I Can See Through Everything - Chapter 787

Chapter 786 Destroying the Soul Lamp and Taking Over the Treasure Vault

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In the sky, after capturing the white-haired, youthful-looking old man, Lu Qing showed no mercy.

He directly crushed his physical body, imprisoned and sealed his primordial spirit, and threw it into the illusionary space for soul-searching interrogation.

Throughout the entire process, the protective magic treasures on the white-haired, youthful-looking old man’s body were completely useless.

The moment they emitted a glimmer of light, they were crushed along with his physical body.

With Lu Qing’s current strength, ordinary spiritual weapons were no different from paper in front of him.

Even mid-grade spiritual weapons could hardly withstand his full-force attack.

Only high-grade spiritual weapons could withstand his power.

Just as Lu Qing was searching and interrogating the white-haired, youthful-looking old man’s primordial spirit,

Zhou Tian City below was deathly silent.

Just moments ago, countless people had watched as the mysterious man wearing a ghost-face mask

, with a single sword stroke, slaughtered the Gongshu family ancestors, who were once high and mighty in their eyes, like chickens.

From beginning to end, not a single patriarch was able to offer any significant resistance.

In the end, even the most powerful patriarch of the Gongshu family was suppressed with a single palm strike, his physical body crushed and his primordial spirit taken away.

This shocking scene immediately filled everyone with immense awe.

The gazes they gave Lu Qing were more like those they looked at a demon god.

At the same time, everyone understood that the Gongshu family was finished.

Several primordial spirit patriarchs, along with the patriarch, had all perished, and the Gongshu family’s primordial spirit realm combat power had been reduced by more than half.

For a powerful family that controlled a vast territory, the implications of this were obvious.

For a moment, some quick-witted individuals began to shift their gazes, seemingly plotting something.

However, because the terrifying masked figure above was still there, even if they had any ulterior motives, no one dared to make a move at this time.

Lu Qing paid no attention to the commotion below.

While interrogating the white-haired, youthful-looking old man’s soul, he descended below to retrieve the storage treasures from the Gongshu family ancestors he had slain.

Before he could even examine them, his expression suddenly shifted.

“Hmm? The Gongshu family has another ancestor at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage, traveling through the starry sky?”

It turned out that the soul-searching interrogation of the white-haired, youthful-looking old man within the illusionary space had yielded results.

From his memories, Lu Qing confirmed that the capture of the Five Treasures Daoist and Ye Qingzhu was indeed orchestrated by the Gongshu family.

This old man was even the main strategist behind it.

Besides this, Lu Qing also unearthed various other memories.

What surprised Lu Qing was that this white-haired, youthful-looking old man was not the strongest member of the Gongshu family.

The Gongshu family had another ancestor at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage who had traveled through the starry sky hundreds of years ago in search of a breakthrough opportunity.

It was unknown whether that ancestor had broken through after all these centuries, or what realm he had reached.

However, one thing was certain: the old man wasn’t dead.

His soul lamp, enshrined in the Gongshu family ancestral hall, had remained burning brightly for years.

Of course, this information only surprised Lu Qing somewhat, not terribly.

A mere eighth-tribulation Nascent Soul cultivator—even if the old man had truly broken through to the ninth tribulation, Lu Qing wasn’t afraid with his current strength.

What truly concerned Lu Qing was the information about the Gongshu family

‘s treasure vault. If he could gain something from it

, perhaps his cultivation would break through again soon.

Then, he could roam freely in the Tianyuan Great World.

After collecting the storage treasures from the several Gongshu family Nascent Soul cultivators, Lu Qing flashed and appeared in the inner city.

Zhou Tian City had been cleaved in two by his sword, and the Zhou Tian Star Array had been completely destroyed, its power reduced to a mere fraction.

Its ability to bind space had vanished, allowing him to freely use spatial teleportation.

His divine senses spread out, and soon the entire inner city’s situation was reflected in Lu Qing’s mind.

He flashed, appearing before a majestic hall.

“Halt! This is the ancestral hall, a sacred place! Outsiders are not allowed near!”

Seeing Lu Qing appear, more than ten Golden Core Realm guards trembled, drawing their magical weapons as if facing a formidable enemy.

However, none dared to attack him.

They had all witnessed the demon’s slaughter of the patriarchs. They

knew full well that this masked figure, resembling both god and demon, was far beyond their capabilities.

Lu Qing glanced over, and the information of these Golden Core Realm guards appeared in his vision.

His gaze sharpened, and several sword energies condensed before him.

The next moment, the heads of several Golden Core Realm guards fell to the ground, their blood staining the earth.

Lu Qing walked forward, and with each step, the surrounding power intensified.

Before he even reached the entrance of the main hall, the Golden Core Realm guards were already lying on the ground, their faces ashen, unable to move.

Lu Qing didn’t even glance at them. With a casual wave of his hand, his sword energy shattered the massive gate of the main hall, along with the array above it.

After doing all this, Lu Qing stepped into the main hall.

Inside, he was greeted by a magnificent, golden interior.

Directly in front were numerous spirit tablets, and on both sides were dozens of soul lamps being offered,

each burning with a faint, eerie light.

Lu Qing knew that each of these burning soul lamps contained a wisp of a divided spirit.

Only those at the Nascent Soul Realm of the Gongshu family, and the most outstanding members of the clan, were qualified to create a divided spirit to make a soul lamp to be offered in the ancestral hall.

Whoosh!

Just as Lu Qing was surveying his surroundings, a black shadow flew out from nowhere, its aura extremely concealed, wielding a short sword, and attacked Lu Qing. In the blink of an eye, it was already behind him.

However, Lu Qing seemed to have anticipated this, lightly tapping his finger backward.

A burst of sword energy shot out, piercing through the dark figure’s spiritual weapon short sword along with his body.

“Cough cough…”

The black figure’s attack was thwarted, and it fell to the ground, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood.

It was a sparsely haired, wrinkled old man dressed in black.

“As expected of a powerful clan, even your ancestral hall is guarded by a Nascent Soul Stage 3 expert. However, from this day forward, your Gongshu family is completely wiped out of this Tianyuan Great World.”

Lu Qing turned around, looking at the old man, and said calmly.

“Who exactly are you, sir? What deep-seated hatred do you hold against my Gongshu family? Why do you want to exterminate my clan?”

The black-clad old man, lying on the ground, raised his head, staring intently at Lu Qing.

He had been struck by Lu Qing’s sword energy, his Nascent Soul already beginning to dissipate, and death was inevitable.

But before dying, there was one thing he couldn’t understand, and he wouldn’t die content without figuring it out.

That’s why he was clinging to life, wanting to ask Lu Qing for clarification.

“There’s no great grudge, I just simply don’t like the look of you.” Lu Qing’s gaze remained unchanged.

“Just because of that?”

The black-clad old man’s eyes widened suddenly, unable to accept this answer.

He couldn’t accept that their great family, which had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years and dominated a region in the Tianyuan Great World, had been wiped out for such an absurd reason.

“You’ll have to ask in hell for the real reason.”

Lu Qing flicked his finger, and a wisp of sword energy flew out, extinguishing the last trace of life in the black-clad elder.

He then took the storage treasures from the elder’s body and glanced around.

This time, he didn’t bother to identify whose soul lamps they were. With a thought, countless sword energies formed around him, creating a sword energy storm that spread outwards, cutting through everything.

Lu Qing’s sword energy was terrifying.

Even though the ancestral hall and the soul lamps were protected by array formations,

they were like paper before his terrifying sword energy, crumbling at the slightest touch, utterly useless.

Boom!

In just a few breaths, countless cracks appeared in the entire ancestral hall, which then exploded.

The spirit tablets and soul lamps were completely annihilated.

This meant that the ancestors of the Gongshu family, as well as the black-clad elder from before, had completely perished, with no possibility of resurrection.

As the ancestral hall was destroyed, Lu Qing’s figure vanished once more.

When he reappeared, he was standing before a majestic mountain peak.

This mountain was the place where the white-haired, youthful-looking old man usually secluded himself for cultivation.

From the old man’s memories, Lu Qing learned that the Gongshu family’s greatest treasure trove was also located within this mountain.

With two fingers raised, Lu Qing unleashed a sword aura.

Wherever the sword aura passed, everything trembled, and the entire majestic mountain was cleaved open by his sword, revealing a treasure trove hidden within its belly, its array gleaming.

From the old man’s memories, Lu Qing knew that ancient families had their own rules and laws; even the patriarch could not monopolize all the family’s resources.

That was why this treasure trove existed before him.

Within this treasure trove lay the vast majority of the Gongshu family’s accumulated wealth over hundreds of thousands of years.

Looking at the array gleaming above the treasure trove, Lu Qing did not choose to immediately break it.

Instead, it manifested a gigantic, multicolored, shimmering glass hand, which grabbed the treasure vault.

Boom!

The next moment, the earth’s veins fractured, and rocks crumbled.

The treasure vault, comparable in size to a palace, had been directly ripped from the mountain’s belly by the giant glass hand!

This awe-inspiring scene caused the surviving members of the Gongshu family within the inner city to tremble in fear, desperately trying to conceal themselves.

They truly had no power to resist that terrifying demon.

Lu Qing ignored the weaker members of the Gongshu family. Looking at the retrieved treasure vault, a thought flashed through his mind.

The Qiankun Qi Bag at his waist suddenly flew out, growing larger with the wind, becoming larger than a mountain in the blink of an eye, swallowing the treasure vault whole.

Then it returned to its original size, landing back in his hand.

As a low-grade spiritual weapon, the Qiankun Qi Bag had no offensive capabilities in Lu Qing’s hands.

However, its immense internal space made it perfectly suited for collecting this treasure vault.

After collecting the treasure vaults, Lu Qing’s figure flashed again, arriving at another mountain peak.

Besides the Gongshu family’s main vault, the other branches of the direct line also possessed treasure vaults on their respective peaks.

Just as he had amassed a considerable fortune from the second branch’s treasure vault years ago, Lu Qing wouldn’t overlook it.

In the following days, Lu Qing followed the same method, collecting all the other branches’ treasure vaults into his Qiankun Yiqi Bag.

The entire process went smoothly, and no one dared to stop him.

Having done all this, Lu Qing transformed into a stream of light, returning to the sky.

He closed his eyes slightly, releasing his spiritual energy to sense the situation within the inner city.

After a few breaths, he opened his eyes and suddenly unleashed dozens of sword strikes,

each aimed at a different location within the inner city.

Wherever the sword energy passed, everything was annihilated.

“Not good, run!”

“Ah!”

“Spare me…”

“You demon, you will die a horrible death!”

As the sword energy fell, several Nascent Soul Realm auras and numerous Golden Core Realm auras suddenly erupted, only to dissipate in a very short time.

They had all perished under Lu Qing’s sword energy.

After doing all this, Lu Qing indifferently glanced at Zhou Tian City below, his spatial power fluctuated, and his figure disappeared from the spot.

Seeing Lu Qing’s figure disappear, Zhou Tian City remained deathly silent.

Everyone stayed in place in awe, not daring to make any move.

They were afraid that the terrifying existence would return again and kill them as well.

It wasn’t until a long time had passed and Lu Qing had not reappeared, and there was no longer any trace of him in the city, that the city gradually began to stir.

“Clan leader, what should we do?”

In the outer city, someone asked his clan leader.

“You ask me? Who should I ask?”

The clan leader glared at the guy.

He was just a minor Golden Core Ninth Rank cultivator; how could he dare to get involved in such a deadly matter?

“Clan leader, what I mean is, now that the Gongshu family’s Nascent Soul and Golden Core realm cultivators are all dead, there are no strong individuals left in the inner city. Shouldn’t we do something?”

the man cautiously reminded them.

“You mean…”

The clan leader’s eyes lit up.

They were a small clan subordinate to the Gongshu family. Although they had managed to establish themselves in Zhou Tian City under the nominal protection of the Gongshu family,

the Gongshu family was also notorious for its exploitative practices.

They had to pay a large sum of tribute every year just to maintain their status.

But even so, the insatiable Gongshu family demanded more and more tribute each year.

In recent years, they had become unbearably burdened. The

clan had long harbored resentment about this.

But the situation was beyond their control. Faced with the behemoth that was the Gongshu family, they had no room for resistance.

Even if they wanted to leave Zhou Tian City and relocate elsewhere, they dared not do so.

Because doing so would inevitably invite the Gongshu family’s wrathful punishment.

They originally thought that their family’s resources would be exhausted under the exploitation of the Gongshu family, and they would be completely reduced to slavery.

Unexpectedly, the Gongshu family, for some unknown reason, had offended such a terrifying being.

A single individual had nearly wiped out the entire Gongshu family’s Nascent Soul and Golden Core realm cultivators.

Now, wasn’t this the best opportunity to escape the Gongshu family?

However, before leaving, they should reclaim everything the Gongshu family had squeezed from their clan over the years!

The patriarch of the minor clan’s eyes lit up.

Sensing the chaos in the city and the long-dissipated array light barrier within the inner city, a bold idea suddenly formed in his mind.

(End of Chapter)