After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

"Is this the Northern Leg Gang, wiped out overnight?"

At the entrance to a dilapidated manor, Xu Qingman asked her husband beside her uncertainly.

Yu Jinchen nodded. "It should be. The location given by Pavilion Master Ding is here. This is such a large manor, but there is not a single person in sight, and there is still a faint smell of blood coming from inside."

Upon hearing Yu Jinchen's words, Xu Qingman took a closer sniff and indeed detected a faint smell of blood in the air.

But it's only been less than ten days since the massacre of the entire family. How come this place has already fallen into such a state of disrepair?

With this question in mind, the couple slowly walked inside.

Once inside, they discovered that the place still retained a lot of signs of daily life.

For example, the leftover food in the kitchen, the clothes hanging on the rope that will never see their owners again, and the various dried vegetables drying in the winnowing baskets all show how lively this place was not long ago.

The two wandered around the area for several hours, but found no useful clues.

However, the two were not discouraged and decided to wait until dark to talk about it.

They thought that since so many people had died here, there must be a few who had strong mental strength in life and could remember their past lives even after becoming ghosts.

Unfortunately, the couple was destined to be disappointed.

Even as night fell, not a single ghost could be found.

The two frowned and sighed. It seemed that the murderer either directly caused these people's souls to be scattered, or he had mastered the demonic technique, the Soul Refining Technique.

If it's the first reason, having committed such a great sin, the murderer's cultivation technique, once it reaches a certain level, will definitely suffer a backlash from the Heavenly Dao, and will likely be blasted into dust by heavenly lightning.

The second thing I fear most is that if someone were to cultivate the Soul Refining Technique, the world would truly descend into chaos.

To successfully cultivate the Soul Refining Technique, one must be built upon mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and even one's soul must be completely utilized after death.

The couple stayed there for two days and two nights, but ultimately gained nothing and had to leave disappointed.

After leaving here, the two did not return to Huai'an City, but instead prepared to visit the Wuji Sect and the Dongtian Sect in person.

On the way, he contacted Xu Shuyi and her brother using a communication talisman and learned that they were doing well, so he didn't interfere further.

Since the Dongtian Sect is relatively close, there's no need to decide where to go first.

Although the Dongtian Sect is not a large sect, it is not comparable to a small fry like the Northern Leg Gang.

From a distance, the Dongtian Sect looks like a small town, with not only several streets lined with houses and shops, but also several large training grounds.

According to farmers working in the surrounding fields, several thousand acres of land and more than a dozen mountains in the vicinity belong to the Dongtian Sect.

So even excluding the money their disciples earn from missions, they can live a very comfortable life each year just from these earnings.

The two found an inn to stay in and spent their days wandering around the neighborhood. Every night, they would transform into night owls and explore every corner of Dongtianmen.

However, apart from the many skeletons of young men and women in the deceased elder's courtyard, only a few disciples were found secretly practicing a kind of evil technique called "yin-yang replenishment".

After investigating all the upper echelons of the Dongtian Sect, it was found that the cultivation methods they practiced were all normal.

After destroying the dantian of those disciples who practiced evil arts and creating a silence that could be discovered, Xu Qingman and her companion secretly observed the situation. Seeing that the sect leader had angrily dealt with these people, Xu Qingman and her companion left for the Wuji Sect.

On the surface, the Wuji Sect looks similar to the Dongtian Sect, with many shops and fertile fields, and its disciples take turns going out on missions.

The two took a closer look and discovered that over a hundred of the disciples they sent out returned in less than a day.

Furthermore, these people did not return directly to the sect, but instead went to the mountains behind the sect.

The two realized something was wrong and followed them.

After traveling through the dense forest for two days and one night with these people, they finally stopped in front of a stone wall.

After the leader groped around on the stone wall for a while, a huge stone hole was revealed by a few clicks.

Seeing that everyone was going inside, the couple each put on a concealment talisman and immediately followed them in.

Once inside, they realized that this cave was not just big; it was practically an underground city!

"Senior Brother Luo, is it your team's turn to be on duty this time?"

As the two were preparing to use their divine sense to explore the environment inside the cave, a man at the peak of the Xuan rank walked out of a stone chamber and shouted to the leader.

Senior Brother Luo winked at the person opposite him and replied in a strange voice, "Yes, Junior Brother Jian, Junior Sister Jin was supposed to lead the team this month, but she stayed behind to receive the important figures from above."

After saying that, both of them simultaneously revealed disdainful smiles.

Even the people behind the two of them covered their mouths and snickered, and the expressions on everyone's faces seemed to show disdain for this junior sister Jin.

The couple nodded silently. It seemed that after they got out, they could focus their investigation on these two important figures, Jin Shimei and Jin Shimei.

However, before they arrived here, they hadn't heard of any important figures from the Wuji Sect arriving; they must still be on their way.

Seeing that they were just conducting a normal handover, the two split up and searched various parts of the underground city.

Xu Qingman took the fork to the right and walked several hundred meters in before she could vaguely sense a trace of spiritual energy.

Curious, Xu Qingman probed with her divine sense before nodding in understanding.

It turned out that there was a spirit stone mine here, with hundreds of miners constantly digging for spirit stones from the stone walls. After careful observation, it was found that most of them were low to medium grade spirit stones, with only one high grade spirit stone appearing occasionally.

Even so, for a world that is not primarily focused on cultivation, this is still a huge asset.

No wonder the Wuji Sect sent so many highly skilled disciples to take turns guarding this place.

Upon arriving here, apart from a few stone chambers for living, there was nothing else to be found, so Xu Qingman had no choice but to turn back.

Returning to where they had parted ways, Yu Jinchen had also returned. Just as they were about to exchange their findings via telepathy, they saw that the team leader surnamed Jian had already completed the handover and was leading his group away.

Fearing that their presence would cause too much noise, the couple put everything else aside and followed the group out of the cave.

Judging from what this group said, they should have taken away the mining proceeds from the past month when they left, but now it seems that they have nothing but weapons in their hands, which means they must have some kind of storage magic item.

It seems that this world is becoming increasingly incomprehensible.

He ascended to immortality through martial arts, but his path to ascension was suddenly cut off, and to make matters worse, he faced a tribulation of lightning for further advancement.

I didn't see any magic cultivators, yet so many martial artists could cultivate using spirit stones, and almost every major power could produce one or two magical artifacts that only existed in the cultivation world.

Returning to the inn with a host of questions, Xu Qingman realized she hadn't yet asked Yu Jinchen what he had discovered in the cave.