You Don't Even Know How to Kill Properly

"Has Senior Brother Mo not encountered anyone else along the way?" Gu Bufan asked.

After passing the trial, he had randomly chosen a path and walked until now before finally encountering a living person—and it was his "good senior brother."

"No. Junior Brother Gu, have you passed the second trial?" Mo Tianxiao's eyes held a questioning look.

Given the other party's talent and strength, he should have been able to last thirty rounds against a Great Emperor expert of the same generation, right?

He wondered what good things the other party had obtained.

"Second trial? Wasn't there only an illusion?" Hearing Mo Tianxiao's words, Gu Bufan frowned slightly. From start to finish, after passing the illusion, he hadn't encountered any other trials. There was only a voice telling him to randomly choose a path to head toward the final inheritance ground.

"Hmm?"

"Could it be random?"

Seeing Gu Bufan's expression, Mo Tianxiao felt he wasn't lying. Was it that not everyone had a second trial?

"If that's the case, let's go together. I wonder if Wan'er has obtained the Great Emperor's inheritance."

"Junior Brother Gu?"

Seeing Gu Bufan standing frozen in place without following his footsteps, Mo Tianxiao looked at him in confusion and called out.

Hearing this, a strange smile appeared on Gu Bufan's face. "Senior Brother Mo, I think the most important thing for you right now is to think carefully about how to survive."

"Oh? What do you mean? Stopped pretending? You spy of the Taishang Dao Sect."

Mo Tianxiao looked at Gu Bufan with interest, carefully observing his expression.

"Impossible! How do you know about this? I am confident that I have never exposed the slightest flaw over all these years!"

Seeing that Mo Tianxiao showed no signs of panic and even pointed out his identity in a single sentence, Gu Bufan was at a loss for a moment, not knowing what kind of expression to make to convey his current feelings.

"Please, your righteous-looking face doesn't fit the style of our Demon Sect at all. You even established an upright and orthodox image in the sect. Anyone with half a brain would know there's something wrong with you."

Of course, this was just him bragging.

If he didn't have his golden finger, he wouldn't have known Gu Bufan's true identity either.

After all, this was a disciple the First Elder had kept by his side for hundreds of years. Even if someone were suspicious, they would never suspect him.

"Hmph, no matter what methods you used to find out my identity, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you will remain in this secret realm forever.

Not only that, but I will also find an opportunity to kill Nangong Wan in the future.

Do you know how many Demon Sect geniuses I have secretly killed over the years?"

Whether his identity was exposed or not, Gu Bufan had planned to lay his cards on the table with Mo Tianxiao. Anyway, there was no one else around, and no one else would know his true colors.

In the entire Taishang Dao Sect, only the Deputy Sect Master and the Sect Master knew his identity.

His mission all along had been to secretly assassinate the geniuses of the Demon Sect, gradually causing the Demon Sect's strength to decline and creating a situation where the older generation had no worthy successors.

"Five hundred and twenty-seven. I remember the pre-death expressions of every single one of them clearly!"

Gu Bufan looked at Mo Tianxiao, his eyes filled with a sickly excitement, as if killing the geniuses of the Demon Sect was an incredibly thrilling thing for him.

"And you will be my next target!"

"I could have broken through to the Tongxuan Realm a long time ago. I have been suppressing my cultivation realm just to wait for this secret realm to open.

I originally thought of finding a chance to get rid of Nangong Wan, as her talent is far above yours, but I didn't expect that the first person I'd find an opportunity to kill would be you."

Gu Bufan drew his longsword and walked step by step toward Mo Tianxiao. The aura on his body gradually erupted, fully revealing his peak Soul Formation cultivation, which was only one step away from the Tongxuan Realm.

"But don't worry, your good junior sister will come to accompany you shortly."

Gu Bufan's eyes gradually grew crazed. He had already planned it out. If he killed both of them in the secret realm, he would likely be suspected once he got out.

Since that was the case, he would kill one first, break through to the Tongxuan Realm after getting out, and then find an opportunity to kill Nangong Wan later.

"The First Elder raised you for so many years and used all sorts of resources to nurture you, yet you secretly murdered the geniuses of the Demon Sect.

As your senior brother, not only do you not learn properly from me, but you even want to turn around and kill me?"

Mo Tianxiao looked calmly at the slightly deranged Gu Bufan and shook his head in disappointment.

"A disloyal and unrighteous dog like you is just a waste of air alive."

With his holy sword gripped in his hand, Mo Tianxiao no longer concealed his aura. His peak Soul Formation cultivation explosively erupted along with a trace of anger.

"Impossible!?"

"How could you be at the peak of the Soul Formation Realm!"

Feeling the aura emanating from Mo Tianxiao, Gu Bufan's pupils shrank violently.

Before entering the secret realm, the other party's cultivation was clearly only at the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm. Even if he had obtained a significant fortuitous encounter in the secret realm, he should have at most broken through to the early stage of the Soul Formation Realm. How could he be at the peak of Soul Formation!

In just two months, even with unlimited resources and continuous cultivation, it was impossible for one's cultivation to skyrocket this much.

Unless... the other party had been hiding his true strength all along!

"Your cultivation had already reached the peak of Soul Formation a long time ago! You were hiding it before!"

Gu Bufan swung the longsword in his hand and attacked Mo Tianxiao, roaring, "So what if you are at the peak of Soul Formation! In the same realm, I fear no one!"

An intense killing intent, mixed within the sword qi, slashed toward Mo Tianxiao.

"Clang!"

Dark golden patterns crawled up his arm. Mo Tianxiao swung his sword fiercely, scattering the incoming sword qi. The blade slashed straight ahead, and with a sharp crack, it shattered the longsword in Gu Bufan's hand.

"You do have some strength, but your temperament is lacking, and your character is trash.

You don't even know how to kill properly. Possessing such great karmic luck is simply a reckless waste of heaven's gifts!"

Mo Tianxiao did not give Gu Bufan any chance to resist. Terrifying spiritual energy roared within his body, and the Demon Emperor Sutra circulated madly. A layer of armor materialized over his arm as he gripped the holy sword tightly and slashed fiercely at him.

"Swish!!"

A sword qi over a dozen zhang long blasted out with the momentum of a thunderbolt. In just an instant, the sword qi swept through Gu Bufan's body. A sword mark appeared down the middle of his body, and blood splattered.

His body was instantly split into two halves that fell to either side, spilling flesh and blood all over the ground...

Gu Bufan's pupils were filled with confusion and incomprehension. How could he fail to take even a single strike.

"I definitely won't let you off!"

Gu Bufan's soul floated out from his body and rapidly fled into the distance.

As long as he waited for the secret realm to end, he could follow the Taishang Dao Sect's team back to where he truly belonged. With the Deputy Sect Master there, even if the First Elder discovered he was a spy, there was nothing he could do to him.

Having killed so many Demon Sect geniuses, he would still be heavily valued and utilized upon returning to the Taishang Dao Sect.

"Running? With your brain, you don't even know how to kill someone properly, so what makes you think you know how to run away?"

With a wave of his hand, a flag emitting black smoke appeared in Mo Tianxiao's grasp. A formation shot out from it, seizing Gu Bufan's soul and dragging it back.

"No! I don't want to go in!"

Feeling a terrifying power tearing at his soul, Gu Bufan immediately panicked. His eyes were filled with horror as he thrashed frantically, desperately trying to break free from the restraint.

He still did not want to die! His path of cultivation had only just begun, and he was destined to become a Saint Realm expert in the future. How could he die here!

"Do not struggle. It is fine if you do not know how to kill. Enter my Human Emperor Banner and cultivate properly; I will slowly teach you later..."

Accompanied by Mo Tianxiao's devilish voice, Gu Bufan ultimately became a member of the Human Emperor Banner.