Chapter 177: 177
Zhuo Zhibo did not even try to use his flying blade . The range of his artifact was thirty steps . This was quite a distance to regular people, but with Li Qingshan’s terrifying physique, he only needed to take a step and extend his hand . With just that, he would be able to reach Zhuo Zhibo easily .
Zhuo Zhibo was not crazy enough to engage in close combat against such an opponent . He would probably die in Li Qingshan’s hands before his flying blade had even managed to pierce Li Qingshan’s barrier . He could not afford to die here . As long as he could return and expose Li Qingshan’s true form, powerful masters of the Hawkwolf Guard would come to deal with him themselves . How could the Hawkwolf Guard accept daemons into their ranks?!
Ge Jian looked back as he fled for his life . He discovered in fright that Li Qingshan had vanished from his previous location . His colossal body moved with unbelievable speed, appearing in front of him in a single moment . Before he could even react, all he felt was his body tighten and ache; then he lost all consciousness .
Li Qingshan grabbed Ge Jian and casually tossed him towards another Black Wolf guard .
The Black Wolf guard heard the whistling wind from the projectile . When he turned back to look, all he saw was Ge Jian bleeding from all of his orifices, only inches away .
With a bang, the two of them collided against a wall and were reduced to a pile of flesh of blood . They slid down from the wall slowly, stuck together forever .
Li Qingshan opened his mouth, and the spirit turtle’s daemon core shot out, piercing the other fourth layer Qi Practitioner and reducing him to a corpse .
In the blink of an eye, only Zhuo Zhibo and Xie Nande remained . The unstoppable group of Hawkwolf guards had basically been annihilated . All of this took quite some time to explain, but there actually was not the slightest pause as the massacre unfolded .
Zhuo Zhibo fled the fastest . He had already arrived at the cave above the waterfall . Xie Nande also strode over the water and reached halfway up the waterfall, but he suddenly saw the daemon core turn around in the air and fly towards him . He cried out, “Save me, commander!”
Zhuo Zhibo would have never stopped for him . Xie Nande let out a crazy howl and used everything that he had . The true qi he had cultivated over all these years surged out like the tide, swinging towards the incoming daemon core .
However, any form of resistance was pointless before absolute strength . The daemon core only paused slightly before suddenly speeding up and piercing Xie Nande’s head, leaving behind a tiny hole .
Whether they were at the fifth layer or the fourth layer, they seemed just as easy to kill as ordinary people to Li Qingshan now .
Suddenly, he felt great danger . He forcefully twisted his body in the air, and a white prayer bead emerged from the waterfall and brushed past him . It scraped his chest with lightning speed, taking away a chunk of him .
“It’s you!” Zhuo Zhibo saw the child who often followed Li Qingshan around blocking the entrance to the cave . She had no expression as she stood among the silent flames . Although she did not give off any aura, the sense of danger she emitted was no less than Li Qingshan’s .
And, she could control artifacts . This child was actually at the sixth layer or even higher than that, but how could she be so young? Zhuo Zhibo was unable to understand it .
Li Qingshan recalled his daemon core and saw how he was beginning to fall . With a thought, he used his daemon qi, and a pillar of water rose up from the centre of the lake, lifting him up towards Zhuo Zhibo .
There was a vicious beast in front and behind him, and they were each more terrifying than the next .
The suffocating killing intent basically made Zhuo Zhibo’s heart stop . At that moment, he was filled with regret . He never had any irreconocible disagreements with Li Qingshan . If he had just ignored Li Qingshan from the beginning, he would still be the authoritative Black Hawk commander of Jiaping city . He would have both women and power . He never would have been reduced to such a state .
However, it was already too late for regret . In the face of life-threatening danger, Zhuo Zhibo no longer cared . He launched his flying blade at Xiao An . If she moved out of the way to dodge, then all would be well . If she did not, then he would drag her down with him even if it would cost him his life .
As expected, Xiao An remained exactly where she was . She formed a seal with her hands, and the Skull Prayer Bead flew towards Zhuo Zhibo as well .
Li Qingshan called out, “Xiao An!” He was helpless as he watched the flying blade pierce Xiao An’s chest . At the same time, the Skull Prayer Bead landed on Zhuo Zhibo, but it was blocked by his protective true qi, so it failed to penetrate him . However, it managed to send him flying, falling down from the waterfall .
Li Qingshan extended his huge tiger claws towards Zhuo Zhibo with a gust of wind . Zhuo Zhibo had lost his balance, and his true qi was shaken up, so it was impossible for him to dodge . Li Qingshan immediately used his full power, his unstoppable physical strength and his tremendous daemon qi, to shatter the true qi around Zhuo Zhibo, before crushing down . There was the cracking of shattered bones and blood sprayed from Zhuo Zhibo’s mouth violently . Most of his body had been squashed . He could no longer employ any more tricks .
Li Qingshan rushed over to Xiao An’s side . “Are you alright?”
Zhuo Zhibo knew that the only thing awaiting him was death now that he had fallen into Li Qingshan’s hands . He laughed crazily as he spurted with blood . “She has been struck by my Spiritual Flame blade . She’s dead . ”
Xiao An shook her head to express that she was fine .
Li Qingshan was still worried about her, so he picked her up like a doll, cradling her in his hand . He saw that her beautiful skin was completely fine . There was just a small hole in her clothes .
“H- how’s that possible!?” Zhuo Zhibo widened his eyes, refusing to accept this . Even Qi Practitioners would be dead for sure if vital points like their heads or hearts were pierced .
Xiao An’s flesh and blood, including her vital points and her heart, had all been refined by herself . It was only a representation of a body . Her true form was just a skeleton . Even if her body, her flesh, was destroyed, she would still be alive and kicking .
Zhuo Zhibo suffered from his lack of information . If he had not been so determined, he might have been able to maneuver himself between Li Qingshan’s fingers for a while . Li Qingshan lifted Zhuo Zhibo before him . “You’re much weaker than I imagined you’d be . ”
Zhuo Zhibo said, “Don’t kill me, I can give you a lot of benefits…” At the same time, he concentrated on the Spiritual Flame blade . He wanted to find an opportunity to deal a fatal strike against Li Qingshan .
“You’d better keep all of that to yourself!” Li Qingshan completely ignored Zhuo Zhibo’s nonsense, directly crushing him to death . The best way to resist being tempted by the enemy was obviously to shut them up for good .
The Spiritual Flame blade fell into the water quietly .
Zhuo Zhibo had seen Li Qingshan’s true form . Li Qingshan would never allow him to exist for any longer in this world . And, the only benefits he needed right now were pills, large quantities of pills . As long as his cultivation strengthened, there would be plenty of benefits . The Soaring Dragon Elder’s sumeru ring was still on his finger . Even all of Zhuo Zhibo’s wealth probably would not be worth as much as a single item in there .
Li Qingshan found a hundred treasures pouch within the bloody mess . He signalled . “Xiao An, time to clean up!”
Flames immediately surged over, taking away Zhuo Zhibo’s corpse without even leaving behind a single droplet of blood . Afterwards, it scattered and swallowed the corpses of the other Black Wolf guards, turning them all into the purest form of energy .
Whether it be the bones or the flesh and blood of Qi Practitioners, they completely surpassed what ordinary people could provide in terms of quality . It was equivalent to a rare delicacy . The colour of the Skull Prayer Bead became purer once more .
Afterwards, the flames returned with seven hundred treasures pouches and seven low grade spiritual artifacts . Li Qingshan picked up the Spiritual Flame blade that had fallen into the water . This was a true mid grade spiritual artifact . It would definitely be priceless, but before he could even inspect it properly, his heart suddenly skipped a beat . “Someone is coming!”
Xiao An nodded, expressing that she had sensed it too . This person had concealed his aura as much as possible, but slivers of it had still leaked out, unable to fool their senses . The person was actually a sixth layer Qi Practitioner as well . Li Qingshan said to Xiao An . “Let’s hide and see who it is . ” He began to use the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression . The daemon core returned to his dantian, and he returned to human form, hiding all of his aura . He sank into the depths of the murky lake water with Xiao An .
Before long, a figure arrived at the cave opening, scanning through the cavern silently and secretively . The darkness underground drastically affected his vision, preventing him from seeing what was in the water .
However, Li Qingshan managed to see him clearly . He also wore a black uniform from the Hawkwolf Guard, but his embroidery differed from regular Hawkwolf guards . Li Qingshan immediately understood that he was the Black Wolf commander who had never shown himself before . He wondered why he had come as well .
This person was Lao Xishan . He had come here in pursuit of Zhuo Zhibo, wanting to seek an opportunity to avenge himself . However, as soon as he encountered the first fork, he had almost lost track of Zhuo Zhibo . He had only chosen one of the paths because of the number of people he could sense . He had only just broken through to the sixth layer, so he struggled to control his true qi a little, which was also why Li Qingshan had managed to discover him so easily .
Lao Xishan widened his eyes and inspected the cavern with great caution . The daemon qi he had sensed earlier was no joke . If he really did run into a powerful daemon, it would be extremely dangerous . The auras of the Qi Practitioners had vanished one by one earlier, so they must have been doomed . He was reluctant to follow in their steps .
However, after sensing for quite some time, he failed to discover anything in the end . The daemon qi seemed to have vanished into thin air . The Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression was so effective at hiding auras that even a ninth layer Qi Practitioner like the West Gate Granny failed to discover Li Qingshan, let alone a sixth layer Qi Practitioner who had only broken through recently like him .
Don’t tell me that Zhuo Zhibo is dead? That was what Lao Xishan thought . His emotions were very mixed . He felt both joy and pity . He had bided his time and steeled his resolve to become stronger . After all these years, he was about to settle his grievances with his old enemy, but his enemy had died in the hands of some daemon . However, at the end of the day, his feelings were still more on the positive side . He made up his mind to take no risks and returned quietly along his original path .
Li Qingshan and Xiao An emerged from the water and sat down by the water to rest . They wanted to see what they had obtained!
But suddenly, Li Qingshan wondered about how Hao Pingyang and the others were doing . Had they found the dwelling of the Zombie Daoist yet? Hopefully they were fine!
Blood flowed unceasingly from Jin Bao’s body . His eyes were wide open with regret while his face was frozen with the fear of death . However, it was unable to stop the arrival of death . Someone had ripped him open viciously from his chest to his abdomen, disemboweling him . It was a horrific death .