Hearing the words “Daliu Village,” Jiang Ran, who was on the verge of fainting from the pain, suddenly stiffened all over.
Parents killed?
Jiang Ran's mind was in utter chaos. He racked his brain so hard it felt like it was about to explode.
However, in his memory, he had absolutely no recollection of such mundane mortal affairs.
To aloof cultivators like them, wiping out a few mortal villages while refining a magic treasure or searching for spiritual items in the mortal world was as common as cutting grass.
Who would go out of their way to remember the affairs of a mere mortal?
“I don't know... I really don't know!”
Jiang Ran broke down completely, tears mixing with blood as they streamed down his face. “I definitely didn't do this! It really wasn't me!”
Su Yueli's gaze grew completely cold. She suddenly reached out her right hand, her fingers forming a claw as she gripped Jiang Ran's left shoulder.
Crack!
The Ji Dao hidden force erupted instantly. With a single hand, she ground Jiang Ran's entire shoulder blade into a pile of shattered bone.
“Aaaaah! Let go! Let go of me!”
“If you don't speak, I will tear your flesh off piece by piece until you remember,” Su Yueli said, her voice devoid of emotion.
Facing this torture that left him wishing for neither life nor death, the final line of defense in Jiang Ran's heart completely collapsed.
He knew the masked woman before him was an absolute monster. She really would torture him to death.
“Wait! I'll think! I'll think as hard as I can!!”
Jiang Ran screamed hysterically. Amidst the excruciating pain, his soul frantically squeezed out every shred of memory from all those years ago.
Daliu Village... a couple...
Then, he suddenly remembered something. “It was... it was the Young Sect Master!!”
Jiang Ran was scared out of his wits. Ignoring all consequences, he blurted out everything to save his own life. “Back then... back then, he wasn't the Young Sect Master yet! When he went down the mountain for experiential learning, he reportedly passed by Daliu Village and casually killed a couple!”
“But this matter was forgotten long ago, and it's already in the past...”
Hearing the words “Young Sect Master,” Su Yueli frowned slightly, looking at the wailing Jiang Ran in the mud with an icy gaze.
The Young Sect Master... another high and mighty figure.
But so what? The vengeance for her parents was irreconcilable. Whether he was the Young Sect Master or the Heavenly Emperor himself, she would settle this blood debt with her own hands.
Once she avenged her parents and thoroughly uncovered the truth behind her master Lu Chen's death, she planned to completely withdraw from the world and focus solely on closed-door cultivation.
The road to longevity was long. Once she possessed sufficient strength, occasionally traveling the world to enjoy the scenery was the comfortable life she truly desired.
Carrying a blood feud could indeed serve as a catalyst to rapidly increase her cultivation, but living in a world of schemes and slaughter all day was simply too exhausting.
She possessed infinite longevity and did not want to let her entire life rot away in the vortex of a blood feud.
Pulling her thoughts back, Su Yueli looked down at Jiang Ran beneath her feet, the killing intent in her eyes no longer concealed.
The Ji Dao hidden force converged frantically in her palm.
“No! Don't kill me! I've told you everything I know! Spare me—!”
Sensing the suffocating threat of death, Jiang Ran was utterly terrified. He writhed frantically in the muddy water, begging for mercy over and over.
Su Yueli remained expressionless. She raised her right hand, preparing to shatter his skull with a single palm strike.
However, at that very instant—
Boom!
In the distant night sky, a streak of pure white light pierced through the air, streaking across the horizon like a meteor.
Before the person even arrived, the overwhelming spiritual pressure of the Sixth Realm swept over them, causing the pebbles in Rocky Valley to tremble slightly.
Shen Huai'an had arrived as expected.
The streak of light suddenly came to a halt above Rocky Valley, revealing a figure clad in spotless white robes.
But when Shen Huai'an looked down and saw the scene in the mud pit below, his usually proud and rigid face froze instantly. He felt as if he had been struck by lightning from the highest heavens, and his mind went completely blank.
The scene before him completely exceeded the limits of his cognition.
The person lying in the mud, limbs twisted and deformed, frantically spitting up blood and begging for help like a dead dog, was actually the top genius of the Cangyun Sect at the early Fifth Realm, the Grand Elder's absolute favorite—Jiang Ran.
Meanwhile, the woman stepping on Jiang Ran's chest, surrounded by terrifying, violent martial blood qi as if she were a peerless demon god emerging from the depths of hell, was actually Qingli, the mortal loose cultivator who had shared a table with him at the restaurant yesterday—the one he had dismissed as a talkative, eccentric little girl who had never seen the world!
Boom!
The worldview Shen Huai'an had built over nearly two hundred years of cultivation—that all mortals were mere ants—was blown to pieces in this single instant.
In the common sense of the cultivation world, mortal martial arts were merely tricks for lowly mortals to strengthen their bodies, and a Tenth Realm Martial God was nothing but a slightly stronger bug in the eyes of an immortal master.
Yet, the mortal martial artist before him, who possessed not a single thread of spiritual energy, had literally ground a genius of an immortal sect at the early Fifth Realm into the mud. She had even shattered his most prized defensive magic treasure into tiny fragments!
Could mortal martial arts truly be this powerful?!
Su Yueli slowly withdrew her right hand, which had been poised to strike Jiang Ran's skull, her brow furrowing deeply.
She looked coldly at the shocked, white-robed youth in the sky, feeling highly irritated.
She had not expected Shen Huai'an, this young master from a greenhouse, to arrive so quickly today.
“This is a bit troublesome...”
Seeing Shen Huai'an in the sky, Jiang Ran felt as if he had grasped the final straw of hope in endless darkness.
Twisting his broken body in the bloody mud, he shrieked at the top of his lungs, “Young Sect Master, save me! Quick, kill this woman! She's a monster! She's insane!”
However, Su Yueli merely spared a cold glance at the white-robed youth in the sky. Her right foot, still planted firmly on Jiang Ran's chest, did not loosen in the slightest. Instead, the blood qi within her body subtly locked onto Shen Huai'an above.
She was in no hurry to deal the final blow; she wanted to see what Shen Huai'an would do.
Shen Huai'an was currently at the early Sixth Realm of cultivation.
Meanwhile, she had already mastered the Eleventh Realm, Delusion Breaker, and had even faintly touched the threshold of the Twelfth Realm.
Relying solely on the Ji Dao hidden force in her body, she already possessed the confidence to face a Sixth Realm cultivator head-on.
If a conflict truly broke out later, as long as she played her trump card Xiaohei and fought with everything she had, there was a chance she could slay this so-called genius of the immortal path right here as well.
Currently, she had absolutely no reason to fear the Young Sect Master of a major sect.
Yet, to her surprise, though Shen Huai'an stood in the void, he showed absolutely no sign of wanting to make a move.
On one hand, he was indeed completely deterred by the incredibly dense Ji Dao martial blood qi surrounding Su Yueli, which seemed to subtly tear the void itself. For a moment, he could not gauge the background of this mysterious masked woman.
On the other hand, having cultivated for nearly two hundred years, his Dao Heart had long been tempered by his sect into a cold, emotionless weapon of slaughter.
The Cangyun Sect and the Blue Moon Sect were ancient enemies, competing fiercely in secret.
Whether Jiang Ran lived or died held no meaning to him. In fact, the death of a genius from the Cangyun Sect would only benefit the Blue Moon Sect in monopolizing resources in the future.
More importantly, the moment he heard Jiang Ran mention the name Shen Qing'an earlier, an inexplicable, sharp pain had shot through Shen Huai'an's heart.
This sharp pain made him instinctively avoid thinking deeper into the matter, so he simply chose to stand by and watch coldly.
Under Shen Huai'an's nearly numb gaze, the Ji Dao hidden force beneath Su Yueli's foot suddenly erupted.
Crack!
Accompanied by a sickening crunch, Su Yueli crushed Jiang Ran's skull with a single step.
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