The other party spoke in authentic Northeastern dialect, and had the appearance of a burly man from the Northeast. Without careful observation, it was hard to distinguish him from a Northeasterner from another world.
At this moment, this burly man looked at Lin Xiao Tian with teary eyes, begging for his life.
If he could avoid killing, Lin Xiao Tian would naturally spare them.
But these people before him, in a sense, treated him as food.
They were cannibals!
Although they looked exactly like him, in Lin Xiao Tian's eyes, they were a completely different species.
Lin Xiao Tian repeated the question Old Guang had asked earlier. To his surprise, this burly man was still not honest, spewing lies and deliberately setting traps for Lin Xiao Tian in certain places.
"Your friend just now gave a different answer. It seems one of you is lying," Lin Xiao Tian said calmly, his killing intent unmasked.
The burly man was startled. He had intended to trick Lin Xiao Tian, but he didn't expect Lin Xiao Tian to have already asked once.
But he couldn't be blamed for this. Old Guang beside him had his acupoints sealed by Lin Xiao Tian and was motionless. Who could have known he was awake?
Lin Xiao Tian stared at the burly man, saying nothing.
The burly man was already sweating profusely.
"I'll ask you one more time. Are you sure this is the answer you gave?"
"Heh, sorry, I remembered incorrectly just now. Could you please ask again?" the burly man conceded.
Lin Xiao Tian's expression remained unchanged, and he asked again.
As expected, the answer he received this time was the same as Old Guang's.
After questioning the burly man, Lin Xiao Tian employed the same tactic, sealing the burly man's senses and acupoints.
Soon, the third person woke up.
As Lin Xiao Tian had predicted, the third person also lied. Lin Xiao Tian threatened him in the same way.
"If you don't want to die, answer my questions honestly."
The man chuckled.
"You'll let me go?"
"Are you really willing to let me go?"
Lin Xiao Tian nodded.
"Heh, aren't you afraid we'll reveal your identity to others after we get out?" the man sneered at Lin Xiao Tian. "If I were you, I wouldn't do this!"
Lin Xiao Tian sighed.
He had to admit, his judgment of people was accurate.
Lin Xiao Tian had indeed never intended to let them go from the start.
"Answer my questions honestly, and I can make your death a quick one."
"Kill me or skin me, I don't care. If I flinch, I'm not surnamed Xu."
Lin Xiao Tian's face was cold as he pointed his index finger at the man.
"If I weren't capable enough today, our positions would be reversed, and my fate would be worse than death. So, now that you die by my hand, you can't blame me."
"Heh, kid, with you as just a Foundation Establishment cultivator, as long as you have alien blood flowing in you, the result waiting for you will always be becoming someone else's food. The three major forces will not let you go."
Lin Xiao Tian did not reply. He gathered his spiritual energy at his fingertip and shot it out instantly.
*Puff!*
With a crisp sound, the Xu family cultivator, who had been laughing maniacally, lost all life.
Lin Xiao Tian pointed his index finger at the other two.
Under their terrified gazes, they both died at Lin Xiao Tian's hands.
Being merciful to enemies is being cruel to oneself, especially when they were a group of cannibals.
Lin Xiao Tian saw no need to show them any mercy.
According to what they had said, for thousands of years, the humans here had imprisoned many humans from Earth. These people lived like livestock, and their descendants faced the same fate.
Lin Xiao Tian pitied them, but who pitied those who were enslaved?
In the world of cultivators, it was a case of the strong preying on the weak!
After dealing with the bodies of the three, Lin Xiao Tian advanced further into the depths of the forest.
Although the sensing array covered a vast area, it was mainly within human settlements. The forest was the territory of demonic beasts, and they did not allow human arrays to be deployed there.
Lin Xiao Tian entered the depths of the forest to evade the sensing array.
But while the depths of the forest could evade the array, it presented another problem: the threat of demonic beasts.
Lin Xiao Tian had to maintain the state of his Divine Concealment Art at all times and dared not expose too much of his strength, lest he attract some powerful demonic beasts.
Those outside wanted his flesh and blood, and the demonic beasts here wanted it just the same.
Fortunately, the Shennong Medical Canon contained many techniques for concealing one's aura. Lin Xiao Tian had not ventured too deep into the forest, and the strongest beings here were only at the Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, he did not have to worry about being discovered for the time being.
However, this was not a long-term solution. For Lin Xiao Tian, the most pressing matter was to resolve his identity.
Language barriers could be overcome through learning, but without an identity, he would be unable to move forward.
Fortunately, Lin Xiao Tian had learned the Five Elements Qimen, and was now a relatively professional術士 (shùshì - sorcerer/diviner). Forging an identity jade token was only a matter of time.
As for the material for the jade token, he would simply use that of the three unfortunate Xu family cultivators.
He had originally planned to find the jade token of a Qi Refining stage cultivator after leaving. But now that he had wiped out a family, the risk of going out was too high. It was better to lie low for now.
As it turned out, Lin Xiao Tian's decision was correct.
At this very moment, in the city where the Xu family resided.
A handsome young man was carefully examining the information provided by the sensing array.
Around the handsome young man, several elders stood respectfully, not daring to breathe loudly in his presence.
The young man looked for a while, then finally closed his eyes.
After a long pause, he spoke indifferently.
"Has the search yielded any results?"
A middle-aged man in uniform quickly cupped his hands and replied, "Reporting to sir, the guards have been organized to search. A wanted notice has also been posted in the surrounding areas. There is still no news."
"It's been three days, and still no news?"
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man knelt on the ground with a thud. "I am incompetent. I will order my subordinates to intensify the search and find the murderer of the Xu family."
The young man did not reply but remained silent for a moment.
The hall was quiet, and the middle-aged man was sweating profusely.
After a long while, the young man spoke again, "Have the surrounding forests also been searched?"
"Reporting to sir, the forests have not yet. However, if he were in the forest, he wouldn't be able to last long. After all, the Beast King in the forest has such sharp senses. If humans were to spend a night in the forest, they would definitely be found by it."
This was also one of the reasons why the human sensing array could not be deployed into the forests. The Beast Kings in these demonic beast inhabited forests possessed Nascent Soul stage strength, their domain covering the entire forest. During the day, they would not act due to their wariness of humans, but at night it was different. Humans were a rare delicacy.
"Never mind, I'll go myself." The young man smiled slightly.
Before anyone could react, the young man had vanished from the hall.
"I truly didn't expect that, for the sake of a mere Xu family, this lord would personally go?"
"Indeed! With this lord's status, it's hard to believe he would care about a ninth-rate family like the Xu family."
The people present exchanged glances, unable to comprehend why.