The crowd looked at him with terror.
The power he displayed now surpassed the King level.
This was the rank of a Soul-level martial artist.
Everyone here, including Elder Madam Ma, was only an advanced Soul martial artist.
The rest were only at the beginner level.
Grandma Ma stared at the immense pressure, but she did not retreat an inch.
"Xinghe..." She no longer addressed him as Young Master.
Instead, she spoke his name. Seeing that his demeanor had not lessened, she continued slowly.
"Do you know why the six patriarchs of that generation died after you went missing?"
"It was the Jiu'er you speak of, who, using some insidious cultivation technique, continuously drained their life force."
"In the end, they all... died of illness in their beds."
"You're talking nonsense..." Chu Xinghe's voice was furious, but his aura weakened slightly.
"I personally saw them kill Jiu'er..."
At this moment, Qi Zhengyi, lacking protective cultivation and facing the powerful aura, trembled uncontrollably.
However, he still spoke, "Madam Ma is correct. When my brother Qi Zheng'er returned, his cultivation was completely gone."
"He told me that a pregnant woman had injured him. She should be the Jiu'er you mentioned!"
The other patriarchs recalled that twenty years ago, or rather nineteen years ago,
Their fathers or masters had also lost all their cultivation.
However, they hadn't revealed anything to them.
"Nonsense... Jiu'er is just an ordinary person..."
"Impossible..."
"This is impossible..."
"Jiu'er is not dead... not dead?..."
Upon hearing this, Chu Xinghe seemed to have gone mad.
Chu Tian pulled Luo Luo and the others back, retreating.
Would this fellow go berserk and kill indiscriminately?
As he was thinking, Chu Xinghe suddenly soared into the sky and fled.
Judging by the direction, it was the same way Chu Tian and the others had fallen from the cliff.
He was leaving?
The stone that had been weighing on everyone's hearts was about to fall.
Whoosh...
Chu Xinghe returned.
Poof, poof...
Two sounds echoed as Luo Lingshan and Shu Tianlong, lying on the ground, had their chests split open.
Two bloody hearts were ripped out.
Creak, creak...
Within the black flames, a chewing sound...
Gag...
Several girls immediately felt nauseous, bending over and retching.
Even Chu Tian felt a wave of disgust.
The next second, Chu Xinghe in front of them flew away again.
Chichichichi... A series of sounds like flying stones came.
Madam Ma caught them all.
Everyone stared vigilantly in the direction he had left for a long time.
After a while, Madam Ma sighed, "Alas..."
"He probably won't return!"
As she spoke, she opened her hand.
In her palm lay a pile of beansized beads.
A total of forty-two.
As Chu Xinghe fled, he had thrown back Qi Soul Beads.
Everyone naturally saw the items in Madam Ma's hand.
The eyes of the patriarchs, who had been cowering moments ago, almost bulged out.
Madam Ma also smiled gleefully, holding the Qi Soul Beads, she said, "My Ma family wants fifteen. Do any of you have an objection?"
"Uh..." Everyone choked.
Madam Ma was asking for a king's ransom!
However, they looked at each other.
And Madam Ma clutched the Qi Soul Beads, waiting for their response.
There were four remaining patriarchs, plus Luo Lingfeng.
These old foxes clearly understood Madam Ma's intention.
That is, if you disagree, I won't distribute these forty-two beads at all.
Each of them nodded with faces as if their parents had died.
"Haha, good!" She waved her hand.
The patriarchs of the Song, Qin, Qi, and Hua families each received six beads.
Zhang Chengcheng received one and slowly put it away. She did not speak.
Luo Lingfeng, that old hag, also received one bead, his eyes almost popping out.
"What is it, you think it's too little?" Madam Ma's eyes narrowed.
"No, no..." Luo Lingfeng sheepishly put away the Qi Soul Bead.
Madam Ma still had sixteen beads left. After some thought, she tossed another one to Song Qingshan and said.
"After we go out, send one to the Shu family!"
Chu Tian saw her distribution and thought it was perfectly just in terms of rewards and punishments.
The Zhang family, the Luo family, and the Shu family had suffered greatly this time. The Qi Soul Beads, which could only be harvested once every ten years,
Now they only received one bead to maintain the operation of their small worlds.
However, it was likely that the Luo family still had reserves.
"Brother, did you see Dad?"
Once everything was settled, Luo Luo tugged at Chu Tian's arm and asked.
Chu Tian frowned and slowly shook his head.
Luo Luo's expression dimmed, and she became a little anxious.
"Let's leave here quickly. Dad is being controlled by Luo Qing. I'm afraid they might harm him."
Chu Tian frowned and asked, "Do you know where they are?"
Luo Luo thought for a moment, then nodded.
Madam Ma and the others were also discussing preparations to leave.
The crisis had been eliminated. Luo Lingshan's plan was thwarted by the unexpected appearance of Chu Xinghe.
The unluckiest were the thousands of people who had come to attend the大会.
They were inexplicably refined into nourishment.
However, speaking of where did that essence blood go? Could it have already been supplied to that fetal shell?
He had no way of knowing about this. With a turn,
Chu Tian saw that Luo Lingfeng seemed preoccupied.
He seemed to want to speak several times but stopped. It was Madam Ma who proactively said, "Do you want to know why your eldest brother wasn't harmed by Jiu'er back then?"
"That's because your brother was quick to escape, but he didn't fare well either."
"He was just injured less severely. Otherwise, Luo Lingshan wouldn't have been able to harm and kill him."
Luo Lingfeng nodded, thinking Madam Ma's words made sense.
But he was still surprised, looking at Luo Lingshan's corpse, he said, "To let him die just like that is letting him off too easily."
"I still wanted to figure out why he suppressed me inside the ancestor's statue!"
"From what has happened now, this seemed like an unnecessary act!"
"If I hadn't met a skilled person to help me, even if I used my own essence and blood to condense a pearl, it would have been extremely difficult to restore this body."
Madam Ma shook her head, indicating she didn't know either.
However, she became interested in the skilled person he mentioned.
Everyone tidied up. Luo Lingfeng kicked his brother and Shu Tianlong's corpses into the water, one after another.
Chu Tian grinned. Although that old fellow was quite detestable, he was your brother, after all.
To just sink his corpse into the lake like this?
In any case, it had nothing to do with him, so he naturally wouldn't bother.
Once again riding Madam Ma's golden dragon, they returned to the surface.
As soon as they landed, Luo Luo pulled Chu Tian and headed straight for the depths of the Luo family.
Winding their way through, they arrived at a secret chamber.
As soon as the door opened, Chu Tian smelled a strong scent of blood mixed with the pungent odor of medicine.
He frowned and sent his divine sense to probe inside.
Inside was a high-tech modern medical room.