Spirit Realm Chapter 589-590

Chapter 589: Leave None Alive!

Black Cloud Palace’s palace master Zheng Zhihe and Heavenly Sea Pavilion’s pavilion master Jiang Hao emerged from the depths of the ocean and shot into the air.

At the same time, with the loss of support from his spirit energy, Bo Boze’s corpse plunged into the sea with a small splash.

“Zheng Zhihe! Jiang Hao!” Xing Yuyuan exclaimed coldly, a grim expression on his face. “How dare you conspire with Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion, Xiang Xi! Have you ever considered what Illusory Demon Sect would do with you once they found out about this?”

Xing Yumiao had fallen silent when Zheng Zhihe and Jiang Hao emerged from the sea. He currently wore a solemn expression.

He understood that Xiang Xi had made up his mind.

“We agreed that we would only kill the Xing siblings… that I’d be the one to deal with the rest!” Xiang Xi glared at the two men.

“And we’re fine with that, of course…” Zheng Zhihe said, calm and indifferent. “Our problem with the Xing brothers is entirely based on conflicting interests. We neither hate them nor intend to slaughter all of their clansmen. However…”

His voice trailed off as he and Jiang Hao looked at the sea below.

“Whether or not the others will show such generosity is a completely different question.”

Xiang Xi frowned and looked at the sea as well.

A thin man with gray and white hair that seemed to be around fifty or sixty years old suddenly appeared on a Sword Leaf Boat.

That man looked up at Xiang Xi, his voice rough and faint as he said, “Every direct descendant of the Xing Family must be slaughtered. Branch family members may live, but they must have their realms crippled so that they will never again be able to cultivate!”

The instant this man appeared, Xing Yumiao’s and Xing Yuyuan’s eyes went crimson with anger and madness.

“Xiahou Sheng!” they roared.

Aboard the ship, Xing Shengnan looked at this person. Her entire body trembled, and her eyes shone with bone-deep hatred.

“When we last met, not killing you three along with your youngest brother was my biggest mistake,” Xiahou Sheng said, his face icy cold. “Today, I have come to rectify that!”

Xiahou Sheng was the one responsible for hunting down Xing Family descendants forty years ago, but he had only managed to kill the youngest of the Xing siblings. He had allowed Xing Yumiao, Xing Yuyuan, and Xing Shengnan to escape.

Forty years ago, the Xing siblings had only been in the early and middle stages of the Netherpassage Realm. Time passed in the blink of an eye, and now the three were in the Fragmentation Realm.

Xing Yumiao had even reached the peak of the Fragmentation Realm and was just one step away from the Nirvana Realm. He was basically as strong as Xiahou Sheng.

Xiahou Sheng felt deeply threatened by this.

If Xing Yumiao continued to improve and manage to enter the Nirvana Realm, not even Xiahou Sheng would be a match for him. He posed a serious threat to the Xiahou Family.

“Kill him, big brother!” Xing Shengnan wailed from the ship, her voice filled with pain. “Kill him now!”

Since the Xing brothers had instantly become enraged the moment Xiahou Sheng showed up, they didn’t hesitate. They immediately tore through the air, fiercely stabbing toward Xiahou Sheng like two sharp swords.

They hated Xiahou Sheng to the very core of their being!

In that instant, Xiahou Sheng looked at Xiang Xi, Zheng Zhihe, and Jiang Hao, snorting coldly.

“What are you waiting for?” he asked.

The three of them trembled, immediately brandishing their spirit artifacts and howling to summon their subordinates.

Three martial practitioners, all of whom were in the Fragmentation Realm, rose to join Xiang Xi, Zheng Zhihe, and Jiang Hao in the air. This reinforced group then charged towards the Xing brothers.

Although Xing Shengnan was supposed to stay on the Wavebreaker, she shot into the sky without hesitation.

Xiahou Sheng slowly floated in the air, his dark, icy eyes surveying the surroundings.

“All Xing Family clansmen that belong to branch families and people loosely related to the Xing Family!” he yelled. “You will be allowed to live if you stand by, watch, and destroy your own realms! If not, all of you will be killed without exception!” “

He then pointed at Guo Yanzheng and Qi Jing.

“Your ancestors had close ties to Blood Fiend Sect, so you two must die as well!”

Burning flames and shimmering ice immediately filled the skies above the Setting Sun Islands. Beams of spirit energy surged into the air as potent clashes of power created terrifying explosions of sound.

Xing Yumiao brought swathes of golden flame surging into existence, swinging his golden spear and transforming the flames into a brilliant sea of fire.

His golden spirit armor made him look powerful and fearless.

Xing Yuyuan took out a fan made of refined steel and channeled his spirit energy into it, using it to conjure lifelike spirit birds. The birds flapped their wings and released long shrieks, forming tiny tornadoes in front of their wings and shooting them into the enemy’s ranks.

Hurtling through the sky, Xiang Xi, Zheng Zhihe, Jiang Hao, and three other Fragmentation Realm martial practitioners collectively attacked the Xing brothers.

The giant dark blue pythons engraved into Xiang Xi’s enormous bronze cauldron hissed, spitting out wisps of green smoke. This smoke held potent energy that had the power to erode flesh and blood.

Zheng Zhihe, palace master of Black Cloud Palace, laughed loudly as he used pitch black flags brimming with dark, cold evil energy to lock down the area with clusters of black clouds.

Jiang Hao, pavilion master of Heavenly Sea Pavilion, assumed a sitting position in midair, the spirit energy around him condensing into a tidal wave that flooded toward the Xing brothers.

The other three Fragmentation Realm experts with them fired countless shards of ice that transformed into a freezing storm. They used it to assault the Xing brothers, surrounding them with its stinging energy.

Surprisingly, Xiahou Sheng didn’t do anything but rise into the air in a slow, calm manner.

“Xiahou Sheng!” Xing Shengnan bellowed from below. “Your despicable life is mine!”

She resembled a tiger whose eyes gushed with the fire of hatred, gripping her axes and savagely swinging them at Xiahou Sheng.

A dazzling river of spirit energy formed as the axes swung downwards. It contained a shocking amount of power and seemed terrifyingly sharp, as if it could split the heavens and the earth.

Xiahou Sheng frowned as his slowly floated up into the sky, then thrust a hand toward Xing Shengnan.

His hand swelled to an unbelievable size, and a wave of heat rushed from his palm.

“Graaaauugh!”

A scarlet Kui ox charged out of Xiahou Sheng’s enormous hand with a tremendous roar, heading directly for Xing Shengnan. As it did, the ox fearlessly spat a sanguine tongue of flame at Xing Shengnan’s double axe attack.

Xing Shengnan’s river of spirit energy split the scarlet Kui ox and its sanguine flame in half. However, they still managed to strike both of her arms.

This brought her roaring charge to a sudden halt. Both halves of the Kui ox shrouded her arms and burned like sanguine flames.

Xing Shengnan seemed to lose every bit of her strength. Her bulky body plummeted into the sea with a heavy splash.

Xiahou Sheng looked down at where she fell and snorted coldly. He then nodded at a man standing on the water’s surface.

That man’s realm was incredible, and he wore clothing that identified him as a member of Black Cloud Palace. He acknowledged Xiahou Sheng with a smile then instructed the people around him in a soft voice.

“Move out,” he said. “Kill all of them.”

“What about branch family members and others related to the Xing Family?” a Black Cloud Palace martial practitioner asked in astonishment.

“Leave none alive!” the man exclaimed softly.

“Understood.”

Crystalline war chariots and nimble Sword Leaf Boats immediately moved out. They headed for the Flowing Gold Fire Phoenix, the Wavebreaker, and the other ship that the Xing Family controlled.

From their wooden building on the fire phoenix’s wing, Qin Lie stared at the part of the sea where Xing Shengnan had fallen, a somber expression on his face.

“She isn’t going to die that easily,” Xie Jingxuan said. She knew what Qin Lie was worried about, so she spoke up accordingly. “She may look fat, but she possesses incredibly powerful life energy.”

Not long after Xie Jingxuan spoke, Xing Shengnan’s bulky figure emerged from the sea as expected.

Traces of despair and sadness flashed through her small eyes as she looked up into the sky.

“Aunt! Are you okay?” Xing Yao cried out to Xing Shengnan who floated in the water beside the Wavebreaker.

“Watch out, third island master!” Guo Yanzheng shouted.

At that moment, multiple Sword Leaf Boats crowded with Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion martial practitioners approached her. Those martial practitioners took out their spirit artifacts and attacked her mercilessly.

Prismatic rays of light, bolts of lightning, and blazing flames merged washed over Xing Shengnan like a sea of light.

The moment she resurfaced, Xing Shengnan immediately realized she had become the target of every enemy nearby.

Panic filled her face as she faced attacks from every direction. She had no choice but to sink back into the sea to avoid them.

“Ignore her,” the man ordered in a relaxed tone and waved a hand. “Kill the Xing Family clansmen first.”

All of the Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion martial practitioners thus spread out, and began slaughtering the Xing Family clansmen on the three vehicles that the Xing Family still controlled.

They rushed aboard the fire phoenix, the Wavebreaker, and the other ship, explosions continuously erupting from the vehicles as they slaughtered everyone aboard.

Xing Yumiao and Xing Yuyuan had seen their younger sister fall into the sea, blood nearly dripping from their eyes. Now they watched their clansmen and trusted subordinates die one after another.

Yet they couldn’t do anything to stop the carnage.

—They were too busy keeping themselves alive.

Under the combined assault of six Fragmentation Realm experts, the fact that they’d managed to hold on without being severely injured or killed was already proof of their strength.

They had no energy to spare on helping their clansmen.

The two brothers could smell death approaching. A feeling of despair welled in their chests, one that was even worse than the despair they felt when the three great families hunted them long ago.

Back then, their seniors had been killed one after another while they escaped. Only the three of them survived in the end.

Today, they couldn’t escape because they were the seniors. Their daughters, relatives, and trusted subordinates were by their side.

All they could do was fight to the death!

“What should we do? What should we do!?” Xing Yao screamed from the deck of the ship. She had succumbed to the pressure of the most desperate situation in her entire life.

“All you can do is escape, First Miss! You need to do your best to survive!” Guo Yanzheng yelled and gritted his teeth. “Just like how your father, uncle, and aunt managed to escape from the three great families before, you must be strong today! You must do your best to survive just as they did!”

“B-but…” Xing Yao stammered, tears streaming down her face. “All of the seniors that protected them back then… they died!”

“You need to be strong and face reality, First Miss!” Guo Yanzheng roared. “Today… there is no way the island masters will survive!”

“We’ll open a path for you,” Qi Jing said hurriedly. “You must do your best to survive and return to Gold Sun Island!”

“I… I’m not leaving,” Xing Yao said. “Even if I die, I want to die with aunt… with uncle… with my father.”

In spite of their urging, Xing Yao gave up.

She had lost her will to live.

Chapter 590: Stealing Food from the Mouth of a Tiger

“Qin Lie… are you still going to continue waiting?” Xue Moyan asked.

Xue Moyan had been watching from the sidelines for a very long time. After seeing Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion begin their slaughter of the Xing Family, she could no longer suppress herself.

Qin Lie didn’t answer immediately.

He focused his attention on the surface of the sea below, releasing a wisp of mind consciousness and using it to prove the water.

Tiny sparks of electricity flashed through his eyes every so often.

Qin Lie narrowed his eyes. A strange feeling came over him as he discovered that the speed at which he released his soul consciousness was faster than he expected.

An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he had his soul consciousness sink into the depths of the sea like a tentacle. He used it to examine the sea for signs of activity.

He found plankton, fish, and fresh corpses underwater. He could even clearly sense the fragments of their consciousnesses dissipating.

His soul consciousness reflected all of this into his Soul Lake.

The range of his soul perception was now several times larger than it used to be. Now it could cover a more expansive area!

Qin Lie currently stood atop a Flowing Gold Fire Phoenix at least several hundred meters above the sea… yet he could sense the tiniest of changes in its depths.

“Netherpassage… netherpassage…” Qin Lie muttered to himself, carefully thinking the matter through. “So this is what netherpassage truly means…”

“How much longer do we have to wait?” Xue Moyan hurriedly asked again.

The tiny sparks of electricity in QIn Lie’s eyes slowly faded. He cast a sideways glance at Xue Moyan and said, “You guys should stay here. We can’t be careless just yet, so I’ll be the first to go down there.”

“You’re going down there?” Song Tingyu asked in surprise.

Black Cloud Palace and Sea Pavilion were currently engaged in pitched battle with the Xing Family. Countless martial practitioners were going to die in this fight.

The possibility of something happening to Qin Lie or him getting accidentally injured was extremely high.

Song Tingyu was worried about him. After a moment of thought, she said, “Let me go with you.”

“No need, just stay here!” Qin Lie shook his head, a smile on his face. “I’m a meddler, so I naturally know how to protect myself. Don’t worry!”

Qin Lie immediately left the wooden building and leaped onto a crystalline war chariot, preventing them from trying to persuade him any further.

He had long since memorized how to control such a chariot. The moment he entered the this war chariot, it roared to life and swiftly descended from the Flowing Gold Fire Phoenix.

Song Tingyu gritted her teeth. “That bastard!”

“Relax!” Du Xiangyang said lazily, clearly not worried about Qin Lie at all. “There’s no way he’ll get hurt. Xiang Xi probably told Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Pavilion about Qin Lie’s ‘backer.’ That Xiahou Sheng should know too.”

“You mean Terminator Sect?” Luo Chen asked in surprise.

“Hahahah! Of course I’m talking about Terminator Sect. You couldn’t possibly be thinking that Blood Fiend Sect would influence them in any way, right?” Du Xiangyang smiled and glanced at Xue Moyan. Then he calmly said, “Blood Fiend Sect in its current state is nothing to be afraid of, after all. Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families are particularly aware of that.”

“Would they really yield to him because of Terminator Sect?” Song Tingyu asked, somewhat shocked.

“They believe that Forefather Terminator is Qin Lie’s backer,” Du Xiangyang said, an easygoing expression on his face. “Heh… in all of the Land of Chaos, not many people would dare to offend him.”

Only after Du Xiangyang explained this did Song Tingyu finally relax.

“That being said…” Du Xiangyang continued. “I’m pretty sure that Qin Lie is planning to butt heads with those people, so…”

Frowns returned to everyone’s faces as his voice trailed off.

Around a hundred crystalline chariots glowed with impressive translucent light, making them look like enormous crystal lamps in the sky. They rumbled as they descended upon the Xing brothers’ Flowing Gold Fire Phoenix.

Explosions reverberated from that flying spirit artifact, and it immediately erupted in flames.

Many Xing Family clansmen and Gold Sun Island martial practitioners loyal to the Xing Family had already begun engaging the enemy.

At the same time, numerous Sword Leaf Boats surrounded the Wavebreaker where Xing Yao and the others were. Chains shot from boats and smashed into the ship, tethering them tightly. Figures then disembarked from the boats, using those chains to climb aboard.

Guo Yanzheng took a deep breath. “Are you certain you don’t want to leave, First Miss?”

He and Qi Jing had already made up their minds to grievously wound or kill any enemies that came at them even if they died in the process..

“Yes, I’m certain.” Xing Yao’s face was pale. Despair now occupied her originally bright eyes. “I am not my father, my uncle, or my aunt. I am not talented at cultivating, nor do I have impressive skills. Even if I manage to barely survive this, I won’t be able to revive the Xing Family or avenge them by fighting the three great families. In light of that, I might as well die with everyone.”

“I see that you aren’t completely oblivious, Miss Xing.”

A derisive voice echoed from a corner of the deck. A youth leading a group of Black Cloud Palace experts walked over.

This youth was called Zheng Yun and was none other than the youngest son of Black Cloud Palace’s palace master. He was at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm, only one step away from the Fulfillment Realm.

“Back off!” A Xing Family clansman shouted angrily, attacking Zheng Yun with glittering silver daggers that look like dense fish scales.

“Watch out, young palace master!” a person behind Zheng Yun cried out.

“Haha!” Zheng Yun laughed as a giant pitch black flag suddenly emerged from the back of his neck.

Black clouds covered this pitch black flag. It radiated cold spirit energy.

“Whoosh!”

A strange humanoid spirit beast suddenly appeared atop the giant flag. It was pitch black and had tentacles all over its body.

This spirit beast seemed as if it had been imprisoned within the black flag for years. When it saw the shower of silver daggers flying toward it, it trembled violently, using its tentacles like whips and lashing at the incoming assault..

The dozen or so daggers shattered as soon as the tentacles struck them. Not a single one of them hit Zheng Yun.

The enormous black flag roared, engulfing the Xing Family clansman like a cluster of black clouds.

“Krak! K-krak!”

After a series of disturbing noises rang through the air, blood dripped from the flag.

Before that Xing Family clansman could even scream, the demonic spirit beast within that enormous flag actually consumed him.

The entire time this took place, Zheng Yun hadn’t even bothered to look at his victim. He laughed loudly and walked straight toward Xing Yao.

“Long time no see,” he said.

Xing Yao’s face was pale.

“My father once attempted to repair the relationship between our Black Cloud Palace and your Gold Sun Island through a political marriage. Back then, he told me to marry you and take you back to Black Cloud Palace.” Zheng Yun sighed. He then regretfully said, “It’s unfortunate that you don’t consider me marriage material.”

The Black Cloud Palace elders standing behind him wore sinister smiles on their faces.

“Young palace master!” one of them said. “You can still marry her and make her your bride for one night! Hehehe!”

All of the Fulfilment Realm elders of Black Cloud Palace began laughing and wickedly voicing their agreement.

Their words made Xing Yao’s pretty face twist in anger and shame. “Zheng Yun! Even if doing so means immediate death, I refuse to do as you wish!”

“Oh! Oh no. Please, don’t. Don’t be angry!” Zheng Yun exclaimed in pretend panic. “I couldn’t possibly let you die, could I?”

“Heheh! Even if you have to die, you should die after everyone else does, right?” Dropping the act, Zheng Yun looked behind him and viciously said,” Starting with Guo Yanzheng and Qi Jing, kill everyone but Miss Xing!”

The moment he gave this order, Black Cloud Palace’s elders immediately charged toward the Xing Family clansmen, ferociously beginning their bloody work.

At nearly the same time, Heavenly Sea Pavilion martial practitioners had climbed aboard the other ship and begun their slaughter.

“Bang!”

A crystalline war chariot suddenly plunged from the sky and crashed between the martial practitioners of Black Cloud Palace and the Xing Family clansmen.

The terrifying impact shattered that section of the tough wooden deck and sent bits of wood flying.

The people near Zheng Yun couldn’t help but cover their faces to avoid the sharp debris.

“Who goes there?” Zheng Yun yelled coldly.

“It’s that boy who pretended to be a member of the Xing Family!” Qi Jing exclaimed in astonishment.

Qin Lie jumped from the war chariot as wood scattered across the deck, suddenly appearing beside Xing Yao and Guo Yanzheng.

Qin Lie flashed a bright smile and nodded at Zheng Yun politely, saying, “Xiang Xi promised to have this little bitch service me. I’m quite sorry about this, but you wouldn’t take what I was promised, would you?”

“Who are you?” Zheng Yun frowned slightly.

A yellow-faced Black Cloud Palace elder moved closer to Zheng Yun, a meaningful look in his eyes, and whispered to him. “This person is a direct disciple of Forefather Terminator. Within Terminator Sect, he’s even more important than that Chu Li.”

Obvious fear leaked from Zheng Yun’s eyes.

Qin Lie grinned at the Black Cloud palace martial practitioners, casually fishing a couple of Terminator Profound Bombs from his spatial ring and playing with them.

Dense sparks of electricity coursed through these metallic balls. The ferocious thunder energy they contained was extremely shocking.

“Terminator Profound Bombs!”

All the Black Cloud Palace martial practitioners and Xing Family clansmen cried out at the same time. The faces of everyone on both sides turned ugly.

Zheng Yun hastily put on a smile. “Haha… brother, what are you…?”

Qin Lie nodded and winked at Zheng Yun, saying, “You understand, right?”

Zheng Yun had no choice but to maintain the smile on his face. Although this turn of events depressed him, he obediently set the delicious piece of meat in his mouth back down.

“A gentleman doesn’t take what isn’t theirs,” he said. “Since Enforcer Xiang already promised Xing Yao to you, I can only resign myself and part with her.”

After learning of Qin Lie’s ‘true’ identity, no matter how much he wanted to obtain Xing Yao, Zheng Yun had no choice but to give her up.

Black Cloud Palace was just a copper rank force. In fact, just to survive up to this point, they had to attach themselves to Black Voodoo Cult. Compared to Terminator Sect, a force who controlled the entire Heavenly Silence Continent alone, Black Cloud Palace was nothing at all.

He believed that Qin Lie was the direct disciple of Terminator Forefather. He would have to be crazy to try and snatch what Qin Lie wanted.

“Thank you!” Qin Lie saluted Zheng Yun pretentiously, clasping a fist with a palm.

All of a sudden, Xing Yao exploded and pounced at Qin Lie like a madwoman.

“I’ll kill you!” she shrieked.

She hated Qin Lie even more than she hated Zheng Yun. This fake Xing Family clansman had sown so much discord amongst her people and pushed her to the limit again and again. Now that he was going to take her for himself, Xing Yao could no longer tolerate him for even one second more.

But she was only in the middle stage of the Netherpassage Realm.

She said it herself: her talent in cultivating was ordinary, and her skills were average at best. He strength was nothing impressive.

She was absolutely harmless to Qin Lie.

Qin Lie simply smiled and watched Xing Yao take a stance that resembled a bird, her eyes shining with bone-deep hatred. A chirping sound echoed through the air, and spirit energy gushed from her palm, taking the form of an ethereal emerald bird.

“Riiip!”

The ethereal bird swiped at Qin Lie’s chest, tearing his clothes and leaving deep indentations on his skin.

However, the attack couldn’t even break through his skin.

Making a pulling gesture in front of him, Qin Lie pulled Xing Yao to his side and summoned countless chains of lightning into existence. They wrapped around Xing Yao, restraining her.

Just like that, Xing Yao was instantly subdued.