Chapter 86: Fierce God Lands on the Island

Gray-brown residual bones were scattered on the black beach. Some had already weathered, revealing a rough texture like grinding sand, while others seemed to have existed for not long, still hanging with fragments of rotting flesh.

The sea breeze blew, brushing up the sand on the ground, piling up in the skulls of humans and beasts, and curling up.

The entire Sea Lizard Island, entering Xu Qing's sight, was full of gloom and cruelty, only the sunset glow like a piece of red fallen leaves falling on the beach, as if covering a tomb cloth for their death.

Pity, this tomb cloth was also red.

Xu Qing withdrew his gaze from the residual bones all around. In this heaven and earth gradually darkening, he walked calmly toward the jungle. As he approached, his figure disappeared within.

Night, at the moment he stepped into the jungle, covered like a pair of big hands. The firmament was pitch-black, and the day gave way.

Inside the jungle, Xu Qing's figure was like a ghost, his speed extremely fast, undulating on the big trees. His gaze was like a pseudo-toothed bird, moving forward while calmly observing the surroundings.

Regarding the jungle, Xu Qing was no stranger.

Although this was a sea island and not the forbidden zone of the past, the experience of surviving in the jungle was common here. Especially among the vegetation on the ground, there were also some common medicinal herbs, which made Xu Qing familiar while his figure in this jungle was like a fish in water, moving extremely nimbly.

But he also gradually discovered some special places.

In this jungle, there were many trees that had collapsed, and the collapsed areas were mostly connected in a line with the location of the ocean.

Xu Qing's eyes narrowed. At this moment, arriving at a place where trees had collapsed, he stood here and first observed the surroundings and the position where the trees broke and the direction they fell, then lowered his head and scanned the ground and those damaged trees.

"There are scales on the trees..." Xu Qing picked up a thin gray-black flake the size of a palm from the residual wood on the ground, with a faint fishy smell remaining on it.

"It's sea lizard skin, and it's been some time." Xu Qing had a judgment in his mind. Obviously, the sea lizard crawled out from the sea, walking all the way to the jungle, and the trees were hit along the way.

"There are multiple such positions, indicating that the path taken by each sea lizard coming here to shed its skin is different. This is also reasonable."

"Just don't know if the final location chosen by the sea lizard for shedding its skin is random or... has a general area."

Xu Qing pondered, deciding to follow the path the sea lizard had walked an unknown time ago to see what was going on. After making a decision, his speed increased abruptly. Following the guidance of the path, he became faster and faster.

But the sense of vigilance became more intense in his heart.

Xu Qing did not know if there were any cultivators here with cultivation bases beyond Qi Condensation. Although he had analyzed it on the way here, even though sea lizard skin was valuable, Foundation Establishment cultivators would mostly look down on it.

But he had to be on guard. After all, many things could not be ignored by simple judgment.

At this moment, the forest wind blew, carrying the smell of rotting vegetation. Xu Qing took a breath and didn't smell any other aura in it, so his movements didn't pause, continuing to move forward.

Until half an hour later, when the sky was even darker, in the area close to the mountains, Xu Qing leaped up and squatted on a tree crown, a ghostly light in his eyes, gazing not far away.

In front of him was a broken sea lizard skin, gray-black overall, very dry. Obviously, it had been a long time, seemingly broken due to contention.

Xu Qing had checked the information when he came, knowing that sea lizard skin only had value if it was preserved by a special method immediately after being shed. Otherwise, once the skin was shed for too long, the spiritual nature would dissipate, and it would have no value.

This was also why the contention for sea lizard skin was bound to be bloody, because everyone like Xu Qing who came to this island needed to wait, and then make a move to contend at the moment the sea lizard skin was shed.

Xu Qing pondered and left the tree crown, expanding the exploration range in the surroundings.

Until he explored the mountains and stepped on a section of the mountains, he saw multiple such sea lizard skins. At the same time, he discovered that most of the places where sea lizards shed their skin were close to the mountains, and obviously, the higher the mountains, the larger and more such residual skins there were.

All this gave him the answer in his heart.

"Sea lizards shed their skin, there should be a specific area, yearning for high places?"

Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the highest mountain among the several mountains in the Sea Lizard Island, his gaze becoming sharp.

"That place should be the true treasure land in this island, but those who can go there must be powerful sea lizards. Their skin is the most valuable!"

Thinking of this, Xu Qing didn't hesitate anymore, moving forward at full speed toward the highest mountain peak. Along the way, he didn't pause at all. While nimbly shuttling, he also noticed the figures of cultivators squatting on one mountain after another.

These people were basically loose cultivators, with cultivation at the fifth layer of Qi Condensation or so. Although they were not very strong, the ruthlessness in their eyes was clearly visible.

And they obviously had self-knowledge, choosing smaller mountains. Regarding Xu Qing's arrival, they all gazed vigilantly, and after noticing that he was just passing by, they all breathed a sigh of relief one after another.

Xu Qing also breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that so many low-level cultivators gathered here, indicating that his previous judgment should be correct. The probability of Foundation Establishment existing here was not very large.

But he didn't lower his guard, because if there really was Foundation Establishment, then most likely it was in the place he was going to now.

Just like that, not long after, at Xu Qing's speed, he climbed over one mountain after another and finally arrived at the highest mountain peak in this Sea Lizard Island. And with the arrival, bursts of Qi machine suddenly erupted from the mountain top, locking onto him here.

Xu Qing's footsteps paused. After feeling it carefully, his expression was somewhat strange. He still didn't find the aura of Foundation Establishment.

So he walked forward with a calm expression, and at the same time, he also noticed a large number of broken sea lizard skins on this mountain peak.

The aura emitted from these sea lizard skins was at least at the level of the fifth or sixth layer of Qi Condensation, which made Xu Qing confirm his judgment. Sea lizards indeed yearned for high places when shedding their skin.

As for the Qi machines probing him, Xu Qing didn't pay attention to them, heading straight for the mountain top, and soon reached the destination.

The mountain top area was a huge basin. While trees surrounded it, many cultivators were scattered. Their cultivation was obviously much stronger than the cultivators on other mountains, mostly at the eighth or ninth layer of Qi Condensation, and even several at the Qi Condensation Great Perfection.

Foundation Establishment was indeed not there!

And the cultivators here, their gazes were either ferocious or gloomy, carrying bloodthirst, obviously all desperate people.

And the human race was not the majority here; on the contrary, foreign races occupied the majority. Among them, some were alone, and some were in groups.

There were even some who clearly had a very heavy fishy smell on their bodies, obviously pirates who had been on the sea for many years.

They were gazing at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing also scanned them when he walked over, and immediately recognized three or five people on the wanted list, so there was a strange glint in his eyes.

But he didn't choose to make a move, instead finding a big tree and sitting cross-legged on it to rest.

Although he had some judgments in his heart about the fact that there were no Foundation Establishment cultivators here, Xu Qing still felt that if there wasn't even one Foundation Establishment, the reason was probably not what he thought.

At this moment, after sitting cross-legged, Xu Qing pondered in his heart, and his gaze also withdrew from the surroundings. Regarding the malice of the cultivators here, he was no stranger. Whether it was the slums or the scavenger camp, they were all much the same.

So he sat there calmly, just about to cultivate, but his brows furrowed slightly, and he looked coldly at the pirates who were still looking here not far away.

These pirates were a small group, with eight cultivators inside, two of whom were humans and six were foreign races. The latter had different appearances. Some had bodies covered in tentacles, some had three eyes, and one had wings on his back.

They looked at Xu Qing, their gazes unkind, containing fierce glints. The foreign race with wings whispered to his companion, and then Xu Qing saw the three-eyed foreign race among these pirates stand up and walk toward him.

"This place doesn't welcome disciples of the Seven Blood Eyes, so you either roll away immediately, or stay here as fertilizer." The three-eyed foreign race approached, opening his mouth with a ferocious smile, and at the same time, his eighth layer Qi Condensation cultivation fluctuation was released unscrupulously, forming a deterrent.

Xu Qing seriously sized up the foreign race in front of him, wanting to determine whether the other party's neck was a vital point, then looked at the other party's companions not far away, knowing clearly that this was a test by this group of cultivators. If he was easy to bully, he would become their target for plunder.

Looking and looking, Xu Qing suddenly raised his right hand and grabbed fiercely behind him.

The next instant, a semi-transparent figure that suddenly appeared behind him was grabbed by Xu Qing's hand by the neck.

Amidst the intense struggle, this semi-transparent figure rapidly became clear, revealing a foreign race with blue hair and a face covered in scales. Judging from the clothing, it was obviously from the same group as those pirates.

At this moment, this foreign race revealed horror in his eyes, just about to counterattack, but as Xu Qing's right hand squeezed fiercely, with a crack, the foreign race's neck directly shattered.

It didn't end. The power of the Sea Transformation Sutra poured in, and in the blink of an eye, the blood in the foreign race's body was directly controlled by Xu Qing to break through the body, making the foreign race's body explode and collapse with a boom.

A ground of flesh and blood, but not a single bit stained Xu Qing's body.

The organs in the foreign race's body were different from humans. Xu Qing didn't want to distinguish where the vital point was, so he made it collapse completely, which could also be destroyed.

At this moment, while shattering and killing the foreign race, Xu Qing's gaze didn't reveal half a fluctuation, as if he had just pinched an ant to death, still looking coldly at the three-eyed foreign race in front.

This three-eyed foreign race's body trembled slightly, his breathing obviously rapid. Those companions behind him also had their expressions change one after another, each incomparably vigilant and heavy.

"Misunderstanding." The three-eyed foreign race took a deep breath, perceived that Xu Qing was not easy to provoke, so he spoke in a low voice while slowly retreating.

But he didn't know Xu Qing, nor did he know Xu Qing's principle that any existence that threatened his life safety must be cut and killed thoroughly. So almost the moment this three-eyed foreign race retreated, Xu Qing moved.

His speed erupted abruptly, his whole person turning into a residual shadow. At the moment the three-eyed foreign race's expression changed greatly and he waved his hand to form spiritual energy protection, Xu Qing had already approached and directly punched down.

Amidst the rumbling, the three-eyed foreign race's spiritual energy protection collapsed and fell apart directly. The three-eyed foreign race inside had his eyes contract to the extreme, just about to open his mouth, but Xu Qing's fist was like a broken bamboo, destroying the withered and decaying, directly landing on his chest.

One punch, the three-eyed foreign race's body trembled violently, his chest concave, and all the organs in his body collapsed directly.

Not far away, those pirates had their expressions change completely. One by one, they stood up amidst low shouts, about to make a move, but Xu Qing's speed was faster than them. In fact, when he made a move to cut and kill the first one, he had already decided to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots of this group of pirates.

At this moment, amidst a sway, Xu Qing's speed was astonishing. Amidst the gazing of many loose cultivators and foreign races in the surroundings, his figure killed into that pirate group. Shrill screams, rumbling spell collision sounds, immediately spread.

In the blink of an eye, six pirates were killed or injured. The remaining foreign race with wings had unprecedented horror in his expression, soaring into the air to escape, but the next instant, a sharp dagger whistled away, directly piercing into his brow, making his body fall fiercely from mid-air, landing on the ground with a bang.

Everything ended.

Sounds of taking in breaths came from the cultivators in the surroundings one after another, and their gazes also became incomparably heavy at this moment, each looking with dread at Xu Qing, who was expressionless and walked out from the pirate corpses.

Xu Qing ignored the gazes in the surroundings, used his dagger to cut off the heads of the pirate corpses one by one, walked all the way to where he was resting, and then hung the pirates' heads on the tree as a sign.

After doing all this, Xu Qing sat cross-legged, looking at the other end of the basin. There, behind a mountain rock, a huge snake head was exposed, and under the snake head, a familiar figure.

"He is also here!" Xu Qing was extremely vigilant in his heart. He knew the other party's eeriness, so his eyes narrowed, scanning the big snake behind the other party.

This figure was none other than the old man from the Banquan Road Inn. He saw Xu Qing at this moment, and his heart was also depressed.

"Why is this kid also here!"

The two looked at each other across the basin, but soon both withdrew.

"Bad luck." The old man spoke in a low voice, but the big snake on the side had its eyes obviously brighten.

"Gurgle gurgle."

"What are you saying, Senior Brother, he can't understand your gurgling." The old man glared at the big snake angrily.

"Gurgle gurgle, gurgle."

"What kind of thing? You want to ask him if he likes snakes, or if he likes eating snake gall? You are crazy, is this still worth asking? Didn't you notice just now, he scanned your gall again."

"Gurgle!"

"You don't believe it?" The old man was speechless.

"Gurgle gurgle."

"I won't help you ask. Didn't you secretly sign up to join the Seventh Peak Intelligence Division behind my back? Go back and check for yourself how many snakes this kid has killed."

The old man was too lazy to pay attention to the big snake beside him. He felt that since this snake saw that kid Xu Qing, it seemed to have become obsessed, and its brain was sick.

"Insisting on saying he is looking at your figure, hehe."

Is the weekend an extra update, or should I go out and play for a while... ===== CHAPTER 87 =====