Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times-Chapter 647 - 227: "You’re Not Planning to Kill Me, Are You?"_4
Chapter 647 -227: “You’re Not Planning to Kill Me, Are You?”_4
Compared to these additional numerous troubles, he felt that the effect of a “Heavenly Dao Beauty” wasn’t so important, especially since back in Da Xia Country, those five “Heavenly Dao Beauties” that could strengthen Magic Practitioners didn’t catch his eye. If he had taken a fancy to them back then, he would have arranged everything in his own hands already and it wouldn’t have been the turn of that so-called Liu Family’s Young Master.
“Return journey!”
…
Chen Qiu and his group boarded the flying boat for the return trip once again.
Standing on the deck of the flying boat, Chen Qiu gazed into the distance, falling into a spell of deep thought. In fact, the speed of this flying boat was quite slow; it was already at full throttle, yet its speed was only equivalent to that of the Void Refining mid-stage.
If they were carried by the Heavenly Axe Sect Master’s golden light, their group would have been much faster.
But that would be… rather embarrassing.
After all, he, Chen Qiu, was widely renowned, the dignified Sect Master of the Chao Tian Sect. To follow someone else’s lead would be undignified, no different from a child being held in one’s arms.
He had the desire to fly on his own, but his cultivation level was obvious, and since he was not proficient in movement techniques, he definitely couldn’t outpace the Heavenly Axe Sect Master.
Although he had once obtained a Yellow Entry “Supreme Body Technique”, the entry effect was that the more Spiritual Energy his Dantian could hold, the faster his movement speed. However, this speed boost did not directly enhance his movement technique but was a general propulsion speed instead.
But once cultivation reached the Void Refining Stage…
The gap in speed between different cultivation levels and movement techniques had grown too vast to be compensated for by this entry.
It was because of all these reasons that they could only resort to this flying boat, which, although not exactly moving at a snail’s pace, indeed couldn’t be said to be fast; it truly was an act of helplessness.
They needed to get a higher-grade, faster flying boat!
Having made up his mind, Chen Qiu arrived in the sky above Duoduo City after a couple of hours. He let the Heavenly Axe Sect Master go and, as he was leaving Duoduo City, he subconsciously glanced towards that “Merit Golden House” in the sky above the city.
However…
It was this subconscious glance that suddenly froze him in his tracks. He saw the Merit Golden House hanging in the high sky in a parallel state to their flying boat, and the wooden door of that house was inexplicably open.
The old crone with whom he had conversed was at that moment hanging dead by a rope from the roof.
Her feet dangled naturally, her body swaying in the wind.
Her eyes, filled with red blood vessels, were staring out blankly from outside the wooden house, meeting his gaze directly. The entire person appeared devoid of any trace of life and was undoubtedly dead.
“…”
For a moment, Chen Qiu felt a chill run down his spine because he truly did not expect the old woman to suddenly die within his own Merit Golden House. After all, during their conversation, the old woman had set up these eighty-one Merit Golden Houses using her own means to achieve immortality.
A death ordained by the Heavenly Dao?
Impossible; if it were because she had leaked heavenly secrets, the Heavenly Dao would not go through such hassle, nor would it involve hanging.
Suicide?
The probability wasn’t very high, mainly because there was no reason. Before he left, the old woman’s condition seemed entirely normal with no problems at all, showing no inclination towards committing suicide.
Especially because… there was absolutely no reason.
Since she was capable of setting up these eighty-one Merit Golden Houses to achieve longevity, and she was waiting for the return of her husband after a million years, not to mention two thousand years had already passed without any signs of a sudden mental breakdown, how could it be suicide?
If the first two possibilities were ruled out, then only the last possibility remained.
Murder.
Only those with nearly a hundred billion in merit points could see this “Merit Golden House,” and on the whole Vast Continent, there were only two people who met this criterion—one was him, and the other was the Xuantian Sect Saintess.
If it wasn’t he who killed the woman, then it could only be that Xuantian Sect Saintess.
The logic was simple, a three-year-old could do it.
The logic may be right, but… how could it be possible?
Chen Qiu’s brows furrowed slightly as he fell into deep thought, looking at the body of the old crone hanging from the ceiling in the Merit Golden House. He remained silent, not speaking. The Xuantian Sect Saintess had very low cultivation, having not even reached Divinity Transformation, just Nascent Soul cultivation.
This was, after all, a Merit Golden House created by a Unification powerhouse. Could it really not have even a hint of a defensive mechanism?
And this old crone could also travel back and forth through the Merit Golden House on her own, couldn’t she?
Moreover, under circumstances where there was no enmity, why would the Xuantian Sect Saintess want to kill this old crone?
Obviously, the Xuantian Sect Saintess was not as she appeared on the surface, there must be some special methods at play, but what was strange was that he hadn’t seen any special entries from the Xuantian Sect Saintess. Ever since he had the “True Eye” that could see through others’ entries, he would basically check the entries of everyone who came close to him.
Therefore, there were only two possibilities: the Xuantian Sect Saintess had even more special methods, or there was some ability to block her entries from being probed by others.
“…”
After being silent for a while, Chen Qiu shifted his gaze from the body of the old crone hanging from the ceiling, turned his head to look at Fat Long, who was controlling the Flying Boat, and said softly, “Back to the Heavenly Palace.”
He was unclear about what exactly had happened, but he had no desire to meddle.
Yet, he couldn’t shake the feeling that there must be some kind of complicated relation of love and hate among the Xuantian Sect Saintess, the old crone, and Liu Sanqian, and the fact that the Xuantian Sect Saintess was involved with two people from thirty thousand years ago clearly meant she was no simple character.
His interactions with the Xuantian Sect Saintess were not many, and he did not know her well.
He only knew that she had established the Heavenly Repairing Technique a hundred years ago on the Xuantian Continent, earning nearly a hundred billion points of merit, and then opted to travel to the Vast Continent, joining “Heavenly Hall.”
That was about it.
He had one good habit.
That was to stay out of other people’s business. This issue, no matter how you looked at it, had nothing to do with him, and he wasn’t so close to the old crone that he felt compelled to avenge her death. It was best just to let this matter pass.
The old crone was dead.
He would just focus on his cultivation.
…
Just as the Flying Boat disappeared into the horizon, the wooden door of the Merit Golden House creaked in the air, and a girl holding a dagger stepped out calmly from behind the door.
Standing at the entrance of the Merit Golden House, she looked in the direction where the Flying Boat had vanished.
This girl was precisely the Xuantian Sect Saintess; the dagger in her hand was dripping with thick blood, but the rhythm was not fast.
Perhaps not even the Xuantian Sect had expected that their Saintess, who seemed rather unsaintly, only fulfilled the character for “female.”
Just then—
The sky above the Merit Golden House suddenly became shrouded with layers of dark clouds, and a storm surged between heaven and earth. Before the Xuantian Sect Saintess could react, she found Chen Qiu, unbeknownst to her when, had already opened the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella and was standing at the entrance of the Merit Golden House, staring straight at her.
…
“I forgot to mention something to you just now,” Chen Qiu said amid the storm, holding the Heavenly Mechanism Umbrella aloft in the sky, his robe fluttering fiercely in the wind, looking seriously at the Xuantian Sect Saintess standing at the entrance of the Merit Golden House, holding the dagger, and said softly.
“The Liu Family from Handsome City is protected by the Chao Tian Sect. I hope you have no designs on them,” he continued.
“Otherwise, if you blatantly slap me in the face like this, no matter what stories you three have among yourselves—”
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“At least… there’d be a new story between us two.”
“I’m quite concerned about face, you see. If outsiders found out that right after the Chao Tian Sect started protecting someone, they got their entire family slaughtered, it wouldn’t look good for me.”
“And besides—”
Chen Qiu’s gaze dropped slightly, resting for a moment on the dagger in the Xuantian Sect Saintess’s hand, still dripping with blood, before he calmly said, “Holding a small dagger behind the door of the Merit Golden House, you’re not thinking of killing me, are you?”
“Little brat?”
