Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 942 Unreasonable

“I accidentally got a jade slip and learned the information about this place from it, so I took the risk and came here with my friends. Fortunately, I got the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus.” Ye Xuan said.

"Hmph! You are such an ignorant brat!" Saint Zixuan did not say anything, but the woman in red behind him could not help but sneer and laugh, "My master asked you how you knew about the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus, but you changed the subject. Why don't you tell me how you 'accidentally' got the jade slip?!"

"..." Ye Xuan was silent. Seeing that Saint Zixuan still looked indifferent, he thought for a moment and said, "I got the jade slip from a saint named Zhao Qi."

Zhao Qi was none other than the green-robed saint who was hunting down the Tie brothers. Ye Xuan knew his name from relevant clues found in that man's storage ring. After telling Tie Ke about it, he learned from Tie Ke that the man was just an independent cultivator and had never mentioned any relationship with Saint Zixuan, so there should be no problem in telling him about it.

“Zhao Qi?!” The woman in red was stunned for a moment, then she said in shock and anger, “It really is that old thief!! I said he was the one who murdered Junior Brother!!”

The purple-clothed middle-aged man next to him frowned slightly, with a hint of suspicion in his eyes. He stared at Ye Xuan coldly and said, "How can you snatch the jade slip from Zhao Qi? Tell me in detail how you got it? Where is Zhao Qi now?"

The words were extremely tough and condescending.

Ye Xuan frowned and explained, "I killed him! He was seriously injured when we met him. It took several of us working together to kill him."

As he spoke, he waved his right hand and took out half of a dark green vine, which was Zhao Qi's sacred weapon, to show that he was not lying.

“It’s Zhao Qi’s sacred weapon! Did you really kill him?!” The red-clothed woman was shocked as she stared at the half-broken green vine in Ye Xuan’s hand. Suddenly, she raised her eyes and glared at Ye Xuan, saying in a bad tone, “So, you also took the relic of my junior brother that Zhao Qi had robbed?! Hand it over!!”

Ye Xuan had a gloomy face. He could guess some information from the other party's words. He thought that the jade slip recording the information here came from the hands of the 'junior brother' mentioned by the red-clothed woman. It should be that person who discovered the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus here, but failed to succeed because he was no match for the Great Saint Realm Second Heaven Demon Beast. He probably notified his master, Saint Zixuan, to come and help through communication or other means. He just didn't know what happened and the jade slip fell into Zhao Qi's hands, and then he got it.

Ye Xuan suddenly thought that the reason why the second-level demon beast in the Great Saint Realm suddenly ran away might not have been because it was scared away by his Shura aura, but because it was scared away by Saint Zixuan. The demon beast’s perception might be much stronger than his, so it discovered the arrival of Saint Zixuan, the invincible enemy, earlier than himself, and therefore decisively abandoned the remaining soul-nourishing blood lotus and ran away.

After a moment's thought, Ye Xuan remained calm and did not speak to the woman in red. Instead, he looked directly at Saint Zixuan and said, "I am willing to hand over the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus and everything I got from Zhao Qi."

He did not ask to keep some of the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus because he knew the other party would never agree.

Although I feel aggrieved and unwilling to make such a compromise, it would be the best outcome if I could really leave safely.

Ye Xuan didn't want to implicate Tianyin Xuannv and others. Otherwise, with his personality, even if he couldn't win, he would still try to see if he could escape.

"..."

Silence, everyone looked at Saint Zixuan, he looked at Ye Xuan expressionlessly, his eyes seemed to show some appreciation, after a long while he said calmly: "If you dare to keep even a little bit, you will die!"

Saying this was equivalent to agreeing. I don't know if he really wasn't bloodthirsty, or if he admired Ye Xuan's courage and felt sympathy for him.

In short, hearing him say this, Bingyu and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Xuan took out Zhao Qi's storage ring, and then touched his own storage ring, putting back all the things he had vacated before, without missing anything, and then moved the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus into it. Then he raised his hand and threw the storage ring to Saint Zixuan, saying, "Everything is in it."

Saint Zixuan took the ring into his hand, and probed into it with his divine sense, instantly scanning everything inside. Ye Xuan was about to leave as soon as possible, but he saw a cold light suddenly flash in the other party's eyes! !

"Om..." Saint Zixuan only had a slight thought, and the surrounding void seemed to sink suddenly. The originally calm aura in his body was slightly agitated at this moment, revealing an obvious anger and murderous intent. He looked at Ye Xuan and said in a cold tone: "I had planned to give you a way out, but since you are looking for death, you can't blame me!"

Feeling that the other party was not joking and might launch an attack in the next moment, the Tie brothers were horrified. Tie Ke said quickly: "Senior, please calm down! We don't know what we did wrong! Please explain it to us!"

"You don't know?!" Saint Zixuan's eyes were filled with murderous intent. He looked at Ye Xuan coldly and said, "Do you think I don't know how many Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotuses there are under the icy lake?! There are obviously two, but you only handed over one! I gave you a chance to live, but he chose to die like this! Okay, then I'll grant your wish!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Saint Zixuan raised his left hand and waved it casually. In an instant, a purple lightning bolt several feet thick fell from the sky like a heavenly punishment and struck Ye Xuan's head directly!
This was really just a casual attack from Saint Zixuan, but its power was by no means inferior to an attack from a second-level Great Saint with all his strength. Ye Xuan was both shocked and angry.

No matter what you say, he is not a cruel and bloodthirsty person. This Saint Zixuan doesn't even want to listen to the explanation!

All the holy power in his body suddenly exploded, his right hand shook, the holy sword was in his hand, black flames swirled on his body, and he slashed the sword upwards with all his strength.

"Boom!!" The sword light mixed with the Shura demon flame shot up into the sky and collided with the falling thunder in an instant. Amidst the earth-shaking roar, it was as if an enormous firework bloomed in the sky, illuminating the world within a hundred miles. The aftermath of the explosion scattered in all directions like a meteorite shower, with astonishing power.

Ye Xuan's sword startled Saint Zixuan and the others. The gray-clothed old man in the Great Saint Realm couldn't help but exclaimed: "What kind of spiritual fire is this!??"

He also practiced the fire-based technique and had a good eye for the spiritual fire in the world, but he was even more shocked because he had never seen such a dark and cold flame. He believed that even he could not easily block the attack made by Saint Zixuan just now, but this kid at the fourth level of the Saint Realm did it.

At this moment, the old man in gray believed that Ye Xuan did have the ability to kill Zhao Qi, and he also guessed that it was probably not a group of people joining forces as Ye Xuan said, but that the other party killed Zhao Qi alone.

Although Ye Xuan took the attack, his blood and energy were surging in his body.

Tie Ke was afraid that Saint Zixuan would continue to attack, so he said anxiously, "Senior, you have misunderstood! We really only got that one Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus! The other one has been eaten by the demon beast of the second level of the Great Saint Realm! When we arrived, it had already sensed our arrival, so it fled in advance! Everything I said is true, there is absolutely no falsehood, please understand!"

"Oh?" Saint Zixuan was slightly surprised that Ye Xuan could block his attack. When he heard Tie Ke's words, his eyes flashed slightly, and the murderous intent in his body instantly faded a lot. He stared at Ye Xuan with eyes like swords, as if he wanted to see through his soul.

Ye Xuan’s face turned pale, and he suppressed the surging blood in his body.

After a while, Bingyu and the other three felt that Saint Zixuan's murderous intent had diminished a little bit, and thought that the other party must have believed Tie Ke's words. Just as they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, they heard a sentence that shocked and angered them...

Saint Zixuan said calmly: "You said you only took one Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus. Well, hand over your storage rings. I will check them. If that is true, I will let you go!"

(End of this chapter)