On the way to the next Foundation Establishment Clan, the Gusu family, Qi Ping casually sorted through the spoils he had collected.

These spoils were all gathered with the help of the bees. Qi Ping only casually took the storage bags from the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators and looted the Qi Family's treasure vault and cultivation techniques.

After roughly organizing all the spoils and removing anything that might expose his location, Qi Ping handed them over to the bees, instructing them to hide everything separately and only regroup and inventory them when the time was right.

"Although these Foundation Establishment Clans don't have much good stuff, there's still quite a bit when you add it all up."

"Especially the knowledge of those cultivation techniques and spells, which is very useful for my exploration of the essence of magic."

What Qi Ping lacks the most right now is the knowledge of cultivation techniques and spells, as well as various information about the Immortal Cultivation Realm. To him, these are naturally all beneficial.

After sending all the spoils away with the bees, Qi Ping submitted the completed tasks on the side.

...

After doing these actions, Qi Ping couldn't help but recall an unusual occurrence he had just sensed.

Right after he destroyed all the blood food, he had clearly sensed that it seemed like a barrier over the blood food had been destroyed.

Once the barrier was destroyed, a faint yet incredibly divine power drifted out from the blood food, returning to the world.

It was only because Qi Ping, as a Druid, had extremely sensitive perception and a high affinity with the world, that he was able to notice this anomaly.

"Could it be that making blood food is a method of sealing the Power of Creation of heaven and earth, and refining blood food is equivalent to refining the Power of Creation within it?"

Qi Ping vaguely felt that he might have found a key point.

What further confirmed this for him was that after this divine power returned to the world, he felt an inexplicable emotion, a mixture of joy and sorrow.

This emotion was traceable to no source, yet seemed omnipresent.

It was an indescribable feeling.

Besides this, Qi Ping also noticed that his affinity with the world seemed to have slightly increased, which surprised him. The benefits of increased world affinity are numerous.

It positively influences enlightenment, surviving celestial tribulations, spiritual energy affinity, and so on.

"In this light, the creation and refinement of such blood food indeed caused significant harm to the world, or else such anomalies wouldn't arise, nor would my affinity with the world increase..."

Only by accomplishing something that affects the essence of the world can one's affinity with it increase.

Qi Ping guessed that the reason he hadn't noticed this before was due to the smaller quantity, but this time he destroyed over three thousand blood food, allowing him to truly perceive it.

Furthermore, this kind of behavior, which exploits the world for short-sighted gains and destroys nature, inherently incurs a Druid's disdain.

This behavior also erodes the world upon which Druids rely for survival and growth.

Before leaving the Qi Family, a significant reason Qi Ping destroyed all the blood food was to prevent ordinary loose cultivators from discovering and spreading this matter.

Because the exposure of the blood food issue provides no advantage to ordinary loose cultivators.

This is the Immortal Cultivation Realm, unlike a dynasty where there is a balance of power between rulers and the ruled.

Once exposed, to continue sealing the news and keeping loose cultivators ignorant, there's a chance that some might initiate a massacre to kill everybody who knows about it.

Then they would find a demonic loose cultivator to blame, kill them to solve the problem and gain a reputation, and then continue attracting loose cultivators.

As long as they govern well, loose cultivators would soon thrive again.

"Alas..."

Thinking of these, Qi Ping couldn't help but sigh.

For ordinary people, facing hopeless despair might be worse than living in ignorance, as long as they don't reach Foundation Establishment or encounter the rare event of being made into blood food.

At least this way, they can lead an ordinary life, with harm only truly befalling the world and the small fraction of people made into blood food.

In a way, ordinary cultivators and mortals are likely protected as a whole because they can produce things like "blood food."

"Perhaps!" Qi Ping wasn't sure.

But if this continues, this world may gradually lose its spirituality and even collapse and perish.

From this perspective, such behavior must be stopped, or it will eventually lead to irreparable destruction.

...

As Qi Ping rushed towards the Gusu family, the mysterious group involved in refining blood food also began moving immediately.

The fact that Qi Ping escaped last time had already enraged the Immortal Envoy, and this time Qi Ping not only took down a Foundation Establishment Clan but also destroyed over three thousand precious blood food!

So this time, they were determined to kill Qi Ping completely!

They absolutely wouldn't tolerate anyone daring to oppose them so arrogantly!

With the Immortal Envoy's mobilization, the entire organization moved swiftly, forming an enormous net—ready to surround Qi Ping whenever he shows up, continually tightening the encirclement!

Moreover, they set ambushes where Qi Ping was most likely to appear, based on his usual actions.

In addition to this organization, even some ruling powers of the Qingtian Realm were mobilized, joining in the hunt and search for Qi Ping.

On the other hand, Qi Ping naturally anticipated these moves, so when choosing his targets, he completely randomized his selection from targets he was confident in achieving.

This time, the Gusu family, which was clearly farther away at a five or six-day journey, was randomly chosen by Qi Ping.

And it was precisely this randomness that allowed Qi Ping to avoid the places with the most ambush masters.

More than five days later, Qi Ping, who had concealed his presence, smoothly arrived in Wuling County.

After some investigation and probing, Qi Ping quickly gathered information on the Gusu family.

"As noted in the task details, there's only one old mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator left; the initial early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator has already perished in battle..."

"The blood food—though numbering over a thousand—are much fewer than the Qi family..."

"Yet they've managed to gather so many just a few years after joining this mysterious group. They might just be crueler!"

With the situation confirmed, Qi Ping had nothing more to say.

Now, there was nothing left but to kill.

Flame Fist!

Finding the weak point in the Gusu family's array, Qi Ping unleashed a fist technique combined with Flame Burst Fireball, attacking without reservation!

Amidst a ground-shaking explosion, the Tier Two low-level defense array shattered instantly!

Immediately, a mid-stage Foundation Establishment figure soared from Gusu Mansion!

The Gusu family's Foundation Establishment cultivator recognized Qi Ping at a glance by his distinctive blood-red silhouette.

"Bee Daoist? It's you!"

It's customary among cultivators to use surnames or distinctive traits plus 'Daoist' to address others.

The mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Gusu family couldn't help but laugh; a mere early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator thought he could challenge a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator with just some bees?

Truly ignorant of the heights of heaven and the depths of the earth.

"Foolish child! Today I'll show you the chasm-like gap between early-stage and mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators!" declared the Gusu cultivator before charging at Qi Ping!

In response to the old Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Gusu family, Qi Ping said nothing and simply began setting up arrays right away.

Wasting words with these people is futile; only slaughter is the best response!

Earth Armor Bee... Surrounding Earth Armor Array!

Profound Gold Killing Array!

Activate!

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