Chapter 2713: No Spring in the World

Jiao Heng County is Su Xiu Xing's hometown, and it's also where this accident began. There must be clues there. Even if the clues were wiped out, the incident itself will become a clue." Jiang Wang pondered and agreed with a couple of sentences, then looked towards Yin Guan.

After saying his piece, Zhong Xuan Sheng was already looking at Yin Guan.

Yin Guan looked at Zhong Xuan Sheng, then at Jiang Wang:

"Why are you all staring at me?"

"I'm still hosting the competition," Jiang Wang said.

"It's hard being a Marquis! You have to do pre-competition guidance, handle diplomacy with various countries, you're needed everywhere. This Marquis is also a bit plump, inconvenient to move..." Zhong Xuan Sheng sighed with lament.

Yin Guan had originally wanted to say that Yan Jun of the Underworld was also busy, but then he thought about how he still had time to come to the Yellow River Assembly part-time... he really couldn't say that.

He looked at Jiang Wang:

"...Aren't I confined by you?"

"As long as you don't shout that you're Yin Guan in Jiao Heng County, the people of Jing Country will pretend not to see you," Jiang Wang said reassuringly.

"They just want face."

Yin Guan was greatly angered:

"What about my face then?"

Qin Guang Wang, who also wanted face, came to Jiao Heng County.

In his left hand, he held a pair of purple spirit east pearls from the Bo Wang Marquis residence. In his right, he held a blue sheep heaven contract. With one hand, he folded paper, lightly crafting it into a blue mantis, lifelike and extremely beautiful – he casually tucked it into his belt.

The long street was chaotic, filled with wails.

The aura of death wasn't actually dense; the murderer's targets were very clear, only extraordinary cultivators. The ordinary people who made up the vast majority of the population living in this city had basically all escaped.

At least, from a professional assassin's observation, those dead ordinary people were all casualties of being too close to the extraordinary cultivators. No beam of heavenly light had specifically targeted ordinary people.

He slowly rotated the east pearls and walked towards Su Xiao Die's home.

Standing near the courtyard entrance was the brocade-clothed wealthy Dai Shan King.

The two people who had exchanged taunts and parted ways met again here.

He acted as if he didn't see Ji Jing Lu, and Ji Jing Lu also acted as if he didn't see him, just brushing past. Sang Xian Shou, emitting a chilling aura, was hunched over and probing, like a vulture, back and forth in the courtyard.

"Any clues?" Yin Guan greeted him familiarly.

The boss of Hell No Door and the leader of the Central Heavenly Prison were, of course, as familiar with each other as could be, even remembering each other's soul fluctuations.

However, coexisting so peacefully in one courtyard, looking at each other at such close range, was still a first.

Sang Xian Shou glanced at him, smiled, but didn't speak. He just walked to one side and slowly washed his hands in a pre-prepared basin of water.

His work was done, and he washed his hands forcefully, not missing a single wrinkle, even carefully cleaning under his fingernails.

A green light flashed in Yin Guan's eyes once, then dimmed again.

"Really stingy," he chuckled.

Qin Guang Wang of Hell No Door was never a person willing to suppress his killing intent.

But after being nagged for a long time, his ears had grown calluses, and he slowly began to feel that killing should also have some gains... after all, it was like doing business, not just killing people for no reason.

After joining the Underworld, repeating the Underworld's orders every day, he had a temple he couldn't abandon—

This was the reason he was never willing to establish connections with people.

An assassin stopping in one place was the death of their professional life... or the death of their life itself.

Let you go, old Sang—of course, I'll remember you.

Sang Xian Shou left the scene. Yin Guan, with eyes containing unclear meaning, then freely walked around the courtyard.

Any clues he could get, the number one executioner of the Central Heavenly Prison had definitely already meticulously gathered. Asking him would be the simplest, but unfortunately, this method couldn't be used.

Jing Country was framed, and he was also framed, but this didn't mean they were on the same side.

He didn't find his enemy's enemy pleasing either—Jing Country thought the same way.

Although this large Su family residence had suffered serious damage, one could still see that the decoration was quite good. This fully demonstrated that Hell No Door's salary system was complete and industry-leading. A Ming River boatman could also save up a considerable family fortune.

Later, if he didn't work for the Underworld, returning to his old profession wouldn't be a bad publicity point.

Yin Guan walked around inside and out, capturing the lingering resentment. Although there was no specific consciousness, how a person resented what they died for was no secret to Yin Guan.

Deep or shallow resentment was just a kind of answer to death.

After walking a circle, he had to admit that the fat man was right.

Su Xiao Die's death was just a casual stroke of an ending written here by someone. She wasn't even that "one" character, but a single ink dot within the "one."

No one had specifically targeted her—this was actually a crueler thing.

Yin Guan still found Su Xiu Xing's residual hate here, exactly the same as the curse in that nameless mountain valley. This proved that Su Xiu Xing had indeed escaped from here to there—relying on Su Xiu Xing himself definitely couldn't have done it.

So Chen Suan probably really died in this place.

Interesting.

He himself had pursued the curse and arrived, then been detected ahead of time, and then the body was casually thrown to frame?

The opponent was really strong... exciting.

Light flickered in Yin Guan's eyes. He half-squatted down and pressed the ground with his index finger.

He seemed to see Su Xiu Xing looking up from here, seeing that corner of the chess-patterned Daoist robe.

Besides, everyone in the Su residence had died ordinarily.

Perhaps because this family had two extraordinary cultivators, the intensity of that light beam was also stronger than elsewhere. The extraordinary died from pinpoint strikes, and the ordinary died in the aftermath.

There was actually a blank spot—he thought it was likely the traces of Chen Suan.

Either wiped out by the murderer, or already scraped away by the Jing Country people.

Yin Guan didn't say anything more, stood up, turned, and walked out of here.

This was his first time in Jiao Heng County. When he traveled south and north as an assassin, he hadn't taken any jobs in this remote place.

Seeing the bricks and tiles here, feeling the human smoke and vegetation, he only then had a concrete impression of Su Xiu Xing—this was a quite diligent person, meticulous in his work. Although the tasks assigned to him weren't large, the completion rate was very high. Whether as an assassin earlier, or later as a Ming River boatman, there were no mistakes.

Such a person, even without joining Hell No Door, would have lived very well if Wei Country had normal avenues for advancement.

But Yin Guan remembered when he was first recruited, he said—he couldn't live in his hometown.

It was really hard to say which was better or worse, Wei Country or You Country.

People from small countries all seemed to have to risk their lives to make a path. Jiang Wang was like this, he, Yin Guan, was like this, and Su Xiu Xing, this person who wasn't quite a genius, was also like this.

Yin Guan suddenly remembered a very long time ago, when he was still in Lower City Twenty-Seven, on the day he learned the truth of Zeng Qing's death, looking up at that suffocating Upper City that covered the sky, he had murmured to himself:

Will this world change?

Qin Guang Wang, wearing a black crown, was like a lonely wandering soul in this city. The living people all stopped, and he walked forward.

This world won't change. If the suffering people don't go and change it, it will just remain like this forever.

We just suffer like this until the suffering becomes unbearable.

Then, from that suffering, power will erupt, and finally one day, the entire universe will burn.

The sky mirror suspended above the long street was still projecting the Yellow River competition.

Of course, there was no one sitting on the street watching anymore—

The ground was empty of chairs, and in the middle, there were thirteen blank spots left by the beams of heavenly light.

This represented thirteen extraordinary cultivators, and some affected ordinary people whom no one would count.

Yin Guan walked among them, sat down on a not-so-clean chair with dry bloodstains, and watched the competition he hadn't finished.

On the other side, Ji Jing Lu stood outside the courtyard, also leaning against the door and gazing at the sky mirror. He wondered what mood the True Monarch of the Upper Country was in as he watched this.

The long street was empty, and the voices of grievance had not dissipated.

The terrified people of Wei Country hid in their houses and cried. People from various departments of Jing Country came and went.

Inside the sky mirror, magnificent light and shadows, spells booming.

As if everything hadn't changed.

It was time for a change.

Sa Shi Han and Zuo Guang Shu's battle had already lasted three hours and two quarters.

This was not Sa Shi Han's initial intention.

He wanted to end this battle with a head-on clash, and Zuo Guang Shu also gave him the most direct collision.

He never thought they would collide for so long. Spirit domain against spirit domain, golden body killing golden body, divine abilities against divine abilities, not a moment of rest.

Zuo Guang Shu's divine ability light was overly majestic, the most powerful he had ever seen in his life.

After countless collisions, the light was still dazzling.

Sa Shi Han had already witnessed the Ming Huang Zhi Feng's gouging, the Tian Qing Zhi Feng's Qing Luan, and the purple Zhi Feng's Yuan Tiao.

Yuan Chu had the power of "purification"; Qing Luan was extremely fast and represented the "messenger"; Yuan Tiao represented the power of "firmness." Under Yuan Tiao's illusory shadow, Zuo Guang Shu's golden body was simply indestructible.

He had traversed the world with the Xuan Yin Dao Palace, yet he crashed into the Phoenix Forest—Zuo Guang Shu's spirit domain was named Tong Palace.

The two spirit domains battled each other, both suffering a thousand wounds and a hundred holes.

Did the perfected Nine Phoenix divine abilities, legendary in the Shan Hai Realm, also have the power to form a world of their own, with endless power? Otherwise, how could they squander so much divine ability light and still be so splendid? He had already realized that Zuo Guang Shu in front of him was a divine descendant opponent who fought without any shortcomings.

This person cultivated the perfect divine descent method legendary in Huang Wei Zhen, achieving a golden body without leaks. The Nine Phoenix divine abilities were complex and varied, and his entire body's Dao techniques shocked gods and ghosts.

So he had changed his mind early on, no longer pursuing a quick victory, but wanting to thoroughly witness the brilliance of the Great Chu prodigy—

He wanted to temper his own Dao path and sharpen his own Dao heart with its infinite changes.

Step by step, to see what was truly outstanding.

There was no better opponent than this.

And now it was about to reach a climax, it was time to add more fuel.

Driving the moon to crash into Tong Palace, Sa Shi Han met fist with fist, colliding with Zuo Guang Shu's golden body. At the same time as their fists clashed, he suddenly bent backward, and smoke flew out of his seven orifices—

This smoke was cold like frost and contained jade essence. It floated like smoke, taking the form of various flowers and grasses, yet it possessed extreme corrosive power.

When the smoke from his seven orifices intertwined, it became like a thin veil, covering Tong Palace.

Its name was "Tai Yin Upper Xuan Mirage Smoke Net"!

It was a terrifying Dao law he had just completed, based on the ancient methods passed down in the Sa clan and combined with the most superior Dao technique researched by the Central Dao Academy last year, recorded under the name "Upper Clear."

The strangeness of this technique was unprecedented—it was specifically designed to target spirit domains and was born to corrode them!

Sa Shi Han waited until this moment to unleash it, precisely to catch his opponent off guard. At the moment when the Xuan Yin Dao Palace had already become broken walls and ruins, the other side's Tong Palace was also already leaking and its tiles were broken.

This "Tai Yin Upper Xuan Mirage Smoke Net" was like a light veil covering the face. Under its cover,

Tong Palace collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Victory and defeat—" Sa Shi Han, with smoke flying from his seven orifices, looked imposing:

"Will be decided upon this!"

He suddenly crashed his lion-like face backward, keeping his fist against Zuo Guang Shu's fist, not allowing him to avoid.

At this critical moment, Zuo Guang Shu still didn't avoid, meeting fist with fist: "Don't bring your ugly face... rely so close on me!" That Tong Palace wore a veil and vanished.

Outside his body, spirit light flew high again, vaguely forming a mansion. There were flowers and bird characters on the plaque, and the characters said—

"Cloud Dream"!

A divine descendant cultivator cultivating a spirit domain could be seen as a powerful divine descendant.

Zuo Guang Shu cultivated not just one spirit domain!

One was named Tong Palace, and the other was named Cloud Dream Water Mansion.

Although Tong Palace was already a thousand wounds and a hundred holes,

The Cloud Dream Water Mansion was still at its peak. Like a dragon emerging from the sea, just one collision sent the caught-off-guard Xuan Yin Dao Palace flying!

Hua hua hua, like the water of a thousand rivers.

One after another, water flows like silk ribbons crossed the sky, intertwining in all directions, locking down this part of heaven and earth, and also like ribbons dancing for him, giving Zuo Guang Shu infinite victorious momentum.

His fist, augmented with the momentum of ten thousand hectares of water, sent Sa Shi Han's fist flying.

Then, with the remaining bravery to kill the exhausted enemy, the water momentum stretched for thousands of miles. The handsome and divine Zuo Guang Shu was like a water god descending into the world, pressuring this stage. He soared forward with force, his fist releasing profound light, grinding towards his opponent's face, shattering a rising heavenly gate.

The fist light grazed his face, leaving a bloody mark. Sa Shi Han, however, in the cloud gas of the shattered heavenly gate, shouted:

"Good!"

Yet, in the empty domain, cold stars filled the sky, and between heaven and earth, Xuan Yin gathered into mist.

The spirit light was nimble and bending, thus filling heaven and earth with momentum.

He had also cultivated two spirit domains!

One was called,

Xuan Yin Dao Palace. One was called,

Water Virtue Star Domain!

"Today everyone says you, Zuo Guang Shu, were born close to water, and your water-line attainment is the best in the world," his lion-like lips roared, yet his voice was orthodox and resonant, shocking in all directions:

"Yet they've forgotten that the earliest water-line Dao technique system was built by my Sa clan ancestors, the first generation Heavenly Master Sa Nan Hua himself!"

"I've waited for you... too long!"

Zuo Guang Shu's water-line trump card, which he had always hidden and not used, was precisely the clear chapter he wanted to forcibly break and self-prove, the decisive moment he had long awaited. The heat was on!

This Water Virtue Star Domain and the Cloud Dream Water Mansion intertwined.

Sa Shi Han raised a hand, and countless water-line Dao techniques intertwined, yet they entangled each other, strengthening each other, thus becoming a heavenly waterfall that descended!

Zuo Guang Shu looked up and saw this, actually smiling brilliantly, unmatched in his handsomeness: "I have a hate..."

He directly leaped up.

"I hate that you are not Sa Nan Hua."

"Unable to let me see the absolute peak!"

Without any visible protection, he leaned his body and crashed into this water-line Dao technique's heavenly waterfall. He felt every water-line Dao technique at such close range. The moment a Dao technique approached, he countered and cracked it—

Of course, there were many moments where he was caught off guard, leaving this noble young master with accumulating scars.

But he rose proudly, never lowering his head. Amidst the Dao technique damage that seemed like a thousand knives and ten thousand cuts, he grew bright yellow phoenix wings!

His smile was like a shining light, forever imprinted in the hearts of the audience who saw this scene.

"What's there to say about such techniques?"

His voice was like a phoenix's cry and song:

"Not Li Quan water... I will not drink!"

He withdrew his large sleeves, and then his arm was seen to be crystal clear, entirely like water, elegantly reaching out, only pointing forward with his index finger—

Water Dragon Chant, Xuan Yin Cone, Cang Lang Bury Soul, Bi Shui Flood Peak...

The various water-line Dao techniques pushed out by Sa Shi Han were actually like water bubbles, one by one, popped by Zuo Guang Shu's single finger.

The last one lingered at his fingertip, like a teardrop.

He then looked at Sa Shi Han through this teardrop, seeing his lion-like face indistinct, as if in water.

The phoenix voice said:

"In the past, Sa Nan Hua took the water race as his teacher, and later spread the law to the human race of the world. The Heavenly Master also regarded himself as 'Land Water Race'."

"And today, the descendants of the Heavenly Master reside in Wan. Wan is adjacent to Luo, which is a country where the water race's slave trade is rampant on the water. Don't you feel ashamed?"

"How dare you claim water-line and virtue!"

He lightly floated one step, stepping into the Water Virtue Star Domain. The Cloud Dream Water Mansion was embedded among them, spirit domain biting spirit domain.

And with a single push of his finger, all the stars scattered!

"There is no Li Quan in the world."

This gentleman's long hair rose high like trembling phoenix down, his finger shattering the spirit domain!

"Return to you... Phoenix Tear!"

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