140: Chapter 140 Interrogating the Traitor, The Mantis Behind

The entire karst cave was as dead as a grave.

The air was filled with a strange mixed odor of burning and blood.

Wang Kun collapsed on the ground, his crotch damp and warm, having already pissed himself out of fear.

His eyes lost focus, his mouth wide open, trembling incessantly, yet he couldn't utter a single word.

Dead...

They are all dead...

The two Junior Brothers instantly turned into bloody mist.

Elder Liu at the Golden Core Peak, with towering authority, didn't even last a single move; his Physical Body was destroyed, and his Primordial Spirit was captured...

All of this was caused by the youth before him in a snap of a finger.

He is not human! He is a devil!

Only this single thought remained in Wang Kun's mind; his worldview was completely subverted and destroyed in a brief instant.

Black Crow on the other side was in a slightly better condition than Wang Kun, but not by much.

He lay flat on the ground, trying to curl his body into a ball, not even daring to raise his head for fear of drawing the attention of the terrifying entity on the high platform.

Monumental waves surged in his heart!

"A trap! This is a complete and utter trap!"

"Zhao Ruoan... He is not some newcomer with good Luck at all; he is a monster! A peerless old demon disguised in the skin of the Foundation Establishment Stage!"

"He had long known that Elder Liu Changfeng was an inner traitor, and that we were tracking him! Everything he did was an act, with the sole purpose of wiping us all out in one sweep!"

Figuring all this out, Black Crow only felt a chill shoot straight from the soles of his feet to his crown.

Too terrifying!

This youth's schemes and methods were simply a hundred times more terrifying than the most sinister Elders of their Blood Fiend Sect!

No, this news must be passed out!

Elder Xue Tu was about to arrive; as long as he could stall until the Elder arrived...

Black Crow quietly reached his hand into his bosom, wanting to crush the blood-colored jade talisman used for emergency rescue.

However, the moment he moved, an icy gaze landed on him.

"I advise you, you had better not move."

Zhao Ruoan's voice drifted over casually, yet it instantly made Black Crow's body stiffen as if falling into an ice cellar.

He could sense that an invisible murderous intent had locked onto him firmly. If he made any more untoward moves, his fate would definitely be even more miserable than Elder Liu Changfeng's.

"Se... Senior, spare my life!"

Black Crow could no longer care about the dignity of the Blood Fiend Sect, directly prostrating himself and begging for mercy in an extremely humble tone: "This Junior was blind and offended Senior. I beg Senior, considering that this Junior still has some use, to spare this dog's life!"

He very frankly changed his form of address.

Being able to exterminate a Golden Core Peak existence with a snap of a finger, calling him "Senior" was not a loss at all.

Zhao Ruoan slowly walked down from the high platform and came before the two men.

He first glanced at Wang Kun, who had been scared stupid, and shook his head.

This kind of trash didn't even arouse his interest to make a move.

His gaze landed on Black Crow.

"A bit interesting, you have more backbone than the few of them," Zhao Ruoan said with interest, "Tell me, what use do you have?"

Hearing this, Black Crow rejoiced in his heart, knowing he had bet right, and hurriedly said: "Senior! This Junior belongs to the Blood Crow Hall of the Blood Fiend Sect, and I understand many secrets within the Sect! Moreover... Moreover, our Elder Xue Tu is about to bring people here! He is a powerhouse of the Nascent Soul Stage! If... If you keep me, I can help you deal with him!"

To save his life, he sold out his own Elder without hesitation.

"Nascent Soul Stage?" Zhao Ruoan raised an eyebrow.

The development of events was even smoother than he anticipated.

He was originally thinking about how to lure out the big fish of the Blood Fiend Sect, but he didn't expect the other party to deliver themselves to his door.

"Indeed, Elder Xue Tu is a great Cultivator of the Nascent Soul Stage Early Stage with cruel methods, and this time when he comes, he has also brought an imitation of the Sect's supreme treasure, the 'myriad soul banner', possessing infinite might!" Black Crow poured out all of Elder Xue Tu's intelligence like beans spilling from a bamboo tube: "Senior, although your Formation is godlike, dealing with a Nascent Soul Cultivator is probably not an easy task either. If this Junior can turn around and strike back at a critical moment, it will surely assist Senior in accomplishing the feat!"

"Finished speaking?" Zhao Ruoan asked noncommittally after listening.

"Sp... Spoken." Black Crow looked at him apprehensively.

"Very good." Zhao Ruoan nodded, and then stepped heavily on his head.

"Bang!"

Black Crow's head exploded like a watermelon, red and white matter splashing all over the ground.

"You..." Seeing this scene, Wang Kun wanted to shriek, but Zhao Ruoan's icy gaze scared him into swallowing his voice back.

Zhao Ruoan retracted his foot, wiping it with a disgusted expression on a nearby corpse.

"Too many words, giving me a headache from the noise."

The reason he killed Black Crow wasn't because he spoke too much, but because there was no need to keep him.

A fence-sitter who clung to life and feared death and could turn back at any moment was a bane to keep. As for the intelligence about that Elder Xue Tu, it was completely meaningless to him.

In front of absolute strength, all schemes and plots were paper tigers.

What's more, standing behind him was an Immortal Emperor.

A mere Nascent Soul Stage Early Stage was nothing.

Having resolved Black Crow, Zhao Ruoan cast his gaze toward the jade box sealing Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit.

He opened the jade box, and Elder Liu Changfeng's illusory miniature Primordial Spirit immediately shrieked in terror.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Whatever you want to know, I will say it all! I will say it all!"

"Wouldn't it have been good to be like this earlier?" Zhao Ruoan said flatly.

He couldn't be bothered to use any Soul Searching Technique; firstly, the damage to the Primordial Spirit was too great and wouldn't yield much, and secondly, it was unnecessary.

To deal with such a spineless person, the simplest method was to break his mind.

"I ask, you answer. If you dare have half a sentence of falsehood, I will throw this Primordial Spirit of yours into the Pill Furnace to refine for seven days and seven nights." Zhao Ruoan's voice carried not a shred of emotion.

"Yes! Yes! This one would never dare lie!" Elder Liu Changfeng's miniature Primordial Spirit nodded like a pounding pestle.

"First question, do you still have accomplices in the Sect?"

Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit obviously hesitated for a moment.

Without another word, Zhao Ruoan picked up the jade box and headed toward the direction of the Pill Furnace.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!" Elder Liu Changfeng shrieked in Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, hurriedly shouting, "No... No more! The codename 'Shadow' has always been just me alone! I... I am only a peripheral personnel, responsible for transmitting some inconsequential news in exchange for some Cultivation resources, really! I cannot touch the core secrets of the Blood Fiend Sect!"

"Is that so?" Zhao Ruoan stopped his steps, turning back to look at him, "Then this time, who gave the order to have you find a way to seize my 'treasure map'?"

"It is... It is the Protector of the Blood Fiend Sect, Xue Wuya! He promised me that as long as I get the map, he would give me a 'Nascent Soul Breaking Pill' to help me Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage!" Elder Liu Changfeng didn't dare to conceal anything.

"Xue Wuya..." Zhao Ruoan memorized this name.

"Second question, apart from you, among the higher-ups of the Sect, who else has had dealings with the Blood Fiend Sect?"

"This... This subordinate really doesn't know!" Elder Liu Changfeng said with a crying face, "We all have single-line contact, and we don't know each other's identities at all. I only know that besides me, there must be an inner traitor in the Sect with a higher status than me, because some core intelligence is simply not something I can touch!"

Zhao Ruoan's heart stirred.

It seemed that this Elder Liu Changfeng was only a small fish. Hidden behind him was a truly big crocodile.

"Last question, the Blood Fiend Sect is plotting three earth vein nodes in Cang Prefecture and setting up a blood sacrifice Formation. How much do you know about this matter?"

This question was what Zhao Ruoan cared about the most.

"Earth vein nodes? Blood sacrifice Formation?" Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit showed a blank expression, "I... I don't know! I have never heard of this matter!"

Looking at his appearance, it didn't seem like he was lying.

Zhao Ruoan frowned.

It seemed that this plan was also a top-level secret within the Blood Fiend Sect; an inner traitor of Elder Liu Changfeng's level was simply not qualified to know.

Oh well, being able to dig this out was already considered a not-so-small harvest.

Having finished asking questions, Zhao Ruoan looked at Elder Liu Changfeng's Primordial Spirit, a trace of cold light flashing in his eyes.

"You... You promised not to kill me!" Elder Liu Changfeng sensed the murderous intent and shrieked in terror.

"I did promise not to kill you," Zhao Ruoan smiled, "but I didn't say I wouldn't hand you over to the Sect for disposal. Colluding with the Demonic Path and harming fellow disciples, according to the Sect rules, you deserve the punishment of being devoured in heart by ten thousand souls, leading to Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering."

"No! You cannot do this!"

Zhao Ruoan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to his wails any longer, directly capping the jade box, casting several more Seals, and throwing it into the sumeru ring.

Right at this moment, his expression stirred, and he looked up toward the entrance of the karst cave.

That tyrannical and bloody Nascent Soul Stage aura was already close at hand.

"You've come just in time."

Zhao Ruoan patted his hands, speaking to Wang Kun who was completely scared stupid in the corner: "Stop playing dead, get up, and I'll take you to watch an even more wonderful good show."

Hearing this, Wang Kun shivered, scrambled up stumbling and rolling, and timidly followed behind Zhao Ruoan, not even daring to breathe loudly.

"Boom—!"

With an earth-shattering loud bang, that huge stone door sealed by the power of the Formation was forcefully shattered from the outside by brute force!

Amidst flying gravel, an old man wearing blood-colored robes and a withered face, accompanied by a few men in black with equally sinister auras, strode in.

The terrifying pressure of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator emanated from the old man, causing the air in the entire karst cave to freeze.

As soon as he entered, his gaze swept across the whole scene.

When he saw the bloodstains and corpses on the ground, as well as the empty high platform, his expression instantly turned incomparably gloomy.

"Where is the treasure?" he asked in a hoarse voice, his gaze finally landing on Zhao Ruoan, who was the only one standing in the arena.

"You are Zhao Ruoan?"

The person who came was none other than Elder Xue Tu of the Blood Fiend Sect.

Behind him, among those men in black, there was shockingly also an "old acquaintance" of Zhao Ruoan—the president of the Golden Hammer Chamber of Commerce who had been scared away by him outside the Tianlei Cave Mansion, Qian Tong.

At this moment, Qian Tong was staring fixedly at Zhao Ruoan with an incomparably vicious and gloating gaze.

"Kid, we meet again! You didn't expect this, did you? You have your day too!"