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Chapter 1048 - 1068: You Must Return the Lives of the 500 Girls!_1

Chapter 1048: Chapter 1068: You Must Return the Lives of the 500 Girls!_1

Yelü Yuan was stunned for a moment, could this guy really have guessed it?

Seeing Yelü Yuan’s expression, Zhang Zhongyan knew that he had guessed correctly and shouted, "This old bastard has tricked us! What did he tell you guys?"

Old bastard?

Gao Yi said coldly, "You secretly captured many young girls, played with them, and finally killed them. Isn’t that a fact?"

Zhang Zhongyan said loudly, "Those girls were what that bastard Xu Xianxiang wanted, and since they were all going to die anyway, I just played with them..."

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean? Explain clearly."

Upon hearing this, Yelü Yuan paused his attack but still glared at Zhang Zhongyan intensely.

Zhang Zhongyan was no match for Yelü Yuan. After only two punches, blood was already flowing from the corner of his mouth. He hurriedly said, "I had asked Xu Xianxiang to refine a Magical Treasure before, and he gave me a condition. He wanted me to find 500 young girls, all with the pure Yin bodies. He taught me a method to absorb the blood of these girls and condense it into blood beads while simultaneously trapping their souls."

Lin Chen’s pupils contracted slightly. The path of refining people?

He immediately thought of the Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Array and the Wanling Blood Pearl. Was Xu Xianxiang cultivating the Refining Path?

Zhang Zhongyan continued, "I asked him what the blood beads made from the essence blood of the girls were for, and he said it was for Refinement. I used some methods to gather 500 girls for him, and eventually, all of them turned into blood beads and were handed over to him."

"He helped me refine the Magical Treasure, and our transaction was supposed to end there. But recently, he suddenly came to me and asked me to find even more blood beads, this time 5,000 of them."

"He said that as a reward, he could refine a powerful Magical Treasure for me. Although I was tempted, I am, after all, the Deputy City Lord of Tianyuan City. If this matter were to be exposed, it would affect me, so I refused him."

"I refused him and worried that he might cause trouble in the city himself, eventually implicating me. So, I asked him to leave Tianyuan City and threatened him that if he didn’t go, I would expose his secret."

"This old bastard couldn’t threaten me, and fearing I would expose his real intentions, he sent you guys to kill me. You came to him to refine Magical Treasures or repair them, and then he gave you the condition to kill me, right?"

Lin Chen asked, "What is Xu Xianxiang’s background? Do you know?"

Zhang Zhongyan shook his head, "His background is quite mysterious. Although I am sure that he has a sect behind him, I don’t know which one it is. He is very cautious and never reveals anything."

Lin Chen fell silent for two seconds before turning his gaze toward Yelü Yuan. "Boss Ye Lü, I have nothing more to ask. Let’s finish this."

Yelü Yuan chuckled and attacked Zhang Zhongyan once again.

Zhang Zhongyan shouted in despair, "I am willing to pay the price to atone for my life!"

Lin Chen calmly said, "You must pay for the lives of five hundred innocent girls. As for Xu Xianxiang, if what you said is true, I will send him to accompany you."

"On what grounds!"

Zhang Zhongyan shouted in despair and unwillingness, "We are all cultivators, walking against the heavens. Why do you get to decide my life and death?"

Yelü Yuan punched Zhang Zhongyan, causing him to spit blood, and laughed, "It’s because he is the Human Emperor!"

"Human Emperor!"

Zhang Zhongyan suddenly became absent-minded, his eyes shocked as he looked at Lin Chen in disbelief.

Zhang Zhongyan was no match for Yelü Yuan. Being so absent-minded in that moment, his body was blown away and badly injured by Yelü Yuan’s punch.

Zhang Zhongyan’s Primordial Spirit flew out of his body, hit the light curtain, and was blocked. Seeing Yelü Yuan attacking again, he made up his mind and suddenly glowed brightly.

"If you want to kill me, then let’s die together!"

Self-destruct!

Lin Chen’s eyebrows twitched, and almost instinctively, the Emperor’s Seal flew out and trembled slightly in the air, emitting a clear sound.

Zhang Zhongyan’s Primordial Spirit seemed to have been hit squarely in the head, momentarily losing focus and becoming suspended in midair.

"Boom!"

At that instant of delay, Yelü Yuan’s fist heavily landed on Zhang Zhongyan’s Primordial Spirit, shattering it directly.

Zhang Zhongyan’s Primordial Spirit scattered, and his gaze fell on the Emperor’s Seal. At the last moment, his spirit returned, and his eyes were filled with despair.

"The Emperor’s Seal..."

Zhang Zhongyan’s Primordial Spirit turned into a torrent of vigorous Spiritual energy, sweeping in all directions.

Gao Yi put away the clay bowl, and the Spiritual energy quickly dispersed into Heaven and Earth.

Yelü Yuan clapped his hands and smiled, "Done!"

Gao Yi turned to Lin Chen, "Are you going to kill Xu Xianxiang?"

Lin Chen nodded, "If what Zhang Zhongyan said is true, then Xu Xianxiang might be cultivating the Ancient Evil Refining Path..."

Gao Yi’s face changed slightly, "Refining Path? Refining people?"

Lin Chen nodded, "Didn’t I say that I had killed an Early Stage of Void cultivator before? That was an Elder Taishang from an Alchemy Sect in Xixi State, and the Sect Master was his son. They learned the Ancient Evil Array - Ten Thousand Spirits Blood Array from a mysterious person and refined a city with 400,000 of my Nanyue Hengshan sect’s subordinates into a Wanling Blood Pearl."

"I traced it to the Three Ghosts Gate and found that they were also luring many cultivators into their sect to refine them into blood beads. I destroyed the entire Three Ghosts Gate, but the identity of the mysterious man couldn’t be investigated..."