The flying shuttle, affected by the spiritual energy turbulence, finally stabilized.
"Hurry, everyone, stabilize your true qi!"
Zeng Qi shouted at the disciples on the shuttle.
The few Qi Sea Realm cultivators from Mirage Palace all had pale faces, tortured quite unbearably by the true qi disturbed by the spiritual energy turbulence.
The Martial Spring Realm cultivators were affected even more severely.
Their eyes were bloodshot, and in severe cases, blood was even flowing from their noses and mouths.
As for that young kid called Xiao Xu, who was in the Body Forging Realm, he looked like the most relaxed person present.
That was because his current cultivation level was only the Body Forging Realm.
There was simply no true qi existing in his meridians.
"I, cough, I..."
Fang Yuan opened his mouth, seemingly trying to say something.
Then, with a splatter, filthy blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs spewed from his mouth.
"Senior Brother Fang!"
A shocked cry came from beside him.
Zeng Qi, at the front of the shuttle, quickly turned around and looked at Fang Yuan, who was vomiting blood.
"Fang Yuan, hold on!"
But it was already too late.
Another mouthful of filthy blood, mixed with organ fragments, spewed from Fang Yuan's mouth. Then, with his eyes wide open, his head lolled to the side.
Dead.
"... "
Zeng Qi glanced at Fang Yuan a couple more times, knowing he was beyond saving. He sighed and then ignored him.
How could something like this happen?
Chen Yan stood in the high sky hundreds of miles away from these people.
This spiritual energy turbulence was, of course, his doing.
Through the Great Derivation Art, he created a massive amount of spiritual energy with no trace of human interference, which then collided with the natural spiritual energy in the direction where the flying shuttle was located.
That created a spiritual energy turbulence.
He had his External Incarnation, disguised as Fang Yuan, die within that spiritual energy turbulence.
Even if those Mirage Palace cultivators had their suspicions, they would never be able to find any trace of human intervention.
In the end, they would have no choice but to give up and believe it was just bad luck.
If Chen Yan wanted to, of course he could easily dominate the life and death of these Mirage Palace cultivators.
Even capturing Huangfu Han alive would only take a single thought.
But Chen Yan wouldn't do that.
First, it might alert the enemy. Second, by letting them return, he could gather more intelligence by tracking their movements.
As for Little Su and Little Zhou, how were they doing now?
...
Hundreds of miles away from Chen Yan's current location, outside the range of his spiritual sense.
Inside the Moxu Inn in the empty Wushi Town.
Fang Yuan, with hollow eyes, sat on the bed, staring blankly at the air.
"Alright."
Zhou Jinyun nodded as she looked at the list she had just obtained by hypnotizing Fang Yuan with her illusion technique.
In truth, rather than a list, she wished she could have obtained some more direct information.
Unfortunately, Fang Yuan was just a Martial Spring Realm disciple; the intelligence he knew was quite limited.
Therefore, Zhou Jinyun could only try to gain more information through the list in her hands.
Then, Zhou Jinyun lifted her head again and looked at that Mirage Palace disciple who now appeared completely like a puppet.
A fellow sect member, but more so an enemy.
Senior Chen had left the authority to handle him to her and Little Su.
To avoid future trouble, under normal circumstances, they should...
"Little Su."
Zhou Jinyun's voice was somewhat low. She turned her head to look at the slightly shorter youth beside her.
"What do you think we should do?"
"Does Immortal Master Zhou want to kill him?"
Su Hongzhen looked up, his gaze meeting Zhou Jinyun's eyes directly.
"...Mm."
Zhou Jinyun said.
She believed this was what should be done.
But since Senior Chen said that she and Little Su should decide this matter together, she'd better ask for Little Su's opinion.
Otherwise, if Senior Chen asked about it later, it wouldn't be easy for her to explain.
Toward that great senior, whose cultivation realm was definitely above Ascending to Immortality, Zhou Jinyun naturally didn't dare to show any negligence.
Even though, during this period of time together, the other party hadn't really put on airs of being a senior.
Zhou Jinyun even thought that any Grand Elder from Mirage Palace would be more pretentious than Senior Chen.
Therefore, Zhou Jinyun deeply respected Chen Yan.
Both from the perspective of his strength and from the perspective of his character.
Su Hongzhen looked at Fang Yuan, whose expression was dull because he was trapped in an illusion.
He could feel the other's breathing by the rise and fall of his chest.
This was a living person.
As long as he nodded and agreed with Immortal Master Zhou's words, this living person would immediately become a corpse.
The power of life and death was in his hands.
But what right did he have to decide someone else's life or death?
Living is a very great thing.
This was Su Hongzhen's view of the world.
Little Su had people he wanted to kill when he lost his sanity.
For example, those bandits and marauders back in the village.
Or those guys in Jiangdu Prefecture who dragged him into the alley.
Even now, he still harbored a deep hatred for them.
With his current cultivation level, if he could go back, killing them would take no effort at all.
But... would he really kill them?
Su Hongzhen himself didn't know the answer.
"Immortal Master Zhou, under what circumstances is killing someone the right thing to do?"
After a few seconds of silence, Su Hongzhen asked.
"When not killing the other person means you might be killed yourself."
Zhou Jinyun answered.
She thought her answer was already quite conservative.
"Why is it that in this world, there are people who want to kill me?"
Su Hongzhen continued asking.
"Maybe because your existence threatens them, or maybe because of interests, or maybe simply because the other person is a piece of trash."
Zhou Jinyun said.
"In the end, the strong preying on the weak is the law of survival in this world."
Hearing this, Su Hongzhen thought for a moment.
"But that's just a rule. It doesn't mean killing is right."
"Since we are born into this world, we must follow its rules."
Zhou Jinyun said.
"...I don't know."
Su Hongzhen shook his head.
"If you don't respect the rules, this world will have no place for you."
Zhou Jinyun's tone became more severe.
She was genuinely angry.
Because Zhou Jinyun thought Su Hongzhen was being foolish.
She had never met someone so stupid.
Or rather, Zhou Jinyun was angry because Su Hongzhen was unwilling to follow what she considered to be the rules of this world.
"But wrong is wrong."
Su Hongzhen said.
"Since you say that, then when Moxu Mountain was slaughtered, what did you do? When Kang Mansion was slaughtered, what did you do? In the village of Liaolong, what did you do?"
Zhou Jinyun shouted loudly.