Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 52: Redemption through Explosion!

Upon receiving news from a visitor at the Xiaojinguang Temple, Su Ping learned about the background of the deceased immortal master.

This person turned out to be a supervisor, just like Su Ping!

No wonder there was no mention of this person in his memory.

After all... as a cultivator who believed that his cultivation was hopeless and had descended to live out his retirement, who would bother remembering his name when compiling a list of famous people?

The city where Guilingzi resided was called Jinfeng City, which was five to six hundred kilometers away from Su Ping's Jinqiao City.

Guilingzi had been a supervisor for much longer than Su Ping, but ten years ago, he became disheartened after failing to break through to the later stage of Qi Refining and chose to retire in his hometown.

According to the Xiaojinguang Temple, this Guilingzi Daoist had a fondness for beautiful women and opera, as well as fine wine and food.

He had been holed up in Jinfeng City for the past few years.

However, in the past two years, he suddenly changed his behavior. Not only did he leave the city, but he also chose a mountain to build a Taoist temple and proclaimed himself the master.

Guilingzi had also started mass-producing casual cultivators and warriors, as well as recruiting a large number of hired farmers and annexing a significant amount of farmland. This not only angered the heavens and the people but also made him detested by others.

Rumors even spread among the wealthy families in Jinfeng City, claiming that this Guilingzi Daoist had turned evil and enjoyed eating babies and drinking human blood, and so on...

Upon hearing this, Su Ping understood why the Xiaojinguang Temple was so proactive in reporting this.

Tsk tsk tsk, annexing farmland... this overlaps with the business of the Xiaojinguang Temple.

It is a common occurrence for colleagues to become enemies in the cultivation world.

As for those rumors, Su Ping had previously chosen not to comment.

But now, seeing the other party so eager to send casual cultivators to search for people everywhere...

Su Ping had some doubts about this fellow supervisor. It was possible that he had truly turned evil or had been influenced by the evil jade slip.

All these strange actions were in preparation for a blood sacrifice!

"Five to six hundred kilometers, not too far, but not close either."

"If it's just for the Blood Spirit Crystals, then so be it. But if it's a sacrificial formation to summon evil spirits, even I could be in danger!"

After gathering the intelligence, Su Ping had an idea in mind.

He returned to his training room and spent a long time tinkering, finally preparing a bag of sweet gunpowder explosives.

Then, he summoned the spirit mice Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui.

He took out the purifying elixir and evolved two spirit mice into self-destructing mice.

He instructed Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui to carry the bag and lead the self-destructing mice and the ordinary mice to the Taoist temple where Guilingzi resided, hoping to find an opportunity to redeem him!

After experiencing the incident at the Jiuye Mountain Market, Su Ping clearly understood that chaos was rampant even among the high-level members of the immortal sects.

Su Ping understood that supervisors like Guilingzi would only seek revenge if the target was clear.

Otherwise, even if they died, the immortal sects wouldn't have the time to investigate thoroughly.

At the same time, once a person died, their relationship with the immortal sect would fade away.

In situations where there were no benefits, the probability of someone from the immortal sect stepping forward to help was extremely low.

Not to mention, if Su Ping's speculation was correct...

If someone from the immortal sect came to investigate, they might discover some incredible information.

Su Ping didn't believe that the high-level members of the immortal sects were unaware of the blood sacrifice method and the existence of those evil jade slips.

He was just a fishing enthusiast with a small quirk, known for his kind heart.

And he didn't even have the time to commit the crime!

He believed that no one would suspect him!

...

On a mountain outside Jinfeng City.

Stood a magnificent triple Taoist temple, shining with golden light.

The Taoist temple was called the Guiling Temple, the place where Guilingzi cultivated.

On this day, many young Taoists trembled as they knelt outside the main hall, keeping their heads down, pretending not to hear the roaring and cursing inside.

After a while, two casual cultivators covered in blood hurriedly crawled out of the main hall.

"You can't even handle such a small matter, a bunch of idiots!"

Inside the main hall, Guilingzi, who was as thin as an old monkey and wrapped in a slightly larger green Taoist robe, shouted with bloodshot eyes.

Unlike Su Ping, who was still in his prime, Guilingzi was already ninety-five years old this year.

Considering the hidden injuries caused by his failed breakthrough and the accumulated poison from pills, Guilingzi could sense that he would die if he didn't find a solution soon!

But he didn't want to die. He wanted to live and enjoy more beautiful women and delicious food!

He wanted to enjoy the fear, dread, and jealousy of those around him for a longer time.

"There's still a chance. I can definitely make it."

Gui Lingzi muttered to himself and subconsciously picked up the jade slip hanging on his neck as an ornament and stuck it on his forehead.

After tens of seconds, Gui Lingzi bent over and left the Taoist temple.

He planned to go to the back mountain to select people and animals, and obtain more clues from the sacrifice to the great existence!

Squeak squeak squeak!

The spirit mice Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui arrived at the Taoist temple and released the group of mice to investigate the news.

As the mice dispersed, Su Ping, who was reading at the Linyue Manor, was able to see the layout and various secrets of Gui Lingzi's Taoist temple.

A mouse arrived in the underground space of the main hall of the Taoist temple.

Then it discovered countless layers of skeletal remains inside.

There were chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, as well as old people and children.

Using the eyes of the mice to scan the surroundings of this underground space, Su Ping noticed the blood-red patterns on the walls that resembled ghostly symbols.

Su Ping confirmed that this was a blood sacrifice altar.

The most likely possibility was that Gui Lingzi had been tempted by evil spirits and became an evil cultivator!

"Evil cultivators must be exterminated by everyone!"

Su Ping whispered, and with another wave of mice, he discovered Gui Lingzi who was in the back mountain.

Realizing that he couldn't miss this opportunity, Su Ping put on a hat, draped a robe over himself, and picked up fishing gear to go fishing at Linyue Lake.

The spirit mice Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui followed the mouse tunnels and arrived at the underground secret chamber of the main hall.

Then... the sealed explosive packages wrapped in cowhide paper in the storage bag were taken out one by one and placed under the floor covered with bones.

After leaving two self-destructing mice as fuses, they quickly left the Taoist temple with the empty storage bag.

The whole process could be described as swift as the wind.

When Gui Lingzi, the Taoist master, returned from the back mountain, his madness had slightly subsided.

The spirit mice Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui had long been waiting outside the mountains.

"Someone in the secret chamber?"

"No, it's not a person, it's... demon mice?"

Gui Lingzi returned to the Taoist temple and relied on his astonishing senses to discover the abnormality in the secret chamber.

At first, he thought that the altar had been discovered by a powerful spiritual pet, and instinctively wanted to run away.

After staying outside the hall for several seconds, he realized that there was no other movement.

And gradually, he felt that the spiritual energy response seemed to be from mice with extremely weak spiritual power.

In Gui Lingzi's mind, he imagined that two demon mice accidentally broke into the secret chamber and were frightened and confused by the arrangement of the altar.

As for the explosive packages that had no spiritual energy response.

Gui Lingzi, whose attention was mainly on the self-destructing mice, didn't sense them at all.

"This is my lucky break?"

"If I can capture these two demon mice alive, I can sell them for at least a hundred spirit stones!"

"With spirit stones, I can buy more materials needed and complete the sacrifice ahead of time!"

Thinking of the sacrifice, Gui Lingzi completely lost his sanity.

With a swish, he turned into an afterimage and, under the indifferent gazes of the Taoist priests in the temple, burst into the main hall, opened the stone slab, and walked into the underground secret chamber.

"Fish, take the bait!"

Su Ping's eyes lit up, and under the witness of the maidservants, he quickly caught a big grass carp with a swoosh.

At the same time!

Gui Lingzi noticed the two demon mice, their blood-red eyes shining brightly, and they showed no fear towards him, a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator!

Seeing himself, instead of running away, they screamed and rushed towards him!

Gui Lingzi was stunned for a moment, and then a strong sense of crisis hit him, causing his body to instinctively tremble, activating several talismans attached to his chest and back.

Bang!

The demon mice crashed into the shield and turned into a mass of flesh.

However!

Before Gui Lingzi could see clearly and understand why the demon mice did this!

The two demon mice exploded in front of him!

And instantly triggered a chain reaction, causing the explosive packages under the bones beneath his feet to also detonate!

Boom!

Amidst the shaking of the earth and mountains!

A mushroom cloud exploded from the underground of the main hall of the Taoist temple.

In an instant, the entire main hall was completely destroyed!

(End of this chapter)