Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

“Do you really think killing an early-stage Core Formation cultivator makes you some kind of prodigy?”

“Little do you know, in the face of true inheritance and opportunities, your little tricks… are nothing more than child’s play.”

Ji Yuan ignored Jiang Hong’s ridicule. He raised the sword in his hand horizontally in front of him, then pointed at the blade. The sword dispersed, transforming into nine embryonic Flying Swords, suspended beside him, all pointed at Jiang Hong.

“Let the others go. I will fight you with all my might, regardless of life or death.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Jiang Hong seemed to hear a great joke. He pointed at Ji Yuan, laughing:

“Look at you, at a time like this, still speaking such foolish dreams!”

Saying this, his smile abruptly disappeared, and he said with a fierce voice:

“Don’t forget, right now even you are a prisoner, where do you get the qualifications to negotiate with me?!”

“I know, you’re just stalling for time, thinking about how to escape, right?”

“Come, come, I won’t take advantage of you if you want to escape.”

With that, Jiang Hong took a golden bowl from his Storage Bag and casually tossed it up.

The golden bowl transformed into a Golden Light, instantly flying to the sky, and then a light barrier emanated from it, descending and gradually covering nearly a hundred miles of the surrounding waters.

… Is this an Array?

Or some kind of Restriction.

Ji Yuan extended his Divine Sense with all his might, touching this golden light barrier, and the result was as if he slammed into a wall, completely blocked, unable to penetrate at all.

“Junior Brother, you run first, I’ll try to hold them off.”

In Ji Yuan’s sea of consciousness, Ran Kui’s voice sounded.

“No, you can’t run, Senior Brother don’t act recklessly!”

Ji Yuan quickly answered.

If there was a chance to run, he would have run earlier. Three mid-stage Core Formation cultivators are stationed, plus Jiang Hong… If a fight really breaks out, Young Master Jiang’s methods are no less than those of a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator!

Running, it’s not that easy.

Unless Ji Yuan was alone here, or he had started running when he first discovered Jiang Hong.

But at that time Ran Kui was here, he couldn’t abandon Senior Brother and run away by himself.

“Then what do we do? The longer it drags on, the better or worse for us… don’t forget the matter of Dongyu Mountain’s Spirit Vein, it can’t drag on for too long, the Core Formation cultivators there will soon return.”

Ran Kui’s voice sounded again.

“Senior Brother, do you have a way to run? If you can run, then I can run, we might as well both run together.”

Ji Yuan spoke quickly.

In the current situation, it’s no longer the time for benevolence or compassion.

As for the remaining Isle Master Qinghe and Su Huaimin and the others… they can only fend for themselves.

If Ran Kui wasn’t here, Ji Yuan would have really run a long time ago!

“I…”

Ran Kui didn’t manage to speak at once.

Ji Yuan already knew his answer, at this time, he couldn’t afford any further benevolence!

Though thinking about it, asking Ran Kui to abandon his teammates and escape alone… if he could do such a thing, he wouldn’t be Ran Kui.

He wouldn’t even be in this predicament today.

Ji Yuan was willing to stay because he didn’t want future cultivation to be hindered by this day, forming a Heart Demon.

Now there’s no choice because he really did his best.

He took one last look at Ran Kui in the distance, his heart full of helplessness and pain, and internally sighed regretfully.

’Sorry, Senior Brother, I have to go.’

Just as Ji Yuan knew Ran Kui’s choice, Ran Kui also knew Ji Yuan’s choice.

He was glad, hoping Ji Yuan could escape.

So, now his Junior Brother wants to flee, his duty as a Senior Brother is to buy him some time, isn’t it?

Anyway, he had recovered for so long, he still had the strength to fight.

Ran Kui’s Heart Thought settled, then he transmitted to the Isle Master Qinghe beside him, saying: “Junior Brother, you move aside, I’m going to make a move.”

“What? Senior Brother Wu Dao, you still want to fight them?”

“Hmm, can’t just sit here and wait for death, and… and…”

Ran Kui originally intended to speak frankly, but before he finished speaking, a sharp pain suddenly struck his chest.

He seemed a little incredulous, looking down.

At his chest, there was an extra hand, a hand that suddenly pierced through his chest from behind.

That hand gripped his beating heart.

“Pfff—”

The hand retracted, crushing Ran Kui’s heart along with it.

Not only that, the person reacted extremely fast, as if knowing that Ran Kui would self-destruct.

While crushing Ran Kui’s heart with the left hand, the right hand was placed on his Dantian.

Black light flickered, a Spiritual Light strike, directly shattering Ran Kui’s Dantian.

With this.

Ran Kui was utterly powerless and beyond help.

He stood dumbly in the distance, took one last look at Ji Yuan, and then toppled from the Flying Boat.

He fell onto this deserted island, barely alive, looking at the familiar yet strange figure standing on the Flying Boat.

“You… aren’t Qinghe, who are you?”

Isle Master Qinghe looked at Ran Kui with eyes full of excitement, suppressing his excited emotions, he said slowly:

“Qinghe? I am Qinghe, Wu Dao Senior Brother, don’t you recognize me?”

“Oh, and I have another name, called ’Thousand Faces,’ as in a thousand different faces.”

“…”

The change happened too fast.

Even Ji Yuan, ready to use the Fixed-point Teleportation Order to leave, couldn’t react.

’Senior Brother… seems to be dead?’

’Killed by Qinghe?’

This… this…

Ji Yuan was momentarily reluctant to believe it, he even thought he might be mistaken.

Otherwise, how could Qinghe kill Senior Brother?

But just in that fleeting moment, Jiang Hong laughed, wildly, like a madman:

“Thousand Faces, well done!”

“I didn’t expect it to truly be you, seems on this trip back, I must speak highly of you to my father-king.”

Isle Master Qinghe, more accurately, Thousand Faces, bowed slightly to Jiang Hong in the distance and smiled:

“It’s my honor to relieve worries for the Young Master.”

Finally, Jiang Hong looked at Ji Yuan opposite him and said with great satisfaction:

“Seems you really had a good relationship with that waste, huh?”

“Well then, Qiu Qianhai, ready to fight me now?”