Facing the desperate pleas of Lei Qilong, Shi Feiyang refused, instructing Huo Wuhai to throw him out.

Lei Qilong returned to the courtyard of the Huashan Sect and collected the ashes and funeral attire of his various seniors, including Shi Nanxi, Fire Heavenly King, rabbi Ni Jun, and blind Heavenly Master He Ming—all of whom were contemporaries of the Fiery Fire Ancestor and hence Lei Qilong's grandmasters. There were also more than a dozen great-uncles, great-aunts, and uncles, with the rest being his peers and brothers in the sect.

In his urgency, he couldn't find many boxes, so he asked Xu Feiniang for some cloth and sewed cloth bags day and night without stopping.

Shi Longgu, seeing his handsome figure, came over to visit and helped him sew, eventually making over thirty pouches. She embroidered each one with their names and filled them with the ashes and funeral attire, sewing them shut.

After finishing, Lei Qilong went back to pleading with Shi Feiyang for the forgiveness of his master, kneeling in the square for two consecutive days and nights without rising, Shi Longgu also coming to plead on his behalf.

Shi Feiyang finally allowed him to enter, "You have shown true filial piety, I can give you your master's Primordial Spirit, but you must swear not to leave Mingyu Immortal Market for thirty years and manage here as the successor of the Huashan Sect, becoming the Yard Master of Huashan."

Lei Qilong joyfully kowtowed, "As long as True Master is willing to return my honored teacher's Primordial Spirit, my life is yours, I will heed any orders without question!"

Shi Feiyang then took out the Primordial Spirit of True Master Jin Shenzi and handed it to him.

Lei Qilong took his master's Primordial Spirit back, and the master and disciple wept together.

Jin Shenzi, not having formed a Nascent Soul yet and only about a foot tall, standing on the table, couldn't shed tears but cried most sorrowfully, "The very reason I took you in as my disciple was because of your auspicious bone structure, knowing you would grow to be exceptionally handsome, and I taught you many combat techniques, thinking of profiting from your rare qualities and using you to curry favor and mingle with our fellow sect members. Little did I know, in the end, I would rely on your help to save my Primordial Spirit and be reborn. Regrettably, I didn't treat you well in the past; that's my greatest mistake."

Kneeling and clinging to the table, Lei Qilong wept, "Master, don't say such things. I was just a shepherd boy for a landlord, starving every three days and beaten every five days. You brought me to Hua Mountain, gave me food and clothing, taught me swordsmanship and Dan Skill, allowing me to live a life not even landlords could enjoy, free from beatings morning and night. Master's kindness is as heavy as a mountain to me; you are my reborn parents, you have truly treated me well already."

After a long cry between master and disciple, Jin Shenzi asked Lei Qilong to take him back to Hua Mountain, to seek the Fiery Fire Ancestor to help him be reincarnated and avenge himself.

Lei Qilong said, "I have already promised Master Shi, I will not leave Mingyu Immortal Market for thirty years. But rest assured, Master, I will hand you over to Xu Immortal Sister and ask her to take you back to Hua Mountain."

Jin Shenzi said anxiously, "What Master Shi! That's an Evil Dragon! He killed so many of us, and you still stay with him? What trust can you talk about with a beast, you should quickly bring me back to Hua Mountain to ask your grandmaster for justice."

Lei Qilong only shook his head, "I begged Master Shi for a long time before he returned you to me, a person must keep their word... Master, you and all the great-aunts and grandmasters experienced this disaster because you sought it out yourselves, if you had stayed on Hua Mountain and not come out here or if you had been content..."

"Nonsense!" Jin Shenzi leapt up, pointing at Lei Qilong's nose and cursed, "You black-hearted and conscienceless little beast! Our previous calculations were not wrong, you really did betray and join the enemy! You think because I've lost my physical body, I can't punish you?"

He started casting and called for his Flying Sword, which Lei Qilong had put away along with other people's Flying Sword Magical Treasures, and feeling the connection, the Flying Sword "clang" flew over automatically. Casting another spell, the horsetail whisk that he had always held also came to him.

Seeing his master summon the two Treasures, Lei Qilong was so frightened his scalp went numb, and he turned and ran.

"Where do you think you're running, you little beast!" Jin Shenzi flung the whisk, creating dozens of strands of black Mysterious Frost Cold Air that stretched out in an effort to envelop and capture Lei Qilong.

In a critical moment, Lei Qilong with Body and Sword Combined transformed into a streak of firelight, burst through the door, and flew into the courtyard.

Jin Shenzi pursued with Sword Control, and once in the air, he cast the whisk again, trapping Lei Qilong together with his sword in a mass of dark energy, unable to escape no matter how wildly his sword thrashed.

Lei Qilong pleaded, "Master, spare my life!"

Jin Shenzi coldly said, "You won't bring me back to Hua Mountain, do you think I can't control the sword and go back by myself? I will take you back to Hua Mountain and leave you to our grandmaster to decide your fate!"

Just as he was about to fly west, Xu Feiniang arrived to stop him. Her sword light swept by, dispelling the cold air from the whisk and Lei Qilong rolled onto the ground, his face turned blue and his body shivered from cold.

"Jin Daoist friend, what are you doing? Come down and speak!" Xu Feiniang said in a stern voice.

Upon seeing her, Jin Shenzi said, "This little beast betrayed his master and joined the enemy, I was about to capture him and transport him back to Hua Mountain for my master to deal with."

Xu Feiniang instantly felt a deep sense of helplessness. She did not want to waste more words with Jin Shenzi and unleashed her Flying Sword to entangle Jin Shenzi's Flying Sword.

When Xu Feiniang unleashed her Hundred Spirits Immortal-Slaying Sword, it was a beam of pale light. Jin Shenzi was a mix of shock and rage, "What are you trying to do? You're just like this little beast, you've sided with that Evil Dragon... Fine, fine, if you've deliberately written to lure us here, plotting with the Evil Dragon to capture us from the Huashan Sect in one fell swoop..."

Xu Feiniang couldn't be bothered to explain to this muddled person and used her Hundred Spirits Immortal-Slaying Sword to grind Jin Shenzi's Flying Sword into dregs, and his horsetail whisk as well into inch-long broken pieces. Jin Shenzi still wanted to escape by using his Primordial Spirit, but Xu Feiniang cast a spell and captured him, containing him within a gourd.

She landed and checked on Lei Qilong, who was crying and said, "My master wants to kill me."

Xu Feiniang sighed, "Stop crying. From now on, you will stay here in the Immortal Market. Don't go anywhere else. Master Shi's mana is unfathomably deep, and just his Nine Child Mother Sky Demon alone would deter most from causing trouble here, let alone his many other formidable measures unknown to others. Staying here is absolutely safe.

I will take your master's Primordial Spirit back to Hua Mountain to be handed over to the Fiery Fire Ancestor. You won't need to worry about what happens next, and you won't be able to."

Lei Qilong kept crying and kowtowed to Xu Feiniang to express his gratitude. Xu Feiniang could only sigh helplessly, patted his shoulder, and then turned to leave.

Lei Qilong wiped away his tears, went back to the Huashan Sect's courtyard, zoned out for a bit, then rolled up his sleeves to start a thorough cleaning. He cleaned the front and back courtyards, above and below ground, spotlessly. Then he took out all the senior members' Flying Sword Magical Treasures for a careful inspection.

Shi Nanxi and the others were killed by the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon who directly extracted their Primordial Spirits while they were demonized, leaving their possessions unharmed.

There were fifty-three Flying Swords alone, and six sets of flying knives.

Shi Nanxi's Divine Sand, the Fire Heavenly King's Pagoda, Ni Jun's Persian Secret Evil Fire of Divine Confusion, and the blind Heavenly Master He Ming's Flame Divine Saber.

Apart from Shi Nanxi, the latter three were junior brothers to the Fiery Fire Ancestor and Uncle-Masters to Lei Qilong.

The remaining items included Chi Lu's Heavenly Secret Demon God Nails, the Phantom Green Flame Shuttle, Shi Chun'e's Mysterious City Fragrant Flames, Zhao Jinzhen's Soul Refining Flying Needle, as well as others' Fire Gourds, Fire Fans, Fire Handkerchiefs, Fire Flutes, Fire Pipas, Soul Chasing Sand, Enchanting Sand, Five Fire Divine Thunder Pearls, Five Ghosts Yin Thunder Pearls, Thunderclap Divine Fire Bombs, and so on, with over a hundred Magical Treasures in total.

Everyone's Qiankun Bags were also left behind. Having practiced cultivation for a long time, especially Shi Nanxi, who was the Vice Sect Leader of two major sects, her Qiankun Bag was filled with many treasures. Lei Qilong wouldn't need to go to the West Market for supplies; the items here alone would last him a long time.

However, he didn't know how the other elders of the Huashan Sect would react to this, nor how Master Shi would deal with Shi Nanxi and the others. He didn't dare to use them carelessly or carry them with him, so he stored all the Flying Sword Magical Treasures in the Furnace of Eight Trigrams underneath the cellar.

Speaking of Master Shi, having killed so many from the Huashan Sect in one breath, he collected thirty-four Primordial Spirits. He added the Primordial Spirits of Chuandeng Monk and the Red Dawn Divine Monarch Bing Rong, totaling thirty-six, to prepare for the creation of a set of Heavenly Gang Divine Lamps.

He used Crystal Jade Divine Wood for the lamp bodies, octagonal palace lamps wrapped in merfolk silk, and had Jiang Dachuan find craftsmen from Ming Country to embroider talismans and images on the silk coverings. He melted Five-Colored Divine Sand for the lamp cups, inscribed fully with talismans, used Black Wind Grass for the lampwicks, and refined everyone's Primordial Spirits into them.

Master Shi practiced in the center, with thirty-six palace lamps suspended in the air and revolving around him. He continuously emitted Immortal Energy, changing hand seals, and at four times—Zi Wu and Mao You—he infused True Sun Fire daily.

The Primordial Spirits inside wailed and screamed as if they had fallen into Hell.

The folks of the Huashan Sect were most accustomed to capturing the Primordial Spirit Souls of their enemies to burn with Evil Fire, torturing them with Soul Refining, calling it "Fire Hell." Now they themselves were subjected to such cruel punishment.

The True Sun Fire used by Master Shi was even fiercer than their usual flames. Ordinary ghosts and evil spirits couldn't withstand sunlight, and his True Sun Fire, refined and condensed from sunlight, was thousands of times more potent than sunlight itself. The Huashan Sect, accustomed to playing with fire, couldn't bear it either and howled miserably, wailing like ghosts and howling like gods.

After thirty-six days, an entire set of palace lamps was forged.

Master Shi released them, and the lamps floated through the streets following the patterns of the heavenly bodies. If the Primordial Spirits inside struggled to get out, they would be burned up as fuel, causing the lamp flame to surge.

As people walked through the Immortal Market, they marveled at the sight of such beautiful floating palace lamps.

Whenever the Primordial Spirits heard human voices, they yearned to come out and seize a fleshly body to inhabit. But as soon as they moved, flames would ignite, and the palace lamp would shine brightly, with shadows of fists flying, hands flailing, bodies churning, and figures spinning on the lamp screens. Ordinary people, assuming it was Immortal Techniques better than the folk lanterns, clapped and cheered.

The other Immortals knew about this and sighed to themselves, remarking that Master Shi's moves were exceedingly harsh. Xu Feiniang even came to Master Shi directly to talk about this matter.

Xu Feiniang didn't harbor any illusions about rescuing these souls. She just informed Master Shi that such actions seemed too oppressive, making it impossible for the Huashan Sect not to seek revenge against him!

That was exactly the effect Master Shi wanted. His actions served two purposes. Firstly, to deter any troublemakers, warning them that stirring up mischief in Mingyu Immortal Market would end up with such a fateful outcome!

Secondly, it was a show of force to the Wutai Sect, showing his stance that he wouldn't compromise his principles for the sake of unity against the Emei Sect. Who was fit to associate with him, and who did not, was made clear. Those in the habit of seizing Life Souls should stay away; coming here would not end well, especially Xu Feiniang—you shouldn't bring just anyone here.

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