Unsheathed

The canal master's expression was adrift as she looked toward the back wall of the shrine, and she shook her head slightly before saying with a sullen expression and a quivering voice, "Esteemed Immortal, did you truly just kill Du Yu?"

Chen Ping'an thought for a moment before replying with a smile, "He's half dead, and I've imprisoned his soul. The Ghost Axe Palace is a large immortal force, and Du Yu's parents are also powerful Dao partners in the mountains according to you. That being the case, how can I dare to disrespect Du Yu? I'm simply giving him some minor punishment."

The canal master was unable to stand still, and she surprisingly collapsed to the ground on her backside, with her colorful embroidered dress appearing like a dazzling peony blooming on the ground.

The young man standing in front of her had a sweet tongue, but his heart and mind were actually crawling with venomous snakes and scorpions! Even though he looked young, he was definitely an old monster who had already been cultivating in the mountains for countless years. He was a lofty immortal who acted viciously and ruthlessly with a kindly smile on his face!

Chen Ping'an flicked his sleeves, causing the dust on his clothes to immediately disperse into the surroundings and his azure robe to become spotless again. He directly walked through the split in the divine altar, and as he walked past the young man who was playing dead beside the campfire, he smiled and said, "Hurry up and wipe away your drool. Then continue to play dead."

The young man hurriedly obeyed his instructions.

Chen Ping'an sat on the door threshold of the shrine and looked at the canal master and her two maidservants as he grabbed his Sword Nurturing Gourd and took a swig of yin energy water from the deep stream of Treasure Mirror Mountain.

There was once a city god called Shen Wen in the Eastern Treasured Vial Continent, a water goddess of the Burial River in the Parasol Leaf Continent, the canal master, the lake lord of Verdant Bamboo Lake, and the city god of Imperial Accompanying City in the Northern Complete Reed Continent.

Chen Ping'an had indeed used a secret mystical ability to imprison Du Yu's soul, and he hadn't been making things up to purposely frighten the female canal master.

This wasn't some elementary immortal technique from the mountain, and it was something that he had obtained from Liu Zhimao, Bamboo Scroll Lake's River Severing True Lord, during his second transaction with him. This was a very high-grade technique, and it required a huge expenditure of spiritual energy to use. Right now, the accumulated spiritual energy in Chen Ping'an's water palace — most importantly, the spiritual energy in his water element bonded item, the water seal hovering in his water palace — had almost been completely exhausted of the water fortune essence that he had slowly accumulated and condensed over time.

Chen Ping'an wouldn't dare to use an internal observation technique to travel to his water palace in the short term. He was afraid to see the aggrieved and indignant expressions of the little children in green.

Chen Ping'an retrieved a snow-white Militarian armor pellet from his sleeve, as well as a vermilion alchemical pill that had a dense array of talismanic symbols inscribed on its surface. This was what the Ghost Axe Palace's Du Yu had wanted to do just then — launch a sneak attack on Chen Ping'an using these treasures. The alchemical pill was refined from the internal core of a demon, and its effects were similar to those used by the assassins who had surrounded Mao Xiaodong in the capital of the Great Sui Nation back then.