Chapter 20
Chapter 20 – Ancient Cultivator’s Inheritance Palace?
Translator: Mr Voltaire
Editor: Phoobiee
Silent!
The entire canyon was abnormally silent.
The men, who were originally filled with bloodl.u.s.t, now had expressions of fear and dismay.
Piercing the throat with a single strike!
This youth was simply too fast, and was unstoppable. The men were completely dumbfounded, and felt a deep sense of disbelief.
"Is he really at the Body Tempering realm?" The men looked at each other, unable to believe that such a thing had just happened.
Xiao Yun landed on the ground and looked at the men with a cold gaze.
Buzz!
Being stared at by the youth, the men felt suffocated, as if there was a mountain weighing down on them.
"What an overbearing sense of might!" The men couldn’t help but stumble backwards.
"What are you all afraid of? The boss was just careless, which resulted in this brat succeeding. If we attack together, what do we have to fear?" A slightly skinny man with an eagle-like nose spoke, "Kill! Kill him to take revenge for the boss. When has our Silver Snake Adventurer Group ever feared anyone before?"
As he spoke, the men continued to stare at the sword in the youth’s hands.
This was a precious sword, and was not something that an ordinary person could possess!
The men all looked at each other, and after mustering up their courage, they started gathering together.
Kill!
After gathering again, the six men attacked together. Their attacks were so overwhelming that they seemed like they hid the sky and covered the earth.
The six of them were all at least at the ‘complete’ stage of the Eighth Stage of body tempering, while the slightly skinny man was at the Ninth Stage of Body Tempering. Their combined attack was incredibly fearsome, and even an expert at the Ninth Layer of Body Tempering would find it difficult to survive it. In the distance, Xiao Yun felt an overwhelming sense of pressure.
However, there was no fear within Xiao Yun’s eyes, only chilling intent.
"You’re all seeking death!" After coldly speaking, the youth’s eyes became serious as a powerful wave of spirit energy swept out from his forehead. The air rippled, as if invisible waves had pa.s.sed through it.
The powerful wave of spirit energy was invisible and formless. As it swept into the men’s minds, their eyebrows frowned, revealing a look of shock as their gazes became hazy.
Under the a.s.sault from Xiao Yun’s spirit energy, they stopped almost simultaneously.
Whoos.h.!.+
At this moment, Xiao Yun jumped out and the sword in his hands pierced towards the six men.
Swish, swis.h.!.+
The sword light flashed as it pierced through a man’s throat in a single strike.
In just an instant, the man at the Ninth Layer of Body Tempering had been killed.
Following that, another three men were slain, with all of their throats pierced.
Every strike from Xiao Yun was as if it would pierce into the sky. The speed of each slash and stab had reached an unimaginable level.
In a single breath’s time, four men had been killed.
"What sort of art is this, that it can affect a person’s mind and soul?" After Xiao Yun had killed four men, the remaining two came back to their senses as they stared at the youth in terror, subconsciously retreating as quickly as they could.
"I still can’t affect their minds for that long?" Seeing that the 2 men had come back to their senses, Xiao Yun frowned.
It seemed that there was a limit to how much the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art’s spirit energy could affect others.
However, during this brief moment of haziness, one would gain a supreme advantage, and might even be able to kill someone with a superior cultivation.
After stabilising his emotions, Xiao Yun’s eyebrows lifted as he coldly gazed at the two survivors.
"You… just who are you?" The two men’s faces were full of horror as they retreated. When they looked at the youth, it was as if they were facing a deathG.o.d. He was just a youth, and yet they couldn’t stop him at all – this was simply terrifying!
"Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is that there are no grievances between us, and yet you all wanted to kill me. It’s evident what sort of people you are. Today I, Xiao Yun, am going to exterminate an evil for the public and erase you all from this earth." Xiao Yun looked incredibly calm as he held the black iron sword, which was s.h.i.+ning with a dark light, and walked towards the two men.
"No! We’re from the Silver Snake Adventurer Group; you can’t kill us," one of the men hurriedly said as his legs trembled.
"Silver Snake Adventurer Group?" Xiao Yun asked as he thought. He saw that there was a silver snake-shaped badge on the men’s chests, which was
How could he spare these people who killed innocents?
"Our captain is a late stage Innate realm expert. If you kill us, he definitely won’t spare you," the other man said.
"Late stage of the Innate realm?"
Xiao Yun’s gaze became even more piercing.
"Since that’s the case, then I definitely can’t spare you."
Xiao Yun understood the danger of storing up future calamities.
Hearing this, the two men became utterly terrified. It seemed that this youth wouldn’t be scared off so easily!
"You can’t kill us; we know a secret," one of the men desperately blurted out.
"Secret?" Xiao Yun was quite interested. "What is it?"
"Within the depths of the Violet Cloud Mountain, there’s an ancient cultivator’s inheritance palace. It’s about to be opened." Seeing that Xiao Yun seemed interested, the man was overjoyed as he hurriedly continued, "As long as you spare us, we’ll tell you the way to get to the inheritance palace."
"Ancient cultivator’s inheritance palace." Xiao Yun’s eyes lit up. With a name like that, it definitely wasn’t a weakling’s inheritance.
Perhaps this was an incredible opportunity.
"That’s right." Seeing Xiao Yun visible interest in the inheritance palace, the two men let out a sigh of relief.
"Tell me the route first," Xiao Yun said.
"First you go here, then here…"
One of the men began to excitedly describe the route to the ancient cultivator’s inheritance palace. "That’s all. If you want to know the precise location, you’ll have to search for it within that area."
Xiao Yun gave a slight nod, but didn’t fully believe him. He started to compare the route that the men had given him to the map he had received from Yan s.h.i.+ Fei in his mind. After all, he had to make sure that he wasn’t walking into a trap.
"Heheh, there are many restless demonic beasts there, and many adventurer groups’ experts have fallen there. Once you go, you won’t even be left with an intact corpse. That’ll be our revenge," one of the men muttered in an incredibly small voice.
Although the man’s muttering was almost inaudible, Xiao Yun’s senses were even sharper than those of an Innate realm expert’s, so he heard all of it. A cold light flashed in his eyes as he thought, "So it seems that these guys really did have ill intentions."
However, this told him that there was indeed something happening in the innermost regions of the Violet Cloud Mountain.
"Young sir, can we go now?" One of the men politely smiled.
"There are definitely some big opportunities there. If you’re late, they might be taken by someone else," the other man said as he also smiled.
However, there was a hint of coldness within their smiles.
"Alright, you can go now," Xiao Yun said as his eyes swept across them.
"Thank you, young sir." The men from the Silver Snake Adventurer Group cupped their fists in salute and turned to leave.
Swis.h.!.+ Swis.h.!.+
Behind them, the youth stabbed his sword towards their hearts.
In an instant, both of their hearts were pierced.
The two men turned around, their expressions full of shock as they asked, "Why…?"
"There are waves of beasts flooding out of the inner regions of the Violet Cloud Mountain. You wanted trick me into going there to die. You think I wouldn’t realise?" Xiao Yun spoke calmly. He didn’t feel a shred of sympathy for these sorts of despicable lowlifes. If he kept them alive, they would simply commit more evils.
These two men died in confusion. They couldn’t understand how a 16-year-old youth had seen past their perfect lie. However, they knew nothing about his incredible senses or his mindset, which had long since become more mature than others his age.
"There seem to have been changes in the Violet Cloud Mountain. Although it’s quite dangerous, I can go and just take a look." Xiao Yun walked out of the canyon, towards the depths of the mountain. Although the people from the adventurer group had tried to trick him, he was on his guard and would not act recklessly.
He now knew of the situation over there, and the route was quite close to where Yan s.h.i.+ Fei had tried to obtain the Violet Vine’s soul that year, so Xiao Yun decided to go over and have a look. If it was truly dangerous, it wouldn’t be too late for him to retreat. Since he had come here, Xiao Yun naturally didn’t want to let go of any opportunity to become stronger.
The Violet Cloud Mountain was surrounded by fog and ordinarily, the inner regions were covered with a violet glow. However, as Xiao Yun walked towards the inner regions of the mountain, he found that the fog had started to dissipate and that there was a subtle fluctuation in the air.
"Could it be that the ancient cultivator’s inheritance palace really is about to be opened?" Xiao Yun thought. After glancing at the depths of the mountain, he continued his journey with great antic.i.p.ation. With the map, as well as his incredible senses, he had not encountered much dangers.
In the blink of an eye, ten days had pa.s.sed.
During this period of time, Xiao Yun had found a few Fire Origins, and had used his Martial Spirit to absorb large amounts of Fire Essence Qi.
After absorbing the Fire Essence Qi from 3 Fire Origins, the fiery leaf on the Martial Spirit became more and more resplendent. Not only was there red fog around the leaf, but there were even crystal-clear drops of dew.
This discovery caused Xiao Yun to feel quite surprised.
The dewdrops were quite small, and looked like the fog, but they had definitely condensed into drops.
Within them, Xiao Yun detected an extremely dense aura of life.
"What are these dewdrops used for?" After wondering for a while, Xiao Yun shook his head, and decided to conduct some tests after he collected some more Fire Essence Qi and condensed more dewdrops.
As the Martial Spirit became stronger, Xiao Yun’s cultivation also rose.
In just ten days, he had stepped into the ‘complete’ stage of the Eighth Stage of Body Tempering.
"The Essence Qi here is still too thin. When I reach that Essence Origin, I’ll definitely be able to step into the Ninth Layer of Body Tempering. In fact, I might even be able to reach the Innate realm. That way, I’ll have accomplished my main goal." Xiao Yun clenched his hands into fists; his youthful face full of confidence and determination.
Two days later, Xiao Yun pa.s.sed over another peak and came to a mountain stream with violet clouds.
"In front should be the Violet Cloud Stream that big sister s.h.i.+ Fei mentioned. There’s a miasma marsh there, as well as many venomous insects." Xiao Yun stood on a dirt hill as he sent his spirit sense towards the mountain stream surrounded by violet fog.
"Why aren’t there many demonic beasts there?" Xiao Yun found that unexpectedly, there weren’t many powerful demonic beasts around.
His pupils suddenly contracted as he realised, "c.r.a.p, someone probably arrived here first and is trying to take the Violet Vine’s soul."
As he said this out loud, Xiao Yun immediately ran forwards.
Big sister s.h.i.+ Fei treated him extremely sincerely; how could he allow someone else to take the treasure that she wanted?