Chapter 168: The Sword Lotus Blooms, The Strongest Minions (10.7k)
Now everyone knows that Yu Ziqing was pursued to be killed, and he almost died.
If Yu Ziqing doesn't do something, if Jinlan Mountain doesn't do something, wouldn't that make others think they are easy to bully?
Moreover, Cui Changping isn't actually dead yet.
Within the Infinite Sect, Cui Changping's soul lamp must still be lit, and surely his true self also knows that he is not dead.
An incarnation that consumed a considerable amount of time to finally reach the Ninth Tier, with a rich and prolonged Qi Vein and a True Yuan as deep as the Abyss.
Yu Ziqing didn't believe that the other party would give up so easily.
Planting the rune of incarnation, an incarnation that began to be cultivated from an embryo not yet fully formed, no matter how many runes the opponent could plant for now.
But there must be a limit.
Such an endeavor, just like a normal mortal struggling and stepping up to eventually achieve the Ninth Tier—even if not an incarnation, a normal genius—would also not be so easy.
A Ninth Tier Strong, with long life and years of accumulation, only significant sects would inevitably have Ninth Tier experts.
Don't look at Yu Ziqing having met several of them, and also having witnessed the fall of several Ninth Tiers.
But those with insufficient heritage, with only one Ninth Tier in power, the fall of a Ninth Tier Strong will doom their powers to decline, and there is a great chance of direct annihilation.
Not every power is like the Feng and Yin Two Families, which have always been led by their own people and never had too many offspring; there has never been a case where one person had a dozen or even tens of children.
Under normal circumstances, a power during its natural course of expansion would keep spreading out and continuously absorbing disciples.
A solid foundation is needed to support the top experts of the sect, providing them with more resources during their brave and diligent advancement.
This involves competing with others, squeezing the living space of other forces as the advancement of the sect's top experts to the Ninth Tier is bound to be fraught with hardship and bloodshed.
Therefore, when a Ninth Tier Strong falls, past enemies will immediately bare their fangs, definitely not giving them a chance to breathe.
They're different from those long-inherited powers that have lived long enough, their scope of influence already fixed, deeply rooted, and their early-stage enemies mostly annihilated over time.
Even if a Ninth Tier Strong falls, at most, it could be considered a serious injury, not the collapse of the entire tree at once.
If put in his place, Yu Ziqing would certainly be unwilling to give up and would try at any chance available.
Moreover, he dared to be certain that, considering Cui Changping's trajectory, probably only one or two people knew he was an incarnation.
Or more likely, the secret was only known to his true self.
This time, when Yu Ziqing left, except for Lou Huai, who was always hidden in his boots, he brought no one else.
The reason for this was because Lou Huai insisted that sticking with him would make cultivation much faster, and he could also be of help.
And also, Yu Ziqing would often forget about Lou Huai's existence...
Leaving Jinlan Mountain, Yu Ziqing headed straight into the Dali territory, heading directly for the Abyssal Rift in the southwest of Dali.
Because, so far, strictly speaking, none of the conditions Yu Ziqing offered those people had been fulfilled.
Two lives, including their true selves and their incarnations, all of them.
Originally, Yu Ziqing had held back, but now it seems, whether he had or not, it would be the same since Cui Changping himself was an incarnation.
So this matter, it became about Cui Changping's true self.
The other one, Yu Ziqing also remains unaware of their identity, the true self of the one who had kidnapped him back then.
Yu Ziqing headed straight for the Abyssal Rift.
The path ahead was bound to be fraught with obstacles.
He had pointed out before that those people would have surely investigated the hole's depths in advance and would know that Yu Ziqing was bluffing.
Now Yu Ziqing would go personally.
It was to force them to act again.
"I've come alone; now you either come and kill me and snatch the Big Seal of Dadui, or I'll throw the Big Seal into the hole."
"Otherwise, you bring me those two people's heads."
Those daring to take risks and come after Yu Ziqing would definitely exist.
If that so-called organization could truly come to a unanimous decision and earnestly go to kill Cui Changping, Cui Changping wouldn't have appeared near Jinlan Mountain.
Some are willing to compromise, and naturally, others are not.
At this time, those who dare to obstruct him in the Abyss are definitely the ones unwilling to compromise.
Just perfect.
"Big brother, someone is spying."
"No need to mind them, if they want to watch, let them watch."
Yu Ziqing arrived at the Abyssal Rift in a straightforward manner; there was no one around, but the vicinity of that rift was sealed off by a Big Array.
Yu Ziqing narrowed his eyes; they were preventing him from going in.
Unfortunately for those fellows, trying to conceal this place and keep it unnoticed while also blocking entry, such contradictory actions meant they ended up failing on both fronts.
They could neither hide it well nor muster enough power.
Yu Ziqing took out a filth bucket and hurled it, causing the exploding filth to continuously erode the Big Array, quickly eating away a large hole.
Yu Ziqing put away the filth bucket, recovered the filth, and continued to step inward.
Arriving at the edge of the rift, the Black Robed Man stood there quietly, watching Yu Ziqing, and sighed deeply.
"Don't misunderstand; this time, no one asked me to come. I just wanted to persuade you myself and incidentally convey a bit of news.
Those people have already discussed, and they had already decided before, that they were going to deliver Cui Changping's head to you first."
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