"So that's how it is. It was this Fellow Daoist Chen who saved us."
After the other two Qiankun Sect disciples woke up, and after the girl gave an explanation,
The young man in purple then understood the whole story.
At the same time, they also learned that Lu Qing was now using the alias "Chen Qing".
Immediately, the purple-clad youth and the other two Qiankun Sect disciples bowed solemnly to Lu Qing in gratitude.
"Thank you for saving our lives, fellow Daoist. If it weren't for your help, we would all have perished after Li Motian and returned to the Yellow Springs."
"No need to be so polite. My master has always taught me that a person who cultivates should uphold their original intention and do good deeds to accumulate virtue."
I simply happened to be there and happened to save you all.
Lu Qing smiled slightly.
“Your words are truly wise and insightful. May I ask which esteemed senior you are?”
"I apologize, but when I went out to travel, my master gave me a strict order not to reveal his name casually."
The young man in purple and the others were not surprised to hear this.
Disciples of major sects or aristocratic families often conceal their identities when traveling.
Just like when they go out for training, they rarely reveal their identity as disciples of the Qiankun Sect.
However, in their hearts, they had already begun to secretly think and guess which of the powerful sects in the Tianyuan Great World had a peerless genius who could match Lu Qing.
"Gentlemen, now that you are all well, it is time for me to take my leave."
However, before they could figure out which major sect Lu Qing might come from, Lu Qing suddenly spoke up.
"Fellow Daoist Chen is leaving already?"
The young man in purple and his companions were taken aback.
The girl, in particular, was completely stunned.
"Indeed, I have been traveling around and have no fixed abode. My meeting with you all was just a chance encounter."
Now that everyone's injuries have healed, I am relieved. Let us part ways here.
"How can you do this? Fellow Daoist Chen, you saved us. We have not yet repaid even a fraction of such a great kindness."
The woman surnamed Ye quickly replied.
"It's fate that we met. I was just lending a helping hand. Why should you all take it so seriously?" Lu Qing smiled.
"But it is not right for us to be ungrateful. The kindness of saving a life is greater than heaven. If we leave without repaying your kindness, we will probably be punished by our master when we return."
The young man in purple said...
Lu Qing looked at the serious expressions on their faces and thought for a moment.
He said, "Since that's the case, why don't you pay me with spirit stones?"
???
Lu Qing's sudden words left the purple-clad youth and his companions completely dumbfounded.
"That's how it is," Lu Qing explained when he saw that the others were puzzled. "My master is a physician."
He often taught me to have the heart of a doctor.
When I was treating you all just now, I used a high-grade spiritual fruit.
If you still have reservations, please give me some spirit stones as payment for the consultation and medicine.
Ultimately, the purple-clad youth and his companions were bewildered and felt something was absurd.
After accepting a sum of spirit stones from them, Lu Qing said nonchalantly, "Gentlemen, we shall meet again someday. I shall take my leave now."
Having said that, he transformed into a streak of light, soared into the sky, and drifted away.
Only the purple-clad youth and his companions remained, gazing absently in the direction he had left.
After a while, the stream of light that Lu Qing had transformed into had long since disappeared, and only then did the group come to their senses.
"This Fellow Daoist Chen is truly as swift as the wind, extremely elegant. We cultivators should be like him."
The young man in purple looked on with longing.
The others also strongly agreed.
Although they had only been in contact with Lu Qing for a short time, he had already left a very deep impression on them.
"Why did Brother Chen leave so soon?"
The girl looked regretful and felt very disappointed.
Seeing her dejected expression, the young man in purple immediately laughed: "It seems that our most beloved junior sister, Xiao Jing, has fallen for worldly desires."
The girl immediately blushed: "Zi, Senior Brother Zixiao, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"But that's normal, this Fellow Daoist Chen may have an ordinary appearance."
However, he possesses profound cultivation and a free and easy temperament, far surpassing many of our inner disciples.
Considering your previous heroic rescue, it's normal that you'd be moved, Junior Sister Xiao Jing.
The young man in purple continued to tease.
"Senior Brother Zixiao, how dare you say that!" The [N O V E L I G H T] girl's face turned even redder.
Seeing her shy expression, the young man in purple wanted to tease her a little more.
At this moment, Senior Sister Ye glanced at him sideways and said coldly:
"Zixiao, if you don't watch your mouth, it will surely bring you disaster in the future. How dare you criticize Fellow Daoist Chen?"
"Senior Sister..." The young man in purple was taken aback, not expecting Senior Sister Ye to suddenly become so serious.
Senior Sister Ye ignored him and instead asked the girl, "Xiao Jing, where is Li Motian's body?"
"It's not far ahead, Senior Sister Ye, I'll take you there."
The blush on the girl's face faded slightly, and she flew towards the place where Lu Qing and Li Motian had fought.
Senior Sister Ye glanced at the young man in purple and said, "Once you see Li Motian's corpse, you'll realize just how ridiculous your words were."
After saying that, he left as well.
Only the purple-clad youth and two other Qiankun Sect disciples remained, standing there somewhat bewildered.
"Senior Brother Zixiao, why is Senior Sister Ye suddenly angry?" one of the Qiankun Sect disciples asked.
“I don’t know either.” The young man in purple scratched his head. “It seems the reason lies with Li Motian’s corpse.”
"Senior Sister Ye, Senior Brother Zixiao, Li Motian's body is down there."
In mid-air, the girl arrived at the spot where Lu Qing had previously rescued her and pointed downwards.
Senior Sister Ye and the purple-clad youth looked down and saw a lifeless corpse lying face down on a broken boulder.
Judging from his clothes and figure, who else could it be but Li Motian?
Upon seeing Li Motian's corpse, Senior Sister Ye and the purple-clad youth's gazes sharpened.
He immediately leaped down, turned the corpse over, and saw that familiar face.
While their hearts trembled slightly, they also inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the girl and Lu Qing had both said that Li Motian was dead.
However, before actually seeing Li Motian's body...
Deep down, they still found it hard to believe.
That demon, after falling into the demonic path, possessed such formidable power.
He was actually killed in this nameless mountain forest.
They even wondered if Li Motian had faked his death, fooled Lu Qing and the others, and had already seized the opportunity to escape.
After all, demonic cultivators have bizarre techniques and numerous ways to protect themselves, making them extremely difficult to kill; this is well-known.
However, because Lu Qing had saved their lives, they didn't dare to ask directly.
Only now, seeing Li Motian's body, have they truly felt relieved.
With her mind at ease, Senior Sister Ye began examining Li Motian's corpse again.
However, it was discovered that Li Motian had no other injuries besides a bruise from falling from mid-air.
The only fatal wound was a sword scar between his eyebrows.
Clearly, Li Motian's death was caused by this sword mark.
As her fingers traced the sword mark, she sensed a still incredibly powerful sword intent emanating from it, and Senior Sister Ye was secretly alarmed.
“Xiao Jing, tell me again in detail what happened after you escaped from the valley, and the battle between Fellow Daoist Chen and Li Motian,” Senior Sister Ye said seriously.
At this moment, the young man in purple also noticed something amiss and looked at the girl.
"That's right, after I escaped from the valley, Li Motian caught up with me very quickly..."
Without hesitation, the girl began to tell her story.
She recounted in detail how Li Motian caught up with her and how Lu Qing rescued her.
The scene of Lu Qing killing Li Motian, in particular, was deeply etched in her mind.
She described it in great detail, her face beaming with excitement.
"...At that time, we were trapped inside by the great formation set up by Li Motian."
I thought I was going to die this time.
Unexpectedly, Li Motian's terrifying black fire formation was shattered by Brother Chen's counterattack.
Then, Brother Chen moved with unimaginable speed to get in front of Li Motian.
With a casual flick of his finger, he touched Li Motian's forehead, and Li Motian died.
From beginning to end, Li Motian used every means at his disposal, but he couldn't harm Brother Li in the slightest.
On the contrary, Brother Li only needed to make one move, and Li Motian couldn't withstand it and died completely.
"He really killed Li Motian with just one move..."
After listening to the girl's story, Senior Sister Ye was deeply shocked and murmured to herself.
From Xiao Jing's description, it was easy for her to know that Li Motian's strength had increased significantly after obtaining the treasures in the cave.
It's much stronger than when I fought her.
Otherwise, Zixiao and the others wouldn't have been beaten so badly.
You should know that if the three of them joined forces, even she might not be able to defeat them.
But in Xiao Jing's words, the powerful Li Motian was completely crushed by Lu Qing from beginning to end.
In the end, he killed him with just one move.
Furthermore, according to Xiao Jing's description, Lu Qing probably didn't use his full strength when he killed Li Motian.
"Just who is this Fellow Daoist Chen...?" Senior Sister Ye couldn't help but ask.
As for the three young men from Zixiao, they were already completely dumbfounded.
After they woke up, Xiao Jing only briefly mentioned that she had been saved by Lu Qing.
At the time, they thought that Lu Qing had used some powerful magic treasure to save Xiao Jing.
He had no idea that the battle between him and Li Motian would turn out to be such a one-sided affair.
"Junior Sister Xiaojing, are you saying that even after Li Motian unleashed the great formation, he was still killed by Fellow Daoist Chen in one move?"
The young man from Zixiao couldn't believe it.
"Yes!" The girl nodded vigorously. "Moreover, Brother Chen didn't use any magic weapons from beginning to end. He only used a sword finger to cut off all of Li Motian's life force."
The young man in purple was stunned once again.
"Now you know just how ridiculous what you said was."
At this moment, Senior Sister Ye's cold voice rang out.
"How dare you compare Fellow Daoist Chen to an inner disciple? Is someone like him someone you can casually ridicule and comment on?"
Not to mention that he saved our lives, Zixiao, you really don't know your place!
It's only because Fellow Daoist Chen is kind-hearted; if it were any other cultivator, even if they killed you outright, it would be your own fault.
The young man in purple dared not speak.
He finally realized why he was so angry about letting go of Senior Sister Ye.
Just as she said, she was able to kill Li Motian, who had fallen into the demonic path and possessed the strength of the late Golden Core stage, so easily.
Lu Qing's strength has probably reached a level that he can hardly imagine.
Even if they are not a Nascent Soul expert, they are at least at the eighth or even ninth level of the Golden Core stage.
Such a person is not someone that someone as mere fourth-stage Golden Core cultivator like him can easily ridicule.
"Senior sister, I know I was wrong." The young man in purple lowered his head.
Seeing his sincere attitude, Senior Sister Ye's expression softened slightly.
"It's good that you know you were wrong. Remember, loose lips sink ships. Just because you got away with it this time doesn't mean that someone will tolerate you like this in the future."
"Yes." The young man in purple continued to bow his head.
As for the other two Qiankun Sect disciples, they secretly rejoiced that they hadn't spoken recklessly.
"Alright, now that Li Motian is dead, we've eliminated a major threat."
"We'll rest here for another day or two to fully recover our magical power, and then we'll set off back to our sect."
"Yes, Senior Sister."
Senior Sister Ye collected Li Motian's body, but a trace of worry arose in her heart.
Although Li Motian is dead, many things remain a mystery.
For example, how he fell into the demonic path, and how he managed to remain hidden in the sect for so long without being discovered.
But were the things he said to Zixiao and the others about their senior brother true or not?
All these questions lingered in her mind.
Senior Sister Ye vaguely sensed that there seemed to be a shadow lurking within the sect, making her feel inexplicably uneasy.
After suppressing her unease, she thought of Lu Qing.
The mysterious young man who saved their lives is also an enigma.
Logically speaking, such a young talent with extraordinary cultivation and superb medical skills should be...
He should be quite famous in the Tianyuan Great World.
But she searched through the sect's records and found numerous records of unparalleled geniuses among the younger generation.
But they found that no one could match them.
What does this tell us?
This indicates that Lu Qing did not enter the Tianyuan Great World from the outside world for training, but was a monstrous genius cultivated in some secluded place.
In addition, a demonic cultivator like Li Motian has appeared in the world.
All of this made her feel a growing sense of unease, as if a turbulent wave was rising within her.
Perhaps, before long, some major changes will occur in the Tianyuan Great World.
However, Senior Sister Ye couldn't tell Zixiao and the others about these things.
"It seems that I should report to my master first after I get back."
Senior Sister Ye made a decision in her heart.
Two days later, the disciples of the Qiankun Sect had basically recovered their condition after their seclusion and meditation.
Without delay, they summoned their magic weapons and rushed back to the sect.
And it was shortly after they left.
Deep beneath that valley, in a hidden cave, a pool of blood is rippling with waves.
