Chapter 10

The soul of the God-Lord of Mist-Riding could have struggled under the magic power of the Soul-Prohibiting Talisman, but when Qian Chen explained earlier, he deliberately sent a strand of sound transmission to him, so as not to be very awkward without an audience. It unexpectedly shattered all the God-Lord of Mist-Riding's confidence, making the process of sealing his soul very smooth, with every question answered.

Qian Chen activated the talisman and asked: "Who are the Twelve Yuan Chen you mentioned, and what is their relationship with the Four Seas Hall."

Listening to the God-Lord of Mist-Riding's numb explanation, Qian Chen learned that the Twelve Yuan Chen were the most vicious, ruthless, terrifying, and cruel group of robbers in the history of the Jianghu. They used the twelve earthly branches as their names, each wearing a mask, not knowing each other's identities.

Only the Dragon Head knew everyone's true identity. They were all villains gathered together after the Dragon Head learned their secrets, either invited or coerced.

Every one of the Twelve Yuan Chen had a mysterious identity. Under the mask, they could be venerable martial arts seniors, a generation of great heroes who shook the Jianghu, black-path figures who had disappeared for many years, Jianghu robbers, or even dead people.

They robbed and plundered. After the Dragon Head gathered his companions and agreed on a time to act, they would all kill their way to the door on a certain day. Their methods were always to exterminate the entire family, leaving no chickens or dogs behind. Even if one person acted alone, it would stir up a bloody storm; cooperation between two or three people was already a major case that shocked the Jianghu.

And if the Dragon Head gathered all the Twelve Yuan Chen, what they did would definitely be earth-shattering.

Since the establishment of the Twelve Yuan Chen, they had only acted all together twice, and each time they stirred up boundless seas of blood and monstrous waves in the Jianghu.

This time, Martial Arts Alliance Leader Hong Sihai's sixtieth birthday was imminent. The Four Seas Hall was filled with guests, and heroes from all directions arrived to celebrate Hong Sihai's birthday. The Dragon Head gathered the Twelve Yuan Chen at this time, and the target set was... Hong Sihai! Just because back then Hong Sihai led the righteous path to destroy the Demon Sect, the Twelve Yuan Chen dared not provoke the righteous heroes, but took the opportunity to intercept and kill the families of the Demon Sect disciples who were fleeing, cruelly torturing and killing the Demon Sect Leader's family.

The news reached the Demon Sect's main altar, which was resisting the righteous path's invasion at the time, and the Leader's mind was instantly thrown into chaos, which was why he was defeated by the righteous path.

The Twelve Yuan Chen intercepting and killing the Demon Sect Leader's family was, of course, not to uphold justice, but for the boundless wealth and peerless martial arts accumulated by the Demon Sect over the millennium. The Demon Sect had been famous for a thousand years, with countless divine weapons, secret manuals, and wealth. Legend has it that these accumulations were sealed in a secret vault to prevent the Demon Sect from declining in the future.

As the hope for the Demon Sect's comeback.

But after the Twelve Yuan Chen tortured and abused the Demon Sect Leader's family, they did indeed force out some clues, but the key mystery of the secret vault was carried by the Leader himself. Only when two secrets were combined could the treasure vault be opened. And this clue, according to the Dragon Head's investigation over the years, was finally determined to have fallen into the hands of Martial Arts Alliance Leader Hong Sihai.

Therefore, the Twelve Yuan Chen gathered again to destroy the Four Seas Hall.

To rob and kill the now elderly and frail Hong Sihai...

"I just said that whenever there is such a Jianghu grand gathering, there must be trouble. The Twelve Yuan Chen robbing and killing Hong Sihai, the collision between righteous and evil, it seems this is the main mission this time." Qian Chen shook his head: "But you Twelve Yuan Chen are a bit strange! Why not choose to act at ordinary times, but have to choose when Hong Sihai invites all the heroes of the world to a banquet."

"When the righteous path experts are like clouds?"

"Isn't this just increasing the difficulty for yourselves?"

The soul of the God-Lord of Mist-Riding spoke numbly: "Because we all have our own public identities. If we don't take this opportunity when the fish and dragons are mixed to mix into the Four Seas Hall, stir up the water, and make the Four Seas Hall's defenses no longer comprehensive, relying on temporary martial force to kill our way into the heavily guarded Four Seas Hall, even if we could succeed, it would be a narrow escape, and we would inevitably suffer heavy casualties."

"The righteous heroes gather. Although they seem powerful, in reality, they each have their own secrets, as well as grudges, grievances, and conflicts of interest. Although powerful, they are a scattered sand, which is more convenient for us to act in the dark."

"Even if the righteous path catches one of us, because we don't know each other's identities, it's difficult to implicate others."

"So this is the most suitable time."

"If the Dragon Head is caught, wouldn't your Twelve Yuan Chen be finished?" Qian Chen asked suspiciously.

At this moment, the God-Lord of Mist-Riding, whose soul was sealed, actually showed a strange and terrifying smile: "You don't know how terrifying the Dragon Head is at all. He is not a person, but a poisonous dragon hiding in the abyss. Even if we all die, the Dragon Head might not necessarily have any trouble. Anyone who thinks the Dragon Head is the only weakness of our Twelve Yuan Chen doesn't know that they have found the most dangerous place of this poisonous dragon... a sheep entering a dragon's mouth!"

"You seem to have a lot of confidence in him!" Qian Chen said faintly with his hands behind his back: "Am I not more terrifying than him?"

The God-Lord of Mist-Riding said: "You are a very terrifying person, but the Dragon Head is not a person at all. He is a demon of gods and demons attached to a person's body. He is an existence you can never defeat."

"This description..." Qian Chen let out a breath and said: "Thinking about it carefully, among all the heroes I've heard of in my life, only the Supreme could match this description. Today, am I going to deal with an enemy like the Supreme?"

Qian Chen held his stomach and laughed until he bent over...

"There are quite a lot of bumpkins in the Samsara world!"

Finally, Qian Chen asked: "What flaw did I reveal that made you decide to poison me?"

The soul of the God-Lord of Mist-Riding showed a strange expression: "You didn't reveal any flaws... Is there any reason needed to poison and kill someone? I'm just in a bad mood today."

Qian Chen was silent after hearing this.

"What is your true identity?" Qian Chen began to search the God-Lord of Mist-Riding's corpse, carefully putting various poisons into the Dragon-Sparrow Ring. He took out a bronze mask from under the tea stall stove, shaped like a soaring giant snake; this was the token of the Twelve Yuan Chen. On the God-Lord of Mist-Riding's side, he confessed: "On the surface, I am the number one divine doctor in the Jianghu, Qi Qiuzi."

"Then what about the real Qi Qiuzi?" Qian Chen asked casually.

"I am the real Qi Qiuzi. In order to practice the great method passed down by my teacher, 'Emerald Spirit Five Poisons Incarnation Sutra', I joined the Twelve Yuan Chen at the invitation of the Dragon Head. The Jianghu only knows that my medical skills are extremely high, but they don't know that my martial arts and poisons are also excellent."

"After becoming a grandmaster, we open the gate of heaven and earth and can control the heaven and earth yuan qi."

"However, the heaven and earth yuan qi is very violent. Ordinary grandmasters can only control it cautiously, lest the violent heaven and earth yuan qi destroy their physical bodies. If you want to truly become a peerless expert, you can only control the heaven and earth yuan qi through divine weapons to reach the supreme realm where one strike changes the color of heaven and earth. The gap between ordinary grandmasters and grandmasters with divine weapons is infinitely large... I am not reconciled to becoming an ordinary grandmaster, treating illnesses and saving people every day, and only being able to poison enemies in secret when I encounter them. So I want to refine the secret divine weapon passed down by my sect—Emerald Phosphorus Five Poisons."