The Meishan demons heard Dai Li's investigation results and all shook their heads. None of them believed that a mere heavenly soldier could have killed Jin Da Sheng!
“Humph, it must have been a Golden Immortal official from the Heavenly Court who descended. He didn't dare to come to Meishan and only dared to sneak around in the distance. He just happened to encounter Lao Si going out and took the opportunity to kill him!”
“That’s right! Lao Si was at least a Xuanxian at the peak of his cultivation. To kill him, it must have been a Golden Immortal expert.”
“These Heavenly Court officials are truly despicable. They secretly attack with the advantage of strength and hide their aura, not even leaving behind a scent. They’re as cowardly as rats!”
“Hmm, that must be the case. However, although it’s impossible for that Heavenly soldier to have killed Jin Da Sheng, this matter is ultimately related to him. Dai Li, remember this Heavenly soldier’s scent. If you encounter him in the future, capture him.”
The Meishan Six Fiends spoke their guesses one after another. Although none of them believed that Lin Xuan, a mere Heavenly soldier, had the ability to kill a Xuanxian at the peak of his cultivation, the matter was ultimately caused by him. Yuan Hong still told the dog demon Dai Li to remember his scent firmly.
They’d have to capture him later when they had the chance!
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Heavenly Court, outside the South Heavenly Gate.
Shui!
A beam of blood light came from afar, transforming into Lin Xuan's figure.
“Whew! Finally here. The Blood Escape really consumes a lot.”
The blood light around Lin Xuan dissipated. His face was pale, and his aura was weak, looking frail.
He didn't know if Yuan Hong and the other great demons would come to hunt him down. To be safe, he directly used Blood Escape. The speed was indeed incredibly fast, but he had burned a lot of his essence blood. At this moment, he was indeed greatly depleted and his vital energy was severely injured.
Of course, this kind of depletion could be fully recovered after a period of cultivation. Therefore, he used Blood Escape without any hesitation, and even deliberately did so. This frail appearance would help him hide his true strength.
One could see that he had several wounds on his body, and his armor was almost broken. He looked pitiful, which, coupled with his weak aura and pale face, made it clear that he was heavily injured!
“Blood Escape consumes essence blood to use, causing my vital energy to be greatly depleted, but it helps me perfectly hide myself. Otherwise, just adding a few wounds to myself might be a bit too obvious.”
Lin Xuan thought to himself. Obviously, these wounds on his body were all self-inflicted. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to explain it when he submitted his report!
Jin Da Sheng was a Xuanxian at the peak of his cultivation, a demon with extremely ferocious strength. Even if he could make up a story that General Chen had already seriously injured Jin Da Sheng and he had then unexpectedly killed him, he had to show injuries from being attacked by the demon. Otherwise, it would be too fake.
Now, it was just right. He not only had many wounds, but his armor was also broken and even his aura was depressed. This was not something he could fake.
“It seems that there are still some Heavenly soldiers who survived, although most of them probably perished.”
Lin Xuan looked around at the defeated and wounded soldiers and couldn't help but sigh. There was no way around it. Heavenly soldiers and generals were high-risk professions. Once an accident happened, it was difficult to survive.
Furthermore, this time, not only were their Heavenly soldiers and generals miserable, but even the Golden Immortal, Fire Virtue Star Monarch, had perished. The Giant Spirit God was seriously injured and barely escaped!
Lin Xuan blended in with the group of defeated soldiers, looking unremarkable. Listening to the conversations of the surviving soldiers, he learned some information.
This grand expedition had suffered a disastrous defeat. They heard that the Heavenly Court was furious, and even the White Jade Star had descended to personally deal with the Meishan Seven Fiends!
The White Jade Star's status in the Heavenly Court was much higher than that of the Giant Spirit God. He was a Taiyi Jinxian!
“A Taiyi Jinxian, might not be able to handle that Yuan Hong.”
When Lin Xuan thought of the overwhelming divine power that Yuan Hong had erupted back then, he couldn't help but shake his head and didn't hold much hope for this.
Then, he followed a group of soldiers who had survived the battle to the Heavenly Soldier Hall to report and collect their war merit points, checking their expedition gains.
This grand expedition had suffered too many casualties. The Heavenly Court had also issued a lot of resources to compensate, making the resource vault that Heavenly soldiers and generals could exchange from filled. All the surviving Heavenly soldiers and generals were given a share of healing resources and an additional 50,000 war merit points!
This was considered good for ordinary Heavenly soldiers. Of course, Lin Xuan also received a share.
In addition to this, he also submitted Jin Da Sheng's bezoar and received a reward for the mission of killing a Xuanxian at the peak of his cultivation, a total of 700,000 war merit points!
“A total of 750,000 war merit points as a reward, it’s too generous…”
Lin Xuan was delighted. Although he had paid a huge price in this battle, directly sacrificing two lives, the rewards were also extremely generous. Especially since he had initially only sought revenge, this was an unexpected bonus.
He didn’t hide it. If he could exchange resources, he would take them. In the prehistoric world, weakness was a sin. If he encountered such a crisis again, he would want to turn the situation around directly, and he didn’t want to be so helpless again.
“The state I reported is the same as many Heavenly soldiers. I’m heavily injured and will not need to descend for a long time, nor will I need to perform any missions. I can return to the team whenever I recover.”
After returning to his residence, Lin Xuan thought about his future plans.
Of course, he didn’t have any injuries. As for the long-term use of Blood Escape, he could recover soon. However, he didn’t have any plans to descend or perform missions in the short term. He knew how dangerous the prehistoric world was, full of dangers everywhere!
Before, he had to descend to perform missions to exchange resources. There was no way around it. He had to do it in order to improve his cultivation.
Now it was different. He had continuously strengthened his foundation, and he had just received a huge amount of resources, enough for him to cultivate peacefully for a long time!
Lin Xuan decided to go into seclusion for a long time to cultivate, preparing to break through to the Xuanxian realm before leaving seclusion!
The Xuanxian realm was the level of a Heavenly General, which was a different level from a Heavenly Soldier. Their status would be completely different then, and the resources they received alone would be different. They could also get a good cultivation cave dwelling, and they could also be taught advanced techniques!
He was currently practicing the Heavenly Soldier Scripture, a basic Yuan Shen technique.
“This time in seclusion, I need to take care of both Yuan Shen and physical cultivation. If I want to have a strong ability to survive, I need to pay more attention to my physical cultivation.”
Lin Xuan thought for a moment and decided not to cultivate in seclusion at his residence but to find a suitable place for body tempering.
Previously, he had gone to the training formation set up by the Heavenly Court officials to temper his body. The gale force winds there were weakened by the formation. But that would no longer work for him now.
The body of a True Immortal at the late stage could already leave the novice village.
“I’ll just find a suitable place to temper my body directly in the Heavenly Realm.”