I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life

Chapter 432 - 281: Lord of Celestial Punishment

The old witch doctor was terrified, trembling as he tentatively asked, "I have told you everything, could you spare my life?"

"Bang!" The response was a slap from Cang Huang.

"Raising dung beetles, truly disgusting!" Cang Huang flicked away the red-white mixture on his hand with disdain.

Li Jizhou’s divine sense looked outward again.

"Whoosh~" The few people outside who were cursing the old witch doctor suddenly saw the person before them disappear instantly.

They all believed the person had found a hidden space somewhere, and searched more intently for space nodes nearby.

Inside the Dharma realm, blood fiend rolled.

This person had just stabilized his form after experiencing spatial overlap, and a nimble female puppet blocked his front.

The puppet was Tier Four late stage, wielding swords in both hands, and each joint was meticulously made.

Even from the perspective of Li Jizhou as a Quasi-Fourth Tier Puppet Master in his previous life, he highly praised it.

Clearly, the puppet master before him surpassed his previous life’s level in puppetry art.

"Where is the bounty from, and what does it entail?" Li Jizhou asked calmly.

The puppet master steadied his mind, then his primordial spirit swept through the realm, but in the Celestial Venerable Dharma Realm, he couldn’t manifest his primordial spirit at all.

But eventually, seeing Li Jizhou floating in the air, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.

There’s a chance!

If he could just kill this man, he would get fifty thousand Middle Grade Spirit Stones, enough to buy materials to upgrade a Tier Five puppet.

The next moment, the nimble puppet in front of him flickered, leaving behind a remnant shadow.

"Swoosh~" Yet in an instant, amidst a flash of cyan shadow in the air, his prideful Shadow Killing Puppet’s form was cleaved out, rapidly returning toward him.

"Hiss~ There exists something even faster!" Being faster than his Shadow Killing Puppet, it clearly showed the cyan shadow’s prowess - invincible under Divinity Transformation!

"Young master, please calm down. I abandon the bounty and will hold no malice again. The bounty was posted yesterday in Qianji City.

The poster’s identity is unknown, but Qianji City’s Celestial Punishment Organization publicly announced the task and reward." The puppet master immediately conceded and summoned back his nimble puppet.

"Celestial Punishment?" Li Jizhou raised an eyebrow slightly upon hearing it.

He first heard of Celestial Punishment during his previous life in the Yan Kingdom, reportedly a top-notch assassination organization. In desperation, Ye Jingyu allied himself with Celestial Punishment, taking tasks.

"Tell me about Celestial Punishment!"

"Celestial Punishment has existed for about eighty thousand years, rumored to be founded by the Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable who proved his Dao through killing!"

"Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable?" Li Jizhou’s heart skipped a beat.

Long Ni and others used the Celestial Venerable Dao Fruit of the Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable as bait in Liangzhou, silently setting up a Blood Evil Realm to lure Grand General Gongsun Dang and the dynasty’s hidden guards inside,

intending to ensnare them all using the nurtured Divinity Transformation Golden Corpse. But he broke it down with military tactics, not only obtaining the Celestial Venerable Dao Fruit, consumed and merged, achieving the Celestial Grade Dao Fruit,

and absorbed part of the killer aura from the Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable. However, he had never found the depths of the Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable.

Unexpectedly, today he learned by chance.

"Speak in detail about this person!"

"Yellow Springs Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable is rumored to have noble origins, allegedly of the Great Xia royal bloodline, but eventually, for unknown reasons, became enemies with the Great Xia royalty,

Since Divinity Transformation, has been obsessively assassinating everyone related to the Great Xia royalty, initially assassinating personally, later forming Celestial Punishment as an assassin organization, taking assassination tasks to earn Spirit Stones for cultivation,

Never ceasing assassination of the Great Xia royalty, eventually through killing he proved his Dao, becoming the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable...

However, suddenly, the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable vanished without a trace, as if disappeared from this world." The puppet master shared all he knew about the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable.

"Great Xia royalty!" Li Jizhou was nonchalant.

"Continue telling me about Celestial Punishment!"

"After the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable disappeared, Celestial Punishment not only wasn’t forgotten, but rather rapidly expanded during a certain period. In that time, in various dynasties throughout Central State, Celestial Punishment’s presence was felt, its power almost rivaling a dynasty."

"Hmm?" Li Jizhou remained skeptical.

"Young master, listen to me, Celestial Punishment exploded after the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable disappeared, because while he existed, accepted tasks were heavily restricted.

Among them, ten should not be killed, ten must be killed, ten free kills were ironclad rules.

After Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable disappeared, Celestial Punishment’s four protectors took charge, through a series of internal strife, ultimately the Left Protector became the new leader, abolished all ironclad rules, as long as paid, anyone could be killed!

Yet it was precisely because of this, in less than three hundred years, Celestial Punishment was nearly wiped out by a joint operation from the nine great royal families, and vanished in Central State,

Even then, some members fled Central State to the swamp, slowly developing again.

Thousands of years later, Celestial Punishment is no longer what it once was, and its headquarters has always been in Qianji City, its operations mainly covering the swamp and Eastern Desolation, Nanling.

"Celestial Punishment!" Li Jizhou quietly listened to this, developing an inexplicable resonance with the organization.

It was likely due to carrying the killer aura of the Blood Slaughter Celestial Venerable within.

"How does the bounty say?"

"The bounty included a portrait of you, young master, and movement tracks, and today’s appearance was calculated by the divination master within Celestial Punishment’s result." The puppet master disclosed everything honestly.

"Hmm." Li Jizhou nodded silently.

In his previous life, he had heard from the Yan Kingdom’s cultivation circle that Celestial Punishment was most secretive, no one knowing the bounty issuer’s identity, because Celestial Punishment connected with assassins single-lined, and Celestial Punishment Headquarters was mysterious.

However, in this world, knowing Celestial Punishment Headquarters is in Qianji City meant there was no real secrecy for Li Jizhou.

"Young master, may I leave now?" The puppet master asked, seeing Li Jizhou’s content nod.

"Leave?" Li Jizhou suddenly smiled.

"Twang~" A cyan shadow instantly appeared, and in the next moment, the puppet master’s body split apart.

The quasi-Tier Five puppet beside him immediately lost control, crashing onto the ground.

"Quasi-Tier Five puppet, not bad!" Li Jizhou instructed Hong Luan to dispel the puppet master’s imprint inside the puppet, inspected it carefully, very satisfied.

In this life, puppetry skills must certainly not be abandoned, but his divine soul was still too weak to manage this puppet.

"Alright, bring them all in!" After placing the puppet into his Storage Ring, Li Jizhou glanced outside at the dozen remaining people, feeling somewhat indifferent.

In the Yellow Springs Blood Fiend Realm, he entered as this realm’s divine presence, with Cyan Dome, Cang Huang, and Liu Hongling present, as long as the realm was not destroyed, he would remain unscathed.

In the next moment, everyone outside searching for space nodes was suddenly drawn into the Blood Fiend realm.

"Haha, found it, found the node!"

"Boy, come to this old man obediently, I’ll give you a quick end."

"Humph, whoever dares to compete with us brothers shall be slaughtered mercilessly!"

As soon as over a dozen people entered, seeing Li Jizhou before them, became excited, completely ignoring the corpses of two people who had entered first.

Some were even fighting amongst themselves.

Li Jizhou found this incredibly dull, raised a finger, and lightly waved.

"Thank you, young master, I’m so excited!" Cang Huang wielding a five-foot wide sword charged toward a group of people, who appeared to her as priceless delicacies.

"Roar~" Cang Huang just got slightly excited when a blood-colored giant demon suddenly emerged in the sky, the blood fiend aura instantly turning everyone’s face ash-white.

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