The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 216 - 101: Kill and Steal the Treasure (Pleading for Monthly Votes!)_1

Chapter 216: Chapter 101: Kill and Steal the Treasure (Pleading for Monthly Votes!)_1

Deep in the gorge.

Nightfall had come, but the stars and the moon were not yet visible.

"Who buried the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder here?"

Liang Ying, caught completely off guard, looked around fiercely.

She naturally assumed that it might have been an individual cultivator or a clan elder who had been previously chased by beasts from the alien tribes and had set a trap here in an attempt to counterattack.

——She did not connect this thunder orb with Pang Jian.

"Boom!"

The cylinder holding the Annihilation Needles also exploded suddenly!

Dozens of hair-thin Annihilation Needles instantly penetrated Liang Ying’s Spiritual Power Strong Shield, piercing into her flesh and causing injuries all over her body immediately.

The tiny needle points caused unbearable pain as they moved inside her flesh.

"Annihilation Needles!"

Liang Ying screamed in terror.

This vicious kind of one-time consumable was specially designed to target a cultivator’s spiritual power shields; even with her Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation, she could not block the penetration of the Annihilation Needles.

"Yes, the Annihilation Needles," Pang Jian’s voice rose, full of malice.

Liang Ying, who was mustering her strength to suppress the Annihilation Needles stuck in her body, finally fixed her wandering gaze on one spot after hearing this voice.

Her eyes finally settled on Pang Jian!

Always suspecting that someone else was lurking in the darkness, using "Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder" and "Annihilation Needles" to ambush her, Liang Ying’s eyes suddenly focused on Pang Jian...

She saw Pang Jian holding another cylinder of Annihilation Needles.

"Elder Liang, please accept this gift."

"Boom!"

A second cylinder of Annihilation Needles broke through Liang Ying’s Spiritual Power Strong Shield like torrential rain, piercing her body with tiny cuts everywhere.

In a rush, she could only use her arms to protect her chest and forehead, but still, many cuts appeared on her face.

Drops of blood oozed from the tiny wounds, giving her a ghastly appearance at that moment.

She could no longer maintain her usual kind and benevolent demeanor.

"Pang Jian!"

Finally realizing what was happening, Liang Ying glared at Pang Jian with fierce and malicious eyes, and shouted, "You dare to attack me? Pang Jian, do you realize what you’re doing?"

"I do."

Pang Jian, who had summoned his Astonishing Spear, hovered above the spear, refining his tall and strong body.

He moved the spear towards Liang Ying slowly while maintaining the closest connection with the Mysterious Turtle, observing her every move with "Demigod" insight.

He could see clearly the waves rising from Liang Ying’s Spiritual Sea, the way she gathered star power and spiritual power to shatter the Annihilation Needles, and the severity of the wounds on her body.

The exquisite Spirit Arrays within the Star-shattering Umbrella she held, containing Liang Ying’s spiritual power and several strands of her Divine Sense, were also clear to him.

"Spirit Condensation Realm, and her Divine Sense can actually leave the body and move within objects," Pang Jian remarked suddenly, coming to a stop.

Standing on the Astonishing Spear, he bowed slightly towards Liang Ying, his face indifferent, his eyes devoid of much emotional fluctuation, and said in a deep voice, "This is the second time."

"What second time? Pang Jian, what are you talking about?!"

Liang Ying shouted angrily.

She swallowed a pill and desperately gathered strength to erase the tiny Annihilation Needles while waiting for the medicinal effects of the pill to spread, to help her stabilize her injuries quickly.

"This is the second time you’ve attempted to assassinate me and steal the one million Spirit Stones in my possession," Pang Jian said calmly, looking into her eyes.

Liang Ying’s eyes showed clear panic, but she retorted, "Pang Jian! What nonsense are you spouting? I approached you twice with good intentions!"

"I was worried you couldn’t handle those from the alien tribes, and I wanted to pull you under the protection of my Star-shattering Umbrella. Your ingratitude is one thing, but to slander me is unacceptable!"

She was the picture of righteousness, as if she had been greatly wronged.

Pang Jian sneered inwardly, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt a twitch in his brow.

Through his other field of vision, he noticed Fang Boxuan from the Blood Moon showing up at the base of the fourth peak.

Fang Boxuan examined the remains of a level-six warrior from the Ghost Clan as well as a dead level-five Ghost Ape.

After a thorough search of the two, he immediately headed towards the location of Pang Jian and Liang Ying.

Pang Jian no longer wasted words, and said coldly, "You know very well what you want to do. I am not here to argue with you over right and wrong; I am telling you this just to inform you of the reason why I am going to kill you."

"Kill me?"

"Heh, you want to kill me?"

"Pang Jian, do you even know your own limitations?"

Liang Ying laughed scornfully out of extreme anger.

A junior who had just entered the Hollow Profound Realm, who was inquiring about the mysteries of this realm from Xie Xiwen two days ago, now dared to speak boldly of killing her?

The Liang Ying who had fought a fierce battle with the leader of the Ghost Clan and had been injured, only to be further wounded by the "Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder" and the "Annihilation Needles," found Pang Jian’s words utterly absurd and laughable under these circumstances.

"Swoosh!"

The Astonishing Spear came sweeping towards her.

The spear’s tip’s intimidating sharpness made Liang Ying frown.

As she focused her Divine Sense to lock onto Pang Jian’s energy to pinpoint every step of a Spirit Condensation-level practitioner...

She was shocked to discover that she couldn’t lock onto Pang Jian despite being a whole realm higher!

Having lived for over a hundred years, she had never encountered such an experience, never seen such peculiar phenomena!

The next moment, she experienced another bizarre event that filled her with dread.

As if merging with the entire universe, becoming one with nature itself, Pang Jian seemed to lock onto her during the spear’s attack!

Her every move, the subtle ripples in her Spiritual Sea, the power flowing through her meridians and organs, and the "Annihilation Needles" that pierced her skin all seemed to be perceptible to Pang Jian down to the finest detail!

It was as if he possessed a Divine Eye that reached her and saw through her completely!

"Pang Jian!"

Liang Ying, whose heart surged with great fear, her face etched with terror, cried out in disbelief, "You, you..."

She had every reason to suspect that Pang Jian was a Great Cultivator from a realm far above hers, possibly from the Soul Wandering Realm or even the Extinction Realm!

Only that could rationally explain the various direct sensations she was experiencing.

"You are so wicked! Pretending to be a cultivator from the Hollow Profound Realm, you played everyone like pawns, and when the crisis of the Yuanmang Alien Tribes invasion loomed, you could have easily resolved it but instead..."

"You actually!"

Liang Ying, her courage shattered, first sacrificed her Star-shattering Umbrella.

"Bang!"

The handle and surface of the umbrella malfunctioned suddenly, the many bright stars shone for just a moment before simultaneously going dark.

Liang Ying, scared out of her wits, then threw out the Meteorite Bead, trying to rely on the defensive power of the Meteorite Bead to barely hold on.

"Bang!"

The Meteorite Bead also immediately spun out of control, with all its intricate arrays within ceasing to operate.

At the same time.

A majestic force from the core of the earth also stirred her Spiritual Sea, leaving her unable to gather her Spiritual Power to form a Firm Cover again.

"Pfft!"

She watched wide-eyed as the gleaming spear under Pang Jian’s foot pierced through her lower abdomen’s Dantian within her Spiritual Sea.

Pang Jian then casually landed, grabbing the spear and flicking it upwards.

The sharp spear tip began from her shattered Dantian and cut through her organs and flesh, slowly approaching her heart, and she was utterly powerless to stop it.

In her eyes, Pang Jian was more frightening than any demon, a venomous Great Cultivator whose realm was beyond her own.

She couldn’t even muster the will to struggle.

"One thing you said is quite right."

Pang Jian, as if executing punishment, held the Astonishing Spear and cut through her flesh with an indifferent expression, "The crisis of the Yuanmang Alien Tribes invasion, I indeed could have resolved with a flick of my fingers. After all, I arranged for those Alien Tribes to come here."

"Ugh! Mm-mm!"

Liang Ying, in fearful despair, tried to say something else, but her mouth spewed out blood instead.

The spear tip tore all the way to her heart in her chest, and just before her life expired, she saw her own Star-shattering Umbrella quietly floating above Pang Jian’s head.

"Whoosh!"

This high-grade Spiritual Artifact, with which her life was intertwined, suddenly burst out with brilliant starlight, and even a bright, pristine Moon appeared on its surface.

In Pang Jian’s hands, the Star-shattering Umbrella revealed even more mysterious intricacies and exhibited many novel and complex changes.

"There are old ghosts from the Upper Realm trying to overthrow the millennia-old foundation of the Human Race!"

This was the last thought in Liang Ying’s mind.

A hundred yards away.

"Pang Jian!"

Fang Boxuan, having rushed to this place, abruptly halted his momentum like reining in a horse at the edge of a cliff, his face a picture of shock as he looked at the familiar canyon, the familiar piles of stones, and the grass.

And the familiar Pang Jian!

Fang Boxuan, who had stealthily come in hopes of snatching an opportunity from Liang Ying, witnessed Pang Jian holding the Star-shattering Umbrella in one hand and a silver spear in the other, extracting the cold, piercing long spear from Liang Ying’s chest.

"Pfft!"

As blood spurted out, Liang Ying fell backwards with a thunderous crash.

Her eyes wide with terror, she seemed unable to find peace even in death.

The Star-shattering Umbrella, once hers, landed in the hands of Pang Jian, slowly unfolding, its inside gleaming with stars and a clear Moon clearly visible.

Beneath the radiance of star and moonlight, Pang Jian’s face was stern as he wiped the blood from the spear tip using Liang Ying’s clothes.

At this moment, night had fallen, yet the stars and full Moon had not yet appeared in the sky.

But there, under the light of the Star and Moon Radiance shining from the umbrella Pang Jian held, he seemed extraordinarily dazzling.

Pang Jian, in this scene, made Fang Boxuan’s heart quake with fear.

Pang Jian had killed Liang Ying of the Spirit Condensation Realm, killed an Elder of the Star River Alliance, and had also taken control of the Star-shattering Umbrella!

Fang Boxuan’s mind was in turmoil, a mess of confusion, as if he didn’t know which way was up.

Suddenly, he saw Pang Jian clean the spear tip and strip the storage ring from Liang Ying’s hand, then he tossed a thunder orb into the gruesome hole in her chest.

Under the light of the Star-shattering Umbrella, he could see the traces of damage from the "Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder" on Liang Ying’s body, as well as many small wounds.

"Annihilation Needle!"

Fang Boxuan’s heart ached.

He guessed that Pang Jian had employed similar methods, using vicious instruments like "Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder" and "Annihilation Needle" to covertly sabotage Liang Ying, then killing her after inflicting serious injuries on her.

Yet even so, Pang Jian’s prowess filled Fang Boxuan with trepidation.

After all, there was a full realm’s difference between the two, Liang Ying had been immersed in the Spirit Condensation Realm for over a decade, while Pang Jian had only recently arrived at the Hollow Profound Realm.

"This madman really will stop at nothing and possesses a power that far exceeds his own realm!"

Fang Boxuan felt chills running down his spine, the secret shadows in his heart growing darker.

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