Chapter 102: The Shocked Zhuang Yangbing
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
In the end, Li Yueru died tragically in front of Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan wanted to make sure that Li Yueru was really dead and was not faking it.
He even used the special divine ability, the Green Flame Technique, on his corpse.
Aside from Li Yueru’s storage bag which remained intact, everything else, including his clothes and his corpse, turned into ashes amidst the burning green flames and scattered to the winds.
Even though Li Yueru had died in such a manner and not even his bones were left, Lu Yuan still felt insecure.
Cultivators, especially those from the Xueyang Sect, all cultivated the Blood Soul Spell, which was a rare technique that could refine their divine souls.
They might possess some kind of technique that allowed their divine souls to escape.
He would not just leave Li Yueru without a corpse; he would make sure that even the latter’s soul was reduced to nothingness!
If he did not destroy his enemies along with their souls, he would never be at ease!
Lu Yuan directly used his Divine Soul Pill Refinement Technique on Li Yueru’s ashes which were scattered to the winds to be absolutely sure that the latter had no chance of revival.
“Ah! What divine ability is this?”a miserable cry immediately sounded after Lu Yuan unleashed his technique.
Following that, an illusory soul slowly appeared in front of Lu Yuan.
Looking at the remnants of Li Yueru’s divine soul, Lu Yuan secretly felt lucky.
Good heavens, this guy actually had the means to escape with his divine soul!
If it were anyone else, they would have let Li Yueru escape.
Unfortunately, Li Yueru had encountered Lu Yuan!
Without any hesitation, Lu Yuan destroyed the remnants of Li Yueru’s divine soul.
“Spare me, my lord!”
Lu Yuan ignored Li Yueru’s screams and intensified the refining process.
A moment later, the illusory divine soul completely dissipated.
It turned into a Soul Pill and appeared in Lu Yuan’s hand.
After ensuring that his enemy was utterly obliterated, Lu Yuan felt slightly relieved.
Li Yueru’s physical body had been destroyed, and his divine soul had also dissipated. He should be completely dead, right?
After Li Yueru’s death, the remaining cultivators of the Xueyang Sect could not put up a fight against Lu Yuan.
Soon, Blood Qi Pills and Soul Pills piled up in Lu Yuan’s storage bag.
In the blink of an eye, 10 cultivators of the Xueyang Sect perished in the mountain range beside Moon Mountain Pass. They were thoroughly eradicated.
There were two mountain peaks around Moon Mountain Pass.
When Li Yueru and his group arrived, they chose the mountain peak on the right.
The second batch of people who wanted to pass through the Moon Mountain Pass chose the mountain peak on the left.
The route they took was different from Li Yueru and his group.
This second batch of cultivators were none other than the backups arranged by Zhuang Yangbing.
Zhuang Yangbing had made this arrangement assuming that the first batch of cultivators would be discovered and completely annihilated.
In the base camp of the devils, Zhuang Yangbing checked the time. It had been an hour since he sent out the second team.
It had also been three hours since the first batch of cultivators left.
If everything went smoothly, the first batch of cultivators should have reached the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the second batch of cultivators should be hiking deep in the mountains around Moon Mountain Pass. They should not be far from the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom.
Zhuang Yangbing thought about the arrangements he had made along the way. He could not find any loopholes in his plan this time. He had covered all bases.
Even the Blood Slaves, who were only failures at the Qi Cultivation Stage, could pass through the mountains on both sides of the Moon Mountain Pass.
This meant that the guards of Moon Mountain Pass were either unable to defend the two mountains, or they felt that the Blood Slaves would not pose a threat to the Great Xia Kingdom even if they allowed the latter to pass through.
Zhuang Yangbing felt that both reasons were at play here.
After all, the Qingyun Sect’s main attention was definitely on the battlefield of the cultivators in the Full Moon Mountain Range.
They would not waste precious Foundation Establishment cultivators on a mortal battlefield like Moon Mountain Pass.
Moreover, during previous wars, the three devilish sects had not chosen to attack the mortal countries of the five sects.
As a result, there were definitely not many Foundation Establishment cultivators left guarding the Moon Mountain Pass.
If the Qingyun Sect let their guard down, they might only send a non-combat Foundation Establishment cultivator to guard Moon Mountain Pass as a formality.
The remaining cultivators they mobilized might just be unaffiliated cultivators they raised in the mortal world.
With the strength of such cultivators, it was obviously impossible for them to guard the Moon Mountain Pass while also patrolling the mountains on both sides.
Based on these predictions of his, Zhuang Yangbing felt that sending out two teams would already guarantee success.
No matter how he looked at it, there was absolutely no possibility of him failing. His plan would certainly succeed!
Thinking of this, Zhuang Yangbing felt that he could just sit back and wait for the good news in the camp.
Yet, for some reason, he still had a bad feeling.
He felt that he had forgotten something.
However, he could not pinpoint what he had forgotten.
In the end, he attributed this uneasiness to his unfounded worries.
After all, he had already thought of the worst-case scenario and came up with a countermeasure.
It should be impossible for a situation worse than what he had imagined to occur.
Just when Zhuang Yangbing returned to his bedroom and was ready to rest, a Xueyang Sect cultivator suddenly rushed over.
“Senior Brother Zhuang, something bad has happened!”
“What happened?”
The other party opened his palm and 10 dead blood gu appeared in front of Zhuang Yangbing.
Zhuang Yangbing’s expression changed when he saw the 10 dead blood gu.
“When did these 10 blood gu die?!”
The disciple of the Xueyang Sect said with a trembling voice, “According to the state of the divine soul on the blood gu, they should have died an hour ago.”
An hour ago?
That was when he sent out the second group of Foundation Establishment cultivators!
The death of the 10 blood gu meant that the 10 Foundation Establishment cultivators connected to them had all died.
Zhuang Yangbing finally realized what he had missed.
He should have checked on the conditions of the first 10 Foundation Establishment cultivators before sending out the second team.
He had sent out the second team of cultivators as a contingency if anything happened to the first team of cultivators. However, for his entire first group of Foundation Establishment cultivators to perish in the mountain, it meant that there was a force of at least 15 Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the Moon Mountain Pass.
Otherwise, with Li Yueru’s strength, he would have been able to defeat the other party.
Against cultivators of the same cultivation level, it was absolutely impossible for them to be surrounded and killed in the Moon Mountain Pass.
Their deaths meant that Li Yueru and his team had been outnumbered. It was even possible that they had encountered cultivators above the Pseudo Core Stage!
Only opponents at the Pseudo Core Stage could have managed to kill these 10 Foundation Establishment cultivators!
Zhuang Yangbing felt even more uneasy.
He hoped that the other party would not expect him to send out a second team of cultivators.
At this moment, he could not possibly call the second team back.
If even the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the second team died in Moon Mountain Pass, Zhuang Yangbing could forget about making a contribution to the sect. He would be fortunate to not get punished.
After all, someone needed to take the blame for the deaths of these Foundation Establishment cultivators.
On the left mountain peak of Moon Mountain Pass, Xu Wan’er asked Lu Yuan, “Young Master, why are you so sure that more people will be coming here?”
He looked at her and said with a smile, “I’m not.”
“What? Since you are not sure, why did you bring us here to set up an ambush?”
Lu Yuan looked at the bright full moon above his head and said slowly, “I’m not sure, but that doesn’t mean they won’t do it. Wan’er, let me teach you something today. When you’re not sure if your enemy will do something, then you should assume that they will do it. This is the hypothetical principle. If you think that your enemy might do something, then just assume that he will do it, understand?”
The corner of Xu Wan’er’s mouth twitched slightly. Then, she said seriously, “I understand.”
She grumbled internally, “Young Master, I actually don’t understand what you’re talking about. However, since we have reached this point, you can just assume that I understand you. After all, you can’t verify if I understand or not. So, you can just treat me as though I have understood you perfectly.”
Xu Wan’er was unaware that she had understood Lu Yuan’s words when she applied the concept of assumption of understanding.
Xu Wan’er’s training +1%
If this continued, she would soon achieve Lu Yuan’s ideal..