32: Chapter 32 If I were you, I wouldn't have said those threatening things...

The entire process was so fast that no one reacted in time.

"What a fine little thief. Today, no one can save you, no matter who comes."

Bai Chuanzhi had fallen as soon as the fight began, and Bai Chuanfeng immediately flew into a rage.

The current Bai Chuanfeng had completely lost his reason, acting like a completely different person compared to his usual behavior at the Spirit Stone Mine.

"Ahhh!"

"Little thief, die for me!"

"Blood Sacrifice: Sun-Piercing Blade Technique!"

Bai Chuanfeng formed a hand seal with both hands and spat a mouthful of blood onto his broadsword. The blade instantly turned red.

"Go!"

With a point of his finger, the blood blade transformed into a streak of red light, shooting straight towards Zhao Yi's back.

Zhao Yi seemed not to have noticed Bai Chuanfeng's movements at all, continuing to calmly undo the restraints on Zhou Yan and Mi Yao.

"Watch out!" Zhou Yan and Mi Yao said simultaneously. Since they were facing Zhao Yi, they naturally saw Bai Chuanfeng behind him.

Zhou Yan even tried to pull Zhao Yi away so she could take the hit from the blood light herself.

But at this moment, Zhao Yi was like a mountain; despite Zhou Yan pulling with all her might, he didn't budge an inch.

"It's fine!"

"Are you both alright?"

Zhou Yan shook her head. Mi Yao, however, blushed, her face almost burying itself in her chest; she felt unclean after having been touched twice by Bai Chuanzhi.

"Clang!"

A crisp sound rang out. Bai Chuanfeng's blood blade finally struck Zhao Yi's back.

"Haha, you're dead now, aren't you?"

This time, Bai Chuanfeng had learned his lesson and used his full strength from the start. However, he soon couldn't laugh anymore.

When the blood blade collided with Zhao Yi's back, it didn't pierce through him as Bai Chuanfeng had imagined. Instead, it hovered there, as if it had struck an impregnable fortress, emitting a crisp sound.

Having undone the restraints on the two women, Zhao Yi finally let out a sigh of relief. He slowly turned around and looked at the blood blade hovering in front of him.

"Burning Star Burst Fist!"

Zhao Yi's fists erupted with a faint starlight, and he smashed a punch into the blood blade before him, shattering it into fragments.

"Pfft!"

Bai Chuanfeng spat out a mouthful of blood and looked at Zhao Yi in horror.

"Late Foundation Establishment Stage!"

"You had another Breakthrough?"

The other Bai Family Cultivators were also shaken and quietly retreated a few steps.

A Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator wasn't scary; what was scary was a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator who mined Spirit Stones—a Death Cultivator.

Ordinary Golden Core True Persons would avoid a Death Cultivator at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage, because if you provoked one, they truly dared to splatter you with their blood.

"You..."

"Cultivating so quickly, don't you know that is a path to death?"

Bai Chuanfeng looked at Zhao Yi while signaling behind his back. The other Bai Family Cultivators slowly moved away; a Death Cultivator at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage might just explode one of these days.

Zhao Yi... He naturally saw Bai Chuanfeng's hand signals. He hadn't expected that reaching the Late Foundation Establishment Stage would actually have this effect.

Looking at Bai Chuanfeng, a flash of inspiration struck him. He smiled and said: "I wonder, Fellow Daoist Bai, what is the meaning of tying up my Dao Companion and friend and bringing them here?"

"You wouldn't say this is just a joke, would you?"

Zhao Yi stared at the moving Bai Family Cultivators and said: "I observe that there are several female Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the Bai family who look quite good. Should I also try making a joke?"

Bai Chuanfeng... He said in a low voice: "This matter is my fault."

"What do you want?"

"Your life!"

Hearing this, Bai Chuanfeng turned and ran without a hint of hesitation.

Zhao Yi... Watching the Bai Family Cultivators fleeing in all directions, he shook his head. They were truly a bunch of weaklings.

However, he said he wanted Bai Chuanfeng's life, so he had to take it. A real man cannot go back on his word.

Watching Bai Chuanfeng's retreating back, Zhao Yi took out a Low-Grade Spirit Stone.

"Two beauties, I possess a technique,"

"It is called: Flying Star Technique."

Zhao Yi muttered to himself, his fingers continuously manipulating the Low-Grade Spirit Stone until it turned yellow. Zhao Yi casually threw it.

"Hit!"

The yellow light he threw struck Bai Chuanfeng squarely, smashing his brains into pulp.

"What a good Spell, to actually kill a Foundation Establishment Mid-stage Cultivator from two or three miles away. Is the difference in cultivation between the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage and Late Stage really this large?" Zhou Yan spoke up.

Bai Chuanzhi and Bai Chuanfeng had both fallen; logically, Mi Yao should have been happy. Instead, she looked at Zhao Yi with worry.

"Senior Brother Zhao, did you really reach the Late Foundation Establishment Stage?"

"Why were you in such a rush?"

"For us Death Cultivators to achieve the Golden Core, we likely have to survive the Three-Nine Thunder Tribulation. This is a Lightning Tribulation that only occurs when a Golden Core achieves a Nascent Soul; I have never heard of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator being able to survive this tribulation."

"Was it because of u...us that you rushed your Breakthrough?" As Mi Yao spoke, her eyes turned red.

Zhao Yi... "What are you thinking?"

"I just had a sudden realization and broke through by accident."

"Really, when I was in seclusion, I didn't know you two had been captured."

But how could Mi Yao believe him? In her heart, Zhao Yi definitely broke through his cultivation just to kill Bai Chuanzhi.

Even in Zhou Yan's eyes, a trace of struggle appeared. But seeing the way Zhao Yi and Mi Yao were interacting, she gave a cold snort and suppressed that trace of struggle.

Stepping forward to hook her arm into Zhao Yi's, Zhou Yan glanced at Mi Yao. Although hers were already large enough, they were still a size inferior to Mi Yao's. This woman... Being so ostentatious, she really didn't know how she had survived in the mine.

A crisis had been resolved in such a baffling way.

"Are you still going to mine Spirit Stones?"

"Yes, why wouldn't I?" Zhao Yi planned to mine enough experience points to reach the Golden Core stage before going to the Cultivation Academy to pay off his debts.

"Can you take me with you?"

"Naturally, you can." Mi Yao said softly.

"Having someone to help, I would be overjoyed!" Before Zhao Yi could speak, Zhou Yan cut in to answer Mi Yao.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Yi felt Zhou Yan was acting strange. Wasn't she afraid he would make a mistake if he brought Mi Yao along?

... In the cultivation room.

Zhao Yi was nearly paralyzed. "Can't we Cultivate like this next time?"

"Otherwise, I'll die~"

Zhou Yan looked indifferent. "I just wanted to know if the duration had increased after your cultivation Breakthrough..."

"Who knows~" Zhao Yi's face turned green. Did this thing have anything to do with the level of one's cultivation?

The night passed without incident.

The next day, Mi Yao walked out of the adjacent cultivation room with dark circles under her eyes. Zhao Yi looked slightly awkward, while Zhou Yan felt nothing.

"Let's go, let's go into the mine today."

"I must dig out a High-Grade Spirit Stone to see it."

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen a High-Grade Spirit Stone yet."

Although the Lesser Strange Demons in the second level of the mine had long been cleared out by the three Golden Core True Persons, the number of Cultivators coming to the second level to mine Spirit Stones had obviously decreased significantly.

It was understandable; during that beast tide, apart from Zhao Yi and Bai Chuanzhi, not a single other Cultivator had escaped. With so many Cultivators having fallen all at once, it would be strange if anyone still came down to mine.

At the entrance to the second level of the mine, Bai Chuanzhu was naturally still by the Formation frame. This made Zhao Yi very curious; he had thought Bai Chuanzhu would go into hiding.

"Who are you?"

"You're Bai Chuanzhu, right?"

Bai Chuanzhu shuddered. "What do you want to do?"

"My family's Old Ancestor is a Golden Core True Person,"

"When he comes out of seclusion, that will be the day you die."

Zhao Yi... "If I were you, I wouldn't say these threatening words..."