Chapter 64

Out of consideration for his conscience, Lu Yang didn't take all of Qin Yuanhao's clothes, leaving him a pair of underwear to cover his shame.

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The storage ring, a magic treasure widely circulated among cultivators.

The Landing Money Chamber of Commerce had conducted several surveys on the "most popular magic treasure," and the storage ring was voted number one by a high margin.

For traveling, touring the continent, and hiding treasures and private money, it is an essential magic treasure for every household.

Moreover, the price of a storage ring is very cheap; even Qi Refining stage cultivators can afford one, though the space is much smaller.

Every year, many Qi Refining stage cultivators buy storage rings, and the Landing Money Chamber of Commerce makes a fortune; it is a major revenue item.

The Landing Money Chamber of Commerce also launches improved versions of storage rings every year—mainly featuring aesthetic enhancements, while the internal space remains unchanged.

The first magic treasure most people use when they become cultivators is a storage ring, which is very memorable.

Whether righteous or demonic, everyone uses storage rings, and Qin Yuanhao was naturally no exception.

The above was Qin Yuanhao's impression of storage rings.

He had lived for decades and had never heard of anyone using a storage ring to store an enemy's clothes!

Is this reasonable!

Actually, it is quite reasonable. What a storage ring cannot store are items with a master's spiritual connection, such as living creatures, ghosts, or spirit treasures. Clearly, Qin Yuanhao's clothes did not fall into that category.

Fortunately, as a dignified member of the demonic path, Qin Yuanhao's sense of shame had long since blown away with the wind. Even if he was wearing underpants, he could still fight!

Then he saw Meng Jingzhou take out an image-recording ball.

"Damn it, which sect are you from, and what deep grudge do you have against me!" Qin Yuanhao was convinced that Lu Yang and the other two were fellow members of the other three sects.

Even if Lu Yang and his group said they were from the righteous path now, Qin Yuanhao wouldn't believe them.

He just couldn't understand; although he had grudges with people, he had always been careful in his actions and never made mortal enemies.

Meng Jingzhou and Seeing Man Gu also looked at Lu Yang with strange expressions, as if they hadn't expected Lu Yang to come up with such a unique way of attacking.

"No need to talk about underworld ethics when dealing with evil paths. Attack together!" Lu Yang signaled the other two.

If the three of them attacked together, even a half-step Golden Core stage tiger demon would die, let alone Qin Yuanhao, who was only at the late Foundation Establishment stage.

They had thought about fighting Qin Yuanhao one-on-one; as geniuses, they were confident in fighting across realms.

However, for the sake of safety, it was better for the three of them to attack together.

Qin Yuanhao cast aside his shame and fought the three of them.

Sword light was like water, splashing like ink, with heroic spirit soaring to the sky. Qin Yuanhao retreated repeatedly, not daring to face the enemy head-on!

Meng Jingzhou and Seeing Man Gu threw four fists at once, like falling mountains, hammering Qin Yuanhao's chest and causing him to cough up blood incessantly!

Qin Yuanhao flipped his palm, and three ox-hair poison needles appeared at his fingertips, stabbing into the chests of the three.

Unexpectedly, the three were like nothing had happened; their swords and fists showed no signs of weakening, but instead, they fought more bravely as the battle went on.

Lu Yang had long anticipated that the opponent might use poison and had taken an antidote pill in advance.

Strictly speaking, an antidote pill shouldn't be called an antidote pill; "poison-removal pill" would be more appropriate.

The principle of the poison-removal pill is to encapsulate the poison before it takes effect and expel it from the body along with sweat.

The poison never takes effect from start to finish, so how can it be called an antidote?

Qin Yuanhao thought to himself that it was bad; the opponent was too well-prepared. His arsenal of sinister and poisonous methods couldn't be unleashed, and even if they were, they weren't as sinister as the opponent's.

Meng Jingzhou's muscles bulged, his veins popped, and in Qin Yuanhao's eyes, the fist grew from small to large, too fast to react at all.

The strange thing happened again. Meng Jingzhou's punch was powerful and heavy; a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would be dead or crippled if hit, but Qin Yuanhao wasn't affected at all.

Qin Yuanhao laughed strangely. He had said it—these people couldn't deal with him!

After exchanging blows, Lu Yang finally discovered the truth behind Qin Yuanhao's technique. He swung his sword, light dancing, the sword Qi like a long rainbow, invincible.

This sword didn't strike anywhere else; it struck Qin Yuanhao's shadow!

"Damn it!" Qin Yuanhao felt pain and couldn't help but cry out.

"Sure enough, you're the one who killed the thief gang last night. Your weakness is your shadow!"

Lu Yang thought of Qin Yuanhao coming out of the brothel and receiving orders from the Branch Leader to take action; it must have been to kill the thief gang.

With his greatest reliance exposed, Qin Yuanhao no longer wanted to fight. His body vanished, and his shadow moved rapidly on the ground.

Even if he couldn't beat the opponent, he had full confidence in escaping. No matter how sharp your sword is, can you kill a shadow?

"You three juniors, I'll remember you. Just wait to receive my endless revenge, hahahaha..." Qin Yuanhao felt he had the upper hand and laughed incessantly.

Suddenly, a beam of white light shone on his shadow. Immediately, Qin Yuanhao let out a heart-wrenching scream; this was equivalent to having a piece of flesh torn off his body.

A light-gathering array, a simple array that absorbs and emits light sources, is easy to learn and use, but it is also a very useless array. However, used here, the effect was excellent.

Forced, Qin Yuanhao's body emerged from the shadow to block the white light, and the gap in the shadow vanished.

His injuries recovered.

"It seems you came prepared, but so what? Do you naively think you can hurt me with a mere light-gathering array?"

Qin Yuanhao sneered: "Don't you know the principle that the stronger the light, the stronger the shadow?"

Lu Yang was unhurried, throwing out more light-gathering arrays, and also sneered: "Then have you ever heard of a shadowless lamp?"

Qin Yuanhao hesitated for a moment. He didn't know what a shadowless lamp was, but hearing Lu Yang say this, a bad premonition arose in his heart.

Lu Yang didn't have the leisure to explain the principle to his opponent during the fight. A dozen beams of white light hit Qin Yuanhao, and his shadow sizzled. Whether Qin Yuanhao revealed his body to block the light or shrank his body into the shadow, he couldn't stop the process.

The shadow faded until, in the end, it was so faint that it was indistinguishable to the naked eye.

The principle of a shadowless lamp isn't to make the shadow disappear, but to make it fade until it is almost non-existent.

Qin Yuanhao roared and crawled out from the nearly invisible shadow; his true form could no longer hide in the shadow.

Sword light descended from the sky like a rainbow from beyond, sudden and impossible to guard against, piercing Qin Yuanhao's body.

Lu Yang had been waiting for this moment.

"That was close; he almost got away." Seeing that Qin Yuanhao was dead, Meng Jingzhou breathed a sigh of relief. If he had let him get away, all the preparations of these past few days would have been in vain.

Meng Jingzhou thought they were well-prepared enough that Qin Yuanhao couldn't escape, but who would have thought the opponent's technique was related to shadows, making him extremely difficult to trap.

Meng Jingzhou smiled and pushed Lu Yang's shoulder: "Good thing you said we should make light-gathering arrays before we set off."

"It was all luck. I only suspected his technique was related to shadows; I had no substantial evidence."

"But don't be too happy too soon. We can celebrate after we destroy the body and erase the traces."

At Lu Yang's initiative, the three burned Qin Yuanhao into a dried corpse that couldn't be identified, threw it into the tiger demon's cave, and then blew up the entrance to the cave.

This way, unless someone searched the mountain deliberately, no one would ever find this place.