Spirit Realm Chapter 438-442

Chapter 438: Lock On!

After they finished eating, Qin Lie and Chu Li sat in the same spot and used spirit stones to recover their strength.

Qin Lie held a few Earth Grade spirit stones in one hand and a Heavenly Flame Crystal in the other.

The blood essences were in the palm of the hand gripping the Heavenly Flame Crystal. These three drops of blood were swiftly absorbing the fiery energy within the Heavenly Flame Crystal.

Inside of Qin Lie’s mind.

Wisps of soul imprints and essence gradually gathered toward his Soul Lake like the threads of a spider web.

The blurry shadow of a True Soul vaguely started to take shape inside of his Soul Lake once more.

The True Soul seemed to contain a weak aura of thunder. There was an obvious, miraculous wave of thunder energy.

Qin Lie was reforming his True Soul.

Even if people mastered a way to shatter their own True Soul, very few would carelessly dare to attempt it. This would still be the case for those poisoned with voodoo toxin—few would decisively shatter their own souls because there was no guarantee they would be able to reform it.

The shattering of one’s True Soul sometimes meant the termination of that soul and the death of its owner.

For Qin Lie, however, the shattering and reforming of his soul was simply a necessary process—a step that he needed to complete at the third stage of Heavenly Thunder Eradication, “Thunder Lightning Soul Refinement.”

The shattering of his soul had been very simple.

The gathering of his True Soul also seemed much easier than he initially thought it would be.

When he focused his mind and examined the process, he could confirm with acute accuracy that his scattered soul imprints were gathering from every corner of his brain in a swift and orderly manner, flowing toward his Soul Lake like rivers flowing to the sea.

Qin Lie’s blurry True Soul grew clearer and more distinct inside his transparent Soul Lake with every passing second.

His True Soul was swiftly reforming!

This lifted Qin Lie’s spirits.

To his surprise he discovered that, not only did his reformed True Soul emanate thunder energy, it also grew stronger and more compact. Quite a lot of energy was stored inside of his soul!

It was just as he suspected. “Thunder Lightning Soul Refinement” was a way to temper, enhance, and essentially cultivate an individual’s True Soul!

According to what Qin Lie knew, methods that allowed one to cultivate and refine their soul were the rarest of any that forces of sects possessed.

Even in the Land of Chaos, the nine great silver forces did not have many ways that allowed Netherpassage Realm martial practitioners to specifically cultivate their souls.

“Thunder Lightning Soul Refinement cultivates and tempers the True Soul with the power of lightning and thunder. It fills the soul with thunder energy to make it immune to thunder, a soul’s natural enemy. Upon being filled with thunder and lightning, the True Soul no longer fears thunder or lightning attacks.. Furthermore, the soul is then able to control thunder itself—it will definitely be interesting when that happens!”

Qin Lie grew increasingly certain that his grandfather had purposely given him Heavenly Thunder Eradication so that he would cultivate this deep and profound spirit art from the start.

This was definitely an extremely powerful and domineering spirit art.

Chu Li had not truly fought the Illusory Demon Sect girls seriously, so he did not spend much spirit energy either and quickly recovered.

Chu Li opened his eyes and carelessly threw away the grayish-white spirit stones in his hand, then idly stared at Qin Lie.

His eyes gradually filled with the light of wonder.

To his amazement, he discovered that Qin Lie’s hair, face, and even nostrils sparked with lightning from time to time.

When Chu Li focused his senses and took in the scene with his soul consciousness, he quickly discovered that Qin Lie’s soul consciousness actually contained a weak aura of thunder.

This discovery shocked Chu Li to the core.

Chu Li came from Terminator Sect, and the sect’s strongest martial practitioner, Forefather Terminator, was skilled in the power of thunder and lightning.

In reality, plenty of disciples in Terminator Sect cultivated thunder and lightning spirit arts.

Chu Li might be an exception since he cultivated a different spirit art bestowed upon him by Forefather Terminator, but he was well aware of the secrets, advantages, and uses of a thunder and lightning spirit art.

He naturally knew that thunder energy was a soul’s natural enemy. Thunder could be used to destroy evil, eliminate wandering souls, and eradicate vengeful spirits.

Almost nothing with soul consciousness that lacked a physical form could escape the blast of thunder and lightning.

A martial practitioner’s True Soul was not an exception. It was also weak to thunder and lightning attacks.

According to Chu Li’s knowledge, Forefather Terminator dared to temper his soul with thunder and lightning only when he had reached the Imperishable Realm.

There were several thousands of people who cultivated thunder and lightning spirit arts in all of Terminator Sect, but Forefather Terminator was the only one who dared to directly temper his soul with thunder to increase its strength.

Meanwhile, Qin Lie was only in the Netherpassage Realm and had just shattered his soul. Yet when he was in the process of reforming it, his soul actually contained the aura of thunder.

This shocked Chu Li to his very core.

Forefather Terminator had to cultivate to the Imperishable Realm before his soul was capable of surviving thunder and lightning.

Compared to Qin Lie, Forefather Terminator was a tortoise that lagged far behind the rabbit.

An hour later.

Qin Lie opened his eyes as a surge of thunder and lightning energy flashed through his eyes. When he saw that Chu Li was staring at him, a look of amazement on his face he asked, “Big Brother Chu, what are you staring at?”

“Are you tempering your soul with thunder and lightning?” Chu Li’s expression was odd.

“Mn.” Qin Lie nodded, but he did not provide an explanation.

Chu Li did not question him about it either, and after a moment of thought, he suddenly asked, “When the Trial is over, and if time allows it, will you come with me to Terminator Sect?”

“What for?” Qin Lie asked in surprise.

“I’d like to recommend you to someone,” Chu Li said with a grin. “Relax, I won’t harm you. I just think that you should meet him at least once.”

“No problem,” Qin Lie agreed.

“Ready?” Chu Li stood up.

“Ready!” Qin Lie also stood up.

“Let’s go!”

……

Deep within a lush forest.

Ye Yihao sat in the center of a leaf of an ancient tree, a dark expression on his face. He narrowed his eyes and looked as if he were sensing something with his mind.

The Eight-winged Centipede Queen coiled around his heart wriggled slightly, seemingly transmitting some sort of news to him.

A few newly arrived Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners garbed in pitch black robes stood quietly beneath the ancient trees. They resembled black ghosts.

Off to the side, martial practitioners of the Xiahou Family, Lin Family, and Su Family were enthusiastically chatting, discussing the best way to deal with enemies who would come to them.

“There is no need for you to go on the offense at all. You only have to stay here and wait for them to fall into our trap,” Ye Yihao suddenly said from his position amidst the tree leaves.

“The senses of my voodoo insects are much more acute than yours, so they will search the forest for life signatures of foreign martial practitioners The second they discover a foreign martial practitioner, the insects will poison them with voodoo toxin. As soon as the foreign martial practitioners realize the toxin has entered their bodies, group after group will automatically come to our doorstep one after another, looking for me.”

“That would be best.” Xiahou Yuan chuckled strangely, his bald head shining in the dark environment.

“A person among the Illusory Demon Sect was poisoned with the voodoo toxin. They will come to us as well,” Ye Yihao said darkly, his expression strange. “Speaking of which, that Xue Moyan of Illusory Demon Sect shares a deep connection with your three great families.”

“How so?” Xiahou Yuan sat up straight.

Su Yan and Lin Dongxing also showed interest as they raised their heads and looked at Ye Yihao, waiting for his explanation.

“Xue Moyan’s mother is called Mo Lingye, and her father… is most likely Xue Li!” Ye Yihao exclaimed.

Xiahou Yuan and the others shuddered, asking at the same time, “How is that possible?”

“Big Brother Ye, are you sure you’re not mistaken? We have heard a little about that Xue Moyan as well, but she should be quite old, right? Mo Lingye and Xue Li are people from a thousand years ago. Even if they had a daughter, she shouldn’t be young enough to participate in the Trial.” Su Yan looked doubtful.

“This matter is a little complicated to explain. In the Heavenly Slaughter Continent, Illusory Sect Demon is our sworn enemy. While we were investigating their young elites, we discovered this information through a secret channel. However, I can guarantee that this information is true!” Ye Yihao said confidently.

“If Xue Moyan truly is a remnant of Blood Fiend Sect, your Black Voodoo Cult could have exposed her at any time. As long as this information is out in the open, she and the other Blood Fiend Sect survivors would have nowhere to hide!” Xiahou Yuan did not understand.

“Illusory Demon Sect and Blood Fiend Sect were quite close to each other in the past, and Yu Lingwei is quite protective of Xue Moyan. We also do not have solid evidence. Additionally, we don’t want this information to leak too soon, so we can only keep quiet about it.”

Ye Yihao’s eyes were dark and cold. “This woman may very well carry the burden of reviving Blood Fiend Sect on her shoulders, and Blood Fiend Sect could be said to have once owned the entire Heavenly Calamity Continent. In comparison, everything your three great families own once belonged to Blood Fiend Sect. Do you understand what you have to do?”

“She will not leave the Trial alive!” Xiahou Yuan exclaimed murderously.

The eyes of Lin Dongxing and Su Yan glowed with a venomous look reminiscent of poisonous snakes locking on to their prey.

“Ding!”

The sword token hanging at Xiahou Yuan’s waist suddenly emitted a low tone.

“It’s Luo Chen’s group!” He grinned savagely. “I guess it’s about time they showed up! Hehe, I didn’t think he’d be faster than Chu Li.”

“Kill whoever arrives first!” Amidst the leaves, Ye Yihao narrowed his eyes and indifferently said, “All of you, spread out and find a good place to hide. The Xiahou Family will be the only ones to stay here. We will await our first group of prey!”

“Understood!”

The martial practitioners of Black Voodoo Cult, the Lin Family, and the Su Family all began to move out.

This place was filled with ancient trees, the branches and leaves of which covered both the sky and the ground. It was all too easy to find a place to hide.

All of these people vanished in an extremely short amount of time. They all hid their auras as well.

Xiahou Yuan and a few other Xiahou Family martial practitioners stayed in the same spot and waited for Luo Chen’s arrival, their eyes shining with a cold, venomous luster.

“Ooooo!”

Just as Ye Yihao hid himself and Luo Chen was about to arrive, the Black Voodoo Cult token hanging from Ye Yihao’s waist rang as well.

“Well met!” Ye Yihao licked his lips, eyes filled with violence. He looked like a beast that thirsted for blood.

The token’s ringing sound meant that Chu Li’s group was now within a fifty kilometers.

“We’ve finally tracked him down!” Fifty kilometers away, Chu Li cried out excitedly, “Let’s see where else that bastard Ye Yihao could run off to!”

“Oooo! Ding!”

The Black Voodoo Cult token and the Heavenly Sword Mountain token hanging from Qin Lie’s waist rang at almost the same time.

When he touched the token and examined it, Qin Lie’s face distorted into an indescribably odd expression.

Both Luo Chen and Ye Yihao were in the same direction!

Chapter 439: Ambush

“Something’s not right!”

Qin Lie stopped walking and gripped the two tokens, his expression grave.

Chu Li also noticed that something was wrong and shouted in shock, “Ye Yihao and people from Heavenly Sword Mountain are together?”

“The tokens are telling us that they’re in the same place.” Qin Lie’s brow furrowed. “When Luo Chen’s group left, they said that they found Xiahou Yuan and the others. Why would they be with people from Black Voodoo Cult?”

“Who knows?” Chu Li felt that things had become slightly difficult.

He would have had trouble with just Ye Yihao of Black Voodoo Cult, but he was confident that he would be able to face him.

The ringers from the nine great silver forces were all at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm. They possessed rare, high level spirit artifacts, spirit pills, spirit medicines, spirit armor, and other equipment.

Strictly speaking, other than the three families’ Xiahou Yuan, Su Yan, and Lin Dongxing that were slightly weaker, the best of the other six forces had slightly differing levels of power, but that difference would not be very great.

In other words, Chu Li, Ye Yihao, Luo Chen, Xue Moyan, Feng Yiyou, and Yu Men were similar in strength.

Chu Li always thought of himself as the strongest. He was confident that he wouldn’t lose when facing any of the remaining five.

He had a reason for that.

—If he were facing two of them, however… his confidence would be non-existent.

If Ye Yihao and Luo Chen were working together, Chu Li did not think he would be able to achieve victory and kill Ye Yihao along with the Eight-winged Centipede Queen.

Chu Li was arrogant and domineering, but he wasn’t stupid.

The moment he realized that Ye Yihao and Luo Chen might be working together, his expression turned grim and he seemed restless and irritated.

Common sense told him that he shouldn’t go because he might end up being killed.

Yet when he thought of Ren Peng’s state, and He Wei also being inflected by the voodoo poison in need of an antidote, he could not stand by and watch.

Chu Li fidgeted frantically.

At this time, Qin Lie was silently looking at him with a cool gaze and calm expression.

Qin Lie’s personality had been strange from the start as a kind of craziness had always been hidden in his bones.

Prior to merging with his previous personality, he would usually seem gentle and stoic, although wooden at times.

Yet upon being stimulated in a certain matter, he would show his crazy side and become hysterical!

This could be seen from how he had challenged Du Haitian in the past in Icestone City when he learned that Du Haitian had caused the deaths of Ling Ying, Ling Xiao, and the other Ling Family clansmen. He used the Terminator Profound Bombs to kill Du Haitian without regard to its consequences.

If not for Li Mu’s protection at the time, he probably would have died a terrible death.

Later on at Armament Sect, Liang Shaoyang became the focus of attention after causing a change in the spirit pattern pillars, receiving acknowledgement from Ying Xingran and the three reverends and he had been thought of the future successor of Armament Sect. It had been Liang Shaoyang’s most glorious time.

Yet even during Liang Shaoyang’s most glorious and brightest time, Qin Lie had dared to thrust an ice blade through Liang Shaoyang’s heart and destroy the hope of Armament Sect right in front of its own gates.

That time, if it wasn’t for his own outstanding performance and the change he caused in the twelve spirit pattern pillars, he would also have died a terrible death.

However, the current him had even more craziness in his bones than before.

Thus, he had already decisively made a decision at the start—a decision to kill Ye Yihao!

After all, Xie Jingxuan had possibly died from poisoning, and Song Tingyu was now on her last gasps. There seemingly wasn’t much time left for her.

Determined, Qin Lie’s expression was calm, unlike Chu Li, who was still bitterly struggling between reason and emotion.

A moment later, Chu Li inhaled deeply and shouted, “If Ye Yihao and Luo Chen have teamed up, I’m afraid the outcome will not be in our favor should we go over. Little Brother Lie, even I, for one, am hesitant right now. What about you, what do you think? I would like to hear your opinion!”

“I don’t care if you go or not.” Qin Lie said, pausing after each word. “Either way, I’m definitely going!”

Chu Li’s expression shook as he looked at Qin Lie in shock . “You… have you clearly thought about this?”

“I’m not thinking about anything right now! All I know is that if that bastard Ye Yihao doesn’t die, my woman will definitely die!” Qin Lie grit his teeth as his eyes became filled with savagery and viciousness and his body began to release an intense murderous intent.

“Damn it! It seems that I have thought too much!” Chu Li suddenly bellowed, his blood boiling from Qin Lie’s words. His rationality, thoughts of death, and plans, were all suddenly thrown to the back of his mind. “Qin Lie! You really have style! Let’s go and kill those two scum!”

“I was just waiting for those words!” Qin Lie grinned viciously.

At this time, although Qin Lie’s cultivation realm, status, and strength were weaker than Chu Li’s, the presence of his craziness, brutality, and savagery was in fact slightly greater than Chu Li’s.

When the two crazed people agreed on a decision, they both felt their blood rise. Red glints flashed through their eyes as they began to charge towards Ye Yihao and Luo Chen with great murderous intent.

At their normal speed, a distance of a hundred miles would take around an hour.

But in their crazed states, their spirits had seemingly increased. Even their speed increased!

They reached Ye Yihao’s position a full ten minutes earlier than it would have normally taken them.

“Boom-om-om! Woosh-oosh-oosh! Crack! Pah-pah-pah!”

The clashing of spirit artifacts, the collisions of spirit energy, and the sound of power exploding could be heard from a long ways off.

At their destination, they saw enormous old trees breaking and falling, brilliant displays of spirit lights, various spirit artifacts spiralling into the air, and violent explosions of power.

The two people brimming with murderous intent exchanged looks with each other and saw the joy in each other’s eyes.

“Brother, it seems that we are not destined to die. Damn it, it seems like Ye Yihao and Luo Chen are infighting. Hahahaha!” Chu Li laughed madly.

Qin Lie’s eyes also lit up.

Both of them became excited.

Regardless of how crazed they were, they still knew that there was a higher chance of death if it was the two of them facing Ye Yihao, Luo Chen, and their protectors.

But if Ye Yihao and Luo Chen had become enemies and were fighting, then it really was a chance for them.

“It seems that the heavens are on our side!” Qin Lie also howled.

“Ye Yihao, you son of a bitch, your daddy Chu Li is here!”

“Luo Chen, haven’t you been wanting to settle your debts with me? Your granddaddy has come!”

Qin Lie and Chu Li both laughed arrogantly as their bodies flashed across the enormous trees on the ground and appeared on the battlefield.

When they stopped and looked, they became stunned.

Atop the chaotic battlefield, swords, long blades, short spears, and other spirit artifacts continuously collided as fire, wind, and frost energies clashed together. In the very center,group of people were intensely fighting.

Those people were Luo Chen, Zhao Yuan, Zhang Chendong and the others, and they were fighting against Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing’s group.

There were two corpses on the ground already. Based on the clothing, the two were from Heavenly Sword Mountain.

Zhao Yuan and Zhang Chendong both had blood flowing from their bodies, and their eyes had dimmed. Faintly visible black threads were apparent within their pupils.

They had been poisoned with the voodoo poison.

Only Luo Chen in his silver robes was still wielding his sword and fighting back against the attacks of Xiahou Yuan, Lin Dongxing, and the seven other martial practitioners.

As he swung his jade-like longsword which was as thin as a cicada’s wings, sharp sword beams were continuously released. These sword beams resembled a rain of jade-like crystal meteors that were ten meters long and two fingers wide and contained a terrifying sword concept.

Xiahou Yuan and Ling Dongxing, as well as their respective clansmen, had surrounded Luo Chen and were casting all kinds of spirit artifacts and spirit arts in a barrage against Luo Chen.

With one sword, Luo Chen managed to block the attacks of all nine people.

But occasionally, wounds and streaks of blood would appear on his body.

On the side, Ye Yihao of Black Voodoo Cult and Su Yan of the Su Family were standing side by side as they chatted idly with relaxed expressions.

They were clearly prepared for the Xiahou and Lin Families to exhaust Luo Chen till his death.

Even though Luo Chen was stronger than Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing, the two had teamed up together and also enlisted the help of seven other people. Eventually, Luo Chen’s spirit power would be exhausted.

That time would be the calling of death for Luo Chen.

There were three sides fighting and two sides that were watching. Upon hearing Qin Lie and Chu Li’s laughter and seeing the two charge in, they all stopped what they were doing.

Everyone’s gazes gathered on the two of them.

When Qin Lie and Chu Li saw the scene in front of them, they were stunned.

The two of them who had become as excited as if they had discovered a new continent upon seeing the intense fighting happening in this place suddenly felt as if a bucket of cold water poured over their heads and immediately became clear minded.

The two of them became bitter as they realized that they had guessed the process but not the result.

Ye Yihao and Luo Chen were on opposite sides, but it had never occurred to them that the Xiahou, Su and Lin Family would side together with Ye Yihao.

This situation was likely worse than them facing Ye Yihao and Luo Chen together!

How could they laugh?!

“So unfortunate.” Chu Li cursed as he spat on the ground. Under the unfriendly gazes of Ye Yihao and the others, he shouted harshly, “Damn it, what are you looking at! I’m just here to kill you, Ye Yihao, you bastard! Do you think that I’m afraid just because there are more people?”

“Brother Chu, I have already waited a long time for you.” Looking at the two, Ye Yihao suddenly laughed as if in a good mood.

In his eyes, Qin Lie and Chu Li were two rash idiots. They charged in without even knowing the full situation and had believed that they would be the side that would benefit… they were adorably stupid.

“Was it you who killed my voodoo insect?” Ye Yihao only looked at Chu Li.

In truth, from beginning to end, he didn’t even look at Qin Lie.

Just like Xue Moyan, he didn’t recognize Qin Lie. To him, people he didn’t recognize were just minor people not worth mentioning.

“Four voodoo insects, I first refined three to death, and then another one later on. The other two escaped.” Qin Lie cut in with a smile. After a short moment, he calmed down again. “However, it’s too troublesome to refine the little insects one after another so I came this time to be more efficient and just directly kill the mother insect.”

When he spoke these words, he didn’t just successfully attract Ye Yihao’s attention, he also immediately enraged him.

Chapter 440: Intolerable!

It took a great effort to get the Eight-Winged Centipede Queen to give birth to a single larva. Then, in order to get the larva to trust him and form a mental connection with him, even Ye Yihao needed to use his True Soul and his mind consciousness to nurture it for a period of time.

Thus, every larva was extremely precious to Ye Yihao.

That was why he had once told Yu Feng that the value of a larva was greater than the lives of Yu Feng and the others.

Ye Yihao did not care too much about the deaths of Yu Feng and the others because the Yu Family had many Netherpassage Realm martial practitioners. After coming out of the refinement convention, he could use the larvae to find new hosts in the Yu Family.

But Ye Yihao could not let go of the deaths of the four larvae. He could not help but feel angered.

“You?”

The smile on Ye Yihao’s face slowly faded as his gaze became cold and vicious, and sparking with murderous intent.

Qin Lie said calmly, “Me.”

“I will have the voodoo insect slowly burrow into your head, bit by bit, and consume your brain.” Ye Yihao stared at him and said darkly, “You will not die immediately, but will instead be conscious and able to hear the sound of the voodoo insect devouring your brain and bones. Tsk tsk, I guarantee that this experience will be one which you have never felt before in your life. I guarantee that even when you die, you will not forget it!”

The words caused many people’s hairs to stand up on end.

Not only did the expressions of Chu Li and Luo Chen change, but also those of Zhao Yuan, Zhang Chendong, and the martial practitioners from the three families on good terms with Ye Yihao.

Many people felt terrified of Ye Yihao from the bottom of their hearts. They decided that if they accidentally landed in Ye Yihao’s hands one day, they would be decisive and kill themselves to save themselves from the inhuman torture.

Strangely, Qin Lie showed indifference as his gaze didn’t change.

He was even slightly puzzled.

For some reason, he felt that he had once tormented people in a manner like how Ye Yihao had just described, and it had not just been once.

Deep inside, he actually thought that this inhuman kind of torture was quite normal and nothing major.

It seemed that he had done things even crueller and more insane in the past…

Yet in the eyes of other people, his daze was an expression of being stricken dumb.

Ye Yihao and the martial practitioners of the three major families all had disdainful expressions. They thought Qin Lie was just a little person who had been scared to death by just words.

Even Luo Chen, who was surrounded by the Xiahou Family and the Lin Family, looked coldly at Qin Lie and snorted, “You really embarrass my Heavenly Sword Mountain.”

Qin Lie suddenly woke up.

He gradually cleared out the disorganized thoughts in his mind whilst maintaining his mental clarity and calmness.

He glanced at Luo Chen and frowned, saying, “Your mouth is still so nasty for someone about to be buried in dirt.”

“If I die, do you think that you will be safe?” Luo Chen sneered.

“Hm?” Su Yan was surprised. She giggled as though she found something new and said, “So interesting, it really is interesting. You two are both from Heavenly Sword Mountain but are enemies, this is really interesting.”

“He is not qualified to be a martial practitioner of Heavenly Sword Mountain! He only knows how to take shortcuts and fawn over elders to get a sword token.” Luo Chen said mockingly.

From the start, Luo Chen had assumed that Qin Lie was only able to receive the favor of Li Mu because Qin Lie was good at flattery and getting on the good side of people.

At Sea Moon Island, he hadn’t targeted Qin Lie just because Qin Lie had received the blank tombstone.

Actually, ever since he discovered that Li Mu had picked Qin Lie to attend the Trial and learned a bit of the relationship between Qin Lie and Li Mu, Luo Chen had desired to kill Qin Lie.

Because of Qin Lie’s status as apprentice, and the fact that he had once stayed in Li Mu’s Li’s shop.

During the time when Qin Lie had nowhere to go in Icestone City, it had also been Li Mu that stood up and helped him leave.

In Luo Chen’s view, Li Mu and Qin Lie were not only teacher and student, but also friends.

This caused Luo Chen to feel great jealousy.

What others didn’t know was that Luo Chen had shown great talent during his youth, and had made great accomplishments in the way of the sword.

What others didn’t know was that at his most glorious moment, his grandmother Luo Nan had secretly taken him to find Li Mu in hopes that Li Mu would take Luo Chen as an apprentice.

Luo Nan understood how powerful Li Mu was, and knew his skill on the way of the sword better than anyone. She had taken Luo Chen to ask Li Mu and hoped that Li Mu would take him as an apprentice out of consideration for her and Luo Chen’s own astounding talent.

In the past, Luo Chen’s talent with the sword had astounded all of Heavenly Sword Mountain, making him very proud and arrogant. He had believed that everyone in Heavenly Sword Mountain would compete to take him on as their apprentice.

He had thought that Li Mu would not be an exception.

Perhaps it was this proud attitude which had displeased Li Mu during their meeting, and so Li Mu had refused.

Incontent, his grandmother Luo Nan had bitterly begged in hope that Li Mu would accept. But Li Mu would not allow it, his attitude cold and indifferent.

Watching his grandmother, who was so powerful in Heavenly Sword Mountain, begging for his sake in front of Li Mu, the young and proud Luo Chen impulsively attacked Li Mu verbally and began arguing with him.

Li Mu had also been infuriated by the young and proud Luo Chen. He said that Luo Chen was not qualified to be his disciple because Luo Chen was not talented enough and did not have a good personality.

This was the greatest setback which Luo Chen had encountered in his life.

Luo Chen, who had always had his eyes up in the sky and believed that no one could compare to his talent, was deeply pricked by Li Mu’s undisguised disdain.

Starting from that year, Luo Chen began to work even harder. He wanted to prove himself and give Li Mu a slap in the face. His breakthroughs on the path of the sword grew increasingly faster, and finally, Luo Chen became the strongest martial practitioner under Fulfillment Realm in Heavenly Sword Mountain!

He Wei and Du Xiangyang who were of the same generation and similarly as outstanding were completely suppressed and outshone by his light.

But even then, Li Mu only ever looked at him with mockery and disdain during their several later encounters with each other.

He seemed to still think that Luo Chen was not qualified to become his disciple.

This had always been a thorn in Luo Chen’s heart, and caused him to feel great discomfort.

Thus, when he heard that the relationship between Li Mu and Qin Lie reached a level of friends which went beyond teacher and student and discovered that Li Mu was very concerned with Qin Lie, the thorn in his heart grew.

He, Luo Chen, had never received recognition from Li Mu. How could this Qin Lie, a little martial practitioner from an unknown place of the Scarlet Tide Continent, a person who did not have outstanding talent and strength which was only between Manifestation Realm and Netherpassage Realm receive Li Mu’s recognition?

He was not willing to accept it.

However, he could not vent on Li Mu, so he could only direct it all towards Qin Lie.

This was the true reason for why he had always targeted Qin Lie from the moment he learned of Qin Lie.

“I do not qualify to become a martial practitioner of Heavenly Sword Mountain?” Qin Lie laughed strangely as he shook his head and mocked back without any politeness. “You think that everyone is the same as you, proud of the fact that they are a martial practitioner of Heavenly Sword Mountain? Just what do you have to be proud of? You were born at Heavenly Sword Mountain, and your grandmother is Luo Nan. From birth, you have grown up in an environment of medicine and all kinds of sword arts. Yet even with the teachings of your grandmother and the elders, you are just in Netherpassage Realm? Right now, aren’t you also in a dangerous situation? I don’t see you dominating? Do you really think that you are so great?”

“Ha, as long as Qin Lie is willing, after the Trial is finished, the gates of my Terminator Sect will always be open to him!” Chu Li grinned and inserted, “I am sure that if he entered Terminator Sect, he would be a core disciple personally taught by the old forefather!”

Luo Chen stilled.

Qin Lie continued to speak, “Luo Chen, you are not unique. Forget about all of the Spirit Realm, just even in this Trial, there are five people who are no weaker than you in any area. Where exactly does your pride comes from? Laughable!”

Luo Chen’s face turned into a variety of colors.

After the two had started arguing, the martial practitioners from the three major families had all stopped with strange expressions.

Ye Yihao also did not interrupt and just watched. Once the two finished speaking, he suggested, “Speak all you want, but in the end, those are just words! If you two have a score to settle, you can settle it now. I don’t mind waiting for one of you to die first.”

“We can also wait,” Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing stated after exchanging looks.

They wanted Qin Lie and Luo Chen to fight and waste more of Luo Chen’s energy—they all assumed that Qin Lie would not be a match for Luo Chen.

However, they all felt that Qin Lie was no weaker than Luo Chen in terms of scathing remarks.

But just in that.

“It won’t take much for me to kill a little martial practitioner in the early stages of Netherpassage realm,” Luo Chen said icily.

“Brother Qin, although I am a woman, even I wouldn’t be able to tolerate him at a time like this!” Su Yan cheered from the side. “If I was you, even if I died in battle, I would first settle my debts with this arrogant person! He’s really looking down on you!”

“Damn it, what is all this?” Chu Li fiercely spat on the ground.

He had never expected that the situation would intensify and degenerate further for the worse, and turn into the one which he had wanted to see the least.

He had hoped for Luo Chen and Ye Yihao to fight and for Luo Chen to exhaust at least some of the other’s energy.

Then, he and Qin Lie would at least have a sliver of a chance. If they focused on dealing with Ye Yihao, there was a tiny chance that they could kill Ye Yihao.

Now, if Qin Lie and Luo Chen had a fight to the death, Luo Chen would be unable to exhaust some of Ye Yihao’s energy, and Qin Lie would also not be able to help him.

He would have to face Ye Yihao and all the people from the three major families by himself!

In that case, he wouldn’t even have a chance, not even to escape!

But he did not urge Qin Lie to be calm and endure.

Because if he was Qin Lie, he wouldn’t be able to tolerate it at all!

Naturally, Qin Lie also could not tolerate it!

He charged straight at Luo Chen.

Several Terminator Profound Bombs suddenly appeared on his hands. Without a care for the Xiahou and Lin Family’s responses, and without care for who was beside Luo Chen, he threw a dozen of the Terminator Profound Bombs out together.

Before Luo Chen could respond, Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing’s group started to swear and scream as they all fled for their lives.

Chapter 441: Bloody Fight!

The dozen silver Terminator Profound Bombs rolled and fell towards Luo Chen’s position.

The terrifying fluctuations of thunder which came from within each thunderball caused everyone’s expression to change.

Xiahou Yuan, Lin Dongxing, the poisoned Zhao Yuan, and Zhang Chendong all felt their souls about to leave their bodies.

They cursed, screamed, and shouted, as they resented their parents for not giving them two more legs so that they could flee even faster.

Of them, only Luo Chen was still calm. With just his sword, he still released a sharp sword concept that could tear the sky.

“This…”

Chu Li’s eyes were filled with shock as he looked dazedly at Qin Lie. As he watched the Terminator Profound Bombs roll out, he quickly understood something.

Chu Li’s mind shifted.

He suddenly shouted, “Ye Yihao! You scum! I will bomb your voodoo insect!”

As Qin Lie leapt towards Luo Chen, Chu Li also started to move. He roared like a lion and also took out several Terminator Profound Bombs.

There were numerous martial practitioners from Black Voodoo Cult around Ye Yihao, as well as Su Yan and several Su Family martial practitioners.

These people’s attention had originally been on Qin Lie and Luo Chen’s sides as they watched Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing haphazardly try to escape.

They hadn’t expected Chu Li to also go crazy and start throwing out Terminator Profound Bombs like Qin Lie.

The expressions of Su Yan and the Su Family martial practitioners changed just like the expressions of Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing’s group. They didn’t even notify Ye Yihao as they screamed and cursed while they fled.

Only the Yu Family martial practitioners from Black Voodoo Cult had terrified expressions but did not dare to flee.

“Get out of my way!” Ye Yihao shouted.

The black-robed people from Black Voodoo Cult were finally allowed to leave as they quickly fled, chasing after Su Yan and the others.

The situation had originally been at a standstill. Ye Yihao had been gathered with the Su Family in one area while Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing had surrounded Luo Chen in another area.

Yet because Qin Lie and Chu Li both took out Terminator Profound Bombs, the entire battlefield had become chaotic.

The ground became pitted with holes as ancient trees fell to the ground. Rubble was strewn everywhere, as were signs of the intense battle. A new storm had come.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

The Terminator Profound Bombs would spin after Qin Lie and Chu Li released them as they flew in the direction of Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing as well as the direction of Su Yan and the Black Voodoo Cult escapees as though they were intelligent.

The duo’s targets were not just Luo Chen and Ye Yihao, but everyone!

To the two of them, everyone was a target. Back to back with each other, they each took out Terminator Profound Bombs and threw them.

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom…”

The destructive sounds of explosions drowned out the area as the ground began to violently shake and even frightening cracks appeared in the grey sky.

Crack after crack apparently emerged in the sky as if the sky had been sliced open by sharp blades.

Within the cracks, it was possible to see countless rays of light and the tails of meteors.

An eternal and desolate presence which could extinguish life emanated out from these space cracks.

Everyone’s minds felt like they had frozen over. It was as though they had suddenly entered the apocalypse and pulled into the current of ancient chaos.

Everyone felt terror.

“Boom boom boom!”

In this moment, the entire densely packed forest was violently shaking and furiously exploding.

All of the martial practitioners in the area could clearly feel the brutal vibrations and the enormous transformations which were shaking the ground.

Xue Moyan of Illusory Demon Sect and her sisters had been struggling to find Ye Yihao’s precise location, but after the explosion, they immediately figured out the location.

Du Xiangyang had been roaming alone aimlessly within the dense forest.

But after the frightening noise in the area, he immediately moved in that direction without almost any hesitation.

There were also many scattered martial practitioners from other major factions that were in this dense forest. They all felt the roaring of the earth and hurried over.

They all wanted to know what had happened.

“That was the explosion of several Terminator Profound Bombs! So strong. H-how many would have needed to explode together to create an explosion this terrifying?” Exclaimed He Wei, who had been hiding in a dense patch of wood on the other said.

“It’s only Qin Lie and Chu Li, how could they create such a great disturbance?” Song Tingyu was secretly also shocked on the inside.

“Let’s try to approach towards that area,” He Wei suggested.

Everyone nodded.

They all started to move.

All of the martial practitioners in this dense woods felt the shocking change and weren’t able to suppress their curiosity as they gathered over from all directions.

In one corner of the forest was a rotten old tree, one which had thicker rhizomes than all of the trees around it.

It was bald and leafless, and there were profound marks of age on its gray-colored branches. It was unknown how long it had lived.

There were no signs of any life on its trunk and portion of its rhizomes above the ground. It seemed to have died a long time ago.

Yet for some reason, as the forest shook due to the explosion of the Terminator Profound Bombs, a trace of life suddenly reappeared in the roots of this enormous old tree which were most deeply rooted in the ground.

When this trace of vitality appeared, the ancient tree seemed to awaken slowly as if it had recovered its consciousness.

Extremely strangely, its withered, rotted, and dried roots gradually began to show tints of greenness as its rhizomes slowly began to give off vitality.

But the branches and leaves of the large trees around it were quickly yellowing as they withered away and rotted at a visible rate.

It was as though their wood essence energies were being pulled out.

No one knew of the situation occurring here. No one knew that a new change was happening in this corner of the forest.

Because everyone was heading towards the depths of the forest.

There, Qin Lie, Chu Li, the Black Voodoo Cult, the three families, and the martial practitioners of Heavenly Sword Mountain were all howling deafeningly as they fought.

“You already knew that the Terminator Profound Bombs which you released would have their powers spread out, and that their energies cannot all gather in one area.” Inside a large pit, Luo Chen’s face was ashen and his eyes were sharp as he said coldly, “So, regardless of whether I fled or not, I would experience the same impact within this large area!”

He looked with a strange expression at Qin Lie.

Qin Lie was being attacked by four martial practitioners from the Xiahou and Lin Family.

“I’m going to skin him alive!” a martial practitioner from the Xiahou Family howled angrily. “He killed my younger brother! Damn it, I don’t care what grudge he has with Luo Chen, I’m going to kill him with my own hands!”

“My cousin also died in his explosion! Damn it, I want to kill him first!” a member of the Lin Family also shouted.

The simultaneous explosion of a dozen Terminator Profound Bombs had caused a large area around Luo Chen to be affected by thunder, lightning, and the sharp blades of space.

Luo Chen knew so he had not tried to dodge. Instead, he had used his strongest defensive method of numerous sword rays to defend the place he was at.

While he had used up large amounts of energy, he had managed to survive unharmed.

Zhao Yuan and Zhang Dongchen had already known about Qin Lie from Scarlet Tide Continent. The two had fled even faster than the Xiahou Family and the Lin Family when they saw Qin Lie come.

Those two had also surprisingly managed to survive.

But three martial practitioners of the Xiahou and Lin Family had been torn apart by the space barrier of the Graveyard of Gods. They had been hit by several of the spatial blades and directly rendered to pieces.

Xiahou Yuan, Lin Dongxing, and the remaining four had avoided the spatial blades but were affected by the furious wave of lightning and thunder. They had all either spat blood, become burnt all over, or begun to strangely howl.

They were all wounded to some degree.

When the explosion dissipated, they had immediately attacked Qin Lie without a care for the enmity between Qin Lie and Luo Chen. They were afraid that Qin Lie would die too quickly at Luo Chen’s hands, making them unable to get revenge for their brothers.

Qin Lie’s dozen of Terminator Profound Bombs had killed three and resulted in the Xiahou Family and the Lin Family chasing him.

Meanwhile on the other side, Chu Li had been even more vicious.

All of the trees within several miles of Chu Li had been turned to powder, and numerous deep, seemingly bottomless, holes had appeared in the ground. The cracks in space were like wounds on a body and had not healed even now.

There weren’t any bits left of six Su Family and Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners.

In Su Yan’s hand was had a large scale Earth Grade Four defense spirit artifact. It had been turned to powder, and she had to spit out blood before she managed to successfully protect three members of the Su Family.

Ye Yihao of Black Voodoo Cult had also used up a valuable spirit artefact. It was called “Firecloud Amitabha Shield,” and was Earth Grade Five!

This “Firecloud Amitabha Shield” had been specifically prepared for use against Chu Li by him even before he had entered the Trial. It was to face Chu Li’s madness and the explosions of the Terminator Profound Bombs.

Ye Yihao did not seem to care at all that the spirit artifact had shattered as he calmly stood beside an enormous hole atop this field now covered in giant holes and devoid of trees. “I knew a long time ago that you, Chu Li, would be the most difficult of all the opponents in this Trial. My “Firecloud Amitabha Shield” was specifically found just to face you. I knew that it would shatter sooner or later. Thankfully, it hasn’t disappointed me and has helped me survive this.”

Pausing, Ye Yihao suddenly started to laugh darkly. “Now then, you should have used up all the Terminator Profound Bombs you have right? Haha, I want to see what you can do now!”

“Chu Li! I want you to die a horrible death!” Su Yan shrieked. The left side of her face had been wounded by the explosion of her spirit artifact. It was bloody and had greatly reduced her beauty. “Kill him! Kill him for me!”

“Go.” Ye Yihao narrowed his eyes and ordered.

The remaining martial practitioners of the Su Family and the Black Voodoo Cult immediately charged at Chu Li under his and Su Yan’s orders.

Before Chu Li entered the fight, he reflexively looked behind him to check on how Qin Lie was doing.

As expected, Qin Lie was surrounded and being attacked by the four Xiahou and Lin Family martial practitioners who had higher cultivations than him.

But what astonished Chu Li was that Qin Lie was still standing strong under their attacks.

Chapter 442: Fearsome!

The four martial practitioners of the Xiahou and Lin Family were all at the middle stage of Netherpassage Realm, wielded exquisite spirit artifacts, and looked to be utterly furious right now.

After all, their close ones had all perished in the explosion earlier.

Their four respective spirit artifacts, the Frost Bone Thorn, the Purple Flame Wheel, the Rainbow Sound Sword, and Seven Birds Tail Feathers were all Profound Grade Seven spirit artifacts!

The reason these four people were able to wield these spirit artifacts was because they were all among the core members of the Xiahou and Lin Families and because their own household seniors held some status within their families.

Under the control of their respective practitioners, these four spirit artifacts dazzled with spirit light, shot lightning rainbows and clusters of purple flames, and unleashed terrific waves of energy.

Qin Lie tightly gripped his Astral Thunder Hammer as thunder and lightning crawled atop his entire body. Secretly gathering the power of blood, he used his powerful physique and a dense web of lightning and explosive thunder to defend himself against the quartet’s attacks.

His abnormal body was further covered in a layer of brown yellow light and frost.

This was a precious spirit energy armor formed from both the power of both earth and ice.

When he swung the Astral Thunder Hammer, a violent energy slammed heavily into the flying wheel ablaze with purple flames.

The sides of the disc-like flying wheel were embedded with many sharp thorns. The Astral Thunder Hammer clashed against those thorns and let out many sparks.

“Bang!”

Sparks flew off the Purple Flame Wheel as it was struck by the Astral Thunder Hammer and sent flying into the distance while roaring.

Like a flash of lightning, Qin Lie then instantly moved horizontally, dodging the Rainbow Sound Sword’s piercing attack.

Afterwards, a translucent ice shield swiftly formed on his back over his heart, blocking the Frost Bone Thorn’s ambush.

Channeling Records of Geocentric Magnetism, the gravitational field around him abruptly changed, causing the flying, unpredictable Seven Birds Tail Feathers to abruptly fly erratically and lose track of his position.

Right now, the four miraculous spirit arts he mastered: Heavenly Thunder Eradication, Records of Geocentric Magnetism, Frost Arts, and Blood Spirit Art were all being switched around naturally and smoothly.

After another short moment, Qin Lie’s eyes turned cold as wisps of frost energy gathered on his body and shot ice blades in every direction following his arms movements.

Then, his spirit art changed yet again as his aura turned immovable and earthly as he caused the gravitational field around him to abruptly increase.

Before the quartet was able to adapt to it, he changed his spirit arts once again as thunder began to rumble inside him and bolts of lightning shot from his body.

Normally, some time for transition and conflict between spirit arts were unavoidable when a martial practitioner attempted to switch between them. Some people would expose huge openings when they were switching out their spirit arts.

However, Qin Lie did not seem to have this kind of weakness at all.

Because of a godlike technique called the Spirit Arts Fusion, the four spirit arts were merged and smoothed out, allowing for the transformation of spirit arts to become natural and allowing for no pauses whatsoever in between switches.

It was as if it had no flaws at all.

At the very least, the four clansmen of the Xiahou and Lin Families could not notice any flaws.

Qin Lie fully brought out his various spirit arts and powerful physique into battle. With his great physical advantage, Qin Lie could clash forcefully against the quartet’s attacks when need be, and dodge out of the way when he could not.

Sometimes, the Purple Flame Wheel would ram into him, or the Seven Birds Tail Feathers would scratch him, leaving wounds on his body.

However, he overall did not fall into a situation of absolute disadvantage. He hadn’t collapsed from the first blow like many people had imagined he would.

Meanwhile, Chu Li clashed against Su Family and Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners. He was howling and fighting madly at the same time.

Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing had obviously underestimated Qin Lie’s tenacity a little, as well as his strength.

In their opinion, Qin Lie, who was only at the early stage of Netherpassage Realm, should’ve been instantly taken out under the attacks of their four clansmen.

However, the current situation was a far cry from what they’d predicted earlier.

Yet, despite wanting to kill Qin Lie very much, neither Xiahou Yuan nor Ling Dongxing participated in the battle.

The reason for that was because Luo Chen was right beside them.

Both Xiahou Yuan and Lin Dongxing were afraid that Luo Chen would take the opportunity to charge out of the encirclement if they exhausted much of their spirit energy. Therefore, they had to place a certain amount of attention on Luo Chen.

The second Luo Chen moved and displayed any intent to leave the fight, they would join hands and kill him, no matter what the cost.

Previously, much of Luo Chen’s strength had been exhausted by the nine men’s joint attack. Then, he had been blasted once by Qin Lie’s Terminator Profound Bombs. Right now, Luo Chen had to be at his weakest state, so naturally the two of them were unwilling to let go of this opportunity.

That was why they hadn’t acted immediately.

While Chu Li was just observing Qin Lie, Qin Lie similarly observed Chu Li’s condition.

Chu Li was even unluckier than him for six Su Family and Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners were attacking him at once.

Moreover, Ye Yihao was watching like a predator on the side, as was Su Yan, who was gritting her teeth with a cold expression on her face.

Chu Li’s was being pressured even more than him.

“Go!” Qin Lie ordered with his mind.

As he dodged yet another attack, three blood droplets fell off his palm. The blood droplets withdrew their auras and sneakily left amidst dust and soot on the ground without unleashing their terrifying fiery powers.

They headed in Chu Li’s direction in preparation for ambushing Ye Yihao when the time was right.

Qin Lie was multitasking as he had never forgotten his trip’s real objective—to kill Ye Yihao and the mother insect.

While the intense battle ensued, a couple of people had arrived from amidst the parts of the forest which had not been blasted by the Terminator Profound Bombs.

Du Xiangyang blankly watched the battle with shock and amazement atop of a big tree that was tens of meters tall.

On the other side, the trees had completely vanished. What was left were many gigantic pits which clearly manifested the terrible destruction from earlier.

From this, Du Xiangyang was sure that this place had been given much “care” by the Terminator Profound Bombs earlier.

Since there were no trees blocking his sight, he could clearly see the people battling and the minor changes which occurred in the area even though he was somewhat far away from them.

“I can’t believe it’s that Qin Lie guy again,” Du Xiangyang muttered.

As he furrowed his brows, he chose to watch from the sidelines. He did not want to get himself into that mess.

On another side directly opposite of Du Xiangyang’s current position, Illusory Demon Sect’s Xue Moyan and five other girls were hiding behind an ancient tree’s leaves like lightweight birds.

They were also seriously observing the situation.

“It’s actually that guy!” The poisonous tendrils in Pan Qianqian’s eyes had already seeped to the pupils. Her face was ashen, and she appeared to be in low spirits, “Why has he gotten into a fight with the Xiahou and Lin Family?”

“Su Yan is standing beside Ye Yihao. This means that the three great families have joined forces with Black Voodoo Cult. I knew this would happen even before I came in.” Xue Moyan’s clear eyes were immediately filled with a cold, murderous intent the moment she saw the martial practitioners of the three great families from Heavenly Calamity Continent.

Although she knew that Blood Fiend Sect’s destruction was largely due to Jiang Zhuzhe, she also knew that the three former vassal forces of Blood Fiend Sect, the Xiahou Family, Lin Family, and Su Family had also played a definite role in it as well.

In fact, her hatred and anger towards the three great families were even greater than her hatred and anger towards Jiang Zhuzhe.

“Sister Xue, what should we do?” Huang Zhuli asked softly.

“We must seek out Ye Yihao and ask for the voodoo poison antidote. However, we can just wait and observe for now.”

The five Illusory Demon Sect girls nodded lightly and grew quiet, their bright eyes widening as they stared at the intense battle.

“Quick, look at that guy!” Pan Qianqian pointed at Qin Lie.

The girls’ gazes immediately focused onto Qin Lie, their eyes sparkling.

“He’s about to die,” Huang Zhuli suddenly said in a soft tone.

At this moment, the quartet who had been unable to truly severely injure Qin Lie suddenly made a massive breakthrough.

The Lin Family martial practitioner called Lin Yenian wielded his Rainbow Sound Sword as he rushed towards Qin Lie as if intending to fight Qin Lie in close combat.

This was exactly what Qin Lie had been hoping for, so he allowed Lin Yenian to get close to him. When Lin Yenian came close to him, Qin Lie abruptly charged and snatched Lin Yenian’s sword right out his grip.

He clearly did not care about Lin Yenian’s attack at all!

Qin Lie was extremely confident with his powerful physique. He was sure that there was nothing Lin Yenian could do which would severely injure him as long as Lin Yenian wasn’t using the Rainbow Sound Sword.

However, what he did not expect was for Lin Yenian to directly give up his sword!

While Qin Lie snatched the Rainbow Sound Sword, Lin Yenian used a strange footwork technique to suddenly slip from his armpits to his back like a slippery mud fish.

Before he could react, Lin Yenian abruptly jumped onto him from the back and tightly gripped his shoulders. With his entire body pushing down from Qin Lie’s back, he used every bit of his remaining strength to yell, “Xiahou Tai! Stab his forehead with the Frost Bone Thorn and crush his head directly! Quickly take him out!”

Lin Yenian’s arms were tattooed with an extremely bizarre and strange, greenish brown vine picture.

While the vines on his arms grew madly, a dark green wood spirit energy gushed out from both his arms, causing them to become unbelievably tenacious and filled with great gripping power as if his arms had turned into a ten thousand year old vine demon.

At the same time, Lin Yenian’s legs tightened around Qin Lie’s with the same method.

They felt just like two thick vines.

Even with Qin Lie’s abnormal physique and strength, he wasn’t able to struggle out of Lin Yenian’s grip.

Although he had gripped Lin Yenian’s Rainbow Sound Sword, he wasn’t able to find a good angle at all to reverse stab the sword at Lin Yenian, who was sticking to his back like glue, to force him off his back.

Lin Yenian himself was extremely cunning. After he hid himself behind Qin Lie, he curled himself up and hid his head under the Qin Lie’s nape.

This foiled Qin Lie’s thoughts of stabbing Lin Yenian’s head with the Rainbow Sound Sword as well.

So Qin Lie channeled the Frost Art and filled his body with an intense frost energy, but Lin Yenian grit his teeth and endured it without a sound.

Then, Qin Lie unleashed Heavenly Thunder Eradication and blasted bolts of lightning into Lin Yenian’s body from his back behind his heart.

However, Lin Yenian was a middle stage Netherpassage Realm martial practitioner after all. He had immense spirit energy, and thus both the frost and lightning energies were both entangled by the wood spirit energy upon entering into his body. Consequently, Qin Lie wasn’t able to severely injure him in a short period of time.

As for the power of earth, it was good for defending, but no so much for offense. It would similarly be ineffective against Lin Yenian.

The Blood Spirit Art techniques could only be unleashed when he was directly facing Lin Yenian, so he wasn’t able to explode Lin Yenian to death in an instant either.

Qin Lie howled and struggled madly as he angrily grit his teeth, but he wasn’t able to find a way to quickly escape Lin Yenian’s grasp.

“Yenian! Well done! Just hold on for a bit longer! I’m coming!”

Xiahou Tai, who wielded the Frost Bone Thorn, was the closest to Qin Lie. He laughed savagely as he flew towards Qin Lie.

He only needed to stab forward with the Frost Bone Thorn and pierce Qin Lie’s forehead while Qin Lie was immobilized by Lin Yenian to immediately kill him.

“He’s dead.”

This was the unanimous thought of the six Illusory Demon Sect girls and Du Xiangyang.

After all, they themselves would not have been able to escape Qin Lie’s predicament had they been in his position.

This was pretty much a situation of certain death.

Illusory Demon Sect’s Huang Zhuli had even turned her head away to observe Chu Li.

She believed that Qin Lie’s ending was already decided.

“Ah!” It was at this moment she heard Pan Qianqian crying out, “This person, this person… is so ruthless! He’s even so ruthless towards himself!”

Huang Zhuli abruptly turned back towards Qin Lie and shuddered as tremendous shock surged into her eyes.

“Holy shit! What a man! What a true man!” Du Xiangyang abruptly cried out in an odd tone.

Just as Xiahou Tai had been about to reach him, Qin Lie had grit his teeth and resolutely stabbed the Rainbow Sound Sword at the spot beneath his heart.

He actually pierced his own body with that strike!

The tip of the Rainbow Sound Sword pierced through his body, coming out from his lungs and continuing forwards!

It directly pierced right through Lin Ye’s neck curled up behind him.

It was a one hit kill!

At a glance, the Rainbow Sound Sword was like the wooden pole of a sugar coated Chinese hawthorn fruit stringing both Lin Yenian and him together as one.

Qin Lie was severely injured, but at least he was still alive.

However, Lin Yenian had perished on the spot!