"Y-You will regret this!!! You will now be hunted by the entire Blood Sect!" The Blood Sect disciple disappeared from the scene quickly afterward.
Yuan turned to look at the people that had been treasure hunting before getting caught by the Blood Sect and said to them, "If you don't want to die like them, get out of this place."
"Y-Yes! Thank you, Senior!"
They quickly left the scene as well.
Once Yuan was alone with Xiao Hua, the place became dead silent.
Yuan closed his eyes for a moment.
When he opened them again, his eyes were no longer vicious but innocent, and his entire demeanor changed.
Yuan looked at the corpses in front of him, as well as the decapitated body with a perplexing emotion in his heart.
After standing there in silence for a few moments, he turned around and said to Xiao Hua, "Let's go back for now…"
Xiao Hua quietly nodded and followed him.
The entire journey back to Pang City was a quiet one with neither of them starting a conversation.
While they walked, Yuan pondered inwardly, 'That person was neither the Demon Sealing Clan's Founder nor the other two, so who was he? Could it be another one of my reincarnations?'
'No… I have seen him before…'
Yuan suddenly recalled the bloody dream he had when he got his faction symbol after joining the Celestial Overlords.
'Could it be him? His demeanor and aura felt just like that person… Just who is he?'
Now he wondered if he was a murderer in one of his past life, as he was completely tranquil when killing the Blood Sect disciples, almost like it was natural for him to have blood on his hands.
Once they returned to Pang City, Yuan looked at Xiao Hua and said to her in a low voice, "I'm sorry if I scared you…"
Even though he wasn't in control of his body at that time, just like when the Divine Paragon took control of his body to deal with the demon, it was still his body that did all those things.
"It's okay, Brother Yuan. As long as you're fine," she said with a gentle smile on her face.
Now that Yuan no longer had that terrifying aura around him, she was no longer scared of him.
Of course, she was still curious about why Yuan suddenly had a change of character. It was almost as though he was possessed by a ghost. However, she could tell that he wasn't possessed, which only made it more puzzling.
"Welcome back, Young Master!" Feng Yuxiang greeted Yuan when he returned.
"I'm back."
"D-Daoist Yuan! W-Welcome back!"
"Hmm?"
Yuan turned to look at the two pretty ladies standing behind Lord Luo.
It was Luo Ling and Luo Li.
"Hey, you two. It's been a while." Yuan smiled at them, causing them to blush.
"You have changed a lot…" Luo Li was dazed by his new appearance.
"Just a little."
"No, you're almost unrecognizable, Daoist Yuan!" Luo Ling said.
"Why are you still addressing me as Daoist Yuan? There's no need to be so formal." Yuan quickly noticed their formality towards him.
"W-Well…"
After learning that Yuan had become a Spirit Grandmaster, these sisters no longer dared to treat him so casually.
"Just call me Yuan. I insist."
"Alright, Yuan." Luo Li nodded.
"Welcome back, Yuan. You've returned earlier than I expected."
"I intend on challenging the Stairway to Heaven soon, so I decided to visit you guys before I leave."
"I see… So you'll be leaving the Lower Heavens soon…"
The sisters were sad to hear this, but there wasn't anything they could do about it.
"How was your visit to the Flying Sword Sect, Young Master?" Feng Feng suddenly asked him.
"..."
After a moment of silence, he sighed, "We encountered the Blood Sect."
"You what?! Are you okay?!" Lord Luo immediately asked him in a worried voice.
"I'm fine."
"What happened to the Blood Sect?" Feng Feng then asked.
"Well…" Yuan hesitated to tell them the story, as he was afraid that they might look at him differently afterward.
Seeing Yuan's reaction, Xiao Hua said, "They killed each other."
"What? Why would they do that?" Feng Yuxiang's eyes widened with surprise.
"Because I told them to." Yuan sighed.
"Eh?" Feng Yuxiang looked at him with disbelief on her face.
She cannot imagine Yuan ordering people to kill each other even if they are from the Blood Sect, so what exactly happened at the Flying Sword Sect?
Yuan proceeded to explain the situation to them— how he left one alive so that he could make himself a target and reveal the Sect Master of the Blood Sect, Lord Blood.
"Unbelievable…" Feng Yuxiang mumbled in a low voice, yet she admired his boldness.
'The Young Master is usually really reserved… The Blood Sect must have really angered him to make him do such things,' she thought to herself.
"So you're going to fight the Blood Sect's Sect Master in three days? Do you need our help?" Lan Yingying asked him.
"I should be able to defeat him by myself, and I don't want dirty your hands with their blood," Yuan said.
"Anyways, we can talk more about this later. Right now, I want to clear my mind of the Blood Sect."
Yuan then turned to look at the Luo Sisters and asked them, "Do you want to eat something right now? This is one of the reasons why I returned, too."
The sisters were speechless. How can he still be in the mood to eat while knowing that he's going to be hunted by the Blood Sect?
However, they didn't refuse and nodded their heads, as they have been waiting for this moment ever since he left.
And for the rest of the day, they all went outside to get food, returning to all of the restaurants they have already gone to before, allowing Yuan to temporarily forget about the Blood Sect and the Flying Sword Sect.
Meanwhile, the Blood Sect's Sect Master had just received news of what happened at the Flying Sword Sect, and as one could expect, he was fuming in anger afterward.
"At last! The bastard who killed my son! I have finally found you! If I don't skin him alive and feed his bones to the pigs, I am not surnamed Meng!"