Spirit Realm Chapter 459-462

Chapter 459: Deference

“Strange. How did she know that you’re cultivating the Blood Spirit Art from so far away?”

A few minutes after Xue Moyan had left, Song Tingyu came out from inside a clump of tree leaves. A five-colored light ray was rippling magically around her body.

Qin Lie was inside the light ray as well.

When he’d detected Xue Moyan’s approach, he immediately withdrew the blank tombstone and told Song Tingyu to use the spirit artifact and hide their presence. The duo then hid themselves inside it.

The duo had stuck close to each other and placed themselves inside the small light barrier. Through the tree leaves, they watched Xue Moyan searching around with a deeply suspicious look before ultimately leaving with great reluctance.

Since Xue Moyan had left the place already, Song Tingyu slowly withdrew the colorful light barrier.

While sniffing the fragrance from Song Tingyu and pressing close to her shapely and attractive body, Qin Lie couldn’t help but feel a little hot on the inside as he began to think of certain things.

In silence, he continued to stick close to Song Tingyu while his eyes shone with a fiery and passionate light.

“Why are you avoiding her? You should tell her the relationship between you and Xue Li. You should have befriended her as soon as possible; this will be beneficial to our future activities in the Graveyard of the Gods…” Song Tingyu muttered in a small voice.

Qin Lie still didn’t say anything.

Feeling strange on the inside, Song Tingyu turned around to glance at him before she froze suddenly. An intoxicating blush quietly appeared on her beautiful face.

She had noticed the passion in Qin Lie’s eyes in first glance, and knew what Qin Lie was thinking in his mind right now.

“This scoundrel…”

Song Tingyu scolded on the inside, but was smart enough to keep silent at this opportune moment.

When they were hiding inside the bush, Song Tingyu was at the front while Qin Lie was at the back. They were leaning close to each other and could feel each other’s body temperature clearly and even hear the faint but rapid heartbeats.

The atmosphere was incredibly charming and gentle right now.

A dozen or so seconds later, Qin Lie subconsciously hugged Song Tingyu’s sexy body into his arms.

Amidst soft cries, Song Tingyu’s half-lidded eyes watched on as Qin Lie’s face swiftly grew larger in her vision.

In the next moment, Qin Lie suddenly leaned close and kissed her.

“Mn…”

She did not put up any resistance at all. Song Tingyu closed her eyes obediently and returned his kiss passionately.

“Sha sha!”

The sounds of leaves and their own bodies rustling against each other resounded from within the tree leaves.

“Bang!”

Qin Lie, finding himself unable to move as he wanted inside the tree leaves, suddenly dropped down from the tree while holding Song Tingyu.

While hugging each other, the duo dropped beneath the tree with Song Tingyu’s back pressed against the tree. A pair of big hands explored her shapely body and the seductive valleys and peaks without restraint.

Song Tingyu’s eyes were lost and distant as she panted in a soft tone. The impressive blush that appeared on her neck was literally irresistible.

She had a tall figure and her bosom was round and full. The bounciness of her breasts were equally amazing, and Qin Lie loved it so much that he couldn’t wait to make all kinds of shapes with them.

Another one of Qin Lie’s hands roamed down her back and attacked her secret spot wantonly, invading the private area that belonged to him and him alone.

Song Tingyu did not even put on a token resistance. She was completely lost in both heart and body.

She had already acknowledged Qin Lie fully inside her heart. When she was infected with the voodoo toxin, losing both her life and soul energy little by little while being hunted by Black Voodoo Cult’s martial practitioners relentlessly—

—she had already made up her mind to not hesitate and hide her feelings if she could run into Qin Lie once more.

Just when she thought she was about to die a horrible death and never see Qin Lie again, the gods actually seemed to heed her prayer and presented Qin Lie before her!

Qin Lie had successfully saved her from the claws of the Black Voodoo Cult’s followers.

After that, for a period of time Qin Lie attempted all kinds of methods in order to cure the voodoo poison. When he discovered that nothing was working, he then carried her on his back and set out with the goal of finding Ye Yihao and killing the mother insect so he could save her from the poison.

Even she did not hold any hope at all and thought that Qin Lie would fail in his attempt. She did not think that she would be able to survive.

But Qin Lie ultimately succeeded in acquiring the voodoo insect’s blood!

As a result, she was pulled back from the edges of death through the use of one drop of voodoo insect blood.

Everything Qin Lie did for her sake, she saw. From Du Xiangyang and Chu Li, she even learned that Qin Lie had charged regardless of all perils into an area covered with voodoo toxin and fought the Eight-winged Centipede Queen bravely…

Everything Qin Lie did filled her heart up with his figure until it was full.

She had completely acknowledged Qin Lie in both body and mind.

Therefore, she could not raise even a bit of resistance towards Qin Lie’s needs at all.

Her clothes were pulled open, revealing a huge area of her white breasts. Her white, jade-like skin was glowing with such an attractive luster that it was as if a person’s eyeballs would become sucked to it.

Qin Lie had completely fallen for her charm.

“Tap tap! Tap tap!”

A rapid series of footsteps swiftly returned from afar.

The duo who was about to lose control swiftly broke out of their trance as Song Tingyu hurriedly covered them both with the light shield once more.

The duo’s figure swiftly became invisible.

Xue Moyan’s beautiful figure had appeared into the opening once more. Her suspicious eyes observed her surroundings for a moment before she ultimately left again in dejection.

A long time later.

The light shield beneath the tree was released as the duo’s figure showed up once more. With half a breast exposed and a face filled with embarrassment and a playful pout, she said, “Thank goodness I reacted in time, or, or…”

The fiery passion in Qin Lie’s eyes too faded bit by bit as he grinned, “Or what?”

“Or we would’ve been caught red-handed.” Song Tingyu smiled beautifully and lightly pushed him away, “You scoundrel. It hasn’t been that long since the voodoo toxin on me was cured, but you’re already thinking about bad things. Thank goodness Xue Moyan came back, or I would’ve been preyed on by you already. You pervert!”

She pulled back her disheveled hair flirtatiously without a hint of anger on her face at all. Her cheerful expression obviously showed that she was not angry.

“Right, I never finished my question just now. Why are you avoiding meeting up with her? I believe that you should explain the relationship between the two of you while possible and ally with Illusory Demon Sect sooner.” Song Tingyu brought up business once more.

“I promised Xue Li that I would do my best to help her inside the Graveyard of the Gods if I see her. However, it would seem that I couldn’t help her out much at all, and telling her about my relationship with Xue Li would make it look like I’m requesting something from her through this connection or something. After all, she is stronger than us right now, and she herself is pretty strong-willed person.” Qin Lie touched his own chin.

“Ah?”

Song Tingyu began making a fuss, “Since when are you so good at understanding others? Oh, wait a second, you’re good at undressing others as well…” she glanced at her own clothes and said not too subtly.

Qin Lie let out a dry laugh.

“Didn’t you care for her at every turn when we first met her? Don’t tell me it is all because of Xue Li?” Song Tingyu could not quite believe it.

“Xue Moyan may appear to be extremely strong right now, but, sigh, her lifespan is limited. If she does not have a fortuitous encounter in this examination and acquire a precious holy medicine, she…”

Qin Lie shook his head, “This girl is actually pretty pitiful. Adding that to my friendship with Xue Li, I believe that it is best that I aid her from the shadows as much as I can. I do not want to give her too much trouble. As you know, I am a restless person, and my luck has always been kind of rotten. Trouble comes to me very easily. If I told her about our relationship too early, I may cause her to fall into my trouble so soon that she does not have the time to sort out her own things.”

“You do not want to disturb her own pace?” Song Tingyu came to a realization.

Qin Lie nodded slightly.

“Bzz bzz zzz!”

An odd noise abruptly rang from inside his spatial ring. Before he could figure out the cause, the Eight-winged Centipede Queen’s wings abruptly flew out of his spatial ring.

Qin Lie and Song Tingyu’s expressions changed at the same time.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

The eight wings abruptly flapped towards the distance and vanished in a flash. They looked like arrows that had pierced through the air.

“It must be Ye Yihao’s doing!” Qin Lie snorted.

“What powerful summoning strength. You’ve already put all eight wings inside the spatial ring, but the mother insect was still able to detect them,” Song Tingyu said while feeling shocked on the inside.

“Ye Yihao may be coming up with some new scheme very soon.” Qin Lie smelled something fishy from this.

“Should I notify Chu Li and the others?”

“Mn.”

At the same time, the token around his waist let out a melodious ring.

The token belonged to Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. The ringing meant that the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners had also discovered his location.

Qin Lie grabbed the token and probed around for a bit. His expression grew heavier and heavier, “Those guys from Ten Thousand Beast Mountain had come over.”

“If they dare come to us at this kind of time, they must have found some powerful reinforcements.” Song Tingyu thought for a moment before saying with certainty, “They must have met with the core ringer of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain, Yu Men!”

Chapter 460: Flesh Sacrifice

Song Tingyu’s judgment was correct.

A fifty kilometers away, after Niu Shaojun locked onto Qin Lie’s position using a Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain token, he turned his head and said to someone beside him, “I found them!”

The person he was talking to was a tall, dark-skinned young man.

He was almost two meters tall, clad in beast skin, and was as stalwart as a mountain. Every muscle on his body was bulging, and he had a head of long hair resting carelessly on his shoulders.

His entire being gave off an extremely wild, brutal, and savage feeling that terrorized others.

A few days ago, Niu Shaojun had appeared extremely arrogant and forceful in front of Qin Lie, Chu Li, Luo Chen, and the others. Even when he was before Xue Moyan, he had not an ounce of respect in him at all.

However, when he was looking at this person, Niu Shaojun’s eyes were filled with fearful respect.

He was deeply afraid of this person.

Naturally, this man was none other than Yu Men, leader of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain’s new generation. He was at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm, well versed in all sorts of rare Ten Thousand Beast Mountain spirit arts and could communicate with spirit beasts since young.

It was said that Yu Men was exiled to the land of ferocious beasts when young. He had lived alone like an animal and experienced all kinds of trials.

He had a heart and tenacity that was like a wild animal’s, and even now it was rumored that this man enjoyed eating raw meat and drinking a spirit beast’s blood, living the life of half a man and half a beast.

He struck fear in many of his peers at Ten Thousand Beast Mountain.

Niu Shaojun’s heart might have been sinister and his methods cruel, but he was also afraid of Yu Men.

“Chu Li was the one who killed our men?” Yu Men asked.

“Mm. Chu Li, a person called Qin Lie, Luo Chen, and Du Xiangyang,” Niu Shajun said affirmatively.

“These people had formed an alliance?” Yu Men frowned.

When he frowned, the wrinkles on his forehead actually pressed together to form a natural “王”. It looked just like a king of beast’s symbol.

“It probably isn’t a solid alliance, but a temporary one,” Niu Shaojun answered.

“Both Chu Li and Luo Chen are hurt?”

“Yes, and their injuries aren’t light too!”

“Mn.”

Yu Men nodded and said in a raspy voice, “There are no friends in the Graveyard of the Gods. It doesn’t matter if enmity exists between Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and them. If we have a chance to kill them, we don’t let go of it!”

Niu Shaojun’s expression turned joyful.

“It isn’t just Terminator Sect and Heavenly Sword Mountain.” Yu Men snorted. “This guideline applies to everyone!”

“Understood!” The Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners behind them exclaimed in unison.

……

At a secluded corner of the forest.

An ancient tree that looked like it would wither away was now glowing with new life. Soft shoots were appearing on its bald tree trunk once more.

This ancient tree’s roots were deeply buried underground and looked rather spectacular just like a large human heart. They were emanating a terrific life energy.

Many of the lively trees around it had their energy extracted and refined, swiftly wilting and rotting away.

Meanwhile, the ancient tree grew more and more exuberant.

Ye Yihao was sitting beneath the old tree. Many soft tree branches were entangled onto Ye Yihao’s body like ropes. They were glowing with a dark green luster and were quietly transferring energy into his nerves and blood vessels.

At his heart, the Eight-winged Centipede Queen lay quietly as its body expanded. It looked like it was putting effort into taking a deep breath.

Three larvae crawled into the brains of the three martial practitioners dressed in the clothes of Heavenly Sword Mountain, Heavenly Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. Their eyes were empty and lifeless, and they sat in a triangle beside Ye Yihao.

Tendrils of visible flesh and blood energy were pouring non-stop into Ye Yihao’s chest and entering his heart.

The bodies of these three people swiftly shriveled like meat chunks that had been eroding for many years. There was not a bit of life left in them.

They looked just like salted meat that was being dried at a fast rate.

A few Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners were standing not far beside Ye Yihao as the dark eyes beneath their black robes stared closely at Ye Yihao’s heart.

They knew very well that what Ye Yihao was unleashing right now was an ancient voodoo art of the Black Voodoo Cult—Flesh Sacrifice.

Through the flesh sacrifice of three offerings, Ye Yihao was healing the Eight-winged Centipede Queen’s wounds while aiding it in summoning its eight broken wings.

“Bzz zzz zzz!”

The Eight-winged Centipede Queen let out an odd whistle that shook the very earth and nearly burst the eardrums of the people around it.

Ye Yihao’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.

The mother insect’s shrill whistle lasted for a whole hour.

“Swoosh swoosh!”

The eight wings that had separated from its body abruptly returned and instantly landed on its body.

The Eight-winged Centipede Queen settled once more.

“Poof poof poof!”

The three martial practitioners who were used as offerings in the flesh sacrifice abruptly exploded and caused blood to be splattered everywhere.

The three larvae flew out from amidst the exploding flesh and flew into Ye Yihao’s chest, returning to their mother’s side.

Tendrils of soft and gentle tree branches abruptly fell down from the ancient tree and lay on top of that splattered blood.

The tree branches were instantly dyed red.

“Glug! Glug!”

The blood droplets swiftly vanished as if they were being sucked in by the tree branches.

Even the scattered meat bits were devoured by the tree branches. The branches lowered by the ancient trees were like straws that were feeding on the blood and flesh bits scattered around the area, devouring the three blown up martial practitioners completely.

A dark green light appeared at the center of Ye Yihao’s forehead. A small, pocket-sized tree imprint appeared from inside the halo.

A strange energy swiftly entered his mind consciousness through the imprint at his forehead, swiftly establishing a connection with Ye Yihao.

“Relax, I’ll bring you out of this place. I will leave the Graveyard of the Gods alive!” Ye Yihao appeared to be talking to himself, “But before this, I want you to help me kill all my enemies inside this forest!”

“Sha sha sha!”

As if responding to Ye Yihao’s words, the ancient tree’s branches began to twist madly.

They appeared incredibly bizarre.

……

“What? The eight wings of the Eight-winged Centipede Queen actually flew out of Qin Lie’s spatial ring?” He Wei opened her eyes wide with a look of disbelief.

Chu Li, the Terminator Sect martial practitioners, and Du Xiangyang came over when they heard this.

Song Tingyu explained the situation once more.

After they were finished listening, both Chu Li and Du Xiangyang frowned, thinking that Ye Yihao had probably used some secret arts to summon the mother insect’s broken wings back to his side.

“This means that Ye Yihao has probably recovered already.” Chu Li’s expression was severe, “Strange. Technically speaking, he should have been hurt quite badly. How did he recover so quickly?”

“Black Voodoo Cult has a lot of evil arts.” Du Xiangyang sighed.

Everyone turned silent in an instant.

“Where’s Qin Lie?” Chu Li looked behind Song Tingyu.

“He is reforming his True Soul. It will take a few more days,” Song Tingyu answered. After a moment of thought, she said, “Illusory Demon Sect knows the Black Voodoo Cult the best. Du Xiangyang, do you wish to tell them about this news and ask for their opinion?”

“Okay!” Du Xiangyang agreed immediately.

He took out his own sword token and seeped his mind consciousness into it. He immediately detected the two groups’ existence.

One group of people was obviously made up of Luo Chen, Zhao Xuan, and Zhang Chendong. The other group was Illusory Demon Sect under Xue Moyan.

He chose to establish a mind connection with Xue Moyan through the sword token and briefly spoke with her.

The crowd looked at him.

A while later, Du Xiangyang’s expression slowly turned solemn. He withdrew the sword token and exclaimed in a heavy tone, “Xue Moyan said that Ye Yihao has used a Black Voodoo Cult ancient voodoo art and recovered the voodoo insect’s broken wings through a flesh sacrifice. She said that if Ye Yihao could execute a flesh sacrifice, then he must have almost fully recovered already. Moreover, he could also determine our location through the summoned broken wing, so she told us to be careful and keep in contact with her. She said that they will join us soon.”

“Notify Luo Chen too,” He Wei said softly.

Du Xiangyang looked blank for a moment before he chuckled, “Don’t you hate him?”

Du Xiangyang wasn’t the only one who suffered defeat by Luo Chen’s hands during the competition for Heavenly Sword Mountain’s core seed position. He Wei was not an exception.

Moreover, He Wei was even injured during the battle.

Du Xiangyang thought that He Wei would hold a grudge against Luo Chen and wish for his ignorance and subsequently, death.

“Why should I hate him?” He Wei curled her lips and said, “He hurt me in a fair and square fight. I am not so petty, not to mention that we need Luo Chen’s strength right now.”

After a pause, He Wei said again, “Luo Chen may be a disgusting person, but his strength is undeniable.”

“That is true.” Du Xiangyang admitted, “In the Graveyard of the Gods, there aren’t many people who can beat this guy one on one. Even Ye Yihao had next to no chance of killing Luo Chen if he hadn’t borrowed the power of both the forest and numbers!”

They had both dueled Luo Chen before, and if they ignore his temper, then it seemed they did think quite highly of Luo Chen’s strength.

……

At Xue Moyan’s side.

The six girls were cultivating on their own at different locations within the forest.

Xue Moyan had just ended her conversation with Du Xiangyang when she stood up and cried out loudly, “Everyone come over. There is news. We will be joining Chu Li’s group again.”

Pan Qianqian, Huang Zhuli, and the other two girls quickly came over and asked questions clamorously.

“Where’s Little Yun?” Xue Moyan asked.

“She’s right above that tree at the front,” Pan Qianqian answered.

“Go call her for a moment,” Xue Moyan instructed.

Pan Qianqian laughed softly before chasing forward like a wisp of clear wind, “This girl, she must have fallen asleep during her cultivation, or there’s no way she couldn’t hear sister Xue so close to her.”

Like a floating willow, she streaked up the tree leaves and was about to wake the Illusory Demon Sect girl with a shout.

“Ah!”

Suddenly, a terrible cry rang from Pan Qianqian’s mouth.

Standing on top of the tree trunk, Pan Qianqian covered her mouth and stared at Little Yun amidst the tree leaves. She broke out into a cry and said, “Little Yun, what’s happened to you Little Yun? Don’t scare me!”

The four girls’s expressions changed as they hurried to her side.

Xue Moyan was the first to arrive beside Pan Qianqian. When she uncovered the tree leaves and took a look, she took cried out in surprise.

Like a porcupine, the girl amidst the tree leaves was completely punctured by tree branches. She actually died a long time ago.

No one knew when she died.

No one knew how she was killed either. They never even heard the sounds of fighting.

The five girls looked terribly saddened as they stared in shock and fear at the young girl’s corpse. They searched everywhere, hoping to find some kind of clue that could tell what happened.

At the same time.

Qin Lie was cultivating hard beneath an ancient tree with his eyes closed. He was gathering his True Soul back bit by bit.

He did not know that the tree branches above his head had suddenly become sharp blades that inched soundlessly towards him.

Chapter 461: The Forest of Death

A dozen gray-brown tree branches as thick a fingers and long as a dozen meters gradually descended from the tree.

It looked as though this ancient tree was reaching out with long tentacles to grab something below.

But there was only Qin Lie under the tree.

At this moment, Qin Lie was still immersed in his own world. He was focusing his mind consciousness to reform his True Soul.

The third stage of the Heavenly Thunder Eradication was using thunder and lightning energy to temper the True Soul. It would cause the True Soul to contain the power of thunder and lightning and not have the weakness of being weak to attacks of lightning.

His cultivation was in a good state. If he continued like that, he would be able to finish this stage of the Heavenly Thunder Eradication in Netherpassage Realm.

When this stage of the Heavenly Thunder Eradication was completed, every thread of his mind consciousness would contain the power of thunder and lightning!

In the future when he fought other people, he could use his mind consciousness to permeate another’s mind and use thunder and lightning to destroy their True Soul!

Mind consciousness that contained the power of thunder and lightning would reach a faster speed by moving through the air. It would directly increase the offensive abilities of his True Soul.

The tree branches were like sharp swords. After a period of slow descent, just as they were about to come close to his head, they suddenly sped up!

Like arrows leaving bows, the dozen tree branches stabbed towards Qin Lie’s head, neck, organs, and other vital spots.

“Pop! Pop! Pop!”

Qin Lie’s body gave off a burst of popping as though he was attacked powerfully.

Bleeding wounds appeared at his head, neck and chest. Blood shot out.

“Argh!”

Qin Lie suddenly howled at the sky. His bones cracked and popped. A great power of blood suddenly erupted from his body.

The bright yellow power of the earth which carried intimidating frost energy erupted from every one of his pores. It formed a furious wave that cut off the dozen tree branches.

Qin Lie’s eyes suddenly became cold. He raised his head to look at the tree. “They say that all things are alive, today, I’ve finally confirmed that!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Tens of thousands of tree branches filled the sky, falling like a rain of arrows.

All of them aimed at Qin Lie.

“No matter whether you are truly alive or being manipulated by Ye Yihao’s soul, I will destroy you completely!” Qin Lie snorted coldly, “Burn for me!”

Three drops of scarlet blood flew out of his hands. They turned into a great fire that filled the sky and lit up this ancient tree.

At the same time, blood flowed through Qin Lie’s blood vessels and like a streak of blood, he moved out from under the tree.

The rain of branches shot towards where he had originally been standing and completely covered this area with arrow like tree branches.

“Crack crack!”

After attacking with all of its might, the ancient tree was drowned in the sea of fire. All of the greenery, all of its vitality was burned away by the great fire.

At the same moment.

Yu Men and the martial practitioners of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain were moving in the woods and heading in the direction where Qin Lie and the others were gathering.

When they came to a dense patch of trees, the leaves that swayed in the wind and the branches suddenly came alive.

Those tree branches also turned into sharp arrows that shot madly at Yu Men, Niu Shaojun, and the others.

Caught off guard, two Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners were unable to use their spirit power to protect their body in time. Their bodies were also not as strong as Qin Lie’s.

They were immediately poked full of holes by the tree branches.

“Damn it!” Niu Shaojun’s face darkened. He hurriedly avoided the wave of attacks and shouted angrily, “It definitely is Ye Yihao’s doing!”

“He cultivates a wood spirit art and does have the skill to manipulate ancient trees. This guy found the forest and hasn’t left because he wants to use the land here to eliminate all others.” Yu Men snorted. “He’d better not meet me!”

On the other side.

Chu Li, Du Xiangyan, Song Tingyu, and their group were also attacked by the ancient trees in another grove.

Fortunately, there was Du Xiangyan. He cultivated a flame spirit art and it was the perfect bane of the ancient trees in the forest. They had coincidentally been gathered together in a discussion so they had managed to avoid the attack in time.

Subsequently, Du Xiangyan attacked the nearest ancient trees with fire and burned all of them to black ash before he relaxed.

In a corner of the forest.

Ye Yihao sat under the ancient tree filled with vitality. Branches coiled around his body. There was a little ancient tree mark at the center of his forehead. It blinked as though it was communicating with him.

The martial practitioners of Black Voodoo Cult, Lin Dongxing, Xiahou Yuan, Su Yan and the others were also gathered around him.

They all looked at him with both awe and fear.

A long time later, Ye Yihao opened his eyes. His eyes were an eerie oily green as though tender tree seedlings were growing in his eyes. “I killed a few people but did not kill anyone important. It seems that we need to act ourselves.”

Xiahou Yuan and the others bowed slightly but did not speak.

“You should have recovered almost completely?” Ye Yihao asked.

Everyone nodded.

“Good, then follow behind the Tree God and search with me to find the nearest person to attack,” Ye Yihao shouted.

The branches coiled around him suddenly became as soft as cotton and pulled him up into the leaves.

The complex root network of this tree brimming with vitality started to slowly move.

The ancient tree was moving!

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Beside a burning ancient tree, Qin Lie suddenly appeared. With a glance, he saw Song Tingyu and others’ expressions of lingering fear.

“Were you also attacked by the ancient trees?” Qin Lie shouted.

“You too?” Song Tingyu was surprised.

“Mn.” Qin Lie’s expression was serious as he said, “Ye Yihao should have recovered. He cultivates a wood spirit art, an ancient voodoo spell of the Black Voodoo Cult, it is very eerie. Here, he seems able to control the ancient trees. We need to be careful from now on, and be wary of the flora around us!”

“It seems that it will not be so easy to walk out of this forest.” He Wei felt a headache coming on.

“Xue Moyan will come soon.” Du Xiangyan held a sword seal. After probing for a while, he said, “Luo Chen is also nearby.”

Everyone was surprised.

“We will discuss after they’ve come,” Qin Lie said.

“Mn.”

An hour later.

Xue Moyan of Illusory Demon Sect walked over with four young females. They all wore dim expressions and were in low moods.

“Have you also encountered trouble?” Du Xiangyan called out.

“One of our sisters is dead, we have not found the culprit yet, she was shot to death by tree branches,” Pan Qianqian said serenely.

“The culprit is Ye Yihao, there’s no need to search. You were not the only ones, we were also attacked.” Du Xiangyan pointed at the burning trees. “They were the ones who attacked.” He then explained in detail.

After listening to Du Xiangyan’s explanation, the five women from Illusory Demon Sect gradually came to an understanding.

“Ye Yihao! Him again!” Xue Moyan gritted her teeth and her eyes were cold as she shouted.

“Luo Chen has also come!” He Wei said in a small voice.

Everyone turned their heads to look in the other way.

Luo Chen appeared in the distance with three other people. Other than Zhao Yuan and Zhang Chendong, there was another Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioner that he had found.

“We were also attacked, by trees!” Luo Chen said coldly.

Everyone nodded in understanding. They did not say anything more.

“We must stay here together or think of a way to leave this forest.” Song Tingyu stood next to Qin Lie. Her beautiful eyes gazed at the group and she suddenly said, “How did everyone get in? Do you know how to get out?”

“Are we lost?” Du Xiangyan grimaced.

He was like Qin Lie and had come from the Land of Fire. Not long after entering this vast endless forest, he had lost his direction.

He could not find the way back.

Song Tingyu looked at the others. He found that Xue Moyan, Chu Li, and the others were all shaking their heads as though they did not know the way out.

But Luo Chen who was standing the furtherest away from the group frowned. He suddenly said, “I know how to get out of this forest.”

When these words were spoken, everyone looked at him in joyful surprise.

“You do?” He Wei said in shock.

“I came from a place filled with thunder and lightning. Heavenly lightning would come down occasionally. Even I felt a headache there. When I found that the forest was peaceful, I naturally came in. I had not expected …” Luo Chen shook his head and said with a frown, “that this isn’t a good place either.”

“You know the way out?” Du XIangyan said in surprise.

“I know the general direction,” Luo Chen said proudly.

“What does everyone think?” Du Xiangyan looked at the group. “It is not wise to stay and fight against Ye Yihao here. Why don’t we first leave and then think it out?”

“Our Illusory Demon Sect is prepared to leave,” Xue Moyan expressed.

“I was dropped here from the beginning. I also want to visit other parts of the Graveyard of Gods.” Chu Li nodded.

“Qin Lie, you?” Du Xiangyang asked.

“Hah, of course I’m going with you,” Qin Lie said with a smile.

His eyes were bright. “A place full of thunder and lightning?”

Right now, his third stage of Heavenly Thunder Eradication, Thunder Lightning Soul Refinement, was at a crucial stage.

At this time, if he could find a place filled with thunder and lightning, and used this outside thunder and lightning to help him refine his soul, it would greatly increase his cultivation speed!

This Graveyard of Gods was clearly divided into different areas. Each area was filled with all kinds of wonders.

In the Land of Fire, there were meteors that rained down. He had also found the corpse of a Fire Qilin through the blank tombstone.

This dense forest seemed to hide evil tree spirits. The wonder of this place could be seen from how the ancient trees knew to attack them.

Would there also be other beings related to thunder and lightning in that area of thunder and lightning?

If there were, would they be of great benefit to him, someone that cultivated a thunder spirit art and needed thunder and lightning to refine his soul?

At the very least, in the area of thunder and lightning, he would have an absolute advantage like Ye Yihao in this forest.

At the very least, he was not afraid of being attacked by thunder and lightning!

“He would beg for a place of thunder and lightning!” Chu Li chuckled.

Coming from Terminator Sect, he knew the thunder and lightning spirit art that Qin Lie cultivated was extremely wondrous. He also knew that Qin Lie was refining his soul using thunder and lightning. He knew that Qin Lie would be like a fish in the water in the area of thunder and lightning.

In that place, even Ye Yihao would not be able to easily match Qin Lie!

“Luo Chen, lead the way for us!” loudly said Du Xiangyan as he saw that they reached a consensus.

Luo Chen nodded.

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Chapter 462: Difficult to Avoid One’s Enemies

Everyone quickly found a common goal—leave this forest first.

Luo Chen was responsible for leading the way.

Every tree in the vast forest was more than a dozen meters tall. The trees covered the sky. When people walked through the forest, they felt only darkness and cold.

Especially when people realized that each of the ancient trees was a potential threat.

Luo Chen walked in the front of the group silently. Zhao Yuan, Zhang Chendong, and a martial practitioner from Heavenly Sword Mountain were following at a measured pace behind him.

Behind the Zhao Yuan and others were Xue Moyan and the females from Illusory Demon Sect.

These five young females were of few words. Their expressions were alert, paying attention to the ancient trees around them.

Qin Lie, Chu Li, Du Xiangyang, and their group were in the back, maintaining a distance from Xue Moyan up ahead.

“I feel that these trees have eyes. I feel like Ye Yihao can find our positions through them.” He Wei had been feeling discomfort along the way. Beneath the trees, she felt uncomfortable all over.

“Hss, hss, hss!”

As she spoke, she heard the sound of the leaves moving in the wind. The noise caused her to become nervous.

“Maybe I am just paranoid.” He Wei smiled in self-scorn.

“I hope it is so,” Du Xiangyang added with a helpless grimace. “This forest is full of trees everywhere. I cannot burn all the trees wherever I go. Hah, I am just a Netherpassage Realm martial practitioner. I do not have the ability to burn the entire forest using my fire spirit art. Also, flora here clearly has simple intelligence, so I would need to constantly add fire power.”

“We also do not have the time to wait for you to do that.” Chu Li’s brow creased and he snorted. He said, “Ye Yihao could only try to mount a sneak attack on us through these trees when we were unguarded. Now that we are on our guard, it will not be so easy if he wants to kill us.”

“I agree.” Du Xiangyang smiled.

Qin Lie and Song Tingyu walked side by side at the back.

“How are you?” Song Tingyu’s eyes were bright as she asked in a quiet voice.

“What?” Qin Lie was stunned.

“How has the formation of your True Soul been?”

“Almost done, I hope that we can reach the area covered by lightning and thunder as soon as possible. I have a feeling that the third stage of my Heavenly Thunder Eradication, and the progression of my realm will possibly be realized there.” Qin Lie’s eyes were filled with ambition.

“If you can enter the intermediate stage of the Netherpassage Realm, you will truly have the power to protect yourself in the Graveyard of Gods!” Song Tingyu said excitedly.

“Mn, only then might I be able to match those geniuses.” Qin Lie glanced at Luo Chen at the front of the group.

He had a general guess of Luo Chen’s true power.

Many days ago when Luo Cheng had fought against Lin Dongxing and Xiahou Yuan, he had focused and observed from the side.

Even exhausted and heavily injured, the power of Luo Chen’s sword strike was enough to create a deep mark on the hard ground. Qin Lie still clearly remembered that terrifying and sharp presence.

Luo Chen’s “Half Moon Slash” was like a crescent moon falling down. It was eye-catching and peerless in power. The power it contained surpassed even the strength of average Fulfillment Realm martial practitioners.

This was a move that could allow Luo Chen to fight above his level and kill early stage Fulfillment Realm martial practitioners. It was a terrifying sword art that would allow him to show his true power.

Qin Lie concluded that it wasn’t very likely for him to stop Luo Chen at full power in his current state.

Chu Li had killed two Su Family martial practitioners under the attack of five.

Then, he had showed his dominance among the barrage from five martial practitioners that were poisoned with the voodoo toxin.

After these two hard battles, he still showed himself when he entered into the battle against Ye Yihao.

Chu Li was also astounding in his battle capabilities.

He had not seen Xue Moyan fight at her true power, but he knew that Xue Moyan was still skilled in all the secret arts of Blood Fiend Sect that she had not used yet.

He believed that Xue Moyan was also terrifying.

Other than these three, Yu Men of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain and Feng Yiyou of Heavenly Artifact Sect were famous in the Land of Chaos. They were the winners of the explorations they had experienced within their own factions and were the best of their area.

They also could not be underestimated!

There was also a Ye Yihao that was recovering…

Qin Lie realized that there were many vicious beasts hidden around him. He needed to do everything possible to strengthen himself in order to live to the end of this bloody banquet.

Each step in this land was filled with danger.

There were some enemies that he had yet to encounter. He wasn’t sure if there were other beings in this secret realm called the “Graveyard of Gods.”

If he was so unfortunate to encounter them, how could he survive without sufficient power?

Without realizing it, they came to a place filled with trees and strange vines.

“Be careful, this place doesn’t feel right,” Du Xiangyang reminded everyone. He channelled his spirit art. Circles of orange-red flames suddenly sprouted from his body.

A clear orange-red shield of light wrapped around his body like a goose shell.

“Everyone, take care,” Xue Moyan called out as well.

The clothing of the Illusory Demon Sect members suddenly glowed. They seemed to be woven from rainbow light as they became a thin shield that protected their entire bodies.

He Wei and the people of Terminator Sect copied them and used spirit power to form a protective shield.

The group seemed to have become lanterns, each of them having bright glowing shields of light as they used spirit power to protect their bodies.

Only Luo Chen, Chu Li, and Xue Moyan, people that were absolutely confident in themselves were not so cautious. They did not act.

However, sharp sword intent came from Luo Chen’s body.

The spirit armor that Chu Li wore seemed to glitter with light and he was wary inside.

“Ah!”

A terrified shout came from the mouth of the Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioner at the front. The silver shield he had suddenly cracked like an egg.

The strange vines closest to him immediately turned into a demon. Countless vines wrapped around him.

At the same time, the nearby shrubbery became sharp saws that cut at him.

This person immediately was covered in wounds and blood.

Everyone looked at him. They all started to panic and shout in shock.

Subsequently, all of the strange vines and shrubs seemed to become bloodthirsty and furiously attacked them.

A strange atmosphere formed here and caused them to feel terror.

“Little Ye!” Pan Qianqian cried in pain.

This was a female from Illusory Demon Sect that was about twenty. She was tiny, adorable, and had a middle Netherpassage Realm cultivation.

She had been completely swallowed by a banana-like shrub. The enormous shrub seemed to chew, and Pan Qianqian, being close, could hear the sound of her bones cracking.

“Pew!”

At the front, the chest of Zhao Yuan, who came from Scarlet Tide Continent’s Joyful Union Sect, was penetrated by a vine. Blood spilled rapidly from the wound.

The light in his eyes quickly faded.

“Careful! Protect those around you!” Chu Li shouted furiously as he pulled He Wei next to him. His expression was savage. “Bomb the surroundings!”

Qin Lie hurriedly looked at Song Tingyu.

The strange vines were like tentacles as they moved and stabbed at Song Tingyu.

“Tingyu!” Qin Lie shouted.

“Don’t worry, I am not as weak as you think.” Song Tingyu smiled.

She could see the deep worry that Qin Lie felt for her from his face. This made her heart feel sweet.

“Rainbow Circle!”

A bright circle surrounded by clouds suddenly shot out of the rainbow cloud. The circle suddenly grew big and viciously hit the vines coming at her.

“Pa pa pa!”

Sparks flew on the vines and they exploded. Fragments of wood landed on the ground.

Song Tingyu pointed with a finger. The rainbow cloud circle radiated layers of light. The sound of explosions came from wherever the light passed.

The vines that came from nearby shrubs were minced into fine powder.

“Qin Lie! Come over here!” Chu Li shouted.

“Alright!” Qin Lin dashed like lightning next to Song Tingyu, grabbing her and quickly coming next to Chu Li.

“Bomb this!” Chu Li ordered.

Ren Peng and the other two martial practitioners from Terminator Sect took out the Terminator Profound Bombs from their spatial rings.

When the dozens of Terminator Profound Bombs came out, the females of Illusory Demon Sect screamed and hurriedly ran to hide in Luo Chen’s direction.

They knew the power of the Terminator Profound Bombs well.

“Boom! Boom boom boom!”

The dozen Terminator Profound Bombs furiously exploded around Qin Lie and the others.

The nearby vines and shrubs were turned to powder in this terrifying explosion.

Enormous, deep holes that covered dozens of square meters appeared.

“All of you, come here!” Chu Li beckoned at Luo Chen and Xue Moyan in the distance. He said, “My people will use the Terminator Profound Bombs to blast a way out of here!”

Even a person as proud as Luo Chen knew, that he could not match the Terminator Profound Bomb after seeing its power and came docilely from the front.

Xue Moyan sighed. She forced back the sorrow she felt and nodded minutely. She said, “Regroup with Chu Li first.”

They had lost another sister.

“Ren Peng! Use the Terminator Profound Bombs to make a path. I don’t believe Ye Yihao is undefeatable!” Chu Li cursed.

“Understood!”

“Boom! Boom boom!”

The Terminator Profound Bombs exploded in front of them. All of the shrubs and vines were blasted into powder in this kind of explosive barrage.

They moved forward relying on this method.

After six hours and thirty five Terminator Profound Bombs, they finally managed to struggle out of that patch of vines and shrubs.

“Aoo!”

All of them had the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain tokens hanging from their waists. When they charged out of the dangerous patch, howls came.

A group of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners was among a dozen broken trees. Their expressions were grave as they sat on the ground and panted.

Niu Shaojun was among them.

Qin Lie and the others that had just made it out raised their heads and saw the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain martial practitioners in the distance.

Yu Men naturally saw them as well.

Their gazes met in the air.

“It’s them!” Niu Shaojun shouted.

“Niu Shaojun!” Luo Chen smiled coldly.

It truly was difficult to avoid one’s enemies.

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