Chapter 255: with translation of chapter title
Splash splash splash—
The scorching and mighty aura intertwined, rising to the high heavens, causing the snowflakes frozen by the chill to instantly melt, turning into torrents of water pouring down!
Thunder roared and lightning flashed, bursting forth in the firmament; the intertwining electric light tore through the night, illuminating the entire Qianyuan Dao City.
The Tiger Whale Gang's stronghold.
It had almost become a place of utter desolation.
One after another, incredibly terrifying and mighty auras enveloped the ten-li radius around the Tiger Whale Gang's stronghold, as if an invisible force twisted the sky, causing the falling raindrops to automatically slant outward.
Li Qingshan, wearing a cat-face mask, felt only a despair so deep it seemed to freeze his very blood.
An unparalleled terrifying rank oppression made him feel as if he were completely suffocating!
God-Hunter Pavilion, Three Flowers Rakshasa Assassin!
Because God-Hunter Pavilion had once stationed itself in Jin Guang Prefecture, it had also sent strong ones to contact Li Qingshan before.
Thus, Li Qingshan was also clear about God-Hunter Pavilion's assassin rank divisions.
Golden Mask Assassins are equivalent to Divine Gang Grand Masters, Jade Mask Assassins are Innate Grand Masters, and some top-tier Jade Mask Assassins possess cultivation at the peak of the Three Flowers.
Above the Jade Mask Assassins lie the Three Flowers Rakshasa rank assassins; each such assassin is a top-tier killer meticulously cultivated by God-Hunter Pavilion.
One must reach the utmost height in both martial prowess and divine nature.
In martial arts, the Three Flowers gathered at the peak as the supreme Grand Master; in divinity, one reaches the fetal breath transformation level!
A Three Flowers Rakshasa rank assassin equals a You Liqing.
Of course, in a frontal kill he certainly isn't as good as You Liqing, but the opponent is an assassin……
His methods are even more eerie and ruthless!
Li Qingshan felt numb all over.
Besides the Three Flowers Rakshasa assassins, there is also the Corpse God Sect's Curse Jade Corpse…… equally a powerhouse rivaling the supreme Grand Master at the peak of the Three Flowers.
And besides these two……
Plus the Five Elders, lower-rank divine talisman masters!
And the murderous-aura-raging Dragon Queen……
Such a lineup……
Who knows, people might even think they're targeting a martial saint!
He, the Underworld Cat Face, still has such a formidable presence?
He, the Underworld Cat Face, rivals a martial saint!
Li Qingshan drew a deep breath; three Divine-Restraint assassins gathered beside him.
Yet even so, he still had little strength to resist, still unable to withstand the opponent's terrifyingly extreme lineup!
The Dragon Queen drifted down, her whole body seeming to glow; every inch of her flesh faintly trembled, her long lashes fluttering nonstop, revealing the murderous intent gone mad beneath her eyes!
The Underworld……
The Underworld!
She had once sworn to slaughter the entire Underworld; if so……
She would let no member of the Underworld go!
"Underworld Cat Face?"
"You… actually come from the Underworld?"
Dragon Queen Ao Yuxin landed atop the towering wall, her fair skin seeming to emit light, as if dragon scales flickered into view, and she opened her mouth to speak.
The breath exhaled from her mouth and nose seemed to pierce metal and split stone, fully displaying the formidable bodily strength of the Dragon God lineage in her blood.
Her terrifying physique, nearly at the half-step Martial Saint level, seemed to cause every falling raindrop to evaporate into mist.
Behind her, moreover, loomed a huge and slender true dragon shadow, stretching over ten zhang, coiling and writhing like a serpent with horns, like a crocodile in length; this vast dragon shadow danced wildly behind the Dragon Queen, letting out a prolonged roar.
Crack crack!
Above the firmament, thunder rumbled repeatedly within the leaden clouds, illuminating the entire Qianyuan Dao City!
Li Qingshan's forehead even beaded with a drop of sweat.
His five fingers clenched the Goat Horn Heaven-Shattering Hammer; the immense pressure left him unable to muster the strength to swing it.
Simply put, the gap is too great.
His proudest achievement is merely the cultivation of a Divine Gang Grand Master, whereas the Dragon Queen……
Her bodily constitution, as a Dragon God, is heaven‑endowed, amounting to a half‑step Martial Saint; breaking the Dragon Gate lets her leap over it to attain Martial Saint rank!
As for divinity, the Dragon God lineage is not weak either; the Dragon Queen also possesses the power of the fetal breath transformation level.
The sect leader's wife, Xuan Qisha, can easily suppress the Dragon Queen, for she is truly mighty, her divine talisman arts having reached the half‑saint level of divine talismans!
But what the heck is he, Li Qingshan!
What sort of thing is he!
However, Li Qingshan quickly calmed, his straight stature suddenly stooping, hands clasped behind his back, his black robe fluttering in the wind.
"Since you've discovered me… there's nothing left to pretend."
"Underworld Cat Face, I have met the Pacification Consort."
"Consort, are you joining forces with the Corpse God Sect's wicked ones to deal with my cat face?"
Li Qingshan said lightly.
Although his aura had already been crushed to utter insignificance, his spirit could not admit defeat.
First throw dirty water, then talk.
Moreover, Li Qingshan's palm gripped the Flying Thunder Chess Piece bestowed by Lord Lei Long, allowing him to escape at any moment.
Upon thinking this, Li Qingshan completely relaxed.
Being able to escape with one's life, the confidence is sufficient.
Even if one cannot escape, what then?
Li Qingshan gave a light smile, shook off his black robe; beneath the cat‑face mask, his pupils were utterly calm and deep, revealing without doubt the aura of one who remains unmoved even as Mount Tai collapses.
It's nothing more than death.
Huh?
In the distance, stationed around the wall, the Hunter God Pavilion, the Corpse God Sect, the Su family, and the Dragon Queen Consort—who had sealed off all escape routes of the cat‑face—each revealed a hint of something unusual.
This underworld cat‑face is actually that tough?
The consort, with a dragon shadow wildly dancing behind her, coldly said: "Where are the underworld's Ox‑Demon, Horse‑Face, Divine Monkey, and Black‑White Impermanence?!"
"Where is the stronghold of your underworld?"
The Dragon Queen Consort asked grimly.
Hehehe...
"Consort… show mercy, don't rush to kill; wait until we capture them, then interrogate slowly."
"I have already placed eight Stabilizing Wind talismans around; they are all Five Elders lower‑grade divine talismans. Let's see whether this underworld cat‑face can break my Stabilizing Wind Talisman Grand Formation using the underworld's unique translocation technique."
The Su family's hunched‑back, extremely old Five Elders lower‑grade divine talisman master let out a hoarse voice that began to echo.
His words were filled with amusement and teasing.
This talisman master was extremely pleased with his own Stabilizing Wind Talisman Grand Formation.
As a senior powerhouse of the Su family, he was naturally extremely angry about what the Su family had recently suffered.
Especially, the Divine Eagle Master Su Huai‑ming, who is his younger brother.
These two brothers—one follows the talisman path, the other the Divine Eagle path—and, nurtured by the Su family's resources amassed over three thousand years, they both attained the rank of Five Elders lower‑grade Divine Eagle master.
This is an extremely high rank, with a chance to leap into the half‑saint level!
As a result…
As a result, Su Huai‑ming actually died!
Killed in a trap by the underworld!
That's right, the Su family has investigated and found that the attacker was not the Corpse God Sect but the underworld!
Su Helian died at the hands of the underworld, and now Su Huai‑ming also died at the hands of an underworld assassin!
How can the Su family tolerate this?
This talisman master, Su Huai‑yin, also finally chose to act personally.
And once he acts, he gives it his all!
Underworld cat‑face?
Just a Divine Gang Grand Master?
First set up eight Five Elders lower‑grade Stabilizing Wind talismans!
Mainly, the underworld's lineage possesses a miraculous, traceless translocation technique that really gives many people a headache.
Being able to translocate freely within Qianyuan Dao City—such a translocation technique—perhaps only a precious small translocation talisman of the Five Elders middle grade drawn by a talisman half‑saint could achieve that.
Therefore, to capture this underworld cat‑face…
The Su family spared no expense, without hesitation, directly unleashing the eight Five Elders lower‑grade Stabilizing Wind talismans!
Seal the void, no place to flee!
First capture this underworld cat‑face, then talk!
On the other side.
Li Qingshan felt his hairs stand on end the moment the Su family talisman master spoke.
He saw the eight talismans rise, sealing the eight directions, silently burning with xuanhuang paper.
He felt as if everything between heaven and earth had solidified.
Air, divinity, breeze—all were frozen, as if immobilized by supreme divine power!
Li Qingshan broke out in a cold sweat, right?
Eight talismans of the Five Elders' lower rank?
Really?!
Beneath Li Qingshan's cat-face mask, a hint of unease finally surfaced.
That thunder chess piece given to him by Lei Long the Boss was Li Qingshan's greatest trump card for escaping.
But now, this trump card…
It seems the other side had anticipated it!
Li Qingshan's expression shifted slightly; he abruptly stepped back a step, his toes suddenly tapping down.
His five fingers spread, then clenched tight; a white chess piece burst forth with meaningful light in his palm, his powerful spirit fiercely striking the thunder chess piece gripped in his hand.
Buzz—
Li Qingshan only felt the surrounding sealed space tremble slightly.
……
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Listening Thunder Lane
Independent workshop courtyard
Perhaps it was because that overbearing qi and blood surged into the heavens, causing the snow in the clouds to begin melting, turning into rain that fell.
Pat-pat, it kept falling, striking the edge of the straw hat, instantly bursting and exploding.
Li Che's stature was burly and sturdy, wearing an ox-demon mask, he pressed down his straw hat.
The pupils beneath the mask seemed to reflect myriad streams of light.
At the moment Li Qingshan grasped the Flying Thunder chess piece, Li Che felt the message transmitted from the Chess Saint Dao Fruit as it throbbed.
"The other side indeed came prepared, laying a heavenly net and earthly trap, waiting early for the Netherworld cultivators."
"The Hunter God Pavilion, the Corpse God Sect, the Su family, and the Dragon Queen Consort..."
"The Netherworld's enemies have all gathered quite neatly."
Beneath the mask, Li Che's lips curled slightly into an arc.
"Using eight lower-rank Five Elders' Wind-Stabilizing talismans, seal space, solidify the domain..."
"Even the highest-grade evasion arts cannot be unleashed at this moment, leaving one nowhere to flee!"
"However..."
"The connection between the Heaven-Earth chessboard and the Flying Thunder chess piece remains unsevered, still able to achieve translocation."
"However, compared to before, instantaneous translocation is no longer possible..."
"The Eight Lower-Rank Five Elders' Wind-Stabilizing seals are no trivial matter; under such a blockade, the cooldown likely takes about three breaths before one can translocate away."
"Three breaths' time... enough for Senior Qingshan to be dismembered a hundred times by these powerhouses."
This is still the Chess Saint Dao Fruit, after its maturity has risen to level 4.
If it were before, the opponent using such means would stretch the cooldown to as long as ten breaths!
Ten breaths of cooldown time.
Facing such a lineup's encirclement, there is no difference from waiting to die.
"After all, it's simply because I am too weak..."
Li Che murmured.
From this occasion where Mao Lian faced such powerful encirclement and the heavenly net and earthly trap, we conduct reflection, summary, discard the old and bring forth the new, learning the lesson that Mao Lian, the sole teammate, is about to be beaten to death by the enemy.
Li Che carried out deep self-reflection.
But the next moment, Li Che's spine snapped straight, the glabella of his forehead, the Star-Plucking Pupil opened!
Instantly, the Chess Saint Dao Fruit within his chest throbbed violently without cease.
Boom——!!!
Li Che abruptly lifted his head; beneath his towering, mountain-like physique, his pupils burst forth with ultimate brilliant golden radiance!
The Heaven-Earth chessboard instantly with Mao Lian's Flying Thunder chess piece.
Spanning the void, a connection was established in the darkness!
At the same time, like steel tendons and iron bones, the arms bulging with dragon-like veins rose fiercely, five fingers clenching, gripping tightly.
In the palm, a drop of ink black to the extreme floated silently, as if mixed within raindrops.
The interior of the ink drop seemed to contain a city!
With a bang, the rainwater and air before him instantly burst and exploded from being pinched!
……
……
Beneath the Mao Lian mask, Li Qingshan's pupils constricted slightly!
The next moment, he sensed a loosening of space, as if an invisible connection was forming in the darkness.
He abruptly lifted his head.
He then felt that above the entire courtyard, a colossal semi-transparent chessboard suddenly appeared.
Upon the crisscrossing chessboard, black and white pieces dotted its surface, like a star-strewn sky, adorned with brilliant stars.
Not only Mao Lian Li Qingshan.
The Three Flower Rakshasa of the Hunter God Pavilion, the Corpse God Sect's Jade Corpse, the Su family's Divine Talisman Master, and the Dragon Queen Consort all raised their heads.
The Su family's Divine Talisman Master's eyes involuntarily flashed with a strange hue!
"What... is this?!"
A phantom chessboard flickered in and out of view.
"Damn it!"
Su family's Divine Talisman Master Su Huaiyin, manipulating the eight Wind-Stabilizing talismans, finally sensed something; on his face, wrinkled like ancient tree bark, a look of startled anger surfaced.
"What the hell is this?!"
"Even the Eight Lower-Rank Five Elders' Wind-Stabilizing seals can't hold?!"
A hint of solemnity and horror likewise welled up in the depths of his eyes as this Divine Talisman Master raged.
The Eight Lower-Rank Five Elders' Wind-Stabilizing seals sealed the eight directions of spacetime!
Such means, unless one is a Divine Fetus cultivator adept at translocation, cannot be forcibly broken!
"Behind the Netherworld... there really is a Divine Fetus!"
This Su family Divine Talisman Master Su Huaiyin shouted in anger.
The next moment, he clenched both hands into seals.
From the talisman pouch at his waist, myriad Xuanhuang talismans shot up into the sky!
"Six Offices Upper-Rank talismans, sever the water flow!"
"Sever it for this old man!"
Hummm——
Eighteen Six Offices Upper-Rank talismans surged into the heavens, actually transforming into a terrifyingly huge cleaver, as if to utterly cleave the connection between the Heaven-Earth chessboard and Mao Lian!
On the other side.
The Dragon Queen Consort's black hair flew as her pupils, upon seeing that Heaven-Earth chessboard, instantly constricted.
In the next moment, his incredibly strong fleshly body already controlled his long legs and stepped out; with a single step, he had already landed.
Boom—
The air suddenly burst into rings upon rings, white-wave-like circular halos.
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That was the sight of the air currents raging, yet having no time to part, being shattered by the impact!
The consort's jet-black hair flew backward high, her horns exuding terrifying dragon might, her deep blue, mirror-like eyes reflecting a heaven-rending killing intent!
Dragon Maiden Consort's heaven-rending, surging killing intent swept without cease, continuously exploding several white qi-wave rings; in less than half a breath, it had already landed beside the Underworld Cat Face.
His five fingers had already turned into dragon claws, grasping the air until it exploded!
He fiercely slapped toward the Underworld Cat Face Li Qingshan's form, intending to directly crush Li Qingshan's five viscera and six bowels, all his apertures, and explode his bodily great elixir!
At the same time, her overbearing divine nature burst forth from her deep blue pupils.
From her pupils burst azure light, entirely condensed from divine nature, filled with sharp cutting power, ruthlessly piercing toward Li Qingshan's glabella, the inner vision of his mud pill.
Intending to completely abolish the Underworld Cat Face's cultivation!
Martial way and divine nature, all shattered!
Let the cat face become a cripple; then he would be unable to continue activating the translocation secret art, to translocate away.
The Dragon Maiden Consort believed that such a powerful translocation secret art certainly required cultivation as support; without cultivation, no matter how exquisite the secret art, it would be useless!
Li Qingshan's gaze completely lost its divine light; facing the Dragon Maiden Consort, with the powerful physique of a half-step Martial Saint of the Dragon God clan, he unleashed a claw.
He only felt that heaven and earth had dimmed!
He felt as if all light had been seized and extinguished!
He could see no light!
That was a temporary blindness caused by an extremely massive rank-oppressive impact!
Compared to the Dragon Maiden Consort, his cultivation…… was far too weak.
Just as mortals cannot directly gaze upon deities, the enormous cultivation gap meant that the opponent's full-force eruption of aura and might could directly shatter the eyes that dared to stare!
He couldn't block it……
He couldn't block even a bit.
Is he going to die?
Is it finally going to end my sinful life as the Underworld Cat Face?
Suddenly.
The white Flying Thunder chess piece clenched in Li Qingshan's palm suddenly turned into an extremely dense black.
The switch between black and white happened in an instant!
In an instant!
An extremely dense black burst forth, like a massive ancient black gate slowly opening a crack, completely pulling Li Qingshan's form into it.
"What?!"
"What is this again?!"
The Dragon Maiden Consort's eyes suddenly narrowed; a terrifying punch suddenly accelerated, with mountain-toppling, sea-overturning force, fiercely smashing onto that black vortex!
Boom——!!!
The terrifying power erupted violently, the overbearing martial will of the Dragon God lineage, like raising a heaven-rending great wave, fiercely smashing down!
Boom boom boom——!!
In an instant, the fist's radiance ran wild, exploding into extraordinarily splendid light!
Brilliant as the great sun, vast as hanging clouds!
The dense black mist directly exploded, torn apart and dispersed by the extremely powerful qi and blood and strength, while the Dragon Maiden Consort's terrifying unbound punch fiercely smashed onto the ground of the Tiger Whale Gang's stronghold!
Boom——!!!
Like a massive Guanyin lotus bomb detonated instantly, the entire Tiger Whale Gang's stronghold courtyard floor seemed as if the earth dragon turned over, completely overturned, spiderweb-like cracks continually expanding, hissing hot air spewing up from the shattered ground!
Vast amounts of sand, soil, and stone surged up like waves, raising curtains several zhang high!
The substantive shockwave bombarded the air, exploding into white waves that continually spread like concentric circles, causing the entire courtyard to instantly churn into a raging sea of air currents!
The Dragon Maiden Consort stood amidst the undulating, shattered ground.
Her hair flew wildly, her deep blue eyes filled with fury and unwillingness!
Gone?!
Disappeared!
The Underworld Cat Face…… actually vanished into thin air?
Translocation art?
Not translocation art!
What exactly is this means?
The Dragon Maiden Consort's heart filled with chilling shivers; in that instant, from that black mist she glimpsed an ancient and mysterious black city……
Where on earth did this city come from?!
The Underworld, too mysterious!
This force, behind it is filled with an unshakable mist!
The entire Tiger Whale Gang's stronghold lay in utter ruin, completely reduced to rubble, walls collapsed, houses shattered and destroyed, even cracks spreading outward, extending beyond the long street.
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