Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 89: Silence of Annihilation

Again, when no response came, the representative left in the hope that this person would definitely contact them in secret—many had done the same in the past.

Everyone left one by one, making the whole auction hall empty. Jiang Hao and Mei Ling were still seated in their room.

After some time, Mei Lan entered the room and brought a storage bag with her.

She took one of the seats and complained.

"That was tiresome."

"What’s so tiresome? You seemed like you were enjoying it."

"Calling them ’dear guests’ was tiresome."

"You took that role yourself, nobody asked you to do it anyway."

"Fine... here is 4,515,300 spirit stones."

Mei Ling took the storage bag and passed it to Jiang Hao.

He didn’t count it, as counting 4,515,300 without spirit sense was almost impossible in a short time.

Well, he was sure they wouldn’t cheat him of spirit stones.

"Will you be staying here for a while or leaving?"

"I think I should leave now, Senior. Thank you for taking care of everything."

"Well, this auction earned us a lot—not to mention, it even increased our reputation. You don’t have to thank me. Also, don’t worry, we will keep an eye on Blazing Valley. Whenever you return, you will definitely hear some news.

Stay here for at least two hours. After that, you can leave whenever you want."

Jiang Hao nodded.

They all stood up and moved to the front of the pavilion, where he had been living until now.

He went to his room after bidding them farewell to wait for some time.

He wasn’t going back to the Forbidden Zone just yet.

He had planned to destroy the weapon shop of Blazing Valley in this city. If possible, he would check out the shop in the other city too. He had also planned to visit the tiger in the mountains.

He also wanted to take a look at his village.

He sat on his bed, took out the storage bag, and put all the spirit stones inside his ring. freewebnøvel.coɱ

He hesitated a little but didn’t remind Senior Yin Ni not to consume these spirit stones, as they were only of normal grade—she wouldn’t pay much attention to them.

He took out some and started cultivating. He wasn’t going to the shop today, as the elders of Blazing Valley who had arrived for the auction might still be there.

...

At noon the next day, he met Mei Ling again—she had called for him.

"Yesterday, cultivators of Blazing Valley were questioning some people. Looks like their disciples were killed in the Dark Forest.

It was expected that they had found a good spot for grade-three spirit herbs, and others targeted them for it.

It was assumed that they were killed by some big family, but since there were no clues, it wasn’t escalated further."

"Senior, those elders have left?"

"Yes, in the morning they left."

Jiang Hao nodded and left.

He went back to his room and cultivated till night and only stood up at midnight.

He left the pavilion. He wouldn’t be coming back here again for at least this month.

...

The streets weren’t quiet—there were still some people walking around. Jiang Hao reached the shop. It was closed at this hour.

He didn’t really need to enter the shop to do what he wanted to do.

In fact, he could have come here before it was closed, but then his attacks might have killed innocent people. Although he wasn’t really a saint, he wasn’t a devil either.

Those who aren’t truly involved and are completely innocent people are not someone he would kill. Of course, if those innocent people were related to Blazing Valley, then he wouldn’t have minded it.

Of course, if he could avoid killing them, then he would. But if circumstances didn’t allow it, then he wouldn’t even blink before killing them.

It’s like war, in which innocent soldiers die without any crime—their only fault being that they belong to the enemy, simple.

Just like this shop. He didn’t know if those disciples were good or bad. Since he was going to destroy this shop, they would be killed unconditionally.

There was a reason he didn’t ask for the location of Foundation Establishment or lower-realm cultivators from Mei Ling—killing them wouldn’t affect Blazing Valley much. His goal was to cripple them. They would cease to exist the moment their real strength was gone.

Now that the shop was closed, it wouldn’t be possible to enter it without being hidden.

But what he was about to do didn’t require him to enter the shop itself.

"Senior, can you please pinpoint the location of all the cultivators inside?"

"You really think I am a searching tool, huh?"

"Cough... Senior, when I have my own spirit sense, I won’t bother you."

"Then what are you doing here? Go and cultivate."

Jiang Hao didn’t respond. He knew she would pinpoint the location in a while. She was quite bored to miss something like this. He was right about it.

"See that window? The Soul Sea cultivator is sitting beside it, to the right, about three inches away from it.

Others are also on the third floor, seated in various rooms. Well, I doubt you care for the others."

Jiang Hao nodded. He wanted to kill the Soul Sea Realm cultivator first, while the others would definitely die in the aftermath.

Nihility Sphere was a skill he could use as many times as he wanted, as long as he had spirit qi—and he was sure he had enough spirit qi to demolish this whole shop.

There were a few people on the streets, but he didn’t care for them. What he was really alert about was the Void Reversion cultivator hired by the City Lord.

If the commotion grew, he might check this location with his spirit sense, and if he saw what had happened here, then he would definitely come.

The average range of spirit sense for a Void Reversion Realm was 2,500 meters, and the City Lord’s mansion was about 1,000 meters away—so it was within his range.

He created two Nihility Spheres in both of his hands and looked toward the location of the Soul Sea Realm cultivator.

He took a small breath and threw one of them, while throwing the other at the entrance of the shop.

His actions were fast enough, and after throwing, he didn’t stop—he conjured two more spheres before the first ones landed. The moment he made two new spheres and was about to throw them, the first one landed on its mark.

The best part of Nihility Sphere was that it didn’t even let sounds escape—nothingness was the only thing left where it landed.

He didn’t wait for the result and kept throwing Nihility Spheres. Only two or three people had paid attention to him when he threw the first ones.

They thought he was mad to throw stones at the shop of Blazing Valley—he must be tired of living.

But when they saw the result, with big holes appearing, they were stunned to the core—their minds went blank.

Eventually, others also saw what was happening, but by the time they looked, the shop was almost gone.

When Jiang Hao saw that nothing was left, he immediately walked into a narrow alley. The destruction was so quiet that even people standing on the street might not have heard it—much less someone from the City Lord’s mansion.

Nobody followed him—they were still stunned at what had just happened. It was not something they had ever seen.

Jiang Hao, after getting away from the eyes of others, disappeared.

He had teleported to the outskirts of the next city in the Dark Forest.

He cultivated a little to recover his qi, and after that, he entered the city easily. The gates of cities were always open.

He didn’t know where it was, so he walked for a while before finding what he was looking for.

It was bigger than the shop in the previous city—there were four floors, not to mention it was quite close to the Sky Pavilion.

He shook his head inwardly. It was impossible to destroy this one. The two Mid-Stage Heavenly King Realm cultivators must be present in the Sky Pavilion, so taking a risk here was unnecessary.

He left the city quietly. He moved toward his village—it didn’t take him long to reach there. Everything was quiet right now; everyone was sleeping.

He went to his home quietly. The front door was closed, but it was easy to enter since he could fly. He went inside and looked at his mother. She was sleeping peacefully. She seemed fine. He took a breath of relief and left.

He went to the mountains and made his way through the wilderness to the valley with the tiger. He hoped it was still fine.

Given how hidden that valley was, he was sure there was no need to worry about it.

This time, not a single beast attacked him. First, he was moving so fast. Second, there was not a single grade-three beast in these mountains.

He arrived at the cliff and looked toward the valley with the pond. He smiled a little and jumped down, flying easily to reach it.

The first time when he had seen this beast, it was sleeping—and right now, it was still sleeping, without any guard at all.