Spirit Realm Chapter 591-592

Chapter 591: You Are My Big Sister

“Even if I die, I’ll come back and haunt you!”

Restrained by chains of lightning, Xing Yao gritted her teeth and stared at Qin Lie with unbridled hatred.

The sight of Qin Lie actually daring to capture Xing Yao made Guo Yanzheng and Qi Jing go blind with rage.

At this moment, neither enforcer cared whether Blood Fiend Sect or Forefather Terminator stood behind Qin Lie. They were going to kill him then and there.

Zheng Yun laughed loudly. “You have a truly amazing temper, brother. I really am impressed.”

Following his earlier order to kill Guo Yanzheng and Qi Jing, the Black Cloud Palace martial practitioners behind Zheng Yun immediately rushed forward.

Two martial practitioners instantly intercepted the two enforcers, both pairs possessing similar levels of strength. The rest of the Black Cloud Palace martial practitioners attacked the other Xing Family clansmen.

Xing Yao couldn’t move an inch.

All she could do was watch the enemy overwhelm the clansmen and elders that cared for her.

It looked as if her eyes were about to spit fire.

“You never thought you’d experience a day like this, did you, Miss Xing?” Qin Lie said in a mocking tone.

The battle had progressed to the point where the Xing Yumiao and Xing Yuyuan flew through the sky, drenched with blood. Countless crystalline war chariots bombarded the martial practitioners aboard their Flowing Gold Fire Phoenix. Black Cloud Palace martial practitioners had surrounded the Wavebreaker, and Heavenly Sea Pavilion martial practitioners had surrounded the other ship that the Xing Family still controlled. Aboard those ships, every person on the Xing Family’s side died one after another.

Explosions and screams continuously echoed throughout this territory that belonged to Gold Sun Island.

Truth be told, Gold Sun Island wasn’t weaker than Black Cloud Palace or Heavenly Sea Pavilion. Xing Yumiao was just as powerful as Zheng Zhihe or Jiang Hao.

Unfortunately, Xiang Xi’s rebellion weakened Gold Sun Island considerably. Both Xing Yumiao and Xing Yuyuan were forced to face an encirclement of Fragmentation Realm experts, including Zheng Zhihe and Jiang Hao who were both at the peak of the Fragmentation Realm.

In addition to that, Xiahou Sheng hovered off to the side of that encirclement, watching the Xing brothers like a hawk. He was ready to join the fray at any moment to prevent them from escaping.

Nearly thirty other Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion martial practitioners in the Fulfillment Realm were positioned nearby. They wielded conch-shaped spirit artifacts that disturbed the spirit energy in the area each time they blew them. The chaotic spatial fluctuations they caused prevented the Xing brothers from using an escape art.

Gold Sun Island had suffered an internal schism. Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion had sent out all of their experts, and Xiahou Family martial practitioners had blended into their ranks as well.

Regardless of how anyone looked at this situation… this time, the Xing Family had no way to escape death.

Zheng Yun, having nothing else to do, couldn’t help but speak to Qin Lie.

“Brother!” he said with a smile. “About that girl… could you pass her to me once you’ve finished playing with her?”

“I’ll haunt you after I die!” Xing Yao shrieked.

“Why don’t you commit suicide then?” Qin Lie asked, an indifferent expression on his face. “I’ve restrained your body and paralyzed your meridians to keep your from gathering spirit energy, but you can still talk. This means that you can still move your mouth. You can bite off your tongue and kill yourself whenever you want.”

“B-brother!” Zheng Yun hastily exclaimed, his voice filled with anxiety. “Quickly! Paralyze her tongue! It’ll be boring if she actually kills herself!”

“How I want to toy with her is my choice. You don’t have the right to tell me what to do!” Qin Lie’s face darkened.

Zheng Yun laughed awkwardly in response. “Haha… my mistake. Me and my big mouth…”

Even though Qin Lie openly scolded him, Zheng Yun didn’t dare to lose his calm. He was wary of Qin Lie’s identity, so he simply fell silent.

“You can bite your tongue off and kill yourself!” Qin Lie continued coldly, turning his attention back to Xing Yao. “I guarantee that I won’t stop you!”

All of a sudden, the harsh look in Xing Yao’s eyes slowly faded. She seemed as if she had lost every ounce of strength within her.

In spite of how she kept yelling about haunting Qin Lie after dying, a strange expression leaped to her face.

“I… I can’t believe I don’t even have the courage to commit suicide…” she mumbled.

It was only then that she realized how terrified of death she was.

She didn’t want to die. She didn’t have the courage.

The moment she realized this, she even lost the courage to taunt her enemies.

A dazed expression came over her as she muttered to herself.

“I’m afraid,” she said. “I’m so afraid of losing everything…””

“You’re just a pretty flower that’s always been under your father’s protection.” Qin Lie shook his head disdainfully as he coldly ridiculed her. “You’ve never experienced true hardship. Of course you wouldn’t have the resolve to face death.”

Xing Yao didn’t say anything in response. She knew he was right. She didn’t have the courage to do anything.

“Splash!”

In that exact moment, a figure as large as a bear burst out of the sea and flew into the sky.

It instantly crashed onto the deck.

Hope shone in Xing Yao’s eyes once more when she realized who it was.

“Aunt!” she screamed at the top of her lungs. “Help me! Kill this imposter! This spy! Kill him!”

The gaze of everyone on the ship fell upon Xing Shengnan.

The eyes of the three Fulfillment Realm elders standing behind Zheng Yun widened, and they immediately took out their spirit artifacts.

“Hehe… don’t worry.” Zheng Yun smiled calmly. “She can’t do anything.”

The three elders examined Xing Shengnan closely. They soon relaxed and chuckled as well.

Xing Shengnan held two giant axes, one in each hand. Blood streamed from the wounds covering her arms and flowed down to her axes.

Bleeding wounds also marred the rest of her large body.

The vigor in her small eyes had already faded. Her eyes now looked dim and lifeless.

“Splash!”

Another figure emerged from the sea and arrived on the deck of the ship as well.

This person wore clothing unique to the Xiahou Family. He appeared to be about fifty years old and wore a savage expression on his face. He held a cold, glittering sword that was drenched with blood.

—All of that blood belonged to Xing Shengnan.

This person was Xiahou Chang, Xiahou Sheng’s younger brother and a martial practitioner in the early stage of the Fragmentation Realm like Xing Shengnan.

After Xiahou Sheng injured Xing Shengnan and forced her into the sea, Xiahou Chang ambushed her and succeeded in wounding her too.

Xing Shengnan first emerged from the sea because this man had relentlessly pursued her underwater. She had no choice but to return to the surface.

However, when she did, she encountered the combined assault of Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion, forcing her to dive back into the sea.

After being forced back underwater, she suffered yet another grievous blow from Xiahou Chang. This blow worsened her condition even further.

Only now did she find an opportunity to rush out of the sea and back onto the deck of the Wavebreaker. She was covered in blood, having spent most of her spirit energy as well.

Yet Xiahou Chang had caught up to her once more. His cold, dark gaze had never left Xing Shengnan. He had been searching for the perfect opportunity to kill her all this time.

Xing Shengnan was bleeding all over, and the giant axes that she normally thought of as light now seemed as heavy as mountains. Her large body trembled continuously.

Anyone could see that she was in extremely terrible condition. Since she could hardly survive Xiahou Chang’s relentless pursuit, helping Xing Yao overcome her current situation and killing every enemy here was obviously impossible.

Every enemy present simply found Xing Yao’s hope-filled eyes and shouts amusing.

“Big sister…” Qin Lie suddenly exclaimed softly.

A hint of bewilderment flashed through Xing Shengnan’s eyes. She immediately shook out of her stupor and locked eyes with Qin Lie.

“I am not your big sister!” she shouted, her voice filled with pain and sorrow.

“Aunt!” Xing Yao cried, beginning to sob. She lost her composure once more when she realized how much Xing Shengnan had been hurt.

“It’s true that I am not a member of the Xing Family. It is also true that I came to Gold Sun Island with ulterior motives,” Qin Lie said with utmost sincerity. “However, I really do consider you my big sister!”

A short distance away, Guo Yanzheng was about to be forced into a corner, but he still couldn’t help but look at Qin Lie in confusion.

Qin Lie’s declaration also puzzled Black Cloud Palace’s Zheng Yun, who frowned and watched him closely.

“I’m not unlucky enough to have a little brother like you!” Xing Shengnan exclaimed.

“How dare you pretend to be kind at this moment!” Xing Yao screamed. “There’s no way someone like you will die a good death!”

“Brother Zheng Yun, I have something I need to tell you privately.” Qin Lie smiled and gestured for Zheng Yun to move closer to him.

After a moment of hesitation, Zheng Yun walked toward Qin Lie.

“What is it?” he asked.

At this point in time, Black Cloud Palace had rounded up every Xing Family clansman and martial practitioner loyal to the Xing Family on the ship and forced them into retreat.

The only person still standing nearby was Xing Shengnan.

Xiahou Chang watched her closely. If she made any strange movements, he’d immediately unleash a storm of attacks at her.

Zheng Yun calmly approached Qin Lie until he was two meters away from him. He wasn’t afraid of anything happening to him because he was at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm. After a moment of hesitation, he came to a halt and chuckled. “So, what do you want to say to me, brother?”

“Take Xing Yao with you,” Qin Lie said with a smile. “I’ve lost interest in her.”

His words startled Zheng Yun.

A twinkle suddenly appeared in his eyes, but after staring at Qin Lie for a few seconds, he shook his head and laughed dryly. He laughed as he began backing away from him.

“Forget it,” he said. “A gentleman doesn’t take what isn’t theirs. I told you I would give her to you, and I won’t break that promise.”

Zheng Yun couldn’t help but feel that something was off. He didn’t dare to accept Qin Lie’s offer and risk upsetting him.

He believed that Qin Lie was a direct disciple of Forefather Terminator. After all, he had Terminator Profound Bombs.

In addition to that, even under these circumstances, Qin Lie actually claimed that Xing Shengnan was his big sister. This worried Zheng Yun, and he instinctively avoided taking any risks.

He was well aware of how exceedingly arrogant Terminator Sect martial practitioners were. He knew that they wouldn’t give something up without good reason.

Since he was just the young palace master of a Copper rank force, he was especially aware of this. He knew that he didn’t merit such modesty from someone of Qin Lie’s status.

“I see that Brother Zheng is quite a cautious man.” Qin Lie broke out into involuntary laughter. Then he shook his head and said, “Unfortunately for you… you’re still standing too close to me.”

The moment Qin Lie said this, Zheng Yun’s face twisted in alarm. He instantly began to openly retreat.

Yet three metallic lightning balls spun through the air, brimming with thunder and lightning energy as the moved even faster. They instantly appeared five meters in front of Zheng Yun.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Multiple thunderous violent explosions erupted at the same time. Electricity sparked through the air and mingled with the pungent stench of sulfur.

Zheng Yun had been dozens of meters away from Qin Lie. The power of thunder enveloped him like a tidal wave and sent him flying backward.

Roaring thunder overwhelmed the sound his Zheng Yun’s cracking bones. Only he could hear them shatter. He felt an uncontrollable stream of blood gush from his mouth like a long bloody snake. It continued to grow longer and longer as he flew backward, making the entire spectacle seem strange.

“Young palace master!””Young palace master!”

The three Fulfillment Realm elders of Black Cloud Palace went ghastly pale as they rushed to catch Zheng Yun.

This turn of event absolutely confounded Xiahou Chang, but he didn’t take his eyes off of Xing Shengnan or do anything to help Zheng Yun.

He assumed that Qin Lie held a grudge against Zheng Yun.

Xiahou Sheng had told Xiahou Chang that Forefather Terminator was Qin Lie’s backer.

Zheng Yun, on the other hand, was just the young palace master of a small Copper rank force.

After comparing the two, Xiahou Chang chose to ignore Zheng Yun.

Chapter 592: A Sky Filled With Blood Energy!

The force of three Terminator Profound Bombs exploding at once threw Zheng Yun backward. Blood streamed from his mouth, making the scene eerie and bloody.

But he did not die immediately.

Qin Lie charged through the smoke of the explosion amongst shards of wood and metal, his body surrounded by a dense net of lightning.

“Boom!”

A ferocious, muted sound resounded from Qin Lie. Xing Yao, still restrained by chains of lightning behind him, felt as though a raging volcano were hidden inside of his body. He radiated a furious, mind-numbing presence.

Lightning balls that resembled tiny suns emerged from Qin Lie’s body. They shot toward Zheng Yun even faster than Qin Lie could move, surging with power.

At this moment, Zheng Yun’s body was still flying backward and had yet to hit the deck of the ship.

Qin Lie clearly sought to kill him!

“You dare!?” the three Fulfillment Realm elders of Black Cloud Palace shouted. They summoned all of their power to try and extinguish Qin Lie’s fury, disregarding Qin Lie’s identity and Forefather Terminator who loomed behind him.

Xiahou Chang’s eyes widened, a strange look appearing in them.

“Why does he hate him so?”

He originally thought that they were fighting over Xing Yao, a plaything.

“Woosh!”

A pitch black flag rushed out from behind Zheng Yun and into the air.

Vicious beasts had been sown into this enormous flag, all of which struggled wildly. Long dark green tentacles stretched from the flag’s cloth and lashed at the air, making snapping sounds.

The tentacles lashed at the six fist-sized balls of lightning as they shot toward Zheng Yun. When they hit them, they exploded in a spray of sparks.

Yet the lightning balls still continued onward, swiftly soaking into Zheng Yun’s arms, ears, eyes, and nose.

“Zzzt zzzt zzzt!”

The instant they made contact with him, lightning arced from Zheng Yun’s body. His hair and flesh quickly charred and became pitch black. His energetic eyes became devoid of light.

“Boom!”

The Astral Thunder Hammer descended upon Zheng Yun and smashed into his chest, forcing it to cave in with a bone-shattering crunch.

The last bit of light in Zheng Yun’s eyes went out. He no longer showed any signs of life.

Amidst the lightning, Qin Lie continued to charge toward Zheng Yun’s lifeless body. Then, all of a sudden, he changed directions and arrived next to Xing Shengnan.

This chain of events stunned Xing Shengnan. She looked at Qin Lie with her beady eyes, puzzlement flashing through them, unable to speak.

Xiahou Chang suddenly spoke up, his expression darkening.

“Whose side are you really on, little brother?” he asked.

Zheng Yun had been killed. The three peak Fulfillment Realm elders of Black Cloud Palace wanted to kill Qin Lie, but now that he stood next to Xing Shengnan, they didn’t dare to make any rash moves.

Xing Shengnan was in the Fragmentation Realm. Although she was wounded, they wouldn’t be able to survive clashing with her if she decided to sacrifice herself.

They didn’t dare to take the risk.

So they waited for Xiahou Chang to move first.

Another person that had been stunned by this shocking development was Xing Yao. She realized that, when Qin Lie had attacked Zheng Yun, the chains of lightning restraining her had wondrously loosened.

She had regained her freedom.

Now she just stood there gazing at Qin Lie, a confused, complex look on her face.

She realized that she just couldn’t understand Qin Lie. She had no idea what this person, who had showed up out of nowhere and posed as a member of the Xing Family, was thinking.

Only Guo Yanzheng and Qi Jing had a slight understanding of what was going on because they thought that Qin Lie was a member of Blood Fiend Sect.

But they couldn’t actually tell what Qin Lie was thinking either.

“Little… little brother.” Xing Shengnan hesitantly asked, “Whose side are you actually on?”

“Well, since you’re calling me little brother…” An unfathomably open and happy smile spread across Qin Lie’s face. “I’m obviously on your side.”

Xing Shengnan’s eyes lit up at his response, her bulky body trembling slightly.

In the next moment, however, she grew somber again. Despair and anguish showed in her face as she shook her head and said, “I feel your good intentions, but… the Xing Family won’t be able to overcome this obstacle. We won’t be able to escape this calamity.”

She sighed deeply, already hopeless.

Black Cloud Palace, Heavenly Sea Pavilion, the Xiahou Family, and Xiang Xi’s treacherous band. These four factions had allied with each other to destroy the Xing Family.

How could they possibly fight back?

In the face of today’s situation, she believed that all of the Xing Family would probably die here.

She took comfort in the fact that Qin Lie still chose to make his position known, but she knew that it wouldn’t change anything. It couldn’t possibly change the fate of the Xing Family. It would just result in one more meaningless death.

—That was a result she didn’t wish to see.

The expression on Xiahou Chang’s face darkened even further.

“I’ve never heard of Forefather Terminator having any ties to Gold Sun Island…”

The moment they heard Xiahou Chang mention Forefather Terminator, terror filled the eyes of the three Black Cloud Palace elders, and any thoughts they had of attacking Qin Lie fled their minds.

“Forefather Terminator?”

Xing Shengnan, Xing Yao, Guo Yanzheng, Qi Jing, and everyone else on the Xing Family’s side felt confused. After a bit of thinking, however, they suddenly grew excited..

The chains of lightning that Qin Lie used to restrain Xing Yao! The Terminator Profound Bombs he used to attack Zheng Yun! The balls of blazing lightning he summoned!

They were all things unique to Terminator Sect!

Was it because…

When everyone glanced at Qin Lie once more, he was bathed in a very different light!

Qin Lie just shrugged in response, clearly relaxed. He then turned to Xing Shengnan and said, “Sit down first, big sister. Rest and recover.”

The grim look in Xiahou Chang’s eyes deepened, the corners of his mouth slowly curving into a vicious, ruthless smile.

“Obviously, I wouldn’t dare attack a direct disciple of Forefather Terminator…” he said, menace on his tongue. “But I can kill everyone except you! All the members of the Xing Family! Any martial practitioners from Gold Sun Island! Anyone on this ship, all dead!”

Then he paused and glanced at the three Black Cloud Palace elders behind him.

“This person killed the young master of your palace,” Xiahou Chang said. “Are you going to ignore that?”

Conflict and indecision played out on the faces of the three Fulfillment Realm experts, reflecting their turbulent thoughts.

“No one can help you, Xing Shengnan. No one will rescue you.” Xiahou Chang took a deep breath, calming down once more. He walked toward her, blood dripping from his sword. “Accept your fate.”

As he looked at her with murder in his eyes, the depth of coldness in that frigid stare penetrated into her soul and washed over her.

Every single hair on Xing Shengnan’s body stood on end. She didn’t dare to hold anything back, using every last bit of her concentration to gather her remaining spirit power and face Xiahou Chang.

“Drip! Drip!”

Her nervousness made the wounds on her arms open up again. Blood spilled from them in a small stream and drip onto the deck of the ship to form a small puddle.

Xing Shengnan’s face slowly turned pale, indicating that she had lost too much blood and that her

It was clear for all to see that Xing Shengnan did not possess the power for this fight. Forcing herself to attack was a definite path to death.

“Rest, big sister,” Qin Lie said in a deep voice.

“No! Even at the cost of my life, I will leave a mark on his body!” Xing Shengnan shook her head as she proclaimed this, and finished with a sad smile. Her fate was determined, and she had decided to face death.

“Auntie!” Xing Yao cried out in pain from the other side of the ship.

She could tell that Xing Shengnan intended to die here. She knew that, in the next moment, Xing Shengnan would use a self-destructive secret art. In order to deal a great blow to Xiahou Chang, she would give up her life.

Qin Lie suddenly grinned and said, “Protect me, big sister.”

In that instant, the world went still.

In the next, an abnormally tall body that looked extremely strange appeared out of thin air to stand in front of Qin Lie.

Blood energy erupted from it like a vast ocean, flooding over everyone present and making the energy inside of them tremble. They felt as though their blood would go out of control and gush from their bodies.

Everybody on the ship, including Guo Yanzheng, Qi Jing, Xing Shengnan, and their enemies from Black Cloud Palace, was forced to gather their spirit energy to calm their minds and suppress the restless blood within them.

Even Xiahou Chang was not exempt.

All eyes were frozen upon the body of the Blood Progenitor. It hovered in the air with its eyes closed, standing tall as blood energy streamed from it. A potent blood aura radiated from it, flaring up and filling the sky.

In that instant, Qin Lie sat down beside Xing Shengnan. He willed his True Soul to become a stream that flowed into the Blood Progenitor’s body.

The Blood Progenitor’s tightly shut eyes trembled slightly, and then they suddenly flew open.

A sanguine pair of eyes were revealed to everyone present.

“Aoooooo!”

A sea of blood suddenly materialized out of thin air and a bloody bone dragon emerged from it, roaring furiously and shocking everybody.

Its target was Xiahou Chang!

“Th-that’s the ultimate treasure of Blood Fiend Sect… the Bloodthirsty Dragon!” Guo Yanzheng shouted in awe.

Qi Jing dropped to the deck, panting profusely as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Xing Yao felt as though she were in a dream. She had a dazed look in her eyes, seemingly examining something illusory and unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.

“The Bloodthirsty Dragon… that’s the Bloodthirsty Dragon!” Xing Shengnan screamed in shock. She couldn’t believe her eyes and definitely didn’t dare to believe what was happening.

Xiahou Chang was just as shocked and terrified as the others. He inadvertently yelped and retreated.

“Splash!”

Xiahou Chang immediately turned and dove into the ocean. He didn’t dare to face the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s fury or oppose the vast sea of blood that accompanied it.

He was a member of the Xiahou Family, which had been a vassal force of Blood Fiend Sect a thousand years ago. He knew just how terrifying the Bloodthirsty Dragon, the ultimate treasure of Blood Fiend Sect, could be. As soon as he saw this vicious weapon, he immediately concluded that it couldn’t be defeated and chose to fall back.

Qin Lie, inside of the body of the Blood Progenitor, turned his head to Xing Shengnan.

“Please watch over my actual body, big sister,” he said gravely.

A strange feeling welled up inside of Xing Shengnan. She had trouble discerning what was real and what wasn’t, but still, she nodded.

This strange man before her radiated blood energy that was so strong, it completely surpassed what she was capable of imagining.

Yet this man referred to her as big sister…

She felt like she was in a dream.

“The Bloodthirsty Dragon!”

“What a terrifying, fiendish blood aura!”

“Below us!? What’s happening down there?”

The Fragmentation Realm martial practitioners that had been battling in the sky detected the earth-shaking fiendish blood energy at the same time.

Their gazes traveled over to the Wavebreaker where they saw the Bloodthirsty Dragon bellowing furiously and Qin Lie who had taken over the body of the Blood Progenitor.