Chapter 451 - 447: Blood-washing the Paradise Divine Palace

Within the entire Paradise Divine Palace, the Palace Master was one of the strongest individuals. Even he was cut down by Qin Li’s sword without any ability to resist, to say nothing of the people now surrounding him. They were simply throwing their lives away!

But the members of the Paradise Divine Palace were indeed ferocious. Almost none of them feared death. They all charged madly at Qin Li, and several even attempted to self-destruct their Pill Cores to take him down with them.

Finally, after hearing the wail of a man who was likely a Paradise Divine Palace Elder, Qin Li understood why these people were acting so fiercely, completely unafraid of death.

It turned out the Palace Master had planted a poison in their bodies. The only antidote was in the Palace Master’s possession. Now that Qin Li had killed him, their deaths were all but certain!

Because knowledge of this poison was only passed down on the day one inherited the position of Palace Master, not even the Palace Master’s son—the young man in white robes who was the sole heir to the Paradise Divine Palace—knew the secret!

Since they were doomed either way, they figured they might as well die fighting. At the very least, others would see it as a brave and fearless display.

In wave after wave, hundreds of desperate Paradise Divine Palace Martial Artists charged forward, only to be cut down by Qin Li. Of course, there were certainly some cowards among them who didn’t dare to rush forward.

But it didn’t matter. The chaos within the Paradise Divine Palace spread quickly. Many of the Tripod Furnaces, who had been humiliated for years and possessed considerable strength, began to fight back.

Those who cowered in the back were mostly the weaker ones. And so, a battle that resembled a bloodbath unfolded within the Paradise Divine Palace.

Eventually, there was no one left standing around Qin Li. He swept the area with his Divine Sense, found several powerful Paradise Divine Palace Elders who were well-hidden, and killed them one by one without hesitation!

Fighting violence with violence may not have been the best way to solve the problem, but it was the fastest. Qin Li had no time to waste on them, much less to distinguish the good from the bad.

Even if a good person joined the Paradise Divine Palace and practiced its evil Cultivation Technique, they were destined to walk a path of harming others. Therefore, by killing his way through them, he could not possibly be killing the innocent!

All of this took only the time it takes for an incense stick to burn!

A great Sect that had plagued the world for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, had been utterly purged by Qin Li! Within the entire Paradise Divine Palace, there were no Martial Artists left who could mount a decent counterattack!

Of course, a few small fish had slipped through the net: the Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace and his gang of lackeys. He was a beast as well, and Qin Li would never let him get away!

So, by the time the men and women who had been used as Tripod Furnaces came to their senses and tried to find their mysterious benefactor, Qin Li’s figure had long since vanished into thin air.

...

By the shore of the Celestial Pool, five or six women lay scattered on the ground. Their clothes were perfectly intact, and they looked as if they were merely sleeping.

On the summit of this ten-thousand-meter mountain, the climate was extremely cold. It was only thanks to the women’s considerable strength that they hadn’t frozen to death while sleeping here.

Dressed in white and looking dashingly suave, the Paradise Divine Palace’s Young Master, Xiaobo, unfurled a folded fan decorated with an Erotic Painting. In this frigid place, he fanned himself lightly, thinking he looked quite elegant, a faint smile playing on his lips.

’That went smoothly,’ he thought. ’The Soul-Capturing Flower truly lives up to its name as a treasure of the Paradise Divine Palace. It’s incredible. These women fainted after getting just a small whiff of its fragrance.’

’If I don’t give them the antidote, the truly potent effects of the Soul-Capturing Flower’s poison will begin to manifest in about an incense stick’s time. It’s known as one of the world’s most powerful aphrodisiacs, so you can imagine the results.’

What slightly annoyed Xiaobo, the Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace, was that the woman in white wasn’t on the shore. It looked like she had gone into the water to catch something, so he would have to wait. ’I must gather all of these women. When the time comes, it’ll be one dragon with ten phoenixes. I’ll be even more impressive than my father!’

As Xiaobo thought this, a smug smile spread across his face. In his eyes, these women were ridiculously easy to obtain. ’If Father hadn’t guarded the Soul-Capturing Flower so jealously, I would have succeeded long ago!’

Just then, a pillar of water suddenly shot up from the surface of the lake not far away. A moment later, a massive wave surged across the Celestial Pool, and the woman in white, followed by four other women, shot out from the water like lightning.

A roar as loud as a clap of thunder echoed through the air, coming from a behemoth right behind them!

The neck alone, which was all that emerged from the lake, was over a hundred meters long!

The water pillar from just a moment ago had been shot out by this creature. The towering wave was also its doing, an attempt to swallow these accursed humans.

ROAR!

With another furious roar, the behemoth bellowed. Atop its snake-like neck, its triangular head opened its massive, bloody maw, revealing enormous, sharp, pointed teeth as it lunged toward the five women at an incredible speed!

The woman in white whipped around and threw a palm strike. A blast of blue flame slammed viciously into the behemoth’s mouth, and the monster let out a pained shriek.

PLOP! Its long neck crashed back into the waters of the Celestial Pool, kicking up a monstrous spray.

At that moment, the woman in white noticed the strange scene on the shore. She let out a furious cry, drew two long, thin daggers, and pointed them at the Paradise Divine Palace’s Young Master, Xiaobo. Her body shot toward him like a bolt of lightning!

Xiaobo’s smile didn’t falter. With a SNAP, he closed his folded fan and pointed at one of the young women on the ground...

The woman in white’s daggers stopped just before they reached Xiaobo. Her eyes looked as if they could shoot fire as she demanded angrily, "You beast! What did you do to them?"

"Hehe, my dear, why so agitated? Your humble little brother here just saw that they were tired and decided to let them rest for a while." Xiaobo gave her a flirtatious wink and said nonchalantly, "My devotion to you is as clear as the blue sky. As long as you agree to be my woman, I will naturally wake these lovely ladies."

"And if... I refuse?" Though her eyes were naturally alluring, they were now filled with murderous intent.

"Oh, you’ll agree," the Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace chuckled. "The Soul-Capturing Flower. Have you heard of it? I’m sure someone like you, from a great Sect in the Land of the Far West, all high and mighty, has never heard of such a thing. So, allow me to educate you."

As he spoke, he smoothed his white robes and said lightly, "The Soul-Capturing Flower is rumored to be the world’s most potent aphrodisiac plant. Anyone poisoned by it, even the most chaste maiden, will become... hehe, a wanton... woman after being unconscious for a certain period. If she doesn’t take the antidote in time and fails to vent her carnal desires, the only outcome... is death. Hehe."

"Despicable!"

"Shameless!"

"Vile!"

"You have no shame!"

The woman in white and her companions trembled with rage, hurling curses at him.

"Haha, say what you will. Once all of you... become my women, you’ll understand that there can be such wonderful things in this world!"

"In your dreams!"

The woman in white pointed her daggers at Xiaobo and shouted coldly, "We would all rather die than submit to a beast like you!"

"Haha, too late!" The Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace roared with laughter. "If you had charged over and fought me right away, it might have been a little troublesome. Your strength is considerable, and I wasn’t sure I could hold out until the poison took effect. But now... hahaha! How do you think those other women fainted? Did you think everyone outside your Land of the Far West is a fool? Little girl, you’re far too confident! Your Protective Gang Qi can’t stop the Soul-Capturing Flower’s encroachment. Now, fall!"

As the wild laughter of the Paradise Divine Palace’s Young Master echoed, the woman in white suddenly felt a wave of heat wash over her. She instantly realized she had fallen into his trap. Raising her sharp daggers, she pointed them at her own throat, intending to commit suicide!

She would rather die than lose her honor!

But as she looked at his smug, mocking smile, the woman in white suddenly felt her body go limp. The cold wind on the mountaintop blew against her white gauze dress, sending a sudden chill through her. In an instant, she could no longer hear any sound but the frantic THUMP-THUMP of her own heart!

It was as if the world itself was receding in that instant, growing more and more distant, more and more blurry.

In a daze, the woman in the white gauze dress saw a figure rushing toward them from the distance like a shooting star, and she heard the detestable Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace cry out in alarm.

’Is it real?’ The woman in the white gauze dress was already losing consciousness. Her body went soft, and she finally collapsed to the ground.

However, the Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace found that most of his excitement had vanished. The reason was simple: the man he thought knew his place had appeared here quite unexpectedly. And judging by the terrifying killing intent radiating from him, he had not come with good intentions!

"I say, how did you end up here?" Xiaobo frowned, his handsome face filled with bewilderment as he looked at Qin Li and asked.

The attendants behind Xiaobo all sensed the killing intent rolling off Qin Li and felt that something was wrong. They moved to surround their Young Master protectively, their expressions hostile as they stared at Qin Li.

Qin Li didn’t waste words on him. He said directly, "Hand over the antidote. I’ll leave your corpse whole."

Those eight words were delivered with such dominance that the Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace and his attendants were all left dumbstruck, unable to recover for a long moment.

It took Xiaobo a long moment to react. He stared at Qin Li in disbelief, the corner of his mouth twitching as he asked, "What did you say?"

"Are you brainless? I told you to hand over the antidote, and then I’ll leave your corpse whole!" Qin Li said, his expression calm as he looked at the handsome and dashing Young Master of the Paradise Divine Palace.