Chapter 67: Snatching Treasure

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  Bai Qi picked up the Starry Sky Chessboard, and in front of him was still the dilapidated temple. The blood-stained corpse remained on the Starry Sky Chessboard.

  "Zhu Jue, I see you're extremely fearful. What's the origin of this blood evil?" Bai Qi knew that Zhu Jue was intimidated by his own sword intent, but who could blame him? If Zhu Jue didn't have malicious intentions towards him, the sword intent wouldn't harm his soul, at most it would greatly damage his vitality.

  Zhu Di thought that Bai Qi did not suspect himself, and calmly said: "Under the Night Emperor's seat, there are three saints, eight kings, nineteen demon gods of the nine heavens and ten earths, and one hundred and eight evil stars. This Blood Evil is one of the one hundred and eight evil stars, with a notorious reputation for cruelty. Killing him would be equivalent to offending the Night Emperor."

  Bai Qi smiled and said: "In that case, as a Blood Evil, you wouldn't have come here on your own accord, would you?"

  Zhu Di bowed his head and said: "Elder brother is right, it must be that Emperor sent this Blood Calamity to ruin our sect's great affair on that night."

  "Hey, sister, what do you think?"

  Zi Hong recalled the Qing Si sword, furrowed his brow and said: "If Ye Di wants to go to war with Yun Meng Zong, it's not possible. In between is the White Robe River and several major sects. This Blood Fiend probably came just to spy, but he was arrogant and unruly, wanting to kill two people from Yun Meng Zong for his own pleasure. He didn't expect to die at our hands. This shouldn't be Ye Di's orders."

  "Go take a look." Bai Qi didn't want to waste time, killing this Blood Evil was just incidental. If he hadn't had the Starry Sky Chessboard Talisman, fighting two against one would probably have ended in defeat as well. The Night Emperor's subordinates were indeed formidable, and there were still 108 such evil stars out there.

  Actually, Bai Qi didn't know that Ye Di had 108 Shā Xīng under his command. Xuè Shā was a rare lone wanderer, while other Shā Xīng had at least one or two trusted subordinates. Those with many subordinates would have thousands of Liàn Qì Shì surrounding them whenever they appeared. That night, Ye Di conquered several thousand miles of territory and controlled hundreds of small doorways, not by his words, but by these hawk-like minions.

  Zhu Di followed behind Bai Qi, feeling that the wound caused by the sword intent in his divine soul was irreparable. If so, he wouldn't be able to make progress for another three to five hundred years. But this was because he had prepared to take action at that time and only mobilized a thread of sword intent, which led to the counterattack. This thread of sword intent was already extremely fine and subtle.

  He brought it upon himself, but in his heart, he grew more and more resentful of Bai Qi. This resentment no longer needed any reason; he just wanted to kill Bai Qi as soon as possible and take everything away from him.

  This is his fate, it is his destiny, if Bai Qi does not die, he will never achieve immortality.

  Bai Qi walked ahead, feeling displeased in his heart. That Zhu Jie didn't know life from death and wanted to take action against himself, but was counterattacked by the sword intent of Mo Xian Sword and suffered injuries. But how could he think of a way to kill him?

  After all, Zhu Que was already an outer disciple and was about to enter the inner sect. If he wanted to kill him, he had to have a reason.

  Master can protect himself for a while, but not forever. When Master advances to the Immortal Path, the Hidden Marsh sect will be suppressed, and he can't always rely on Big Brother Shifu, right?

  Xian Fan two separated, the master once entered the blessed land, unless the life and death of the sect, otherwise it will never come out. Each sect is like this. Without a Dongtian Fudi or a similar secret realm, some people advance to the Xian Dao, they must face the heavenly calamity, and be recorded by the Heavenly Court, with no room for resistance.

  So after each sect has its immortal, it will not come out and walk again. The highest level of Qi-refining masters who can walk in the mortal world is the Golden Elixir Realm. The main force of all sects are cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage.

  I am already in the Realm of Nirvana, yet I still have to rely on my senior brother; that's too humiliating.

  In the dilapidated temple, there were no evil spirits guarding it, probably because they had been slaughtered by the Blood Calamity. Only a statue of Chu Jiang Wang was left standing alone.

  "Huh?" White raised his eyes, and his consciousness swept over, discovering that between the chest and abdomen of the statue of Chu Jiang Wang, there was a subtle movement of yuanqi, like residual clouds rolling and surging ceaselessly.

  Although Chu Jiang Wang is dead, the worship on both banks is still ongoing. This is the divine power collected by the Chu King Temple, extracted from the faith of ordinary people. It was originally taken back by Chu Jiang Wang, but now it is stored in the statue, and no one can use it.

  Bai Qi took out the jade seal of Chu Jiang Wang and threw it into the air. The jade seal automatically extracted the divine power from the statue, and in almost a blink of an eye, the thick aura inside the statue was sucked dry. The statue then collapsed with a loud crash.

  Bai Qi retrieved the jade seal, gazing at the fragments and dust on the ground. In his mind, he recalled that jade Buddha. The body of the jade Buddha also contained something similar, but it was a hundred thousand times more concentrated than the yuanqi inside this statue, and its quality was beyond comparison.

  Unfortunately, I promised the vessel spirit in that Buddha statue to send it back to Honglian Temple. Otherwise, if the Inverse Scale Spear were to extract this primordial energy, I estimate my accumulation would reach a rather terrifying degree.

  Bai Qi never thought of defaulting on his debt. The Jade Buddha had saved his life once, so returning it to the Red Lotus Temple was a matter of course.

  Bai Qi just didn't understand why the Blood Evil didn't absorb the yuan energy before he arrived, and instead made things easier for him.

  "Junior brother, let's go after finishing the task." Zi Hong urged from the side. Bai Qi immediately drove the Escape Light, taking Zi Hong and Zhu Que into the Chu River.

  Finish the sect's mission first, those true disciples will definitely not think that they will have such speed.

  Bai Qi still had one more thing in mind, his mother wanted him to bury her corpse at the source of the Chu River, where there was a Yin River that could guarantee her corpse would not decay. Keeping the corpse in the Nascent Ring would eventually damage it. With the nourishment of the Yin River, if his mother were to reincarnate and regain her memories from her past life, she could go to the Yin River to find this corpse, refine it into an external incarnation, which was equivalent to having another life.

  I have never had the strength to go to the source of Chujiang, the old nest of King Chujiang. Now that I have many means and with the help of my master sister, it is only a matter of time before I can eliminate King Chujiang's subordinates.

  Bai Qi said to Zi Hong, "Sister, we can't destroy all the Chu Wang temples on our own. Why don't we speed up and start from the middle of the Chu River, and let them have the downstream Chu Wang temples?"

  Zi Hong calculated that his and Bai Qi's strength were indeed not enough to destroy all the Chu Wang temples. After all, once the people behind caught up and found that the front Chu Wang temple had been destroyed and the demon god killed, they would definitely speed up their search, and everyone would eventually collide with each other.

  It's better to give up on some of it and just do half of it.

  Anyway, there is only one Zhu Que under his command, and it will not affect the speed of the Water Escape.

  After discussing it over, things became much simpler. Bai Qi drove the carriage and took Zi Hong and Zhu Diao to the middle of the Chu River.

  The Chu River is ten thousand miles long, but its actual length is much longer, almost two million miles. There are also thirteen rivers of varying sizes that flow into the Chu River, but those rivers all have their own gods, and the King of Chu can only govern them, not establish a temple as his own domain. So Bai Qi saved himself a lot of trouble searching, and followed the Chu River upstream to escape.

  Zhu Que was suppressed by the light, unable to see the outside scenery. Bai Qi pretended not to know that he was injured, and Zhu Que had nothing to say, besides, he didn't believe that Bai Qi intentionally hurt himself, otherwise why would Bai Qi bother to go through the trouble of adding a low-ranking soldier to his own ranks?

  Zhu Que looked clearly at that, and the sword pill used by Bai Qi himself was also a low-grade magic soldier. It can be seen that Bai Qi still has a sense of camaraderie with his fellow disciples.

  Bai Qi was just in the initial stage of his divine transformation and wanted to ride on the void light to travel nearly ten thousand miles, which was still a bit difficult.

  A thousand miles away, Bai Qi didn't take any medicinal pills to recover, he just relied on meditation and breath control. On the road, he also didn't let Zhu Que idle around, all along the way, Bai Qi inquired about many pieces of news regarding Ye Di. Usually, he only cultivated and didn't ask about these things, these weren't secrets within Yun Meng Sect, and Zhu Que couldn't lie either.

  On this day, he arrived at a bend in the Chu River, where the river flowed rapidly and crashed directly into a steep cliff. The sound of the water shook the sky. On the cliff, there was a statue of the King of Chu, carved out of the rock itself, over thirty zhang tall. Bai Qi saw that the divine power condensed within this statue was dozens of times greater than what he had obtained from the jade seal of the King of Chu, and his heart was filled with joy.

  This divine power can also be swallowed by the Inverse Scale Spear, and this is a sect mission. Taking it for oneself won't cause any trouble. The Heavenly Tribulation can't control these things; if there's trouble, it's up to the elder of the sect who issued the mission to bear it.

  Bai Qi was just about to move forward when suddenly several thousand demon soldiers emerged from the river, trampling the waves and blocking his way.

  At the forefront was a demon, holding a crescent moon spear in his hand, pointing at Bai Qi and shouting: "That Taoist priest, is he the thief of Yunmeng Sect?"

  This demon god was over three zhang tall, clad in iron armor, with waves underfoot and rage filling the sky. Behind him, thousands of small demons formed a large array, condensing into an illusory image of the demon god, which was approaching the stone statue of Chu Jiang Wang on the cliff wall. Bai Qi shouted, "If you have anything to say, go to the underworld and say it!"

  Before he could finish speaking, he unfolded the Starry Sky Chessboard, dividing the thousands of demon soldiers apart. At the same time, he tossed out the Jade Seal of Chu Jiang Wang, which flew through the air and absorbed all the primordial energy within the stone statue. Just as it was about to fly back into Bai Qi's hand, a soft laugh was heard, and a rainbow cloud flew in, intercepting the Jade Seal of Chu Jiang Wang in mid-air.

  Cai Yu stretched out a small white hand from the jade, gently stroking the imperial seal and wiping away the divine mark left by Bai Qi, and unexpectedly took away the Chu Jiang Wang's imperial seal.

  Bai Qi's eyes turned icy cold as he abandoned his Water Escape technique and instead rode the sword light to charge straight at the flying rainbow cloud.

  The speed of this imperial sword flying is faster than the Water Escape Technique, but it can't last long. Zi Hong shouted in surprise, and the person who took the Chu Jiang Wang Yu Xi was hiding in the colored clouds. Those colored clouds are probably a top-notch Daoist artifact, and even if Bai Qi rushes in, he will be at a disadvantage.

  "Dare to take my treasure and spare my life!" Bai Qi rushed in front of Cai Yun, who suddenly opened her mouth wide and swallowed him whole.

  White rose into the colorful clouds, and inside the clouds was a soft and flat empty space, about 100 square meters in size. On this empty land, there was a beautiful young woman holding the jade seal of Chu Jiang Wang, looking at White. The woman wore a long skirt with the hem trailing on the ground, her black hair casually tied up, giving off an indescribable sense of elegance.

  Seeing Bai Qi approaching, the woman laughed and said: "What's this? You've taken one of my magical treasures, now you want my life?"

  Her tone of speech is also not arrogant, but rather calm and composed.

  Bai Qi saw that the woman's demeanor was extraordinary, and his anger subsided a bit. He said, "You erased the divine seal imprint on my treasure, don't you know that this is an extremely great offense?"

  "But you can't beat me!" The woman swung the red cord on the jade seal back and forth, her eyes fixed on Bai Qi. Her pair of eyes were clear and distinct, with symbols flowing in her pupils, hidden deep within the blackness.