"If I’m not Murong Kang, then who am I?"

Murong Kang suddenly clutched his head, his features twisting in agony. He let out a hoarse, low roar.

He seemed to be trying to find his true identity from within his shattered Sea of Consciousness.

But Li Chang’an had no interest in discovering his identity.

’Main body or clone, they’re all enemies!’

With a thought, the Sword Array in his hand flew out, blasting Murong Kang’s body to pieces.

This time, Murong Kang did not revive.

The battle had taken longer than Li Chang’an had expected.

The reason was that the Demon Planting Technique was simply too heaven-defying. It not only included the Blood Seed Technique but also a Substitute Death Technique.

However, the day’s Divination hadn’t shown any surprises, so Li Chang’an wasn’t worried.

The entire process was almost completely under his control.

Only Murong Kang’s identity was somewhat unexpected.

"Soul Comes!"

Li Chang’an immediately performed Summoning Soul.

’I wonder if the summoned soul will be Murong Kang, or someone else?’

Before long, a slightly dazed figure appeared where Murong Kang had fallen.

This person’s appearance was different from Murong Kang’s.

He was very young and looked around in a daze, seeming not to understand his own situation.

"I... What happened to me? Why am I here?"

He looked at his own body and mumbled to himself.

Li Chang’an stood to the side, his gaze sweeping over the man, sizing him up.

’It really isn’t Murong Kang.’

This soul with a different appearance confirmed two things for Li Chang’an.

The Murong Kang who died at his hands was indeed a clone.

Furthermore, while the Demon Planting Technique’s Clone Technique could alter a clone’s past memories and appearance, it couldn’t change its Bloodline or Soul.

Li Chang’an looked at the man and had a vague feeling that he looked familiar.

’Liang Yu?’

The name suddenly surfaced in his mind.

The outside world mostly thought that Huang He Master only had thirteen disciples.

But that wasn’t true.

He had fourteen disciples in total.

But the last disciple had disappeared long ago, and since he hadn’t shown much promise before his disappearance, he was forgotten by most people.

Li Chang’an had heard from Pei Yingyao that her youngest junior brother’s name was Liang Yu.

Later, Li Chang’an happened to see a portrait of Liang Yu, and it looked very similar to the Soul before him.

’It must be him.’

’But this isn’t a place to linger. I’ll ask for the details when I get back.’

With a casual wave of his hand, Li Chang’an tossed the man’s Soul into the Venerable Soul Banner.

He used dozens of Talismans to incinerate the corpse, then erased all traces of the Magical Combat in the area.

After finishing all this, Li Chang’an returned to the previous site of their Magical Combat.

Here, there were over a hundred Cultivators who had been controlled by the man using the Demon Planting Technique.

Once he died, the Bloodlines within them lost control, frantically devouring the Cultivators’ lives.

By the time Li Chang’an arrived, the Cultivators were all dead, their bodies devoured into shriveled husks.

As for the Bloodlines in their bodies, they were now frantically devouring each other, as if to merge into a single monster.

’This technique is truly bizarre.’

Li Chang’an unleashed several Sword Arrays, completely annihilating these Bloodlines, then used Talismans to burn the countless remains to ash.

After that, he erased all traces of Magical Combat and his own aura, then transformed into a streak of Spiritual Light and departed.

Before long, Li Chang’an arrived at the most famous perilous area in the Blood Stone Secret Realm.

Soul-breaking Cliff!

He stood at the edge of the cliff and looked down.

Below, black mist churned and a sinister yin energy radiated out. It seemed to hide some kind of monster, making it impossible to see what lay in the deepest part.

Even using his Divine Sense, he could not probe very far.

’This black mist can actually block Divine Sense.’

Li Chang’an had a premonition that there was certainly an opportunity below.

But often, the greater the opportunity, the greater the danger.

It was not wise to take the risk.

He sat on the edge of the cliff, took out the Storage Pouch from Murong Kang’s clone, erased the restriction on it, and began to take inventory of the Treasures inside.

’I wonder if the Demon Planting Technique is in here.’

What Li Chang’an wanted most was, of course, the Demon Planting Technique.

He had thought he could get it by killing Murong Kang, but who would have thought that this Murong Kang was only a clone.

After a moment, his eyes lit up as he took out a glass-like Treasure Bottle. Inside was a ball of crystal-clear Treasure Liquid.

"Celestial Pure Water!"

Li Chang’an immediately recognized this Treasure.

It was one of the five main ingredients needed for refining the Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

He now possessed three of the main ingredients required for the Five Elements Golden Condensation Pill.

’A pleasant surprise.’

Li Chang’an smiled and carefully put away the Celestial Pure Water.

Although this person wasn’t the real Murong Kang, he had lived on Yellow Crane Mountain for years. Backed by a Golden Core Dao Lineage, his Storage Pouch was filled with a considerable number of Treasures.

Besides the Celestial Pure Water, there was also a Treasure to aid with Core Formation called the Forget Dust Stone. It could help a person calm their mind and forget their worries. It was similar to the Snow Heart Stone that Mo Qingxue had previously given Li Chang’an, though its effect was slightly weaker.

Li Chang’an had no use for this item, but it could be used to trade for other Treasures.

He continued to rummage through the remaining Treasures.

If there were any suspicious items, he would just toss them into Soul-breaking Cliff. Even if Huang He Master came looking, he wouldn’t dare to check the bottom of Soul-breaking Cliff.

’This Soul-breaking Cliff is a good place. In the future, if I have any suspicious items from opponents I’ve killed, I’ll come here to dispose of them,’ Li Chang’an thought to himself.

Before long, he finished taking stock of the Treasures in the Storage Pouch.

As expected, the Demon Planting Technique wasn’t there, but he did find a very useful spell.

’An Earth Grade Concealment Skill, *Refining Shadow Invisible Technique*.’

A flash of Spiritual Light appeared in Li Chang’an’s hand, revealing a Jade Scroll.

The contents of the Jade Scroll were precisely this Concealing Spell.

’No wonder I could never find Murong Kang before. He actually had a Concealing Spell of such a high Tier.’