Chapter 66 Rest Assured, He'll Want to Die Very Soon.
Under the night sky.
Elder Li, with a heavy expression, walked around the mountain from the east.
That group of Tianyan Sect disciples was truly not simple. They made a feint, seeming real yet not real. They appeared to be playing dumb, but in reality, they must have grasped a considerable amount of intelligence.
In just a single day, they had actually turned a Golden Core elder.
Moreover, Zheng Xiaofeng was completely like a changed person. In the past, he was cautious and knew how to conduct himself.
Now he was actually pointing at the Sect Master's nose and calling him an old bastard?
And the Sect Master actually endured it. Facing Zheng Xiaofeng's constant shouting, he didn't even offer a rebuttal.
When asked for specifics, the Sect Master refused to say.
It could only be inferred that Zheng Xiaofeng had obtained a backup plan left by the Tianyan Sect disciples.
Secondly, there was the blood-qi spirit stone the Sect Master had produced...
After the mine was attacked, they had set up a trigger-based formation on top of the existing maze.
As long as an outsider stepped in, it would trigger an alert at both the Qingfeng Sect and the mine elders.
Every disciple in the mine carried a specially made token so the formation would not trigger a false alarm.
He had not received any abnormalities from the mine's formation. By all logic, there should be no problem over there.
But the appearance of the blood-qi spirit stone, and the fact that it was brought directly to the Qingfeng Sect, and even the Tianyan Sect turning an elder...
These three things together, no matter how you looked at it, did not seem like a situation where nothing was wrong.
Although there was a risk of exposure now, the deal with those evil cultivators at the mine had already been made, and it was in the final stages.
Things had come to this. If he really did nothing, he would likely not escape.
He could only go to the mine first to find out the intelligence there, and also see if he could speed things up or relocate.
After getting some distance from the Qingfeng Sect, Elder Li used earth escape and headed for the Qingfeng Sect's mine.
The worried Elder Li did not notice that a divine sense on the ground had detected him.
But he did sense the fierce sword energy that appeared behind him.
He quickly tunneled out of the ground, raised his hand to summon a longsword, the Golden Core in his body trembled and circulated, and his spiritual power erupted violently. Facing the somewhat terrifying sword energy, the sword in his hand transformed into a stream of light.
He rushed toward the sword energy. The two clashed rapidly, followed by a wave of spiritual force that instantly overturned the ground, shattering the trees into splinters.
Elder Li's divine sense quickly scanned the area and soon discovered a figure that had not hidden its aura.
He glanced to the side. Atop a large tree, Yao Qin stood with an expressionless face, holding a longsword and looking at him with a calm demeanor.
Elder Li's face was heavy. He had been fished out, damn it!
Yao Qin's voice was ice-cold: "Surrender, and you will be spared the pain of flesh and blood."
Damn it! If he was spared the pain of flesh and blood, then he would have to suffer death!
Without the slightest hesitation, Elder Li controlled his flying sword to attack Yao Qin while frantically flying westward.
Things had come to this. The mine was a lost cause. Whoever could have it. His life was his own. He would thank the heavens if he could escape.
After all, he was a Golden Core true person. It wasn't necessarily that he couldn't live a carefree life by changing his way of living in this world.
But Elder Li had not flown far before he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
He tremblingly turned to look. He saw that his life-bound flying sword was now shattered. Under the moonlight, it glinted faintly before turning into a stream of light and falling from the sky.
Through the gap in the shattered sword, a pair of cold, emotionless eyes looked at him as if he were already a dead man.
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"Well now... Yao Qin, you're quite ruthless."
Chu Xingchen looked in surprise as Elder Li, who was tied up, with the tendons in his limbs severed and his face deathly pale, was dropped to the ground by Yao Qin, controlled by her spiritual energy.
Without a doubt, this Elder Li probably even had his meridians dealt with by Yao Qin.
Yao Qin said with a hint of helplessness: "I've captured the person. I interrogated him briefly before coming here. He refused to say a single word. Are you confident you can get him to talk?"
A slightly terrifying smile appeared on Chu Xingchen's face as he said:
"As for interrogation... my second disciple did give me a few ideas."
"Hmm? He knows how to do that too?"
"Strictly speaking, he was the one being tortured."
"Ah?"
Yao Qin was full of confusion. Then she saw Chu Xingchen take out spirit plants from his spatial ring... as well as a small pot.
Watching Chu Xingchen seem to be preparing to refine pills, Yao Qin said:
"Rest assured, I know my limits. He won't die."
Chu Xingchen replied seriously: "You rest assured too. He'll want to die very soon."
"Ah...?"
Yao Qin, not knowing what methods Chu Xingchen had, chose to wait and see.
She saw Chu Xingchen extract the liquid from the spirit plants, then took out raw flour and honey, kneaded them together, and then absorbed all the liquid into the mixture.
Chu Xingchen supported the emerald-green pill with his magical power and looked at Yao Qin with a serious expression:
"Everything you see from now on must be kept secret. You are not to speak of it when we leave!"
Chu Xingchen would never admit that eating the pills he refined was equivalent to torture!
"...Alright." Although Yao Qin found it strange, she still nodded and agreed.
Having received her guarantee, Chu Xingchen supported the pill and walked before Elder Li, saying sincerely:
"I'm giving you one last chance. Tell me everything, and we can do this the easy way."
Elder Li revealed a disdainful smile. He was going to die anyway, so he might as well make things difficult for everyone.
Facing Elder Li's uncooperative attitude, Chu Xingchen sighed, used his spiritual power to pry open Elder Li's mouth, and controlled the pill, stuffing it into his mouth.
Since Elder Li could not use his spiritual power, he could not resist this action. But facing the pill in his mouth, Elder Li's first choice was to block it with his tongue.
Chu Xingchen was unconcerned by Elder Li's small move. A gentle smile appeared on his face, and then he used his spiritual power to forcefully shut his mouth.
Very soon!
Elder Li felt the unparalleled taste of the flour pill.
This medicine... damn it...
It was bitter from the tip of his tongue to the root, then it struck straight to the depths of his mind.
This damn medicine seemed to be bitter all the way to his spiritual sea. He instantly felt a terrible headache, but his mouth had been sealed by Chu Xingchen's spiritual power.
Forget it. Death was better than this torture!
Elder Li's gaze hardened. He swallowed the pill in one gulp.
Then he saw that the smile on Chu Xingchen's face seemed to become even brighter.
Very soon, Elder Li understood. This damn flour wasn't compact! With the swallowing motion, quite a bit of the flour had come off and stuck to the inside of his mouth.
The area of attack on his tongue was even greater!
Following that, the pill he had swallowed began to take effect violently.
Yao Qin watched with confusion as Elder Li's expression constantly changed.
Then Yao Qin saw Elder Li suddenly start trembling all over, his eyes wide open, continuously making sounds.
"Wuwuwuwu..."
His tightly bound body suddenly began to twist like a maggot.
He didn't even last a few breaths. Elder Li's wide-open eyes quickly turned to Chu Xingchen, looking at him with endless pleading, as if to say he would confess to everything.
A smile appeared on Chu Xingchen's face as he said:
"You want to die... oh, slip of the tongue. You want to confess?"
The whimpering sounds from Elder Li's mouth did not stop, and his head nodded frantically.
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