The Spirit Tide Sword carried an unparalleled sword light, piercing directly through the heart of the Wang Family Ancestor under the blessing of the Heaven-Defying Sword Momentum.

The blood that flowed was no longer the normal red but dark black.

With his heart pierced, the Wang Family Ancestor staggered, his breath rapidly declining.

On his face, which originally had few age spots, appeared many eerie blood-colored patterns.

"At least a Profound Tier Upper Grade body technique, plus this unfathomable sword..."

The Wang Family Ancestor shivered and said, "You're full of treasures, which great power do you belong to? Why... why oppose me?!"

He wanted to say more, but his face suddenly turned extremely terrified, as if he was undergoing some kind of torture.

"No... no... ah!!"

Only to see the Wang Family Ancestor's body rapidly shrivel as if something was devouring the essence of his flesh and blood!

Lu Ye's eyes narrowed.

Moments later, a blood-colored worm, about the size of an index finger, crawled out from the Wang Family Ancestor's body!

After crawling out, the blood-colored worm rapidly transformed, even growing a pair of wings.

"Such an evil aura."

Lu Ye immediately flashed his sword light, slashing out with one strike.

The worm, in the midst of transformation, couldn't dodge the sword and was cut in half.

Squeak squeak squeak!

The blood-colored worm let out a shrill scream, its dying cries sounding like the wails of a child, extremely creepy.

"This thing... was it nurtured by an evil cultivation technique?"

Lu Ye's expression was somewhat strange, so even if the Wang Family Patriarch continued his cultivation undisturbed,

in the end, he would still become the nourishment for the blood-colored worm lurking within and serve as a wedding dress for someone else?

Lu Ye looked back at the Wang Family Patriarch...

Only to see that during the day, the person who was praised as the Wang Family's Stabilizing Needle, was now like a deflated, shriveled sack, as dead as can be.

...

...

On the other side, Chen Lingxiang had just left near Qingshan City, rushing towards the location Lu Ye had mentioned.

As he ran through the air, a scene of an Innate Battle was already unfolding in his mind.

Your Innate True Qi, my Innate True Qi colliding...

In the end, the Wang Family Patriarch no longer hid his identity as an Evil Cultivator and directly took out a Soul Refining Banner!

Lu Ye then, just like that night repelling the Innate Fourth Layer with a single sword strike, unleashed a Heaven-Shocking Sword!

Thinking of this, Chen Lingxiang felt himself getting fired up.

As a martial artist, we should be like this—fighting, exhilarating!

In the distance, he could already see the valley Lu Ye had mentioned.

Chen Lingxiang immediately descended and fully cloaked his presence so as not to be discovered by the two Innates fighting.

However, upon landing, Chen Lingxiang sensed something was off.

Quiet... too quiet.

So quiet that it didn't seem like a battle was happening.

Could it be they haven't started fighting yet?

How could an Innate Battle be this quiet?

Harboring this suspicion, Chen Lingxiang proceeded cautiously, advancing bit by bit.

Moments later, a black-clad figure appeared in his vision!

She wanted to hide and cloak her presence at the same time.

At this moment, a voice followed.

"No need to hide, it's over, come out."

The voice was very familiar... it was Lu Ye!

Upon hearing the triple exchange, Chen Lingxiang was stunned.

It's over?!

Chen Lingxiang quickly scanned the open ground of the valley upfront, and under the faint moonlight, indeed saw what seemed to be a corpse lying on the ground.

However, the corpse seemed shriveled beyond recognition.

Coming to her senses, Chen Lingxiang gracefully flew to Lu Ye's side, exclaiming, "Is it really the Wang Family Patriarch?!"

Although severely shriveled, the appearance could still be recognized.

It was indeed the Wang Family Patriarch.

Gazing at the storage ring that had fallen beside the Wang Family Patriarch, Lu Ye picked it up and used his Innate Spiritual Sense to delve into it.

If the storage ring's owner is not dead, it would bear the owner's Spiritual Mark, preventing others from probing it at will.

And with the owner's death, the mark naturally vanished.

Inside, there wasn't much silver, considering the Wang Family head was the Patriarch, there were about a few hundred taels.

Besides that, there were a few secret manuals, a Purple Wood Token of unclear usage, and a pitch-black banner!

"Soul Refining Banner?"

Lu Ye was surprised; the Wang Family Patriarch actually had means with the Soul Refining Banner.

Unfortunately, he hadn't had the chance to utilize it before being killed by one of his sword strikes.

Taking everything inside in one go, Lu Ye pondered briefly before removing the storage ring Chen Lingxiang had previously given him.

"This is yours again."

Chen Lingxiang instantly understood Lu Ye's meaning and shook her head: "You should still use what Lingxiang gave you. His is tainted with misfortune; you might as well sell it."

Thinking it through, Lu Ye nodded.

A storage ring would fetch at least hundreds of thousands of silver taels.

It would suffice for at least two specific draws in the future, no longer needing to worry about silver.

Then, Chen Lingxiang saw the extracted Soul Refining Banner and exclaimed: "Soul Refining Banner?! How many people did this harm?"

Lu Ye's attention, however, was on one of the three secret manuals, named "Great Celestial Demon Ancestor Technique."

After a brief look, it indeed recorded a demonic, sinister cultivation technique, absorbing the power of blood to strengthen oneself.

It even wouldn't let a person's soul off, sealing it inside the Soul Refining Banner, refining it into a vicious vengeful spirit to kill enemies.

Lu Ye sent out a strand of Innate True Qi, conjuring flames to burn the top-level demonic cultivation technique, Great Celestial Demon Ancestor Technique, to ashes.

As for the Soul Refining Banner, due to the death of its owner, the Wang Family Patriarch, the contracted vengeful spirits within had already perished alongside, leaving only the banner behind.

The evil array patterns engraved on the Soul Refining Banner were likewise destroyed with Innate True Qi, rendering it useless. Only then did Lu Ye take the Wang Family Patriarch's body and the damaged Soul Refining Banner to Qingshan City.

He discarded the body on the side of the road leading into the city while observing from the shadows.

Watching the very composed, methodical handling by Lu Ye, Chen Lingxiang followed behind him, and a glint of amazement flashed in her beautiful eyes.

Such seasoned handling, could this really be accomplished by someone who just turned twenty?

Throwing the body on a road where people would easily find it, accompanied by the damaged Soul Refining Banner.

This almost nailed down the Wang Family Patriarch as an Evil Cultivator!

Moreover, the Wang Family Patriarch is dead, but the one who killed him isn't... As such, no one would come to support the Wang Family, denying the Patriarch's identity as an Evil Cultivator.

Since they practiced evil techniques, there are likely other sinister locations similar to the underground cave at Chaotic Wind Mountain in the Wang Family.

Once investigated, it would fully cement the Wang Family as an Evil Cultivation Clan!

With a series of combination strikes, the Wang Family, who had just borrowed the pretext to apprehend the mysterious person who destroyed Chaotic Wind Mountain, is likely to become a pariah, shouted down by everyone.

In the flip of a hand, an Innate Clan would crumble...

Thinking of this, a sudden palpitation arose in Chen Lingxiang's heart.

As she looked at Lu Ye, her gaze completely changed.

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