Daqian Martial Saint

A figure streaked across the sky at an unimaginable speed, deftly weaving through the air to appear behind the gray-robed elder, leaving a series of dazzling afterimages in its wake.

“Who!?” Alarm bells screamed in the gray-robed elder’s mind. He fought through the splitting pain in his head, attempting to summon his last reserves of strength to defend himself. But before he could fully react, a deafening thunderclap rolled in from the heavens.

BOOM!

Lightning flashed, dazzling and brilliant. A single finger of thunder, like a flood dragon bursting from the sea, descended with boundless heavenly might and unstoppable momentum.

“Thunder Shocking Finger!”

The power of this finger strike was peerless, fierce, and domineering. The sudden flash of lightning dispersed the surrounding blood mist.

With a loud THUD, the gray-robed elder’s body was instantly pierced by the thunderous strike. The fierce and domineering power of lightning, like a violent storm, immediately annihilated his internal organs, reducing them to nothing.

“Did you forget about me?” A cold, calm voice sounded by the gray-robed elder’s ear, chilling him to the bone like a winter wind.

In endless pain and despair, the gray-robed elder struggled to turn his head. He saw a young man with an indifferent expression, watching him with a cold look on his face.

“It’s… you…” The gray-robed elder’s voice was faint and trembling. His eyes widened in utter disbelief.

With another explosive sound, the power of lightning erupted once more, completely engulfing the gray-robed elder’s body and causing it to detonate in a cloud of blood mist.

The former Ten Thousand Demons Left Envoy of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, Venerable Blood Demon, was dead!

Lightning flickered and flowed around Chen Ping’an. With a thought, he slowly retracted his power.

The gray-robed elder was dead. Deader than dead.

He hadn’t even been able to launch a final, suicidal counterattack before dying at Chen Ping’an’s hands.

The moment the gray-robed elder’s True Body of Ten Thousand Demons shattered, Chen Ping’an acted decisively, striking without hesitation. He instantly activated his Wandering Dragon Body Technique Secret Technique, Wind and Cloud Illusion, his speed exploding as he crossed a great distance in a flash to get behind the elder.

Facing this Top Grandmaster, Chen Ping’an had unhesitatingly unleashed his most powerful offensive Slaughter Secret Technique: Thunder Shocking Finger.

With a single finger, thunder roared like a flood dragon emerging from the sea.

When he struck, Chen Ping’an had already prepared for the worst. The death throes of a Top Grandmaster were far more powerful than anyone could imagine.

The Quasi-Divine Treasure Armor on Chen Ping’an’s body, the Profound Ice Silk Armor, was already activated to its fullest extent. True Essence surged around him, and he was ready to enter his Golden Body Unbreakable state at a moment’s notice.

His Dragon Elephant Dominating Body Technique was fully active, its Tyrant’s Power manifesting around him.

Golden Body Unbreakable, Dragon Elephant Overlord Body, Profound Ice Silk Armor… With his numerous defensive measures, Chen Ping’an had pushed his own power to the absolute limit. He was confident he could withstand even the final, desperate attack of a Top Grandmaster.

But the truth was, this gray-robed elder from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect was in even worse shape than he had imagined. Clearly, after his battle with Gu Qingchan, he was already at the end of his rope. Gu Qingchan’s two consecutive Profound Moon Soul Slashes were likely even more powerful than he’d thought! Those two Spiritual Slaughter Secret Techniques were the root cause of the gray-robed elder’s terrible condition.

Although his attack felt a bit like scavenging a kill, he had ultimately suppressed and killed the gray-robed elder on the spot without taking any damage himself.

Hm!?

Chen Ping’an scanned his surroundings, and his eyes lit up when he saw a palm-sized object on the ground.

It was a palm-sized pouch, deep and inky-black as if it could devour the very light around it. Intricate, exquisite dark patterns were embroidered on its surface, intertwining like the ancient and mysterious tracks of stars.

The mouth of the pouch was tied shut with a thin black cord, from which hung a small, ink-black jade pendant. The pendant was dark, smooth, and round.

BZZ~

A flash of Spiritual Light emanated from between Chen Ping’an’s brows, and the palm-sized cloth pouch floated up into his hand.

“It’s a Thousand Mechanism Bag!” A glimmer of understanding flashed in Chen Ping’an’s eyes, and a look of delight crossed his face.

‘There’s a Spiritual Restriction on the opening, so I can’t check its contents right now.’ Such a feature was far beyond the capabilities of a Hundred Treasures Pouch. From what Chen Ping’an knew, only a Thousand Mechanism Bag, a tier above the Hundred Treasures Pouch, could be set with a Spiritual Restriction to prevent others from accessing it at will.

The Hundred Treasures Pouch was a special category of Treasure Artifacts with the ability to store items. It could hold ten or even dozens of times more than its external size would suggest. Its value was roughly equivalent to that of a common Fine Treasure Artifact. Some with larger storage spaces could be worth considerably more.

A Thousand Mechanism Bag, on the other hand, was at least Quasi-Divine Weapon level in terms of grade. Those with exceptionally large storage spaces could even approach the realm of Divine Weapons.

Compared to a Hundred Treasures Pouch, its value was more than ten times greater!

Generally speaking, even the smallest Thousand Mechanism Bag had a storage space no smaller than an ordinary room.

Regardless of what was inside, the value of the Thousand Mechanism Bag alone was enough to make one’s heart race.

‘An unexpected windfall.’ With a delighted expression, Chen Ping’an tucked the Thousand Mechanism Bag into his robes, stowing it away securely.

‘This Thousand Mechanism Bag has a Spiritual Restriction on it, and it won’t be easy to break. I’d better not try to inspect it now. I’ll figure it out after all this is over.’

With this thought, Chen Ping’an turned his gaze to Gu Qingchan, who wasn’t far away.

Though it seemed to take a long time, only a few breaths had passed between him killing the gray-robed elder and stowing away the Thousand Mechanism Bag. At this moment, Gu Qingchan was not in good shape. In fact, her condition was about as bad as it could get.