, and he transformed into a mighty form.

The Profound Thunder Saint watched Shen Qing approach, panicked: "Don't do this to me—give me a dignified death!"

Shen Qing looked at the Profound Thunder Saint and sneered: "A dignified death?"

"You chose to betray humanity and become a beast."

"Then you should die like a castrated boar!"

As soon as the words fell, a brilliant golden light flashed in the air, and Shen Qing's blade easily sliced through the head of the Mysterious Thunder Saint.

The anguished cry ceased abruptly.

A head flew high into the air, and the Mysterious Thunder Saint who had roamed the Great Martial for over seven hundred years died.

【Congratulations on slaying a Martial Saint realm warrior, successfully looting the trait: Lightning Mastery (Red)】

【Discovery of a new combinable trait】

【Thunder Law Master (Purple) + Lightning Mastery (Red) =???】