Chapter 138: Qiyu Sect

"The Chen clan of the Yue Emperor always has a few stubborn bones."

The Xiantian expert of the Wolf God Sect, 'Heaven-Suppressing Divine Peak' Dao Linshi, wore a smile on his face.

His physique was burly and tall; he did not dodge or evade, pushing forward horizontally like a walking demonic mountain, his aura intimidating.

"Kill!"

The commander of the Golden Armor Guards, whose Internal Qi was at the Great Perfection, gave a low shout. Together with his subordinates, they formed a half-moon formation to surround the powerhouse. The tips of the nineteen golden spears, fully charged with Internal Qi, were incomparably sharp. They thrust almost simultaneously, arriving at Dao Linshi's chest at the same time.

Viewed from afar, the twelve golden spears transformed into divine swords pinning down a mountain, their baleful aura oppressive.

"Good! Just this one strike, and the lads in the sect would be scattered; no one could stop it."

Dao Linshi, however, laughed loudly. A bronze-colored radiance lit up on his skin as he crashed head-on into the forest of spears!

Crack!

With a teeth-grinding sound of metal colliding, all nineteen golden spears, forged from hundred-refined iron, snapped. The nineteen Golden Armor Guards were sent flying by the shock, vomiting blood in mid-air; half of them had their internal organs shattered and died.

Whoosh!

The broken spears recoiled, their power far more terrifying than in the hands of their original owners. Eight men were pierced through just as they were about to land. Only the final Golden Armor Guard commander barely dodged the rebounding spears, landing unsteadily.

"Traitor..."

His eyes were blood-red, but he saw a bronze-colored palm the size of a cattail fan already covering his vision, leaving no light at all.

Bang!

The headless corpse fell amidst blood foam and bone fragments.

Chen Xi, who had only escaped a few dozen zhang, heard the sound and looked back. She was immediately terrified, her small face turning deathly pale, and she desperately urged her Internal Qi to increase her speed.

Unfortunately, the gap between Xiantian and Internal Qi was too great.

The burly figure rampaged through the mountain forest, smashing everything in his path—whether tree branches or flying birds—into smithereens. After only seven steps, a violent gust of wind struck from behind.

Chen Xi barely managed to slash backward with her sword. The sword carried a wind shadow, swift and peerless, sufficient to easily kill a famous Internal Qi Great Perfection martial artist in the Jianghu.

Bang!

The bronze palm, the size of a cattail fan, smashed the long sword and struck her body. There was the sound of snapping tendons and bones; she vomited a mouthful of blood, her whole body went limp and weak, and she was grabbed by the neck and lifted up.

"A princess of a nation, with decent aptitude and peerless beauty—not bad stuff."

Dao Linshi, as if lifting a piece of rag, muttered to himself: "If that Immortal Master returns, will he like this gift?"

In their eyes, that person who could easily kill the old Daoist and the Shaolin Temple Grandmaster, Master Kushi, would definitely not encounter any trouble in this Yue State.

The other party's movements were always secretive; even the Wolf Lord in the sect rarely knew.

At this moment,

He saw a youth in green robes appear in the distance.

For some reason, he suddenly appeared in his vision, his sword finger waving downward.

A pale blue sword light filled his eyes, and the dazzling sword radiance swallowed everything.

"'Dream-Eating Sword Demon' Jiang Ding? Just a child!"

Dao Linshi reacted and laughed loudly: "Defeating an injured Wan Qianyu makes you think you can stand before me?"

The five major sects were now in close cooperation with the Wolf God Sect, so he naturally knew the accurate intelligence.

"Heaven-Supporting Palm!"

While saying this, he actually erupted with full power. Xiantian True Qi surged wildly, and the surrounding grass and trees bowed low, pressing against the ground as if under immense, heavy pressure.

He struck out with a palm, and a massive amount of Xiantian True Qi gathered, like an earthy yellow mountain peak smashing toward the sword shadow.

This was precisely his famous ultimate technique, the Heaven-Supporting Palm!

Even if a house were in front, it could be smashed into powder. No Xiantian expert of the same tier had ever dared to take a hit head-on, including Song Lingyun of the Green Bull Palace before this!

Whoosh!

The pale blue sword shadow pierced through the earthy yellow mountain peak, then pierced through his palm, and finally stabbed toward his forehead.

The sensation was slightly cool; he could barely feel any pain.

"Impossible!"

Dao Linshi's laughter vanished, revealing a look of terror as he desperately dodged to the side.

This was completely different from what Wan Qianyu had said!

An injured Wan Qianyu could never have taken this sword, let alone escaped and survived!

Swish!

His dodging shift was useless. He was pierced through by the pale blue flying sword, leaving a skull filled with sword Qi. His body stiffened slightly before crashing heavily to the ground.

The pale blue flying sword, its spiritual light still brilliant, slashed toward the Bone Blade Demon, who was entangled with the 'Heavenly Poison Divine Physician' Granny Liu and was rapidly gaining the upper hand.

"What kind of second place on the Dragon-Phoenix Ranking is this!"

The Bone Blade Demon, who was constantly monitoring the surrounding battlefield, felt his scalp explode and fled toward the rear without looking back.

Killing a Xiantian expert like killing a chicken!

Even a Grandmaster might not be able to do it, yet such a person was on the Dragon-Phoenix Ranking—this was simply the biggest joke under heaven!

Whoosh!

How could a human's speed compare to a flying sword?

After running only two steps, a pale blue sword shadow had already arrived. The sharp sword radiance could be clearly felt even from a dozen steps away, and his spine felt a chill.

"Blood Bone Kill!"

The Bone Blade Demon roared, turned around, and slashed down with his blade!

The blade momentum was extremely seasoned, rolling black flames sweeping in all directions, swallowing blood and eroding bones. In terms of power, it was more than ten times stronger than Heijin, who was twelfth on the Dragon-Phoenix Ranking.

Clang!

The bone blade accurately slashed onto the pale blue sword edge. The black flames surged forward, but were instantly extinguished by the sword radiance. The flying sword was unaffected by the force; the sword shadow flashed and passed through his throat.

"... Wolf God Sect... has an Immortal Master... you dare..."

The Bone Blade Demon's face revealed a look of terror. He struggled to say something, but his eyes lost all luster, and his body fell powerlessly.

The flying sword returned, fell into the sleeve of the youth in green robes, and disappeared.

"You are..."

The Heavenly Poison Divine Physician, Granny Liu, looked at the youth not far away in horror, almost unable to believe it was the same person.

Jiang Ding had no interest in her. He tapped his feet and arrived in front of Chen Xi, just about to speak.

"Brother Ding, for your great kindness, Xi'er is willing to be a cow or a horse..."

Chen Xi's small face was flushed, incomparably charming, her voice coquettish. Her body went limp, and she collapsed into the arms of the person in front of her.

Jiang Ding frowned and stepped aside.

Thump!

Chen Xi, who had already been injured by Dao Linshi, fell to the ground face-up. It took her a long time to turn over, looking at the person in front of her with shame and annoyance.

"You..."

Her small face was red, her phoenix eyes burning with fire. Just as Jiang Ding thought she was going to get angry, he saw her burst into a giggle: "Brother Ding really can't take a joke at all; you don't cherish the fragrant and pity the jade at all."

Chen Xi stood up, patted off the dust, and tidied her appearance, recovering the elegance and composure of a Grand Princess.

"Brother Ding wants to ask about the war in Yuejing and the news of the Qiyu Sect's Ascension Assembly, right?"

Chen Xi said softly.

Other than that, she didn't believe that the youth in front of her, who was as cold as a sword, would have come specifically to save her; Gong Caiyu might have had a slight chance.

"Does the Princess know?"

After a moment of silence, Jiang Ding asked.

"Yuejing... has fallen. That traitor Tang Wang stole the divine artifact. The guarding Immortal Master of the Qiyu Sect died at the hands of demonic cultivators, Master Kushi also died, and the Green Daoist fled. For some reason, he also took Gong Caiyu away."

Chen Xi explained the current situation in Yue State and sighed:

"As for the Ascension Assembly, it should have been held recently. The Heavenly Mystery Tower would send Ascension Invitations to the various talents on the Dragon-Phoenix Ranking, screening those with qualified spiritual roots to be disciples. Xi'er was staying near Yuejing for this very reason, not hesitating to take a huge risk."

"As Brother Ding saw, there is no Ascension Assembly, and Xi'er almost lost her little life."

Jiang Ding felt a slight shock in his heart, thinking of one thing.

Spiritual root Qi-transformation structure!

The earliest "Wild Wolf Strength" he obtained, and the top-tier internal cultivation technique "Green Origin Technique" that Han Lin obtained by chance—these techniques each had their own focus, and the realms they could reach were different, but they all had one common point.

The better the spiritual root, the faster the cultivation speed!

Thinking about it now, this was not a coincidence.

There was a massive cultivation force that had spent who knows how many years adding this structure to all the internal cultivation techniques existing in the Jianghu, turning them into things as natural as the Twelve Main Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Thus, young Dragon-Phoenix Ranking talents with good internal cultivation were very likely to have excellent spiritual roots!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 139 =====