Chapter 680: Chapter 673: Slaying

A stick of incense later, Zuo Yunxiao lay sprawled across a desolate plain.

Three of his four limbs were missing, and among his facial features, only his mouth remained intact. There was not a single part of his body left unharmed; the man had become a bloodied mess, with even the mud beneath him stained a crimson red.

Having resorted to the Green Rainbow Escape Technique, he was already incredibly weak.

Had he managed to escape to safety, it would have been another matter, and given three to five years, he might have recovered from his wounds.

Unfortunately, while his circumstances were not fortunate, his thoughts remained wishfully optimistic.

Chen Hai’s Black Water Mysterious Yellow Sword Finger had locked him in firmly.

He had fled all the way to this place, enduring only two strikes from Chen Hai, and now he was hanging on by his last breath, truly unable to withstand anymore.

Merely a dozen or so steps away from him, the void split open, and a cold gleam shot out once more.

“Mercy should be shown where it can, Chen Hai, do you really intend to be so utterly ruthless?”

“Let me tell you, as an elder of Huayun Sect, my Soul Lamp is kept within the sect.”

“If I die, the sect will know immediately, and they will surely investigate this matter thoroughly.”

“When that time comes, it won’t just be you, but your entire sect will have to join me in death!”

…

The voice that emerged from Zuo Yunxiao’s mouth was weak, as faint as the buzz of a mosquito.

Before he could finish speaking, the cold gleam that had torn through the void and shot towards him had already landed on his body. It erupted in a burst of dazzling light that completely engulfed his battered form.

…

Within the Earth Immortal Domain, Chen Hai furrowed his brows slightly and withdrew the finger he had extended.

“Soul Lamp? What’s that?”

“Can that thing really allow Huayun Sect to confirm that Zuo Yunxiao died by my hand?” he muttered to himself, contemplating in silence.

The cold gleam that had sliced through the void and executed Zuo Yunxiao contained a thread of his consciousness.

The words said by Zuo Yunxiao just before his death had naturally reached his ears.

Although this so-called Soul Lamp made him somewhat cautious, that was a separate issue from taking action.

Since he had already made his move, he was determined to finish it ruthlessly, ensuring that Zuo Yunxiao was completely dead.

He couldn’t just let Zuo Yunxiao go because of a few words, allowing him to escape overseas and then return with a host of Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals seeking revenge.

“Meet force with force, respond to the enemy’s approach my way. If Huayun Sect behind Zuo Yunxiao really can find out through that Soul Lamp that I killed him and seek revenge, they’ll have to wait until they come looking!”

With a thought, Chen Hai set this matter aside for the moment.

“Zuo Yunxiao is dead; I have resolved your troubles for you for now!”

“Present the Gathering Spirit Stones, and I will spare your lives. The promise I made earlier is now also fulfilled.”

“Will you few be coming back with me to the Bloodthirsty Sect or heading off to another territory?”

His gaze shifted and fell upon Yang Shaoqing, Gui Wuya, and others, as Chen Hai posed the question.

“Zuo Yunxiao was an Earth Immortal-level powerhouse. Without the boost of a domain, just a fair fight would have meant that his strength was even stronger than that of our sect’s Earth Immortal-level Supreme Elder.”

“How could he have fallen to Senior Chen’s hand in such a short time?” Yang Shaoqing, Gui Wuya, and the rest exchanged bewildered glances, shock written all over their faces.

They had seen with their own eyes Zuo Yunxiao’s escape while grievously wounded.

That it had come to this end seemed normal to them.

After all, Chen Hai possessed the power of his own domain here, bolstered by domain forces, while Zuo Yunxiao, who usually held home-field advantage overseas in West Barbarian Mountain Territory, was at a clear disadvantage, fighting with only his own strength; he could not be Chen Hai’s match.

But after he activated the Green Rainbow Escape Technique and disappeared in the blink of an eye, Chen Hai, who merely pointed a few fingers into the void, told them that Zuo Yunxiao was dead.

Such an outcome inevitably left them with doubts, and for a moment, they found it difficult to accept.

“Alive is alive, dead is dead. Do I have any reason to deceive you?”

“Do I need to explain my actions to you?”

Seeing that the few before him seemed to be questioning him, Chen Hai was quite displeased and let out a disdainful hum.

He never had much of a good impression of these people in the first place.

It was only because they had offered the Gathering Spirit Stone that he was willing to protect them and help them dispose of the nuisance that was Zuo Yunxiao.

“Senior Chen’s words, we certainly dare not harbor the slightest doubt.”

“The shock was mainly because what just happened was too astonishing.”

“Although Zuo Yunxiao has already perished at your hand, Senior, we temporarily have nowhere else to go, so we’ll just temporarily stay at the Bloodthirsty Sect!”

Gui Wuya, Fang Qingshan, and the others exchanged glances. They quickly spoke up, with a hint of apology, and bowed to Chen Hai in response.

Of course, their words, though spoken cleanly and decisively, what they really thought in their hearts was known only to themselves.

Perhaps they didn’t leave this territory and chose to stay at the Bloodthirsty Sect because they were worried Zuo Yunxiao wasn’t dead.

What these people were really planning was not something Chen Hai cared to bother with.

In his view, his dealings with Yang Shaoqing, Gui Wuya, and the others were nothing more than a transaction.

Seeing that they had made their choice, he waved his sleeve, picked them up, and flew towards the direction of the Bloodthirsty Sect gate.

After a period of time as brief as it takes to drink a cup of tea, Chen Hai was already back on the peak of Black Water Immortal Mountain.

Yang Shaoqing, and Gui Wuya were unceremoniously dropped at the entrance of the Bloodthirsty Sect gate.

As for how they would stay within the Bloodthirsty Sect or how they would negotiate with Ye Qingqing, that was their own business and had nothing to do with Chen Hai.

“There are two newcomers in the cave mansion?”

“Have those people who lingered near the big stone stele at the foot of the mountain already entered the Black Water Myriad Spirit Pool to attempt the inheritance?”

“To have two lucky ones emerge successful in receiving the inheritance of the Black Water True Technique out of one or two hundred ordinary people is not a bad rate.”

“When I ascended the mountain, I saw more than ten people kneeling towards the mountain from time to time at the stele, wishing to join my Black Water Lineage. Are these newcomers?”

“After more of them gather, can we open the Black Water Myriad Spirit Pool again and let them try their luck within?”

…

Standing atop the peak, Chen Hai sensed the situation on the mountain.

Zhang Tianci and Ye Fangxian were still engaged in closed-door cultivation.

Only Wu Daniu’s newly established cave mansion had two new faces.

At this moment, Wu Daniu himself had temporarily stopped his normal cocoon-spinning and silking cultivation. He was very show-offish, on a tall horse, delivering a lecture to the two newcomers.

It seemed that the two newcomers who had successfully received the inheritance had become Wu Daniu’s disciples and were taken in by him.

After a moment of contemplation, Chen Hai employed the Heaven’s Secret Technique to calculate.

After confirming that the two newcomers had no significant backgrounds and were really just lucky to have successfully received the inheritance, he withdrew his attention and did not concern himself further with the two new individuals.

“This is an Acquired Spiritual Treasure, and because of this object, I have seriously offended the Overseas Sect Alliance.”

“I hope to use this object in the Black Water Cave Mansion to increase the density of spiritual energy here by several levels.”

Chen Hai flipped his hand, and the Gathering Spirit Stone was already in his grasp.

Looking at the continuously flowing seven-colored light on it, he mused to himself.