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For the two days after returning to Qingyang City, Shen Zhao stayed in the blacksmith's workshop in the backyard.
The dragon scale fragments obtained from the Fuxi Abyss are treasures for forging divine weapons. In response to the call for energy conservation and emission reduction, Shen Zhao naturally chose to make use of them.
During this period, the Nanming Fire has successfully merged with itself, and with the help of the abundant spiritual energy within its body, it can fully unleash the maximum potential of the Nanming Fire Seed.
The azure flames burning inside the furnace successfully glued the dragon scales together, gradually forming a suit of armor.
"Bang!"
As the final, powerful hammer strike, imbued with boundless Daoist energy, fell, the soft armor before them instantly emitted a dazzling golden light.
"What a pity..." Shen Zhao shook his head and sighed, "That five-clawed golden dragon in the Fuxi Abyss was merely a remnant soul, less than a tenth of its full strength."
Otherwise, the quality of this scale armor would definitely be a level higher, but it's still passable. Below the peak of the Supreme Realm, this armor is indestructible.
After putting away the soft armor, Shen Zhao forged the remaining dragon scales into a long sword.
Another day passed, and once everything was completed, Shen Zhao finally stepped out of the fiery workshop.
Just as I was about to head to the fighting arena, an uninvited guest arrived—Lu Chen.
Upon seeing Shen Zhao, Lu Chen immediately stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Brother Shen, you're finally back."
Seeing the faint worry on Lu Chen's face, as if something was wrong, she asked, "Is something the matter?"
Lu Chen nodded: "Recently, many mutilated corpses have been discovered in our Qingyun Sect and outside Qingyang City. My father and master have ordered us to thoroughly investigate this matter."
"What does this have to do with me?" Shen Zhao shrugged. "Young Master Lu doesn't think I did this, does he?"
Lu Chen hurriedly said, "Brother Shen, you flatter us. We know you didn't do this. We just want to ask you to help us find out who the mastermind is."
Shen Zhao thought for a moment and then asked, "So what did you discover?"
Lu Chen: "I would like to ask Brother Shen to make a trip to the City Lord's Mansion."
After considering it for a moment, Shen Zhao agreed to go to the City Lord's Mansion with Lu Chen.
Inside the city lord's mansion, Lu Zhantian and several Qingyun Sect disciples frowned as they looked at the dozens of corpses covered with white sheets lying in the front yard.
When Shen Zhao arrived, Lu Zhantian immediately greeted him warmly: "Young Master Shen, you've finally arrived."
Shen Zhao had no time for pleasantries and cut straight to the point: "Enough talk, let me see the body first."
"please."
As soon as the white cloth was lifted, Shen Zhao's pupils contracted, and several servants of the Lu family behind him immediately hid to the side and began to vomit.
The corpses were unrecognizable, especially their faces, which looked as if they had been peeled off with extremely cruel methods, making one want to vomit.
Lu Zhantian sighed: "These are only some of the corpses. Recently, many people in Qingyang City have reported that many men have gone missing from their homes. After investigation, there are more than 300 similar cases. The preliminary conclusion is that it was done by a certain evil cultivator."
After carefully examining the corpses, Shen Zhao stood up, wiped his hands covered in dust, and said, "Lord Lu is right. These people all died at the hands of the same person."
First, he struck someone with a palm strike, then slit their throat with a sword, killing them instantly. Finally, he drained their life force; his methods were extremely cruel. I wonder if there have been any living people in Qingyang City recently?
Lu Zhantian immediately took out a logbook: "The records of people coming and going in the past two months are all in here, and no suspicious people have been found."
Shen Zhao: "It seems that the murderer is not in Qingyang City. Judging from the appearance of the dead, if my judgment is not wrong, they were all afflicted by a set of evil arts from the Netherworld before they died, the Corpse Blood Palm."
"Netherworld?"
"Corpse Blood Palm?!"
Lu Zhantian and Lu Chen exclaimed in almost unison.
Shen Zhao: "There's no mistake. Lord Lu should be familiar with the aura of the Netherworld, and this Corpse Blood Palm is cultivated by absorbing the blood and qi of countless living people."
Once the Corpse Blood Palm is mastered, even a Body Tempering Realm cultivator can easily kill a Qi Condensation Realm expert, which seems to make this case a bit tricky.
As Shen Zhao said this, he had already roughly figured out who the mastermind was.
Lin Feng deceived everyone in his past life, but the secrets he hid from her were as transparent as if they were transparent.
That's right, the Corpse Blood Palm is one of the Nine Netherworld Evil Techniques that Lin Feng cultivates. This technique is enough for him to survive in a world where the strong prey on the weak.
The emergence of the Corpse Blood Palm indicates that Lin Feng has also appeared, and is even near Qingyang City, but finding him may be a bit troublesome.
Lu Zhantian and Lu Chen also looked somewhat embarrassed, because they knew how terrifying Jiu You's strength was, something the current Lu family could not contend with.
Now that the evil energy of the Nine Netherworlds has swept across the land once again, who is it targeting?
"By the way, Young Master Lu, isn't your Qingyun Sect recruiting new disciples? Have any newcomers come to visit recently?"
Upon Shen Zhao's question, Lu Chen immediately replied with a stern face: "Several exceptionally talented youths have been accepted into the sect, especially Lin Feng, who was directly accepted as a personal disciple by the sect leader as soon as he entered."
The words were full of sourness, because the Qingyun Sect Master, Master Zisong, had announced a thousand years ago that he would no longer accept disciples, but from the moment he saw Lin Feng, he was willing to make an exception for him.
This made Lu Chen, who always thought highly of himself, feel very uncomfortable, and he made no attempt to hide his dislike for Lin Feng.
Besides, another thing that made Lu Chen dislike Lin Feng was that since Lin Feng's arrival, he had become the focus of attention for all the disciples of the Qingyun Sect, replacing him. Even his younger sister, Lu Xuanji, started to blush and her heart raced. In the past few days, the topics of conversation were no longer about cultivation methods, but about Lin Feng.
For example: "Brother, do you know? Junior Brother Lin's talent is amazing. He has already reached the fifth level of Body Tempering in just half a day. I heard from the sect leader that Junior Brother Lin's talent is the number one in the Qingyun Sect in thousands of years."
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