The legacy of the old demon Shenhua is too powerful for the cultivators in the Tianlan Sea.
Even though they knew that the condition for breaking the seal was seven elixirs, and even though they knew that Shenhua Mountain was very dangerous, every time a Shenhua incident occurred, thousands of cultivators would still come here.
These independent cultivators in the Tianlan Sea have not given up their desire for opportunities in Shenhua Mountain, and the big forces in the Tianlan Sea have not given up either.
In other words, it is precisely because the big forces have not given up that the independent cultivators will remember the inheritance of Tianlan Sea and Shenhua Mountain again and again.
Their conspiracies and calculations, whether overt or covert, have lasted for hundreds, thousands, or even longer, all for the inheritance of Shenhua Mountain.
So what arrangements did the owner of Dragon Whale Island make?
How can he break the seal that was placed on him by the old demon Shenhua, a man who is infinitely close to being an immortal?
Kieran pondered this matter as he watched the black-robed monks disappear into the darkness with their knives in hand.
What is hidden in that formation? What are these black-robed monks going to do?
Qin Ran closed his eyes and felt that the mark of his soul that he left on Tie Ruonan's map was still very clear. Without hesitation, he followed the direction of the mark.
The soul mark went down along the Shenhua Mountain at a very fast speed. It can be seen that Tie Ruonan was in a state of galloping. This state of galloping lasted for a while, and suddenly stopped without any signs and began to shake in place. It can be seen that Tie Ruonan stopped halfway up the Shenhua Mountain.
Qin Ran slightly increased his speed and flew towards the direction where Tie Ruonan stopped.
When they were still quite far away from that place, a sea breeze suddenly blew up from the bottom of the mountain. Qin Ran smelled the fishy smell of the sea and blood in the wind.
"Oh! As expected..." Qin Ran was not surprised at all when he smelled the blood.
When he saw the murderous look on the team of men in black just now, he actually knew what they were going to do at night.
It’s a dark and windy night for murder!
kill!
"What's the purpose of killing?" Qin Ran pondered as he used the "Flowing Years" skill to hide himself in the air and continued to move in the direction of the bloody smell. "Does the arrangement of the Dragon Whale Island owner require a corpse? Is it a corpse, or a dead soul? Or blood?
"But once a cultivator dies, the spiritual energy in the Dantian will automatically dissipate? A cultivator whose spiritual energy has dissipated is not much different from the corpse of an ordinary person. Why do you specifically lure in cultivators to kill them?"
As he thought about it, he suddenly realized that there was a kind of cultivator in the Tianhai area whose spiritual energy was not stored in the Dantian, but in the body and muscles! Even if he died, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would be locked in the flesh... unless the flesh also decayed.
That is... the body cultivator!
"Could it be that they only kill those who practice body cultivation?" He continued to analyze and walked on. "Are they using the bodies of the cultivators for sacrifice? Or is it a formation? Or a magic weapon? Or some strange spell or magical power?"
As he was thinking, he had already gotten closer and was crouching on the top of a tall tree. He saw that a fierce battle was still going on in the darkness ahead.
And just as he analyzed, it was indeed a battle between body cultivators.
Tie Ruonan was the only one holding a sword, engaging in close combat with three monks, some holding swords and some unarmed.
Qin Ran looked down, and even though he used the pupil technique, he could still only see that the person in black clothes and holding a knife was Tie Ruonan, but he couldn't see her specific appearance and figure clearly.
"Did he use any means to conceal his identity?" He nodded secretly, "That makes sense."
Tie Ruonan was indeed very powerful. Even though it was a one-on-three situation, she was not at a disadvantage at all.
Not only that, Qin Ran clearly saw two corpses lying on the ground, both with knife wounds. They were monks who had been hacked to death by Tie Ruonan.
There were three others with broken limbs, probably Qigong practitioners, lying on the ground groaning, with no fighting power at all.
The wounds on these people were all on their backs, so it was conceivable that Tie Ruonan started with a sneak attack. She first attacked quickly, killing two body cultivators, then got close to them in an instant, crippling three of the Qi cultivators, and finally, she fought head-on with the three living body cultivators.
There was actually a gap in strength between the two sides in the battle. After a short close combat, the three body cultivators were hacked to death by Tie Ruonan.
Qin Ran was squatting on a treetop far away. Seeing Tie Ruonan being so cruel and thinking about how this woman had seduced him many times, he felt a chill in his heart.
After the battle was over, Tie Ruonan treated his own wounds, then tied up the living but disabled Qigong practitioner, and then tied up the dead practitioner as well.
Then she returned along the same route, carrying three living Qigong practitioners in one hand and dragging five dead body cultivators in the other.
Qin Ran looked at it, suppressed the chill in his heart, and returned to his usual calm state, continuing to think:
It seems to be similar to what he thought before. Body cultivators only need corpses, because all their cultivation is in the physical body; but Qi cultivators need living ones, because a dead Qi cultivator is not much different from an ordinary person.
...This does not mean that Qigong practitioners are better than body cultivators, because it is still unknown how they will be treated after being taken back.
Qin Ran followed Tie Ruonan back to the formation from a distance. He could see that other black-robed monks whose faces could not be seen clearly had returned. However, the prey they went out with this time were only one or two, which was far less exaggerated than Tie Ruonan's.
They gathered outside the formation, all in silence. They had a strange tacit understanding, and it was obvious that they had done this many times before.
After waiting for a while, everyone who had gone out came back. Tie Ruonan counted the number of people, and after confirming that everything was correct, they all disappeared into the formation together.
“Killing people so openly…” Qin Ran continued to analyze, “After so many years, didn’t anyone notice anything unusual?
"Logically, with so many people killed at once, everyone would know that there is something wrong around here. In addition, other forces may also be killing secretly, so who knows how many people will die in a Shenhuashan incident. However, it seems that no one in the entire Tianlan Sea area has noticed anything wrong."
He rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that he didn't quite understand the current situation.
Could it be that because a lot of people die every time, and as more people die, it is considered a normal situation?
Qin Ran waited for a while, but did not see Tie Ruonan and others come out again.
"Only once a night?"
He understood a little bit. If he only killed a few or a dozen people every night, then among the tens of thousands of people in the entire Shenhua Mountain, it would not seem so conspicuous. In addition, the time for action should be as short as possible...
As expected, Qin Ran waited outside the formation for a whole night, but Tie Ruonan and others did not take any action again.
It was not until the next day, when the day had passed and night had fallen again, that the black team appeared again.
Qin Ran hid here and waited for a day and a night. Seeing them disperse in the darkness with skillful movements, he no longer followed Tie Ruonan, but randomly chose a black-robed monk, followed him, and followed them.
This brother was probably a second-grade body cultivator. He was sneaking in the darkness with a knife in hand and did not notice any trace of Qin Ran.
He was walking along the road on the mountain. After walking for a while, he saw a blazing bonfire on a huge rock on the edge of the cliff in the distance. There were five monks, some male and some female, gathered around the bonfire.
Seeing this, he did not hesitate at all, holding the knife... turned around and took a detour, avoiding the five people from a distance, and continued walking up the mountain from the forest.
After walking for a while, he finally found his target: a body cultivator who was resting on a tree with a sword in his arms.
He remained calm, quietly approached with a knife in hand, walked to the tree, suddenly jumped up, and slashed the monk on the tree with a flash of the knife.
Few people could sense this sudden attack in the dark.
Who would have thought...
"Waiting for you!"
The monk on the tree reacted, or rather, he was prepared. He opened his eyes with a swish, and the sword in his arms was instantly unsheathed. The sword light split the darkness, and the sword energy could be faintly seen. With a "clang", the sword light split the knife light of the black-robed monk.
The sword-wielding monk did not stop at all. He chopped the black-robed monk's middle door wide open and then stabbed him in the chest with the sword.
“You night walkers are becoming more and more arrogant. You even dare to attack me?!” The sword-wielding monk snorted coldly into Qin Ran’s ears.
He was watching the fight not far away, and saw the black-robed monk narrowly avoid the sword of the sword-wielding monk, and then turned his sword around and fought hard with the sword-wielding monk.
The sound of swords clashing rang out in the darkness, and countless sparks could be seen flying.
Although the sword-wielding man was very powerful and had almost touched the edge of sword energy, the black-clothed knife-wielding monk was sent by the Lord of Dragon Whale Island to do such a thing, so his strength was obviously not weak... The most important thing was that he had been killing people for a long time, and his fighting style was bloody and death-seeking.
So when the two of them fought, there was a fierce stalemate for a while.
“Night Walkers?” Qin Ran thought about what the group of black-clothed men had done and felt that it was appropriate. “It turns out that the monks of Shenhua Mountain knew about this kind of secret hunting of monks and even gave it a special name.
"This Night Walker has run into a tough guy. I wonder how he will handle it."
The close combat between the equally powerful body cultivators, with swords clashing, was extremely dangerous. In addition, it was in the dark, and the blades were cold, which made it even more dangerous.
In the darkness, the sound of swords clashing became faster and faster, like a thousand drums beating at the same time, which made Qin Ran's scalp numb. Blood splattered again, and the blood was cut to this side by the sword light and sword energy, making his face feel wet.
At this thrilling moment, when the two seemed to be about to decide the winner, a fire suddenly shone from the other side of the forest. There was a noise again, and monks holding torches were jumping up and down on the trees over there, rushing towards this side.
Qin Ran turned around hastily and realized that it was the five people who were on the boulder just now. They noticed the fight here and ran over to watch the fun.
He looked at the two fighting parties again, and they were still fighting fiercely. He used the pupil technique "Illusionary World" to see that both of them had many wounds on their bodies, and the wounds were bleeding and deep enough to see the bones.
“Night Walker, how would you deal with this situation?” Qin Ran opened and clenched his right hand, and a water bead appeared in it.
The water droplets condensed water vapor, extended to both ends, and slowly turned into a sword.
Both sides of the battle also saw the few people rushing over here, so in an instant, the blood in the Night Walker's body suddenly erupted, and his combat power instantly increased by more than 70%. Every strike of his sword was fatal, and every move he made was harmful. He fought with the sword-wielding man in a purely life-threatening manner.
“Pills?” Qin Ran could tell that Night Walker must have had pills in his mouth in advance to deal with such unexpected situations. And his pills must be the kind that only enhance combat power, regardless of the damage to the body.
Either live or die!
However, the man with the sword did have some strength. Even if the Night Walker was 70% stronger, he still couldn't take him down in a short period of time.
Qin Ran turned around and saw the torches getting closer...
"I can't wait any longer!" he whispered.
Feixian asked!
He flashed and instantly came behind the Night Walker. While the Night Walker was fighting fiercely with the sword-wielding man and had no time to defend himself, he cut off his head with a sword.
The pressure of the sword-wielding man on the verge of death suddenly disappeared. He opened his eyes and saw the swordsman who suddenly appeared and killed the Night Walker. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He was saved and survived.
He hurriedly said, "Thank you! Thank you for saving my life."
Qin Ran smiled at him and replied, "You're welcome!"
Then he raised his hand and slashed the sword at the head of the man holding the sword.
The man with the sword was startled and quickly defended himself with the sword in his hand. He spun the sword in his hand and cut off Qin Ran's sneak attack.
However, he had just fought a desperate battle and was already at the end of his strength. He suddenly relaxed, so this sword was his "last ripple".
Qin Ran suddenly flashed, and the broken sword was reborn, piercing the heart of the man holding the sword.
The sword-wielding man lost his strength instantly. He looked at Qin Ran in confusion, wondering why he wanted to kill him.
Qin Ran would not give him an explanation. To be on the safe side, he cut off the sword-wielding man's sword hand and then casually inserted the sword in his hand into the sword-wielding man's brain.
He looked back at this time and saw that the Stone Squad was quite close to this side.
The sword that had been inserted into the sword-wielding man’s brain melted and turned into water, then changed back into the form of a bead and jumped back into Kieran’s body.
Then Qin Ran picked up the two corpses, one in each hand, and performed the Flying Fairy Technique. After a few flashes, they disappeared in the swaying shade of the trees.
From a distance, he could vaguely hear someone say, "That seems to be the young master of Evil Shark Island..."
"Young Island Master?" He understood immediately, "No wonder he has such fighting power and no wonder he knows that Night Walker is called Night Walker. His death is not unjust."
After running quite far, Qin Ran stopped. He searched the Night Walker's body and found nothing except an identity token with the word "Giant Whale" printed on it.
He thought about it, took off the clothes and put them on himself. Then he found that the clothes were a magic weapon that could conceal his body.
He then took the Night Walker's knife and used the "Water Without Mutual Creation" technique to suck all the water out of the Night Walker's body, turning it into bones, and then smashed it into pieces with the knife.
"I should have some corpse powder. It's very inconvenient to deal with corpses."
As he thought about it, he carried the body of the sword-wielding man and transformed himself into a night walker. His body also changed into corresponding wounds according to the shape of the injured clothes. Then, he stretched out his body and rushed to the formation site.
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