Alchemy Master

Chapter 1031, Without a Trace

Translator: Silavin

Qin Yichen had long understood what he would face once he revealed his True Dragon Martial Soul.

However, he never imagined the danger would come this quickly, would come this suddenly.

[To think Sword Feather Gate wants to harm me!] As he fell, this thought flashed through Qin Yichen’s mind.

This giant python had been personally given to him by a Sword Feather Gate Elder, and moreover, it had been domesticated by the Sword Feather Gate. Besides the Sword Feather Gate, who else could command this giant python to do such a thing?

[No, that’s not right.] Qin Yichen’s thoughts raced.

If someone from the Sword Feather Gate wanted to harm him, why make it so obvious?!

The Sword Feather Gate giving him the giant python was a matter known to all. If something happened to him, the first to be suspected would be the Sword Feather Gate.

But if it was not the Sword Feather Gate, then who could it be?!

The Lunar Palace?

That was not impossible either.

After all, this was the Lunar Palace’s territory. If the Lunar Palace employed some kind of trick, it would be enough to doom him eternally.

Whether it was the Sword Feather Gate or the Lunar Palace, Qin Yichen couldn’t determine for the moment.

[Who wants me dead?] The more critical the moment, the calmer Qin Yichen’s mind became.

In truth, after revealing his True Dragon Martial Soul, he had already been very cautious. However, he still had not anticipated that danger had been lurking right beside him all along.

Those who wanted him dead fell into two categories.

First, those who viewed him as an enemy.

Although after entering the Saints Heavenly Manor, Qin Yichen hadn’t made enemies with anyone, he had not forgotten about Lu Linghan.

[A romance rival?]

This possibility was not out of the question. After all, the matter of Little Ling’er and himself acknowledging each other in Saints Heavenly City could be discovered with a bit of investigation.

[Second would be the Foreign Races!]

These were the people most desperate for his death!

Although this was Human territory, there existed a type of person called traitors, spies!

Presumably, every Race had them.

If this possibility held true, then the matter was not that simple.

Qin Yichen’s affairs had been kept confidential. Only the Saints Heavenly Manor’s upper echelon knew about them. Moreover, the key was this giant python!

This had been domesticated by the Sword Feather Gate, and furthermore had been gifted to him by a Sword Feather Gate Elder.

In other words, this traitor had very likely already infiltrated humanity’s upper ranks!

The more he thought, the more Qin Yichen felt this possibility was enormous.

Besides Foreign Races, who else would be so desperate to eliminate him, a possessor of a True Dragon Martial Soul!?

[Then, who exactly is the traitor? Someone from Sword Feather Gate? Or someone from the Lunar Palace? Or perhaps, Heavenly Martial Domain, Saints Heavenly Manor? Anyone was possible!]

However, he had no time to continue this line of thought. A wave of ice-cold sensation invaded, making him feel as though even his Soul would freeze.

Under the True Dragon Martial Soul’s envelopment, although the surrounding Yin Energy cold air was repelled and could not invade his body. Even so, that freezing temperature made his movements stiff, and the flow of blood within his body slowed.

This alone demonstrated just how terrifying this place was!

If Qin Yichen did not possess the True Dragon Martial Soul, the moment he contacted this Yin Energy, he would likely be frozen into a block of ice.

The Lunar Palace’s ice crystal region was an absolute forbidden zone. Never had anyone emerged alive from the ice crystal region.

Qin Yichen smiled bitterly.

Even if he desperately wanted to find the person harming him, at the very minimum, he needed to survive and escape from here first.

*Bang!*

With a muffled thud, Qin Yichen crashed heavily into the ground. That tremendous impact force caused him to immediately spit out a mouthful of fresh blood, and within his body, his five internal organs and six bowels all felt as if they would shatter.

After quite some time, he finally regained his senses, but his aura had already become very weak.

Moreover, the surrounding endless Yin Energy cold air pressed in, making his head go dark, almost causing him to lose consciousness.

Qin Yichen bit the tip of his tongue, resisting that sensation of fainting, always maintaining himself in a conscious state.

He knew that once he lost consciousness, he would never wake again.

*Boom!*

Just as Qin Yichen tightly guarded his clarity of mind, suddenly a sound of something breaking through the air came from the sky above. This caused his heart to leap. [Could it be that Moke still wasn’t satisfied and had deliberately thrown down boulders to crush me?]

[No, that shadow…] Suddenly, Qin Yichen’s eyes narrowed. He saw that the thing rapidly falling was a serpent shadow about ten-odd metres in size was unmistakably Moke!

*Bang!* A heavy object struck the ground, and then, under Qin Yichen’s astonished gaze, Moke’s body, which had already been frozen into an ice sculpture, shattered into pieces.

[Exactly who wants to harm me!?] Seeing this scene, Qin Yichen couldn’t help but feel his hands and feet go ice-cold. This clearly showed someone wanted to eliminate him without leaving any clues behind!

This time when he emerged, he had not told the Manor Master. If he and Moke simply died down here like this, even if the Manor Master possessed abilities that could reach Heaven, it would be difficult to know how he had met with misfortune, let alone dig out the person manipulating things behind the scenes.

*Wuwa!*

Suddenly, a piercing sound rang out. That sound seemed to penetrate directly into one’s Spiritual Body, causing even Qin Yichen to feel somewhat dizzy and disoriented in his carelessness.

When he vigorously shook his head and opened his eyes, he saw a spectre drifting past before him, bringing with it an aura of extreme Yin Energy, causing him to involuntarily shudder.

“This place is…” Only now did Qin Yichen begin to survey the surrounding situation. When he saw the scene before his eyes, his pupils couldn’t help but suddenly contract.

Below, there was actually a vast space. Within this space, countless spectres wandered, emitting miserable howling. It was extraordinarily sinister.

Around this space, it seemed as though there was no visible end. However, vaguely there were some divine lights occasionally penetrating the sinister cold air, flashing forth.

Those divine lights seemed to contain an invisible power. This was the seal left behind by Ancestor Hongjun. Entry permitted but exit forbidden, sealing the vengeful spirits of this evil domain at the bottom of this cliff!

“To imprison these vengeful spirits, Ancestor Hongjun actually employed such a grand undertaking…” Gazing at those divine lights, Qin Yichen’s eyes also held deep wariness.

Since Ancestor Hongjun’s era had passed, an untold number of years had elapsed, yet the seal he left behind still existed to this day!

Although looking at the number of vengeful spirits here, one could see that the seal had now been eroded and its might greatly diminished, being able to maintain itself for such an extended period without dissipating was sufficient proof of what kind of lofty height Ancestor Hongjun had stood upon.

*Wuwa!* As Qin Yichen surveyed his surroundings, as if due to the commotion here, quite a few spectres’ gazes actually looked in this direction.

Seeing this scene, Qin Yichen couldn’t help but feel his heart constrict. The number of these spectres was too great. They were fundamentally impossible to count. At the very least, there were several hundred thousand, perhaps even a million.

Even if he had not been frozen into an ice block by that Yin Energy, and had luckily not been killed by the fall, if he were entangled by these spectres, it would definitely be an exceedingly troublesome matter!