The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 87 - 74 Li Jies Good Intentions_1

Chapter 87: Chapter 74 Li Jie’s Good Intentions_1

Chapter 87 -74 Li Jie’s Good Intentions_1

Outside the mansion, killing resumed.

Simply because someone inside had said “not enough,” the remaining cultivators from various realms once again raised their butcher knives.

Accompanied by deafening roars, a myriad of dazzling light beams and weapons danced about, with some unable to react in time, falling into bloodstained death in an instant.

Pang Jian and his group, this time, did not become the target of those people; no one dared to approach them.

After a sigh of relief, Pang Jian carefully surveyed the battlefield, watching the self-forgetting slaughter of visitors from all realms.

He quickly noticed that those who were first attacked and killed were all like that sturdy man, cultivators of the Meridians Channeling Realm.

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Among the crowd, the “killers” who were willing to be directed by those inside the mansion were almost all Marrow Cleansing Cultivators like Zhou Qingchen.

Pang Jian suddenly remembered Jian Yaoyang and others.

If Jian Yaoyang and his group of seven had not died at their hands but reached this square, except for Jian Yaoyang himself, the other six would most likely have died long ago.

Even with Jian Yaoyang’s cultivation level and combat power, he would merely be qualified to be used as a blade to kill others outside the city.

——But not qualified to enter the City Lord Mansion.

Pang Jian deeply felt the cruelty of the martial world.

There were many corpses on the ground, mostly of the Meridians Channeling Realm, with a few from the Marrow Cleansing Realm interspersed among them.

Such level of cultivators, in his own Northern Qi or even across the entire Fourth Realm, were considered extremely extraordinary individuals.

A person who had cultivated to the Marrow Cleaning Realm would be treated as an honored guest in any of the seven great families.

But outside the City Lord Mansion in Bagua City, cultivators like Jin Yang and Dong Qianfeng of the Meridians Channeling Realm were nothing but the most ordinary of corpses.

Hong Tai was no exception.

“I’m going to check the main gate.”

After silently reflecting for a while, Pang Jian whispered to Zhou Qingchen and then, as before, headed toward the main entrance where the girl in white was located.

He planned to take this chance to survey the battlefield again.

He quickly reached the main entrance and saw the veiled girl standing alone at the entrance of the street.

The girl, whose face could not be seen, was filled with a life-despising indifference in her eyes, with bodies placed around her haphazardly.

None of the newly added bodies were intact.

No sooner had Pang Jian appeared than she turned her head indifferently, expressionlessly gazing over.

Pang Jian immediately stopped, nodded at her, and looked towards the cultivators fighting around the main gate.

The cultivation realms of those people were almost all Marrow Cleansing Realm now, as Meridians Channeling Cultivators had become very hard to find.

Those who gathered here to fight seemed to be waiting for the strange display so they could rush into the City Lord Mansion at the first opportunity.

Pang Jian had a clear understanding that since the back door was closed, their location was where cultivators with the weakest combat power were congregated.

Even after the death toll in Bagua City was met, the back door might not open; anyone wanting to quickly rush into the mansion could only go through the main gate.

“No wonder she went to the main gate.”

After observing for a while, Pang Jian did not return the way he came but continued to move left, circling Bagua City.

The indifferent young man, walking slowly with a blood-stained long spear along the wall, also caught the attention of many people involved in the fighting.

Those who noticed him were mostly from other areas of the City Lord Mansion and had not seen the killing he had done at the back door.

Yet for some reason, none of those eager to assemble the required death toll dared to target him after a glance.

Pang Jian smoothly moved to the street corner where darkness once surged.

He stopped there, warily watching the dense ink-like darkness in the street corner.

The darkness in front of him had become consistent with other streets, no longer showing any strange movements, as if the Strange Treasure hidden in the darkness had long since left.

“Hehe.”

On the nearby lying chair, Li Jie, who was leisurely drinking Green Fruit Juice, seemingly oblivious to the blood-stained Asura Field he was in, suddenly chuckled and said, “There’s nothing to see now. Even if there really is some sinister Strange Treasure, it won’t emerge just yet.”

“Pang Jian!”

Luo Hongyan and Zhou Qingchen and the others finally saw him from a distance, calling out to signal him to hurry back.

Pang Jian nodded and walked towards them.

“Young man.”

As he approached the lounging chair, Li Jie smiled again and took the initiative to speak, “Later, the light column inside the City Lord Mansion will retract into the pool, and the Mirror Tunnel that leaves will open. At that time, you’ll have two choices.”

“One is to directly leave through the Mirror Tunnel without coveting the Spiritual Artifact in the pool, which maximizes your chances of survival.”

“The other choice is to stay and attempt to seize the Strange Treasure in the pool. Hehe, I wonder what you several will choose.”

Zhou Qingchen and the others also heard his words loud and clear.

Before Pang Jian returned, Zhou Qingchen and the others had already begun to contemplate, thinking about what to choose next.

“We’ll see before we decide.”

Pang Jian responded promptly.

“Hmm. Only after truly seeing it, perhaps you’ll give up hope and be able to make the best choice for yourselves.”

Li Jie smiled amiably and pulled out three liuli bottles filled with Green Fruit Juice from his Storage Ring, sitting up to hand them to Pang Jian, “I’ll treat you to some juice.”

Pang Jian was taken aback, “Why are you treating me?”

Li Jie pointed toward Zhou Qingchen and the dazed Su Meng, saying, “I’m also treating those two, so I gave you three bottles.”

Without waiting for Pang Jian to inquire further, he explained, “After entering Bagua City, I wandered around various streets. But only three people, upon seeing my attire, did not covet the items on me, did not think of killing me for treasure.”

“Really, it was only the three of you, so I invite you for juice.”

Li Jie smiled with squinted eyes.

“Oh, okay then.”

Pang Jian’s eyes looked somewhat strange as he caught the liuli bottle, filled with Green Fruit Juice, and immediately returned to Zhou Qingchen’s side, handing it to both Zhou Qingchen and Su Meng, “He said it’s for you to drink.”

“Really a weird guy…”

Zhou Qingchen muttered first, then suddenly thought of something and shouted at Li Jie, “That strange kid, could it be that my Jiang has ever coveted the treasures you possess?”

Li Jie was speechless, shaking his head, “She hasn’t seen me, always hiding here and there. She never had the chance to covet my treasures.”

“Now she has seen you, hasn’t she? If she wasn’t greedy for your treasures, then why didn’t you give her a bottle too?”

Zhou Qingchen stared at Li Jie, questioning.

“Zhou, what are you doing…”

Jiang Li found it humorous and swiftly tugged at his sleeve to stop his senseless pestering.

“You really are a rare one,” Li Jie sighed helplessly, “Alright, consider it my oversight.”

Then another bottle of Green Fruit Juice flew over.

Zhou Qingchen stepped forward, caught the bottle steadily, and casually handed it to Jiang Li, grinning, “The thing itself isn’t important. What matters is that I know my sister is a kind person and shouldn’t be slandered by this guy.”

A light shone in Jiang Li’s eyes as she looked at this tall, burly… big boy, her heart brimming with gratitude.

She took Zhou Qingchen’s hand willingly, hesitated for a moment, then summoned courage to say, “Zhou, promise me one thing, will you?”

“I’ll promise you anything!”

Zhou Qingchen laughed heartily, puffing out his chest.

“Later, if we’re also fortunate enough to get in, let’s leave directly through the Mirror Tunnel, okay? I’m tired and weary, and just want to leave this terrifying city as soon as possible. Zhou, can you promise me this?”

Jiang Li pleaded softly, swaying his arm.

Seeing her frail and helpless appearance, Zhou Qingchen’s heart nearly melted. He was about to agree immediately when he became stern and said, “No! The guy who cut off your arm, I must kill him before I can leave! I can give up the treasures inside, but that man must die!”

Zhou Qingchen firmly rejected her plea.

“Big Fool, she’s afraid you’ll get killed by that guy, that’s why she wants you to leave directly through the Mirror Tunnel.”

Unable to watch any longer, Luo Hongyan bluntly pointed out Jiang Li’s concerns, adding coldly, “She thinks the guy who cut off her arm is too strong, and you’re no match for him. She’s afraid you’ll be slaughtered by him too.”

“No, that’s not it.” Jiang Li explained softly.

“Hmph, even so, I still want to try!”

“I’ll accompany you,” Pang Jian said quietly.

“Good brother!”

Zhou Qingchen chuckled strangely, clapping his shoulder hard, and glared at Han Duping, “Old Han, why haven’t you quickly made a statement, saying you’ll also share life and death with me?”

Han Duping hung his head dejectedly, listlessly saying, “If there were even a hint of hope, I’d naturally accompany you. But if there’s no chance at all, and it’s clearly a suicide mission, then we might as well part ways.”

“Okay, that’s enough.”

Just at that moment, that leisurely and lazy voice came from inside the City Lord Mansion.

As the voice arose, everyone suddenly discovered in amazement that the pillar of light shooting towards the sky from inside the mansion was shrinking inch by inch, starting to retract downwards.

Pang Jian’s gaze whipped toward Li Jie.

All the peculiarities of Bagua City and the City Lord Mansion seemed to be understood by Li Jie; everything he said would be swiftly confirmed to be true.

He said when strange phenomena appeared within, the sky-reaching pillar of light would shrink, and sure enough, it happened immediately.

“This guy…”

Pang Jian pondered thoughtfully.

“Remember to drink the juice.”

Noticing him looking over, Li Jie smiled, raising the liuli bottle in his hand and even shook it at him.

Pang Jian didn’t make a sound but frowned at the corpses lying outside the City Lord Mansion, strewn in all directions.

He noticed the severed limbs and flesh, toward the stony ground, accelerating their retraction pace suddenly!

He had a strange feeling that the more and faster bodies were absorbed into the stony ground, the quicker the pillar of light inside the mansion would shrink.

Cultivators from various realms, in their bloodlust, heard the voice from inside the mansion and quickly calmed down.

Looking at the pillar of light slowly receding downwards, and the bodies disappearing into the stony ground, they instantly realized!

“The death toll is sufficient!”

“The Strange Treasure inside shall truly appear!”

“We can go in!”

One after another, figures, no matter where they had been scattered before, began to converge towards the main entrance.

“Zhou Qingchen, the person who spoke just now is the one who cut off your sister’s arm.”

Luo Hongyan no longer covered up for Jiang Li and straightforwardly revealed the truth, her tone cold, “That person should be called Qi Qingsong; you just need to find him and kill him after we enter.”

Zhou Qingchen took a deep breath and nodded emphatically, “I will!”

“You should go in now.”

Not far away, Li Jie, having packed away his lounge chair into his Storage Ring, winked at Pang Jian, saying, “Just a reminder, it’s better to drink the Green Fruit Juice I kindly gifted to you earlier. Don’t worry, I, Li Jie, am always bright and aboveboard, unlike you guys, I wouldn’t put any poison in it.”

Zhou Qingchen, who had just finished drinking, clutched the empty liuli bottle, his expression one of fearful shock as he stared at him.

Li Jie rolled his eyes and scolded, “Big Fool, can’t you understand human speech? I already said I wouldn’t poison it; why are you still acting like you drank a belly full of poison water?”

“I didn’t think earlier that you might poison it.”

Zhou Qingchen admitted with a bitter face, “Now that you mention it, I’m suddenly scared. Old Han said it’s important to be cautious!”

Li Jie glared at Zhou Qingchen, but without paying them any more attention, he took the lead towards the main entrance.

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