From a scholar to a villain, I was a good person at the beginning

The sad cries echoed in the mountains.

On the top of the mountain, several monks besieged the Golden Spirit. It let out miserable cries, and gray spiritual light was wrapped around its body. Its golden light was suppressed and it could not use its bloodline magic.

"You beast! Why don't you surrender?!"

Xiao Longtao laughed loudly, his eyes full of pride, and shouted to the others: "Use all your strength to activate the Soul Binding Rope and help me capture this beast!"

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"Brother Xiao, don't worry!"

The two of them shouted loudly, pinched a talisman between their fingers, and injected spiritual energy into it with all their strength. The talisman's gray light became brighter, and several gray chains flew out again.

Crash——!

Several chains were hanging in the air. Jin Ling sensed the danger, and with a loud shout, golden light shone all over his body, and he suddenly broke free from the chains.

It flapped its wings, creating a strong wind, and flew up.

But the next moment, more gray chains were put directly on it. The gray light emitted by the chains seemed to have a strange power, suppressing Jin Ling's spiritual energy.

Boom——!

The huge body smashed straight into the top of the mountain, with gravel flying everywhere. In the dust, a pair of golden eyes burned with golden flames, filled with anger and unwillingness!

In mid-air, two monks grabbed the chain and pulled it hard. The chain became straight and Jin Ling's huge body was dragged up. The two monks shouted loudly and smashed Jin Ling heavily on the top of the mountain again.

"Cry!"

It roared in pain, struggled to stand up, crushed the boulder with one foot, and struggled hard to break free, but more than half of its spiritual energy was suppressed, and it was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, so it could only barely contend with the two of them, and could not break free.

"Hahaha, you beast! As long as you serve me as your master and hand over the true source of your soul, I will let you go."

Xiao Longtao flew his sword to the sky above Jin Ling, with two monks standing behind him. The three of them were looking down from above, as if they could judge Jin Ling's life or death at any time.

“Screech!!”

The golden spirit roared at Xiao Longtao. At this time, the Zhenling Powder took effect, and the golden light on its body quickly extinguished, and it completely became an ordinary beast.

"A beast is a beast. If you don't hand over your soul source, I will beat you into submission!"

Xiao Longtao's face was ferocious, and a light flashed in his hand, and he grasped an iron handle. An iron whip extended from one end of the iron handle, which was covered with steel barbs, each of which was shining coldly.

Wow—bang!

The iron whip made a sound of breaking through the air and hit Jin Ling hard.

Golden feathers fell from the sky, and Jin Ling's miserable cries resounded through the sky, accompanied by Xiao Longtao's hideous laughter.

A whip, a whip... hit Jin Ling hard, and the golden feathers stained with blood slowly fell in the air.

The desolate screams echoed in the mountains...

When many disciples learned that Xiao Longtao had come out of seclusion to tame the golden creature, they rushed over and saw this scene as soon as they arrived.

Xiao Longtao laughed ferociously. The golden spirit was trapped tightly by several soul-binding ropes, and he used the iron whip in his hand to force the golden creature to extract its soul source.

Each whip was more brutal and merciless than the last, and it looked like the golden creature would be beaten to death if it did not hand over its soul.

The miserable screams reached everyone's ears and were extremely creepy. They made people shiver and sigh at the cruelty of Xiao Longtao's methods.

"Hiss! So cruel?"

“Tsk tsk tsk, I’ve heard that Xiao Longtao is ruthless and cruel. Seeing him today, he is indeed cruel and cruel!”

"How tragic! How could that monster be so stubborn? It's better to live than to die. It's almost killed, but it still won't give up its soul source?"

“…”

Everyone stood on the flying swords, watching from afar and talking about the situation.

“Hu, hu…won’t you hand over your soul source?! Believe it or not, I will beat you to death!”

Xiao Longtao was breathing heavily, as if he was tired from the fight, while Jin Ling was lying weakly on the ground, staring at him, as if he wanted to swallow him in one bite.

"Dare to glare at me?! You're looking for death!" Xiao Longtao used his spiritual energy to drive the iron whip.

Bang——!

Another fierce whip, with the blessing of spiritual energy, this whip was extremely fierce. Jin Ling trembled all over, raised his head and roared, and the golden light in his pupils was almost extinguished.

"Damn it! Why don't you hand over your soul source? I'll beat you to death!!"

Seeing that Jin Ling still had no intention of surrendering, Xiao Longtao became furious. He raised the iron whip high again and used all his strength to activate his ninth level of Qi Refining.

Buzz——!

The clear sound of the sword quickly became louder and whistled from a distance.

Swish——!

A blue light flashed by, and Xiao Longtao only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a blue flying sword had already cut off the soul-binding rope on Jin Ling's body.

"Who? Who is it?!"

Xiao Longtao quickly turned around, his heart was shocked and his scalp exploded with fear.

Everyone also looked in the direction where the flying sword came from, and vaguely saw a blurry purple.

"Lie!" As if sensing something, Jin Ling let out an excited cry and struggled to get up. However, his injuries were too severe and he fell to the ground again before he could stand up.

"Who are you? Why are you meddling in other people's business?"

Xiao Longtao looked fearful. He had just felt the sword at close range. It was definitely not something that could be struck by a Qi Refining cultivator. The opponent was most likely a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

"Unauthorizedly arresting and beating the sect elder's spiritual pet..."

A cold voice came from the sky. Jiang Zheng stepped on the void. The spiritual energy and Taoism in his body exploded. After a few steps, his figure quickly enlarged.

In just a few breaths, he had already arrived in front of Xiao Longtao. He took a glance at Jin Ling's miserable condition and suddenly became furious.

"As the elder of the Punishment Hall, I sentence you and the others who participated to death!"

The disciples who were just watching the scene recognized Jiang Zheng's identity and retreated several miles in fear, watching from afar for fear of being implicated.

"What, what Punishment Elder? I've been in the sect for so many years, and I've never seen you before!"

Xiao Longtao had just come out of confinement and didn't recognize Jiang Zheng at all, but the people behind him were already frightened out of their wits, their faces were pale and their bodies were trembling.

"Jiang, Elder Jiang! I know I was wrong! Please spare my life!"

"Elder Jiang, please be magnanimous. We didn't know this was your spiritual pet. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to do it even if you gave me a hundred, no, a thousand, or even ten thousand courages!"

"Yes, Elder Jiang, please spare my life..."

Those disciples knelt down on the flying swords, sobbing and crying.

"You...you guys?!" Xiao Longtao turned around, seemed to realize something, and his voice couldn't stop trembling.

"Is he really, really our sect's elder?"

Jiang Zheng paid no attention to these people. His eyes were fixed on Jin Ling. He saw that it was covered with wounds and was barely breathing.

I was filled with anger.

At that time he told Jin Ling to stay here and wait for him, meaning that it should live nearby. He did not expect that just a casual remark from him would lead Jin Ling to really stand here motionless.

He did not move at all in the face of wind and sun, and did not waver even when besieged. Now, he was captured, beaten, and forced to give up his soul by these bastards using despicable means.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zheng felt murderous intent and turned to look at the few people.

"Elder Jiang, I know I was wrong!" Xiao Longtao seemed to realize that he had offended a big shot whom he should not have offended, and he also knelt down.

"Do you admit your mistake?" Jiang Zheng had a blank expression on his face. Then he smiled coldly, with a somewhat ferocious smile.

"All five of you are guilty of the death penalty! Execute immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, the five people felt as if they had fallen into an icy cave, knowing that they could not escape death.

Not only them, but even the people watching from a distance gasped.

He secretly thought that Jiang Zheng's style of doing things was still as ruthless, decisive and vindictive as ever.

One of them knew that they could not be Jiang Zheng's opponent, so he stood up and cursed Jiang Zheng, wishing him a miserable death. Then he turned around and rode away at high speed on his flying sword.

The remaining few people reacted quickly and fled immediately.

As Xiao Longtao stood up, he felt his vision blurry and Jiang Zheng grabbed his neck.

The strange red power suppressed his cultivation. Now in Jiang Zheng's hands, he was like an ordinary man, unable to make any waves.

"Want to run?" Jiang Zheng lifted him up in front of him and sneered, "They can still live a little longer, but you... must die now!"