Chapter 36: Ripples Caused by Wind (Fourth Update)

Xu Qing's brows furrowed, and he turned to look.

A large group of small jellyfish, numbering over a hundred, whistled from the canyon entrance and pounced toward those guards and young boys and girls.

These people's expressions changed greatly, and they immediately resisted, especially those few guards, who were blocking desperately.

And the youth who was noticed by Xu Qing earlier, who was a bit older, had the spiritual energy fluctuation of the seventh layer of Qi Condensation spread out, and with one strike, a piece of rosy light appeared.

But there were too many jellyfish, and these jellyfish seemed to have resistance to spells. Often when they landed on themselves, the damage would be significantly reduced.

But they were fast, their attacks were sharp, and they cooperated flexibly, causing the canyon to suffer casualties of seven or eight people in an instant.

A youth who had originally been luxuriously dressed, now tattered, had despair in his eyes. The instant a jellyfish pounced toward him, he rolled and crawled backward, emitting a cry for help toward his friend at the seventh layer of Qi Condensation.

"Young Master Bai, save me!"

Following his opening, a rosy light whistled over, landing before him and blocking the jellyfish, causing this youth to dodge at the critical moment of crisis, still terrified.

Xu Qing here, although the distance was relatively far, was also targeted by some jellyfish.

Three of them whistled toward him, about to pass through his body as usual.

The next instant, a cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes. He raised his right hand and threw a punch directly.

With a bang, his fist landed on a jellyfish's body. The jellyfish trembled all over and couldn't withstand it, collapsing and breaking into pieces directly.

Xu Qing didn't stop. The next moment, the dagger in his left hand appeared. With a sway, he approached the other two jellyfish.

His speed was faster than the jellyfish, and his body was more flexible than the jellyfish. In the blink of an eye, after he shuttled past, the bodies of those two jellyfish split into two halves abruptly.

This scene caused those young boys and girls fighting the jellyfish to see it one after another, their hearts shaking, and they instinctively approached him here.

The continuous slaughter of the three jellyfish also caused the other jellyfish to open their eerie eyes one after another, instantly pouncing toward Xu Qing.

This time, more than ten came.

Xu Qing's expression was as usual. He didn't retreat but rushed out with his body, turning into an afterimage and approaching abruptly. The cold glint in the dagger in his hand flashed, and wherever he passed, jellyfish collapsed one after another amidst bang-bang sounds. But soon he furrowed his brows. The dagger in his hand gradually couldn't bear the impact under the erosion of this foreign matter and began to shatter.

Xu Qing didn't have time to feel heartache. Waving his hand, the iron skewer was in his hand, continuously sweeping past several jellyfish. During this period, he also scattered poison powder.

Although the resistance of these jellyfish to poison was not small, the poison powder permeating the surroundings couldn't take effect on them for a while. But Xu Qing didn't give up, because poison here, the role was not just slaughter, but also the use of neutralizing the scent.

And in terms of weapons, Xu Qing had deficiencies here. The penetrating power of his iron skewer was strong, but the splitting was not as good as the dagger. Just at this moment, a low cry drifted from behind Xu Qing.

"Friend, use my sword!"

Amidst the words, a sword emitting a cold glint was thrown from behind Xu Qing and was grabbed by him with a backhand. He saw the person who gave him the sword with his peripheral vision; it was precisely the youth called Young Master Bai.

Xu Qing didn't speak. After holding the long sword, he immediately felt the extraordinary nature of this sword.

Following a wave, instantly the cold glint drifted from the sword. Although he didn't know how to use a sword, relying on its sharpness, Xu Qing still split open seven or eight jellyfish instantly.

Following the increasing number of jellyfish corpses on the ground, Xu Qing's body was covered in the blue blood emitted by the jellyfish, and the remaining three guards and those young boys and girls were now all behind Xu Qing. Looking at this scene, everyone's hearts roared, and their eyes were filled with terror and disbelief.

"Too... too strong!"

"Is he body tempering? What layer of body tempering is this? Could it be great perfection!!"

"Looking at the spiritual energy fluctuation, it doesn't look like it; it looks like the fifth or sixth layer."

"Cultivation base is not important; what is important is this person's ruthlessness." The guards and those young boys and girls were shaken by Xu Qing's strike at this moment.

Even Young Master Bai there was gasping for air, and the girl in the crowd also had her heart accelerate its beating. Feeling the terror here from Xu Qing, she put away all her little thoughts.

She felt the same aura from Xu Qing as those clansmen in her family who were called monsters.

Those monsters in the family were all people who had killed many, and she would instinctively fear them every time she saw them. At this moment, the feeling this youth gave her was exactly the same.

She didn't want to provoke such a person.

Especially since her mission had already been completed, luring a large number of jellyfish, whether the people in the sect could successfully obtain what they wanted in the jellyfish nest deep in the jungle had nothing to do with her. After all, the danger this time also exceeded her expectations, so at this moment, she reached her right hand into her bosom and grabbed a jade slip. That was a talisman treasure, and its function was transmission.

This was also her reliance.

And just as she was hesitating whether to crush it, at the canyon entrance, with a bang, dozens more jellyfish drilled out, whistling and rushing over densely.

This scene caused her to no longer hesitate and directly crush the transmission jade slip in her hand, and her figure vanished instantly.

Her departure also caused her companions to have complex expressions one after another.

Xu Qing didn't pay attention to these. He stared at the jellyfish pouncing over, calculated the time, stood there, and his blood and energy erupted abruptly. He opened his mouth toward the approaching jellyfish and emitted a roar.

And following the expansion of his blood and energy, the operation of the Sea Mountain Technique, a huge Kui shadow materialized behind him instantly, and like him, emitted a roar.

The Kui shadow was ferocious, with a single horn on its head, pitch black all over, as if crawling out from the Yellow Springs, and there was even a purple light flashing in its eyes, looking bizarre and astonishing.

Its roar was silent, but combined with Xu Qing's roar, it seemed to possess astonishing deterrence, causing those pouncing jellyfish to pause one after another, all eyes opening wide, staring fixedly at Xu Qing.

It wasn't just them that were deterred, but also the young boys and girls behind Xu Qing. At this instant, their expressions turned pale one after another, looking at the phantom behind Xu Qing, their eyes contracting.

"Blood and energy forming a shadow!!"

"This... this is... this is the phenomenon that will only appear when body tempering reaches great perfection!!"

A sense of terror rolled strongly in their hearts.

Those jellyfish also clearly felt the ferocity here from Xu Qing, and coupled with the fact that his poison also took effect, the scent of Centipede Blood from everyone in this canyon was dissipated.

Thus, amidst the intense confrontation, those jellyfish retreated slowly and drifted away along the entrance.

Watching the jellyfish's departing figure, Xu Qing also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He turned around and looked coldly at that group of young boys and girls.

And what he focused on was the place where the woman wearing gloves had been before.

He didn't see her.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes.

At the same time, following the sweep of his gaze, a few girls among these people cried out in fear directly.

It was really because Xu Qing looked extremely murderous at this moment.

Under the moonlight, he was covered in blue blood, and the coldness in his eyes made him seem like he had walked out from the Yellow Springs. Combined with the Kui shadow behind him, he was like a ghost!

Only the youth surnamed Bai, at this moment, barely suppressed the awe in his heart and clasped his fists toward Xu Qing.

"I am Bai Yundong. Many thanks to you, friend, for your help. We will definitely repay this great favor!"

Seeming to notice where Xu Qing had just looked, Bai Yundong took a deep breath and explained a sentence.

"The one who transmitted away was Li Ruolin. Her family is skilled in formations, so the life-saving item given to her was a transmission talisman, convenient for her to get rid of crises at any time."

"You don't have one?" Xu Qing looked at Bai Yundong.

Bai Yundong smiled bitterly, and the other young boys and girls beside him also fell silent.

"Although we come from a great family in the Purple Earth, we are not direct descendants; we just look glamorous on the surface."

Xu Qing nodded and didn't speak. He looked at the canyon entrance and then looked at the sky.

"The foreign matter here is dense and cannot be stayed in for long. I will send you out of here."

After saying this, Xu Qing walked toward the canyon entrance. Bai Yundong hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and followed, and the other young boys and girls also knew the severity, following one after another.

Thus, a group of youths walked out of the canyon and sped toward the edge of the jungle in this night.

Although they were disheveled when facing the jellyfish, everyone had cultivation, and after experiencing this life-and-death battle, it was also a kind of transformation for them.

Thus, on the night road, few people spoke, and they all followed Xu Qing forward silently.

Even if a few girls among them were physically exhausted, they gritted their teeth and held on. Just like this, a group of people walked for a night.

Finally, at dawn, they saw the world outside the edge of the jungle from afar.

Bursts of excitement surged in their hearts, and their exhausted bodies seemed to have remaining strength. From afar, whistling sounds drifted over.

Xu Qing looked vigilantly, and immediately saw three figures whistling from the sky.

It was precisely the experts beside those young boys and girls.

Xu Qing's previous judgment was correct; it was precisely they who lured away those few largest jellyfish. At this moment, there were casualties, and after arriving, amidst the excited narration of those young boys and girls, they looked deeply at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing was vigilant, kept a certain distance from them, and took the poison powder into his hand without leaving a trace.

These three experts didn't approach Xu Qing but nodded toward him and took the lead in opening the path.

Although it seemed that the distance from the outside was not far here, it was still almost noon when the group of people walked out.

When that group of young boys and girls walked out of the jungle and stepped into the outside world, the group of people who had survived the disaster could no longer suppress the excitement in their hearts, and many of them cried.

Xu Qing was the last to walk out, looking at these people from afar, and didn't speak.

And soon, the young boys and girls led by Bai Yundong came to Xu Qing here, clasped their fists sincerely to thank him, and all said their names.

"Our coming here to train this time was a temporary decision. We don't have anything very valuable on us now; it was all consumed in the forbidden zone. And because everyone's body has dense foreign matter, we have to return to the Purple Earth through the transmission array of a nearby city as soon as possible. We will not forget this great favor. This sword, I give to you."

Bai Yundong bowed deeply and left his sword.

Xu Qing watched them walk far away and picked up the sharp sword.

This sword was entirely dark blue, emitting a cold glint. Although it had killed many jellyfish and was stained with foreign matter, it was not damaged in the slightest. Looking at it, one could feel the icy coldness on it, which could be considered a top-grade treasure.

Although it was somewhat long and not as convenient as a dagger, Xu Qing had used it barely smoothly before, so he wrapped it with hemp, hid its sharpness, and carried it on his back.

Looking at the sky, Xu Qing walked toward the camp.

He prepared to go back to buy a few daggers, and then in a few days, after the jellyfish group inside completely disappeared, go to the forbidden zone again.

After noon, as the afternoon sunlight spilled down with a sense of laziness, Xu Qing arrived at the camp. But after walking a few steps inside, Xu Qing furrowed his brows. He felt that the camp was a bit wrong...

In the camp, there were some more strangers.

And the scavengers in the surroundings, after seeing him, all had somewhat strange expressions. Among them was someone he had saved initially. After seeing Xu Qing, he stopped talking.

Although he didn't speak, he implicitly pointed toward the direction of Xu Qing's dwelling.

Xu Qing's heart skipped a beat. While observing the surroundings, he also accelerated his pace.

When he arrived at his dwelling, he immediately noticed many gazes coldly watching him.

From the attire of the owners of these gazes, Xu Qing immediately recognized that they were all guards of the Camp Master's mansion!

At the entrance of the alley not far away, the three-mustached man under the Camp Master smiled coldly at him.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, pushed open the courtyard door, and saw Shizi sitting there, his expression pale and very ugly, and Luanya beside him who seemed to have suffered heavy injuries and was weak.

The instant Xu Qing walked in, they both looked at him abruptly.

"Kid, Lei Ting... something happened." Shizi's right hand was simply bandaged and was still trembling at this moment. After seeing Xu Qing, he spoke in a low voice, coughing violently while speaking, and spat out a mouthful of blood.

This sentence fell into Xu Qing's ears like thunder passing by. Amidst the roaring echo, his heart tightened instantly, and his breathing became rapid.

His heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably, his body became somewhat stiff, and a bad premonition erupted instantly, turning into a dense, astonishingly murderous aura that rose uncontrollably on Xu Qing's body. The temperature in the surroundings seemed to turn chillingly cold.

"What happened?" Amidst this coldness, a voice even more bone-chilling, carrying a trace of trembling, drifted from Xu Qing's mouth.

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At the mouth of the alley not far away, that man with the three-pronged mustache under the Camp Master's command gave him a cold, sinister smile.

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and pushed open the courtyard door, seeing Cross sitting there with a pale and unsightly complexion, as well as Luan Ya beside him, who appeared to be severely injured and weak.

The moment Xu Qing walked in, the two of them looked at him abruptly.

"Kid, Team Leader Lei... something happened." Cross's right hand was crudely bandaged and was still trembling; seeing Xu Qing, he spoke in a low voice, coughing violently between words and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

This sentence fell into Xu Qing's ears like a thunderbolt, and as the roar echoed, his heart tightened instantly, his breathing becoming rapid.

His heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, his body stiffened somewhat, and a bad premonition erupted in an instant, transforming into an extremely dense and astonishingly powerful malevolent aura that rose uncontrollably from Xu Qing's body, the surrounding temperature seemingly turning cold.

"What happened?" Amidst this chill, an even more bone-piercingly cold voice, carrying a trace of tremor, came from Xu Qing's mouth.

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