The evidence was conclusive; there was no need for further interrogation.
With a casual raise of his hand, Qi Ping swiftly formed a Mysterious Gold Killing Array.
The swarm of bees also scattered in all directions, beginning their massacre.
“Fellow Daoist, do you really think we’re easy targets? Have you considered the consequences of opposing the Immortal Alliance?”
The president of the Huishan Merchant Guild glared at Qi Ping, who had attacked without a word, and questioned him with a dark expression.
At the same time, the aura of a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator surged from him.
A bell-shaped magic treasure was quietly summoned, and in the next instant, a soul attack shot toward Qi Ping with incredible speed.
A soul-type magic treasure!
This was the president’s trump card in the cultivation world—a soul technique combined with a soul treasure. Used unexpectedly, it could even severely wound the soul of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator!
He had kept talking to Qi Ping solely to distract him.
As his soul technique shot forth, a surge of glee rose in his heart, and he eagerly awaited the sight of Qi Ping being wounded or killed.
Though Qi Ping before him seemed extraordinary, he was only a newly advanced mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Caught off guard by his trump card, even if he didn’t die, he’d be crippled!
But in the very next moment, his joy turned to horror. He discovered that his soul attack had vanished like a stone dropped into the ocean—absolutely no reaction at all!
Instead, he saw the demonic-aura-wreathed figure before him curl his lips into a sinister smile. As a strange light flickered in his heterochromatic eyes, the president’s consciousness was instantly dragged into a terrifying space.
The next instant, streaks of golden sword energy burst forth, and his body was instantly sliced into several chunks of flesh, his consciousness fading away!
In just a few short breaths, both Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Huishan Merchant Guild had fallen.
Immediately after, Qi Ping appeared in a secret chamber where blood sacrifices were being refined. With a wave of his spells, he destroyed and consumed all the blood sacrifices and the sinister arrays within.
Sensing the faint, indistinct hints of joy and sorrow echoing through the heavens and earth, Qi Ping’s heart held nothing but icy killing intent—no other emotions remained.
Leaving behind a floor drenched in blood, scattered flesh, and corpses, Qi Ping departed without so much as a backward glance.
With the Huishan Merchant Guild dealt with, old Wang Shan’s son should now be spared the fate of being refined into a blood sacrifice.
“First one!”
To completely annihilate a force that seemed insurmountable to rogue cultivators was, for Qi Ping, merely the beginning!
Soon after, a second force was found and destroyed by Qi Ping!
“Second!”
Then came the third, the fourth… the twelfth!
With no further concerns to hold him back, Qi Ping grew increasingly ruthless in his actions.
In just half a month, he had swiftly slaughtered twelve forces affiliated with the Immortal Alliance!
Behind each of these twelve numbers lay a mountain of bones and a merciless, bloody slaughter that showed no quarter!
As Qi Ping’s frenzied killing continued, a demonic figure controlling bees stirred up a massive storm across the Qingtian Domain!
In an instant, the entire Qingtian Domain was thrown into a state of high alert, and the name of the new “Bee Daoist” once again thundered across the region.
Meanwhile, within the Immortal Alliance…
“What? In just half a month, you’ve lost five Foundation Establishment forces and seven Qi Refining forces? What the hell have you people been doing!”
The Immortal Alliance Envoy, clad in luxurious robes, listened to his subordinate’s report with seething rage, his face dark as thunder.
It’s another damned bee controller again!
Wasn’t the last Bee Daoist dead?
It’s only been three short years! How did another one show up?
They had just managed to force the Qingyuan Sect into another compromise, allowing the Alliance to freely harvest those blood seedlings from the lower ranks—and now this madman with bees shows up again!
And this new demonic Bee Daoist is a full minor realm higher than the Blood Shadow Bee Daoist from last time, and his methods are even crazier and more ruthless!
In just half a month, he’s destroyed so much of his hard work!
“Damn it! Increase our manpower! I don’t care what it takes—kill this bastard as soon as possible!”
How many years has it been?
Who dares to strike at the Immortal Alliance like this?
When has the Immortal Alliance ever suffered such humiliation?
Compared to the Envoy’s explosive fury and the unease gripping the Foundation Establishment forces under the Alliance, the upper echelons of the Qingyuan Sect remained far calmer.
Inside the Qingyuan Sect, several Golden Core cultivators sat facing each other. One of them spoke up:
“So, another Bee Daoist has appeared? Interesting. Did one of you arrange this?”
“No,” the others shook their heads.
“If it’s not you, then it must be those rats, right? But with such talent, how could they bear to let him out?”
“Who knows? Should we make a move?”
“Make a move? Are you thinking of saving him or killing him? Let him be. That old fool from the Immortal Alliance has been going too far lately. It’s good for him to be taught a lesson—otherwise, he might actually think no one dares to touch him.”
“And if our disciples can’t resist the bounty and decide to act?”
“Let them. He’s just a mid-stage Foundation Establishment brat. How big of a wave can he really make?”
Unlike the calm of the Qingyuan Sect’s upper management, the disciples and deacons below were utterly shaken by the news.
A new Bee Daoist reappears? Wiped out multiple Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining forces in a short time? Even more unhinged than the one from three years ago?
And his targets are the Immortal Alliance—a terrifying organization that even the Qingyuan Sect treats with great caution!
Is this the resurrection of the Bee Daoist from three years ago? Or is he from the same faction?
All they could say was that he was audacious beyond belief—they wouldn’t dare to do such a thing themselves!
“What guts!” Many people sincerely admired him.
They’d long been fed up with the Immortal Alliance but had held back for various reasons.
However, while some praised him, others were tempted by the bounty the Immortal Alliance had put out…
“There are twenty-four Foundation Establishment forces and one hundred and thirty-six Qi Refining forces in total…”
“Now that I’ve destroyed five Foundation Establishment forces and seven Qi Refining forces, that leaves nineteen Foundation Establishment forces and one hundred and twenty-nine Qi Refining forces!”
Qi Ping quietly calculated.
These numbers came from refreshing and compiling all the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining missions across the Qingtian Domain.
This time, he would wipe out every single force affiliated with the Immortal Alliance—not a single one left standing!
He’d cut off all of the Alliance’s claws and see how they’d dare to capture people for blood sacrifices anymore!
For Qi Ping, this slaughter had only just begun!
But now, a problem arose: with his actions, the entire Qingtian Domain had been placed under heavy blockade.
If this continued, it wouldn’t be long before he ended up trapped like last time.
Yet he’d only destroyed a handful of forces so far, and Qi Ping didn’t want to lose this treant clone in another self-destruction like before.
Besides, they probably wouldn’t give him another chance to blow himself up anyway.
“What should I do?”
Qi Ping was a bit stumped.
But after a while, he came up with a solution.
“In that case, why not turn their scheme against them?”
“Since they want to surround and kill me, why not set up my strongest killing array and annihilate all those who come to encircle me in one fell swoop?”
That would be far easier than hunting them down one by one.
Soon, Qi Ping had drawn up a counter-plan.
But just as he was heading toward the next target according to his plan, an old man at the late-stage Foundation Establishment suddenly blocked his path halfway.
Facing this, Qi Ping’s expression turned cold.
He figured this was another hound lured by the Immortal Alliance’s bounty—he’d killed quite a few of those already.
Seeing Qi Ping’s grim expression, the old man quickly said:
“Fellow Daoist, please hold your hand! I come from a force hostile to the Immortal Alliance. I’m here to offer you help—we can provide you with secret bases that neither the Immortal Alliance nor the Qingyuan Sect can find!”
So he wasn’t an enemy? That explains the lack of hostility.
Qi Ping shot the old man a surprised glance but still shook his head in refusal:
“Thanks for the offer, but I don’t need it.”
He had no interest in such things and didn’t need their help. With that, he prepared to leave again.
“Fellow Daoist…”
Seeing Qi Ping about to depart, the late-stage Foundation Establishment elder wanted to follow, but Qi Ping shot him a cold glare and said:
“If you keep following me, Fellow Daoist, I won’t be so polite…”
With no clear distinction between friend or foe, Qi Ping had no desire to get tangled up with this old man.
Seeing Qi Ping’s resistance, the elder had no choice but to directly state his purpose:
“Fellow Daoist, killing like this is pointless. They’ve already gathered many late-stage Foundation Establishment experts to surround you. At this rate, you’ll soon be completely cornered. Dying like that isn’t worth it! Destroying a few small forces won’t shake their foundation!”
“And if you’re doing this because of their practice of refining infant blood sacrifices, this won’t stop them either!”
“No matter how many blood sacrifices you destroy, they’ll just refine more. The more you do this, the more people will end up dead!”
By the end, the elder’s voice was almost a roar, filled with exhaustion and helplessness.
They, too, had once tried to disrupt the Immortal Alliance’s schemes this way, but they’d found that the more they did, the more people died!
Instead, destroying forces without touching the blood sacrifices actually reduced the death toll. Otherwise, only more infants would be captured and killed!
Hearing the elder’s anguished cry, Qi Ping’s rapid pace gradually slowed.
He studied the old man’s face, etched with powerlessness, for a long moment. After confirming it wasn’t an act, he finally spoke slowly:
“I’m waiting for the moment they surround me!”
“And as for the problem you mentioned later… it’s not without a solution.”
When the elder heard Qi Ping’s first sentence, he looked at him in surprise.
But when he heard the second part, his entire body trembled with excitement, a sudden light gleaming in his eyes. He asked urgently:
“Fellow Daoist, could you tell this old man how to solve it?”
As he spoke, his eyes brimmed with hope.
Qi Ping gave the elder a meaningful glance before slowly replying:
“Just wipe out every single force of the Immortal Alliance!”
“No matter how many forces they have, I’ll destroy them all! No matter how many they build, I’ll tear them all down! Whoever helps them—I’ll kill them!”
After leaving these calm yet chilling words, Qi Ping turned and walked away, leaving the elder frozen in place.
Wipe out all forces affiliated with the Immortal Alliance?
Of course he knew that solution!
But was it even possible?
Yet, watching Qi Ping’s confident retreating figure, a sliver of hope stirred in his heart—what if this Bee Daoist really could do it?
“No! We have to prepare as well and see if we can help him at the right moment!”
Perhaps this was their one chance to completely shatter the Immortal Alliance’s grip!
