Edited by: Molly
Lianying Qi sat on the back of the fierce-looking beast, with dozens of cultivators standing below. Seeing Yan Tianhen coming back covered in snow and frost, Lianying Qi showed a cruel smile. “Boy, you really aren’t normal.”
Yan Tianhen looked at the bastard who had humiliated him in many ways and showed a slight but cold smile. During his imprisonment back then, when he was being whipped, he happened to meet the Lianying family’s young master, who had nothing to do and decided to visit the celestial prison on a whim.
Lianying Qi saw the intact right half of his face and suddenly became interested in doing something to him, but he was kicked in the belly by Yan Tianhen at first, and then saw his ugly left face after pulling up his hair. Lianying Qi was furious and felt mocked and humiliated. He was about to kill Yan Tianhen immediately, but he was stopped by the prison guard.
Lian Hua’s position in the Youshan Capital could be said to be supreme. When Lianying Qi heard that this boy had been stuffed here by Lian Hua Venerable himself, he immediately gave up the urge to kill him.
But how could he, the only young master of the distinguished Lianying family, easily let off those who had offended him? Thus, Yan Tianhen’s peaceful prison life ended.
However, at that moment, Yan Tianhen was pretty grateful to this Young Master Lianying. If he hadn’t found people to whip Yan Tianhen every two to three days, how would he have been able to quickly discover that bleeding wounds could easily absorb the evil Qi in the surrounding air?
“Lianying Qi, if you get out of the way now, I can still spare your life. But if you’re determined to court death, then I won’t be polite.” A sparrow spirit appeared in Yan Tianhen’s hands. He threw it up while laughing, looking like he was asking for a beating.
Lianying Qi’s temper couldn’t bear to suffer even a tiny loss, so he became even more furious after hearing those words. He took the lead and controlled a kind of Youshan bird, which rushed towards Yan Tianhen.
The Youshan bird crowed, its sharp and huge beak opening up as it tried to snatch Yan Tianhen away. Yan Tianhen jumped up lightly and effortlessly landed on the bird’s back.
Lianying Qi was greatly shocked. “No way! It’s impossible for you to use spiritual Qi here!”
Yan Tianhen wrapped his whip around Lianying Qi’s neck and pulled hard. “Naturally, I won’t be stupid enough to use spiritual Qi here, but there is another energy in this world called evil Qi!”
Just as Yan Tianhen was about to cut off Lianying Qi’s head, an exceedingly sharp and fierce sword attack rushed over from behind him. He bent over and dodged, and the side of the mountain received this attack.
With a rumble, half of the mountainside collapsed, and the sparrow spirits that were originally being nourished in the mountain walls all bounced out, becoming pieces of useless rock not long after smashing onto the ground.
Yan Tianhen had already loosened his grip on Lianying Qi when dodging earlier. At this time, someone had rescued Lianying Qi, and he was hiding behind the person as he stared at Yan Tianhen in horror.
Yan Tianhen jumped onto the collapsed ice, and in the blink of an eye, he had already exchanged dozens of blows with Manager Mo. Manager Mo was also a powerful figure. His own cultivation didn’t need to be mentioned, but he was also holding a chain full of evil Qi, which happened to repel the spiritual Qi inside this sparrow spirit mine. Moreover, his robe could presumably isolate his body from external spiritual Qi, so that even in the sparrow spirit mine, he could still fight freely using spiritual Qi.
Yan Tianhen’s whip was entangled with one end of the chain, just like two spirits devouring each other. The two people, one tall and one short, stood on the ice pile as they stared at each other.
Manager Mo narrowed his eyes. “To think you’ve actually cultivated evil Qi. You should know that in Youshan Capital, everyone will shout for the death penalty.”
Yan Tianhen sneered, “Then I want to see just who can kill me!”
Today’s Yan Tianhen had already reached the peak of Earth Realm’s Major Perfection Stage and was only one step away from Earth Realm’s Grandmaster Stage. It would be difficult for even the Lian Hua Venerable from back then to humiliate him.
The speed at which one could cultivate evil Qi was already extremely fast, and the capital was also a place where the living dead gathered. Furthermore, the celestial prison was a place with the most concentrated Yin Qi and evil Qi. In his view, it was only normal for Yan Tianhen to only use a hundred years to reach today’s realm.
After exchanging a few more blows with Yan Tianhen, Manager Mo completely realized that, as expected, this youth who had never managed to enter his eyes before had already become an utter monster from head to tail.
And in this monster’s hands, the dance of the whip was impenetrable; he killed people without any scruples. He didn’t even care about whether this sparrow spirit mine could still be mined — with one swing of the whip, the other half of the mountainside also collapsed. Ice mixed with hard stone, tumbling down from high up.
Manager Mo immediately wrapped his chain around several subordinates and picked them up, saving them from the landslide disaster. However, Yan Tianhen was taking up his attention here, so it was impossible for Manager Mo to save everyone. He could only watch the subordinates he brought be smashed into pulp by the inescapable falling rocks.
There were also several who couldn’t stop themselves from using spiritual Qi. As soon as they started the spell, all the spiritual Qi inside their bodies were sucked dry by the hungry sparrow spirits in a flash, turning them into dried-up corpses, which immediately turned into dust and dissipated in the air.
Once the people of Youshan Capital died, they would die completely. They would never be able to reincarnate again, and no traces of their existence would remain. Manager Mo looked at these subordinates who had been following him for tens of thousands of years and couldn’t help standing still on the spot, his eyes watering.
Lianying Qi had already flown high into the sky on his bird. He saw that the situation was bad and wanted to run away. However, how could Yan Tianhen miss such a great opportunity for revenge?
A long whip surrounded by pulsating purple flames suddenly flew vigorously towards the Youshan bird, binding one of its wings without hesitation.
Yan Tianhen’s feet were as steady as a mountain, but his expression was cold and solemn. A burst of evil Qi climbed along the Yin Flame Whip towards the Youshan bird. The Youshan bird originally wanted to escape, but it was frightened by this evil Qi. With a miserable wail, its body tensed and it flopped wildly up and down in midair. Lianying Qi swore heavily and exerted strength, hoping to calm the bird down. But evil Qi was something that all living beings of heaven and earth rejected and feared, and the Youshan bird’s struggles only intensified.
“Young Master!” Manager Mo’s sharp eyes saw Lianying Qi’s plight and immediately jumped up, about to save him.
Yan Tianhen narrowed his eyes slightly as he wrapped the whip once around his own wrist, then suddenly leaped towards the back. Before Manager Mo could rescue Lianying Qi, Yan Tianhen pulled the bird and rider away by dozens of feet.
Manager Mo shouted, “Young Master, jump down — I’ll catch you!”
Lianying Qi was not ignorant. He knew that he absolutely couldn’t use spiritual Qi near the sparrow spirit mine, so even though the bird nearly threw him off, he still gritted his teeth and didn’t dare to use spiritual Qi.
But right now, Lianying Qi immediately gained confidence following Manager Mo’s shout. He suddenly let go of the wildly thrashing bird, and his whole person fell straight toward the ground. Manager Mo rushed forward. He was just about to catch Lianying Qi when a bolt of dark purple lightning suddenly flashed by, piercing a big hole through Lianying Qi’s chest.
Even until his body turned into dust and completely disappeared under the sun, the pair of eyes reflected on the ice was full of disbelief.
“Young Master–!” Manager Mo screamed hoarsely, wanting to catch Lianying Qi’s body but only catching empty air. His fingers passed through Lianying Qi’s body, and he watched Lianying Qi — who had lived for tens of thousands of years and only needed to wait a few more years to regain new life — die completely before his eyes.
Yan Tianhen was still holding the purple flame bow as tall as himself, coldly looking at the place where Lianying Qi dissipated.
Manager Mo was pale and suddenly looked up at Yan Tianhen in disbelief. “You… you killed him! Do you know what you’ve done?”
Yan Tianhen curled his lips slightly. “Don’t tell me that he can humiliate me, but I can’t kill him? Honourable me is in a good mood today, so I’ll spare your dog life. Return and tell Lian Hua Venerable that I, Yan Tianhen, will go back to settle accounts with him soon. Tell him to wash up and wait for me!”
Manager Mo’s eyes reddened.
If Yan Tianhen escaped, then none of them would be able to live. He took a silver needle and suddenly poked it at his Baihui acupoint, but he had not poked it in yet when all of a sudden, the sparrow spirit mine shook. Manager Mo looked in the direction of the most violent earthquake in shock, and his entire people seemed almost unable to withstand this turbulent shaking.
Yan Tianhen’s heart suddenly skipped a beat; he got the feeling that something major was about to happen.
“Ying ying ying–!”
Giant pieces of stone rushed into the sky. A white deer the size of a small mountain with four antlers jumped out of the ice. The chains on its body were all broken, and it smashed around.
Yan Tianhen was also very surprised as he stared at Fu Zhu, who had somehow been unsealed. He was just about to retreat a few steps when Fu Zhu’s eyes became fixed on Yan Tianhen.
Yan Tianhen, “…”
You’re kidding me!
Fu Zhu walked happily with its hooves towards Yan Tianhen and stopped in front of him.
Fu Zhu bent its two front feet, bowing its neck and making an affectionate posture of submission. It quickly shrunk and soon became the size of a normal white deer.
It used its four antlers to nudge Yan Tianhen. When it saw that Yan Tianhen was still frozen in shock, it impatiently picked him up with its antlers and threw him onto its back.
Yan Tianhen quickly hugged Fu Zhu’s neck, and as Fu Zhu jumped onto the straight cliff, they soon disappeared from everyone’s sight.
Manager Mo’s face was livid and pale. He took a few deep breaths before he fought back his fear. “Something serious happened. Youshan’s evil spirit has been released, and the Demon Venerable has reappeared.”
……
On Spirit Sect’s highest summit, a young man in white robes with black hair suddenly opened his eyes. “There is movement in the southwest.”
Lin Xuanzhi looked toward the southwest, pinched his fingers to calculate, then frowned slightly. “Why does it seem like an evil spirit has appeared?”
Lian Hua also stood up at once, looking at the southwest direction where spiritual Qi and evil Qi gathered and exploded against each other. Suddenly, his heart grew alarmed, and he had an ominous premonition.
In the southwest, dark purple evil Qi and transparent, pure white spiritual Qi circled each other and rushed into the air, just like a huge vortex, looking very spectacular.
“Have you ever sealed an evil spirit in that place?” Lian Hua asked.
“Never.” Lin Xuanzhi replied, “Most of the evil spirits I sealed are in the Northeast Sea area, not here.”
Lian Hua frowned. “This matter is strange. I’ll take a look quickly.”
Lin Xuanzhi said, “I’ll go with you.”
The two people turned into two beams of light and disappeared in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, the two had already arrived at the sparrow spirit mine.
