During the previous robbery, Chen Lingxiang had a key that opened a certain secret trove.

Now, calculating the time, it's just about time.

He had promised Lu Ye to go with him, and with Lu Ye being such a powerful Innate, the chances might be significantly increased.

"Did Lu Ye say when he would be back?" Chen Lingxiang asked.

Thinking for a moment, Jiang Lingyue shook her head. That rascal really didn't say when he'd be back.

...

A carriage was leisurely traveling along the road at a slow pace.

Soon, evening time arrived.

"Sir, should we find a place to set up camp and rest?" Tian Qing asked from the carriage as he drove.

It must be said, coming from a side branch, Tian Qing knew quite a lot, and he was quite skilled at being a coachman.

A moment later, the two found a rather spacious open area, and Tian Qing gathered firewood to start a fire.

"By the way, here's a storage ring; take it and see if you can sell it," Lu Ye tossed out a storage ring and lightly said.

Now that he had become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, it was time to sell them off in batches for silver.

"A storage ring, alright, I'll hand it to the Shang Pavilion when I get back."

Tian Qing wasn't particularly surprised; quite a few Innate Realm cultivators had fallen to Lu Ye.

And most Innate Realm cultivators generally had storage rings on them.

Soon, midnight arrived.

The bonfire had shrunk significantly, and Lu Ye and the others were meditating in a state of false sleep.

The night was cold and dewy, but it made little difference to the two of them.

A moment later, Lu Ye suddenly opened his eyes, looking into the distance.

There, under the shadowy moonlight, some village houses were faintly visible.

It was a village.

At this moment, a faint scent of blood wafted through the air from that direction.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Ye whispered, "You stay here and watch the carriage; I'm going over for a bit."

Hearing this, Tian Qing's expression turned serious, "Rest assured, sir."

Before the words left his mouth, Lu Ye's figure had already completely vanished in front of Tian Qing; he didn't even notice when Lu Ye had left.

"So this is what a Martial Arts Grandmaster is like…" Tian Qing sighed inwardly.

On the other side, with his hands behind his back, Lu Ye utilized his Shrinking Inches technique and swiftly arrived outside the mountain village.

Upon reaching here, the scent of blood was even more intense; clearly, something had happened in the village.

Two groups of people in black were moving back and forth within the village.

In the open space in the village, a simple sacrificial altar was shockingly set up!

His eyes narrowed instantly; Lu Ye didn't expect that while resting in the wilderness at night, he would encounter cultists attacking a regular village.

This was a very small village with only about ten to twenty households.

The black-clad individuals were too many; when Lu Ye arrived, a few of the village households had already met misfortune.

In the next moment, without any hesitation, Lu Ye attacked, and terrifying strikes easily pierced through all the men in black.

The man in black standing at the forefront of the altar watched as his subordinates fell like scallions, his expression turning fierce.

"Who dares to thwart our sect's big plans?!"

The aura of the man in black exploded instantly, unexpectedly revealing him to be of the Innate Third Layer.

With this level of power, leading an extermination of a regular village would, under normal circumstances, indeed be a sure thing.

In the next moment…

Slash!

A black-clad man's arm fell directly.

Lu Ye, now dressed in a fresh set of black clothes, emerged from the darkness.

"Who are you?"

"Dare to impede the Five Poison Sect's affairs, you… you're doomed!" The leader of the men in black said, his face twisted in pain but still full of venom towards Lu Ye.

Five Poison Sect?

Lu Ye furrowed his brows, it turned out to be people from the Five Poison Sect.

According to the current situation, if the Five Poison Sect from thousands of years ago was both righteous and evil, obliterated due to its overly tyrannical and malevolent techniques.

Now… they've completely become an Evil Sect!

Lu Ye asked a few more questions, but the leader in black only frantically repeated, "You're doomed! Xuanzhou is destined to be ours!"

If that's the case, then there's no need to continue the conversation.

With a wave of his hand, Lu Ye severed the leader's heart meridian instantly.

At this moment, a few villagers, who were tied to the high platform and about to be bled, saw this scene while trembling violently.

Immediately, the instinct to survive surged, each looking at Lu Ye with hopeful eyes.

Seeing Lu Ye easily kill the leader in black, they all revealed smiles of having survived a disaster.

"Thank you, benefactor! Thank you, benefactor!"

After cutting the ropes binding them, a dozen villagers immediately knelt down, repeatedly expressing gratitude.

Lu Ye nodded slightly, then looked towards the altar, where a small pot covered with a lid was placed.

From a few meters away, Lu Ye could vaguely sense that inside the pot… was something exceedingly evil!

In an instant, he arrived in front of the pot, a stream of air lifted the lid, and in the next moment, a terrifying centipede, half a meter long, shot out from the pot!

The aura emanating from its body was already no weaker than an Innate Fifth Layer Martial Arts Innate Realm cultivator!

The moment this centipede appeared, the villagers' faces, which had just shown gratitude, turned deathly pale once again.

Such a cruel and sinister giant centipede was nothing short of a cataclysmic beast to ordinary villagers.

"So, it's you, this monstrous creature."

Facing the terrifying centipede rushing at him with countless wriggling legs, Lu Ye pointed his finger.

Boom!

The body of the terrifying centipede exploded instantly, a foul odor spreading around.

A moment later, flames born from the Grandmaster's Source Qi incinerated the centipede's corpse completely.

"About what happened here, just report it to the governing city," Lu Ye said faintly and disappeared again.

Among the surviving villagers, a little girl in ragged clothes rushed to her mother's side. Seeing her mother lifeless, she looked at the corpses of the men in black, her eyes filled with deep hatred.

Then, looking toward the place where her benefactor disappeared, a hint of extreme yearning appeared.

She wanted to learn martial arts… to avenge her loved ones!

Returning to the open space, Lu Ye asked, "How much do you know about the Five Poison Sect?"

Five Poison Sect?

Tian Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Not much, I only know they are famed for their Poison Technique cultivation, refining themselves with Five Poison Power to ultimately create human-shaped Poison Dao Cultivators that everyone fears."

"Besides that, the Five Poison Sect also seems to keep five extremely powerful venomous creatures, which serve as the sect's treasures."

Lu Ye nodded, having anticipated this to some extent.

Previously, they aimed to wipe out the village to use the villagers' blood to feed that centipede.

However, that centipede, only at the Innate Realm, should be far from the level of the Five Poison Sect's treasured Poisonous Beasts.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Ye showed a hint of realization.

"It should devour…"

Get someone to take the other centipedes around using evil techniques to nurture them.

Finally, as they grow to a certain extent, return them to the Five Poison Sect Headquarters and have the most powerful centipedes devour them all, consolidating energy into one centipede; they would inevitably create a Centipede King…

Everything then makes sense.

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