Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 531: Chapter 248: A Life for a Debt—Such Is the Law of Heaven and Earth!

The Wailing Wanderer took a step back and asked with a clear voice, ”I am meeting this fellow Daoist for the first time, we have no grievances or animosity... oh no, Ye Zhiqiu, quickly return this fellow Daoist’s Storage Bag.”

In the middle of speaking, the Wailing Wanderer remembered that he had just stolen his Storage Bag.

Ye Zhiqiu didn’t know what Ji Yuan intended, so she had no choice but to throw the Storage Bag he handed her over.

Ji Yuan caught it with one hand.

The empty Storage Bag he had just given away was now filled with items when he retrieved it.

Spirit Stones, Spiritual Artifacts, along with some Elixirs and Talismans; not knowing which Storage Bag Ye Zhiqiu had taken them from, but now they were all in his possession.

After storing away this Storage Bag, Ji Yuan responded, ”What I mentioned was not about this.”

”What then?”

The Wailing Wanderer frowned and inquired.

”No matter, you’ll understand once you’re dead.”

As Ji Yuan spoke, his gaze swept to the side towards Ye Zhiqiu...

Upon sensing Ji Yuan’s gaze, she unexpectedly transmitted her voice actively saying, ”If you can truly kill him, then kill him! That single strand of Divine Soul won’t kill me!”

Hmm?

Ji Yuan was very surprised upon hearing these words.

Ye Zhiqiu had given her Divine Soul to the Wailing Wanderer; logically, her life or death should hinge upon the Wailing Wanderer’s whim. But now she actually said... the Wailing Wanderer couldn’t kill her?

What kind of Magic Technique was this?

Was it her own creation or a legacy she acquired?

Ji Yuan thought that if he could obtain this technique, in the future, he could better deceive... ahem, reassure others.

Like when encountering Mei Manor that time, he could completely hand over a strand of Divine Soul to him.

If Mei Manor obtained his Divine Soul, he would definitely trust him, and only then could he truly secure benefits!

”Alright.”

Since Ye Zhiqiu said so, Ji Yuan naturally agreed firmly.

Back when he was in the Ghost Seeking Cave, Ji Yuan had already wanted to kill the Wailing Wanderer, but unfortunately didn’t have the chance then nor the ability.

Now that he encountered him here... with Celestial Silkworm Zhenren, the ”Celestial Mutilated Zhenren,” at his side.

And the Wailing Wanderer coincidently injured.

If not acting now, then when?

With this thought, Ji Yuan had no more hesitation.

When half a person’s figure appeared beside him, the Wailing Wanderer’s eyes shrunk.

The myriad thoughts in his mind ultimately turned into a single word... Run!

With that, he unexpectedly reached out to push Ye Zhiqiu forward, ”You block this Golden Core for me!”

After speaking, he turned and ran himself.

A proper Golden Core Zhenren, though only half a body remained, was not someone he as a Fake Pill Cultivator could clash head-on with. Naturally, he had to flee when possible; when there was no escape left, thinking of a fight to the death wouldn’t be too late.

Ye Zhiqiu was pushed forward by him, yet did not strike.

Ji Yuan didn’t let the Celestial Silkworm Zhenren act against her either.

The two passed by each other.

The Wailing Wanderer realized something was wrong seeing this, ”You treacherous thing, what’s the use of keeping you!”

With that, he abruptly crushed the strand of Divine Soul Ye Zhiqiu had given him.

Just moments ago, Ye Zhiqiu was unharmed, but now staggered, her face instantly turning pale, her aura dropping suddenly from the Peak of Foundation Establishment to Late-stage Foundation Establishment.

After steadying herself, she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, looked with hatred at the distant Wailing Wanderer, and sneered, ”Old scoundrel, unexpected, right?!”

”Damn it!”

The Wailing Wanderer panicked slightly seeing this, slowing his pace, and was consequently caught up by the Celestial Silkworm Zhenren behind.

The Celestial Silkworm Zhenren rode Escape Light, hovering over the Endless Sea, half of his remaining body stood out sharply under the sun.

In the past, he too was a Golden Core Cultivator with a celestial demeanor, but now only a charred half-body remained, the severed edge of muscles and bones distortedly tangled and wrapped in a layer of black, deathly-turbid flesh, barely maintaining form.

Yet his cultivation... perpetually fluctuated between Golden Core and Fake Pill.

The Wailing Wanderer, knowing there was no escape, ceased fleeing. He raised the snake-headed staff in his hand high.

The snake eyes were crimson, the vertical pupils cold, and its two pale venomous fangs curved like hooks, threads of ink-green venom silently overflowed from the snake’s mouth, wrapping around the staff, casting an ominous green-shadow over a meter’s radius of the seawater around him.

”Kekeke...”

The Wailing Wanderer let out a sharp, teeth-gnashing laugh, the sound piercing through the Endless Sea, clearly stabbing into Ji Yuan’s ears.

”Corpse Puppet? Golden Core Stage Corpse Puppet? Lad, no matter who you are, once I deal with this Corpse Puppet today, it’ll be your death!”

The Wailing Wanderer surviving until now was naturally no fool.

As he spoke, he had already pushed his Divine Sense to the limit, attempting to capture the Divine Soul fluctuation gaps of the Celestial Silkworm Zhenren due to unstable cultivation.

Concurrently, the snake-headed staff in his hand subtly vibrated, an invisible, intangible malicious demonic qi slithered like a snake along the sea surface, stealthily advancing.

The Celestial Silkworm Zhenren held his silence, the frozen light in his left eye showing no ripple or change, yet just as that strand of malicious demonic qi was about to touch beneath his foot—

”Buzz!”

A net nearly ten feet around, as slim as cicada’s wings, almost transparent, appeared without warning beneath him!

The net’s threads were extremely thin yet incomparably tough, suffused with a soft golden glow and a kind of deathly gray-white aura.

The giant net slightly pressed down, precisely gathering the surreptitiously attacking strand of malicious demonic qi into the mesh.

”Hisses!”

Like cold water dripping into boiling oil, the netted malicious demonic qi fiercely convulsed and struggled, emitting shrill corrosive sounds.

The celestial net glowed with golden aura, wrapped in gray-white deathly qi. The combination steadily suppressed the malicious qi, gradually obliterating it at a visibly accelerating pace.

After this failed attempt, the Wailing Wanderer ceased trying, the snake-headed staff suddenly thrust downward.