Chapter 291.

There were no people passing by on this cold, deserted street, only a rather boisterous gust of wind that cut through the street.

And other than the sound of the wind, there was no other sound here.

Accompanied by Zhou An after he said these words, in the eyes of Qin Meng in front of him, a hint of helplessness appeared.

Just by seeing this look, Zhou An already understood in his heart that the other party was indeed as he thought, a vertical senior.

Just now, Qin Meng had already said that apart from the top management of Verticality, no one knew about this news.

Then backtracking a bit, the result would be easy to find.

Qin Meng could already feel the murderous aura spreading from Zhou Evening’s body, so he simply crossed his heart, “If Lord Zhou wants to kill me, I’ll resign myself to my fate, but Miss Black Jade absolutely cannot have anything happen to her in the Da Qi Kingdom.”

“Although I am a person of verticality, what I want most in my life is for the Miscellaneous Sect to recapture the glory of that year.”

“The Leader of Verticality can’t do that, he only knows how to bring disaster to the world, I have no way out, and there is only such a power that I can see hope in, and now there is one more hope, and that is the Black Jade Girl.”

“That’s why I risked being beheaded by Lord Zhou to tell him this news.”

He explained everything, all of it, and closed his eyes.

He could feel the murderous aura on Zhou An’s body, and knew that the two sides were mortal enemies.

Before he came, Qin Meng had already prepared his mind, knowing that he might not live long, but he still came.

Because what he wanted was to keep the Black Jade.

The Black Jade was the hope of the entire Miscellaneous Sect, and the truth was indeed as he said, he did not tell half a lie.

But what Zhou An thought, he didn’t know, he didn’t care about any of that.

What he cared about was just getting Zhou An to believe in him, even if it meant dying.

Zhou An looked at this Qin Meng in front of him, who looked like he was going to die generously, and stuck his knife on the ground, falling into thought.

He did not care if what this Qin Meng said was true or false for the time being, but after analyzing it carefully, he felt that the person who was vertical in nature would probably be colluding with the Emperor of the Great Qi Kingdom.

This plan that he was also involved in.

However, no one is perfect, including the emperors of the Great Chu and Great Yue States, and they could not be able to anticipate things as if they were gods.

They had thought of many things, but what they had never expected was that the Emperor of the Da Qi Kingdom would even work together with Verticality.

What this represented, Zhou An knew very well that when the time came to counterattack this matter of the Great Qi Kingdom, it might not be as smooth as before.

After all, even if the people of Verticality were like street rats, they were still a huge force, just hidden in the darkness.

If this huge force, really went to help the Great Qi State, then what awaited Zhou An and the others was an unknown battle.

Zhou An thought for a moment and said, “Take this message and bring it to the Emperor of the DaQi Kingdom.”

Qin Meng was slightly stunned.

He truly did not expect that he would have a chance to survive.

“But how exactly should the safety of Miss Black Jade be guaranteed?”

Even though he had a chance to live, Qin Meng did not feel happy at all.

All he could think about right now was the hope that was Black Jade.

Qin Meng had a way of joining Verticality and there was a group of people with the same ambition that could work wonders.

Zhou An shook his head, “All of these things, are not for you to worry about, what you need to do is only to travel to the Great Chu Kingdom and tell Emperor Xingwu about this news.”

As long as this person went to the Great Chu Kingdom and really told Emperor Xingwu about the matter, Zhou An felt that Emperor Xingwu naturally had a way to deal with all of this, and was even able to find out if this person was speaking correctly or not.

Seeing Zhou An in this condition, Qin Meng knew in his heart that he wouldn’t be able to promise himself anything else, so he could only sigh, arch his hand at Zhou An and leave the street.

He walked very quickly, fearing that if he walked slowly, Zhou An would backtrack and make himself leave his life there.

After Qin Meng had left, Zhou An did not stay too long at this place either, turning around and directly leaving the place.

After leaving, he just happened to run into Zheng Quan.

As for Zheng Quan and the other experts of the All Saints Realm, they had all finished dealing with the bizarre matter.

“Let’s go, set off.”

Zhou An waved his hand, not bothering to think about this matter, and led Zheng Quan, and the others towards the next city.

The journey was extremely long, plus the Great Qi Kingdom’s heritage and size was much larger than the Great Chu Kingdom and the Great Yue Kingdom, so dealing with the hunting shenanigans was quite a bit slower.

Zhou An had thought that things would come in a steady stream, but sometimes, things just happened to be completely different from what he had thought.

On this road, nothing happened on the contrary.

But it also made Zhou feel a lot more peaceful, and he also had time to liver proficiency.

The Bagua Arithmetic’s proficiency was also growing upwards at a rate visible to the naked eye.

“Lord Zhou, up ahead is Zi Yun County, we’re going to be over there, using Zi Yun County as the midpoint to eliminate all the weirdness around us.”

Zheng Quan walked up and pointed at a county not far ahead and said.

During this period of time down here, it had always been Zheng Quan who was in charge of giving Zhou An a detailed report on the situation.

So at this time, it was most normal for Zheng Quan to come out and speak.

Zhou An nodded and said, “Just carry on with everything as usual.”

The crowd nodded and followed behind Zhou An, heading to this tiny Ziyun County.

However, when Zhou An led Zheng Quan and the others, as they approached Zi Yun County, they discovered something unusual.

Even if it was a small county, there were actually people.

Even if there were fewer people, at least there was human presence.

However, when Zhou An came to the outside of Zi Yun County, he found that the county was empty.

Even at the city gates, there were no guards.

As the breeze blew by, Zhou An smelled a faint scent of blood, and although it was very faint, it was recognized by him.

He felt that something was not quite normal.

It wasn’t just Zhou An who smelled it, the All Saint realm experts present, likewise smelled the bloody odor.

They were all people who had experienced battle for a long time, and had quite a bit of blood on their hands, and had all climbed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to this position.

So at the first moment, they all took out their respective weapons in their hands and stared at their guard.

“The situation is not right, Lord Zhou.”

Zheng Quan whispered, “Why is this place so empty, there isn’t even a single person here.”

Zhou An eyed the empty city in front of him and shook his head, “You’re wrong, it’s not that there’s not a single person, it’s that there’s not a single living person, this place has been changed from its original face by a formation.”

Formation?

Zheng Quan’s face was full of doubts, before he could figure out the meaning, he saw Zhou An waving his hand.

A burst of white light, flashed before Zhou An’s eyes, covering the Purple Cloud County in front of him.

And the formations hidden in the Purple Cloud County were all unraveled by Zhou An in this instant.

The originally empty Purple Cloud County was completely revealed before Zhou An’s eyes.

When this Purple Cloud County was completely revealed, the many All Saints Realm experts present, their pupils slightly shrunk, and they couldn’t help but clench their fists tightly.

Even Zhou An could not help but be slightly shaken when he saw it.

Ahead, in that empty street, it had long since ceased to be empty at this point.

On the ground, was a thick blood stain, one after the other, and the smell of blood rose up to the sky.

And on top of the blood stains, densely packed corpses, piled haphazardly.

On top of the corpses, there were dense wounds that were hideous and terrifying.

On the face of each corpse, there was a dying fear, as well as unwillingness and despair.

At a glance, even someone like Zhou An, who killed without blinking an eye, went numb at the sight.

Zhou An took a deep breath and slowly said, “Check, are there any living people!”

At this moment, Zhou An himself could not feel it, but Zheng Quan and the others could feel that there was a desperate coldness in Zhou An’s body.

It was like a Yama who ruled over life and death, and all over his body, he was filled with a terror that he did not dare to approach.

Zheng Quan only felt a chill on his body and hurriedly hardened his head, shouting, “Yes, Lord Zhou!”

After saying that, all the people present, entered this Purple Cloud Prefecture City one after another.

Zhou An held Black Jade with an icy face as he slowly walked into it.

The smell of blood was even stronger, and the smell of blood that poured out of his face gave people a feeling of nausea.

Zhou An slowly went forward, came to a slightly empty place, squatted down, and closed the eyes of the old man’s corpse in front of him.

The old man’s expression, after Zhou An closed his eyes, became slightly more peaceful and no longer so horrible.

Zhou An looked around the week, rather feeling a sense of sadness.

This was the other side of this world, the most real side.

Here, the lives of the people were like grass.

Even if one was born in the Great Chu Kingdom, it was the same.

Only those who are strong and powerful can survive here, just like the lives of grass, and I don’t know which day, will die because of a gale.

Black Jade also stopped making a scene, she could feel Zhou An’s mood at this time, holding Zhou An’s hand slightly loosened.

“It doesn’t hurt.”

Black Jade touched Zhou An’s heart and tilted her little face, “You have Black Jade, it doesn’t hurt, blow you.”

After saying that, Black Jade puffed out her cheeks and gently blew on Zhou An’s heart.

Zhou An touched Black Jade’s shoulder and said, “Good boy, it’s fine.”

Black Jade obediently encircled Zhou An and pressed her small face against Zhou An’s mouth position, “It’s jumping.”

A breeze brushed by, Zhou An looked at Black Jade’s long hair like a waterfall, the gloom in his heart reduced a lot.

Just then, Zheng Quan and the others, with a little girl full of fear, came before Zhou An.

Zheng Quan’s face was pale, “Sir Zhou, apart from this little girl, there is no one alive.”

The little girl was wearing a rough dress, her face bore the tear marks of having just cried, and her eyes were already red from crying.

On her forehead, there was still a trace of blood, and her little hand was tightly clutching a letter.

“Little girl, show me the letter.” Zhou An squatted down and was at eye level with the little girl.

The little girl sobbed slightly, “The bad people …… killed the uncle and grandfather, and the aunts ……”

“Don’t cry.”

Zhou An softly said, “The uncles are here to kill the bad guys, what is this letter?”

The little girl handed the letter over, “The bad guy said, let me give it to the person I saw and he won’t kill me.”

Zhou An received it in his hands and opened the letter.

On top of the letter, was a message that floated in front of Zhou An.

[Zhou An, how do you feel about the great gift that the Wild Buddha Sect and the Wild Taoist Sect sent you?]

[I know that you have come to the Great Qi Kingdom, but I do not intend to let you return alive.]

[This great gift is just a small appetizer. Anyway, Emperor Feng Teng doesn’t care about the common people, only you do.]

[I will make your heart ache, make you grieve, and let you know that we are not someone you can offend, and the deaths of these people are all related to you.]

[Of course, you have a solution, and that is to hand over the Jade Seal of the Great Domain Dynasty.]

[Behind Zi Yun county town, there is a deep mountain, inside the deep mountain there is a temple, you then go to the temple and put the jade seal on it.]

[Otherwise, Purple Cloud County is just one of them, there are more behind it.]

[And, see that little girl? This next big gift is for you.]

After Zhou An saw this last line, he suddenly reacted and looked at the little girl in front of him.

The little girl didn’t cry anymore, looking down at her little hands, her face full of incredulity.

In those hands, a crack appeared and blood sprayed out from them.

In just a split second, the little girl turned into a field of blood and flesh.

A cold color appeared on Zheng Quan’s face, “It’s the residual Buddha light from the Wild Buddha Sect, it’s too hidden, I can’t believe I didn’t see it.”

Zhou An’s face was calm as he threw the letter paper aside.

“You guys, bury them here, I’ll go and come.”

Zheng Quan heard this and knew what Zhou An was planning to do, and hurriedly said, “Sir Zhou, you can’t do this, they’re clearly a trap, you’re throwing yourself into a trap.”

That letter, Zheng Quan had seen it as well, he knew that it was a yang conspiracy.

The Wild Buddha Sect was using the lives of the people to blackmail Zhou An.

Go, that is a trap, do not go, continue to kill innocent people.

And Emperor Feng Teng …… is only afraid that he will pursue it, but he will not waste resources in a transitional manner.

Here, the people are indeed like grass.

Zhou An took a deep breath and turned his head, “No harm, you don’t need to care.”

At this moment, although Zhou An’s expression was calm, as long as one knew Zhou An, they understood that the calmer he was, the more furious he was.

All of this was just the calm before the storm.

“But ……,” Zheng Quan wanted to say more.

In his opinion, Zhou An this time, was extremely dangerous, so he wanted to try his best to dissuade him.

But before those words could be uttered, they were interrupted by Zhou An.

“In this life, Zhou An has sought stability.”

“From the time of Settlement County, it has been a matter of killing all threats and allowing oneself to live in peace.”

Zhou An’s eyes gradually gelled, “But they, they won’t let me be at peace, even killing all the innocents.”

“I am not a hero, but I am also not a villain, people, have three views, I, Zhou An, likewise have.”

“Such beasts, should be killed.”

He had already made his decision, although the inner dan was extremely rare, even if it was more precious, he still had to use it.

No matter how good a treasure was, if it was not used, it was a mortal thing.

The life of a city, what is killed is killed, Wild Buddhist Sect, deserve to die.

Although he didn’t think he could be a hero, he would never let himself implicate the innocent.

Kill all obstacles!

No one could stop him from seeking peace!

Zhou An picked up Black Jade and headed towards the location stated in the letter, performing the Flying Dragon Stance and quickly departing.

Zheng Quan and the others left behind, looking at Zhou An’s departing figure, all looked at each other and sighed helplessly.

“All we can do is to bury the people.”

Zheng Quan looked at the direction that Zhou An had left and slowly said, “I hope that everything goes well for Lord Zhou on this trip.”

Everyone nodded in unison and without further ado, they began to organize the people’s corpses, preparing to find an open space for burial.

Everyone was silent as they looked at the horrific wounds as they carried the corpses.

Cang Cui Mountain, a deep mountain behind Zi Yun County, was named because of the verdant grass and trees.

At this moment, in this deep mountain, two figures were hovering in the sky.

“Go in.”

Zhou An turned his head to look at Hei Yu and said in a soft tone.

The Black Jade nodded slightly, and very obediently, burrowed into Zhou An’s shadow.

Only after the Black Jade disappeared, did Zhou An then turn his gaze, to a forest in front of him.

“Mister Zhou has come, why are you still hiding, are you afraid of Mister Zhou?”

The voice that was catalyzed with the air, under Zhou An’s effect, continued to spread.

One forest after another, a forest-like wave was raised due to Zhou An’s words.

As Zhou An finished his words, the Eye of Chaos also began to sweep towards the mountains and forests below.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew by, and the mountain forest began to quickly turn into ashes at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

After the mountain forest turned into ashes, Zhou An saw the situation below.

Below, a monk and a Taoist priest, sitting on the ground, formed a huge and incomparable hexagonal mold.

And at the very front, was an old monk and old Taoist priest, looking at Zhou An with a smile on their faces.

Zhou An said indifferently, “Both of you, what kind of identity?”

The old monk was the first to stand out, “Old me, the Grand Elder of the Wild Buddha Sect, and this, the Grand Elder of the Wild Taoist Sect.”

Zhou An faintly swept a glance and coldly laughed, “If that’s the case, I’m afraid it’s not enough, I thought that it was the Taoist Lord and the Buddhist Lord personally.”

The Wild Buddha Sect Grand Elder sniffed and shook his head, “Lord Zhou is overly concerned, although Emperor Feng Teng doesn’t care about the people, it’s impossible for us Buddha Lords to enter it.”

“Possible?”

Zhou An’s brows furrowed slightly when he heard those two words.

He heard it.

The meaning of this sentence was that the arrival of the Wild Buddha Sect seemed to have been put in, intentionally or unintentionally, by Emperor Feng Teng as well.

It was just that the strength of the Buddha Lord and the Dao Lord was too high, plus those two were too cautious to enter.

Since this was the case, Zhou An knew that the Great Qi Kingdom had already begun to prepare and join forces with these jianghu demons.

“Lord Zhou, hand over the jade seal and cut yourself here.”

The Grand Elder of the Wild Buddha Sect slowly said, “The people will not die again, and you, too, can die in a way that you think is the least painful way to die, it’s simply the best of both worlds.”

The best of both worlds?

Zhou An raised an eyebrow, “With you lousy potatoes?”

Beside him, the Grand Elder of the Wild Dao Sect, his face gradually turned gloomy.

“What are you wasting words with him!”

The Wild Dao Sect’s Grand Elder also knew that Zhou An had just brushed him off.

“Zhou An, when really, you want to die in agony.”

Zhou An did not reply again, but raised his right hand, and the long black blade surfaced above his right hand.

Subsequently, the ebony-blue blade light, coalesced in mid-air, spreading the entire sky.

Zhou An gazed downwards and said indifferently, “If you want to fight, then fight, too much nonsense.”

As those words finished, Zhou An’s ebony-blue blade light fell swiftly with a thunderous might.

“Rise the formation!”

Seeing this scene, the Grand Elder of the Wild Buddhist Sect shouted.

Subsequently, the Taoist priests and monks who were seated in their seats chanted in unison, ignoring the ebony-blue blade light in the sky.

The sound of chanting sutras was continuously resounding, one after another, and in an instant, it had completely covered the entire deep mountain.

And the ebony-blue blade light, accompanied by the giant blade light of the Holy Spirit Evil Demon Body, fell down with a roar.

Below, it was as if there was an invisible barrier.

When the ebony-colored blade light fell, it immediately stirred up a cloud of dust.

Zhou An’s ebony-colored blade light disappeared cleanly in an instant.

Zhou An squinted his eyes, and the Eye of Chaos saw the true appearance inside through the uncountable dust.

An immense and incomparable figure, which seemed to hold up heaven and earth, stood in front.

This silhouette was half Buddha and half Dao.

The Buddha’s light was holy, and the Dao imprinted nature.

However, in this natural and holy atmosphere, there was also a strand of evil that was constantly spreading within.

The shadow of the Dao and Buddha was more than ten times larger than the Holy Spirit Evil Demon Body, as if it was a giant mountain peak, giving an extremely heavy sense of oppression.

Zhou An narrowed his eyes, “Good, it really is powerful.”

This kind of pressure was indeed enough.

Even Zhou An could not help but feel the terrifying pressure that came over him.

The Wild Dao Sect’s Grand Elder laughed coldly, “Zhou An, this was set up using most of the Wild Dao Sect’s and Wild Buddha Sect’s reserves, a peak level Absolute Enlightenment Realm.”

“You can fight?”

Zhou An shook his head and nodded again, “I’ve killed quite a few Jedi Enlightenment Realms at the Tongling Realm.”

“But today, I don’t want to let you all die so easily.”

“You slaughtered people who have nothing to do with it, so I’ll ask you all, to experience what it’s like to beg for your life and not be able to die.”

The Wild Dao Sect’s Grand Elder laughed out loud as he heard this, “Zhou An, you have not looked down on yourself too much, after saying so much, if you have the ability, come directly.”

“I won’t make a move.”

Zhou An shook his head, “I’m afraid that I won’t be able to collect myself and kill you all.”

The Wild Dao Sect Grand Elder suddenly froze.

Including everyone present, at this moment, in their hearts, a bone-chilling chill suddenly arose.

Just now, what Zhou An had said sounded as if it was hilarious.

However, for some reason, listening to it in their ears, they hard felt icy cold all over.

–just like the real thing.

The Wild Buddha Sect’s Grand Elder topped his bald head, “The so-called yellow mouth is just like that.”

“If you have this ability, why don’t you just cast it out, and if you have the ability, let us experience, what is meant by life is worse than death.”

After saying that, the shadow of the Dao Buddha in the sky began to gradually shake.

Zhou An looked on calmly.

To be honest, with his strength at the Tongling Realm, fighting with this kind of peak Jie Gou, he really didn’t know who would win and who would lose.

After all, it was across two great realms, and it was also at the peak level, which was a world of difference from an ordinary Jedi Gnosis.

But ……

Zhou An said that there was someone behind him.

And it was still the most pinnacle person in the world.

Today, he did not want to make a move, because he wanted to let the Guile Rally, slowly torture this group of people.

Looking at the Dao Buddha Shadow that already had the intention to strike, Zhou An turned his head and looked at the shadow behind himself.

In the shadow, under a wobble, Black Jade poked out its hapless little head and made a look at Zhou An to see if he wanted to make a big deal out of it.

“Start.”

Zhou An nodded his head slightly and said indifferently.

Black Jade’s small face gave a serious hmmm, and then stretched out her small white hand, and waved it gently at the void in front of her.

In the next moment, an ancient and desolate aura gradually filled this sky, slowly diffusing, causing chills to rise in people’s hearts.