CHAPTER 168: CHAPTER 168: QIN ZI FELL

Qin Zi has always been kind-hearted and doesn’t like to kill.

Seeing this person kneeling down, he decided to let him go. After all, the old fellow wasn’t young anymore, and living to this age was no easy feat.

"You can go."

Qin Zi waved his hand casually.

"Ah? Thank you, senior!"

The old man in white didn’t expect Qin Zi to be so straightforward; he hesitated for a moment, then got up and ran away.

"Hold on."

Suddenly, Qin Zi called out.

"Does senior have any other instruc..."

The old man in white turned around with a forced smile, but before he could finish speaking, he felt a tremendous force slam into his head. His entire body spun like a top, his head became dizzy, and the world seemed upside down.

"Bang!"

The next moment, he ended up like the two before him, head down, feet up, stuck in the ground.

His legs tensed for a moment, then softened, forming a "W" shape.

"Hehe, did you think I didn’t know you’d round up people to trap me after leaving? Do you take me for a fool!"

Qin Zi disdainfully clapped his hands and then flew off ahead.

The Southern Domain boasts magnificent mountains and rivers, vast land sparsely populated, teeming with poisonous insects and wild beasts, radiating a fierce and savage atmosphere.

Qin Zi pressed on.

Soon, he saw a grand river a thousand feet wide, and astonishingly, large expanses of buildings perched on the peaks lining both sides of the river.

On the banks, many young individuals resembling sect disciples were fishing. They tied cattle and sheep to ropes, tossed them into the river, and soon furious splashes arose in the water. The ropes stretched taut, cutting through the water in crisscrossing straight lines.

"Pull it up!"

"Get up here, you!"

Seeing this, the disciples exerted force. Instantly, bizarre fish over ten meters long, with pitch-black serrated teeth, were yanked up.

In mid-air, the fish released the cattle and sheep, flicked their tails, and lunged at the fishing disciples.

"Swish swish swish!"

Yet, streaks of sword light cut through, and the giant fish were instantly turned into neatly sliced sashimi, caught by a massive energy-formed platter, while their snow-white skeletons plummeted back into the water.

Behind them, others seized the huge platters filled with sashimi, using Ice Divine Techniques to freeze and transport them away.

It actually formed a supply chain!

Qin Zi was dumbfounded.

He walked over, patted a fishing disciple, and asked, "Brother, why don’t you just use Divine Techniques to catch the fish? Fishing like this is always too slow."

Qin Zi was being honest. If it were him, he’d cast a Divine Technique net and haul up at least a multitude.

"And you are?"

The person turned around, slightly surprised upon seeing Qin Zi, then regained calmness.

"Just passing by."

Qin Zi replied with a smile.

"Oh, we’re fishing to train our bodies. Fishing requires acute insight and reflexes, and also an explosive force in an instant. When training, we set aside Divine Techniques because once our bodies are strong enough, using Divine Techniques becomes more effective."

The person stood up, patting his backside.

He enthusiastically said, "Meeting is fate. I see you’re extraordinary, how about coming to my place for a visit?"

"I won’t trouble you."

Qin Zi waved his hand with a smile as bright as a flower, and unobtrusively took two steps back.

"You should really come by." The person urged with a smile, stepping closer to Qin Zi.

"No, no."

Qin Zi continued waving his hand, forcing a laugh, "I just remembered I have something to deal with at home, so I’ll be on my way."

"Hmph! You killed my people from the Li Jiang Sect and want to leave?! There’s a road to Heaven, but you don’t take it; no door to Hell, yet you barge in!"

The person suddenly yelled.

Although he was clearly a young man, his voice turned old, carrying a sense of authority.

"Cough, cough, I didn’t expect such a coincidence... Goodbye!"

Qin Zi awkwardly smiled, then turned and ran!

He hadn’t expected that casually asking a passerby would lead him to bump into an old monster from the Li Jiang Sect.

"Hmph, if I let you escape today, how can I, Elder Li Jiang, stand my ground in the Southern Domain!"

The man snorted coldly, soared into the air, and struck forward at the thousand-zhang-wide river. Instantly, the river surged violently.

"Splash!"

A small river, a hundred zhang wide, separated from the main river, rose into the air, like an endless giant serpent, sweeping towards Qin Zi.

"Break!"

Qin Zi used a Divine Technique, slicing the incoming river with a single palm, water splashing all around, reflecting rainbows.

But water cannot truly be severed.

The broken river instantly fused again, surrounding Qin Zi, as if bouncing back, breaking apart with a palm strike and swiftly reverting, tightening its encirclement.

Soon, Qin Zi was enveloped in a massive water sphere thousands of zhang in diameter. The surface kept protruding into various shapes, like a beetle charging around inside a balloon.

"Heh, your skills aren’t weak. An ordinary person would indeed be unable to trap you."

"However, if a lofty Nine Heavenly Layer cultivator like me can’t capture a little fellow of Saint Realm Sixth Layer, wouldn’t my cultivation be a joke?"

The man sneered, then clenched his right hand, and instantly, the gigantic water sphere rapidly shrank, from a thousand zhang, to a hundred, to ten, finally into a single zhang.

Like a blue amber pearl, it trapped Qin Zi inside, unable to move.

This was, in fact, a very powerful artifact, crafted by Elder Li Jiang using a section of a hundred-zhang wide, ten-thousand-zhang long river. When it shrinks, its mass remains unchanged, but its density increases, and so does the pressure, making the person inside unable to move.

"Kid, why did you kill a disciple of my Li Jiang Sect?" Elder Li Jiang asked coldly.

Qin Zi blinked but couldn’t open his mouth.

Seeing this, Elder Li Jiang opened a small hole at Qin Zi’s mouth so he could speak.

Qin Zi said, "Senior, there might be a misunderstanding here."

Elder Li Jiang sneered, "Heh, everyone caught says that."

Qin Zi chuckled awkwardly and said seriously, "At this point, I can’t hide it from you, Senior. Yes, I did kill a disciple of the Li Jiang Sect!"

"But... umph!"

Qin Zi was about to bluff a bit, but before he could finish, the small hole on the water sphere was sealed again.

"It’s good you’ve admitted it. I was worrying about the quota for the Star Prayer Sacred Land, and now I can just send you there, which might seem more fair." Elder Li Jiang laughed.

Then, he turned to the people below and said, "I’m going to the Star Prayer Sacred Land, you all continue fishing, no slacking."

With that, he flew off in a certain direction with his hands behind his back, and the water sphere containing Qin Zi, like a balloon on a string, was pulled along by his energy, following behind.

"A quota? Could it be some great opportunity? Is the Sacred Land accepting disciples?"

Qin Zi speculated in his heart.

However, upon reaching the destination, his face turned black — this was clearly an altar for sacrificing to the heavens!

This altar was ancient, constructed with rough stone blocks, with five or six rough stone pillars standing on top, each covered with colorful symbols resembling ghostly scribbles.

And the surface of the altar was dark red, the color formed by countless dried blood stains, with the scent of blood lingering in the air.

"The Li Jiang Sect offers an enemy of the sect, this person is exceptionally talented, perfect for a sacrifice." Elder Li Jiang said with a smile.

"Hmm, this young man looks extraordinary. Are you sure he has no background?" the crested elder from the Star Prayer Sacred Land asked.

"None!"

Elder Li Jiang said resolutely.

What does it matter if he has any or not?

He’s been caught, can we still offer apologies? As long as the Star Prayer Sacred Land acts quickly, clears it up, who would know?

Besides, it wasn’t him who killed, even if there was a mark of hatred, it would be on the Star Prayer Sacred Land, not touching the Li Jiang Sect.

Could this kid’s family or sect really dare to come to the Star Prayer Sacred Land to demand explanations? Ask for specific reasons?

Absolutely impossible!

The people behind this kid would only grind their teeth in silence, harboring resentment against the Star Prayer Sacred Land, counting this account against them.

He guessed that this kid does have some background, but it shouldn’t be significant, at least not comparable to the Star Prayer Sacred Land.

Otherwise, the first words from that kid when he spoke should not have been "this is a misunderstanding", but rather "I am from such and such sect, such and such family, or my father is someone, my master is someone."

He knows the second generation too well!

No one understands the second generation better than him.

After all, when he was young, before his family was exterminated by the Star Prayer Sacred Land, he was exactly like that...