Chapter 1999: Chapter 2004: Something Happened!

In the breeze, it not only brought him a chill, he could even smell the Blood Energy in it!

Like a Heaven-Reaching river of blood.

He could smell it from so far away!

"Something’s happened to Imperial Sky Gate!"

This thought surged madly into his mind.

Xia Liu had no time to bother with Li Yun and Qingqing.

The Moving Divine Power reappeared, and in an instant he Instantaneously Moved a hundred li away!

"That’s a Body Movement Divine Power!"

Her Divine Sense Sensing Xia Liu a hundred li away, Li Yun was shocked once again.

She had originally thought she could withstand every shock Xia Liu brought.

Yet her emotions still rippled.

He truly deserves to be called a Monster!

Only a power with unmatched foundation could cultivate such a genius!

"Granny, let’s hurry over and take a look, this isn’t simple!"

Qingqing reminded her.

"Mm, move quickly!"

Li Yun didn’t delay, grabbed Qingqing, and pushed her limits to fly through the air.

A few breaths later, Li Yun and Qingqing arrived above Imperial Sky Gate.

Even though Li Yun had already guessed the outcome, she was still shocked by the scene.

Looking down from above.

She saw the river running through Imperial Sky Gate stained a faint red.

Countless corpses were piled along the riverbanks.

The river churned, splashing onto the shore, brushing over the corpses’ surfaces, carrying the dark red blood into the water.

On a certain plaza by the mountain gate, there was a streak on the ground, where one could see deep red.

That was the trail of blood formed as blood pooled and flowed down to lower ground!

The terrifying scene made Qingqing’s guts nearly spill out from fear.

Too cruel!

Such a massive Sect, slaughtered to the last!

Within a hundred li radius there wasn’t a single living creature left.

Even that little wolf, raised by who-knows-who, had its head cut off.

It chilled the heart.

"Where’s Brother Xia?"

Qingqing’s Divine Sense was limited; she couldn’t find where Xia Liu was at all.

Maybe she’d been too frightened by the carnage before her.

She could barely even use her Divine Sense.

When had the Northern Realm ever suffered such a fierce massacre?

At least in the past hundred years of recorded history, Qingqing had never heard of it.

Even if there were cases of Sects being wiped out.

They wouldn’t be like now, where even the chickens and ducks used to feed Demon Beasts were slaughtered without exception.

This could only be called cruelty pushed to the extreme!

"Found him!"

Li Yun took Qingqing and quickly entered a not-so-luxurious palace ahead.

At this moment, Xia Liu stood straight in the center of the main hall.

At his feet lay a group of young people dressed in white.

Among them, there was one whom, two years ago when he had first entered Hundred Victories Hall, he had called Senior Brother Bai.

There were also many faces Xia Liu had seen before; they were those who joined later, drawn by Hundred Victories Hall’s rising fame within Imperial Sky Gate.

Only to be met with this chilling scene today.

All around the hall, a massive number of corpses were piled up.

The same was true outside.

From this one could tell how eye-catching this hall had been at its peak.

"Young Friend Xia, please accept my condolences."

Li Yun didn’t know what else she could say.

If something like this happened to her own Ultimate Heart Sect, she’d probably go mad.

Xia Liu did not respond.

He stood where he was without a sound.

For a very, very long time, his body didn’t waver in the slightest.

On the third day, Xia Liu turned around and said to Li Yun and Qingqing, who had stood guard with him for three days straight, "Senior, Qingqing, the Sect where I once lived has met with misfortune. Perhaps it is the evil fruit I sowed. You need not worry, I will handle everything."

"Senior, the Ultimate Heart Sect may need your management, you..."

"No, you just focus on deducing who the slaughterer is. If I can’t handle it, I’ll go to the Myriad Realms to notify the Cultivation Alliance, or rope in a few old friends to fully support Young Friend Xia!"

Li Yun’s attitude was extremely firm.

With Xia Liu facing such calamity, how could she just leave?

"Senior’s kindness, Xia Liu is endlessly grateful for, but if this matter was caused because of me, then only I can resolve it."

"Fine! I’ll keep my mouth shut; just do what you want to do."

No matter what, Li Yun would not let Xia Liu do something foolish.

A once-in-an-era Monster.

Perhaps the hope of the entire Cultivation Realm, so Xia Liu must not be lost!

Qingqing wanted to speak, but looking at Xia Liu’s pale face, she really didn’t know what to say.

She could only silently pray in her heart.

Hoping he could walk out of this pain.

A Cultivator’s fleshly body was different from that of mortals; even if a Cultivator’s body remained where it was for half a year, it wouldn’t decay.

So there was no foul stench at the scene.

Xia Liu took a deep, cold breath, adjusting his mindset. He was afraid he would lose his temper, afraid he would destroy the Bai Clan’s centuries-old foundation.

"Granny, what is he doing?"

Seeing Xia Liu straighten a young corpse and seat it cross-legged on the ground, Qingqing asked in confusion.

"I don’t know; maybe he wants to carefully examine the corpse and find some clue."

After glancing around, Xia Liu carried Senior Brother Bai out of the hall.

"Senior brothers of Hundred Victories Hall, once I find the culprits, even to the ends of the earth, Xia Liu will tear them to pieces!"

After bowing to Senior Brother Bai.

Xia Liu unleashed an unparalleled Divine Ability.

"Senior Brother Bai, forgive me!"

As the Seal Decree fell, the space above Xia Liu’s head began to twist.

Then a black scroll flickered into existence.

In an instant, the place was filled with dense deathly aura!

"What a terrifying aura! What is that?"

Watching the massive scroll suspended in the Void, Qingqing couldn’t help transmitting her question to Li Yun.

"I don’t know; I’ve never seen such a Divine Artifact."

Though she called it a Divine Artifact, Li Yun knew even better: that was a dead thing!

It looked just like the Scroll of Life and Death in the legendary palace of King Yan.

"In the name of me, Xia Liu, today I will not take Souls, will not Devour Soul spirits. Scroll of Death, please seize the Soul of my Senior Brother Bai!"

His low mutter spread out, accompanied by the fall of the Seal Decree.

The scroll suddenly opened.

Though only a sliver was opened.

It still stirred the winds and clouds within a hundred li!

Even someone as powerful as Li Yun couldn’t help but tremble under the terrifying aura of the Scroll of Death.

If this were a Spirit-Reaching Ability, it could only be used to scare people and wouldn’t be truly frightening.

If this were an offensive Divine Skill.

Li Yun even had a bold thought: if the scroll were fully opened, even a Nascent Soul Stage might not escape.

As this Exotic Force spread across thousands of li.

A beam of gray light quickly drifted over from the distance.

Li Yun was once again shaken.

Because she sensed that within this gray light, there was actually Soul Force!

Or rather, this gray light was itself a ghost!

It had left a dead person’s body!

When the gray light, under the radiance of the Scroll of Death, returned to Senior Brother Bai’s body.

Xia Liu touched the center of Senior Brother Bai’s brow, and the Secret Technique appeared once more.

Using his Divine Sense in concert with his Wisdom Eyes, he observed what Senior Brother Bai had experienced before death.

It had been a bright and sunny afternoon.

Senior Brother Bai had been cultivating outside the hall with the brothers of Hundred Victories Hall.

Suddenly, several powerful figures flew across the sky.

At their head was the face Xia Liu knew best—Sha Tongtian!

Right behind him were Fang Zhi, Ma Gao, He Guicai, and Yan Li!

"Ah!"

After withdrawing the Divine Skill.

Xia Liu lifted his head and howled, the pressure on his body fully unleashed.

The shock made Hundred Victories Hall, and even the whole Imperial Sky Gate, shake to its foundations.

"Sha Tongtian! If I don’t tear you into ten thousand pieces, may Xia Liu’s Divine Sense shatter and die!"

Boom!

Before his roar even faded, a black pillar of light that shook the Heart and Soul surged out of Xia Liu’s body, shooting straight into the Nine Heavens!