Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
If even Suan Ni, who was as old as the sky, had never encountered such a terrifying sword Qi until this day, how could either of the village chiefs even attempt to confront the sword Qi?
They didn’t even know where and how the sword Qi came about.
The sword Qi pierced through Suan Ni’s body in one swift and decisive move as the latter started to dissolve.
Such an indestructible body, which even other mighty and desolate beasts could not damage, had been defeated and corroded by this sword Qi.
If the sword Qi charged straight at humans, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The village chief of Stone Village stared at the sword Qi and how he was feeling now reminded him of when he saw the Willow Deity descend from the heavens for the first time.
Though the people present were terrified by the sheer power of the sword Qi, they also felt that the outcome was such a pity – Suan Ni’s corpse was about to be reduced to ashes just like the Wolf Villages’ guardian spirit.
At the moment Ye Yun killed Suan Ni and destroyed its body with his sword Qi using the Shu Shan Sword Method, he received a system notification.
[Beep beep, detected that the host has used the Shu Shan Sword Method and has completed a special mission. You are now eligible to receive the gift from Suan Ni. Do you want to check in and receive a reward?]
Hearing this, Ye Yun could not help but smile – he had been right all along. But thankfully the system did not know what he was thinking currently.
Ye Yun quickly cleared his mind and replied, “Check me in, quickly.”
[The special mission has been successfully completed. Congratulations to the host for receiving the gift from Suan Ni: Blood of the Dragon Son (can be used to increase the host’s influence by three points) and the Sword Qi Slicer (can be used to increase the host’s influence by ten points). Please feel free to check out the respective items’ specific description]
“Look, System. For a person who checks in every day and just defeated Suan Ni, this is all I’ve received? This isn’t good enough.”
It was a good opportunity to make fun of the system. Who knows, the system might reveal more clues.
[Apologies, dear host. Please know that the rewards and the tasks are given at random. The system does not determine anything in advance.]
“I don’t believe you. You are the system that is bound to me. Can’t you give me something good?”
[Apologies, dear host. This system is a Check-In System. The system is not allowed to provide any rewards besides during check-in and mission completions.]
Ye Yun did not bother to ask any further. Instead, he quickly started to cultivate and think about the rest in his cultivation state of mind.
‘So how can I trigger a mission? Through specific events?’
The first mission was triggered due to the Green Scaled Eagle egg. The second was related to helping a villager of the desolate Stone Village heal. And now this third mission was to kill Suan Ni.
Ye Yun finished up his thoughts and decided to use Clairvoyance to check out the situation in the mountain forest once more.
He had to see the damage done by the Shu Shan Sword Method for himself.
Then, Ye Yun remembered: he had already received the Blood Essence of the Dragon Son as a reward from this triggered mission so there was no need for him to absorb the blood essence from Suan Ni’s corpse.
Thus, Ye Yun decided to leave Suan Ni’s corpse and blood essence to be divided among the people by the lake.
The sword Qi flickered for a moment and the green light that had been corroding Suan Ni’s corpse disappeared.
Then, the sword Qi retreated, gradually turned into a bone-chilling cold Qi, and simply disappeared before the cultivators of Wolf Village and Stone Village.
The pure and bright light instantly disappeared, leaving the people dumbfounded in the darkness with only the moon as their light.
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Ye Yun’s Shu Shan Sword Method not only killed the Wolf Village’s guardian spirit, but also Suan Ni. The sword Qi from the technique was able to take down two mighty beings in the same span of time.
And it all only lasted a moment.
Perhaps this was fate as the Wolf Village’s chief looked solemn.
The other cultivators of Wolf Village were unable to accept this fact for a moment. It was unbelievable.
How could the guardian spirit that they had been worshipping and praying for so many years be killed by a sword Qi that came out of nowhere?
What kind of identity was its wielder that the sword Qi could kill the guardian spirit so perfectly from afar?
What’s more, the sword Qi also killed Suan Ni right after.
If the sword Qi had not appeared, no one would have known that Suan Ni had been faking his death.
But who was this person and how did he know about any of these?
Many doubts and questions filled the minds of the cultivators from Wolf Village. And no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Some of the cultivators with poor physical qualities had been so shaken by the sword Qi’s ring that blood flowed out of their seven orifices.
Could it be that someone from a large tribe had made a move?
However, why would people from a larger tribe travel so far just to fight with them, a much smaller tribe, over Suan Ni’s blood essence? It didn’t make sense.
“Village Chief, I noticed that the sword Qi came from the direction of Stone Village. I suspect that they had asked their guardian spirit to help them.”
“But isn’t their guardian spirit just a lifeless willow tree? How could that tree use such a sharp sword Qi?” The village chief of Wolf Village frowned.
“If it wasn’t their guardian spirit, then could they have a powerful cultivator they’ve been keeping secret that has some hatred towards us ?”
“I’m not too sure, but this person will probably be a troublesome opponent for us.”
The death of the Wolf Village’s guardian spirit would prove to be a challenge to the survival of Wolf Village in the Great Wastelands.
After all, guardian spirits protected the safety of the village so that the villagers could live in peace.
Now that their guardian spirit had been killed, the survival of Wolf Village was under threat.
But the village chief of Wolf Village couldn’t be bothered about all these right now. Now that they had lost their guardian spirit and no longer had anyone to protect them, they lost the right to get a share of Suan Ni’s corpse.
The village chief of Wolf Village instantly ordered his people. “Retreat, quickly.”
“But Village Chief, it hadn’t been easy for us to-”
“Shut up, Don’t talk anymore. We’re leaving,” said the Wolf Village’s chief.
After the cultivators from Wolf Village left, the forest fell into silence.
The Wolf Village’s chief was actually terrified, but he couldn’t reveal that to the others.
Whoever wielded the sword Qi earlier could have easily killed a person, any one of them.
If it was true that the person had an agenda against Wolf Village and found that they hadn’t retreated, that lake might be their burial site too!