Qin Ran failed to get into the large tent, stopped outside the camp tent.
But for him, whether inside or outside the tent didn't seem to make much difference. Outside the tent, he could still hear the conversation inside.
At this time, inside the tent, there were four people.
A man in his fifties sat in the main seat, Zhao Li;
A beautiful woman in her twenties sat to Zhao Li's left, Zhao Yaqing;
A young housewife who looked to be in her thirties sat next to Zhao Yaqing, she was Zhao Yaqing's dao protector.
In addition to the three of them, there was another person in the tent. This person was wrapped in a black cloak, with an eerie and terrifying aura, sitting in the seat to the right of Zhao Li, gender indistinguishable.
"There are a total of three cultivators in the city..." Zhao Li spoke first, saying to Zhao Yaqing, "Sword cultivator Li Shiyin, the white tiger on the city wall, and Li Shiyin's master Qin Ran, who just arrived at Wuyi City.
"Among them, only Li Shiyin's strength is clear, she is extremely terrifying, able to confront Yuan Ying cultivators head on. As for that white tiger and Qin Ran, we really don't know their strength."
Hearing Zhao Li's evaluation of Li Shiyin's strength, the jealousy in Zhao Yaqing's eyes could not be suppressed, turning into hatred spinning in her eyes.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Li Shiyin and Qin Ran, Aunt Mei and I fought them four years ago. At that time, they were far from being our opponents."
She paused, sorted out her emotions, and continued, "At that time, Li Shiyin had just started building her foundation, and Qin Ran was only at the stage of completing his foundation building. Li Shiyin is very talented, her cultivation and strength improve very quickly, but her master's talent is not that good. At most, Qin Ran has the strength of the Golden Core realm.
"As for that white tiger, I don't know it. But we can infer its strength. It is probably Qin Ran's spirit beast, a spirit beast's cultivation and strength will not exceed the cultivator's own, Qin Ran is at most early Golden Core realm, so the white tiger is also at the Foundation Establishment stage."
After listening to Zhao Yaqing's analysis, Zhao Li nodded, but did not comment, instead looking at the black cloak, wanting to hear his opinion.
"That is a sub-adult Profound Yin Spirit Tiger..." The black cloak spoke in a hoarse male voice, correcting Zhao Yaqing, "Its strength is at least at the Golden Core stage."
"Even if it's Golden Core stage, even if we put Qin Ran at Golden Core stage, then there are only three Golden Core cultivators in the city." Zhao Yaqing said,
"You can definitely deal with Li Shiyin and that Profound whatever White Tiger, leave Qin Ran for me and Aunt Mei to deal with. In fact, we don't have to care about Elder Ziyi's attitude."
"I have the Myriad Ghosts Life-Reaping Formation..." The cloaked man gave a different plan, "The three don't have to fight them separately, just need to lure them into my formation, and they will undoubtedly die."
"It's just..." The cloaked man said their limitation, "Killing them is not difficult. The difficulty is the sword qi in front of Wuyi City, that sword qi contains sword intent, it won't dissipate with the death of the cultivator. That is to say, even if we kill that sword cultivator, the sword qi will still be there."
Listening to this, Zhao Li asked, "Then what do you suggest, Immortal?"
"Anyway, the Myriad Ghosts Life-Reaping Formation has to be used, why don't I just use the formation to refine Wuyi City..." The hoarse-voiced man said, "Once the entire Wuyi City is refined, there is no need to worry about the sword qi."
None of those present were virtuous people, especially Zhao Li who had been on the battlefield for many years, but even he was shocked when he heard the cloaked man's plan.
The cloaked man wanted to refine the nearly one million living beings in the entire Wuyi City, turning them all into part of his Myriad Ghosts Life-Reaping Formation.
How inhuman!
Those in the tent were frightened by the cloaked man's words, silent for a good while, before Zhao Li spoke up, "This method is feasible, but it would damage the natural order too much, better not use it casually."
The cloaked man did not comment, just sitting there, as if he had not said those horrifying words earlier.
"Li Shiyin can be killed, but the sword qi cannot be broken..." Zhao Yaqing frowned, "Could it be that for such a trivial matter, we have to call back the Grand Priest from the palace?"
Zhao Li rubbed his fingers, looked at the few people in the tent, and suddenly looked at Zhao Yaqing and asked, "I have a question, does His Majesty's plan require unifying the entire Land of Immortal Legacy?"
"Yes!" Zhao Yaqing nodded.
"Unifying the entire Land of Immortal Legacy?" Hearing this, Qin Ran was surprised outside the tent. The Land of Immortal Legacy included the seven countries of Xuanqin, North Chu, Great Yan, and Yan Han. The Xuanqin Emperor was so ambitious?
"And that plan requires unifying the Land of Immortal Legacy as a prerequisite, what is that plan?!"
He suddenly felt that he had touched upon some earth-shattering secret, or rather, taboo.
...That plan was probably the reason why the Xuanqin Emperor could persuade the Cloud Heaven Sect to help Xuanqin!
"What a pity then!" Zhao Li sighed, "I thought we could take it one city or land at a time, this way, with you here, we don't have to worry about that sword qi."
"I understand uncle's meaning..." Zhao Yaqing said, "But this method really won't work."
Uncle? Qin Ran realized, Zhao Li and Zhao Yaqing must be from the Zhao family of Xuanqin!
"If not for Elder Ziyi, how would we have come to this?!" Zhao Li said angrily again, "His Majesty's side has also been unresponsive, I wonder what he is thinking."
The people inside discussed for a while longer, but still did not come up with specifics for the next step. They just said to wait for the Xuanqin Emperor's notice and have Zhao Yaqing contact the Boundless Sword Sect cultivators. If that led nowhere, they would try the black-robed man's proposal...
The meeting ended and Zhao Yaqing came out of the tent.
Having eavesdropped on this meeting, Qin Ran roughly understood the strange relationship between Zhao Yaqing and her dao protector. The dao protector was indeed there to protect Zhao Yaqing, because Zhao Yaqing seemed to be a very important part of the Xuanqin Emperor's plan.
"In that case..." Qin Ran understood, "Zhao Yaqing must die as well."
Zhao Yaqing didn't notice Qin Ran, only walking forward. Qin Ran cleverly followed behind her.
As he walked, he casually threw out a peanut-sized pill onto the ground. The pill disintegrated upon touching the ground, instantly disappearing into the air.
Zhao Yaqing had to die, Zhao Li must perish as well.
After throwing it, he followed Zhao Yaqing out of the tent area.
But at this moment, a hoarse shout came from the tent behind: "Who's poisoning?!"
"Hmm?" Qin Ran was surprised, discovered so quickly?!
lities. One day, Qi Yuan was buying groceries when he unfortunately came face-to-face with a monster. Just when he thought he was going to die on the spot, he suddenly heard the monster's thoughts... "This aura, he's definitely not an ordinary master!" "So terrifying, so terrifying." "A fight with my back against the wall, I can't take it anymore." Qi Yuan: Ah, no one told me that my awakened ability isn't telepathy, but rather the stronger my enemies imagine me to be, the stronger I truly become. PS: Zhou Hai in the first chapter is not the protagonist.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
