"You're the Five Heavenly Yin Disciples, right? Tell me your names," Han Li demanded in a cold voice.
The five elderly men exchanged a few glances with one another, following which the leftmost one put on a fawning smile as he said, "My name is Yin Tianhu. Please spare us, Fellow Daoist Han, we know nothing about your differences with Palace Master Dongfang."
The five of them were each wearing a black jade storage ring with the characters for tiger, deer, bear, ape, and eagle inscribed upon them, and the one who had just spoken was wearing the tiger ring. [1]
"My name is Yin Tianlu," the elderly man next to the first one said, and he was clearly also submitting to Han Li through his body language.
"I am Yin Tianxiong," the third elderly man said in a neutral manner.
"My name is Yin Tianyuan. If you're going to kill me, then hurry up and stop wasting my time!" the fourth elderly man harrumphed coldly with an arrogant expression.
"Don't spout such nonsense, Tianyuan!" Yin Tianhu scolded in a frantic manner.
Right at his moment, the final elderly man abruptly shrank down to only around half of his original height, allowing him to avoid the flying sword that had been resting against his throat before flying away at an incredible speed.
However, the golden flying sword immediately set off in pursuit at a far superior speed, catching up to him in the blink of an eye before slicing through his body with ease.
"Tianying!"
"Please spare him, Fellow Daoist Han!"
The other four elderly men all called out in alarm, but it was already too late.
Right at this moment, Weeping Soul appeared behind him amid a flash of silver light, and she made a grabbing motion with both hands, releasing a burst of crimson light that sucked the nascent soul out of Yin Tianying's remains.
Drawn to her alongside his nascent soul was his storage ring, one that was inscribed with the character for eagle.
The other four siblings reflexively wanted to flee, but with the example set by Yin Tianying, they knew not to pursue such a foolish course of action.
"All of us cultivators have killed many people in the past, but I sorely detest those who senselessly slaughter those weaker than them. I've heard about what the five of you have done, and I asked you to tell me your names so I can tell you your crimes before I kill you!" Han Li declared in a cold voice.
The four elderly men were very alarmed to hear this, and they contemplated fleeing once again, but didn't dare to do so.
"That one just now was Yin Tianying, right? He sacrificed over a hundred mortal cities to refine an immortal treasure, killing countless people in the process. For that, he deserves to die a thousand times over!" Han Li declared.
The four elderly men were stunned to hear this. Yin Tianying had been very secretive about this matter, so they were stunned that Han Li was aware of his secret.
Meanwhile, Yin Tianlu devoured an azure pill, and a giant, azure deer projection instantly appeared around him before galloping away as a streak of azure light.
As for Yin Tianxiong, a layer of rippling black light had appeared over his body, and he abruptly vanished into the ground.
In response, Han Li lashed out with his left fist while making a hand seal with his right hand, and at the same time, a blurry sword projection shot out of his glabella before vanishing into thin air.
Immediately thereafter, a golden fist projection the size of a house appeared behind Yin Tianhu amid a burst of spatial fluctuations before crashing into him, instantly snuffing out the black flame around him before smashing his body into smithereens.
At the same time, a golden flying sword appeared in front of Yin Tianlu, catching him completely off guard, and his body was sliced into two before he had a chance to take any evasive measures.
Deep underground, Yin Tianxiong was fleeing as quickly as he could when a translucent sword projection suddenly appeared beside him before plunging into his head.
A bloodcurdling howl rang out from underground before immediately fading into silence, while Weeping Soul reached out to make a grabbing motion with her hands, and three nascent souls flew into her grasp from different directions.
At this moment, there were four nascent souls hovering above her hands, and they were struggling with all their might to break free, but it was a completely futile endeavor.
"Make sure to examine their memories before you devour their souls," Han Li said.
He had stormed into the Golden Origin Immortal Palace on this occasion not just to kill Dongfang Bai and the others, but also because there was an interregion teleportation array in the Golden Origin Immortal Palace that could take him straight to other immortal regions.
Now that he had already completely exposed himself, continuing to stay in the Golden Origin Immortal Region was no longer an option, so he wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.
"I'm not going to devour their filthy souls," Weeping Soul harrumphed coldly. "After I've searched their souls, I'm going to refine them into soul tools to torture them for ten thousand years!"
As soon as her voice trailed off, she began to chant an incantation, unleashing a soul search technique.
Meanwhile, a burst of golden lightning erupted out of Han Li's body to encompass Weeping Soul, following which he set off in pursuit of Dongfang Bai.
It hadn't taken him very long at all to slay the Five Heavenly Yin Disciples, and Dongfang Bai was still within his spiritual sensory range.
After tracking down Dongfang Bai with his spiritual sense, he set off at an astonishing speed, and it didn't take long before the distance between them was whittled down to no more than several hundred kilometers.
Han Li harrumphed coldly as he swept a sleeve through the air, and his seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords instantly combined as one, forming a thick bolt of lightning that caught up to Dongfang Bai in the blink of an eye before crashing down upon him with almighty power.
1. In Chinese, tiger is pronounced as "hu", so Yin Tianhu's name ends in tiger, and the names of his siblings all follow the same formula, with the prefix of Yin Tian, followed by their respective animal, ie. deer (lu), bear (xiong), ape (yuan), and eagle (ying). ☜