Spirit Realm Chapter 500-502

Chapter 500: Eastern Barbarians

“Help! Chu Li, save me!”

He Wei’s shouting could be heard coming from a region outside of the thunder lagoon, growing louder and more urgent.

At that point, Chu Li had only just begun to move.

“We’re here!” Qin Lie exclaimed in a deep voice.

They could see He Wei several kilometers in the distance, rushing toward them hysterically.

Even considering the distance, they could see that her eyes were grim and and listless, her clothes were torn to shreds, and blood was soaking through what remained of her sleeves and collar.

The sight enraged Chu Li as he worriedly called out, “He Wei!”

Light appeared in Chu Li’s eyes as He Wei flew toward him the moment she saw him, mad with joy.

“Swoosh!”

At the very same moment, a spirit-energy-propelled arrow blinked into existence behind her. The amount of force behind it made it resemble a meteor.

Electrical rays of spirit energy coursed through that arrow, manifesting the exquisite, malevolent appearance of a mythical dragon.

Said dragon even moved in lifelike ways, tearing, biting, and roaring as it flew.

“Puk!”

The arrow struck He Wei, piercing the center of her back and protruded from her chest.

Her frantic figure came to an abrupt halt.

The light in her eyes gradually faded as she looked at the frenzied expression on Chu Li’s face, despair creeping onto her own.

“Bang!”

The arrow exploded with a dull rumble, creating a fist-sized hole of gore in He Wei’s chest. In that instant, the feeble light in her eyes went out.

He Wei died right in front of Chu Li!

“No!”

Chu Li unleashed a beastial roar, tears in his terrifying eyes as he desperately rushed to her side.

The sight froze Qin Lie’s group in place.

Everyone who had questioned Qin Lie earlier immediately took out their spirit artifacts, their expressions taking a drastic turn for the worse.

All of them took up defensive positions and formations as if they were about to face a terrible enemy.

“Zzzzz! Oooo! Aooo!”

The tokens at every martial practitioner’s waist emitted shrill noises, indicating that a large number of people were heading in their direction.

Qin Lie’s expression was icy as he quietly looked into the distance far behind He Wei’s still figure.

“Whoosh!”

A tan, formidable man nearly two meters tall was the first to appear. Sinister tattoos covered his body, and his long hair was braided into long ropes. He brandished a huge, curved bow, chuckling menacingly.

The man was barefoot and wore armor made from beasts, giving him a rugged appearance. An immense thirst for blood and battle flooded from his eyes.

Strung from his waist were multiple tokens of different kinds. There seemed to be at least one token from each of the nine Silver ranked forces of the Land of Chaos.

This signified that he had killed numerous Land of Chaos martial practitioners scattered throughout the Graveyard of Gods.

Soon enough, men garbed similarly to the first came into view with ominous spirit birds and beasts by their sides.

All of these men held curved bows comparable in size to the first man’s, radiating a torrent of bloodlust. Each also had tokens strung to their waists.

One person stood out among the rest. They were more than two meters tall, had skin was the color of granite, and looked as tough as stone.

That person carried an enormous basket on their back that was filled to the brim with human heads.

Blood occasionally dripped from the basket, soaking the vines it was made from.

At the top of the basket were the faces of Ren Peng, Hu Ping, and Wei Liang, the three Terminator Sect martial practitioners that had been with He Wei. Blood dripped from their disembodied heads.

“Feng Qiang! That’s Feng Qiang’s head!”

“I see Liu Yan’s! They killed Liu Yan!”

“They also killed A’Hai and Meng Zi!”

“……”

Many people screamed in shock as time went on, killing intent gushing from their eyes. Among their number were Ye Yihao, Yu Men, and Feng Yiyou. Even Luo Chen and Xue Moyan were screaming.

Many martial practitioners belonging to the nine great Silver rank forces of the Land of Chaos had entered the Graveyard of Gods. Every single one of them who hadn’t been at the thunder lagoon were killed by this unexpected enemy, heads severed and carried around as trophies of war.

“Eastern barbarians!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed, eyes red with fury.

“Accursed eastern barbarians that deserve to die a thousand deaths!” Pan Qianqian exclaimed softly, gritting her teeth.

“Chu Li!” Xue Moyan barked in a low, gruff tone.

Hearing her call his name, Chu Li forcefully suppressed his desire to kill, took He Wei’s corpse into his arms, and turned away. His glittering, starlit spirit armor materialized and he flew back to Qin Lie’s side. Upon arrival, he sank to the floor in despair.

“Who are they?” Qin Lie asked with a frown.

“They’re savages that inhabit the tens of thousands of islands east of the Land of Chaos. We call them eastern barbarians! The Land of Chaos has always clashed with them because they occasionally invade us, pillaging and razing our territories. Most of the time, however, we of the nine great Silver rank forces meet them in battle to wipe them out.”

Du Xiangyang wore a facade of calm as he explained things to Qin Lie. “A strange mist shrouds the islands of the eastern barbarians, all tens of thousands of them. Much of their domain contains forbidden lands that only they know how to navigate in. These barbarians are unified and are familiar with their territory. As a result, our forces have not been able to keep the upper hand against them on their home turf. They hate us just as much as we hate them. We don’t know how many battles we’ve fought over the years, big or small, and there will always be more.”

“How did they enter the Graveyard of Gods?” Qin Lie asked in astonishment.

“God knows!” Du Xiangyang shook his head.

As they were speaking, the people of Black Voodoo Cult, the three great families, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain wore grim expressions as they sized up the eastern barbarian forces, communicating in secret.

Opposite them, the formidable man who was clearly the leader of the eastern barbarians just chuckled to himself in a low, sinister tone. He didn’t seem to be in a hurry to take action as he surveyed the Land of Chaos martial practitioners.

He was waiting for more of his forces to arrive.

“The eastern barbarians are divided up into three tribes: the Black Barbarian Tribe, the Scarlet Barbarian Tribe, and the White Barbarian Tribe. That man is Sen Ye, the leader of the Black Barbarian Tribe’s young generation. The Black Barbarian Tribe is currently the strongest force of the eastern barbarians and rules over them. That eastern barbarian, Sen Ye, is incredibly famous among those savages. His strength is terrifying,” Xue Moyan said in a low voice.

Her explanation made Qin Lie stare at her in shock.

“The eastern barbarians inhabit the eastern side of the Land of Chaos, while the Heavenly Slaughter Continent that Illusory Demon Sect and Black Voodoo Cult reside just happen to be in the east as well,” Du Xiangyang continued. “Whenever those savages invade the Land of Chaos, they first need to go through the regions controlled by Illusory Demon Sect and Black Voodoo Cult. That’s why Xue Moyan is familiar with them.”

“Black Voodoo Cult may openly cause conflict and maneuver in the shadows, but they’re able to coexist with Illusory Demon Sect in the Heavenly Slaughter Continent,” Luo Chen interjected. “They never wage truly irreconcilable, bloody wars against Illusory Demon Sect because of the threat that the eastern barbarians represent.”

As this discussion took place, Chu Li simply sat there hugging He Wei’s corpse, head lowered in silence. The spirit energy around his body grew increasingly unstable.

Nobody in Qin Lie’s group felt anything for He Wei, Ren Peng, Hu Ping, or Wei Liang. After initially consoling Chu Li, they went straight to talking about the eastern barbarians.

“There are more than two hundred of them?” Du Xiangyang asked with a grim expression on his face.

“That’s right.” Qin Lie frowned deeply.

“What are their realms?” Luo Chen asked.

“All of them are in the Netherpassage Realm, same as us. It seems that the restricting force of the Graveyard of Gods affects them as well, which is probably why they don’t have any higher realm martial practitioners with them,” Qin Lie answered.

“The entrance that we used to get into the Graveyard of Gods… probably isn’t the only one.” Song Tingyu sighed.

Everyone in their group immediately understood what she was saying.

If there were another entrance that led to the Graveyard of Gods, and said entrance just happened to be in domain of the eastern barbarians, all of this would make sense.

“Tap tap! Tap tap tap!”

As they spoke, more and more eastern barbarians emerged from behind Sen Ye.

Sen Ye, the leader of the Black Barbarian Tribe’s young generation, dictated orders to someone behind him, and the eastern barbarians approaching the front suddenly began to spread out.

These barbarians spread to the left and to the right, slowly forming a ring shape that would surround the surrounding area.

They were planning to besiege the thunder lagoon!

Qin Lie’s group, Black Voodoo Cult, the three great families, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain consisted of Land of Chaos martial practitioners, all of which just happened to be gathered at the edge of the thunder lightning pond.

If the thunder lagoon were surrounded, all of them would be trapped in the middle of over two hundred eastern barbarians!

The color drained from everyone’s faces as they realized what the eastern barbarians were doing. Their faces twisted into ugly expressions, and a sinking feeling filled their chests.

“It’ll be infinitely more difficult for us to escape if they surround us. They have over two hundred men in the Netherpassage Realm, and that Sen Ye… as the young leader of the Black Barbarian Tribe, he definitely won’t be an easy opponent.” Du Xiangyang’s face twitched, his expression one of pain. “However, if we leave, they’ll probably acquire the Pure Soul Springs and the soul crystals.”

This was a tough decision for Du Xiangyang to make.

Everyone else found it equally hard to make a decision..

Chapter 501: Kill Them Slowly

The footsteps of the eastern barbarians continued while everyone hesitated. The barbarians swiftly gathered and moved to form a ring surrounding the thunder lagoon. Then, they brandished their bows and eyed them savagely.

The martial practitioners of every force from the Land of Chaos wore expressions that were as grim as tainted water. Every so often, they would look at the thunder lagoon behind them, still struggling to make a decision.

“Retreat for now!”

Qin Lie gritted his teeth, becoming the first person to turn away. He reluctantly moved in the opposite direction which the eastern barbarians had yet to reach.

“Damn it!” Du Xiangyang cursed angrily, also turning around.

Luo Chen said nothing, his expression somber.

Xue Moyan and Pan Qianqian sighed helplessly.

Chu Li simply hugged He Wei’s corpse tightly, refusing to move.

“We have to go now, Chu Li. We’ll come back later,” Qin Lie said softly.

Chu Li abruptly raised his head to look at Qin Lie, harsh, icy light shooting from his eyes. A frightening killing intent welled up inside of them.

Qin Lie nodded. “Despite entering the fastest, the forces that went into the thunder lagoon failed to acquire a single Pure Soul Spring. Instead, they left eight corpses behind. This means that seizing the Pure Soul Springs isn’t as easy as everyone imagined.”

Qin Lie’s words brought hope to their faces, and they quickly came to agree with him.

Even Chu Li wordlessly got to his feet.

“We’re the ones farthest from the eastern barbarians! Let’s go!” Qin Lie exclaimed.

Becoming the first group to retreat, everyone followed Qin Lie’s lead and left without another glance at the thunder lagoon.

“Qin Lie’s group has retreated!” Su Yan yelled in surprise.

The leaders of the three remaining forces focused their sharp gazes on Qin Lie.

Feng Yiyou, Yu Men, Huang Zhuli, and Ye Yihao paused for a moment, exchanging glances, then gritted their teeth and yelled, “Retreat!”

The three forces under their control turned and headed in the direction that Qin Lie’s group had escaped in. They moved like lightning, afraid of being left behind.

In the opposite direction, Sen Ye, leader of the eastern barbarians, grinned and laughed wickedly.

“Pursue them for two hundred and fifty kilometers!” he yelled.

Dozens of eastern barbarian obeyed his command, charging toward their enemies and roaring like a herd of violent beasts.

The Forbidden Land of Thunder was once again the location of an extraordinary occurrence. The four forces representing the Land of Chaos made a mad dash for the swamplands under the lead of Qin Lie.

Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain followed his group closely, afraid of being left behind.

Farther back, dozens of eastern barbarians drew their giant curved bows, raining arrows down upon them like a meteor shower. The continuous rain of arrows emitted shrill whistling noises, shooting toward the three forces of the Land of Chaos.

Blood curdling screams rang out as martial practitioners of the three great families fell victim to the rain of arrows and died wretched deaths.

“Hahaha, these are the so-called elites of the Land of Chaos? They practically die in one shot!”

“One day, we eastern barbarians shall enter the Land of Chaos and bathe them in blood!”

“The nine great Silver rank forces of the Land of Chaos have killed too many of our clansmen. They must pay for their despicable deeds with blood!”

“Cut their heads from their bodies and give them to me. They are our trophies!”

The eastern barbarians hooted and yelled as they ran, occasionally shooting arrows and killing the martial practitioners at the back of the escaping group.

Qin Lie’s group was in the front of that group and out of firing range, so none of them were hit.

This merry chase lasted for several hundred kilometers before Qin Lie arrived at a short, desolate hill and came to a sudden stop.

He closed his eyes and sensed the area, then said, “We’re fine now!”

Everyone in his group slowed to a stop, taking positions around him. From their elevated vantage point, they looked back and watched Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. The martial practitioners of the three forces were still frantically fleeing from the pursuing onslaught of arrows.

“The eastern barbarians are extremely skilled in archery. Their proficiency has reached such a high level that nearly every single one of them is an amazing marksman,” Xue Moyan explained in a soft voice. “The eastern barbarians live in a world rampant with violent beasts and evil races. The horrid environment they are born into forces them to become brave, strong fighters that are unafraid of death.”

“Between the Land of Chaos and the eastern barbarians, who holds the advantage?” Qin Lie asked.

“We do, of course!” Du Xiangyang smiled proudly. “The eastern barbarians may be formidable and unafraid of death, but the martial practitioners of the Land of Chaos aren’t pushovers either. We have a more diverse range of spirit arts and more advanced spirit artifacts. The advantages provided by our powerful spirit artifacts alone can suppress the eastern barbarians and leave them no room to breathe, not to mention the fact that we’re smarter.”

“The eastern barbarians are a warmongering people, but all of their invasions against us has ended terribly for them.” Pan Qianqian lifted her head and said, “The eastern barbarians don’t have skilled artificers, so they are unable to forge high grade spirit artifacts for themselves. They lack flying spirit artifacts, offensive spirit artifacts, and large-scale defensive spirit artifacts.

“As a result, the eastern barbarians haven’t been able to gain the upper hand in many battles. In fact, we’d chase them all the way back to their territory. Unfortunately, their territories have special terrain and unknown forbidden lands that allow them to escape our grasp. They can even use them to catch us off guard from time to time, ambushing us.”

“So the eastern barbarians aren’t as scary as we think?” Qin Lie asked.

“But there’s still a lot of them,” Pan Qianqian said bitterly.

“Then we’ll split them up and kill them slowly!” Luo Chen exclaimed harshly.

“That’s right.” Qin Lie smiled.

Chu Li put He Wei’s body down gently and stepped forward.

“What’s your plan, Qin Lie?” he asked in a grim voice, watching the other three forces running toward the top of the hill they were currently standing on.

“What do you think we should do, everyone?” Qin Lie narrowed his eyes.

“There are too many eastern barbarians. With our numbers, it’ll be too difficult to deal with over two hundred of them at once.” Du Xiangyang rubbed his chin, quietly staring at Xue Moyan before saying, “Perhaps, we should put our feud with Black Voodoo cult to the side for now. What do you say?”

“I understand.” Xue Moyan nodded slightly.

“Then let us kill the eastern barbarians first!” Qin Lie declared.

“Alright!”

From their position at the top of the hill, Qin Lie’s group looked down at the dozens of martial practitioners bringing up the rear of the three great forces. All of them belonged to Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families.

“Too bad I’m all out of Terminator Profound Bombs! Otherwise, I would have let them all die horribly despite there being two hundred eastern barbarians!” Chu Li hissed in a raspy voice.

As he spoke, Chu Li unleashed his spirit artifact. His clothing transformed, becoming armor adorned with stars that shone brilliantly and radiated intense spirit energy.

Now clad in spirit armor shining with starlight, Chu Li hovered into the air, suspended above the short hill.

Suddenly, specks of light emerged from within his armor.

“Flowing Sandstorm!”

Tens of thousands of glittering miniscule stars flowed from every pore of Chu Li’s body, swiftly forming a violent tempest around him.

However, the chaos only lasted for a moment before Chu Li twisted the golden sandstorm toward the eastern barbarians.

In the eye of the violent storm, countless specks of golden light resembling fine sand surrounded Chu Li. However, this gold sand possessed a sharp, bladelike aura.

“Swoosh! Whoosh!”

Chu Li had essentially become a golden sandstorm that spun through the air with destructive force.

The golden storm met the rain of arrows, descending down upon the three forces while instantly crushing them into particles of light on contact.

The moment Song Tingyu saw Chu Li’s attack, she couldn’t help but softly exclaim, “I-is this Chu Li’s true strength?”

The sight astonished Qin Lie and Xie Jingxuan as well.

Clad in star spirit armor, Chu Li clearly cultivated a spirit art related to stars. Yet the three of them from the Scarlet Tide Continent never thought he’d soar into the sky and create a violent storm, intending to use its might to go on a rampage.

Chu Li was clearly more proficient in using a sandstorm spirit art

Qin Lie subconsciously looked to Luo Chen, Xue Moyan, Du Xiangyang, and the others. He noticed that all of them wore calm expressions, obviously not surprised at all.

It seemed like they had already known about Chu Li’s true capabilities and that his strength and fame did not originate from the Terminator Profound Bombs alone.

“Chu Li is definitely the strongest of all the ringers who entered the Graveyard of Gods!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed softly.

Qin Lie silently nodded.

Soon after Chu Li took action, Luo Chen channeled spirit energy into the sharp sword he wielded. Then it shot toward the eastern barbarians like a beam of light.

Light emerged from the tip of the sword, becoming several dozens of meters long. It contained a peerless sharpness, resembling a blade that could cut through space, and its aura was just as terrifying.

Then, Xue Moyan suddenly sat on the ground. The Illusory Demon Orb in her hands floated away from her, rising high into the air. Once it reached a certain height, it seemed as if a pair of bright eyes had appeared in the sky, taking in the scene happening below.

A beautiful, indistinct figure could be seen inside of the orb. If one looked at it closely, they would realize that the figure was Xue Moyan.

Her visage in the orb looked like a white ghost.

Of the eastern barbarians beneath the Illusory Demon Orb, those who raised their heads to look at it underwent a strange change..

Their faces went blank, a dazed look in their eyes.

They looked as if they had seen a person dear to them within the Illusory Demon Orb.

Xue Moyan’s beautiful appearance in the Illusory Demon Orb seemed capable of influencing the hearts of anyone who gazed upon it, miraculously taking on the appearance of thousands of people at once.

Many eastern barbarians lost themselves in the illusion, even the one that was more than two meters tall, had skin as tough as granite, and carried the basket of human heads on his back.

“Mother…” the enormous barbarian muttered to himself in a low voice, suddenly coming to a stop. Tears actually welled in his eyes.

At least half of the dozens of eastern barbarians lost their minds to the Illusory Demon Orbs magical powers and froze where they were, unable to move any farther.

Chu Li’s golden sandstorm and Luo Chen’s peerlessly sharp blade seized the opportunity that Xue Moyan’s Illusory Demon Orb had created, charging into the midst of the eastern barbarians.

Animalistic shrieks rang out as the first eastern barbarians were swallowed by the sandstorm, resulting in the dazed barbarians waking up one after another.

At this point, the martial practitioners of Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain finally reacted, abruptly turning around to unleash their respective spirit artifacts and counterattack.

“Uooooooooooh!”

Waking up from the illusion-induced daze, the giant eastern barbarian howled at the sky like a beast that had lost its mother.

Immediately afterward, he pounded the ground with his fists.

The giant barbarian’s stony fists pummeled the ground, scattering bright yellow spirit energy and creating strange rumbling noises.

“Crack!”

The gray, muddy soil on the surface of the swampland transformed into countless sharp arrows that shot into the area in front of the eastern barbarian giant.

These dark gray arrows carried a terrifying amount of energy. They resembled snakes as they veered toward the three forces of martial practitioners, also targeting the center of the sandstorm where Chu Li was.

The eastern barbarian giant howled continuously, going into a rage and stampeding toward the three forces that had just turned around.

He slammed into a Lin Family martial practitioner like a massive boulder, crushing the man’s bones.

Chapter 502: Colorful Arrow Rain

“Kill them all, Yan Min!” numerous eastern barbarians cried out.

All of them wore looks of excitement as they watched their giant ally, eyes glittering with violence.

“Crack!”

The eastern barbarian giant called “Yan Min” ran toward another martial practitioner, one belonging to the Xiahou Family.

He rammed into that martial practitioner like a giant beast made of iron and stone.

That martial practitioner took his last breath midair, and his life energy dissipated before he even hit the ground.

At the same time, the tens of thousands of mud arrows formed by Yan Min fell upon the center of the Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners like a swampy rain.

This assault prevented Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain from immediately unleashing a frenzied counterattack.

“Zzzt!”

Energy stretched from Luo Chen’s sword, extending the length of its blade by several meters. It surged into the fray, slicing through the waists of three eastern barbarians.

The sword seemed to cut through space, as if the three barbarians were just an afterthought.

The energy-tipped sword continued to spin through the air above the eastern barbarians, harvesting lives left and right.

At the same time, Chu Li enveloped numerous eastern barbarians with his golden sandstorm.

Blood dyed the golden storm with a hint of scarlet amidst the screams of its victims.

Blood would shoot from the storm every so often, drenching the ground around it. The sight was incredibly shocking.

Chu Li was clearly on a killing spree!

“This is…”

Ye Yihao had initially looked into the sky with apprehension, worried that the attacks of Chu Li and Luo Chen would target them as well.

Yet he was surprised to discover that Luo Chen’s sword, Chu Li in his golden sandstorm, and even Xue Moyan’s Illusory Demon Orb had flown right over them and gone straight for the eastern barbarians.

After a brief moment of hesitation, Ye Yihao came to his senses and sinisterly said, “Kill the eastern barbarians first!”

“Kill the eastern barbarians first!” Feng Yiyou and Yu Men also shouted.

“Moon Blade Barricade!” Feng Yiyou tossed a spatial ring into the air, a grim look on his face.

A multitude of bright silver crescent blades instantly came into existence, covering the sky above Celestial Artifact Sect like a divine umbrella.

Feng Yiyou’s eyes shone with silver light as he used his mind consciousness and spirit energy to control the spirit artifact.

The Moon Blade Barricade possessed both offensive and defensive capabilities. In being summoned for the current situation, its crescent blades of light worked in tandem to create a literal meat grinder that whistled toward the eastern barbarians.

Any eastern barbarian that failed to get out of the way in time were cut to pieces by those silver blades. Blood curdling screams could be heard as arms and legs were lost.

A couple of them were instantly decapitated.

“Release the voodoo insects! Let’s see if these eastern barbarians have the ability to rule the entire Graveyard of Gods!” Huang Zhuli laughed coldly.

The Black Crystal Sky Scorpion and the Eight-winged Centipede Queen emerged from her and Ye Yihao’s bodies and released shrill whistling sounds. Black smoke trailed behind them as they flew toward the eastern barbarians.

Yu Men whirled around and charged toward the barbarians with a low howl. “Kill them!”

And just like that, a bloody battle commenced.

Every person on the side of the eastern barbarians paused for a brief moment, gathering their strength to draw their bows.

Their eyes exuded bloodlust, and their bows and arrows surged with a terrifying aura of spirit energy.

Every single eastern barbarian was able to perfectly channel the spirit art they cultivated into their bow and arrow. Some arrows resembled sharp icicles and others burned with colorful, blistering flames. Some even glowed with dazzling, metallic light sharp enough to pierce the heavens.

“Fire!”

Triggered by that explosive yell, arrows of all types shot into the air.

This new rain of arrows, imbued with the refined spirit energy from the eastern barbarians, were several times stronger than the previous arrows had been.

Even from his position atop the desolate hill, Qin Lie could sense just how terrifying the spirit energy of those arrows was.

Fully saturated in spirit energy, those arrows were no longer normal. The energy inside of them was enough to blast a Netherpassage Realm martial practitioner to gory pieces.

In the face of this onslaught, the martial practitioners of Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain cried out. Every single one of them summoned their respective shields of light, all of which were also enhanced with various defensive effects.

A Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioner formed a greenish gray shield of light around his body, but an arrow radiating bright metallic light shattered it.. The metallic arrow pierced his heart, killing him instantly.

However, just as the eastern barbarians began killing martial practitioners with their arrows, Feng Yiyou’s Moon Blade Barricade and the voodoo insects of Black Voodoo Cult reached the eastern barbarians.

These, along with Chu Li’s golden storm and Luo Chen’s energy tipped sword, ensured that eastern barbarians were constantly dying as well.

Both sides had indisputably engaged each other in pitched battle.

“Die!”

Yan Min, the eastern barbarian giant, led the charge into the center of the Land of Chaos martial practitioners like an enormous boulder.

Martial practitioners from the three great families surrounded the giant, attacking him continuously, but anyone who came within ten meters of him immediately went pale and became unable to do anything. Any martial practitioner unlucky enough to be caught in that radius failed to respond to the sudden change and was crushed by Yan Min’s rock-like body.

Just like that, he rammed five people to death one after another

“Let me at him!” Xiahou Yuan roared angrily, moving toward the giant.

However, he too went pale as soon as he got close.

“Something’s wrong!” Xiahou Yuan cried out. Since he had known that something strange was happening from the very beginning, he retreated from Yan Min’s ten meter radius as soon as he began to feel affected. “H-he can mess with a person’s dantian and prevent spirit energy from circulating!

Everyone around him instantly realized what was going on.

“Attack him with spirit artifacts!” Huang Zhuli ordered.

A dark green serpent spear emerged from a Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioner’s sleeve, glowing with emerald light.

The spear rose into the air and flickered, bringing three strange snakes into existence. These snakes were representations of pure, condensed spirit energy, and were capable of greatly enhancing the spear’s power.

The spear shot toward Yan Min, but just as it was about to strike him, the emerald spirit energy snakes burst into scattered bits of light and vanished.

The eastern barbarian giant seized the spear from the air with a nasty grin, snapping it in half. He then proceeded to charge the Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioner that had sent it to attack him.

That martial practitioner had been deeply shocked by the serpent spear’s sudden destruction and failed to avoid Yan Min’s charge in time. Once the giant closed in on him, the spirit sea of the martial practitioner’s dantian fell into disorder, and he lost the ability to escape.

That left him with no other fate but death by mutilation.

“You will lose control of your spirit energies as soon as you approach me! All spirit artifacts powered by spirit energy also cannot harm me!” Yan Min bellowed then grinned wickedly. He charged down martial practitioners left and right, eventually resulting in no man’s land forming around him.

“Kill them all, Yan Min!” the eastern barbarians roared.

“Leave it to me! I can kill them all by myself! I won’t even need your help!” Yan Min howled strangely.

“This is one difficult opponent. Who would’ve thought that he’d be able to disrupt the spirit energy around him? He can mess with the dantians of his enemies and render spirit artifacts that use spirit energy harmless. He won’t be easy to deal with,” Du Xiangyang said, surprise filling his face.

Aside from Luo Chen, Chu Li, and Xue Moyan, everyone else in Qin Lie’s group currently stood on the sidelines, calmly observing the battle.

From their point of view, the three forces were not actually at a disadvantage against the eastern barbarians.

The only headache of Black Voodoo Cult, Celestial Artifact Sect, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain was that giant. They didn’t have a good method of dealing with him at the moment.

“When that person disrupts the spirit sea of his opponents, he does the same to his own spirit energy.” Xie Jingxuan spoke up suddenly, looking at the people beside her. “He is only able to kill people using his explosive physical power, relying on a different kind of hard, fierce energy. Anybody who possesses a tough body and extraordinary combat potential that doesn’t rely on their dantian’s spirit sea can definitely go toe to toe with him.

She eyed Qin Lie, Xue Moyan, and Du Xiangyang.

“Jingxuan, are you saying that these three… are all qualified to fight against that guy?” Song Tingyu’s eyes twirled.

“They’re strong enough to fight him for a while.” Xie Jingxuan calmly paused to look at Xue Moyan, then turned to Du Xiangyang before saying, “Qin Lie, you definitely aren’t any weaker than that eastern barbarian without your dantian’s spirit sea. You can match him with just your physical combat power alone!”

“Heh… I guess I underestimated you guys.” Song Tingyu pursed her lips into a smile.

“Miss Xie, I am undeserving of such high praise. I certainly don’t possess such strength, haha.” Du Xiangyang rubbed his nose and laughed dryly.

He still wanted to conceal his true strength.

Song Tingyu then looked at Xue Moyan.

“Miss Xue, y-you can fight that guy too?” Pan Qianqian asked in surprise.

“I might not be able to kill him, but I can probably stop him from continuing his rampage. I suppose I’ll…” Xue Moyan frowned slightly.

“No.” Xie Jingxuan shook her head. “You don’t need to go down there. He should be able to handle that eastern barbarian without using his dantian’s spirit sea.”

She pointed at someone.

The group identified that person then softly exclaimed, “Yu Men?”

“Yes, him. He hasn’t joined the fray yet because that giant’s only been terrorizing Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families,” Xie Jingxuan said blankly, instantly exposing Yu Men’s treacherous plot.

……