A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 518: Destroy the Trace
Duan Rong was lying there, in the darkness, the ghostly eye light reflected on his face.

Xiao Qiwu's disheveled body was not far away, with a big bloody hole between his eyebrows.

In this murderous situation in the Wanxiang Cave, he actually managed to survive and killed a cultivator in the Cave Ming Realm.

Of course, luck played a role in this, but he also used almost all the means at his disposal to kill Xiao Qiwu in one fell swoop.

The killing plan had fallen apart, and Duan Rong no longer had that sense of crisis of a sword hanging over his head. Now, looking at Xiao Qiwu's body, he couldn't help but wonder why this old man had set up a plan to kill him?
Moreover, he is no longer the kid with no background in Xiangu County. He has Zhu He and even Lu Yinlin behind him. Even so, the old guy still wants to kill him.

There must be something behind this! ?
It would be fine if they had any grudge against each other, but he and Xiao Qiwu had never met each other before.

Xiao Qiwu was willing to take such a risk to kill him, he must have some great benefit in mind.

When Duan Rong thought of this, he stood up and began to search Xiao Qiwu's body.

After a while, Duan Rong took out a booklet and a three-inch round and curved object from the inner pocket of Xiao Qiwu's shirt. Then, he took out a battle array card from Xiao Qiwu's lower back.

After that, there is nothing else.

Although Xiao Qiwu is a strong man in the Dongming Realm, he has not practiced for more than ten years. He has been studying the tea ceremony on this Wuliang Cliff and has not cared about worldly affairs. Therefore, he has no elixirs or medicines needed for practice.

Duan Rong's mind moved, and the densely packed ghost eye spots nearby gathered above his head, all of them wide open, illuminating the area in front of him.

Duan Rong used the light to look at the three objects on the ground. He first put the formation card into his pocket.

There is also a talisman formation outside the Wanxiang Cave.

The talisman array was not like the Wanxiang Cave, a complex system that might have loopholes. The talisman array outside was a very simple, illusory talisman array. Without the array card, he would definitely not be able to get out of such a talisman array.

In fact, with Xiao Qiwu's formation card, he could leave here now.

However, Duan Rong was not in a hurry. After Xiao Qiwu's death, no one could enter the Wanxiang Cave for the time being. It could be said that this place was extremely safe now. He had plenty of time to slowly deal with the aftermath.

Duan Rong held the three-inch round and curved object in his hand. It emitted a faint fluorescence and looked very extraordinary.

"What is this?"

Duan Rong looked at the lively object in his hand and became very curious. He knew that this object must not be an ordinary item, otherwise Xiao Qiwu would not have kept it close to his body in his inner pocket.

Something that could be valued so much by a powerful person like Xiao Qiwu in the Cavernous Realm must have a great origin.

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and he pinched the spirit in his hand and said secretly, "Read the spirit of the device."

Then, a data panel with a faint fluorescent glow appeared before his eyes.

Object: Yang fish of Yin-Yang fish

Spirit Level: Level 23

Devouring requirements: Host's mental strength level 23 (not satisfied)

Devouring effect: Initial mastery of the law of yin and yang transformation (incomplete)

"Yin Yang Fish?! The law of Yin and Yang transformation?!" Duan Rong looked at the data panel in front of him with a changing expression on his face.

He thought he had obtained some treasure, but it turned out to be only half. This thing was obviously used with the Yin fish and the Yang fish together, and it could not be used at all without one.

Duan Rong's interest waned as a result. He put the Yangyu in his hand aside, picked up the booklet on the ground, and began to read it in the light of the ghost eye spot.

"Yin Yang Cave!?"

What was described in the booklet was actually a rather complicated and sophisticated method of condensing the cave of darkness.

"As long as the Yin-Yang Cave is formed, it will be equivalent to the cultivation level of the late Cave Realm!?"

"Late stage of the Cavernous Realm?!" Duan Rong's eyes showed a deep thought.

Although he knew nothing about many aspects of the Cave Netherworld, he still had a general idea of it. Because the method of condensing the Cave Netherworld was too strange, there were inevitably long passages of explanatory text in the booklet. It was these explanatory texts that helped Duan Rong understand what the booklet was talking about.

Duan Rong suddenly discovered that a page in the book had a folded corner, and the mark was not deep and was slightly warped, as if it had been folded not long ago.

It is very likely that Xiao Qiwu was reading this booklet before entering the Wanxiang Cave.

Duan Rong's eyes narrowed. "He wants to form the Yin-Yang Cave?!"

Xiao Qiwu must have just obtained this booklet not long ago, so he was still flipping through it and studying it, folding the corners to make notes whenever he paused.

"Just got it not long ago?" Duan Rong suddenly had an idea. "Could it be that this old guy is setting up a trap to kill me, and it has something to do with this booklet?"

He was willing to take the risk of killing me, it must be for the key thing, and such an important thing, it is very likely that he carried it with him. Based on this inference, he most likely wanted to kill me because of this thing.

Duan Rong had just flipped through the booklet and he still clearly understood that the most basic conception of the method of condensing the Yin-Yang Cave described in the booklet came from the Yin-Yang fish.

In order to condense the Yin-Yang Cave and Abyss, one must have the cooperation of the Yin-Yang Fish in cultivation, and use the Yin fish and Yang fish to construct the initial embryo of the Yin-Yang Cave and Abyss.

"But now Xiao Qiwu only has Yangyu on him!?"

"Even if he has mastered the method of condensing the Yin-Yang Cave, he can't practice it if he only has the Yang fish but no Yin fish!?"

Duan Rong picked up the rather lively yang fish on the ground again and stroked it in his hands.

He suddenly remembered that today, Xiao Qiwu walked into the Wanxiang Cave with the Whip and found that he had already died. He thought he was dead. At that time, Xiao Qiwu said something. "It's not that I want to harm your life. There is someone who wants to kill you, and I am just a pretender."

After comparing the past and the present and with multiple pieces of evidence, the answer is obvious.

Someone was using the method of condensing the Yin-Yang Cave and the Yin-Yang Fish to trade with Xiao Qiwu, and the thing in exchange was obviously his life.

Duan Rong felt a chill down his spine.

Who was it that was stabbing him in the back?

Moreover, this person obviously has great power. He can even use the method of condensing Yin-Yang Cave and Netherworld, as well as treasures such as the Yin-Yang Fish, to lure in strong men in the Cave and Netherworld realm like Xiao Qiwu, and set up a trap to kill him!
What a big deal! ?
Although Xiao Qiwu is dead, if the person behind this is not dug out, he will not be able to sleep or eat well even if he manages to get out of this murderous situation.

This person obviously gave the booklet and the Yang fish to Xiao Qiwu first, and would only give him the Yin fish after the task was accomplished.

Who is it?
The person who has the method to condense the Yin-Yang Cave and possesses a treasure like the Yin-Yang Fish, and who is willing to kill me at all costs, must be someone who has a mortal enemy against me!

who is it?

Duan Rong's heart was shocked.

It was Ge Rushong, or someone in Lu Zhongtang's camp, or even Lu Zhongtang himself. After all, his beloved disciple Pei Du also had his dantian destroyed and became a disabled person in the Shenyun Mansion incident.

In that battle, they lost miserably and had no chance to attack Zhu He. So they took advantage of entering the Wanxiang Cave to persuade Xiao Qiwu to attack him and kill him.

The more Duan Rong thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible.

As expected, it is not that easy to make a core chess piece? !
However, Duan Rong still found it a bit strange. Even if they hated him, they were willing to give Xiao Qiwu such a method of condensing the Yin-Yang Cave and such a treasure as the Yin-Yang Fish.

Just to kill him?
He always felt that this behavior was not reasonable!
Although he was once a core chess piece, the game is over now. Does he really still have that much value?

Even though Lu Zhongtang's beloved disciple died in the Shenyun Mansion incident, can a disciple really be comparable to the value of a treasure like the Yin-Yang Fish?

He didn't think there was anyone with such a temperament in Lu Zhongtang's camp!

It seems that after he gets out of this matter, he needs to investigate carefully to find out who is plotting against him! ?

Duan Rong put the booklet and Yang Yu into his pocket. He looked at Xiao Qiwu's body, his eyes flickering.

Let's not talk about the people who plotted against him after they left. Now, how should he deal with the aftermath of killing Xiao Qiwu?
He killed Xiao Qiwu by using the power of the Wanxiang Cave and the Divine Whip!
He could explain the matter of Wanxiang Cave. After all, Lu Yinlin was already aware of the situation in his sea of consciousness.

However, he could not explain the use of the divine whip. No matter what, he would not reveal his ability to devour weapon spirits.

If he wanted to explain the murder of Xiao Qiwu, he could only conceal the incident of the divine whip. He only talked about the incident in Wanxiang Cave!

But the question is, can the power of Wanxiang Cave alone really kill Xiao Qiwu?
He wasn't sure.

But the sect's ancestor, Lu Yinlin, must have known that the talisman formation in the Wanxiang Cave was fixed by him in the end.

Duan Rong thought about it and decided to cover up the whole matter.

Not only was it difficult to explain that he had killed Xiao Qiwu.

Moreover, once this matter gets out, the people who are plotting behind the scenes will be even more anxious to kill him.

It would be better to just suppress the matter and leave a mystery to all parties. This would actually buy you time to secretly investigate the ins and outs of the matter.

After determining the direction, Duan Rong began to think about the specific details.

In fact, as long as Xiao Qiwu's body was destroyed, who would know that he was the one who killed Xiao Qiwu?
He was a cultivator who had just entered the Cyclone Realm for a month and had not even achieved the first level of the Cyclone Realm. How could he possibly kill a cultivator in the Cave Netherworld Realm?

After Xiao Qiwu disappeared, everyone in the sect would think that he had gone into seclusion for some reason. Moreover, he had originally stayed in Wuliang Cliff, not caring about worldly affairs, and his temperament was very eccentric.

I guess no one in the sect would find it too strange if he left Changliu Mountain without saying goodbye.

More importantly, the person who plotted against him would not find it strange. He would think that Xiao Qiwu did not want to take the risk of killing him, so he left without saying goodbye. He would only scold Xiao Qiwu for not keeping his word, but he would not attack him again in the short term.

This situation is actually most beneficial to him.

After thinking through the hurdles ahead and behind, Duan Rong prepared to implement it immediately.

There are endless mountains in Changliu Mountain, with countless deep forests and old forests, and this Wuliang Cliff is very remote. He only needs to find a place to dispose of Xiao Qiwu's body.

Duan Rong captured Xiao Qiwu's body, picked up the divine whip on the ground, and walked out of the Wanxiang Cave.

Coming to the ten-foot square space outside the Wanxiang Cave, Duan Rong looked at the shrine in front of the stone wall, a look of hesitation on his face.

This divine whip is quite magical, but after all, it belonged to the sect's founder, Lan Ruoshui, so it is too eye-catching.

But since he wanted to disguise Xiao Qiwu as disappearing, it seemed reasonable to say that Xiao Qiwu took the divine whip with him.

Finally, Duan Rong decided to keep the divine whip.

This divine whip is quite magical, and Duan Rong also covets the spirit of the whip.

Why not find a place to hide the Whip? Maybe it will be useful in the future. After all, the Whip is not an ordinary thing. Once it is returned, it will not be so easy to get it back in his hands.

Duan Rong placed Xiao Qiwu's body and the divine whip on the ground in front of the shrine. He took out a formation plate from his waist and pointed it in front of his eyes. The scene in front of him became blurred and changed.

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he slipped out alone.

All I saw outside was the pitch-black valley cliffs shrouded in mist.

Duan Rong was floating there, controlling the wind, and the three flowers on his head were opening and closing freely.

He looked around in the valley intently, and suddenly released his spiritual sense to cover the surrounding area.

In a cave not far away, a boy was dozing off at the entrance of the cave. There were a few scattered guards at various places on Wuliang Cliff.

It was obviously late at night, which was a good time for him to destroy the body.

After Duan Rong understood the situation in all directions, he took out the formation card, pointed at the empty space behind him, and returned to the Wanxiang Cave again.

This time, Duan Rong inserted the divine whip into his lower back, grabbed Xiao Qiwu's body, and jumped out directly.

As soon as Duan Rong entered the valley, he fell down like an eagle. After falling for several feet, he suddenly flew sideways and got out of the valley in the misty clouds.

Wuliang Cliff is located in a remote area, far away from the various peaks of the sect. The valleys here are deserted and without any birds or animals.

Duan Rong held Xiao Qiwu's body and flew over several valleys, then landed at the bottom of a valley.

There was a stream at the bottom of the valley, with wet black soil on both sides of the stream.

Duan Rong placed Xiao Qiwu's body beside the stream, then took off his clothes, hung them on a tree not far away, and stuck the divine whip under the tree.

He walked back naked, and suddenly in the darkness, he leaned over and twisted off Xiao Qiwu's head. Then his hands were like millstones, with his vital energy surging and grinding Xiao Qiwu's entire head into bloody foam, which was scattered into the stream.

A lot of blood splashed on Duan Rong's face and chest, but he remained unmoved and continued to twist off one of Xiao Qiwu's arms and did the same thing.

When Duan Rongfang first killed someone when he arrived in this world, he had a stress reaction and almost vomited bile. But at this time, he had no feeling in his heart when he was pushing and examining the corpse in such a cruel way.

People really do change.

Duan Rong ground Xiao Qiwu's entire body into blood foam and scattered it into the stream. In the darkness, with the sound of gurgling water, the blood was already flowing away, and in a few days, there would be no trace left.

After dealing with the corpse, Duan Rong walked upstream for a while and washed his body in the stream.

Then he walked out of the stream, the vital energy in every pore of his body vibrated, and all the water stains on his body were dried up.

He walked under the tree, took off his clothes and put them on, picked up the whip on the ground, and left the valley.

Duan Rong came to another valley not far from this valley. He suddenly flew up into the air, climbed up from the bottom of the valley, and searched among the rock walls here.

Soon, he found a cave.

Duan Rong knew that there were usually eagles' nests on the cliffs of such remote valleys.

His spiritual sense suddenly spread out, and he immediately discovered that deep in the cave, there was a big eagle sleeping.

Duan Rong remained unmoved and jumped directly into the cave.

The sound of the wind he created immediately startled the mountain eagle.

But at the moment the eagle opened its eyes, it suddenly saw a flash of light like a firefly in front of it, which flashed by and went into its head.

As soon as Duan Rong entered the cave, he used the soul illusion, Mars, on the mountain eagle.

The mountain eagle stayed motionless deep in the cave. Duan Rong walked over and almost stuck to the mountain eagle as he entered the innermost part of the cave. Being so close, Duan Rong could smell the eagle's feces in the cave, as well as the mutton smell on its body.

Duan Rong stood in the deepest part of the cave. He suddenly pulled out the divine whip from his waist, poured his vital energy into it, and stabbed the divine whip into the stone ground deep in the cave, completely rooting it in.

Duan Rong grabbed a handful of dry feces and smeared them on the stone hole. There was already a lot of dry feces piled there, which was the feces of mountain eagles accumulated there for a long time.

After Duan Rong finished all this, he flashed out of the cave.

The moment he flashed out of the cave, the mountain eagle woke up suddenly. Its eagle eyes looked around the cave, but found nothing unusual, and soon fell asleep again.

Duan Rong flew among the clouds and mist, and soon returned to Wuliang Cliff again.

Along the way, he kept his spiritual consciousness open. At this time, the boy from Wuliang Cliff and the guards were still there.

Duan Rong hovered in front of the cliff, took out the formation card, and pointed at the empty space in front of him. As the scenery in front of him blurred and changed, a cave suddenly appeared on the cliff.

Duan Rong flashed and went in. The scenery here changed again, returning to the appearance of a bare cliff, as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)