The implication was that Jiang Jichen had known who he was all along.
He could have gone through the trouble of finding the young man, perhaps at the cost of one or two more squad mbers’ lives.
But he hadn’t. He chose the most direct, most bloody, most brutal thod!
By killing everyone, he would naturally find his man.
Such a thod was the height of barbarism, but it was also the simplest and most effective.
The deterrent effect, however, was also the most powerful. Now, as everyone watched Jiang Jichen holding the Holy Sword, none dared to harbor any ill intentions.
At least, not outside the Exquisite Treasure Tower.
The captured female squad mber was on the brink of death, her clothes torn to shreds.
What a tragic sight!
Tang Ni, Xia Qing, Hua Xiaoling, and the other won seethed with grief and fury as they watched.
The other female cultivators also felt anger welling up inside them.
Cang Lengyun was at the forefront, but she had stopped. Her gaze fell upon the young man and the man holding the girl, her eyes turning ice-cold.
"You’d better not co any closer. Don’t move. One move, and I’ll kill her."
"And if that happens, her death will be on your hands!"
The young man spoke grimly from the side.
He appeared calm and composed, but the fear in his eyes betrayed his true state of mind.
Just monts ago, he had witnessed Jiang Jichen carve a path toward them with the Holy Sword, step by step, slaying nearly three hundred cultivators. He was truly like a rciless Killing God.
The sight had shaken him to his core, filling him with terror.
In that mont, he even felt a pang of regret.
’He thought he was so clever, that a simple sche would be enough to have Jiang Jichen wrapped around his finger.’
’But now he understood. In the face of absolute power, all sches and plots were laughable, pathetically fragile!’
When they saw the young man, both Hua Xiaoling and the mbers of the Cang Family were stunned.
They never would have imagined that the one who had incited the crowd to attack the person under Jiang Jichen’s protection was this nobody they had completely overlooked.
Lin Qing!
After entering the Ancient Ruined City, Lin Qing had gotten separated from the Cang Family during a dangerous incident. They never expected him to turn up here.
And he was actually trying to go against Jiang Jichen, the wielder of the Holy Sword!
’Weren’t their power levels in completely different leagues?’
A re ant trying to overturn the heavens!
It wasn’t impossible, but at the very least, one first needed the ability to stay alive.
And Lin Qing, at this mont... seed to lack that ability.
The one who had abducted the female mber of the Red Beauty Adventurer Squad was a Foundation Establishnt Middle Realm cultivator. No one knew why he was taking orders from Lin Qing.
He gave off a very strange feeling, like... a living corpse.
But to Jiang Jichen, none of that mattered.
He looked at Lin Qing coldly. "Then there’s nothing left to say."
As he finished speaking, Jiang Jichen was already swinging the Holy Sword. An endless torrent of Sword Light surged out, engulfing Lin Qing, the bizarre man, and... even the pitiful girl from the Red Beauty Adventurer Squad.
Jiang Jichen seed completely unconcerned with the girl’s life, as if he intended to cut down all three of them with a single strike!
BOOM!
The Sword Light from the Holy Sword swept out with world-shaking power.
To the onlookers, it seed this single strike was more than enough to annihilate all three of them.
It was sure to be another grueso scene of splattering blood.
Tang Ni, Xia Qing, and the other won of the Red Beauty Team couldn’t bear to watch, involuntarily squeezing their eyes shut.
However, the bloody spectacle everyone expected never happened. The strange man had actually blocked the Holy Sword’s attack.
This... How is that possible?
Everyone stared in disbelief as a Blood Cloth appeared in the strange man’s hand. He waved it, and a hazy, crimson light completely dissipated Jiang Jichen’s attack.
Jiang Jichen’s expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected this all along.
The Blood Cloth, however, reminded Jiang Jichen of the Blood-Saturated Old Cloth that Qingya possessed.
That mysterious Blood-Saturated Old Cloth had saved his life on two separate occasions, so his mory of it was incredibly vivid.
He could feel a familiar aura from the Blood Cloth in the strange man’s hand; its Blood Qi shared the sa source as Qingya’s Blood-Saturated Old Cloth.
’Should I snatch it for Qingya? I bet two Blood Cloths combined would be far more powerful!’
Jiang Jichen thought to himself.
Co to think of it, Jiang Jichen owed Qingya a great deal. Even though he had given her a Foundation Establishnt Pill, how could he ever fully repay the debt of her saving his life?
As for the three before him, Jiang Jichen had long suspected this. He couldn’t sense any life force from them—only the putrid stench of corpses.
"Haha... I never thought this era would produce soone so interesting. His blood... it truly excites !"
It was a shrill female voice, and it had co from the girl who had looked so utterly wretched.
Bursts of crimson light suddenly erupted from her body, and in the next mont, she transford into a stunningly beautiful young woman.
This transformation stunned everyone present.
Lin Qing then spoke with a sinister tone, "Jiang Jichen, killing won’t be so easy. If you can’t kill today, it will only get harder in the future. On the other hand, as ti goes on, killing *you* will only get easier for . Because... my bloodline is awakening! It’s no longer suppressed, and I can freely enter and leave the Sealed Ancient Land! Haha..."
The bloodlines of the people of the Sealed Ancient Land were no longer suppressed, allowing them to freely co and go!
Even the disciples of the Seven Great Families and the Three Major Sects paled upon hearing this.
So of them had heard the secrets concerning the Sealed Ancient Land. They knew just how powerful these people’s ancestors were before their bloodlines were suppressed!
And Lin Qing was claiming his bloodline was no longer suppressed? How was that possible?
Jiang Jichen’s expression didn’t flicker. He spoke with a hint of pity, "Once you cultivate the *Living Corpse Dao Scripture*, of course your bloodline is no longer suppressed. That’s because you’re already a living corpse. The Celestial Dao can’t even be bothered with a creature like you, neither human nor ghost. I am, however, surprised that you managed to unearth two sealed living corpses. They must have traded the *Living Corpse Dao Scripture* with you to secure their freedom, correct?"
At Jiang Jichen’s words, the expressions of Lin Qing, the bizarre man, the beautiful young woman, and even the disciples of the Noble Families and Sects all changed drastically.
The *Living Corpse Dao Scripture* was one of the three great demonic arts of the Southern Continent. The Celestial Corpse Sect once ran rampant across the land, filling cities with walking corpses and turning nearly a third of the Southern Continent’s population into the living dead. The technique they cultivated was none other than the *Living Corpse Dao Scripture*.
Ultimately, all the cultivators had to join forces, even calling upon a supre expert from the Central State, to finally annihilate the Celestial Corpse Sect and vanquish the Celestial Corpse Ancestor. Only then was the crisis averted.
That was a legend from thousands of years ago. But now, with two living corpses appearing before them... what did this forebode?
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