42: Chapter 42 Tomorrow, I will personally make a trip to the Gate of No Life!

After Elder Liu Yan of the Wusheng Sect left, Xia Jin finally stepped out from behind a large boulder in the corner.

He walked over to the devastated pit and glanced at Yue Qianfeng's unrecognizable corpse.

"For your corpse, I shall send someone to deliver it back to the Yuheng Sect! Consider it the first gift from this Prince to the Yuheng Sect!" A hint of a smile flashed in Xia Jin's eyes as he grabbed Yue Qianfeng's corpse and vanished from the spot.

That same day, in a small town outside Lingtian City, several escorts who specialized in transporting goods received an unprecedented business deal.

Transport a corpse to the mountain gate of the Yuheng Sect, and they would receive a reward of one hundred taels of gold.

"Brother Wu, do you think that by accepting this task just like that, we might offend the Yuheng Sect?" In the main hall, a round-faced escort picked up his teacup, and just as he was about to take a sip, he couldn't help but ask.

"Hey, hey, hey, I say, Brother Wang, isn't it just a corpse? When the time comes, we'll just dump it at the Yuheng Sect's entrance under the cover of night and leave. Who would know it was us?" another escort with prominent cheekbones said dismissively.

"Old Li is right!" The escort named Wu nodded, a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes. "This is one hundred taels of gold. After finishing this job, us brothers will be free for the rest of our lives! There will be no need to work as escorts ever again!"

Three days after the death of the Yuheng Sect's Third Elder, Yue Qianfeng, just as the sky was beginning to brighten, two young people dressed in Yuheng Sect Disciple attire walked out of the mountain gate, preparing to head down the mountain.

Having walked only a few dozen steps from the gate, one of the sturdy Yuheng Sect Disciples caught sight of a protruding object on the bluestone path not far away. After walking a few more steps, he smelled a faint odor of decay.

He immediately frowned in disgust.

"Look at that, Junior Sister Murong! Early in the morning, which wicked bastard would dare to dump such unlucky trash at our Yuheng Sect's entrance!" The sturdy Yuheng Sect Disciple covered his nose and couldn't help but curse.

"Senior Brother Sun, don't you find it a bit strange?" That Junior Sister Murong stopped, looked around, and a trace of doubt flashed in her eyes.

"Strange? What's strange about it!?" Senior Brother Sun couldn't help but frown.

"Senior Brother Sun, in the Beiji Region, who doesn't know of our Yuheng Sect? Dumping a corpse in front of our Sect's mountain gate—an average person wouldn't dare to do such a thing!"

"Sigh! I say, Junior Sister Murong, you must be overthinking it! There aren't that many reasons." Senior Brother Sun shook his head, feeling that his Junior Sister Murong was making a mountain out of a molehill.

He immediately walked forward, impatiently raised his leg, and kicked out, wanting to send the unsightly corpse into the grass by the side of the road.

"Get lost! You unlucky piece of trash!"

Senior Brother Sun's kick sent the corpse flying several meters away.

As the corpse rolled into the grass nearby, a wine gourd and a pale green jade tablet were faintly revealed at its waist.

"Let's go! Junior Sister Murong, what are you standing there for! We need to reach Black Rock Town before noon." Seeing his Junior Sister stunned in place, Senior Brother Sun couldn't help but urge her.

"Wait, wait! Senior Brother Sun, you... look!"

Junior Sister Murong's voice changed pitch. She pointed a trembling finger at the wine gourd. "This wine gourd, isn't it... a bit like Elder Yue's..." Her face turned pale, her legs went weak, and she almost collapsed to the ground.

When Senior Brother Sun saw his Junior Sister suddenly act this way, he couldn't help but look in the direction she was pointing. One look, and he too was startled.

Others might not know, but as someone who often delivered wine to the Third Elder, how could he not recognize that wine gourd?

His heart sank, and an inexplicable chill shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. However, he still clung to a glimmer of hope that the corpse was not their Yuheng Sect's Third Elder.

"Junior Sister, wait, Senior Brother will go take a look." Senior Brother Sun walked slowly step by step to the corpse. Just as he leaned down, he saw the jade tablet next to the wine gourd.

"It... it really is the Third Elder?!" Sun Yue's eyes widened, and he stumbled back several steps. He turned abruptly, not even looking at his Junior Sister, and rushed into the Sect in a panic. "Someone! Come quickly!!! Something big has happened!!! The Third Elder... The Third Elder, he...!"

In less than half the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a massive crowd appeared outside the mountain gate. Great Elder Xu Shan of the Yuheng Sect led dozens of senior Sect officials out of the mountain gate in a hurry.

Great Elder Xu Shan saw Yue Qianfeng's corpse at a glance, especially the familiar wine gourd and jade tablet. His whole body shook, and with a flash, he appeared beside the corpse.

"Junior Brother Yue!!" Great Elder Xu Shan looked at Yue Qianfeng's unrecognizable corpse. After crouching down to examine it, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and the beard on his chin trembled from extreme rage.

The Third Elder... he was beaten to death, punch by punch!

An unimaginably terrifying pressure erupted from his body. "Who—!? Which damned bastard dared to kill an Elder of our Yuheng Sect!!!"

At this roar, the bluestone road within a hundred-meter radius could not withstand the power and sank half a meter. The centuries-old oak trees nearby were snapped in half by this aura.

Great Elder Xu Shan took a deep breath, scooped up Yue Qianfeng's corpse, and his figure turned into a streak of light, heading straight for the Sect Master's main hall of the Yuheng Sect.

"Bang!" The hall doors were knocked open. Inside the Sect Master's main hall, Sect Master Qiu Changtian of the Yuheng Sect was closing his eyes and Cultivating. Suddenly sensing this violent aura approaching, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Elder Xu, what is the meaning of this? Why are you in such a panic so early in the morning..." However, before he could finish his sentence, his eyes narrowed. He had already seen Great Elder Xu Shan rush in, holding Yue Qianfeng's corpse.

After gently laying the corpse down, Great Elder Xu Shan raised his head and looked at Sect Master Qiu Changtian above, saying in a deep voice: "Sect Master... Junior Brother Yue... he met with foul play. His corpse was desecrated and abandoned at the mountain gate!"

Great Elder Xu Shan clenched his fists, intense killing intent flashing in his eyes. "This hatred is irreconcilable! Those who insult our Yuheng Sect must have their nine clans exterminated! Sect Master, please issue an order immediately to investigate the culprit and avenge Junior Brother Yue!"

Sect Master Qiu Changtian walked down from the main seat with an expressionless face. He stopped only when he reached Yue Qianfeng's unrecognizable corpse. He leaned down, extended his right hand, and a white True Qi emerged from his palm, covering the entire corpse.

Ten breaths later, Sect Master Qiu Changtian withdrew his hand, a cold light flashing in his eyes. "Sect Master, what did you discover?" Great Elder Xu Shan hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"The residual aura on the Third Elder, aside from a most obvious and incomparably fierce True Qi..." "I vaguely sensed the presence of another aura. However, before I could investigate it carefully, that aura dissipated on its own." As Sect Master Qiu Changtian spoke, he couldn't help but frown.

"This... could it be that two people joined forces to murder Junior Brother Yue?" Great Elder Xu Shan's pupils constricted. Sect Master Qiu Changtian shook his head and slowly turned around to face outside the hall. A chilling aura began to permeate from his body.

"Never mind the rest, but that incomparably fierce aura—in this Beiji Region, only those brainless idiots from the Wusheng Sect, with their 'Lu Yue Han Shan Jin', would Cultivate it!"

"Tomorrow, I will personally pay a visit to the Wusheng Sect!"