Yishan Island.

A spiritual ship rose into the air and flew towards the north.

On the spirit ship, Shen Lian stood with his hands behind his back, looking out the window at the gradually shrinking Yishan Island.

After killing three demon cultivators outside Qianwang Island, he intercepted partial memories of two of them.

Let’s not even mention that devil cultivator whose brain was full of tricks. His death was not unjust, and killing him was considered an easy punishment.

This guy... his storage bracelet doesn't contain resources, it contains... bulls...

Damn.

The memories of another demon cultivator at the seventh level of foundation building named Xiang Jingying helped him dig out some information.

So, after he traveled all the way from Qianwang Island to Yishan Island, he chose a spirit boat that had departed the nearest time and prepared to travel farther.

As for the spoils of war from the three foundation-building demon cultivators...

The guy who was killed by his divine power had a cow collecting habit, which made him sick.

The three of them dug out a total of five second-tier magic weapons, except for a small shield that Shen Lian owned that looked pretty good and not stained with much blood.

The remaining three items all had a strong smell of blood. They were the three people's natal magic weapons, which sank into the sea while he was on his way.

Several bottles of pills were dug out. The pills were pitch black and filled with blood, and they also sank into the sea.

After clearing away all kinds of garbage, the three people's spoils were left with seventeen pieces of second-level ores, nine second-level spiritual medicines, and one of them was the golden ginseng, an auxiliary medicine for the foundation-building pill.

There are also more than a dozen jade boxes containing spiritual insects, and the highest-grade one is a second-grade spiritual insect, the Golden Sword Ancient Caterpillar.

It's just that his breath is a little weak, he must have been seriously injured.

This spiritual insect feeds on gold and stone. It can refine gold essence to help nourish sword energy and is highly sought after by sword practitioners.

If this insect were intact, it could be auctioned in an immortal city with many sword cultivators, and it would easily fetch hundreds of thousands of spirit stones.

In addition, the three of them had a total of more than 36,000 spirit stones, which was equivalent to the Xu family's income for several years.

These spirit stones were obtained by them through a no-cost business.

Unlike Shen Lian who kept the smuggled goods in his hands, they would sell the smuggled goods every once in a while and exchange them for cultivation resources.

Xiang Jingying and the other two were disciples of the Black Cliff Sect's ancestor, Heiya. They made a special trip to Qianwang Island to block the Xuanhai Sect's cultivators and snatch the Blood Soul Orbs condensed from the flesh and blood of mortals.

The Black Cliff Sect can be considered an underground sect.

This sect only has a name, but no sect headquarters.

The founder of the sect, Patriarch Heiya, was a demon cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core Realm, and had been wandering around the Wanxing Sea for a long time.

Because of its keenness in causing trouble for the major sects, the entire Black Cliff Sect was severely cracked down by the major sects and families in the Wanxinghai.

But Patriarch Heiya was a man of great talent. He knew that what he did would attract hatred, so he raised the flag of the sect and did not even set up a sect headquarters, but fought guerrilla warfare everywhere.

He also had his own unique approach to recruiting disciples. He did not accept geniuses, but only those cultivators who were at the ninth level of Qi training and had no hope of building a foundation.

Priority will be given to those who think they are talented but not appreciated, who lack opportunities, who are discriminated against, who have twisted minds, who have evil intentions, who are good at stirring up trouble... and so on.

They were given magic cultivation methods, such as dual cultivation of essence and blood, poisonous insect magic, blood magic and other unconventional methods.

Many disciples have never even seen his face, and even if they have seen it, it may not be his true face.

As for the issue of loyalty, what loyalty do magic cultivators need? The Black Cliff Patriarch only believes in the Black Cliff Heart magic he has cast, and the lives of his disciples are all in his hands.

He didn't care about the life or death of his disciples, since there were so many cultivators stuck at the ninth level of Qi training.

From independent cultivators to frustrated disciples within the sect, Patriarch Heiya's disciples are spread across the Ten Thousand Stars Sea.

Within the sect, if you shout out to Ancestor Heiya that he will enjoy eternal bliss, you are sure to run into a fellow disciple. Of course, whether or not you will recognize each other is another matter.

This made Wan Xinghai's sect and family forces wish to grind this old guy to ashes.

Because he cast a wide net, although the Black Cliff Patriarch has only been in power for a short time, he has many talented people under his command.

Some monks with twisted minds and abnormal shapes have made rapid progress in their cultivation under the stimulation of magic power. There are more than twenty known disciples in the foundation-building stage.

Of course, most of these twenty or so famous ones are all famous.

There's nothing I can do, it's too wasteful.

By constantly reading Xiang Jingying's memories, Shen Lian also discovered that the Black Cliff Patriarch didn't care about the life or death of his disciples in the past. He just gave them some tasks to do every once in a while.

This time, snatching the Xuanhai Sect's Blood Soul Orb was a task assigned by the Heiya Patriarch.

The three of them had completed many missions under the arrangement of the Black Cliff Patriarch and were more familiar with each other than other members of the Black Cliff Sect.

Therefore, the ultimate achievement of working together and going to hell together was successfully achieved.

"Blood Soul Orb."

Shen Lian was a little unable to understand. In the eyes of cultivators, mortals were like ants. Even if the blood soul beads were condensed from the flesh and blood of millions of mortals, they should not be of much use to cultivators.

Xuanhai Sect, the leader of the Wanxinghai righteous sect, instigated mortals to go to war, resulting in the deaths of millions. The essence of what he did is no different from what the evil cultivators did.

Unfortunately, there were no subsequent memories from Xiang Jingying's memory. There was only the memory of the three of them receiving the mission, and there was not even any arrangement on what to do after snatching the Blood Soul Orb.

This shows how cautious the old demon Heiya is. He can still survive under the siege of so many sects. He is quite capable.

"It's too difficult. I've offended another Jindan."

These three guys had been wandering around outside Qianwang Island for several months. As soon as he came out, they mistook him for a member of the Xuanhai Sect.

I think that the soul thought that emerged when Xiang Jingying died was the control method reserved by the Heiya Patriarch.

The world of cultivating immortals has developed over the years, especially the sects and families, which have inherited many methods of marking after death.

You can mark the enemy who killed your disciples through blood or other methods.

The black circle of evil energy is one of those ways.

Although he had burned off the black circle of demonic energy and eliminated the black energy that had infiltrated his body, Shen Lian did not take it lightly.

Fortunately, most of these marking methods are time-limited and have limited range. As long as the time is long enough and the run is far enough, they can be completely avoided.

Xiang Jingying's memory also mentioned that the disciples of Patriarch Heiya were in various major sects in Wanxinghai, and were always at the top of the bounty lists of various sects.

Whoever kills the disciple of the Black Cliff Patriarch can obtain the spirit stone once confirmed.

As a seventh-level foundation-building cultivator, Xiang Jingying was ranked nineteenth on the bounty list set up by Xuanhai Sect, with a value of fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones.

The combined bounty of the three brothers amounted to 110,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Shen Lian sighed. It was useless as he couldn't go to claim the reward.

The second level of foundation building killed the seventh level of foundation building, and with two third level and second level foundation building, his combat power is quite high.

It would not be worth it if we were targeted by the Black Cliff Ancestor.

Why do the Jindan and Yuanying ancestors in the world of immortal cultivation like to use tricks and use people as pawns?

At this point, the value of the black goods in Shen Lian's hands has risen to 600,000 low-grade spirit stones.

"I'm afraid a jade talisman can't scare a golden elixir."

With a soft sigh, he withdrew his gaze from into the distance and sat cross-legged on the mat.

It seems we need to speed up.

After sitting cross-legged, Shen Lian focused his mind and checked every part of his body again, using fire spiritual power to sweep through his entire body.

After checking his body again to find that there was nothing wrong, he immersed his mind into the storage ring and once again checked the spoils he had obtained from the battle.

The appearance of the mark of the Black Cliff Ancestor also served as a reminder to him that he would have to make arrangements for killing people, crushing their bones and scattering their ashes, and for the salvation of their souls in the future.

Otherwise, leaving a tail behind will make it easy for people to be targeted.

…

On Yishan Island, a figure wearing a blue robe, with a hint of majesty between his brows, was shuttling back and forth across the island.

"How could there not be one?"

A bean-sized insect, flapping its semi-translucent wings, hovered around the figure.

"Let the blood guide you, and the demon spirit show you the way."

Qi Chengzan became ruthless. He bit his finger, then retreated into his robes and performed a series of magic spells.

Strands of blood flew out and merged into the bean-sized flying insects.

With the blessing of blood spiritual power, the flying insect made a buzzing sound and turned into a stream of light and rushed out.

But not long after, it flew back like a headless fly.

Qi Chengzan tried it several times in a row, but finally gave up.

"Master's Blood Demon Trace Technique can sense it even from thousands of miles away. How could it be gone? Could it be blocked by some secret technique?"

Qi Chengzan lowered his head and thought. His mission was to follow Xiang Jingying and the other two.

If three people obtained the Blood Soul Orb, he would appear and hand it over to them.

In order not to be noticed, he deliberately kept a distance.

But he didn't expect that these three guys were killed by someone, and he only found the fighting scene with residual demonic energy.

His mission target was gone, and the only way to report to Master Heiya was to capture the cultivator who killed the three people.

He chased all the way to Yushan Island, and on the way he followed the aura and picked up magical tools and elixirs from the sunken sea, which further confirmed that this person had come to Yushan Island.

Qi Chengzan felt that the cultivator who killed Xiang Jingying and the other two had probably used other methods to temporarily isolate or reduce the aura of the Trace Leaving Technique.

Boom! After hearing the sound, Qi Chengzan looked up at the sky and saw a spirit ship flying through the air and about to enter the clouds. He couldn't help but frown.

During the time he arrived at Yushan Island, this was the only spirit ship that flew away.

As for the treasure ship, it was too slow to avoid the perception of the blood bean worms.

Suddenly, Qi Chengzan's expression changed, and he quickly went towards the island and found out the route of the spirit ship. The spirit ship will dock at Liuxian Island in half a month.

"Half a month."

Without stopping, he drove the flying boat out of Yushan Island.

(End of this chapter)