When Qi Ping used Soul Search, a terrifying soul power instantly enveloped the target, and the Human-Demon Butcher’s soul was immediately plunged into fear.
The powers of the Heart Demon and Illusion Techniques took effect at the same time, completely suppressing any resistance from the Human-Demon Butcher’s soul.
This was an effect Qi Ping had obtained by combining the Soul Search Technique with the Demon Eye Illusion Realm, allowing him to erode and dismantle an enemy’s resistance to the greatest possible extent!
After quite a while, Qi Ping successfully read through all of the Human-Demon Butcher’s memories, but his expression slowly darkened.
Within the Human-Demon Butcher’s memories, Qi Ping saw many tragic and cruel scenes. In order to cultivate killing aura, the Human-Demon Butcher had used every conceivable method to torment people. Many ordinary rogue cultivators who farmed for a living, wives of husbands, and sons of fathers had all fallen victim to the Human-Demon Butcher’s cruelty.
Even worse, in order to harvest more killing aura and hatred, the Human-Demon Butcher would carry out all kinds of torture in front of the victim’s closest loved ones. For example, he would make a mother and a father watch as their young daughter was violated through all manner of unspeakable means, then subjected to all kinds of horrifying instruments of torture, and finally devoured flesh and skin alike.
Just how cruel were these scenes?
Even Qi Ping, who had killed many, felt his hair stand on end, and his body and mind were overcome with discomfort. Compared to the Human-Demon Butcher’s memories, killing someone was nothing worth mentioning.
Yet in the Human-Demon Butcher’s mind, such things were simply far too ordinary.
Moreover, from the Human-Demon Butcher’s memories, Qi Ping also saw for the first time a completely different world of cultivation. This world was far more complex and terrifying than Qi Ping had ever imagined!
In this world where individual power reigned supreme, the evil within human nature had likewise been magnified to the extreme.
Those scenes that surpassed the limits of Qi Ping’s understanding were, in truth, nothing more than ordinary occurrences. If Qi Ping had not seen these memory scenes with his own eyes, even a hundred years of imagination would never have been enough to conjure such things.
Beyond all this, Qi Ping also learned from the Human-Demon Butcher’s memories exactly who had sold out his information.
“Good. Very good! I’ve noted this debt down!”
After shattering and erasing the Human-Demon Butcher’s soul, Qi Ping wore a grim expression and, carrying an indescribable mood, hurried toward the Huang family, a Foundation Establishment family colluding with the demonic sect.
Along the way, Qi Ping’s emotions were exceptionally complicated. He had originally thought he had already witnessed the cruelty of the cultivation world, but only now did he realize that it had been merely the tip of the iceberg.
If the Foundation Establishment stage and Qi Refining stage were already like this, then what about those even higher up?
At first, he only cared about his own peaceful cultivation life and longevity, and he did not want to be any kind of savior. He did not have that ability himself. If he had not noticed that heaven and earth were gradually declining, he would not even have opposed the Immortal Alliance to such an extent.
Yet when he saw these hair-raising scenes, Qi Ping could not remain completely unmoved, and it was hard for him to watch these tragedies unfold one after another without reacting at all. But Qi Ping also could not bring himself to throw himself into danger because of these things. He cherished his life and feared death, and he was unwilling to sacrifice himself for others.
“Then at least within the Qingtian Region, within the scope of my abilities, I absolutely will not allow people like the Human-Demon Butcher to exist!”
If his strength were insufficient, Qi Ping would not hesitate to lie low and look after only himself.
But if it was within his capabilities, killing intent would rise on its own. What harm was there in using a Treeman Clone to slaughter a few?
“As long as it does not affect the safety of my main body, and does not affect my immortal path and longevity!”
On the way to the Huang family, Qi Ping’s mind suddenly became clear, and he immediately felt the spiritual power within his body circulating with incredible smoothness!
Two days later.
Lingxiao City, the Huang family.
This was the largest Foundation Establishment family in Lingxiao City. Within it were one cultivator at the peak of Foundation Establishment and one at the late Foundation Establishment stage! Its power was immensely strong!
It was said that this family also had incredibly powerful connections and a massive backing. It was the family in Lingxiao City that one could least afford to provoke. They had committed many outrages that stirred the fury of both gods and men, and although people had reported them to the Qingyuan Sect many times, no one had ever handled the matter. Instead, without exception, those who reported them all met with misfortune and accidents.
On this day, Huang Lingxuan, the youngest son most doted on by the Huang family patriarch, was leisurely riding a Wind-Chasing Divine Colt just as usual, while also holding a tearful, beautiful woman in his hand, about to hurry back to the Huang family to enjoy himself.
“Sigh, who knows whose woman got taken this time again!”
“Do you think this woman can survive?”
“She probably won’t survive, right? Even if she survives by some fluke, she’ll likely go mad. It’s just pointless suffering!”
“Sigh, pity her husband…”
At that very moment, a middle-aged cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Refining suddenly pushed through the crowd in a panic and rushed out.
“Ah Zi!”
“Brother Jing, don’t come over here! Hurry and take Tongtong away from this place, don’t worry about me!” The tearful, beautiful woman suddenly became agitated and frantic when she saw the middle-aged cultivator rush out.
But upon hearing the beautiful woman’s words, the middle-aged cultivator’s originally agitated gaze suddenly fell into struggle. On one side was the wife who had accompanied him for decades, and on the other was his child who still could not even take care of themselves.
But before the middle-aged cultivator could react in any way, Huang Lingxuan of the Huang family wore a mocking expression, and a flying sword suddenly shot toward the middle-aged cultivator’s neck!
Without question, if nothing unexpected happened, the next moment the middle-aged cultivator would die!
Those who saw this scene also sighed inwardly. In Lingxiao City, from the moment the middle-aged cultivator rushed out, his fate was sealed. No one could save him!
A strong sense of despair also rose in the hearts of the middle-aged cultivator and the beautiful woman!
However, just when everyone thought the middle-aged cultivator would be separated from his head, a young man in white suddenly appeared in the center.
Immediately after, the flying sword froze in an instant beneath a blue-red spiritual power!
“Who are you? You dare interfere with the Huang family…”
Huang Lingxuan, the youngest son most doted on by the Huang family patriarch, was about to shout and question the young man in white, but before he could even finish half his sentence, his body exploded without warning.
Immediately after, a soul was seized by the white-robed figure.
The next moment, a horrifying, scalp-numbing scream rang out!
Soul Search!
This was Soul Search!
Everyone watched this shocking turn of events with utter astonishment!
Someone had actually killed the Huang family patriarch’s youngest son in the street, and even directly used the Soul Search Technique!
Disaster!
A great disaster!
Yet before they could even figure out the identity of the young man in white, they suddenly saw his expression turn incomparably grim. The next moment, under the incredulous gazes of the people, the soul of the Huang family patriarch’s youngest son suddenly burst apart and vanished into nothingness!
Immediately after, the figure of the young man in white flashed and quickly disappeared from this place!
Before these people could even react to what had happened, a world-shaking explosion, accompanied by a dull sound of shattering, suddenly rang out!
Even the entire land of Lingxiao City trembled several times under this force!
Then, a voice containing terrifying killing power resounded across the heavens:
“By order of the Qingyuan Sect, I invite you all to die!”
