Chapter 144: Murderous Intent (Third Update)

Xu Qing has his own principles in life.

Before, when the other party chased and killed a Foundation Establishment giant-toothed shark and passed in front of him, it was not that he wasn't tempted, but he restrained himself from taking action because he felt it didn't belong to him.

Just like when Captain Lei gave him a steamed bun back then, he was grateful in his heart, but if he didn't give it to him, he wouldn't think it was wrong.

So later when he invited Captain Lei to eat snake, he ate it with justification.

His own things can be eaten at will.

Today's matter is the same. This Foundation Establishment Iron-Armored Fish was attracted by him, and the slaughter was almost completed, and it was in the process of being extracted by him.

But the other party forcibly snatched and killed it. This behavior touched Xu Qing's red line of killing.

The last person who did this was the Mermaid boy.

For such people, if they are incomparably strong, Xu Qing is not unable to endure and kill them later, but clearly, the other party is not that strong, so Xu Qing couldn't endure it.

At this moment, amidst the whistling, his speed was extremely fast. The dagger in his hand emitted terrifying black fire, and the moment it slashed toward the other party's neck, the roar echoed.

The First Peak youth's great sword collapsed, but with a wave of his hand, an illusory sword appeared in front of him. Its speed was so fast that it formed in the blink of an eye, colliding with Xu Qing's dagger.

The sound dissipated. Xu Qing didn't hesitate in the slightest. The phantom behind him roared, and his left hand clenched into a fist and slammed over.

This punch hit with the full force of his Sea Mountain Secret Technique combined with his Dharma body, making the void in front appear with a vortex, seemingly able to tear everything apart, heading toward the First Peak youth.

This First Peak youth's expression changed, his body retreating rapidly, his hands pinching seals rapidly. But just at this moment, the shadow approached silently, directly binding his hands, making his pinching of seals pause slightly.

The impact of this pause was incomparably huge.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Qing's left fist approached, landing directly on the great sword phantom on the youth's chest.

With a boom, the great sword collapsed, and Xu Qing's fist fell on the youth's chest like a broken bamboo.

The First Peak youth's pupils contracted, blood sprayed out, and his body retreated suddenly like a kite with a broken string. But before he could resolve the terrifying force formed in his body, the sea below roared, and the snake-necked dragon directly revealed its head, swallowing toward him fiercely.

Even more, a huge Heaven Blade phantom manifested behind Xu Qing, carrying an earth-shaking momentum, slashing fiercely toward the First Peak youth.

At the critical moment of crisis, this First Peak youth's eyes turned crimson in an instant, letting out a hiss. Inside his body, at this moment, it was as if a furnace had been ignited and risen, like the Profound Radiance State, erupting in an instant.

Light shone everywhere, constantly expanding. The snake-necked dragon below collapsed, turning into countless segments and falling under the sea, although it formed again, it was clearly severely injured. And when the Heaven Blade fell, it also emitted a huge sound.

Although it slashed down completely, it didn't slash the First Peak youth in half. Under the eruption of the furnace in his body, this First Peak youth only had blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, borrowing the force to retreat a hundred zhang.

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed. He saw that although the furnace in the other party's body before was similar to the Profound Radiance State, it was clearly not. This should be some kind of secret technique that could display part of the power of the Profound Radiance State.

But before the Life Fire was formed, displaying such a secret technique could not be without damage.

In fact, it was indeed so. At this moment, this First Peak youth retreated, wowing and spraying a large mouthful of blood. The feeling of the furnace in his body disappeared in an instant, and his expression turned pale. But the gaze looking at Xu Qing did not dodge in the slightest, but the fighting intent became even more intense.

He didn't know Xu Qing, nor did he think he needed to know. As the closed-door disciple recently accepted by the First Peak Peak Master, as the Ninth Prince of the First Peak, he hadn't encountered a fellow sect member who had beaten him to the point of vomiting blood for a long time.

At this moment, his eyes were filled with intense killing intent. As he looked coldly at Xu Qing, he regulated the roiling Qi and blood within his body, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and raised his right hand, shaking it violently. Suddenly, bronze greatswords appeared one after another behind him.

The quantity was so large that in an instant, they formed a diamond-shaped pattern like a formation behind him, emitting a sharp sword aura. Following the youth's right hand raising and pointing toward Xu Qing, all these great swords whistled straight toward Xu Qing.

His body even slammed forward, the whole person seemingly turning into a long sword, rushing toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's expression was calm, without the slightest hesitation, his body also rushed out. With a wave of his hand, the black fire in the eleven Dharma Apertures in his body rose, erupting outside his body, making him turn into a fire man, and even more daggers manifested following the flames, the momentum like a rainbow.

The two of them collided in mid-air in an instant, the roar echoing, shaking the sky and the earth.

All of Xu Qing's daggers collapsed, and the flames on his body also dimmed. But similarly, all of the First Peak youth's great swords were torn to pieces, and he sprayed three mouthfuls of blood from his mouth.

The collision between the two was even more intense.

Xu Qing didn't care about the injury at all. The body-tempering method combined with the Dharma body was incomparably strong.

But that First Peak youth was also not bad. Sword shadows formed in all directions, and he fought with Xu Qing in mid-air, directly killing until the sky and earth were dark, wherever they passed, the sea roared and rose.

Xu Qing waved his right hand, and the big waves that rose turned into giant hands, grabbing toward the First Peak youth. And the youth pinched seals and pressed toward his brow, a sun mark appearing in his heart, flashing toward the giant hand, and the giant hand composed of seawater directly collapsed.

Xu Qing frowned, but he continued to take action, and even when the two approached once, he simply slammed with his head.

Amidst the roar, Xu Qing had blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, while the youth let out a wail, his forehead seemingly about to collapse, his body retreating rapidly.

Xu Qing was about to pursue, but a sense of crisis suddenly emerged in his heart, and he retreated suddenly.

The moment he retreated, the fragments of the blades that had shattered before suddenly rose from under the sea, forming a storm of sharp blades that swept across the place where Xu Qing had just been.

If he had really pursued before, he would inevitably have been affected.

And the wailing youth was no longer wailing at this moment, but retreated a few zhang, breathing rapidly as he looked at Xu Qing, his heart already in a state of shock.

He knew he was very strong. This point his master had also said, once praising him as the strongest newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator in the First Peak since history, before the Profound Radiance State was opened.

He also thought so.

But today his thoughts were shaken. However, he was still unconvinced in his heart, so he spoke gloomily.

"Occasionally go for a stroll in the sky, how dare the sun and moon shine!"

Responding to him was the second divine strike from the Dharma Boat behind Xu Qing, roaring at this moment.

This beam of light was full of divine power. Wherever it passed, the sea roared, and the sky seemed to be distorted. The First Peak youth's expression changed drastically again. He waved his hand fiercely, and immediately a jade talisman appeared in front of him.

It burst open in an instant, and a large number of soul shadows emerged from within.

These soul shadows were all beasts he had killed, sealed with a special method, used as a type of magic technique for himself, and most of them were based on Forbidden Zone jungle beasts. At this moment, they erupted to form a black beast head, confronting the divinity.

All directions trembled.

The First Peak youth's killing intent erupted intensely in his eyes. He bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood. After raising his right hand to grab, he pressed it rapidly on his brow again.

His body shook, and in an instant, his blood aura was heaven-shaking. His skin thoroughly turned red, and the whole person seemed to have turned into a blood man, with even sharper intent shining.

Faintly, a blood-colored great sword formed outside his body, shrouding him and turning into one. Following a rush, it broke through the air toward Xu Qing.

A sense of crisis suddenly emerged in Xu Qing's heart. He didn't hesitate in the slightest. He raised both hands and waved outward. Immediately, the five thousand five hundred zhang spiritual sea possessed by the eleven Dharma Apertures in his body rose and erupted simultaneously.

Added together, that was a thickness of five thousand five hundred zhang, erupting suddenly around him.

This eruption directly reflected with the sea, making the five thousand five hundred zhang Forbidden Sea in all directions rise instantly, fusing with his spiritual sea, its Forbidden Sea aura thick, as if turning into some kind of suppression.

The blood sword transformed by the First Peak youth slammed directly onto it the moment it approached.

The sound of roaring echoed. Xu Qing's five thousand five hundred zhang spiritual sea fluctuated violently, being rapidly offset, while the blood sword transformed by the youth in front of him also trembled intensely, appearing with signs of collapse from the tip of the sword.

This process did not last long. Ten breaths later, the blood sword transformed by the youth suddenly collapsed, torn to pieces, and his body rolled back. But the moment he rolled back, Xu Qing's five thousand-plus zhang spiritual sea squirmed, turning into a huge fist, and slammed fiercely toward the other party.

The sea roared. The First Peak youth sprayed blood in large mouthfuls, his pupils contracting crazily. It was at this moment of crisis that he didn't hesitate to take out a bead and crush it.

Immediately, a mist shrouded him, blocking Xu Qing's terrifying strike, while his body also fled rapidly toward the distance.

His expression was ugly, and he didn't want to fight anymore.

On one hand, he felt he couldn't do anything to the other party; on the other hand, he was somewhat frightened by the thick spiritual sea of this Seventh Peak disciple.

He couldn't see through the other party's cultivation, but felt that it should be not far from forming a Life Fire.

But the moment he fled, a piece of black shadow, which seemed to have been hidden in the sea beneath him for a long time, finally found an opportunity and suddenly erupted, directly winding around the youth's leg.

At the moment the youth's expression changed drastically, a black iron slip also approached silently, heading straight for the youth's neck!

All of this was too sudden. The youth's mind almost lost its balance. Amidst the incomparably intense feeling of life-and-death crisis, the black iron slip had approached, landing on his neck with a bang.

But it didn't pierce through, and the winding of the shadow also encountered an opponent for the first time. This youth's body seemed to be smeared with oil, and he soon broke free.

But the price of resolving this life-and-death crisis was a jade pendant hanging on the youth's body, which shattered with a crack.

This was a life-saving item given to him by his master, which to a certain extent could replace death once. Now that it had collapsed, the youth's eyes revealed terror for the first time, and his body instantly unfolded at high speed, accelerating away.

It was just that behind him, Xu Qing waved his hand, and the flying boat flew out from the bay, spreading its wings and flying over in an instant. Xu Qing's body flickered and stepped on it. Following the return of the shadow and the black iron slip, Xu Qing pursued the fleeing youth.

There was not the slightest hesitation throughout the

The opponent was very strong; one could even say he was the strongest Foundation Establishment cultivator Xu Qing had encountered, aside from the Captain in his Profound Radiance state.

If the old ancestor of the Diamond Sect had encountered this person back then, he likely would have been killed within three breaths.

But in Xu Qing's understanding, if someone dared to snatch his things, then... they were on his kill-on-sight list!

At this moment, his speed roared as he pursued rapidly!

Three updates, ten thousand words. Wishing everyone a happy weekend~~