Chapter 83

"The Profound Yin Sacred Body indeed offers great benefits for dual cultivation."

"However, her Sacred Body has not yet fully awakened and requires some time."

Lu Chen roughly understood the Empress's meaning.

Thus, he silently glanced at Lin Qingxi and Lin Yunxue.

His gaze unintentionally met Lin Qingxi's, and her expression appeared extremely pitiful.

"Forget it, let her stay here for now."

Since that time, after deeply communicating with Lin Yunxue, she has changed her opinion of Lu Chen.

And Lu Chen also allowed her to send people to the Ziwei Palace to seek powerful protection.

Surely, powerful figures will arrive soon.

The mother and daughter should not encounter any problems in the short term.

Despite thinking so, he still ordered Qin Yan to set up several sixth-rank defensive formations outside Zixuan City.

"This is the formation eye stone; do not lose it."

After Qin Yan finished all this, Lu Chen picked up the formation eye stone and threw it down to Lin Qingxi.

Lin Qingxi received the item, and in her despondent gaze, a flash of light suddenly appeared.

"He has me in his heart!"

Lu Chen glanced sideways at the complex expression of Lin Yunxue and waved his hand.

"Let's go!"

Soon, Lu Chen led the five women away from the Great Xuan Dynasty.

The six of them followed the map toward the territory controlled by Star Cliff, that is, the northeastern part of Tianzhou.

Tianzhou is twice the size of Zhenzhou, so the group took nearly two days to reach the marked location of Lingxi Town on the map.

Compared to Gu Xiangxiang's memory, Lingxi Town has now completely changed.

Although it still appears to have many residents, the familiar faces are long gone.

After putting away Wangcai from afar, Lu Chen led several people down from the sky and entered the village from the west.

There are not many villagers in the village; at this time, only a few elders selling various agricultural products remain outside.

"Master...... this place is not right......"

"These villagers are hiding their cultivation levels...... they seem to be around the Pill Formation stage."

"Moreover, there seem to be faint traces of residual killing intent erupting from that direction."

At this moment, Su Qian and Qin Yan felt a strange, inexplicable aura.

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen also noticed that, at the instant they appeared, several villagers hurrying in the distance had their peripheral glances fixed on them.

"This town has a problem."

Originally, Gu Xiangxiang and the other two looked around with some nostalgic and sentimental expressions.

But upon hearing this, they immediately became alert.

Perhaps because they were born and raised here, they always felt something was off.

"Little sister, do you still remember the demon beast nest beneath the village well?"

Gu Xiaoxiao, upon hearing her sister's words, immediately looked toward the spot where Su Qian and Qin Yan had just pointed, where traces of erupting killing intent remained.

Lu Chen listened to their conversation and quickly inferred the most likely event.

"Qin Yan, find a place to conceal your form and go check beneath that well."

"We few will wander around and wait for your news."

"Alright." Qin Yan responded in one voice, quickly left the group, and headed alone toward the well opening.

Lu Chen and the others wandered for a while and soon saw her return.

"This place has probably been completely infiltrated by demon cultivators; if not for an accident, even these villagers are demon cultivators!"

"All demon cultivators?" Although he had suspected it earlier, hearing the truth still surprised Lu Chen somewhat.

"What are they doing down in the well?"

"It appears they are using human flesh and blood to refine some special elixir."

"Flesh-and-blood elixir?"

"What about their cultivation levels?"

"The people below are mostly around the Pill Formation and Spirit Transformation stages."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen's expression changed slightly, as if he had an idea, and he began weighing the pros and cons in his mind.

What he was weighing was naturally killing versus not killing.

Although killing these demon cultivators while in Tianzhou would not provoke a major reaction from their side,

it would inevitably provoke a reaction from Star Cliff.

Although his heart leans toward the righteous path, nowadays neither the righteous nor the demonic factions tolerate him.

And if he leaves them unchecked, should they later become a source of disaster, it would only bring more trouble.

"Seal the town, leave a few alive, and kill the rest."

After a brief silence, Lu Chen spoke slowly.

"Yes."

Soon, mournful cries began to echo from within Lingxi Town.

In less than a quarter of an hour, aside from the few leading cultivators in the well, the rest had already perished completely.

Lu Chen brought Gu Xiangxiang and the other two down to the well and saw those few leading cultivators.

However, what surprised him was that, upon seeing him, a bearded, stubbled late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator suddenly showed fear, kept struggling, and was so frightened that he wet his pants on the spot.

"What is this?"

Lu Chen didn't understand.

Moreover, it wasn't just him who didn't understand; even the few demonic cultivators beside this cultivator were somewhat surprised.

Usually, they had never seen their leader display such an expression on his face.

"Mo Xuan! It's Mo Xuan!!! Mo Xuan isn't dead!!! I just said Mo Xuan couldn't possibly die so easily!"

The cultivator kept retreating, his eyes fixed tightly on Lu Chen.

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen frowned tightly, and a murderous aura unconsciously surged from his entire body.

How could this person know Mo Xuan?

Moreover, it seemed he had mistaken him for Mo Xuan?

"Senior Mo Xuan! I was wrong!!! Back then, I shouldn't have slandered you together with Elder Mu!"

"It was my bewitched heart; for those pills and cultivation methods, I didn't hesitate to betray the sect, betray the righteous path!!!"

His whole body trembled uncontrollably, his face full of fear and despair.

On the side, upon hearing him mention Mo Xuan, those few cultivators also showed expressions of terror, their bodies unconsciously retreating.

"Senior Xu, did you mistake him! Isn't the Sect Leader Mo long dead in Zhenzhou?"

"Besides, you see, he doesn't look anything like Sect Leader Mo at all."

Hearing the few people's conversation, Lu Chen looked down at his own body with interest.

It seemed he himself hadn't noticed; since that time when Mo Xuan attempted to seize his body, he had also been tainted with a bit of the other's aura.

Moreover, because of that possession attempt, he had also gained many of the other's memories.

Unfortunately, the memory of this person before him was not among them; otherwise, he would have been quite interested.

Not only him, but when hearing the name Mo Xuan, Su Qian and Qin Yan, Chu Lian three people all fell into thought.

They held high positions in Zhenzhou, so naturally they had heard of Mo Xuan's affairs back then.

While the Gu sisters had never heard this name before, they looked at Lu Chen somewhat bewildered.

Before coming to Lingxi Town, Lu Chen had originally been thinking about how to go to the Xingyao Association to meet that person who betrayed Mo Xuan; now looking at it, wasn't there an excellent opportunity right before him?

"Su Qian, Qin Yan, you go up first; I want to ask them something alone."

Lu Chen spoke slowly with his idea in mind.

"Yes."

"Mm."

After the few women left, Lu Chen began to ask about the matters of Xingyao.

It seemed because of the fear of Mo Xuan, the leader answered without reservation.

Soon, he obtained an important piece of information from the other's mouth.

"Mo Xuan's dao companion is the Third Elder of Xingyao."

"Originally called Mu Hanyu?"