Chapter 608 - 608 128 Misfortune's Root
608: Chapter 128 Misfortune’s Root 608: Chapter 128 Misfortune’s Root The sea of flames spread, submerging the entire second floor of the inn.
A self-destruction by a Cultivator from the Cave Heaven Realm is enough to destroy everything within a fifty-zhang radius.
However.
Xie Xuanyi was situated right there.
He stretched out his palm and lightly flipped it over.
The Martial Arts Divine Embryo’s golden robe fluttered!
Boom!
The expansion of the sea of flames lasted only for an instant before being grasped and gathered into the palm of Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Embryo.
Xie Xuanyi slowly brought his hands together.
The sea of flames gradually contracted.
Zhou Lu had triggered “Complete Annihilation” with her entire being, but in the end, not even a corner of Xie Xuanyi’s robe was scorched.
Fourteen years of cultivation, consuming three hundred corpses, had led to this level of power.
The sea of flames dispersed.
Everything transformed into nothingness.
Xie Xuanyi left the charred boudoir and took a few steps before stopping.
He looked at the servant boy trembling in the corner, as pale as paper, huddled up and tightly shutting his eyes, ready to meet his fate and embrace death.
He hadn’t expected his luck to be so good; the Cave Heaven’s self-destruction had just reached his feet and a little further, and he would have been reduced to ashes.
“Sssss…”
A scorching, bloody aura filled the air.
The servant boy slowly opened his eyes, unable to believe the scene before him.
The entire corridor was destroyed.
Yet, he was still alive.
Even, completely unharmed!
Clearly, the one who had saved him was the black-robed young Sword Immortal before him.
“Benefactor…”
The servant boy was exceptionally quick to react.
After pinching his cheek to confirm that it wasn’t a dream, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic, his voice trembling, “Thank you, Benefactor!
Thank you for saving my life!”
Xie Xuanyi looked at the young man and slightly furrowed his brows.
The word ‘Benefactor’ dropped into his Heart Lake, causing him to feel somewhat bewildered.
Mi Yun called him Benefactor.
Deng Chicheng called him Benefactor.
The pair of Evil Cultivators who had just died also called him Benefactor.
Ten years ago, during the chaos in the Imperial City, that Imperial City Department envoy, Chi Lin, who risked his life to get him out of the city, also called him Benefactor.
Over the years, he seemed to often hear such a “title”.
“No need to thank me.”
Xie Xuanyi looked at the servant boy in front of him and said, “What I did just now wasn’t to save you.”
Indeed, the self-destruction of a Cultivator from the Cave Heaven Realm would not hurt him in the slightest.
But downstairs were Deng Baiyi and Chu Guo…
If Xie Xuanyi had not intervened to restrain the explosion, the inn would have collapsed, the sea of flames would have spread, and Deng Baiyi and Chu Guo would have been injured.
The servant boy was stunned for a moment.
He had not expected the black-robed Sword Immortal to say such a thing.
The servant boy quickly forced a smile: “Benefactor, what are you talking about?
Even if it was just a casual action, in the end, it saved my life.
I will remember this for a lifetime, and I am willing to be a beast of burden to repay you.
If Benefactor has any commands, just say the word, and no matter what you ask, I will not refuse.”
“…”
Hearing these words, Xie Xuanyi fell silent; his Divine Thought settled on the servant boy.
This moment seemed just like that time.
Fourteen years ago.
When he saved Zhou Lu and Qu Li, they also looked at him with utmost respect and thanked him with the sincerest of words.
It’s just a pity.
Planting good seeds doesn’t always yield good fruits.
“You won’t refuse as long as I speak?”
Xie Xuanyi calmly looked at the servant boy before him and gently repeated, seeking confirmation.
The servant boy quickly nodded with a flattering smile, respectfully: “Of course!”
“Since that’s the case, end it yourself.”
Xie Xuanyi, with the most amiable tone, uttered the coldest of words.
He glanced downstairs.
The commotion below had gradually quieted down; it looked like the fight between Deng Baiyi and Chu Guo was nearly over.
The moment he stepped onto the second floor, his Divine Thought completely sealed it off.
In the main hall of the inn, not a single sound from above could be heard, not even the self-destruction of Zhou Lu, which was silently snuffed out by the power of Xie Xuanyi’s Divine Embryo.
“???”
The smile on the young servant’s face abruptly froze.
Finish himself, what did that mean?
He stared blankly upwards, looking at the black-clothed Sword Immortal before him, at a loss for what to do.
“Over these years, following in their footsteps, you must have consumed quite a few humans, right?”
Xie Xuanyi’s voice was very light: “Although you are still just a Qi Refining Master now, you’re only a step away from the Foundation Establishment.
I am well aware that those who cultivate the Yin Mountain Technique can never turn back in this lifetime.
Even if I were to sever your limbs and meridians and destroy your Dantian, you would still consume humans and continue to commit evil deeds.”
It was his lack of awareness back then that allowed these two calamities to arise.
Now he would no longer allow such a mistake to take root again.
“What is your benefactor talking about…”
The young servant’s voice trembled, the smile completely gone from his face.
Thump, he knelt on the ground, looking up at the man before him with a sense of despair.
The young servant’s voice was hoarse and agitated as he pleaded miserably, “I was forced!
They made me eat human flesh, I had no choice… Your Excellency, with your vast divine abilities, you have already saved me once, please be merciful and spare my life.
I swear on my life, I am not like them!”
Xie Xuanyi just looked at the young man indifferently.
Some things are untouchable.
Once they are stained, every word spoken becomes untrustworthy.
The young servant looked into the eyes of the black-clothed young Sword Immortal and saw not a trace of pity or compassion.
He sat there dejectedly.
The next moment.
Suddenly, the young servant rose to his feet, a dagger sliding out from his sleeve, grabbed it with the backhand, and stabbed forcefully towards the black-clothed Sword Immortal before him.
“Hiss—”
A vivid line of blood appeared out of thin air.
An extremely delicate strand of Sword Qi had been quietly laid out here before the conversation started.
If this young servant had not lashed out in violence, this suspended thread of Sword Qi would not have been triggered.
Xie Xuanyi’s expression remained calm, watching the scene unfold impassively.
From the very beginning, he held no hope that this young man would “turn away from his wicked ways.”
Up to now, it naturally wasn’t a matter of disappointment.
He had already known.
This young servant, who so vociferously begged for his life, was actually no different from Qu Li and Zhou Lu from fourteen years ago.
“Bang!”
The head was severed by the thread of Sword Qi, and with the “action inertia” of its owner, left the body of its own accord, tossed high into the air, thrown out from the second-floor corridor, and landed in the main hall on the first floor, splashing onto the table, bursting into a ghastly and garish blossom of crimson blood.
Xie Xuanyi, with his hands behind his back, slowly walked down from the second floor.
The main hall on the first floor was now tranquil.
Twenty-seven people, all killed.
Deng Baiyi’s white clothes were dyed bright red, he leaned on a stone wall, trembling all over, and the palm that clutched the Five Thunders Talisman was still emitting a faint sound of thunderous explosions.
On the other side.
Chu Guo, who alone had killed seven Yuan Province bandits, propped himself up on his umbrella sword, and continued to retch uncontrollably.
Xie Xuanyi walked over, patted the young man’s shoulder, and asked softly, “How does it feel to kill for the first time?”
“Actually it’s okay, just a bit nauseating…”
Seeing Xie Zhen arriving, Chu Guo quickly got up, wiped the corner of his mouth, and replied with forced composure: “I finally had a full meal, and now I guess I’ve thrown it all up.”
“Is that so?
It’s good that you threw it up.”
Xie Xuanyi casually said, “I forgot to tell you, what you just ate was human flesh.”
“???”
The color drained from Chu Guo’s face, unable to hold back any longer, he continued to find a corner to vomit.
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