Chapter 120: Fall: The Volatile Feng Yanwang

On the other side, even facing the joint attack of Lord Tianlang's Undying and Shadow Hou, Lu Qingshan, in his burning divine power state, was still handling things with ease thanks to his top-tier movement technique.

"It's just that this Tianlang's divine body is still too big for me!"

Lu Qingshan sliced through the white silk threads blocking his path with one sword, then dodged another furious strike from Lord Tianlang's Undying, thinking to himself: "Fighting these two, my divine body is being consumed way too fast, and their combat secret techniques aren't all that exquisite. Continuing to battle them won't really temper me!"

Thinking this, a hint of retreat naturally arose in Lu Qingshan's heart.

Although he had his Boundless Divine Sea avatar as a reserve energy source, the Boundless Divine Sea avatar's divine body wasn't large enough yet to support him squandering divine power without restraint.

And the two remaining enemies before him were both Hei Fengwang high-tier; even if Lu Qingshan used every trick he had, there was no hope of slaying them, so retreating was naturally the most suitable choice.

Besides, he had already slain a Hei Fengwang low-tier Undying from the Black Wolf race, so this battle could be considered a gain.

With this thought, Lu Qingshan instantly pushed his top-tier movement technique to the extreme, his figure flickering through the surrounding void, leaving a series of zigzagging trails as his speed skyrocketed.

"That Burning Spirit Hou wants to run!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan try to escape, Lord Tianlang's Undying's face immediately showed delight: "Shadow, you must stop him! As long as we can kill this Burning Spirit Hou, you can pick the spoils first!"

Hearing this, Shadow Hou from the Weiyi race also erupted completely.

One saw boundless white silk threads instantly spreading from his body, soon filling an entire region of spacetime around him!

These white silk threads weren't all that tough, but they were virtually endless; although they couldn't completely trap Lu Qingshan, they greatly reduced his speed.

"Captain, I can't hold this move for too long!"

After unleashing his ultimate technique, Shadow Hou hurriedly transmitted: "You need to take down that Burning Spirit Hou quickly!"

"Don't worry!"

Lord Tianlang's Undying then laughed heartily: "That Burning Spirit Hou is less than two meters tall, and his divine body has probably burned through a lot by now. Once his divine body drops below 90%, his strength will weaken greatly, and he definitely won't be able to hold on much longer!"

"These two idiots, do they really think they can keep me here?"

Lu Qingshan looked at the two Meng Yao Zu Undying desperately trying to block him, and a hint of contempt couldn't help but show on his face.

One must remember, back when his detector's functions were weaker, he had encountered several sneak attacks led by Hei Fengwang peak Undying; although two of those times he only escaped by calling for help from allies in the same faction, there were also a few times he shook off enemies on his own.

Now, although that Weiyi race Undying 'Shadow Hou' was somewhat tricky, to him it was only "somewhat tricky."

Hum!

Invisible divine power instantly surged out, then directly rushed into Shadow Hou's body.

Boom!

Inside Shadow Hou's body was an ancient, simple bronze bell—the manifestation of his soul defense secret technique!

Facing Lu Qingshan's terrifying attack, the originally towering Rushan-like ancient bronze bell had actually begun to hum, clearly already bearing tremendous pressure.

Outside, Shadow Hou's body also stiffened slightly, his movements clearly greatly affected; and the white silk threads filling the surrounding void, having lost Shadow Hou's full control, began to grow limp and feeble.

Whoosh!

Lu Qingshan's speed erupted once more, and in almost the blink of an eye he had burst out of the encirclement of those white silk threads!

"Impossible!"

The originally confident Lord Tianlang's Undying couldn't help but show a trace of shock on his face, then transmitted to his companion in accusation: "Shadow Hou, didn't you say that at full burst, even Hei Fengwang peak Undying divine spirits would be trapped for a moment? How did you let that Burning Spirit Hou escape?"

"Captain, that Burning Spirit Hou's soul attack is simply too terrifying!"

Shadow Hou said with a face full of dread: "I've already self-created a top-tier soul defense secret technique, but under his soul attack, I still have to devote most of my mind to defense, so the power of my ultimate move naturally drops quite a bit!"

"Damned bastard!"

Watching Lu Qingshan's figure, which had already stopped burning divine power, getting farther and farther away, Lord Tianlang's Undying also quickly stopped burning his Undying divine power: "Are we just going to let that damned Burning Spirit Hou escape like this?"

"Captain!"

Without Lu Qingshan's threat, Shadow Hou likewise stopped burning his Undying divine power: "Have to say, that Burning Spirit Hou's strength is indeed very impressive. Unless a Hei Fengwang powerhouse is willing to act, even if he runs into a Hei Fengwang peak, he could very likely escape!"

"Damned!"

Hearing Shadow Hou's words, Lord Tianlang's Undying immediately roared in fury: "I reported the intel the moment I spotted that Burning Spirit Hou, and it's been almost a minute now. Are the powerhouses the Zuqun Sect sent idiots? How have they still not arrived after so long?"

The words had just fallen...

Hum!

Accompanied by a slight ripple in space, a figure less than a meter tall instantly appeared before Lord Tianlang's Undying.

She had a pair of emerald-clear, crystalline wings, her eyes deep and lively, and even the feathers on her body shimmered with brilliant light—she was Feng Yanwang, who had received the Meng Yao Zu's intel and teleported here.

"You Mang Hou, were you just talking about me?"

Feng Yanwang hovered in the void, her calm gaze falling on the Lord Tianlang race Undying You Mang Hou before her, whose body was countless times larger than hers.

"Feng Yanwang!"

Seeing Feng Yanwang appear, Lord Tianlang's Undying first froze slightly, then hurriedly explained: "I didn't know the powerhouse the Zuqun Sect sent was you. My words were rude, please forgive me, Feng Yanwang!"

Although You Mang Hou was a member of the royal Tianlang bloodline, he was after all only a Hei Fengwang high-tier, utterly insignificant within the Tianlang bloodline; whereas Feng Yanwang was a Hei Fengwang peak powerhouse with teleportation ability, her status in the Meng Yao Zu far surpassing his, so he naturally dared not show any disrespect.

"Hmph!"

Watching the massive-bodied You Mang Hou lower his noble head before her, the displeasure in Feng Yanwang's heart finally dissipated somewhat, and she said coldly: "You Mang Hou, where is that human faction's Burning Spirit Hou? You should know that reporting false intel is a serious crime in our Meng Yao Zu!"

"Feng Yanwang!"

Hearing Feng Yanwang's words, Lord Tianlang's Undying You Mang Hou not only showed no worry on his face, but excitedly pointed in a direction and said: "That Burning Spirit Hou just fled in this direction, but it hasn't been more than ten seconds yet, his escape distance absolutely cannot exceed three million kilometers. It's just that his detector should be more precious than mine, so I can no longer detect his tracks!"

"Two wastes!"

Feng Yanwang immediately said coldly: "I teleported here the moment I received the Zuqun Sect's intel, and I didn't expect two Hei Fengwang high-tier like you couldn't even stall him this long, and even need me to act to search for his tracks!"

Saying this, Feng Yanwang immediately began using her carried detector to search for Lu Qingshan's tracks.

"Found him!"

Through the detector, Feng Yanwang immediately discovered Lu Qingshan, who had switched to a spaceship and was flying at sub-light speed: "This Burning Spirit Hou is quite cunning—he actually changed his escape direction again!"

"But even if you've changed direction, flying at sub-light speed the whole time, you cannot escape my grasp!"

Thinking this, Feng Yanwang's figure flashed, and she chased after him as if toying with prey.

Watching Feng Yanwang's figure instantly vanish from the spot, the two Hei Fengwang Undying of the Meng Yao Zu faction were also full of envy.

"So this is teleportation!"

Marquis Charm Shadow of the Weiyi Clan, an Undying, could not help sighing: "I've been on the extraterritorial battlefield for nearly a million years, and this is the first time I've seen a peak-King Undying divine spirit capable of teleportation!"

"Indeed! Any powerhouse capable of teleportation is absolutely the most troublesome existence among Undying divine spirits!"

An Undying of the Tianlang Clan likewise sighed: "As long as they know the exact coordinates, they can arrive instantly through teleportation, then suddenly launch an attack!"

"I wonder when I'll be able to master the ability of teleportation!"

After sighing, Marquis Darkglow secretly thought: "If I could master teleportation, with the innate advantages of my Tianlang Clan, that Flying Swallow King probably wouldn't even be my match!"

……

On the other side.

After leaving the battlefield, Lu Qingshan quickly boarded a cosmic spaceship, changed direction, and continued flying.

Once the ship reached sub-light speed, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, then immediately began examining the spoils obtained from the battle just now.

But just at this moment…

Hum!

Accompanied by a slight ripple in the surrounding space, a figure less than a meter in length instantly appeared before Lu Qingshan—it was Flying Swallow King, who had just performed teleportation.

The cosmic spaceship Lu Qingshan was riding was merely a very ordinary E-grade ship, with no precious secret patterns inscribed on it at all, so naturally it could not block Flying Swallow King's teleportation.

Of course, if the opponent were a King-level powerhouse, Flying Swallow King certainly would not have appeared directly inside the opponent's ship, but now that Lu Qingshan was merely a small Marquis Undying, she could naturally toy with him as she pleased.

"Teleportation!"

"Not good, it's Flying Swallow King of the Meng Yao Zu!"

Seeing Flying Swallow King suddenly appear before him, Lu Qingshan instantly began burning his Undying divine power.

But even after he burned his Undying divine power, the aura on his body was still much lower than Flying Swallow King's.

And Flying Swallow King, standing before Lu Qingshan, upon seeing him burn his Undying divine power, not only showed no panic whatsoever, but instead merely casually flapped the crystalline, translucent pair of wings on her back.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Lu Qingshan felt as if the surrounding space had solidified; even in his burning divine power state, he wanted to flee, yet could not flee quickly no matter what.

And around his body, whirlwinds imbued with endless might appeared out of thin air; these whirlwinds completely encircled Lu Qingshan's body, then rapidly swarmed in to kill him.

And at this moment, the E-grade cosmic spaceship Lu Qingshan was riding also instantly collapsed, transforming into endless ship wreckage that blasted out in all directions.

"Block it for me!"

Lu Qingshan's will roared, as he exerted all his strength to perform sword arts and movement techniques to resist Flying Swallow King's casual strike.

Under Flying Swallow King's casual strike, the Silkworm Spiral Armor worth several tens of thousands of Hun Yuan units instantly collapsed upon reaching its limit, and the moment those miniature whirlwinds touched Lu Qingshan's divine body, they began rapidly annihilating his divine power.

Whoosh!

In just a brief moment, Lu Qingshan's divine power sharply dropped from 95% to 67%.

"So this is peak-King! Just a casual strike instantly annihilated nearly thirty percent of my divine body!" Lu Qingshan could not help sighing inwardly, and was already preparing to self-destruct.

On the other side…

"He didn't die?"

Flying Swallow King, seeing that Lu Qingshan had not completely perished under her strike, was somewhat surprised: "It seems that sword art Marquis Burning Spirit just performed must be quite powerful—perhaps it's a top-tier secret technique he created himself!"

"I didn't expect that besides being skilled in soul attacks, this Marquis Burning Spirit also has remarkable achievements in material attacks! But no matter how extraordinary he is, it ends here!"

Swoosh!

Flying Swallow King moved again!

But this time, what she used was the most powerful sharp beak on her body!

At this moment, Flying Swallow King was like a beam of light at extreme speed, her sharp beak carrying heaven-overwhelming might, viciously pecking toward Lu Qingshan!

Facing Flying Swallow King's certain-killing strike, Lu Qingshan had absolutely no way to dodge!

"Flying Swallow King!"

Lu Qingshan immediately roared: "Remember this, I will come back to take my revenge on you! The next time I encounter you, it will be your death!"

"Burst! Burst! Burst!"

Lu Qingshan let out a furious roar, and the remaining sixty-plus percent of his divine body was instantly and completely detonated.

Of course, Lu Qingshan was after all merely an initial-stage Marquis Undying; even with the augmentation of amplification secret techniques, the self-destruct power was at most equivalent to a high-stage Marquis. Although such power was enough to heavily wound a high-stage Marquis, it posed no great threat to a peak Marquis, let alone peak-King Flying Swallow King.

Endless shockwaves surged against Flying Swallow King like a flood, yet failed to even shake her divine body!

Flying Swallow King's mind moved, and divine power instantly spread out, retrieving one by one the spoils left after Lu Qingshan's self-destruct.

At the same time, Flying Swallow King was also secretly thinking: "This Marquis Burning Spirit still wants to come back and take revenge on me? Could it be that he has a great background within the human race, and could have the chance of being revived by a Universe Master of the human race reversing time and space?"

"If that's really the case, then that would be wonderful!"

Flying Swallow King not only did not worry because of the powerful background Lu Qingshan might have, but instead secretly looked forward to it: "I must upload this news to the clan's higher-ups. If it's confirmed that Marquis Burning Spirit really has a powerful background, then the clan will definitely reward me with a large amount of military merit again!"

As the saying goes, "One's hero is another's foe!"

For Meng Yao Zu powerhouses, the more powerful-background experts of the human race they kill, the more astonishing the rewards they receive within the Meng Yao Zu!

If she had the chance to kill a disciple of a Universe Master of the human race, even if the other party were merely a small World Master, the clan's higher-ups would bestow a true heavy treasure!

As for Lu Qingshan's claim that he would come back to take revenge on her, Flying Swallow King naturally cared even less.

After all, after becoming an Undying divine spirit, even advancing one's strength by a single bit is extremely difficult!

"That Marquis Burning Spirit still wants to take revenge on me? How laughable!"

Flying Swallow King, while examining the spoils just collected, secretly thought: "Even if he qualifies to be revived by a Universe Master of the human race reversing time and space, who knows how long that would take?"

"As for taking revenge on me, that's even more wishful thinking! Even if he truly has the chance to step into the King level in the future, by then I might have already become a Universe Zunzhe, or even a Universe Master!"

Just at this moment…

"The detector this Marquis Burning Spirit used is way too high-end!"

Looking at the detector just obtained in her hand, Flying Swallow King's eyes could not help but light up: "These two detectors combined—even if I were to buy them in the clan's treasury, it would cost? If exchanged through the extraterritorial battlefield army system, the military merit spent would probably be even more!"

"Hahaha! Killing that Burning Spirit Marquis really is a fat bounty! His detector alone is this advanced, so the other treasures on him must be even more precious. Add to that the spoils from all those titled Maroon Immortals he killed before — looks like I'm really going to get rich this time!"

Thinking of this, Feng Yanwang immediately began examining the other spoils he had received in his hands, full of anticipation once again.

"The corpse of that follower of Youmang? Looks like Youmang paid quite a price this time to block that Burning Spirit Marquis!"

Seeing the corpse of that Black Wolf Clan immortal previously killed by Lu Qingshan, Feng Yanwang could not help thinking to himself: "Later I can return this corpse to that Marquis Youmang, and then give him a bit more reward on top — that counts as forming a good bond with the Tianlang lineage! Let me check what other treasures that Burning Spirit Marquis left behind!"

A moment later…

"What's going on?"

Feng Yanwang surveyed the surrounding void: "I should have already collected all the spoils from that Burning Spirit Marquis's fall — so why is there only this much?"

"Aside from those two detectors, the remaining spoils aren't even worth a hundred thousand shield-shu units, and there's even part of that follower of Youmang's — how is that possible?"

"Damn it, I must have missed something!"

Thinking of this, Feng Yanwang quickly began probing everything within a million kilometers around him once again.

……

On the other side, after seeing Feng Yanwang go pursue Lu Qingshan, Marquis Youmang and Marquis Meiying of the Meng Yao Zu faction stayed where they were to wait.

"Captain!"

Marquis Meiying secretly transmitted: "If Feng Yanwang manages to kill that Burning Spirit Marquis this time, our squad should get quite a bit of credit too, right!"

"Of course!"

The Tianlang Clan immortal Marquis Youmang immediately transmitted back: "Just the credit for reporting the intel is already significant — not to mention we lost a teammate trying to stop that Burning Spirit Marquis from escaping!"

"We should fight for a share of that Burning Spirit Marquis's spoils too, Captain!"

Marquis Meiying transmitted again: "That Burning Spirit Marquis has killed a lot of titled Maroon Immortals from our Meng Yao Zu faction recently, and according to intel we picked up through detectors from immortals of other races, quite a few titled Maroon Immortals from the Insect Race faction and the Machine Race faction have also fallen to that Burning Spirit Marquis. That Burning Spirit Marquis's wealth is probably even higher than that of an ordinary peak-titled Maroon!"

"That's true, but the main credit this time still goes to Feng Yanwang — we can't be too greedy!" Marquis Youmang quickly transmitted.

And just as they were transmitting back and forth, discussing how to get a share of the spoils from Feng Yanwang…

Feng Yanwang's figure quickly reappeared before the two of them.

"Feng Yanwang!"

Marquis Youmang and Marquis Meiying hurriedly offered respectful greetings.

"The Burning Spirit Marquis of the Human Race faction has been killed by me!"

Feng Yanwang looked at Marquis Youmang and the other, casually producing a spatial ring and tossing it to Marquis Youmang: "Marquis Youmang, this is the divine body left behind after your follower's fall, along with a reward for you discovering that Burning Spirit Marquis's trail! This matter ends here — you may leave!"

"Thank you, Feng Yanwang!"

Hearing that Feng Yanwang had killed Lu Qingshan and also recovered his follower's remains, a hint of delight appeared on Marquis Youmang's face.

But once he finished inspecting the treasures in the spatial ring, the smile on his face instantly vanished.

"Feng Yanwang!"

Marquis Youmang looked at Feng Yanwang and could not help saying in a low voice: "That Burning Spirit Marquis was discovered by us after all — if we hadn't spotted him, you probably wouldn't have killed him so easily, right!"

"And the military merit for killing that Burning Spirit Marquis all went to you, yet you only give us this pittance of spoils — not even comparable to Tuo Li's former wealth!"

"What?" Hearing Marquis Youmang's words, Marquis Meiying beside him was also slightly stunned, and a bit of dissatisfaction welled up in his heart.

But he was after all not a member of the Meng Yao Zu, and lacked the boldness of Marquis Youmang, who was of royal blood, so he did not dare show it on his face.

"Get lost!"

Feng Yanwang said coldly: "Without me, you wouldn't even have been able to retrieve Tuo Li's corpse — you'd have become a laughingstock among the strong of your own faction! And now you want to split that Burning Spirit Marquis's spoils with me — are you challenging me?"

The two Meng Yao Zu faction immortals exchanged a glance, and Marquis Youmang said coldly: "Hmph, count ourselves blind!"

After saying this, Marquis Youmang and the other immediately transformed into two streaks of flowing light and flew off into the distant void.

"Two wastes!"

Watching the departing figures of Marquis Youmang and the other, a cold glint flashed in Feng Yanwang's eyes.

"And that Burning Spirit Marquis!"

"Although I don't know exactly how the spoils he left after his fall disappeared, they must still be there!"

Feng Yanwang probed the scene of the recent battle with his detector while thinking to himself: "Starting today, I'll move my residence there — I believe sooner or later I'll find them!"

(End of chapter)