Chapter 81 - 78: Re-entering the Ninefold Coffin to Visit the Gun God

To kill him would be somewhat unrighteous. But to spare him meant this Ling Yuan would definitely carry out the Ling Family’s orders and try to kill him.

"Elder Ling Yuan, for the sake of you pleading on my behalf, I will spare your life." Mo Qianqian looked at Li Haoran as he spoke. "Sect Leader, could you just heavily injure him and spare his life?"

"Mo Qianqian!!!" Ling Yuan and the Qin Family were furious. That was a Ling Family elder at the Fifth Level of the Tongyou Realm! For Mo Qianqian to say he would spare his life was pure arrogance!

SWISH!

Li Haoran didn’t waste a single word. He immediately made his move, charging first toward Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan’s expression changed, and he slashed his sword at Li Haoran. However, Li Haoran merely shifted his body, easily dodging the blade before landing a punch on him.

BANG!

With a massive crashing sound, everyone watched as Ling Yuan’s body was sent flying backward. He smashed into the distant Ling Family estate, collapsing an entire building in the process. This strike clearly inflicted heavy injuries on Ling Yuan rather than killing him outright. His sword fell right where he had originally been standing, and Li Haoran simply reached out and caught it in his hand.

"What???"

At this, the crowd from the Ling Family was completely dumbfounded. One strike. With just a single strike, he had sent a powerful elder of their family flying? Just who exactly was this old man?

"Sir..." Patriarch Ling started to speak, but Li Haoran moved again, charging toward him with the sword in hand. The patriarch hurriedly swung his own sword to block, and upon seeing this, another Ling Family elder in the Tongyou Realm rushed forward to help.

CLANG!

With a deafening metallic clash, Li Haoran smashed Patriarch Ling straight out of the air, sending his body plummeting toward the ground near where Mo Qianqian stood.

BANG!

He slammed into the flagstone floor so hard that the stones shattered, forming a small crater. He had been heavily injured in a single blow, suffering internal damage from the pure shockwave!

SQUELCH!

In midair, Li Haoran pierced the other Ling Family Tongyou Realm elder with his sword, killing him instantly before he even had a chance to attack. The disparity in strength was simply too vast! His speed was so terrifying that the Ling Family members couldn’t even react in time.

"You!" The heavily injured Patriarch Ling staggered to his feet from the small crater in the ground.

However, at this moment, Mo Qianqian stepped forward, thrusting his spear straight into the patriarch’s back.

SQUELCH!

Blood sprayed out as Patriarch Ling was killed on the spot!

"Mo Qianqian!!!"

"Kill him! Kill Mo Qianqian!!!"

The members of the Ling Family erupted in fury. Losing all control, they charged at Mo Qianqian, determined to tear him to pieces.

However, with a flick of his spear, Mo Qianqian easily sent one of the old men flying. Against anyone below the Tongyou Realm, he had absolutely nothing to fear!

"Flee! Everyone, flee the Ling Family estate!" a level-headed elder suddenly roared at the top of his lungs.

Only then did the rest of the Ling Family realize the reality of their situation. They couldn’t kill Mo Qianqian. Worse still, there was an expert with him who had just slain their patriarch. Charging at Mo Qianqian would only end in a complete slaughter.

"Run!" an elder shouted unwillingly before turning and fleeing.

Qin Long, the number one genius of the Qin Family, gritted his teeth and bolted. But Mo Qianqian noticed him and immediately rushed straight toward him.

SQUELCH!

Mo Qianqian thrust his spear, but an old man dashed forward, throwing himself behind Qin Long to block the strike.

"Protect Qin Long! Get him out of here!"

Seeing this, another elder lunged toward Mo Qianqian. The remaining elders also scrambled to form a defensive line behind the fleeing youth. They were willing to sacrifice themselves to ensure the safe escape of the Qin Family’s genius—a deeply tragic and heroic sight.

Right at that moment, Li Haoran descended from the sky. Showing absolutely no mercy, he swiftly dispatched the charging elders, cutting them down one by one with his sword. This allowed Mo Qianqian to close the distance to Qin Long’s back. Activating the First Form of the Vast Spear Technique, he lunged at him.

"Mo Qianqian, you will both die by the hands of the Ling Family eventually!!!" Qin Long roared in indignation, whirling around to parry the attack with his sword.

He never could have imagined that Mo Qianqian, whom they had been hunting down just a short while ago, would now bring a powerhouse to annihilate their Qin Family. He had a boundless future ahead of him, yet he was about to die right here.

CLANG! SQUELCH!

Qin Long couldn’t shake Mo Qianqian’s spear in the slightest. He was instantly pierced through and killed on the spot.

Afterward, operating with familiar efficiency, Mo Qianqian and Li Haoran slaughtered dozens of the Ling Family’s higher-ups and geniuses, looting all their valuables. This time, Li Haoran didn’t bother splitting the loot with Mo Qianqian at all. Mo Qianqian didn’t mind. With the pills he had acquired earlier, he had more than enough; as a Spirit Master, he wouldn’t exactly be short on pills anyway.

Soon, Li Haoran swept Mo Qianqian up and left, heading toward the Central Earth.

The news of the annihilation of both the Cloud Void Sect and the Ling Family quickly spread like wildfire throughout the surrounding areas. Everyone who heard the news was profoundly shocked. Still, a massive number of loose cultivators flocked toward the ruins of the Cloud Void Sect and the Ling Family, intent on tracking down Mo Qianqian.

Several days later.

Mo Qianqian and Li Haoran arrived in a forest about a hundred miles outside of Luocheng.

"Luocheng, the deepest part of Anping Lane." Li Haoran mentioned the address and casually tossed Mo Qianqian onto the forest floor. "Kid, I hope to see you stir up a storm in this Great Xia Dynasty. Don’t go dying prematurely!"

With that, Li Haoran swiftly departed, vanishing from sight. Mo Qianqian had still been hoping to keep the man around as his personal enforcer, but he had no choice but to watch helplessly as he left.

"Luocheng, the deepest part of Anping Lane..." Mo Qianqian muttered to himself, falling deep into thought.

Now that Li Haoran was gone, he had officially entered the territory of the Lie Family of the Central Earth. Since everyone else was still searching for him in the Southern Wilderness, did this mean he was safe for now? He wondered if he should enter the Ninefold Coffin to take a look first.

With a mere thought from Mo Qianqian, the phantom image of the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin faintly appeared between his eyebrows. A nether glow enveloped his entire body. He felt a sudden pull from an inexplicable force, and his vision blurred.

WHOOSH!

In the next moment, Mo Qianqian materialized inside the Ninefold Coffin. The dark black rocky island once again appeared in his line of sight. But to his astonishment, something else came into view—the Bone-Eroding Spiritual Source! The thumb-sized, flame-like source was floating in the empty space right in front of him.

He thought in shock, "The Gun God really entered the first level of the Ninefold Coffin, and he brought the Bone-Eroding Spiritual Source with him?"

He also speculated whether the armored middle-aged man had been sealed away by the restriction once again. Otherwise, why would the man have returned to the Ninefold Coffin for no reason? He shouldn’t be able to enter and exit as he pleased, right? Besides, at the time, the armored middle-aged man had been intent on killing him and clearly had no intention of coming inside willingly; it looked more like he had been dragged in. If that was the case, he must have been sealed inside once more. Did that mean it was safe for him to be in here now?

Scanning his surroundings cautiously and seeing no sign of the armored middle-aged man, Mo Qianqian tentatively called out, "Senior Gun God!"

"He won’t be coming out again for a while!"

Right at that moment, a familiar female voice echoed from his shadow. Startled, Mo Qianqian hurriedly whipped his head around to look at it. "Senior! What’s the situation with Senior Gun God right now?" he asked urgently.