Chapter 69

Listen!

The moment Jin Tai, filled with spiritual energy, lightly sealed off the 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet' thrown by Ye Zhen, a surge of powerful spiritual energy erupted from within his body.

The moment he heard it was a 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet,' Jin Tai made the decision to sacrifice a pawn to save the general—willing to lose his right arm to save his life.

As for an arm, it wasn't a big deal. As long as he captured Meng Xiaoyue and made a great contribution, the sect would not be stingy with a pill to regrow a severed limb.

However, the situation did not develop as Jin Tai had imagined.

The moment the spiritual energy surged out, the 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet' did not explode. The surging spiritual energy strangely all flowed into the 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet.'

Jin Tai's face changed, "Damn, you tricked me?!"

Almost instantly, the spiritual energy that surged into the 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet,' or rather the stone marrow bead, acted like a fuse that instantly ignited the terrifying energy inside the stone marrow bead.

The stone-green energy erupted like a volcano, spewing out crazily from the stone marrow bead, surging back like a tsunami along the path of the spiritual energy.

Light immediately flashed everywhere.

Jin Tai's seemingly powerful spiritual energy, under the backlash of the stone-green energy, was like paper, instantly shattered into nothingness.

A massive amount of stone-green energy directly surged into Jin Tai's right arm, rushing forward through every available channel.

Jin Tai's right arm meridians burst like balloons, popping one after another.

The terrifying force not only burst Jin Tai's right arm meridians but also scattered and ravaged his right arm's flesh and bones, turning them into powder, with white bone fragments flying everywhere.

Starting from the right arm, Jin Tai's body, like a ditch, was instantly destroyed into pieces, from the right arm to the right shoulder.

After destroying Jin Tai's right arm and right shoulder, a large amount of stone-green energy dissipated into the air, with only a small amount surging into Jin Tai's body.

Even so, on a large part of Jin Tai's body, residual stone-green energy continued to create blood holes, each one causing Jin Tai's body to convulse weakly. In a moment, Jin Tai turned into a blood-covered figure.

Ye Zhen, standing about five to six meters away, watched this scene with wide eyes.

The power of the stone marrow bead was so terrifying!

What level of treasure was this stone marrow bead?

After the secret cave was destroyed, Ye Zhen had tested the stone marrow bead with a hair-like true essence, but was injured by the terrifying force inside the stone marrow bead.

Today, in a desperate situation, Ye Zhen threw out the stone marrow bead. Since the stone marrow bead required passive input of spiritual energy to trigger a counterattack, Ye Zhen used the name 'True Flame Burst Spirit Bullet' to trick Jin Tai and then threw it out.

He had only hoped to severely injure Jin Tai, but unexpectedly, the terrifying counterattack force directly blew Jin Tai to near death.

Unfortunately, the stone marrow bead could only be used in specific situations. If the enemy wasn't tricked and held it in their hand, Ye Zhen would have lost more than he gained.

"You... you... tricked me..."

Jin Tai struggled to raise his left hand, pointing at Ye Zhen with a face full of resentment and unwillingness.

Pfft!

A blood hole suddenly burst from Jin Tai's heart. Almost the moment the blood hole burst from his heart, a fiery red talisman light shot up from Jin Tai's left hand.

Jin Tai's body trembled, and he died, the fiery red talisman light exploding in the sky, lingering for a long time.

"Damn, even in death, you still haunt me!" Ye Zhen looked at the fiery red talisman light in the sky, his face filled with frustration. He was unprepared, or rather, he wasn't qualified. When he left the sect, he didn't receive any warning talismans.

In the Qiyun Sect, inner disciples could only receive rescue or warning talismans when they left the mountain. Otherwise, they would be in such a dire situation.

As Ye Zhen stumbled towards the fallen and dead Jin Tai, Meng Xiaoyue, who had been watching in shock, hurried over to support him, her voice trembling, "Brother Ye Zhen, how are you?"

"Brother Ye Zhen, how could you do that? You were risking your life."

"Meng Xiaoyue has no family left. I don't want to see anyone leave me again..." Saying this, Meng Xiaoyue burst into tears.

Ye Zhen, breathing heavily, gently patted Meng Xiaoyue's delicate hand, feeling a bit relieved.

The fact that she still cared about others meant that Meng Xiaoyue hadn't completely fallen into hatred.

"Meng Xiaoyue, think carefully. Do you have anything special on you?" Removing Jin Tai's storage bracelet, Ye Zhen didn't even have time to check what good things were in it, but he took out a green talisman.

That talisman was the one Jin Tai used to track them.

Jin Tai had already sent out a distress signal. In a short while, perhaps half an hour, Jin Tai's accomplices would arrive. If Ye Zhen and Meng Xiaoyue couldn't solve this problem, they would never escape the pursuit of the Lishui Sect.

"Special things?" Meng Xiaoyue frowned, thinking hard.

"Besides clothes... is this it?" Suddenly, Meng Xiaoyue pulled out a large, greenish jade pendant from her chest.

"Where did it come from? Do you have anything similar?"

"I remember it was given to me by a senior who greatly admired my father in the second year after his passing. He asked me to wear it at all times, saying it could nourish my meridians and cure all diseases..."

"That's it."

Before Meng Xiaoyue finished speaking, Ye Zhen tried it out and confirmed that the large, greenish jade pendant was the tracking device the Lishui Sect had placed on Meng Xiaoyue.

"Hmph, the scoundrels of the Lishui Sect never had good intentions from the start!"

In a fit of anger, Meng Xiaoyue pulled out the jade pendant and was about to throw it far away.

Ye Zhen, who had also intended to do so, suddenly had a thought and stopped Meng Xiaoyue, taking the jade pendant from her.

In the next moment, Ye Zhen put the jade pendant into his storage bracelet. When he tried to activate the Lishui Sect's tracking talisman again, the talisman, which had previously shown a red light, showed no reaction.

If the jade pendant was taken out of the storage bracelet, the tracking talisman immediately reacted again.

"It seems the storage bracelet can block the jade pendant, making the Lishui Sect's tracking talisman ineffective."

Murmuring to himself, Ye Zhen put the jade pendant back into the storage bracelet, his eyes gleaming with intelligence.

Since Jin Tai had sent out a warning signal before dying, the Lishui Sect would definitely send more than one person to pursue Ye Zhen and Meng Xiaoyue.

If more Lishui Sect members came to pursue them, Ye Zhen might be able to use this to set a trap for them.

Ye Zhen didn't leave in a hurry, even though the warning signal in the sky was so conspicuous.

Step by step, Ye Zhen cleaned the blood off his body, swallowed a few healing pills, and changed into clean clothes before taking Meng Xiaoyue and leaving.

When they left, they left no trace.

Long-term pursuit had made Ye Zhen grow rapidly...

...

In the Yinshan Mountains, the most taboo thing was the smell of blood. Once a strong smell of blood spread, it could attract a disaster.

About half an hour after Ye Zhen and Meng Xiaoyue left, Chu Jun's figure suddenly descended from the sky. He had been searching in vain and accidentally saw Jin Tai's warning signal, so he rushed over.

The moment he arrived at the scene, Chu Jun's eyes turned red.

Surrounded by a surge of spiritual light and sword qi, he cut down the towering trees within a hundred meters like a lawnmower. The low-level demons that were gnawing on the remaining flesh on Jin Tai's bones were sliced into countless pieces!

Even though the demons that had come for the blood had gnawed Jin Tai's body into a pile of bones, Chu Jun still determined from the traces at the scene that Jin Tai had not died at the hands of the demons.

"Ye Zhen, you better pray I don't catch you alive, or I will grind your bones to dust and scatter them!"

"Hmph, Jin Tai has been dead for almost half an hour. They can't have gone far!"

In the next moment, Chu Jun's figure shot up into the sky without hesitation, flying low and scanning the ground like a hawk, not missing any suspicious traces.

Far away, a thousand miles away, the Lishui Sect's sect leader Chu Taiping suddenly opened his eyes, startled.

Soon, a sect elder rushed in to report.

"Report to the sect leader, our quasi-true disciple Jin Tai's life token has shattered, indicating he has fallen outside..."

"What!"

"Jin Tai's life token has shattered?" The Lishui Sect's sect leader Chu Taiping, startled, stood up, his face showing boundless sorrow. The loss of a quasi-true disciple was a significant loss, not just for the Lishui Sect, but even for the Qiyun Sect.

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PS: The quasi-true disciple is dead, and even more exciting events are coming. Boys, where are your recommendation votes?

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