Chapter 110: Are They All His Alt Accounts in the Group?

Chapter 110: Are All the Group Members His Alts?

Everyone in the group was good-hearted.

Qi Yuan was moved.

Thinking of something, Qi Yuan said, "In another hundred days, Bright Light Palace will surely be destroyed. I've thought of a great money-making scheme, specially to repay the group."

"What money-making scheme?" Great Sun Flame Emperor arrived belatedly.

"I wonder if Bright Light Palace offers usury, that is, lending money. If you are in Cuiyun Continent, why not borrow some high-interest loans from Bright Light Palace, borrow some spirit stones.

After I destroy Bright Light Palace, those borrowed spirit stones won't need to be repaid." Qi Yuan shared his money-making scheme with the group.

Rogue Immortal Venerable heard this and was completely stunned.

He wanted to say, Are you serious?

The hundred-day plan had just been made, and the destruction of Bright Light Palace was still nowhere in sight, yet he was already planning this?

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, you are truly a genius!" Ice Mountain Dominatrix said in the group, "How is it that I don't have a head for making money like yours?"

"As long as you work hard, think more, and use your brain, you will surely succeed like me." Qi Yuan shared his success experience.

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, how much wealth do you have now?" Rogue Immortal Venerable asked softly.

"Cough cough... that's not important." Qi Yuan suddenly felt a bit guilty.

He wasn't really that successful, was he?

It was just the flattery in the group that made him a bit smug.

He immediately reflected on himself and said, "Regarding borrowing high-interest loans from Bright Light Palace, we can't borrow too much. After all, the hundred-day plan hasn't been truly implemented yet. Everyone should act within their means and not pop the champagne early."

"I'll go borrow ten thousand high-interest loans from Bright Light Palace, just to reduce their spirit stone reserves and help Origin Heavenly Venerable's cause." Great Sun Flame Emperor said without hesitation.

"I'll borrow a million!" Ice Mountain Dominatrix was very domineering.

Rogue Immortal Venerable heard this and trembled.

Everyone was going crazy following Origin Heavenly Venerable, weren't they?

"It's a pity I'm too far from Bright Light Palace, otherwise I would borrow too." Qi Yuan felt that things couldn't be perfect.

"Alright everyone, I have to log off now. I'm going to ambush that Divine Infant initial stage envoy from Bright Light Palace, catch him off guard, and destroy him." Qi Yuan continued.

Now, he couldn't stay in the real world for too long.

After all, in the game world, something could happen at any time, so he had to be efficient.

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, you're not really going to ambush a Divine Infant, are you?" Rogue Immortal Venerable asked weakly.

That was a Divine Infant!

Not some random cat or dog!

"Mm, I'm going right away." Qi Yuan was not lying.

"That is a Divine Infant..." Rogue Immortal Venerable now felt that Origin Heavenly Venerable's head really had problems, not just an act.

"So what if it's a Divine Infant? I am a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. Do you understand the value of a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?" Qi Yuan was full of confidence. "It's a pity I'm not a perfect Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment like Sister Ice Mountain Dominatrix, otherwise I would teach Bright Light Palace a lesson right now."

Ice Mountain Dominatrix smiled sweetly and said in the group, "Rogue Immortal Venerable, you underestimate Origin Heavenly Venerable. He is a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. Would he fear a mere Bright Light Palace?

Since Origin Heavenly Venerable has made a meticulous plan, I dare say that within a hundred days, Bright Light Palace will surely be annihilated!"

A Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment represented that there must be a Yin God level expert behind him.

Rogue Immortal Venerable was stunned.

Had he underestimated the strength of his group friends?

Should he go borrow a high-interest loan from Bright Light Palace?

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, can I tell some of my friends that a strong expert is about to make a move on Bright Light Palace, so they can also borrow high-interest loans from Bright Light Palace? This won't expose your plan, will it?" Ice Mountain Dominatrix asked.

Qi Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Feel free to tell them, as long as you don't reveal my identity."

Qi Yuan thought, his identity in the Divine Flower Society was known to no one except his junior sister Jiang Lingsu.

What was he afraid of?

Even if news leaked, the people of Bright Light Palace wouldn't think that he, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, wanted to destroy Bright Light Palace.

Instead, Bright Light Palace would focus more attention on others.

Even if they knew a Foundation Establishment cultivator claimed to destroy Bright Light Palace, if Bright Light Palace bothered to respond, they would lose,

Just like if a netizen suggested to a rocket expert that parasol wood is more brittle and burns fiercely, making it better rocket fuel, the rocket expert would lose if he bothered to respond.

……

In an unknown cave dwelling, a woman was completely shrouded in radiance, making her face unclear.

She took out a jade slip, thought for a moment, and sent a message through it.

"I have a friend who is about to make a move on Bright Light Palace. Those who want to borrow high-interest loans from Bright Light Palace should hurry." The woman was Ice Mountain Dominatrix.

In the jade slip, replies from many people came in succession.

"Making a move on Bright Light Palace? Which big shot?"

"Hiss... a Yin God?"

"It seems that Bright Light Palace's recent actions have displeased some big shots."

"Let's go! Before the news leaks, hurry to Bright Light Palace to borrow some spirit stones!"

"If we're any later, we won't be able to borrow."

In the following days, Purple Mansion cultivators would successively go to Bright Light Palace to borrow spirit stones, which might also make the high-ranking members of Bright Light Palace sense a bad omen.

……

In the Great Shang Kingdom, Cloud Mushroom Mountain was shrouded in mist, like a fairyland.

In a bamboo house, the sound of a zither drifted.

The Divine Infant cultivator from Bright Light Palace was playing the zither.

Ji Boying, the current true disciple of the Demon Desire Sect, listened to the zither music, entranced.

"Senior, you are truly a master of the zither. One tune is enough to pacify the Great Shang." Ji Boying flattered.

This time, she had come on her master's orders to serve this Divine Infant cultivator from Bright Light Palace, to draw the Demon Desire Sect closer to Bright Light Palace.

"That's not right. The Great Shang won't even hand over two ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators to me. How can I talk about pacifying the Great Shang?" Six Strings True Lord had a smile in his eyes, looking very amiable.

Ji Boying heard this and her expression turned stern: "The Great Shang is completely under the control of the Divine Light Sect. Naturally, they are unwilling to hand over Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan.

As far as this junior knows, Broken Wolf's fall in the Dragon Heaven Immortal Realm is not unrelated to the Divine Light Sect."

"Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan killed Broken Wolf? Are their talents that strong?" Six Strings True Lord had only a partial understanding of the Dragon Heaven Immortal Realm incident.

Broken Wolf was on the Eastern Land Prodigy List and had some status and position in Bright Light Palace.

"Hmph, that Kang Fulu is about on par with me. As for that Qi Yuan, he is even a negligible nobody. I can kill him with one sword.

How could the two of them have the ability to kill Brother Broken Wolf?"

"It is said that when this Celestial Dragon Wonderland opened, the Divine Radiance Sect even had Yuan Dan cultivators enter it. I suspect that the Wolfbreaker Prince was besieged and killed by those Yuan Dan cultivators of the Divine Radiance Sect." Ji Boying analyzed with sound reasoning.

Lord Liuqin heard this and nodded: "What you say makes sense."

He could not believe that their Bright Palace's prodigy would be slain by a cultivator of the same rank from a backwater like Great Shang.

"The Great Shang royal family and the Divine Radiance Sect are in cahoots, for their own selfish gains plunging Great Shang into fire and water.

Our Demon Desire Sect is unwilling to sink into the demonic camp—please, Lord, instruct me!" Ji Boying, sensing the moment ripe, spoke the true purpose of his visit.

Naturally, it was to latch onto the thigh of the Bright Palace.

Lord Liuqin looked at Ji Boying, a smile in his eyes: "Great Shang will surely become a demonic camp, but your Demon Desire Sect… if you can set things right, you may yet escape the mire."

Ji Boying gazed at Lord Liuqin with earnest entreaty.

Lord Liuqin continued: "I hear the master of the Seven Colors Peak of the Divine Radiance Sect is a peerless beauty.

I have cultivated for over a thousand years, alone and unattached—if the Demon Desire Sect helps me…"

Lord Liuqin did not finish his sentence, but Ji Boying understood his meaning.

This Lord Liuqin was truly audacious in his lust.

A mere early Divine Infant, pining after a late Divine Infant!

Ji Boying sneered inwardly, yet still said: "The Divine Radiance Sect is powerful; without the Bright Palace's support, we can hardly overcome them."

The Demon Desire Sect had long coveted the Divine Radiance Sect.

Back then, had the master of the Seven Colors Peak not burst onto the scene, the entire Divine Radiance Sect would have already become a branch of the Demon Desire Sect.

The Demon Desire Sect's coveting of the Divine Radiance Sect was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Rather, a secret was recorded in the ancient texts of the Demon Desire Sect.

Thus, every year, a great number of Demon Desire Sect spies were sent into the Divine Radiance Sect.

In Ji Boying's storage pouch, there was a list of those spies.

Many of them held high positions within the Divine Radiance Sect.

"The Bright Palace must first see the Demon Desire Sect's sincerity, otherwise…" Lord Liuqin, old and cunning, would not agree so easily.

Yet just then, a slightly youthful voice suddenly rang out from the air.

"Are you the one from the Bright Palace?"

As the voice fell, a cultivator in a black robe landed nearby, his entire body tightly wrapped in the robe, not a shred of skin exposed.

Ji Boying's face changed slightly: "Who are you?"

Lord Liuqin also glanced at the newcomer, but remained unhurried; his origin from the Bright Palace made him lower his guard in a small place like Great Shang.

He did not believe that anyone in Great Shang would dare harm him, or could harm him.

"Me? I've come to borrow usury from the Bright Palace—lend me a few million spirit stones to spend." The black-robed man was naturally Qi Yuan. He stared at Lord Liuqin and opened his mouth to borrow millions.

Lord Liuqin was stunned for a moment, then finally spoke, his tone not pleasant: "Fellow Daoist, are you joking with me?"

Qi Yuan looked at Lord Liuqin, his hand resting on the cleaver at his waist: "I've changed my mind—no borrowing, I'm robbing you outright!"

Borrowing without repaying would earn him a bad name.

Better to just kill him and take the spirit stones directly.

Qi Yuan held his cleaver, pointing it straight at Lord Liuqin.

Ji Boying was utterly dumbfounded.

Lord Liuqin's face darkened like water: "Is this how Great Shang treats its guests?"

A sharp, grating sound of a qin suddenly rang out, thick with murderous intent.

With his first move, Lord Liuqin unleashed a powerful soul attack.

This was his trump card!

For this very reason, he looked down on Divine Infant cultivators from such a backwater.

"Soul attack?" Qi Yuan was surprised; the last time he had seen a soul attack was from the Black Chicken Old Demon.

The Black Chicken Old Demon's soul attack was far more powerful than Lord Liuqin's.

"You have some knowledge." Lord Liuqin said approvingly, the qin notes instantly rising in pitch as the soul attack surged toward Qi Yuan.

Killing someone with knowledge brought even greater satisfaction. Qi Yuan showed no fear; facing Lord Liuqin's soul attack, he charged straight in with his cleaver.

The mighty soul attack struck Qi Yuan's soul without causing even a ripple.

Lord Liuqin's composed expression vanished: "How are you unharmed?"

Soul attacks were always effective, especially against cultivators from small places who had no means to defend against them.

"Why would I be harmed?" Qi Yuan couldn't be bothered to explain; the cleaver in his hand flashed with a cold gleam. "A mere early Divine Infant—how can you oppose my Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment?"

Pitiful Lord Liuqin, who specialized in soul attacks, lacked combat skills.

Facing Qi Yuan's battle techniques honed in a sea of blood, he had no means to parry.

"Killing you is as easy as killing a demon!"

Qi Yuan's combat skills had long been tempered to perfection.

He could boast without shame: "I've killed more Divine Infant cultivators than you've ever seen!"

Facing the early Divine Infant Lord Liuqin, Qi Yuan swung his cleaver and split him in two.

The Divine Infant inside his body didn't even have time to escape before dying on the spot.

Ji Boying, seeing this, trembled all over: "You… who… who are you?"

"Didn't you just say you could kill me with one sword?" As the words fell, Qi Yuan swung his cleaver again.

Ji Boying's face showed disbelief, and his body shattered into pieces, dead where he stood.

Qi Yuan came fast and killed fast; the battle ended so quickly that even the birds in the trees were not startled.

He took both their storage pouches, then cleared his throat and imitated Lord Liuqin's voice.

"This venerable one will go into seclusion on Cloud Mushroom Mountain for a hundred days. Trespassers… shall be killed without mercy!"

The voice rolled out, spreading across Cloud Mushroom Mountain.

Qi Yuan was reckless, but he was a clever brute.

The news of Lord Liuqin's death had to be concealed first.

He still needed to lie low and develop.

When Qi Yuan returned to the Seven Colors Peak, the fish soup he had been simmering was not yet done.

Qi Yuan rummaged through Lord Liuqin's storage pouch, and various treasures and spirit stones met his eyes.

Inside, he even found two Profound Grade techniques.

In the past, Qi Yuan would have laughed for sure.

But having just obtained five Profound Grade techniques from the Ice Mountain Dominatrix, one of which was a high-grade Profound Grade, he now looked down on these two.

"No wonder since ancient times, courtesans find it hard to leave their trade.

Having glimpsed the scenery from higher ground, who would still wish to dwell in the dust?"

"These techniques are enough to perfect the *Qiyuan Sutra* up to the late Foundation Establishment stage, but for the Golden Core... there's still no clue."

Qi Yuan opened Ji Boying's storage pouch again.

Every bit counts, even a mosquito's leg—nothing should be overlooked.

Ji Boying's storage pouch held far fewer valuables.

A few gaudy undergarments, a pitiful pile of spirit stones, and some techniques Qi Yuan deemed beneath his notice.

"Oh? A list? A spy list?"

Qi Yuan hadn't expected to find, in Ji Boying's pouch, a roster of spies from the Demon Desire Sect embedded within the Divine Radiance Sect.

Qi Yuan opened the list and glanced at it, stunned: "The Demon Desire Sect's ambition is far too grand, isn't it?"

The list was densely packed with names, numbering in the hundreds.

After all, all the elders, stewards, and disciples of the Divine Radiance Sect, including the menial laborers, totaled only a few thousand.

"No wonder I always felt that the Divine Radiance Sect was riddled with problems.

That it still functions well now is sheer luck."

Qi Yuan didn't take it too seriously.

Even after obtaining the list, he had no desire to disrupt the current situation.

Nor would he follow the example of some online user from a certain small country, approaching a senior sister or aunt with the list and saying, "Auntie, you wouldn't want your secret to be known by Uncle, would you?"

"But what is the Demon Desire Sect's ultimate goal, spending so much effort to gnaw away at the Divine Radiance Sect?"

Qi Yuan pondered.

If it were merely to take over the Divine Radiance Sect, such methods seemed far too foolish.

Then he recalled the strange sounds he had occasionally heard during the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

He guessed there must be a deeper reason behind it all.

"First, complete the Hundred-Day Plan, then consider other matters.

If necessary, I'll put my clever brain to work and devise a meticulous scheme!"

Qi Yuan entered the Divine Flower Society's chat group.

"Let me share some good news with you fellow cultivators: the first step of the Hundred-Day Plan is complete, and your investments have borne fruit."

Rogue Immortal Venerable: "...The Divine Infant cultivator is dead?"

"I chopped him dead with one swing of my cleaver!" Qi Yuan said nonchalantly.

Rogue Immortal Venerable fell completely silent.

Is it me who's wrong, or is it Origin Heavenly Venerable?

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, you move fast. I've decided to borrow another twenty thousand spirit stones from the Radiant Light Palace," Great Sun Flame Emperor replied swiftly.

"Origin Heavenly Venerable, don't be too quick. If you destroy the Radiant Light Palace too soon, my sisters won't be able to borrow any more spirit stones," Ice Mountain Dominatrix said anxiously.

Rogue Immortal Venerable watched the messages in the group, his emotions tangled.

Could it be that both Great Sun Flame Emperor and Ice Mountain Dominatrix are alt accounts of Origin Heavenly Venerable?

Otherwise, how could they truly believe such an exaggerated tale?

Even with Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, one couldn't slay a Divine Infant cultivator with a single cleaver!

Where in the world was there such a Foundation Establishment cultivator?

Even the number one on the Heavenly Pride Ranking, at Foundation Establishment, was no match for a Divine Infant cultivator.

"A hundred days is just the span of a closed-door meditation. When the time comes, I'll know whether Origin Heavenly Venerable was boasting or I was simply ignorant."

Rogue Immortal Venerable decided to stop speaking in the group and lurked in silence.

Of all this, Qi Yuan was naturally unaware.

At that moment, he was silently memorizing all the newly acquired techniques.

When he next entered the game, he could use his spare time to refine the *Qiyuan Sutra*.

After an unknown amount of time, a voice suddenly echoed in Qi Yuan's mind.

"Hmph, you want me to hand it over? No way!"

Ning Tao?

Qi Yuan was startled. What had happened in the game?

...

At that moment, in the Northern Lands.

Several terrifying auras permeated the air, seemingly affecting the heavens, as rain fell without cease.

Seven Sovereigns surrounded Ning Tao, their faces twisted with ferocity.

"Ning Tao, hand over the Blood Demon, and we'll let you live!"

The seven Sovereigns present all stared at Ning Tao, their eyes filled with wariness.

Especially when they saw the blood sphere chained behind her, their wariness deepened.

"Hmph, you want me to hand it over? No way!"

Ning Tao wore a tight black dress, with golden threads embroidered with plum blossoms at her waist. Her slender figure stood erect in the void, firmly shielding the blood sphere behind her.

"He is not the Blood Demon, and I will not hand him over!

As for you, who incited you to besiege me?"

Blood dripped from her sleeves, dispersing into the air and vanishing.

At the Sovereign level, one consciously prevented bodily fluids from leaking out.

Under the assault of seven Sovereigns, Ning Tao had sustained considerable injuries.

Yet even so, she protected the blood sphere behind her like a hen guarding her chicks.

"Ning Tao, for you, the Palace Master of the Heart of Heaven Palace, to defy the Sovereign's decree and secretly collude with the Blood Demon—

Leave the Blood Demon behind and depart now, and we might still grant you a path to survival!" one Sovereign said in a deep voice.

The Palace Master of the Heart of Heaven Palace was a formidable figure even among Sovereigns.

They did not wish to push her too far.

Otherwise, some among them might fall.

"You claim it is the Blood Demon—what evidence do you have?" Ning Tao's lips still bore traces of blood, her smile exceptionally alluring.

Yet the seven Sovereigns, upon seeing Ning Tao, all felt a visceral revulsion in their eyes.

The character "Demon," veiled by black gauze, was a rule of this very Dao—even obscured, it made them nauseous.

So, even though the Thirteen Demons of the North were revered as supreme beings, they were still loathed by heaven and despised by men.

Thus, from childhood onward, ever since the character "demon" appeared on her face, the glances Ning Tao received were always strange.

Disgust, revulsion, murderous intent.

Even her mother, who loved her most, would sneak into Ning Tao's room at night with scissors, intending to stab her to death.

"Its appearance resembles the Blood Demon mentioned by the Venerable One," a supreme being said in a deep voice, staring at the ball of blood. "If it is not the Blood Demon, then what is it?"

"It is my... son." Ning Tao smiled sweetly, but that smile sent a chill through everyone present.

At that moment, a helpless voice came: "How did I become your son?"

The speaker was Qi Yuan.

Unfortunately, his skin was still too thin; he could not act like his middle school classmate who, when called "mom" by a girl, would simply reply: "Mom, I want milk."

(End of this chapter)