Chapter 101

Chapter 101: Inescapable Disaster

Of course, Xu Qing had no idea of the Vajra Sect ancestor’s laments.

At that moment, Xu Qing had already purchased a residence within the scavenger camp and was resting inside.

Although there were certain requirements to be fulfilled for outsiders to purchase a residence, depending on the person’s strength, rules were nothing more than rules.

Thus, after Xu Qing displayed the power of the third level of Qi Condensation, he was able to smoothly purchase a wooden house. At the same time, two scavengers with ill intentions were attracted over by his display of wealth.

A short while later, their heads were hanging on Xu Qing’s gate.

Just like that, Xu Qing was accepted into the scavenger camp. Although there were some people who paid attention to him at the start, as time passed, they realized that Xu Qing’s performance was no different from a regular scavenger.

Whether it was killing people, carrying out missions, purchasing White Pills, or even just walking around in the camp with instinctive vigilance that seemed to be engraved in his soul, everything proved that he was a real scavenger.

Soon, no one thought of him as an outsider anymore. After all, there was no shortage of scavengers in this wilderness, and people who had been outside for too long and wanted to find a place to rest weren’t uncommon.

In this disguise, Xu Qing went out every day and observed the Vajra Sect carefully. He also saw some Vajra Sect disciples descend the mountain and come to the scavenger camp for fun from time to time.

Whenever they appeared, the scavengers in the camp didn’t dare to speak out of turn and always had flattering expressions on their faces.

Of the disciples who descended the mountain, Xu Qing found a few familiar faces.

He had probably seen them from afar back when he set fire to the Vajra Sect previously.

Although all of them had proud figures as they walked through the scavenger camp, Xu Qing could still see the hesitance and helplessness hidden in their hearts.

As time passed, Xu Qing gradually learned more and more about the Vajra Sect’s affairs. The scavengers naturally paid attention to the every move of this sect that had moved nearby recently.

Thus, half a month later, Xu Qing could be said to be familiar with the Vajra Sect’s current situation.

“The sect has less than a hundred people left.”

“Four out of the seven elders have left. Besides the three remaining elders, there’s also the sect master. Thus, besides the Vajra Sect ancestor, there are only four other experts to worry about.”

“They’ve submitted to the Departurist Church and are under the church’s protection…”

Xu Qing sat cross-legged in his residence, thinking over the information he’d uncovered in the past half a month. He was very patient, especially since his enemy this time was a Foundation Establishment expert. Although Xu Qing felt that he should be able to defeat the other party with his current battle prowess, this was his first time fighting a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Realm, after all.

Thus, he was extremely cautious. Even after analyzing and reanalyzing, he still didn’t act. Instead, he continued to wait. Half a month later, he happened to find out some information from a conversation between two Vajra Sect disciples.

“The ancestor is really worrying too much… every time he invites someone over, he tells us to head down the mountain and pretend to unintentionally leak some information about the sect to the surrounding scavenger camps. What’s the point?”

“Yeah, it’s already been half a year, and Kid still hasn’t taken the bait. Sigh, the ancestor just keeps inviting his friends over. Just a few days after one leaves, the next one arrives, and we have to head down the mountain again.”

“It can’t be helped… Who dares to disobey the ancestor’s order?”

This was the conversation that Xu Qing heard when he secretly followed a pair of Vajra Sect disciples one night right before they went back up the mountain. After he heard this, Xu Qing calmly returned to the camp and waited for the next few days with even more vigilance in his heart.

Finally, after he had lived in this scavenger camp for over a month and a half, Xu Qing saw a long arc of light leave the Vajra Sect’s mountain.

There seemed to be someone sending them off at the top of the mountain.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly and retracted his sharp gaze. Turning around, he returned to his residence in the camp and began to organize his weapons and poison powders. Looking at the sky outside, he waited silently.

At the same time, outside the main hall of the Vajra Sect, the Vajra Sect ancestor looked at the departing figure of his friend and sighed. After all, he couldn’t keep them here for too long. Walking back into the main hall, he began to think about whom he should invite over next.

“The pill’s almost done, it won’t take too long. After I eat it, I’ll open my 30th magic aperture, form the first ball of Life Fire, and gain the ability to enter the Profound Brilliance state. Once that time comes… I’ll finally be able to relax a little.”

As he muttered, the Vajra Sect ancestor disappeared into the hall.

The sky outside gradually darkened, and howling wind carried a wintry chill as it swept across the scavenger camp.

The dirt on the ground had already frozen over and couldn’t be swept up in the wind. However, there was some garbage in the scavenger camp that rolled and rustled in the wind. At the same time, the howling wind struck some children hiding away in the corners.

The cold wind seemed to have turned into sharp blades that wanted to slice the meek and lowly to pieces.

Soon, snowflakes began to fall from the sky. They drifted across the entire Red Plains, piling up as far as the eye could see.

That night, there was a lot of snow.

The snowflakes quickly turned into feather-like clumps, covering the ground in what seemed like a layer of down. However, this down was cold, and those scavengers who had no houses all trembled. Their eyes were numb, as if they had already accepted their deaths.

This winter was going to be colder than ever, and more people would freeze to death as well.

In this heavy blizzard, Xu Qing walked out of the wooden house after preparing everything.

He looked at the snow in the sky and felt the chill that filled the world. Tightening his clothes, he glanced at the shivering children left outside. After staring silently for a moment, he began to walk forward. However, he didn’t close the door to his house.

Within the house, the heat of the fire continued to linger. This difference in temperature caused white fog to immediately appear at the doorway, attracting the nearby children’s attention. The deathliness in their eyes seemed to suddenly transform into hopeful gazes.

Xu Qing’s figure moved through the blizzard, traveling faster and faster. In the end, his whole body seemed to fuse with the wind, leaving afterimages as he sped in the direction of the new Vajra Sect.

The qi and blood in his body was boiling, his Sea Transforming Scripture circulated relentlessly, and purple light flowed from all over his body, converging above his head and forming the faint shadow of the heavenly blade.

Finally, Xu Qing neared. He lifted his head and looked up at the Vajra Sect in the heavy blizzard.

The barrage of falling snow should have torn apart the curtain of moonlight and speckled the sight of the Vajra Sect. However, as the moonlight reflected off the snowflakes, it seemed to be reassembling that speckled sight, allowing Xu Qing to see the sect extremely clearly.

As the sect was reflected in Xu Qing’s vision, killing intent flared in his eyes. The next moment, Xu Qing suddenly flew forward!

The flight talisman on his leg shone brightly. He was like a knife slicing through the sky as he shot into the air, cutting through the blizzard and approaching the hall at the top of the mountain. His speed grew faster and faster, and in an instant, he appeared in the sky above the hall.

Without any hesitation, he lifted his right hand and slashed it downwards toward this mountaintop hall.

As soon as he chopped down, the entire world seemed to shake, and the projection of a huge heavenly blade appeared in the sky. Although the blizzard was strong, they couldn’t make the heavenly blade waver at all. Purple light filled the sky, and the blade projection moved. It sliced through the air, sliced through the wind and snow, and fell towards that hall on top of the mountain.

Looking from a distance, the immense heavenly blade was an extremely shocking sight. When it fell, a violent aura spread out, as if everything that dared exist in front of it would be directly cut in two.

It landed in the blink of an eye, causing an earth-shattering boom to echo out. The entire mountain shook, and the main hall collapsed, splitting in two under the light of this blade strike.

Inside the collapsed building, the Vajra Sect ancestor appeared, retreating rapidly after resisting that blade strike.

He immediately noticed Xu Qing, but before he could even open his mouth, Xu Qing slashed down a second time!

As Xu Qing’s cultivation improved, he gained the ability to use the heavenly blade strike multiple times. Furthermore, he had been storing power within himself along the way. Now, the projection of the heavenly blade immediately appeared behind him again and fell towards the Vajra Sect ancestor.

With an earth-shattering rumble, the purple blade chopped down once more. The Vajra Sect ancestor let out a low roar as it collided with him again.

With a boom, the hall at the top of the mountain completely disintegrated. The Vajra Sect ancestor’s qi and blood were sent into turmoil after resisting two blade strikes in a row, and his body suddenly retreated more than a hundred meters. With a wave of his hand, a Vajra guardian projection appeared behind him, glaring at Xu Qing with towering momentum.

However, the Vajra Sect ancestor’s hair was in disarray, and there was even a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. It was clear that Xu Qing’s two blade strikes hadn’t been easy for him to block!

“Fellow Daoist, you…” Although the Vajra Sect ancestor already had some guesses, he was still in disbelief over the power of the person in front of him. Thus, he quickly opened his mouth and tried to confirm his guess.

But before he could finish speaking, his complexion suddenly changed drastically. His eyes flickered and he suddenly backed up as fast as he could, but he was still a bit too slow. No one on the ground had noticed that the shadow, hidden under the cover of the dark night, had long been controlled by Xu Qing to close in on the Vajra Sect ancestor. In the blink of an eye, it arrived at the ancestor’s location and was about to wrap around him.

Although the Vajra Sect ancestor reacted quickly and dodged almost immediately, the shadow still managed to touch his arm. In an instant, his arm turned blue-black with rich heterogeneity, causing horror to well up in his heart.

Xu Qing looked at the Vajra Sect ancestor coldly, and without saying a word, he slashed down a third time.

Purple light surged in the sky, and the blade projection appeared again, cutting through the wind and snow and falling directly on the Vajra Sect ancestor, who was frantically retreating away from the shadow.

Rumbles spread out as the Vajra guardian projection behind the Vajra Sect ancestor raised its hands to block the strike with all its strength. With a bang, the arms of the Vajra guardian collapsed, and blood flowed from the Vajra Sect ancestor’s mouth as he retreated again and again.

However, he was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, after all. Even though he wasn’t from a large sect and used an inferior cultivation technique, as a Foundation Establishment expert, he was still extremely powerful. The three blade strikes and the sneak attack from the shadow had only been able to injure him. As he continuously retreated, he raised his head abruptly. With bloodshot eyes, he gritted his teeth and shouted at Xu Qing.

“You’re Kid!”

At the same time, the sect master and elders of the Vajra Sect all rushed out, and everyone looked to the sky with shocked expressions.

Standing in midair, Xu Qing’s long hair fluttered in the wind, and his scavenger’s clothing made him look even more murderous. In the middle of the blizzard, his figure reflected under the moonlight looked like the king of hell, holding power over life and death.

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