Chapter 52: Cleaning Up (2) (1/2)
Elder Jing walked to Old Jiang's corpse and smiled creepily at Yang Wei. Yang Wei was frightened by her smile and swallowed some of his saliva nervously.
”W-What are we going to do with Old Jiang's corpse?” Yang Wei asked, seemingly in deep thought about Elder Jing's current expression.
Elder Jing smirked and said, ”Did you forget the original plan of this Old Jiang before you killed him?”
”He was trying to kill every witness in this scene and proceed to-” When Yang Wei was about to speak the last word, he paused and his eyes widened in surprise.
Elder Jing smiles briefly at Yang Wei who quickly figures out what she planned on doing with this corpse.
Old Jiang was preparing to disguise himself into another person after killing everyone here and fake his death to avoid a death warranty from both sects.
However, his plan was foiled when Yang Wei sneaked up on him and finished him off with the help of Xiao Wei without giving him a chance to retaliate or run away.
Thus, Elder Jing's plan is to follow his thought process and make everyone else who came to this battlefield come up with the fact that Old Jiang was the main culprit and that he is on the run.
The only flaw is, Old Jiang is dead already so the people chasing after him will never be able to find him at all unless they go to the underworld as well.
Elder Jing flicked her hand and a flame started burning Old Jiang's corpse completely and before the ashes could start to scatter, Elder Jing made sure to store them all into her spatial ring.
Her actions confused Yang Wei as he doesn't know what's the use of storing dead corpse ashes, especially one who has committed such an atrocity to people.
”Yang Wei, your knowledge in the cultivation world is still insignificant. Although I can tell you everything, you wouldn't be able to understand the concept if there's no practical way of showing you.” Elder Jing said and continued.
”A cultivator of dead ashes, especially when they have reached the Nascent Soul realm can be used in a lot of different ways such as alchemy, creating weapons, and even has the prowess of causing a massive explosion by combusting these ashes in a high temperature.”
Yang Wei was dumbfounded by such ability of a cultivator even when they turned into ashes. 'C-Cultivators are truly heaven-defying that no logic ever makes sense around them.'
Yang Wei knew the ashes were valuable but then he decided to look at the rest of the corpses. 'Why didn't Elder Jing collect their ashes as well if they are truly useful and powerful?'
Almost like knowing his thinking, Elder Jing shook her head when Yang Wei was unable to comprehend things once again.
”As I've said, only ashes in the Nascent Soul realm are valuable while any ashes below that realm are considered trash or useless.” Elder Jing said.
Thinking it wasn't enough to have Yang Wei understand, Elder Jing continued her explanation.
”That's because their cultivation base is insignificant to have their ashes kept intact with their true qi purity. Thus, it'll be useless to even collect them and Elder Lang's corpse must stay intact. After all, we're faking and pinning this down on Elder Jiang.”