Chapter 88: Poison Night

In the firmament, dark clouds gradually covered the moon, and the Forbidden Sea turned pitch-black.

Even the funeral song slowly didn't dare to disturb, hurriedly leaving the scene. The quiet mountain top seemed to have an oppressive aura permeating it.

Until a shrill wail carrying sharpness cut through the night and tore through the silence of this moment.

Everyone's heart and mind were lifted at this instant.

Xu Qing opened his eyes.

He saw figures rising from the surroundings, their target being the cultivators who had obtained lizard skins during the day. Killing erupted.

How the other three parties who obtained lizard skins were, Xu Qing didn't pay attention. He gazed at the seven or eight figures rushing toward him rapidly at this moment.

The moonlight was hazy, unable to cover the cold light in Xu Qing's eyes. The night was dim, unable to melt the killing intent in his expression. Almost the moment these figures arrived, Xu Qing moved.

The night was the cover for the attackers, but they didn't know that Xu Qing liked the night even more than them.

In an instant, Xu Qing's figure disappeared from the tree crown.

At the same time, among the seven or eight cultivators who arrived, three of them suddenly trembled at the moment of approach. The brow of one of them shattered directly, and a black iron sign, carrying cruelty and coldness, pierced through directly.

Another one sprayed blood, vaguely seeing Xu Qing's figure flash past in front of him.

The third one was the most miserable. This was a bloated foreign race. At the moment of approaching the tree crown, a sharp dagger actually stretched out from behind him, slashing fiercely at his neck.

The force was so great that his body and head were separated, and blood erupted.

Until this moment, screams were emitted from the other two people's mouths, ear-piercingly.

Cutting and killing three people cleanly, Xu Qing's body retreated abruptly, hitting the fourth figure who was casting a spell. This person was a human cultivator. Amidst the rumbling, his chest concave, and he fell down with blood spraying.

The remaining three cultivators, watching this scene, immediately took in breaths.

"You guys cast spells, I will contain him!"

A low roar came from one of the foreign races. This foreign race had a small body, like a five-year-old child, but at this moment, his body expanded abruptly while walking, turning into more than a zhang tall, roaring and rushing toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's expression was as usual. He didn't pay attention to the foreign race giant who was approaching him, nor did he pay attention to the two foreign race cultivators behind the other party who were forming seals. Instead, he raised his right hand and squeezed fiercely.

Immediately, there was a hum in the surroundings. Droplets of dew rose from the vegetation in all directions, instantly gathering into threads, woven into a ring-shaped water net.

Under the moonlight, the water threads shone with cold light, covering these three cultivators while shrinking abruptly with Xu Qing as the center.

Sounds of swoosh-swoosh were emitted instantly. The two cultivators casting spells had their expressions change greatly. Their spiritual energy protection couldn't resist the water net at all, shattering directly. And their bodies were also pierced through by the water net, becoming broken flesh and blood.

As for the foreign race giant who was rushing toward Xu Qing at this moment, his face was pale, horror revealed in his eyes, just about to open his mouth, but the next moment his whole body turned black and cyan. Amidst woo-woo sounds, he covered his throat, staggered and fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and died.

The water net covered over, dismembering him while also dismembering the corpses from before.

Among them, the bloated foreign race who had his throat cut, clearly already dead, emitted shrill screams during the dismemberment. An existence like a small ghost flew out from his body. Obviously, as a foreign race, he had too many life-saving ways unknown to outsiders.

He didn't know what means he unfolded, but his body became slender, rapidly drilling out of the water net, about to escape.

Xu Qing didn't chase, gazing coldly, counting silently in his heart.

"One, two, three..."

The next instant, this small ghost-like cultivator trembled violently, turned his head abruptly to look at Xu Qing.

"Let me..."

He only had time to say these two words, and his body started to dissolve instantly. The first to dissolve was his tongue.

Although he lost his tongue, the intense pain still caused shrill screams. At this moment, it cut through the long sky, even suppressing the spell collision sounds of the other three parties.

This made the gazes of everyone here be attracted over.

Under their own eyes, that black little person screamed and rolled on the ground in pain, and finally his body was dissolved alive, becoming a ground of blood. Until death, he couldn't say more words.

Sounds of taking in breaths came from the cultivators in the surroundings one after another, and then converged rapidly. Almost everyone took out antidotes for the first time and ate them immediately.

Only the inn old man was very calm.

Actually, when Xu Qing arrived yesterday, he had already started eating antidotes. After all, regarding Xu Qing's poison, he had experienced it.

Xu Qing didn't pay attention to the actions of the cultivators in the surroundings, put away his dagger and iron sign, picked up the head bags of these people one by one, and finally returned to the tree crown, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes to cultivate.

Perhaps because this island was on the back of that terrifying giant lizard, the spiritual energy and anomalous substances were very dense.

For other cultivators, being able to be active on the sea for a long time naturally meant they had their own cultivation methods to transform and separate anomalous substances. But often, when going out for a period of time, they had to go to the shore to expel part of their own anomalous substances with elixirs or other methods.

But for Xu Qing, he didn't have this need, so he cultivated without worries. And the aura of this Forbidden Sea was also helpful for his Sea Transformation Sutra cultivation.

Xu Qing, who was cultivating at this moment, although his eyes were closed, no one dared to hit him with an idea anymore. Most of them avoided him from afar, fearing poisoning.

The fighting between each other was also obviously affected, gradually ending the killing.

Just like that, one night passed.

In the firmament, dawn bit the lip of the night, leaving that bloodstain on the horizon. This bloodstain slowly flowed, becoming lighter and lighter, until it permeated the entire sky.

The day, brightened.

Around the mountain basin, the lone foreign race who grabbed the lizard skin yesterday was still there, and one more person was beside him. It seemed they had reached some agreement.

This extra person was none other than the coir raincoat cultivator who had contended with Xu Qing yesterday.

As for the other side, that group composed of four or five cultivators obviously didn't keep the lizard skin and became corpses, replaced by the elephant-trunk big man with seven or eight people.

Only Xu Qing and the Hot Spring Road old man were as usual.

But the difference was that there was a ground of broken flesh around Xu Qing, while the latter... didn't have half a corpse.

Xu Qing scanned the big snake beside the old man. The other party, after perceiving it, also looked at him, nodding frequently, as if saying hello.

Xu Qing felt it was somewhat strange, but didn't think much, withdrew his gaze, and continued to close his eyes to meditate.

Behind the mountain rock where the Hot Spring Road old man was, he kicked the big snake beside him and snorted.

"See, he doesn't even pay attention to you, so don't always think about that kid. In this world, only I am your only relative."

"Gurgle gurgle."

The big snake was somewhat aggrieved, looking at Xu Qing on the distant tree crown with eager eyes. This scene was seen by the old man, so he sighed.

"Why are you still crying? You, that kid doesn't understand snake language, that's why he didn't pay attention to you..." After finishing, the old man regretted it, and the big snake's eyes instantly brightened again.

"A grown daughter doesn't stay, and a silly snake doesn't stay either."

The old man was helpless. In his heart, he pondered whether to find an opportunity to kill Xu Qing here. But once he thought of the other party's ruthlessness, he dismissed this idea.

Time passed slowly like this, and soon ten days passed.

In these ten days, some cultivators left the mountains, and some arrived. When there were many, there were fully a hundred cultivators around the basin, and when there were few, there were dozens.

Some were alone, some were pirates, and some were foreign races from other islands. And killing and contention, because of the replacement of cultivators here, constantly appeared.

During the period, sea lizards appeared three times. Each time was a bloody contention. Xu Qing's move was ruthless and decisive. Not only did he grab some sea lizard skins, but he also piled all those he cut and killed at the place where he meditated.

Seen from afar, that big tree seemed to be about to be dyed blood-red, shocking.

And the deterrence formed by constant accumulation made the place where Xu Qing was like a forbidden zone for others.

There were several people like Xu Qing. Whether it was the Hot Spring Road old man, or that coir raincoat cultivator who had fought with Xu Qing, or that elephant-trunk big man, they all kept their harvest and didn't choose to leave, seemingly waiting for something.

Regarding this point, Xu Qing also perceived it, so he didn't leave, but cultivated silently in these ten days.

The spiritual energy here was active, and the anomalous substances were dense, especially this environment where spirit was highly concentrated, making him feel like he had returned to the scavenger forbidden zone forest, and his cultivation speed obviously improved a lot.

Now, he was not far from the ninth layer of the Sea Transformation Sutra.

"At most three days, I should be able to break through."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, continuing to meditate and breathe. Strands of spiritual energy surged from all directions, drilling into his body, nourishing his whole body, and also integrating anomalous substances into his shadow, making the eighty-seven zhang spirit sea in Xu Qing's body constantly expand.

Eighty-eight zhang, eighty-nine zhang...

Two days passed. When the noon of the third day arrived, the fluctuation of the spirit sea in Xu Qing's body was infinitely close to ninety zhang. Once it reached ninety zhang, it represented that his Sea Transformation Sutra had stepped into the ninth layer.

And cultivating this Seven Blood Eyes cultivation method, disciples who reached the ninth layer could basically sweep across most sects of the same level in Nanhuangzhou. If it were Foundation Establishment of a small sect with inferior cultivation methods, it was not impossible to fight.

Not to mention that Xu Qing's own Mountain Secret Technique body tempering had also reached an unprecedented degree, forming a terrifying Bha shadow. It could be said... once the Sea Transformation Sutra broke through, Xu Qing's combat power would erupt again.

At that time, he would be an existence surpassing the peak Qi Condensation combat power, completely regarded as a Foundation Establishment powerhouse. Like the old ancestor of the Jin Gang Sect, Xu Qing had the certainty that whether it was on the sea or land, after a battle, he would definitely be able to suppress him. As for killing, spending some time, he would definitely be able to do it.

"Tonight, I can break through!" Xu Qing had expectation in his eyes, just about to continue cultivating, but just at this moment, dense footsteps and whistling sounds suddenly came from under the mountain.

Before the people arrived, bursts of cold and ferocious intent were released in advance, shrouding the entire basin, making everyone here change their expressions one after another, looking down the mountain.

The ones who arrived... were not sea lizards, but a group of cultivators!

A group of messy clothing, shockingly ferocious, killing intent great, unscrupulous, ferocious figures.

A total of sixteen people, each of them emitting powerful cultivation fluctuations, and the weight of the malevolent Qi on each of them was enough to make people shocked.

"Sea Ghost!"

"It's the Sea Ghost organization!"

"Damn it, how did they come here!"

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Exclamations were emitted from the basin surroundings one after another.

If the word count of the third update is 11,000 words, can it represent the single-mindedness of the little Mengxin to all the handsome guys and young ladies~

Wish everyone a happy weekend~ ===== CHAPTER 89 =====