Novel Full Chapter 140: Ye Xiu Must Die
Nine ice needles shimmering with clear light shot toward the six cultivators surrounding Lin Qifeng.
Soon, these individuals sensed the threat approaching from behind.
“Break!”
The disrupted cultivators hurriedly turned, waving their hands to unleash massive waves of true qi, shaking off the Soul Ice Needles Chen Yan had thrown.
Although it caused them no real harm, it was enough to distract them.
Because the threat brought by that glimmer of clear light was tangible and real.
And Lin Qifeng would never let this opportunity slip.
“Slash!”
Lin Qifeng’s true qi suddenly erupted from his Qi Sea, and in an instant, the imposing aura he radiated increased more than tenfold.
Then, his raised right hand chopped down in a hand-blade strike.
The unbearably sharp true qi directly sliced two of the Qi Sea Realm cultivators in half at the waist.
The two Qi Sea Realm cultivators he killed were precisely from the Kongshan Sect.
“Hmph, kill the traitors first!”
Lin Qifeng sneered with a ferocious laugh, then turned his gaze toward the remaining four cultivators.
The remaining four clearly understood they were no match for this personal disciple of the Kongshan Sect’s Sect Master.
After exchanging a glance, they began to scatter and flee.
It didn’t matter if they couldn’t handle Lin Qifeng.
Once Elder He, Elder Zhang, or Elder Wen freed up their hands, a mere Lin Qifeng would be dealt with in a single breath.
For now, preserving their own lives was paramount.
Thinking this, one of the four Qi Sea Realm cultivators fled directly toward Chen Yan’s direction.
When that person’s gaze locked onto the Chief Disciple of Kongyuan Mountain hovering motionless in mid-air before him, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.
“Die!”
Immediately, he thrust a palm strike toward Chen Yan.
Chen Yan extended his right hand, pointing slightly toward the man. A streak of clear rainbow light flew from his fingertip.
It was already too late to dodge.
This Qi Sea Realm cultivator probably never imagined that this cultivator, originally at the early Martial Spring Realm, could unleash such a powerful technique.
No…
He only realized now just how foolish he had been.
Because from the very beginning, Chen Yan was suspended in mid-air.
What Martial Spring Realm cultivator could achieve flight?
Yet he had still only regarded him as a Martial Spring Realm cultivator, thinking to crush him with a single palm strike.
But… how?
How had Chen Yan broken through to the Qi Sea Realm?
However, reality granted him no more time for thought.
Because the streak of clear rainbow light bursting from Chen Yan’s fingertip had already completely pierced through his body.
Watching the corpse fall from the sky, Chen Yan slowly descended, arriving beside Lin Qifeng.
Lin Qifeng merely looked at Chen Yan calmly, showing no emotional fluctuation at Chen Yan’s one-strike kill of a Qi Sea Realm cultivator.
As if everything was within expectations.
“Where is Lin Xinyang?”
He simply asked Chen Yan this.
Chen Yan used his connection with the Shadow Binding Rope to sense. At this moment, Lin Xinyang was still at the Heavenly Summit Palace.
“I can’t bring him over myself because someone has him under surveillance.”
Chen Yan said.
“You can’t manage it either?”
Lin Qifeng frowned.
“Otherwise?”
Chen Yan said:
“After all, I’m only at the peak of the Martial Spring Realm.”
He knew what Lin Qifeng was thinking.
“Who has Lin Xinyang under surveillance?”
Lin Qifeng continued asking.
“Xiao Bo’an of the Mirage Palace… or rather, Mo Zheng.”
Chen Yan answered.
“Mo Zheng?”
Lin Qifeng showed a somewhat puzzled expression.
“Master, do you know who this person is?”
Seeing Lin Qifeng’s subtle reaction, Chen Yan quickly seized the opportunity to ask.
“The Mo Zheng of this current era, I do not know.”
Lin Qifeng shook his head, then said:
“But if it’s the previous one…”
“The previous one you knew, Master, who was he?”
Chen Yan pressed further.
“A rogue cultivator who was a Divine Ability Realm mighty one. To put it precisely, before that mighty one’s fall, he was on very good terms with one of our sect’s Grand Elders.”
Lin Qifeng said:
“You know that Grand Elder too.”
In almost an instant, Chen Yan quickly realized who Lin Qifeng was referring to:
“Huo Mu?”
“Correct.”
Lin Qifeng nodded.
“The Mo Zheng I mentioned is very likely the same Mo Zheng you just spoke of, Master.”
Chen Yan said.
Hearing this, Lin Qifeng’s expression changed.
“What do you mean, are you saying Mo Zheng has also reincarnated?”
Lin Qifeng said, then half-lowered his head, beginning to mutter to himself:
“But Mo Zheng was only at the Divine Ability Realm, not an immortal, so why…”
“He never died at all.”
Chen Yan explained:
“The world mistakenly believed Mo Zheng had fallen, but his soul was hidden within a ring. For some reason, it ended up in the hands of that Beiyuan Sect disciple named Ye Xiu.”
“Ye Xiu?”
Lin Qifeng naturally had a deep impression of this chief culprit who caused the direct disciples of Kongyuan Mountain to be placed under house arrest, and thus suddenly understood:
“So, the one who framed our Kongyuan Mountain direct disciples was likely acting under Mo Zheng’s instruction?”
“That is indeed a possibility.”
Chen Yan nodded.
He had never considered this before, because Chen Yan had only just learned who Mo Zheng actually was.
And before this, Ye Xiu had also consistently held a grudge against him.
Even during the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry, Ye Xiu had once wanted to take his life.
This likely indicated that Ye Xiu himself also wanted to use this opportunity to strike at him.
That’s why he framed the direct disciples of Kongyuan Mountain.
“But you just said the person keeping an eye on Lin Xinyang, besides Mo Zheng, is also Xiao Bo’an of the Mirage Palace.”
Lin Qifeng said.
“Correct.”
Chen Yan replied:
“Xiao Bo’an is the one holding that ring.”
Hearing this, Lin Qifeng frowned again:
“Strange, very strange.”
“How so?”
“Logically speaking, in a situation like Mo Zheng’s, to nourish his divine soul and maintain his consciousness, he must bind his soul to another person’s soul.”
Lin Qifeng said:
“Based on what you just said, I originally thought the ring would be in Ye Xiu’s hands, but you say Xiao Bo’an is holding the ring…”
Chen Yan suddenly thought of something.
“If Mo Zheng’s soul is bound to Ye Xiu’s, then what would happen to Mo Zheng if Ye Xiu were killed?”
He asked.
“Naturally, his soul would scatter and vanish.”
Lin Qifeng answered.
Chen Yan finally knew how to break this deadlock!
“Ye Xiu must die.”
Chen Yan stated with absolute determination.
According to previous intelligence, Ye Xiu should be under house arrest at the Water Mirror Pavilion.
He didn’t know what deal Xiao Bo’an struck behind the scenes with Ye Xiu and Mo Zheng, allowing Xiao Bo’an to possess the ring and even be possessed.
But, if Ye Xiu were killed…
Then they could reclaim Lin Xinyang, thereby gaining a bargaining chip for negotiations with He Furen!
Chen Yan didn’t know the chances of success, but he had no choice but to try.