Looting!

Chapter 227 Looting!

"—The Imperial Preceptor."

After the ceremony, Li Jieqing ascended the cloud steps, preparing to return to the capital.

The old manager of the Bai family business association, who was standing outside the hall, saw Li Jieqing pass by, put away his cane, and followed the crowd, trembling as he bowed deeply to the side.

There were even some tears welling up in his eyes.

He was present when the Bai family caravan found the jade pixiu in the Gobi Desert forty years ago.

Who would have thought that a casual remark back then would actually lead to the discovery of a new national advisor? It truly shows how unpredictable life can be and how unpredictable fate can be.

Hearing the commotion, Li Jieqing stopped, glanced over, and asked with a smile from the cloud-like steps, "How's your guild leader doing? When is Ningxue planning to officially break through?"

The old shopkeeper was surprised by the response and remained silent for a while.

Since it was inappropriate to remain silent while standing on the edge of the cloud steps, he covered his face in anguish and cried out, "The guild leader failed to break through and died. It was confirmed yesterday that he had broken through the barrier. The new guild leader suppressed the news and originally planned to go to the Imperial Preceptor's residence to deliver the obituary in a few days."

"Oh—didn't I give her the meridian-protecting pill? How did she die?"

"I don't know." The old shopkeeper, whose cultivation had stagnated for many years, said with a sigh, "For small families like ours, breaking through is extremely difficult. It's inevitable that we'll make a mistake. The Chamber of Commerce has already done everything in its power to help the president break through."

"I'm not blaming you, so why should I blame you and the others? It's just that we've lost another old friend."

Li Jieqing shook his head slightly.

For various reasons, he has killed almost all of his former acquaintances.

He killed every single person who had been tainted by his karma.

Bai Ningxue, on the other hand, died out of Li Jieqing's sight, which can be considered a peaceful end.

A cultivator who dies while breaking through a cultivation realm can naturally be considered to have a peaceful death.

boom!

Just as Hu Lijieqing was speaking at the beginning of the cloud steps, a burst of magical energy suddenly came from the direction of the capital.

At the Tongtian River in the capital region, countless people participating in the National Preceptor Ceremony turned their heads to look at the same time.

All that could be seen was the imperial palace within the capital city. Half of the palace grounds had been destroyed, and members of the royal family and guards rushed towards the ruins, shouting "Kill the traitors!"

The earth turned upside down, and the sacred ground of the imperial palace was actually destroyed by human hands!

The spiritual energy surged above the palace, revealing the colors of the five elements, which then mixed and merged together, giving rise to chaotic wind, thunder, ice, and spirit, which splashed throughout the palace.

"Who blew up the palace's spiritual veins?!"

Li Jieqing was blown by the wind and waves that swept in from the capital, his robes billowing and rustling. He used his divine sense to look into the distance and already knew what was happening in the palace.

The purpose of blowing up the spiritual veins was not simply to destroy the palace, but to seize the royal treasury hidden within the palace!

The spiritual veins were destroyed, and the imperial palace's grand formation was also affected, ceasing to function.

A group of people were rushing out of the turbulent, invisible spiritual energy, preparing to flee.

"Thief!"

The presiding official of the Grand Ceremony, Shan Quan, was furious, and his figure disappeared instantly on the banks of the Tongtian River.

A massive, crimson pillar of light, resembling a hill, rose from the Tongtian River, following behind Shan Quan as they marched towards the capital.

Blood gushed out, and the magnificent cloud staircase was completely destroyed!

The crimson beam of light arrived first, reaching the palace and sweeping across the area, knocking down the thieves who were preparing to escape, scattering them back into the capital.

Meanwhile, the grand formations in other parts of the capital had also been activated, with pillars of blood rising and converging atop the city, like an erected cage.

In addition, there was the crimson beam of light drawn from the Tongtian River.

Above the capital city, atop the crimson cage, a blood-red Kun, modeled after the Crimson Kun, reappeared from a pillar of blood. This was none other than the most powerful formation in the Eastern Land, "Blood Kun Kan Water Suppressing the Sea"!

"Hmm!"

The Blood Kun opened its mouth, let out a roar, and landed, its head lying across the south gate and its tail sweeping across the north wall.

This time, the Eastern Land Grand Formation was hastily activated. Although its power could not compare to the near-third-tier aura it displayed when intimidating a group of foreign cultivators at the Colorful Tournament, it was still not something an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator could withstand head-on.

"Let each seek their own destiny! I'm off!"

In the capital, those thieves who dared to bomb the palace and rob the royal family revealed themselves. The leader among them was none other than Xing Wusong of the Blood God Sect. At this moment, he called to his men and was about to use his supernatural powers to escape.

As Li Zhu of Dongtian Sect said before, Xing Wusong was indeed a Great True Person. When he made his move, his late Foundation Establishment stage power was clearly revealed.

"Where do you think you're going!"

Enraged, Shan Quan had been eyeing Xing Wusong, the strongest cultivator, and pounced down alongside Xue Kun.

The blood-red Kun manifested by the great formation opened its mouth and swallowed, while the rest of the capital remained unmoved. Only the Great Master Xing Wusong, who was about to escape from the capital, was frozen in place. The Kun's mouth in the sky appeared behind him, about to swallow him.

Xing Wusong was still struggling when Dan Quan arrived and angrily sent him into the mouth of the Kun.

The illusory image of the Kun on the ground disappeared with the Great Master Xing Wusong, while the blood Kun in the sky closed its giant mouth and began to chew.

But the taste is wrong.

The giant maw of the Blood Kun opened again, and a blood-soaked corpse fell from the sky.

Meanwhile, in another part of the capital, another person named Xing Wusong emerged, spitting out mouthfuls of blood, and crashed through a corner of the city wall to escape from the capital.

"When you're in the early Foundation Establishment stage and go into the city, don't chase after the other bandits. Leave them to the guards at the city gates. Just use the power of the grand formation to keep an eye on the outside cultivators in the city, to prevent the chaos in the capital from escalating and them from taking advantage of the situation to loot!"

"Mid-Foundation Establishment stage, come with me to hunt down that treacherous scoundrel!"

Li Jieqing and a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Eastern Lands who were participating in the National Preceptor Ceremony arrived later and witnessed Xing Wusong using strange methods to make the Blood Corpse take the place of the true body and escape.

Li Jieqing, without hesitation, issued the order in the name of the Imperial Preceptor.

As soon as the words fell, Li Jieqing took the lead and used the fastest supernatural power in the East to chase after Xing Wusong in the direction he had fled.

These foreign cultivators are truly lawless, deliberately causing trouble just as he was taking office; they really show no respect.

That's fine.

The key point is that he had been keeping a close eye on the royal treasures, but hadn't even made a move yet, and now an outsider had snatched the prize. How could he tolerate that?

"The life-substitute supernatural power of this lawsuit is quite similar to my Blood Heart Disintegration Technique. It seems we were from the same family two thousand years ago."

As Li Jieqing gave chase, he used his vampire physique to sense the blood energy emanating from Xing Wusong's shattered body, estimating his escape status.

Having been bitten by the blood-red Kun manifested by the great formation, although it managed to escape, its condition was now quite poor.

The methods of the Blood Heart Sect and the Blood God Sect have always been to harm oneself before harming others.

There is a play!

"That man is seriously injured, everyone, give chase!"

Li Jieqing transmitted a message to the back of his head using his divine sense, and then increased his speed again.

The few Foundation Establishment stage cultivators from the Eastern Lands who followed did not possess any flying abilities, and were already lagging behind. Now they were completely out of sight.

Only Hou Lin, who never left his beast armor, was able to keep up. He spared no effort in using his magic to unleash the Flying Pearl Splashing Jade Divine Power, desperately trying to stand shoulder to shoulder with Li Jieqing, and the two of them broke into Wusong's perception range.

Xing Wusong was already injured. Sensing the two people chasing after him, he couldn't help but curse under his breath.

He had no intention of leaving any room for fighting. If he were to get entangled and attract the attention of the other pursuers from the East, he, a dignified Great Master, would likely die at the hands of the local inhabitants of the cave.

Xing Wusong shouted, his body swaying, revealing two identical bodies, whose magical power and blood energy were exactly the same.

One is the original body, while the other two are blood corpses that have been refined over a long period of time. Now, no matter how reluctant they are, they have to be discarded.

The three men, each without lawsuit, split up in different directions and continued their escape. One crossed the Tongtian River to the north bank, one stood in the middle of the Tongtian River, and the other remained on the south bank of the Tongtian River, deviating from the river's course.

The three lines diverged, but all fled towards the Western Demon Realm. Once inside the Demon Realm, the Eastern Court would find it difficult to launch a large-scale pursuit.

One for each person!

Hou Lin noticed this situation and angrily sent a telepathic message to Li Jieqing, then immediately chased after him to the north bank of the Tongtian River.

Li Jieqing nodded in farewell, remaining on the south bank of the Tongtian River to continue his pursuit in the southwest.

He couldn't tell which of the three figures was real and which was fake.

But for him, there was no need to make a distinction.

The location where the two parted ways was where other cultivators from the Eastern Lands arrived. The second supernatural power that Little Beard Hao was cultivating was related to tracking and tracing. It was the ability to find traces and clues that gave him the courage to go to the Demon Realm alone to find Li Jieqing.

He stopped on the south bank of the Tongtian River, raised his hand and grabbed a crimson light curtain, then blew on it and scattered it onto the river.

In the light screen, Xing Wusong split into three figures, and then the scene of Li Jieqing and Hou Lin each chasing in a different direction quickly appeared. Including Xing Wusong's low shout and Hou Lin's voice transmission of "one person, one person" were heard by everyone.

"We'll pursue the one in the middle, and keep in touch with the Imperial Advisor and General Hou Lin!"

"right!"

Upon seeing this manifest scene, the group understood immediately and headed straight for the Western Land along the Tongtian River.

Perhaps the cultivators from the Eastern Lands lack knowledge, but they certainly don't lack experience in combat.

They had slaughtered monsters in the late Foundation Establishment stage, so why should a Grandmaster be afraid of them?

"Choosing the wrong one—the method was indeed brilliant."

In the southwestern Gobi Desert, Li Jieqing knocked Xing Wusong down from the clouds, revealing him to be nothing more than a blood corpse at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

Clearly, the real body is not here.

The early Foundation Establishment stage blood corpse had no face, its seven orifices were exposed, and it was full of ferocity.

After landing in the Gobi Desert, it roared to the sky, whether to fulfill its duty to Xing Wusong or to break free of control and revert to its blood-corpse nature, wanting to devour anyone it could find.

A bolt of lightning struck, silencing the blood corpse's roar.

Amidst the boundless thunderstorm spreading like lightning, Li Jieqing plunged in without hesitation.

The western Gobi Desert, which originally belonged to the Eastern Lands, had long been a territory inhabited by demonic beasts.

Seven hundred miles away, a group of demons in the Gobi Desert was startled by the thunder. A second-tier giant scorpion raised its pincers and drove the demons to swarm toward the sound of thunder.

Halfway there, the giant scorpion broke away from the demon horde and crept underground in the Gobi Desert, speeding up its approach towards the location where the thunderous sound had originated.

While Heavenly Thunder Spear may not be comparable to a Grandmaster's strike, it would certainly not be pleasant for an ordinary early or mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator who fails to dodge it.

Moreover, the power of the Heavenly Thunder Spear extends for hundreds of miles. In addition to the area of ​​destruction at the very center, the stray electric arcs can also disrupt the spiritual energy, making it difficult for later generations to trace what exactly happened in the place where the power of the Heavenly Thunder Spear ravaged.

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