Chapter Eighty-Eight: Searching for Someone on the Main Peak

  "Niu Shu, Liu Shu, I'm sorry! The chief culprit has not been punished yet, and Li Chen will definitely behead the remaining people!"

  In front of a grave in Tushan Village, nine skulls were placed. At dawn, people bowed their heads and knocked three times, with the sound echoing continuously.

  He bowed his head and left without looking back after drinking the wine in front of the grave.

  Smoke and clouds are floating, black birds are crying sadly, cold wind blows by, the road is endless, human life is short!

  A few days later, Xuan Yun Sect's Nan Yun Peak.

  "Have you heard? The Thirteen Bandits of Tianyun have all been annihilated!"

  "This is well-known, everyone's gone mad!"

  "That's right, every move Master made was earth-shattering!"

  "I heard that the leader of the Thirteen Bandits, Yun Zhonglong, is a peak expert in the Refining Realm. If even Master Brother can kill him, doesn't that mean he's already broken through to the Solid Origin Realm?"

  "I don't know if there's a breakthrough to the Yuanyuan realm, but I do know that Master Big Brother once resisted a peak expert with his mid-term Zhenyuan realm strength back then. Now he has already reached the peak of the Zhenyuan realm, killing Cloud Dragon is no different from slaughtering a dog."

  The numerous disciples all over the mountain and in the courtyard, whether they were inner or outer sect members, as long as they knew who Ye Gu Yun was, were spreading the news of the annihilation of the Tianyun Thirteen Bandits.

  Listening to the whispers in his ear, Li Chen walked expressionlessly on the mountain road.

  He didn't care about these empty names and didn't think the owner of that lonely figure would take it upon himself, mostly too lazy to bother.

  For no reason, Lei Chen's mind flashed back to Ye Gu Yun's figure. Since the day he saw that exceptionally strong sword style, he had made up his mind to surpass him.

  "Huh, Brother Li, you're back!"

  Just as they were walking, Pang Wenshan came running over with an iron rod, still calling him his younger brother due to Li Chen's persistence.

  "What's wrong, Brother Pang?"

  Li Chen stopped in his tracks.

  "You little scamp, how dare you go after the Thirteen Bandits alone! Luckily you're back!"

  Pang Wenshan wiped the sweat from his forehead, seemingly having just finished his morning exercise, and looked at Li Chen with some concern.

  Good luck!

  Li Chen smiled shyly.

  "It's not just luck, I'm telling you, the Thirteen Bandits have all been eliminated by our senior brother, so you don't need to go seeking revenge against them anymore!"

  Pang Wenshan said with a face full of reverence.

  "Haha!"

  Li Chen smiled ambiguously without confirming or denying it.

  "Yes, you don't know that yesterday at noon, Songyang City, Luofang City, Beiyecity, Guyun City, and several nearby cities, all the powerful forces with a name, came to Zongzhong to deliver heroic invitations."

  "You don't know the scene, hundreds of people all wanted to see our senior brother, but unfortunately, as soon as senior brother returned, he announced that he would be in seclusion and wouldn't come out until he broke through the solid yuan boundary, tsk tsk..."

  Pang Wenshan's unparalleled Tao.

  "Master brother is indeed a heroic figure!"

  Li Chen nodded and went to Tushan Village first. He spent two days going back and forth, but ended up following behind the various forces.

  "So, you'd better hurry up and cultivate, or else Eldest Brother will look down on you!"

  Pang Wenshan patted his shoulder and said with a grin.

  "Look down on?"

  Li Chen scratched his head, whether he cultivated or not had nothing to do with that mysterious senior brother.

  "You fool, think about it, Big Brother Shifu has killed thirteen thieves, which is equivalent to indirectly avenging you. In the future, you should thank Big Brother Shifu in person. With your talent, if Big Brother Shifu were to guide you a bit, you would benefit greatly!"

  Pang Wenshan rolled his eyes and looked like he had been defeated by you.

  "It's really like that!"

  Li Chen snapped his fingers and said with a sudden realization: "Right! I got some good stuff this time, just right to give to you!"

  As he spoke, he rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a storage bag, handing it over to Pang Wenshan.

  "What the... storage bag!"

  Pang Wenshan carelessly swept his eyes over it, only to discover that it was a dusty bag. However, when he grabbed it in his hand, he suddenly let out an exclamation of surprise and solemnly pushed the storage bag back: "Too valuable!"

  A lowest-end storage bag is worth at least as much as a low-grade spiritual soldier, valued at over 100 yuan.

  Many cultivators in the early stages of their martial journey have a set of equipment that they've gathered, and the spiritual energy-infused weapon they've configured can't be stored in a storage pouch; it's one or the other.

  "Help me give these to Liu Shixiong and them! Don't let others see."

  Li Chen didn't answer, and directly took out five or six from his backpack, stuffed them into his arms.

  "You... you didn't steal the master's treasure, did you?"

  Pang Wenshan knew that Li Chen and Hou Dan were close, and he exclaimed in surprise.

  "I've just made a small fortune!"

  Li Chen slapped his forehead and said helplessly.

  "Good boy!"

  Pang Wenshan let out a sigh of relief, knowing that Li Chen wouldn't say anything, but as long as it wasn't ill-gotten gains, he was fine with it. He clicked his tongue and rubbed the storage bag gently: "If this were a spiritual weapon, that would be even better!"

  Li Chen smiled faintly and didn't speak. With Pang Wenshan's cultivation, he couldn't open the storage bag. Only when he advanced to the Refining True Realm could he do so.

  "Right, where are you going? This way isn't the road up the mountain?"

  If not for practicing martial arts on the edge of the mountain at dawn, Pang Wenshan wouldn't have found him so coincidentally. Since that day when Lichun went out alone to find the trail of the thirteen thieves, he had been worried sick.

  "Go to the main peak!"

  "What's going on at the main peak?"

  "Someone's here, Brother Pang, you can go back and rest now!"

  Li Chen didn't want to say more, and with a flash of his body, he bypassed Pang Wenshan and instantly disappeared into the forest path.

  "Hey, hey, Li Shidi, the main peak is not allowed to enter at will, you must..."

  Pang Wenshan shouted repeatedly, but didn't know if Li Chen heard him. He wanted to follow up, but the many storage bags on his body were really inconvenient.

  In addition, Li Chen's reputation in the Xuan Yun Sect was not small, and his temperament would never easily provoke trouble. Pang Wen Shan shook his head, pretending to have heard his words, and hastily went to find Ye Gu Yun to thank him, before leaving with a peace of mind.

  "Halt! Outsiders and disciples of Wai Feng are not allowed to enter at will!"

  At the foot of the main peak, dozens of miles away from Nan Yunfeng, a majestic archway stood tall. Four white-clad disciples blocked Lei Chen's path.

  "I've met a few seniors, I'm here to find Qiu Qianni and Zhang Chuloung, can you make an exception for me?"

  Li Chen bowed with his fists clasped together.

  "Elite disciple? What is an inner sect disciple like you doing looking for an elite disciple? And to address him directly by name, how bold!"

  One of them frowned slightly and coldly shouted.

  These people were all disciples who had reached the age and left the inner gate before breaking through to the Zhen True Realm, each of whom was at least ten years older than Li Chen, and were robust and powerful.

  Ordinary days, those who come and go from the main peak are mostly elite geniuses, even core direct descendants. Most of them don't give them a straight look. Now that they see Li Chen coming to find two elite disciples, they also want to show off their own majesty, boost their prestige, and naturally won't give him a good face to look at.

  "Then... senior brother, can you tell me if those two are within the sect?"

  On that day, Yun Zhong Hu was subjected to severe torture and confessed that Yun Zhong Hu was a member of the Qiu family. Naturally, Li Chen thought of Qiu Qian Yi.

  It's worth noting that Qiu Qiányì is actually the son of the head of the Qiu family, Qiu Shānzhòng. If he says this matter has nothing to do with him, I wouldn't believe it even if you beat him to death.

  Unfortunately, after changing direction to Tushan Village at that time, they went to Songyang City again, and Qiu Qiuyi and Zhang Chulang had already disappeared.