Chapter 114: Return, Ambush, Annihilation of the Marquis

After conversing briefly with the Long Wang and the Profound Empress, Lu Qingshan quickly exchanged a common Longevity-Extending Pill with the Long Wang for numerous cultivation arts and martial techniques, and entrusted the other party to look after Ye Chen for the coming period.

Time quickly passed ten days, and the six major sects, including the Suspended Mountain Sect, soon delivered the martial techniques Lu Qingshan requested to the Flowing Cloud Sect.

After all, even with powerful backers behind them, it was impossible for them to make an enemy of a powerful Life-and-Death Realm King on their behalf.

Thus, this gathering of the chat group members came to a successful conclusion.

After recording the numerous cultivation arts and martial techniques, Lu Qingshan soon returned to the original world.

As for the other group members, they too had gained something; besides the Dragon Vein Qi they obtained in the Qianlong List competition, they also brought back some martial arts useful to them.

Of course, to carry the Dragon Vein Qi across worlds back to the original world, they paid a great deal of points.

In the Starry Sky World, within Lu Qingshan's Divine Kingdom.

"Although the power and profundity contained in this 'Soul Blade Slash' are not impressive, the concept is quite novel!"

Lu Qingshan, who had just returned from the Sword Dao Supreme World, quickly recalled a profound martial art he obtained earlier in the Qianlong Secret Realm: "Condense a war blade within one's own soul; after nurturing the war blade to its peak, one can directly attack the enemy's soul!"

"Although this profound martial art is not very suitable for the Starry Sky World, I can use it as a foundation to create my own soul defense method and soul attack method!"

"However, creating a secret technique on one's own is not something that can be achieved overnight; one still needs to temper oneself in battle!"

Thinking of this, the majority of Lu Qingshan's consciousness quickly arrived at his second clone, located in Camp Base No. 026 of the Seventh Outer Battlefield.

Due to the difference in time flow between the various worlds, although he had stayed in the Sword Dao Supreme World for over half a month, very little time had passed in the original world.

At this time, the other members of the Xuan Kong squad had also purchased numerous treasures to restore divine power; because of Lu Qingshan's previous words, they had abandoned the idea of fully recovering within a thousand years and instead extended the timeframe to five thousand years.

This way, even for those like Nightmare whose divine bodies had suffered the most severe damage, the resources required were not too great!

After greeting the members of the Xuan Kong squad, Lu Qingshan quickly boarded a pre-prepared ordinary Class E spaceship and left the camp base.

Although he had previously purchased several Class E spaceships of decent quality, the Outer Battlefield was fraught with dangers, and ambushes by alien experts could occur at any moment; naturally, he could not be so wasteful with resources.

Although he had previously told the members of the Xuan Kong squad that he would not venture into overly dangerous areas when traveling alone, after leaving the camp base, Lu Qingshan still chose to head for the Yanji Continent.

After all, he came to the Outer Battlefield to temper himself; if he went to areas like the Shattered Star Belt, which were relatively safe for Marquis-level Immortals, although the possibility of encountering danger would be much lower, the chance of meeting opponents of the same level would also be smaller.

To experience sufficient tempering, the Yanji Continent, where experts are as numerous as clouds, is naturally more suitable.

As for the dangers that might be encountered on the Yanji Continent, for Lu Qingshan who possesses clones, they are nothing; even if a clone is killed by an alien expert, the worst that happens is a loss of some divine power and wealth.

After the spaceship flew through the dark universe for several days, Lu Qingshan finally arrived at the main continent of the Yanji Continent once again.

After arriving above a vast lake on the Yanji Continent, the spaceship slowly stopped; Lu Qingshan flew out, retracted the spaceship, and then looked down at the vast lake spanning a million kilometers in circumference.

The lake was entirely emerald blue, appearing filled with chilling cold, and was unfathomably deep.

Just the wisps of cold naturally emanating from it would likely be enough to freeze a Star-level expert to death; if one entered the lake water, even a Universe-level expert would very likely freeze to death.

Of course, the reason this lake water possesses such power is entirely due to its special location; if the lake water were taken out and brought to another place, that chilling cold would quickly vanish, so the lake water had absolutely no value, and naturally, no one was willing to collect it.

"The detector has detected no one hiding here; let's take this place as our base!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan immediately plunged headfirst into the lake below; the lake water, which could freeze a Universe-level expert to death, posed no threat to him, so he dove straight down for over ten thousand kilometers, directly reaching the rock layer at the bottom of the lake, and quickly carved out a dwelling.

This was one of the experiences he had accumulated after acting with the Xuan Kong squad for a thousand years.

When choosing a dwelling in the Outer Battlefield, the most important point is safety!

By setting his dwelling deep within the lake, even if an alien expert discovered his whereabouts, with layers of lake water blocking the way, it would be extremely troublesome for those alien experts to ambush him, giving him ample time to prepare.

After constructing such a temporary dwelling, Lu Qingshan quickly opened a temporary Divine Kingdom teleportation channel, returned to the Divine Kingdom, used the Infinite Divine Sea Clone to replenish the divine power he had consumed in previous battles, and finally returned to the temporary dwelling on the Yanji Continent through the temporary Divine Kingdom teleportation channel.

"Fighting alone is much more comfortable!"

Feeling his divine power restored to a perfect state, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but sigh: "When acting with the Captain and the others before, except when fighting desperately, we rarely burned Immortal Divine Power; but now that I am acting alone, I can burn Immortal Divine Power to fight at any time!"

"As for the divine power loss caused by burning Immortal Divine Power, as long as it does not exceed a certain degree, the recovery speed of the Infinite Divine Sea Clone can fully restore it!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan quickly left the temporary dwelling, then began to wander above the Yanji Continent in a spaceship, while cultivating the soul attack secret technique and using the detector to search for suitable alien enemies.

Just as Lu Qingshan was flying in a spaceship searching for a suitable alien opponent.

Over eighty million kilometers away from Lu Qingshan, a silver-white universe spaceship was currently flying slowly.

Inside the rest area of the spaceship, three figures over three meters tall were sitting.

All three figures had three eyes and a very short single horn on their heads; they were three experts from the 'Kawu Clan', a common race on the Insect Race camp side.

Although the Kawu Clan belongs to the Insect Race camp in the Outer Battlefield, they are actually a vassal race of the peak race, the Hell Race.

Actually, this situation is nothing more than normal in the Outer Battlefield.

After all, the Human Race, the Meng Yao Zu, the Mechanical Race, and the Insect Race are only four of the six peak races of the vast universe; it is only because the territories of the four races are adjacent and their conflicts are extremely intense that they frequently launch wars, even opening up the Outer Battlefield for this purpose.

Besides the Human Race and the other three peak races, there are two other peak races in the universe, the Hell Race and the Crystal Race; however, their territories are located in relatively remote parts of the universe, so their conflicts with the Human Race and the other four races are not that great!

Of course, although they will not launch wars against the Human Race and the other four peak races, since the Outer Battlefield was established by the four peak races, it has become the most dangerous place below the level of Universe Zifeng Zunzhe in the entire Primordial Universe, with the most experts and the most opportunities for slaughter and tempering.

Even a considerable number of Universe Zifeng Zunzhe who broke through in the Outer Battlefield among the Human Race and the other four peak races, and these have attracted experts from tens of thousands of races in the universe!

Those powerful races or alliance forces, in order to temper their subordinates' experts, even sent people to negotiate with the Human Race and the other four peak races, then arranged for their subordinates' experts to join one of the four camps, thereby obtaining the opportunity to enter the Outer Battlefield for tempering.

"Big Brother!"

One of the Kawu Clan Immortals downed a cup of scarlet liquid, then couldn't help but sigh: "The experts of the Meng Yao Zu are truly hard to deal with! That Lord Tianlang before was only a Marquis-level High Immortal, yet he could press us three brothers and beat us; it is simply too terrifying!"

"The strength of the Meng Yao Zu is indeed very strong!"

The leading Kawu Clan Immortal quickly replied: "Many Meng Yao Zu experts possess powerful divine bodies; once they fight desperately, most of the time they can crush experts of the same level! Fortunately, that Meng Yao Zu Lord Tianlang Immortal did not fight desperately with us before; otherwise, we would have lost at least part of our divine bodies!"

Just as these three Kawu Clan Immortals were discussing the strength of the Meng Yao Zu experts...

"Eh?"

The leading Kawu Clan Immortal quickly looked down at the screen on his arm guard.

The other two Kawu Clan Immortals quickly looked over: "Big Brother?"

"Detected a universe spaceship; it is Human!" the leading Kawu Clan quickly said.

"Big brother, humans aren't easy to mess with either!"

Another Kawu Zu Undying hurriedly said, "Although their divine bodies aren't large, they carry quite a lot of treasures, and once they call for help, the speed at which strong allies from their faction arrive is truly astonishing!"

"There's only one human Undying in that spaceship!"

The leading Kawu Zu Undying quickly said, "And his detector looks pretty shoddy—he probably hasn't detected our tracks!"

"Only one person? And a shoddy detector?"

"Could he be a human powerhouse who just arrived at Flame Sacrifice Continent to adventure, and hasn't found a suitable team yet?"

After hearing the leading Kawu Zu Undying's words, the other two Kawu Zu Undying were instantly tempted.

"The three of us joining forces, combined with our clan's innate abilities—as long as we pay some price, even an early-tier Marquis Undying can be killed!"

The leading Kawu Zu Undying quickly said, "Human Undying are all very wealthy, and they're not as hard to deal with as Undying of the same tier from Meng Yao Zu. Let's first test this person's strength—if he's not strong enough, we'll find a chance to kill him. No objections?"

"Of course no objections." The other two Kawu Zu Undying quickly said with smiles.

"Move closer." The leading Kawu Zu Undying immediately ordered.

Whoosh!

The silver-white spaceship rapidly moved toward Lu Qingshan's direction.

……

On the other side, Lu Qingshan was using his detector to search for a suitable opponent when he was suddenly struck by a burst of Undying divine power.

Boom boom boom!

Under this powerful attack, the spaceship shattered instantly. Fortunately, the attack's might was limited, so Lu Qingshan didn't suffer much injury.

Once the aftershock dissipated, Lu Qingshan quickly detected three powerful auras to his front-left.

"I really didn't expect that the first opponent I'd encounter after coming alone to Flame Sacrifice Continent would come knocking on my own door."

Following those three powerful auras, Lu Qingshan quickly saw the three alien powerhouses who had blasted his ship apart: "Kawu Zu powerhouses?"

Lu Qingshan could sense that all three Kawu Zu powerhouses before him had stepped into the Undying tier; as for their exact strength, he could only know after fighting.

"I'll play with them first, temper my swordsmanship and movement techniques, and see just how strong they really are!"

Looking at the three Kawu Zu Undying before him, Lu Qingshan thought to himself, "As long as they're not too strong, I'll just burn my Undying divine power and take them out!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingshan immediately gripped his Purple Thunder Sword, executed his movement technique, and charged toward the three Kawu Zu Undying.

On the other side, after seeing that Lu Qingshan not only showed no fear after their ambush but actually charged straight at them, the three Kawu Zu Undying were also startled.

After all, they had previously seen Lu Qingshan alone, and his detector looked less advanced than theirs, which is why they wanted to test his strength.

If Lu Qingshan's strength was lacking, they would immediately strike to kill; if his strength was sufficient, they would withdraw on their own.

Of course, now that Lu Qingshan had taken the initiative to attack them, they naturally couldn't just retreat without a fight—they too gripped their weapons and charged at Lu Qingshan.

Just like that, after more than ten exchanges, both sides quickly gauged each other's strength.

"This human Undying's strength is extremely powerful—he should have already stepped into the high-tier Marquis level!"

The leader among the three Kawu Zu Undying immediately transmitted to his two companions, "Even if we pay a huge price and fight desperately, our chance of killing him is no more than fifty percent. And the human race has the Virtual Universe—reinforcements on the extraterritorial battlefield arrive extremely fast. We'd better retreat quickly!"

"Yes, big brother!" The other two Kawu Zu leaders quickly transmitted back.

Lu Qingshan had also gauged the three Kawu Zu Undying's strength by now: "One high-tier Marquis, one early-tier Marquis, and the other is a high-tier General!"

Seeing the three Kawu Zu Undying preparing to withdraw from the fight, Lu Qingshan immediately transmitted, "Kawu Zu trash—you want to fight, you fight; you want to leave, you leave. Aren't you looking down on me a bit too much?"

The moment his words fell, Lu Qingshan erupted instantly.

A flash of lightning passed through his eyes, and then a terrifying wave of energy burst from his body—he had clearly begun burning his Undying divine power to fight desperately.

"Burning his Undying divine body?"

Seeing Lu Qingshan suddenly burn his Undying divine body, the three Kawu Zu Undying were instantly dumbfounded.

Hadn't they just blasted apart one ordinary E-grade spaceship of his?

And in the subsequent fight they hadn't gained any advantage at all—why was this human Undying already going all out?

On the other side, after burning his Undying divine power, Lu Qingshan didn't use any material attack either. After all, with that high-tier Marquis Kawu Zu Undying protecting them, it would still be very hard for him to instantly kill that high-tier General Kawu Zu through material attack.

Besides, he was planning to create a soul attack technique, so this was the perfect chance to practice on these Kawu Zu Undying.

Hum!

In the state of burning divine power, a wisp of illusory Undying divine power instantly spread out from Lu Qingshan's body, then quickly burrowed into that high-tier General Kawu Zu's body.

"Roar!"

After being struck by Lu Qingshan's soul attack, a strange giant beast within that high-tier General Kawu Zu's soul instantly let out an angry roar—but this seemingly incomparably powerful strange beast, upon touching the illusory divine power Lu Qingshan had seeped into his body, instantly collapsed.

"No!"

This high-tier General Kawu Zu only managed to let out one extremely unwilling roar from the depths of his soul in the end; he didn't even have time to self-detonate his divine body before his life aura vanished completely.

"Not good—it's a soul attack!"

"This damned human is skilled in soul attacks!"

Boom! Boom!

The other two Marquis-tier Kawu Zu Undying, seeing their companion's aura vanish instantly, also immediately burned their own Undying divine power.

Facing a soul master of the same tier who had burned his divine power, no powerhouse with a soul would dare be careless!

With the strengthened divine power from burning defending against the soul attack, the two Kawu Zu Undying finally felt slightly relieved.

At this moment, however, Lu Qingshan's illusory divine power burrowed once more into the body of that early-tier Marquis Kawu Zu Undying.

"Roar!"

This early-tier Marquis Kawu Zu also had a strange giant beast guarding his soul within, and its strength far surpassed that of the strange beast within the high-tier General Kawu Zu from before.

Lu Qingshan's illusory Undying divine power ultimately only shattered that strange giant beast, and then had no strength left to kill that early-tier Marquis Kawu Zu's soul.

At this moment, the attacks of the two Kawu Zu also quickly reached Lu Qingshan.

That early-tier Marquis Kawu Zu was one thing—he posed no great threat to Lu Qingshan, who had burned his Undying divine power. But that high-tier Marquis Kawu Zu Undying, in the state of burning divine power, had strength exceeding Lu Qingshan by a considerable margin, so naturally Lu Qingshan didn't dare to take that attack head-on.

Therefore, Lu Qingshan quickly employed a top-tier movement technique to dodge, and once again unleashed a soul attack in an attempt to slay that early Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe!

Hum!

Lu Qingshan's illusory Soul Transformation divine power once again seeped into the body of that early Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe.

Previously, Lu Qingshan's soul attack was merely an embryonic form of a self-created secret art, but what he now employed was a soul attack method recorded in the "Lei Huan Secret Art" that suited him extremely well and had reached the peak tier.

Consequently, the strange giant beast protecting the soul within that early Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe instantly collapsed under Lu Qingshan's soul attack, and afterward its soul also began to teeter on the brink of collapse.

"No!"

"Big brother, run!"

Upon feeling his soul teetering on the brink of collapse, that early Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe only had time to transmit a warning to the leading Undying of the Ka Wu tribe before furiously choosing to self-detonate!

Boom—!

A terrifying shockwave instantly radiated outward in all directions, sweeping across a span of several million kilometers around.

That high Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe was currently in a state of burning divine power, so naturally he was completely unscathed in this terrifying self-detonation. As for Lu Qingshan, who was in reality only an early Marquis-Rank Undying and had no powerful armor to protect himself, even though he was in a state of burning Undying divine power and employed movement techniques to dodge with all his might, he still lost eight percent of his body in this self-detonation.

And that high Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe had originally planned to avenge his two companions after Lu Qingshan was heavily injured, but now, seeing that Lu Qingshan's aura had barely weakened at all, he no longer dared to linger.

"Damned human, I will definitely come back to exact revenge on you!"

Whoosh!

After leaving behind such a harsh remark, the figure of the Undying of the Ka Wu tribe, who had already been quite far from Lu Qingshan, flickered several times, then instantly transformed into a streak of flowing light and flew off into the distance.

Seeing this, Lu Qingshan did not try to stop him, for after slaying that early Marquis-Rank Undying of the Ka Wu tribe, he had already understood that with his current strength, he was not enough to pose a fatal threat to a high Marquis-Rank Undying!

(End of this chapter)