After killing Liu Si, Liu Bai didn't strike again.
However, what he hadn't expected was that, instead of fleeing as he assumed, someone had actually stepped forward.
"You dared to kill Elder Ling Yun? You little brat, prepare to die!"
A furious roar echoed from afar, and in the next moment, Liu Bai saw a figure charging toward him like a mad beast.
"Hundred Step Divine Fist!"
Before the man arrived, his punch had already struck.
The terrifying fist force stirred the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, carrying an unstoppable, unbreakable might as it crashed toward Liu Bai.
When Liu Bai saw who it was, he couldn't help feeling speechless.
Was this the so-called "You killed my friend, now you can't leave" situation in real life?
The attacker was none other than Xue Yan, the cultivator who had previously used the Hundred Victory Divine Fist. His current move, the Hundred Step Divine Fist, was his most famous spiritual art. However, it wasn't a Deity-grade Art, merely a Spirit-grade High-Level Offensive Art.
One should not be surprised that a Heaven Completion Realm expert did not possess a Deity-grade Art. In truth, the fact that cultivators from the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy could easily acquire such divine techniques just by working hard was an abnormality in itself.
For true rogue cultivators or those from smaller sects, it was perfectly normal to spend decades cultivating without ever encountering a Deity-grade Art.
Liu Bai slowly extended his fingers like unfolding petals. Golden lightning rapidly gathered in his palm, condensing into a sword of pure thunder.
"Myriad Thunder Sword Art, strike!"
The thunder sword tore through the air, and the seemingly overwhelming fist force shattered the instant it touched the golden lightning.
The madness in Xue Yan's eyes disappeared in that moment, replaced by clarity and terror. He tried to dodge.
But it was already too late.
The lightning sword moved with teleportation-like speed, piercing through his chest in the blink of an eye.
The fierce Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning obliterated his spiritual sea in an instant, erasing even his divine soul within the devastating thunderlight.
"Ding. Congratulations, player, for killing an enemy at a higher level, Early-phase Heaven Completion Realm. Double experience gained. Experience points: sixty thousand.
Although both were Heaven Completion Realm cultivators, the experience gained from Xue Yan was far less than from Ling Yun. There was no Spiritual Puls reward either, leaving Liu Bai a little dissatisfied.
Seeing Liu Bai instantly kill yet another Heaven Completion Realm cultivator, everyone present fell completely silent.
Especially the woman known as Red Lady, who had previously considered attacking Liu Bai. After Ling Yun's death, she had realized she would never again obtain the Holy Spirit Pill to increase her power. Having her spiritual foundation crippled, she had been filled with resentment and even considered taking Liu Bai's life in revenge.
But witnessing Xue Yan's tragic end, she and the others instantly sobered up. Their eyes were now filled only with fear and confusion, like scolded dogs frozen in place.
Liu Bai ignored them. They were merely pitiful souls struggling to survive in the Great Thousand World. Since they hadn't provoked him further, he had no intention of killing them.
He swept his gaze across the battlefield and noticed something floating in the air where Ling Yun had fallen—a black flame the size of a clenched fist, radiating an icy chill completely opposite to ordinary fire.
It was the Devouring Flame that Ling Yun had refined.
This was a very rare type of spiritual flame within the Great Thousand World, one of the few possessing a yin-cold nature. It contained the powers of coldness, death, and devouring. With sufficient resources, it could nurture a powerful expert.
In Liu Bai's eyes, the value of this Devouring Flame was no less than that of a Deity-grade cultivation art.
He raised his hand, the Five Elemental Power circulating swiftly in his palm before transforming into a five-colored net that enveloped the flame. A thin black layer of mysterious water covered the inside of the net, completely cutting off the flame's escape route.
The net tightened rapidly and condensed into a five-colored crystal the size of a fist, within which the Devouring Flame was perfectly sealed.
After finishing this, Liu Bai turned his gaze toward the remaining disciples of the Emerald Serenity Palace. He hadn't forgotten the real reason he came here.
He waved his hand, and a streak of azure lightning shot out like a serpent, circling around one of the disciples and trapping him within a ring of light.
"Spare me! Please spare me!"
The man wailed in terror. He had just witnessed Liu Bai kill a Heaven Completion Realm expert with a single strike—against him, a Late-phase Heaven Transformation Realm cultivator, even a brush would mean death.
"Enough crying. I heard your Emerald Serenity Palace keeps a Spiritual Beast called the Green Spirit Bird. Take me there."
The man froze at those words, stopping his pleas.
"The Green Spirit Bird? You're looking for the Green Spirit Bird?"
"What, don't tell me you don't have one?" Liu Bai frowned. Could Chu Lin's information have been false, or had something happened?
"Yes, yes, we do! Please follow me, my lord, I will take you there!"
This man clearly held some status within the Emerald Serenity Palace. He quickly led Liu Bai deep into the sect's interior with practiced ease.
Liu Bai had thought that the previous area was the palace's core, but as he ventured deeper into the valley, he realized it was merely the surface.
As a sect specializing in alchemy, the true core of the Emerald Serenity Palace was its massive medicinal garden within the valley.
The moment he entered, Liu Bai could sense the dense spiritual energy around him, comparable to a seventh-tier Spirit Gathering Formation of the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy.
However, the palace's formation covered only the medicinal garden, far smaller than the Academy's vast formations that stretched for hundreds or even thousands of miles.
It was said that wherever the Green Spirit Bird resided, vegetation would grow faster. Because of this, many sects liked to keep such Spiritual beasts. The Green Spirit Bird of the Emerald Serenity Palace had been brought here decades ago by Ling Yun himself. Since it refused to submit, it had been sealed deep within the garden, living a pitiful existence.
"My lord, the Green Spirit Bird is just ahead."
Liu Bai raised his eyes and saw, in the center of the garden, what seemed like a small hill less than a hundred meters tall. Upon closer inspection, that "hill" was actually a massive bird lying on the ground, its wings stretched wide, pressed against the earth, and its body arched upward like a small azure mountain.
Seeing Liu Bai's surprised look, the man quickly explained, "This bird is extremely proud. When our Palace Master captured it years ago, it refused to submit and nearly destroyed the entire garden. We had no choice but to seal it here."
Liu Bai didn't care about the details. He had only come for its Spiritual essence. Whatever status the Green Spirit Bird held here meant nothing to him.
He raised his hand. A flash of lightning condensed into a sword that vanished instantly.
The sealed Spirit Bird never even stirred from its slumber before its soul was extinguished.
The man beside him twitched at the corner of his eye, his heart filled with terror. In his eyes, Liu Bai was now an emotionless demon, far more terrifying than Ling Yun ever was.
Liu Bai paid him no attention. He skillfully extracted the Spirit Bird's Spiritual essence, then dissected its body, collecting its feathers, claws, and beak as materials for weapon forging, as well as its blood and eyes for pill refining.
He even picked numerous valuable herbs from the garden, displaying the full behavior of a bandit looting a treasure trove.
The Emerald Serenity Palace cultivator beside him could only watch in pained silence, too terrified to speak, like a humiliated bride forced to endure in silence.
Liu Bai shot him a glance, then turned to leave with a look of disdain.
But after taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned back to the man.
"Right, your Emerald Serenity Palace should have some pill recipes and alchemy manuals. Take me to see them."
Upon hearing this, the man who had been obediently cooperating all along showed defiance for the first time and fell silent in resistance.
This reaction slightly surprised Liu Bai.
But upon thinking it through, he found it reasonable. After all, the pill recipes and alchemy techniques were the foundation of the entire Emerald Serenity Palace. They could abandon the Green Spirit Bird that nourished their medicine garden, they could even abandon their Palace Master, but they could never lose their core alchemy heritage.
If those were lost, the Emerald Serenity Palace would truly cease to exist.
Understanding this, Liu Bai smiled faintly. He did not expect that this seemingly cowardly man still had some principles.
Unfortunately for him, Liu Bai had no need for such principles.
"I'll give you two choices. First, I kill you now and find someone else. Second, you take me to your Emerald Serenity Palace's Scripture Pavilion. Do not worry, I can promise you that I will not take anything from there."
With the system's ability to record and copy techniques, there was no need for Liu Bai to carry anything away. This approach would save both time and effort.
The man's heart trembled at Liu Bai's words. He wanted to remain silent or perhaps even resist, but in the end, he could not muster the courage. Trembling, he asked, "Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course. I have no reason to deceive you. After all, your Emerald Serenity Palace has countless disciples. I do not believe all of them will be as Stubborn as you."
The man's last bit of resolve instantly crumbled. He sighed and finally led Liu Bai toward the Scripture Pavilion of the Emerald Serenity Palace.
"Ding, discovered lower-grade Spiritual Art Tai Xuan Record. Would you like to record it?"
"Ding, discovered low-level Spirit-grade Movement Art Floating Feather Steps. Would you like to record it?"
One notification after another sounded in Liu Bai's mind. About seventy percent of them were low-level Spirit-grade Arts, twenty percent were of mid-level, and only ten percent were High-Level.
"Is this all?" Liu Bai frowned.
This foundation was far too weak for a sect with several hundred years of heritage.
"Record all seven High-Level Spirit-Grade Arts."
To Liu Bai, the low and Mid-level ones were worthless, not even worth leaving to the Liu Clan in the future.
Of course, these were merely side gains. What Liu Bai truly cared about was the alchemy heritage of the Emerald Serenity Palace.
With his guide leading the way, Liu Bai easily reached the top floor of the Scripture Pavilion. There, he saw the true foundation upon which the Emerald Serenity Palace had been established — Azure Ram Pill Canon.
According to legend, the first Palace Master of the Emerald Serenity Palace had accidentally acquired this half-complete canon, a legacy of the Azure Ram Pill King, and founded the sect based on it.
"Ding, congratulations to the player for discovering Pill Dao scripture Azure Ram Pill Canon (Part One). Would you like to record it?"
"Yes."
In an instant, the Azure Ram Pill Canon appeared in Li Bai's attribute panel, and under the section for "Pill Recipes," ten new entries appeared.
"Not bad. With this, I can finally solidify my identity as an alchemist. Otherwise, walking around with that title while not being able to refine even the simplest Spiritual Pill would be embarrassing."
A delighted smile spread across Li Bai's face.
Of the ten pill recipes, the lowest was a first-grade, while the highest reached sixth-grade.
In the Great Thousand World, Spiritual Pills were ranked from one to nine, just like Spiritual Arrays. The first to fifth grades corresponded to the Spiritual Wheel Realm through the Heaven Completion Realm, while the sixth-grade pills were of the Deity-grade level.
With Li Bai's current mastery of the Pill Dao, as long as he possessed the recipes, he could already refine third-grade Spiritual Pills. For example, the Soul Essence Pill that Mu Chen exchanged for twenty thousand Spiritual Values in the original story was a third-grade lower Spiritual Pill.
Among Li Bai's ten recipes, two were third-grade, and one of them was precisely the Soul Essence Pill, well-known and widely used among the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's students.
Once he mastered the refinement of that pill, his Spiritual Values would come flooding in endlessly.
Even though his Five Innate Spirits were now complete after acquiring the Green Spirit Bird, as long as he remained in the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, his need for Spiritual Value would never diminish.
After all, powerful Spiritual Artifacts, Divine-tier Arts, and Divine Beast Essence Blood were all rare treasures in the outside world. If he could collect more of them during his stay in the academy, Li Bai would never miss the opportunity.
Feeling content, Li Bai no longer made things difficult for the man.
Under the other's nervous yet hopeful gaze, Li Bai truly kept his word, not taking a single item from the Scripture Pavilion. Turning around, he left directly, transforming into a streak of radiant light that disappeared into the distant sky.
Only after Li Bai's aura completely vanished did the Emerald Serenity Palace expert finally release a long-held breath. His body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground.
But before he could recover, countless sounds of battle suddenly echoed from outside the Emerald Valley. In mere moments, the noise reached the front hall.
Having already left the Emerald Serenity Palace's mountain range, Li Bai paid no attention to what fate awaited them. He had already flown thousands of miles away and was now seated cross-legged in a tranquil mountain hollow, organizing the spoils of his latest conquest.
Since Ling Yun had been blasted to pieces by his Fivefold Thunder Descent, all of the man's protective treasures and spatial rings were destroyed, leaving no corpse to loot.
Still, the gains from the Emerald Serenity Palace's Scripture Pavilion were substantial enough to make up for the loss.
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