A pseudo-artifact!
In the entire Heavenly Demon Sect, apart from the few Foundation Establishment perfection cultivators with strong backing, who was qualified to possess such a treasure?
He even had a pseudo-artifact, yet he still used a substitute body.
“I was already being careful in the market, buying medicinal herbs from several shops, but I still got targeted.”
“Why did they want to rob me?”
Ye Bufan sighed lightly.
Then he looked around.
He had carefully chosen this place, and since no one happened to be around, he made his move immediately.
“Zhou Wangchen’s puppet is really handy. Combined with my Beast-Transformation Art, it fits together perfectly.”
Ye Bufan put away the puppet that looked just like him.
After hesitating for a moment, his eyes flickered, and he looted all the valuables on Li Kui’s body. With a crack, he finally broke both of Li Kui’s legs and put away the Binding Immortal Rope.
“Let that be a lesson to you.”
Ye Bufan shook his head; it was not because he was merciful.
After joining the Heavenly Demon Sect, he learned that every disciple in the sect had a soul tablet, and if they died, people would know.
As for the direct descendants of some elders, they were placed under a blood curse; if anyone killed them, the blood curse would erupt and directly leave a blood curse imprint in the killer’s soul.
It was like a bright lamp in the dark night; any disguise would be useless.
As Liu Wangchuan’s follower, Li Kui definitely had one of those.
He was naturally cautious and did not like putting himself in danger; there was no need to let a ruthless figure like Liu Wangchuan set his sights on him for the sake of mere Li Kui.
Once everything was in order, he swept his long sleeve and used baleful qi to erase his aura.
Still uneasy, he scattered a large amount of foul-smelling powder.
After that, he left the scene in a hurry.
Along the way, he kept erasing the traces of his aura.
In the end, he circled outside the Heavenly Demon Sect several times and, after confirming no one was paying attention, returned to Demonic Sword Peak’s First Courtyard.
Not long after Ye Bufan left.
A young couple sneaked into a small grove, preparing to do something exciting.
Outdoor combat was not only loved by mortals; cultivators as a whole were also very fond of it.
In the middle of their fierce struggle, they suddenly noticed a hideous-looking man lying on the ground not far away.
“Bah! So disgusting!”
The female cultivator saw the man and could not help blushing before spitting on the ground.
But when his partner saw the man’s face, his expression changed drastically.
“It’s Li Kui! That bastard got robbed! Run!”
After saying that, he immediately pulled back and left in a hurry with his dao companion.
The footsteps were loud, and Li Kui, lying in the woods, woke up.
He only felt searing pain in both legs, and his whole body was even more chilled.
When he opened his eyes and saw, he immediately let out a shrill, miserable wail.
All his clothes had been stripped off clean, leaving only his underpants.
“My Fire-Resisting Treasure Robe!”
“My storage bag! Aaaah! I’ll fuck your ancestors!”
Li Kui roared toward the sky, his heart bleeding.
The wealth he had accumulated over the years was worth tens of thousands of spirit stones.
It was all gone overnight!
And his legs had been broken!
They could not heal without several months of rest.
…
The next morning.
In a secret chamber on Holy Demon Peak, Li Kui lay on the bed, and his legs had already been bandaged.
“The investigation results are already out. The person who attacked you went to ‘Wanbao Tower’ in the market, and the shopkeeper said that man was named Zhang San.”
“However, I had someone check the sect’s Foundation Establishment registry, and there was no such person. It should be an alias.”
“As for anyone in the entire Heavenly Demon Sect who had cultivated the Demon Dragon Art to great completion, there was not a single one. As for the rope that bound you, we also could not find who used this kind of pseudo-artifact, so these clues were useless.”
A sickly young man in black clothes frowned tightly, his face pale.
He carefully searched the battle scene once and captured the attacker’s aura.
But that person was extremely cautious.
There was not a trace left at the scene, and even the smell had been covered by some unknown powder.
Trying to investigate?
The difficulty was enormous.
“Younger brother, no matter what, you have to capture him and avenge your elder brother!”
Li Kui’s eyes were bloodshot, and the words were squeezed out through clenched teeth.
He had mixed in the demonic path for many years, always robbing others; when had he ever been robbed by someone else?
At this point, he could forget about helping his younger brother break through to Foundation Establishment great completion.
After suffering such severe injuries himself, his hope of Core Formation in the future had plummeted!
This grudge was too great!
“Big brother, rest assured. I will have friends within the sect help dig deeper into this.”
Yu Cheng sighed lightly, not too surprised.
If you walk by the river often, how can you avoid getting your shoes wet?
However, he still had to step in.
With his elder brother being humiliated like this, as the younger brother, he naturally had to step in.
“Also, please send a message to Liu Wangchuan, elder brother; with his ability, he should be able to find some clues.”
Yu Cheng said.
Liu Wangchuan was a saint candidate and a sect master direct disciple, with a revered status and enormous influence in the Heavenly Demon Sect.
Not only did he have many followers, even some elders tried to curry favor with him.
Very soon.
Many Foundation Establishment stage late stage cultivators in the Heavenly Demon Sect sprang into action and searched everywhere.
In the end, one of Liu Wangchuan’s subordinates obtained a clue from a Foundation Establishment level four cultivator.
A jade bottle.
The jade bottle contained the Zhang San aura refined by this cultivator.
There were no good people in the Heavenly Demon Sect; after Ye Bufan spent a fortune buying a pile of talisman paper from Wanbao Tower, he was targeted.
After that cultivator captured the aura, he planned to use that trace of aura to track him down and rob him.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Before they could track him, the man vanished as soon as he left the market.
He ran too fast.
When Yu Cheng and Li Kui got the jade bottle, they were overjoyed.
As long as they had the aura, they could find that person’s true self!
However, to their astonishment, after searching the Heavenly Demon Sect on a large scale based on the aura, they found nothing at all!
This could only prove one thing.
The aura was fake!
“A cultivator, a cultivator above Foundation Establishment level six! To be this cautious! He could even fake his aura?!”
Even Yu Cheng could not help cursing under his breath.
He had lived for so many years and had never seen anyone so cautious.
How afraid of death could he be?
In the end, the clues were cut off and there was nothing left to investigate, so Yu Cheng could only give up unhappily.
…
“Hehe, Master, you have no idea. It has spread throughout the sect now that that detestable Li Kui was robbed and had his legs broken, and even his clothes were stripped off.”
In the First Courtyard, Lu Luo chattered on to Ye Bufan about the interesting news from the past two days, laughing so hard she could not keep her legs together.
Li Kui was notoriously infamous, and when something happened to him many fellow disciples clapped and cheered, praising the Zhang Laosan who had acted as ridding the people of a scourge.
At the same time, many disciples were also shocked.
After all, Li Kui was still Foundation Establishment level six and carried several top-grade magical artifacts. Even with a sneak attack, to severely injure him and break his legs in such a short time was no easy feat.
That level of strength absolutely made him a powerhouse in the Foundation Establishment stage!
Everyone was guessing that person’s identity.
Unfortunately, they never figured it out, and the many disciples could only give that person the nickname “Midnight Black-Hand Zhang Laosan.”
“Really? That is interesting.”
Ye Bufan feigned surprise, while thinking to himself that Li Kui’s two storage bags had been sealed for two days and still showed no fluctuations at all.
In the cultivation world, many cultivators would plant a hidden mark on some small item inside a storage bag, making it very hard to discover, even if the storage bag was stolen.
They could still use that mark to track it.
Ye Bufan was meticulous and would not give the other side the slightest chance.
Two days passed, and he confirmed there was no mark; otherwise, the storage bag would have reacted long ago.
“I heard Li Kui had his clothes stripped off, and now everyone is saying it was Midnight Black-Hand Zhang Laosan. Does that person have some kind of fetish?”
Lu Luo said with a grin, her face full of gossip fever.
Ye Bufan: “…”
“My First Courtyard is a bit dirty. Clean it inside and out for me. I’m going into seclusion for cultivation.”
Ye Bufan said faintly and turned to enter the secret chamber.
Only Lu Luo was left behind, wearing a bitter expression.
After entering the secret chamber, Ye Bufan took a deep breath and opened the two storage bags with anticipation.
The time for harvest had arrived!