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Chapter 540: The Mysterious Woman【Seventh Release, New Year's Additional Release】
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Xiaoqing took Li Xiaoyao away, yet the scene remained eerily silent, as still as a mourning hall, with no one daring to speak.
"This isn't a dream, is it?" Suddenly, someone uttered this line.
The dozen or so corpses of Da Lin Temple monks, lying sideways, told everyone that this was indeed real.
The mysterious woman had truly instigated a massacre.
Although she did not display her divine might in a battle with six Spirit Condensation Realm experts like Li Xiaoyao, just a casual lift of her hand was enough to deter everyone present.
"That... that woman, who exactly is she?" Li Pingshuang asked with a shocked face, turning to inquire, "Do any of you know?"
Li Yiming shook his head and gave a bitter smile, "I've never seen her before."
"This youngster, even I find him somewhat unfathomable," said Li Pingshuang softly, regaining his calm after the shock and looking over the corpses strewn across Da Lin Temple.
Regardless, Li Xiaoyao had ultimately survived.
"Whoosh!"
A figure approached from afar, and upon seeing the newcomer, everyone's faces revealed a peculiar expression.
"Heh, things are getting interesting now. The people of Da Lin Temple have all been killed by that mysterious woman; this elder of Da Lin Temple will probably go mad."
The newcomer was an old monk. When he saw the slain people of Da Lin Temple, anger surged onto his face and a frightening aura exploded in an instant.
"Who did this?" The old monk roared furiously, his eyes filled with murderous intent as they swept over everyone's faces.
The Long Family, Luo Family, and Hehuan Sect, who had suffered a great loss, immediately pointed at Li Pingshuang, saying, "It was the deed of the Li Family!"
The old monk turned to Li Pingshuang and demanded, "Li Pingshuang, how dare you kill my disciples of Da Lin Temple?"
Li Pingshuang, remaining calm and unafraid, retorted, "Which eye of yours saw that it was I who killed them?"
Nangong Jing stepped forward to clarify, "Elder Yuan Wu, regarding the murder of your temple's disciples, I am deeply grieved, but they were indeed killed by a young woman, a fact that everyone here can attest to."
"A young woman?" Elder Yuan Wu scoffed disdainfully, "Nangong, you old fool, do you really take me for a three-year-old to be deceived?"
"The truth is as I've said, whether you believe it or not is up to you," replied Li Pingshuang indifferently, "But if you want to pin this on my Li Family, heh, I am not so easily bullied."
Elder Yuan Wu sneered derisively, "It seems my Da Lin Temple has been out of the world too long. You truly think that just because you can be listed among the Eight Great Sects of Xuan Country with my Da Lin Temple, you actually have the status to compare with us?"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
Several figures arrived from the darkness of night; although they didn't deliberately release their auras, a heart-throbbing presence diffused from them.
"It's the Li Family's guardians!"
There were three of them, all guardians of the Li Family, with cultivation levels comparable to Li Pingshuang's.
After arriving and seeing the chaotic scene, they couldn't help but be surprised.
"Elder Li, what has happened?" asked the three guardians.
The situation was too chaotic; even with their keen senses, they couldn't figure out what exactly had transpired.
Li Pingshuang smiled faintly and said, "Some families couldn't bear to see my Li Family Clan members killing a few people in the Human Realm, so they broke the rules and attempted to gang up for a slaying."
"Oh?" The three guardians' expressions chilled, and they let out a cold snort, their gaze sweeping over the faces of the other sect's elders, "In the Human Realm, life and death are each preordained. Do you not know this rule?"
The present scene was strikingly similar to the previous time when the Hehuan Sect and Four Factions had joined forces to besiege the Li Family.
Only now, the roles were reversed.
"Hmph, this matter will not end here. Hehuan Sect and your Li Family will be at odds until death!" Zhou Lu, pale-faced, threw down these harsh words, then turned and left the Human Realm with two other elders, leading their disciples away.
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The Long Family and the Luo Family said the same thing, today's incident had cost their great families dearly. Moreover, with so many sects having witnessed the event today, it wouldn't take long for the news to spread. By then, the glorious tale of how their families had ganged up to bully the Li Family's youngsters would be known to the world.
"Spineless curs who only pick on the weak." Li Pingshuang cursed, then turned to the three Guardians and said, "Elders, this matter is resolved, thank you for your trouble in making a trip here for nothing."
"It's really nothing, after all, the Li Family is not one to be bullied by just anyone." A few Elders said with a slight smile.
The so-called Guardians were not part of the Li Family, but were bound to them by interests.
The Li Family had a total of five Guardian Elders, each time they took action, they would earn the opportunity to cultivate in the Li Family forbidden grounds once.
This was also the reason why the five Guardians had protected the Li Family for so many years.
The various sects gradually dispersed, leaving the expression on Monk Yuan Wu from Da Lin Temple extremely somber.
This Human Realm experience proved most costly for Da Lin Temple, with a total of fifteen people plus a Human Realm Guardian, all killed.
Monk Yuan Wu collected all the bodies, cast a glance towards the departing members of the Hehuan Sect about to board the plane, and swiftly followed them.
"Monk Yuan Wu? Is there something you need?" Xue Hui asked with some confusion.
Monk Yuan Wu nodded, his face grim as he asked, "Just who killed the elder disciples of my Da Lin Temple?"
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A sliver of dawn crept across the eastern sky, with a strand of purple Xia light slowly rising.
Yuan Wu, his feet on a gourd, flew towards Canglan Mountain.
Along the way, his mind was filled with the words Zhou Lu had said to him.
"A young woman."
"In the prime of her youth."
"Dressed in a flowy green dress."
"Her beauty unparalleled."
"Her cultivation powerful, effortlessly killing Yuan Ling mages with a flick of her fingers, as simple as eating or drinking water."
Could there really be such a young Cultivator in this world?
To be able to kill Yuan Ling mages with a flick of her fingers, her cultivation level must be at least at the Nascent Soul Realm.
Such powerful beings at the Nascent Soul Realm are few and far between in this world, yet he had never heard of such a person.
Where did this woman come from?
Yuan Wu was not without clues, at least, he knew that this woman was closely related to Li Xiaoyao.
"But why did she specifically target my Da Lin Temple so ruthlessly? Could there be a grudge against us?"
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Deep within the Lop Nur, a desolate place devoid of human life, where no human had ever set foot. Even radar, when scanning this area, often failed to gather detailed information due to magnetic field interference.
Li Xiaoyao's body was gently laid on the ground, his horrific injuries visibly healing at an astonishing rate.
"Huh? This kid's physique is quite formidable." Xiaoqing was surprised by Li Xiaoyao's healing ability.
She took out a Golden Core, crushed it into a powder, and sprinkled it evenly over Li Xiaoyao's body.
As the Golden Core powder made contact with the flesh, a surge of dense and violent energy burst forth, causing Li Xiaoyao's body to convulse violently.
"The energy of the Golden Core is too violent; I forgot to neutralize it a bit." Xiaoqing smacked her forehead in annoyance, justifying to herself, "This way, at least, your physique can become even stronger, so a little suffering is not a bad thing."
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