Chapter 1527 - 443: Did I Say You Could Leave? (6k)_2

Someone tried to struggle, only to find that the spiritual power within their body was completely stagnant.

Someone wanted to summon a magical treasure, but found that they couldn’t even move a finger.

At this moment, they finally truly understood what it meant to be "beneath the Spirit Slash, all are ants"!

A moment later, Zhou Qing completed the soul search.

The cold light in his eyes intensified; as expected, as he had suspected—these people had secretly been capturing female cultivators who were pregnant for nearly a hundred years.

Due to their covert actions and the backing of the imperial family, almost no one had noticed.

And those captured pregnant women were ultimately sent to a secret location in the Imperial City.

Each time they transported prisoners, they would simply place the cages at a designated spot and leave, never questioning where the women would end up or what fate awaited them.

The royal family would pay them generously afterward.

Besides this, the Xuanyuan Royal Family had also equipped them with specially made tokens.

If they were unfortunate enough to encounter a Spirit Severing Realm expert obstructing them, just showing the token would compel any Spirit Slash Great Power benefiting from the royal family to tacitly ignore it.

Shockingly, there were as many as thirty-six such capture teams!

They were scattered throughout the Eight Prefectures and Seventy-Two Mansions of the Holy Martial Dynasty, secretly conducting this inhumane hunt...

"Humph!" Thunder light burst from Zhou Qing’s eyes, and the elder who had been soul-searched convulsed all over.

When the elder met Zhou Qing’s merciless gaze under the mask, he was so frightened that his soul nearly left his body: "Pre... please spare my..."

"Boom!"

Before he could finish speaking, the elder’s body exploded with a crash, blood and flesh flying, and even his divine soul was shredded to pieces by the purple thunder!

The other cultivators constrained by the pressure turned ashen at the sight.

This was not some Spirit Severing Realm benefiting from the royal family.

This was clearly an untamed grim reaper!

"Predecessor, please judge clearly!" A Divinity Transformation Perfection cultivator gritted his teeth, attempting to take out the token. "We’re just doing the bidding of being paid dogs!"

"If you have grudges against the royal family, you can go to the Imperial City to find the right culprit, why vent your anger on us lowly ants?"

"Rest assured." Zhou Qing’s voice was bone-chilling, "As for that old dog Xuanyuan Chong, I will seek him out myself. As for you—"

He slowly raised his right hand, thunder light flickering in his palm, "You shall pave the way to the underworld for him first!"

"Boom——!!!"

All over the sky, purple gold thunderbolts poured down like a torrential storm, each thunder arc striking precisely upon a cultivator’s head.

In an instant, the screams rose one after another, and over a hundred Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation cultivators had no chance to resist before they were reduced to ashes under the divine might!

On the distant flying ship, Deng Nianyue watched this earth-shattering scene with tears blurring her vision.

The joy of avenging her great wrongs mixed with the grief of losing her husband, causing her to collapse on the deck, weeping uncontrollably.

And after the massacre, Zhou Qing coldly glanced at that ominous black flying ship.

He raised his hand and waved, and in an instant, countless purple gold thunder serpents surged out, enveloping the entire flying ship like heavenly retribution.

"Rumble——"

In the deafening thunder, the outer shell of the black flying ship shattered inch by inch.

As the last layer of restriction was torn apart by the thunder, the interior of the flying ship was fully exposed to broad daylight.

Hundreds of refined iron cages were neatly arranged, each containing several ragged, haggard-faced pregnant women.

The blinding sunlight suddenly entered the dark cabin, and these women instinctively raised their hands to shield their eyes, their faces full of confusion and fear.

Among them, the ones with the lowest cultivation were merely at the Golden Core stage, and the highest had reached the late stage of Nascent Soul, yet now they were all as weak as ordinary people.

Zhou Qing pointed like a sword, making a gesture in the air.

"Swish——"

All Sealing Spirit Talismans on the cages shattered in response, and the iron locks broke apart.

Not until the cage doors opened with a "clang" did these women awaken as if from a dream.

"We... we’re saved?" A woman in blue clothes trembled as she touched the open cage door, and tears instantly poured out.

"It’s that senior... that senior saved us!"

In a moment, cries and shouts rose up in succession.

Nearly a thousand pregnant women stumbled and crawled out of the cages, some kneeling and weeping, some hugging and crying.

Once they clearly saw the figure standing in mid-air, they all simultaneously knelt on the ground, bowing their foreheads heavily against the deck:

"Thank you, senior, for saving our lives!"

"Wuwuwu... senior, your great kindness and virtue..."

...

Zhou Qing stood quietly in the void, the light flickering slightly under his mask, then he said nothing more and returned directly to the flying ship.

"You may leave." Zhou Qing gently cradled Little Yaoyao, who was clutching the Soul Nourishing Jade, his voice indifferent.

Deng Nianyue, her eyes red, suddenly seemed to make up her mind and wiped away her tears, kneeling on the deck: "Senior, I am about to give birth... as a mother, I understand best how to care for a baby..."

Her voice trembled, "Junior dares to ask for an opportunity from senior..."

Before her words fell, a gentle yet irresistible force lifted her up and directly sent her outside the flying ship.

"What?" Zhou Qing’s voice under the mask suddenly turned cold, "Do you think my child... has no mother?"

Deng Nianyue turned pale, hastily bowing in the air: "No, no! Junior never meant that! It’s just..."

She stumbled over her words, yet saw the flying ship already transformed into a streak of light, disappearing into the sky.

Looking at the receding dot, Deng Nianyue regretfully covered her mouth.

Earlier on the flying ship, the persistent smell of milk and diapers clearly indicated the scent of someone who had been raising a baby for a long time.

If they were temporarily traveling with a child, it wouldn’t be so intense.

This Spirit Slash Great Power was indeed raising a young daughter on his own...

She initially wanted to seize today’s opportunity to secure support for herself and her unborn child.

After all, being able to follow such a strong person would not only ensure safety and security, but the child’s future would be boundless as well.