248: Chapter 30 Skull (6K) 248: Chapter 30 Skull (6K) A golden thread pierced through heaven and earth.
Three golden-bodied Earth Puppets stood in front of Wu Qiong at the same time, reaching out their palms to try to block, but they did not even manage to delay for an instant…
The Flying Sword pierced through the chests of the three Living Corpse Puppets, swept out from their backs, and crashed into Wu Qiong’s forehead.
Jiageng fell completely silent.
That blood-colored Grotto Heaven, suspended above the Cloud Ship, like a shattered mirror, began to crack after a brief delay, and then more and more cracks appeared, increasingly dense.
The same happened to Wu Qiong’s forehead.
This young genius, who had retreated to the mountains of the Southern Border to cultivate in hardship for over a decade, watched this scene in disbelief.
His gaze was filled with confusion.
After the three Earth Puppets fell, the black-clothed figure standing on the high stern suddenly became blurry, and a sharp pain came from his forehead…
Wu Qiong lowered his head to look at the talisman in his palm.
A teleportation array talisman.
He was only a trace of primordial energy short of being able to ignite it.
“Why?”
He looked bewilderedly at the youth before him, his voice hoarse and rough.
When his Heart Lake resonated with a warning of danger, he knew that things were not simple.
Seeing the flash of golden light on Xie Zhen’s forehead, Wu Qiong knew that Xie Zhen was also cultivating the way of the Flying Sword.
But why was Xie Zhen’s Flying Sword so fast?
So fast that he couldn’t avoid it at all.
Not even a chance to activate the talisman.
“…”
Of course, there would be no answer to this question.
With a thud.
This unparalleled genius of the Heavenly Puppet Sect fell just like that, collapsing heavily into his own pool of blood.
Chen Ke instantly retreated back to Sword Qi Cave Heaven.
The golden glint in Xie Xuanyi’s forehead flashed for only a moment before returning to calm, the whole process took but a breath, or even less.
The way of the Flying Sword.
He had cultivated it for a lifetime.
No one was better at killing with a Flying Sword than him…
and it was for this very reason that Xie Xuanyi wanted to cultivate a second Sword Dao.
“Jiageng has gone out of control during the Northern Hunt, and Da Chu will likely send someone to investigate soon,”
Xie Xuanyi didn’t leave immediately.
He walked slowly on the blood-stained deck of the ship, looking at the fallen Evil Cultivators of the Southern Border.
There were no valuables on these people’s bodies.
No need to search.
But Wu Qiong was different.
Xie Xuanyi came to the fallen Wu Qiong, extended his palm, and gently exerted force.
With a whoosh.
The gleaming gold transmission array talisman flew into his palm.
“Indeed, a teleportation talisman specially made by the Da Chu Imperial Family…”
Xie Xuanyi scrutinized the dense and obscure array patterns on the talisman, frowning slightly.
Just as he had guessed.
The Da Chu Imperial Family seemed ready to accept the Southern Border’s submission; the efforts to purge demons had greatly weakened over the past decade, and sending Wu Qiong to participate in the Northern Hunt was also a form of “test”.
Perhaps before long.
The three Evil Sects that completely submit to the Dachu Dynasty will be able to stand in the sunlight openly.
Xie Xuanyi, although somewhat versed in the way of talismans.
In his previous life, he had spent most of his effort on the cultivation of swordsmanship, hardly spending time studying array patterns.
A talisman of the transmission array’s grade, even if the method of inscribing the dharma onto the talisman was taught to him, Xie Xuanyi would not be able to replicate it.
“This is indeed a good item,”
Xie Xuanyi twirled the talisman, feeling it with his Divine Thought.
If he wasn’t mistaken.
After lighting this talisman, it would shatter the barriers of void space between two locations, forming a long-distance doorway of array patterns.
Wu Qiong obtained this talisman from the Da Chu Imperial Family…
Considering the current relationship between Da Chu and the Southern Border.
The Array Master who inscribed the talisman would probably not set the “endpoint” of the talisman to be the Southern Border Sky Puppet Sect.
Wu Qiong’s obtaining of this talisman would thus likely be something he acquired upon arriving at the Imperial City, in other words, the “arrival” endpoint of lighting the talisman…
would likely be the Great Chu Imperial City.
Xie Xuanyi put away the talisman.
Besides that.
He checked again with his Divine Thought and found several other valuable treasures on Wu Qiong, including Magic Artifacts of the eighth and ninth grade.
But Xie Xuanyi was not interested.
The “treasures” of the Southern Border’s Evil Cultivators often exuded a revolting aura.
Xie Xuanyi shook his head and a ball of light fire swept out from his palm.
With a sizzle!
He threw this ball of light fire out and the entire Jiageng immediately caught fire, turning into a sea of flames in an instant.
Xie Xuanyi hovered in the air by controlling Qi, quietly hovering beside Jiageng, watching the Cloud Ship being devoured by flames.
This scene was very shocking, the year-round silent and cold mountainside of Snow Mountain being struck by a burning ship, where ice and fire intertwined, countless snowflakes whirling in the heat, and the traces left behind would be completely erased.
What Xie Xuanyi had to do was simple.
He did not want anyone to be able to trace his whereabouts following the wreckage of “Jiageng”.
The participation of the Southern Border’s Evil Cultivators in the Northern Hunt was already an issue that could not be openly discussed,
Now that all were killed, and the ship also burned,
What else was there to say at the Imperial City’s authority?
In addition to that, there was another thing that Xie Xuanyi had to guard against.
That was, although sinking the Cloud Ship was an unusual move to escape the eyes of the public and the layout of the Northern Hunt,
He did not know.
If “Qing Sun”, the planner, would also make a similar mad move.
What if that fellow was nearby when Jiageng had trouble, and chose to leave the ship to track it at the first moment?
Burning the ship was also to cut off the “Qi tracking” of anyone who came after.
Just watched the sea of fire swallow the Cloud Ship,
The whole process was utterly silent.
Apart from the sound of flames burning, there was no other noise.
After confirming that all Qi was burnt to extinction, Xie Xuanyi chose to leave.
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Not long after Xie Xuanyi left,