Chapter 865: Chapter 559: Who Is the Hunter, Who Is the Prey? Shadows of Evil Stir (Part 2)

Little Li listened and thought it was reasonable.

He nodded and said, "Then let it go this time."

After all, they hadn’t lost anything and even got a spirit fruit, so they actually gained something.

"But even if we can spare it this time, these guys’ corpses are my battle trophies, they can’t be left for it!"

After saying this, Little Li transformed into a streak of light, weaving through the valley.

Very quickly, all the spiritual beasts and demon beasts’ corpses in the valley, except those of too low a grade to be worth looking at,

were all collected by him into the storage ring that Lu Qing had given him.

"The rotten snake likes refining blood anyway. Even if I were to give it something to eat, I wouldn’t give it to that wretched tree!" Little Li said angrily.

"You..."

Lu Qing smiled and shook his head.

But he did not say anything more.

These corpses were indeed Little Li’s battle trophies, and it had the right to handle them.

Moreover, the corpses of those Golden Core Realm spiritual beasts and demon beasts were quite useful,

"Alright, we’ve got the spirit fruit, let’s go."

Lu Qing retrieved the jade talisman previously set up in the valley, and then left with Little Li and the Five Elements.

"Ah Qing, since there were such high-grade spirit fruits birthed in these mountains, why don’t we wander around a bit more to see if there are other treasures?"

After leaving the valley, Little Li’s eyes brightened as he spoke to Lu Qing.

Lu Qing thought for a moment, then nodded: "Alright, since we’re not in a hurry."

"If we could find a few more top-grade spirit fruits, we’d hit the jackpot!

Rotten snake, stay away from me. If you want blood food, you must behave well lately..."

With voices gradually fading, tranquility returned to the valley.

Only scattered corpses of spiritual and demon beasts were left, and the Dragon Blood Vermilion Fruit Tree swayed gently in the mountain wind.

...

Boom!

Suddenly, in a deep cave, there was a loud crash, followed by several figures scrambling out in panic.

Soon afterward, a streak of black sword qi shot out from deep within the cave.

It grazed their bodies and slammed into a cave wall ahead, causing it to collapse.

Large amounts of rubble fell, completely blocking the entire passageway.

"I’ll handle this!"

The faces of the fleeing people turned pale, and one of them, a young man in purple, gritted his teeth and drew a talisman from a storage bag, and cast it out.

The next moment, a bolt of lightning blasted out, shattering the rocks ahead.

"Hurry!"

The young man in purple pulled out a handful of talismans from the storage bag, disregarding whether they were high or low grade, and flung them all behind.

Then he led the others to continue fleeing forward.

After barely dozens of feet, they heard continuous explosions from behind.

It was the talismans the young man in purple had thrown that detonated under his command of heart and spirit.

Under the rampant talisman power, the entire passage behind them began to collapse.

Even the passage in front of them started to shake.

"Run faster!"

Seeing this, they all desperately used their movement techniques and finally escaped the cave before its collapse.

They had just rushed out of the entrance when they heard another loud roar from behind, and the entire cave collapsed.

The young man in purple seeing this, his eyes sharpened.

Immediately, he drew several more talismans from the storage bag.

Under the urging of Mana, talismans flew out, embedding into rocks around the entrance, sealing the entire doorway.

"Brother Mu, is that Evil Demon trapped inside?"

A young girl, still with lingering fear on her face, looked at the collapsed entrance and asked.

"Hard to say. That Evil Demon has profound cultivation; even with my array blocking, this cave might not hold him for long."

The young man in purple shook his head.

"Unexpectedly, that Li Motian appeared righteous, but turned out to be a Demon Cultivator who colluded with the Demon Clan!

We were so blind, being brothers with such a person for so long!"

Another young man cursed indignantly.

"Indeed, this expedition to the Ancient Cave Mansion was his suggestion. Who would have thought he had it all planned to kill us once the Cave Mansion opened? Luckily, Senior Sister Ye held them off at the cost of her life, or we wouldn’t have escaped."

"I wonder how Senior Sister Ye is doing."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

When Senior Sister Ye covered their retreat, she had already used the Secret Technique and burned her Golden Core.

However, even so, the evil demon still chased after them in an extremely short time.

So the result is self-evident, Senior Sister Ye is most likely in grave danger.

"No matter what, we must immediately rush back to the sect and report this matter.

Li Motian, who is an Inner Sect True Disciple, has secretly sided with the Demon Clan.

This matter is too significant and likely involves deep implications, we must have the sect prepare in advance!"

The youth in the purple robe said in a deep voice.

Just at that moment, a cold voice suddenly rang out: "Trying to escape, do you think you can get away, and do you think this wretch can stop my steps?"

The voice was incredibly close, it had already reached behind the cave entrance.

Soon after, they saw the cave entrance, which had been completely blocked by falling rocks.

The rocks slowly melted, revealing a hole, and a figure wrapped in black flames floated out from inside.

In its grasp was a woman with disheveled hair.

"Senior Sister Ye!"

The young girls, upon seeing the woman caught in his grasp, all screamed out.

However, at this time, the woman’s limbs were twisted, her life and death unknown, how could she respond to them?

And the young man in purple was also shocked: "Impossible, how did you manage to escape so quickly!"

Not to mention he had thrown a pile of talismans with sealing properties in the cave.

Plus, the talisman array he set up at the cave entrance, logically speaking, even a Late-stage Golden Core cultivator shouldn’t have been able to break it so quickly.

This Li Motian was originally just at the Golden Core Middle Stage in the Third Transition.

Even if he had hidden his cultivation before, he shouldn’t have such strength.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to escape outside so easily just now.

Could it be...

The young man in purple looked exceedingly grim: "Did you obtain the items inside the Cave Mansion?"

"That’s right." The figure wrapped in black flames replied leisurely.

"Come to think of it, I should thank you all, if it weren’t for your help, I wouldn’t have been able to break the seal of the Cave Mansion and obtain the treasure inside so effortlessly."

"Li Motian, as an Inner Sect True Disciple of the Qiankun Sect, raised by our sect, you secretly joined the Demon Clan, do you not feel a bit of shame, have you no decency!"

The youth in purple shouted angrily.

"Raised by Qiankun Sect?"

However, upon hearing this, Li Motian laughed wildly as if hearing the funniest joke in the world.

His laughter was extremely unrestrained, causing the youth in purple and others to change facial expressions.

"What are you laughing at!"

"What am I laughing at?" Li Motian restrained his laughter and said coldly, "Zixiao, do you know how I joined the Qiankun Sect back then?"

"It was Elder Wang who brought you into the sect."

"That’s right, Elder Wang brought me into the sect, but do you know what my background was and where I came from before I joined Qiankun Sect?"

The youth in purple was speechless, unable to answer for a moment.

The others’ faces also changed slightly.

They just realized that although they had known Li Motian for many years, they knew nothing about his background before he joined the sect.

Because Li Motian never mentioned his past to them.

"You don’t know, do you? Then let me tell you, my family back then was innocently affected by the disputes of you so-called righteous people.

In the end, not only did my family die tragically, but the entire village was razed to the ground.

If it weren’t for me being playful that day, running out of the village, escaping a calamity, I probably would have met my end in Yellow Springs.

And what happened to those two beasts who destroyed my hometown? In the end, they received no punishment, and still lived freely.

While I was reduced to an orphan, homeless, and could only survive by begging.

I was nearly starved to death in the wilderness not just once!"

Seeing the hatred in Li Motian’s eyes, the youth in purple and others were stunned.

They never knew that this brother who always seemed so cheerful had such a tragic past.

However, the youth in purple soon responded.

"Since you have such a miserable past, you should all the more not betray the sect.

Don’t forget, it’s the sect’s cultivation that granted you your current power and status!"

"Heh, the cultivation of the sect." Yet Li Motian sneered again, "Do you know who those two people who killed my family and destroyed my hometown were?"

"Who are they?" An ominous feeling suddenly gripped the heart of the youth in purple.

He then saw an expression of immense hatred appear on Li Motian’s face.

"It was your senior brother, the one revered by all sect disciples, the leader of the True Disciples, the beloved son of the Sect Master, Qian Lingxiao!"

"Impossible!"

Upon hearing Li Motian’s words, the youth in purple blurted out immediately.

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