CHAPTER 694: CHAPTER 694: CERTAIN DEATH

"I told you to wait because I wanted to tell you that I don’t ask for your name because it’s irrelevant; you’re doomed to die. And you not asking for my name is truly foolish."

Qin Yi spoke softly, facing the thrusting sword with a calm smile. Then his hand turned into a lustrous purple and gold, swiftly extending two fingers to precisely catch the sword tip just three centimeters from his throat.

The sword qi on the sword was directly shattered by the spreading purple light unleashed by Qin Yi.

The opponent was stunned, his face changed dramatically, frantically urging his cultivation, yet the longsword wouldn’t budge an inch.

Qin Yi slightly curled the corner of his mouth, a brilliant purple and gold light burst from his palm, and his two fingers shook.

Boom!

The chilling longsword instantly exploded, turning into more than a dozen shards.

Qin Yi raised his hand with a light wave, and those fragments of the broken sword shot out explosively.

Thud, thud...!

The protective gang qi on the opponent’s body was directly torn apart by more than a dozen fragments of the broken sword, which pierced through, leaving more than a dozen bloody holes on his body.

His eyes, narrow as slits, widened in shock, full of disbelief, as if he couldn’t believe he died just like that, his body collapsed with a loud crash.

The two other young men were dumbfounded, their faces full of disbelief, their eyes filled with terror.

Not to mention them, even Zi Yuan and the three women were frightened, their pretty faces drained of color.

Instant kill.

Qin Yi was too strong, strong without limits.

Qin Yi bent down and searched through the opponent’s body, suddenly becoming furious: "All this time, you were just a follower, without even a Secret Realm Holy Order, wasting so much of my time."

However, Qin Yi still managed to retrieve some healing holy medicine and more than a dozen red sapphires from the opponent’s body.

"Are these gemstones?" Zi Yuan blurted out.

These red sapphires shimmered brilliantly in the sunlight, appearing so attractive, women had no resistance to them.

"Yes, I mentioned something inside that would make me happy, it’s because I could find gemstones here, what did you think?"

The three women paused, their pretty faces suddenly flushed red, embarrassed, they realized they had misunderstood, thinking Qin Yi wanted to do something inappropriate to them.

Qin Yi playfully glanced at them, then turned his gaze to the two people opposite.

The two men were filled with fear and horror.

Qin Yi effortlessly killed their companion in an instant, knowing their cultivation was on par, which meant Qin Yi could just as easily kill them; the thought made their hearts, livers, spleens, lungs, and kidneys tremble in fear.

"Which family are you from exactly? Our Five Great Families are interconnected, are you not afraid of being punished if you act like this?" One of the youths shouted with a shaky voice.

The other one trembled and said, "Let me tell you, I am from the Fang Family, Fang Ran knows I am here. He will come to find me soon, and if you dare to harm me, Fang Ran won’t spare you lightly."

Qin Yi’s eyes turned slightly cold, "Threatening me is a very foolish action; you geniuses of the Five Great Families are truly unbelievably obtuse. In other words, if I were you, I’d kneel and beg for mercy now, perhaps you could still keep your lives."

Zi Yuan and the three women sighed softly, knowing that threatening Qin Yi with Fang Ran was useless. Even Fang Ran himself had been beaten by Qin Yi into surrendering the Secret Realm Holy Order and fleeing in panic. Even if what this person said was true, what could Fang Ran do to Qin Yi?

As disciples of the Five Great Families, they were once proud, seeing it as an honor.

However, now, Qin Yi brutally slapped them all, using power to tell them the Five Great Families were a joke.

Those who entered the secret realm this time were the elite among the younger generation of the Five Great Families, yet none were a match for Qin Yi.

Qin Yi smiled faintly, his figure flickered and vanished from the spot, reappearing directly before the two men opposite.

The two were so frightened their faces turned pale, their eyes dull.

Thud!

One of them was so scared that he knees gave way and he knelt down; the scene of Qin Yi instantly killing their companion replayed in his mind, lingering, too terrifying, killing a Nascent Soul Realm late-stage expert as easily as killing a chicken.

Seeing this, the other one dared not be a hero, hastily kneeling down.

"Spare us, I’ll give you everything I have."

"Please, spare us, we won’t tell anyone about your killing Lei Mu, no one will know it was you."

"Please, spare us."

The two kowtowed like pounding garlic, begging tremblingly for mercy.

This scene made Zi Yuan and the three women frown lightly; as Qi Refiners and members of the Five Great Families, facing death without any backbone was disgraceful.

Qin Yi was silent for a long time, then slowly spoke: "For the sake of the world’s people, you must die. As the future of the Five Great Families, please forgive me for not being merciful."

With those words, he raised his hand, and two sharp purple blades slashed out.

"Spare..."

The two wanted to beg for mercy, but the sharp purple blades directly pierced through their backs, exiting their chests, shattering their hearts.

Qin Yi plundered everything from the two men’s bodies.

"Let’s go, and collect the gemstones."

The three women silently followed behind Qin Yi.

"Do you think I’m too ruthless?" Qin Yi asked flatly without turning his head.

The three women exchanged glances, unsure of how to respond, for after all, the person before them was Qin Yi; one careless word, who knew if Qin Yi might kill them.

"To tell you the truth, I had some hesitation when I killed those two just now. Because I’ve never killed an innocent person, I don’t know if those two have committed any heinous deeds. But then I thought again, could people from the Five Great Families not have done bad things? Even if I randomly picked and killed ten, not one would be unjustly executed."

The three women twitched at the corners of their mouths.

"We’ve never done bad things." Hua Rui whispered.

Qin Yi sneered, "You intruded into the Tianqian, seized resources, mercilessly killed the innocent, and still dare say you’ve never done bad things?"

"If it weren’t for my presence yesterday, would the villagers in the village have been massacred by you?"

The three women became silent as cicadas in winter, daring not say another word.

Qin Yi said indifferently, "I’m telling you, sparing your lives is entirely because your Junior Sister Bai is my friend’s woman; otherwise, you would have already reported to King Yan."

"However, though you may avoid the death penalty, you’ll face punishment: all the gemstones we find inside are mine, consider it your penalty."

The three women: "..."

Shameless, after all that talk, it’s just for the gemstones.

But they dared not speak up in anger, feeling wronged. The outstanding representatives of Baihua Pavilion’s younger generation were bullied to the point of tears before Qin Yi.

Qin Yi walked, then suddenly stopped again, his face turning extremely grim, his eyes filled with a strong killing intent.

The three women instinctively followed Qin Yi’s line of sight and froze, their pretty faces turned cold.

On a rock about twenty meters away, there was a naked corpse of a young woman, her body in a strange position, covered in wounds, her eyes wide open in anger, clearly unable to die in peace, obviously having suffered inhuman torture before death. From the shredded white clothes beside her, she was a disciple of Baihua Pavilion.