Becoming an immortal against the will of heaven

After confessing all of this, Li Yuanji looked at Chen Tian with trepidation. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Captain Ye, I've already told you everything. Can you let me go now?"

At this time, Chen Tian's expression was still as calm as usual, making it impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.

Hearing Li Yuanji's question, Chen Tian lowered his head and glanced at him, saying, "Do you swear that everything you've said is true?"

"Of course! I, Li Yuanji, swear here that if there is even half a lie in what I've said, then may I die a horrible death!" Li Yuanji raised two fingers to the sky and swore with a resolute expression.

After lowering his hand, he smiled at Chen Tian and said, "Captain Ye, I've already sworn according to your requirements. Can I leave now?"

"Of course you can." Chen Tian nodded and smiled. "I, Ye Tianjian, am not a person who goes back on his word. Since you've told me all the truth, of course I'll let you go."

Hearing Chen Tian's words, Li Yuanji's face lit up with joy. He even forgot the pain in his shoulder. After standing up from the ground, he cupped his fist at Chen Tian and said, "Thank you, Captain Ye, for keeping your word. We'll meet again someday!"

After saying that, he hurriedly turned around and fled south as if he didn't want to stay here for even half a moment.

"咻…"

However, just as he had flown out, a piercing sound suddenly rang out from behind him.

This shocked Li Yuanji. After turning around to take a look, his face instantly turned ashen, because an arrow shining with dazzling golden light was rapidly chasing after him.

The immense pressure within the light arrow was like the fangs of the Grim Reaper, instantly swallowing all of Li Yuanji's hope.

"Ye Tianjian, you despicable villain! You tricked me!"

After letting out a final wail, the light arrow finally pierced into his body.

Li Yuanji's body instantly exploded. His flesh and blood were like a blood-colored firework, blooming in the air.

The low-level demon beasts in the Ximi Mountains smelled the bloody scent and rushed up, greedily gnawing on his flesh and blood.

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On the other side, after firing a light arrow at Li Yuanji with the golden longbow, Chen Tian ignored the result. Instead, his figure flashed, instantly turning into a stream of light and chasing after his fourteenth squad.

At this time, Chen Tian was extremely anxious. He didn't expect that all of this was actually a diversion. The true intention of the ghost fire was to lure him away and annihilate Chen Tian's fourteenth demon-exorcising squad.

Thinking of this, a cold glint burst out from Chen Tian's eyes. Golden light flowed around his body, and his flying speed increased again.

Chen Tian finally remembered what the ghost fire meant by 'stupid' before. This was clearly a provocation to Chen Tian!

This made Chen Tian secretly regret it in his heart. He was somewhat regretful, thinking that he shouldn't have cared about Chu Li and the others in the first place, and should have continued to stay with the rest of the group.

Chen Tian smiled bitterly in his heart. He really hadn't become completely cold-hearted yet!

As for that Li Yuanji, the reason why Chen Tian broke his oath to kill him was twofold.

First, because he deserved to die. Second, because he had lied to Chen Tian.

Or perhaps it shouldn't be said that he lied, but rather that he deliberately concealed something from Chen Tian.

First of all, when Chen Tian was hiding in the canopy of the tree, eavesdropping on his conversation with the ghost fire, he had very clearly heard him call the ball of ghost fire "Demon Beast Lord!"

The word 'demon beast' was quite strange.

It was clearly just a ball of flame, so why would Li Yuanji call it a demon beast?

Li Yuanji had never mentioned this point to Chen Tian from beginning to end.

Secondly, Li Yuanji had said that his companions were all killed by the ghost fire.

But after Chen Tian came to the ground, he roughly examined the corpses.

He found that the skin of the corpses was as black as Chu Li's, and there was a wound on their chest, with wisps of black gas floating around it.

Obviously, these people were all killed by Li Yuanji with his dagger.

Finally, Chen Tian saw the scene of the battle.

He saw hundreds of powerful demon beasts surrounding a dozen human cultivators.

These human cultivators were forced to huddle in a circle about five zhang in size. Although the magical treasures in their hands had been attacking, they could not stop the approaching speed of these demon beasts.

Soon, two cultivators at the fifth level of Qi Awakening were injured by the demon beasts and fell from the air, and the circle they were in was reduced to three zhang.

The situation was precarious.

What was even stranger was that above the demon beasts, there was a ball of black ghost fire floating. The flames on its body were sometimes large and sometimes small, as if it was directing these demon beasts to attack.

Seeing this, Chen Tian's eyes suddenly turned red, because his demon-exorcising squad, which originally had more than thirty people, had lost more than half, leaving less than fifteen people.

Actually, if it hadn't been for Chen Tian's training these days, the casualties might have been even more tragic.

But in recent days, under Chen Tian's guidance, these people had been able to cooperate in an orderly manner, so under the leadership of Liao Yufan, they had been able to persevere until now.

It was just that Liao Yufan was injured in many places, and the wounds were bleeding non-stop, as if he was about to collapse.

The faces of the others were also dim, as if they all felt that there was no hope.

Chen Tian knew that the situation was urgent, and there was no room for delay.

So he flipped his hand and took out the golden longbow again.

Chen Tian pulled the bow with his right hand, and the spiritual power in his body surged out wildly. A golden light arrow, larger than ever before, suddenly appeared.

This was condensed by Chen Tian with half of his spiritual power.

As the spiritual power in his body flowed away, Chen Tian's hands couldn't help but tremble, but even so, he resolutely released the bowstring and shot out the light arrow, which was as thick as a baby's arm.

The light arrow shot into the middle of the demon beasts at an extremely fast speed, and then exploded.

An unimaginable and immense pressure instantly expanded, blasting all the demon beasts near Liao Yufan and the others to pieces.

Chen Tian's eyes narrowed, and he took out a pile of elixirs from his storage ring, swallowed them all without looking, and then his long shirt fluttered, and he flew forward into the air.