Chapter 33: The Battle Scene

As soon as Kang Bai took his last breath, a system prompt appears in front of Ye Tian Yun

[Congratulations Host, you have successfully killed a 8th Level Qi Refining cultivator, and gained 8 Kill Points!]

Ye Tian Yun didn't waste any second and immediately tried to cover up clues of his deed. He didn't want to let anyone associate the killed beast with him.

This was also the reason why he didn't spare Kang Bai. In his opinion, he just gave that guy an early death and it was his curiosity that killed him. One simply shouldn't poke his nose in others business.

Putting aside this matter from his mind, Ye Tian Yun took a huge stone from the debris and smashed it on Kang Bai's body, mutilating his face. He then took out two swords from Kang Bai's spatial ring, stabbed one into the dead Qi Stealing Mole, covering it with blood. And then, put that sword into Kang Bai's hands.

'This guy didn't even have his weapon ready even when he knew he was in trouble.'

He then broke the second sword, replaced it with his broken sword and put the Kang Bai's sword in its place.

After that, he gathered and accumulated Qi from the surrounding and passed it through his fist. He used all of his strength and gave a powerful punch on the dead Qi Stealing Mole's body.

*Bang* *Splurt*

The body was broken into pieces and the scene became bloody and gory.

Putting his own broken sword back into his spatial ring, he got up and sensed the surroundings. After observing the least commotion from the west, he went into that direction.

'System, I want to suppress my cultivation back to the 9th Level of Qi Refining Realm.'

[Host, this is the only chance you will be able to suppress your cultivation. After this, if you remove the barrier and wish to suppress your cultivation again, you will have to buy another Aura Suppressing Pill]

'I remember this part. Continue and suppress my cultivation back to the previous one.'

[Cultivation Realm Suppressed!]

[Cultivation(suppressed): 9th Level of Qi Refining]

[Cultivation(Original): 3rd Level of Qi Stabilization]

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Sometime later, Yuan Shuchun and the Elders arrived at the crime scene.

What they saw astounded them.

There was debris everywhere, a typical site of a big battle. And there were broken side walls, a body of a disciple with his face under a huge rock and body parts of what looked like a beast, most probably the high tier Qi Stealing Mole.

Many questions popped up in their head. What happened? Who is that disciple? How is that beast dead? Why is everything in chaos? Why are both, the disciple and the beast, dead? How did they die? Was there anyone else at the scene too?

No one spoke for a long time and quietly observed the scene. They wanted to understand what had truly happened.

Elder Wu broke the ice as he asked, "What are your thoughts on this incident, everyone? What do you think could have transpired here?"

"Well, it is clear from the current scene that a big fight must have happened here. And from the looks of it, I don't think a third party is involved here." Elder Lai Chang put forward his thoughts.

"Hm? Why would you think that, Elder? Look at that disciple's spatial ring, it is not in his finger but on the ground. This alone makes this scene suspicious. Who will remove his spatial ring in a fight which could decide his life and death in an instant? And the hand with the ring marks on the finger is holding a sword, so how did the spatial ring come out?" Yuan Shuchun objected to Elder Lai Chang's guesses.

"Indeed, what you said does make sense but look over there, didn't you notice that broken sword? That must have been this disciple's first weapon, and he must have taken out the spatial ring in the fight for his second weapon. Though he could have also taken out the sword without removing the spatial ring, looking at his dislocated shoulder, it looks pretty justified that he had no other choice but to remove the spatial ring." Elder Lai Chang slowly explained why he had said there couldn't be any other party involved in this.

"But couldn't the third party remove the spatial ring and stage this whole scene?" Yuan Shuchun still had a feeling that something was wrong with the scene.

Lai Chang sight and said, "Maybe, but most probably not. Look around, what do you see? Broken body part of the Qi Stealing Mole, that too in irregular shape and size. And we know a Qi Stabilization Cultivator couldn't have entered this Hunt, so most probably, it is due to the beast commiting suicide by tiggering its beast core."

"Yeah, I also have similar thoughts." Elder Wu, who was observing and listening to the thoughts of his colleague, said, "I think I may have the basic understanding of what has happened here, this disciple had bad luck and he ended up meeting the high tier Qi Stealing Mole. But he didn't give up on the situation and fought against it for life. And even managed to cut a hand off the beast. Yes, look over there, that claw is so cleanly cut, clearly shows a sharp weapon was used, and then look at the sword in the disciple's hand, it's covered with beast blood."

Elder Lai Chang at the side turned towards the hand and said, "Yeah, I was also having doubts about the blood. But now looking at that claw, I think it is most probably that after it was cut off, the beast had gone berserk and that had led to the destruction of the side walls. And then, even after many tries, it must have gotten frustrated enough that it chose to the self dustrict itself by triggering its beast core."

Elder Wu nodded and finished describing the scene by saying, "And the self-destruction must have led to the death of this disciple."

"Who is this disciple?" Yuan Shuchun, who also thought that now all loopholes were clear, couldn't help but wonder about the identity of the dead disciple.

Elder Lai Chang removed the rock on the disciples face with a slight push and said, "His face is mutilated. I don't think we can identify him. We need to check his spatial ring."

Yuan Shuchun picked up the spatial ring and took out everything from inside on the floor.

Elder Lai Chang looked for something which could identify the disciple and found a brown token which said, 'Outer Court Disciple' on one side and 'Kang Bai' on the other.

"Kang Bai!?" Elder Wu couldn't help but shout out loud.

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