After understanding the situation and confirming he could extract no further information from the other party, Gu Qian exerted slight force with his palm, instantly shattering the soul he had previously imprisoned.
"Looks like it's time to visit the Xiao family..."
Although Xiao Zhan was missing and Xiao Yan had perished, the Xiao family still had the two brothers, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li. While neither of them might know the Xiao family's origins, what if?
Previously, the clan leader, presumably due to his connections with the Xiao ancestors, had refrained from resorting to force, instead even sending his own daughter...
But now that the Xiao family was in such a state, they no longer had to worry.
As he prepared to travel to the Jia Ma Empire, Gu Qian recalled Gu Xun'er's words...
"Brother Xiao Yan was exposed because of the Yunlan Sect. This time, Elder Gu, please intervene and teach them a lesson..."
Now that the direct perpetrators of Xiao Yan's death had been confirmed dead, the only option left was to implicate others to appease his young lady.
Having made his decision, Gu Qian ripped through the spatial barrier before him and leaped directly into the void space passage…
His gaze returned to Mo Tang, who had left Yunlan Mountain and headed north.
Sitting cross-legged on the back of the flying beast, Mo Tang placed his hands on his dantian and formed a strange seal… Suddenly, wisps of strange black energy lingered around him, constantly circulating between his palms before merging into a black skull mark on the back of his left hand.
After an unknown amount of time, Mo Tang's eyes trembled slightly, then slowly opened. He glanced at the infinitesimal ground below, then placed his gaze on the mark on his hand.
"It seems this Death Seal still requires a vast amount of Death Qi to be smelted. Otherwise, accumulating twelve Death Seals would take forever!"
While the Netherworld Death Seal possesses immense power and strange uses, it requires the practitioner to condense each Death Seal one by one to unleash its true power.
Ever since leaving Yunlan Mountain, he'd been diligently cultivating his first Death Seal. But after over four days, he'd only just managed to condense his first one.
According to the fighting technique information passed down through his system, to expedite the process, he'd need the aid of external Death Qi...
But this wasn't some ancient battlefield or the Abyssal Hell. Where could he find enough Death Qi to condense a Death Seal?
Thinking of this, Mo Tang could only scratch his head, putting this method aside for the time being.
Actually, the fighting technique information revealed a very special method...
If one could cultivate the Netherworld Death Seal to perfection, then find a place of extreme coldness and infusion of Xuanyin Death Qi, a Xuanyin Mother Seal could be condensed within his body!
With this Mother Seal, Mo Tang wouldn't need to painstakingly cultivate Death Seals himself...
With each kill, the Mother Seal would automatically absorb the most despairing Death Qi emanating from the moment of death, condensing it into the Absolute Death Seal. This would then give him an inexhaustible supply of Death Seals.
Unknowingly, Mo Tang finally arrived at the northern region of the Monster Mountain Range.
Looking at the markings on the map, Mo Tang located his target.
"Swift Eagle? That's an old friend..."
Mo Tang couldn't help but laugh as he read the description of the monster.
"Well, but this time it's a fifth-level Swift Eagle King. I wonder if it's just as useless as its predecessors, a single arrow will do..."
As for the fact that he'd used the precious God-Slaying Arrow, Mo Tang had already automatically ignored it.
"Let's go, speed up!"
Pointing to the location of the Swift Eagle King's lair, Mo Tang patted the head of the flying beast beneath him. In an instant, it pierced the air and vanished. Atop
a lone peak, a sheer cliff.
Atop a barren, gray rock peak, a massive cyan eagle lay prone, eyes closed, resting.
At a certain moment, the giant eagle's eyes, previously tightly shut, suddenly opened, and its sharp, piercing gaze darted in one direction.
"Cry!"
Instantly, a piercing eagle cry rang out, shattering the dark clouds on the horizon.
For ages, aside from the demonic beast king to the north, no one, human or beast, had dared challenge the majesty of this overlord of the skies.
But just now, it had sensed a mere bird intruding upon its territory...
How could it tolerate this?
With a cry that declared its dominance, the Swift Eagle King flapped its massive wings and transformed into a stream of cyan light, hurtling towards the intruder.
Standing atop the flying beast, Mo Tang could almost feel the beast trembling and wailing in fear beneath him.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Charge forward!"
Mo Tang reassured the beast, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Cry!"
As both sides gazed at each other, the Swift Eagle King let out another furious cry.
With the cry, the furious wind blew the flying beast beneath Mo Tang's feet, sending it careening and trembling...
"Ga... Wuu..."
As mournful cries echoed, Mo Tang knew his wolf-crow beast, with a wolf's head and a crow's body, could no longer advance.
But...
this distance was enough!
Mo Tang formed a hand seal, and as silver lightning flashed around him, two silver figures instantly split from his body and charged directly at the Swift Eagle King.
"Cry!!!" A flash
of panic flashed across the Swift Eagle King's eyes as he watched the three figures charging towards him, but then he quickly calmed down.
Following an eagle's cry, two azure tornadoes instantly formed from beneath the Swift Eagle King's massive wings. The two whirlwinds merged into one, transforming into a soaring wind dragon, which swept towards the three figures simultaneously...
Boom!
The wind dragon and the silver figure collided violently, and a sky full of lightning and hurricane-force winds spread across the sky.
Amidst the raging storm of wind and thunder, the Swift Eagle King didn't even notice that a flash of lightning had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, less than ten meters above his head.
"Broken Jade Finger!"
A terrifying, powerful, blue-silver light quickly formed at Mo Tang's fingertips. A split second later, with a whoosh, it shot out!
"Screech..."
Without any time to react, the thread of Dou Qi, condensed from pure wind and thunder power, instantly pierced the Swift Eagle King's head...
This was Mo Tang's first attack since breaking through to the Five-Star Dou King realm.
He had never expected that this Broken Jade Finger, condensed entirely from the power of wind and thunder, would possess such destructive power!
(End of Chapter)