Chapter 425

A sudden change!

"You!"

Chen Ming looked at Li Rui in disbelief.

Li Rui actually dared to plot against him!

"Are you not afraid of the Dao oath backlash??"

Chen Ming demanded.

Li Rui's mouth lifted slightly: "Brother Chen has a way to transfer the Dao oath, and naturally, I have a way too."

Chen Ming's expression turned ugly in an instant.

How could he have imagined that Li Rui would hide the same thoughts as him, and that they would become fellow travelers in the matter of swearing a Dao oath.

He laughed out of extreme anger.

"Then let's see if you have the ability."

He had originally planned to abandon Li Rui and go treasure hunting alone, but now that Li Rui had taken the initiative, he didn't even have the last bit of moral burden left.

Who was he?

Chen Riyue of Shu, who could shoulder the sun and moon!

Want to kill him?

A pipe dream!

If he had been weak before, he might have had some wariness, but now that he had recovered to his peak, he was naturally fearless.

In his view, Li Rui was so arrogant.

Don't forget, in the world martial arts assessment, he could suppress Li Rui, and it was the same in a life-and-death struggle.

The carrying pole Chen Ming had long held in his hand suddenly burst with golden light, and the power of heaven and earth within ten feet gathered on his pole, the terrifying power causing the air to begin to distort.

He was not panicked at all.

Not to mention whether he could defeat Li Rui, even if Li Rui really hid some incredible methods.

He could also break the carriage and escape.

This was the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Once he dove in, even a first-rank Earth Immortal wouldn't be able to find him easily.

"Die!"

Chen Ming shouted violently.

Facing the violent strike, Li Rui showed no panic, waving his sleeve, and a small flag flew out, growing rapidly in the wind.

The next instant.

The carriage was shrouded in the sound of ghosts crying and endless black mist.

Chen Ming's offensive paused, his expression changing drastically.

He remembered a piece of news that had come from the South Sea before.

There was an old demon who refined a Ten Thousand Soul Banner!

He widened his eyes, looking at Li Rui in disbelief, and spat out from between his teeth, word by word: "Old Demon of Tiannan, it's you!"

Li Rui did not answer, just smiled faintly:

"Brother Chen, this old man's soul banner happens to be missing a main soul."

Chen Ming was furious.

"Dream on!"

At this moment, he also realized the seriousness of the matter.

His overbearing true qi exploded violently.

Under such circumstances, generally speaking, even a carriage made of divine iron would be directly burst by true qi.

How could a martial artist be bound by a carriage?

It was simply a joke!

But soon, disbelief appeared on Chen Ming's face.

The carriage hadn't changed in the slightest!

He only saw streaks of talisman light flickering, without a single sign of damage.

Li Rui stood up slowly.

The killing intent in his eyes was no longer hidden.

For this moment today.

He had been preparing for a long time.

As a fourth-rank talisman master, naturally, he couldn't trap Chen Ming, but if one talisman wouldn't work, then two, three.

To prevent Chen Ming from seeing any clues.

While he was burying his head in drawing talismans, he also made changes to the original shielding talismans, adding barrier talismans.

Barrier talismans were originally used for defense against external enemies.

But since they could work outward, they could also work inward.

Outward it was a shield, inward it was a prison.

If he hadn't exhausted his heart and mind like this, how could he have deceived Chen Ming?

And in this carriage, there were a full thousand talismans!

How could Chen Ming easily break through?

Today, Chen Ming must die.

"Enter my banner!"

Li Rui's eyes became completely indifferent.

His large hand transformed into the phantom of an immortal palace and suppressed Chen Ming.

Seeing the immortal palace transformed from Li Rui's true qi.

Chen Ming was completely unsettled.

What kind of method is this?!

With his insight, he could naturally see that this move of Li Rui's was not the immortal arts in the mouths of those cultivators, but qi-form.

A kind of qi-form he had never heard of.

He actually refined an immortal palace into his own qi-form!

At this moment, Li Rui became unfathomable in his eyes.

'How many methods has he hidden!'

Chen Ming roared; now he no longer had the heart to wrestle with Li Rui, only wanting to leave this prison that Li Rui had painstakingly set up for him.

But since Li Rui had already chosen to take action, how could he let him leave?

"Suppress!"

Li Rui shouted softly.

The immortal palace phantom fell, suppressing Chen Ming's head.

At the same time.

The Thousand Soul Banner whistled and wrapped around Chen Ming.

In just a breath's time, Chen Ming's figure could no longer be seen in the carriage.

At this time.

Inside the Thousand Soul Banner, Chen Ming was bitten by thousands of souls.

"He has some skills, after all."

Li Rui looked at Chen Ming inside the Thousand Soul Banner.

Compared to the powerless Chun Xu Zi, Chen Ming appeared much more tenacious.

This was the unique aspect of a body cultivator.

If a cultivator lost their magic treasures and talismans and was cut off from spiritual energy, they would be almost completely useless, which is why they feared the Ten Thousand Soul Banner like tigers; but body cultivators were different, and just in terms of combat power, body cultivators were already in the top tier among many cultivators.

Li Rui snorted coldly: "Still struggling?!"

The Changqing qi pressed down on Chen Ming like a mountain.

Chen Ming struggled bitterly.

But all resistance was futile.

Very quickly.

Under the pressure of the Changqing qi, Chen Ming could no longer persist, letting out a roar of unwillingness, and then was completely refined.

About a quarter of an hour.

A soul with dull eyes appeared in the Thousand Soul Banner.

It was exactly the same as Chen Ming.

The main soul was obtained!

Li Rui's mouth lifted slightly.

Although he wouldn't do things like slaughtering cities and destroying villages to refine soul banners like those demonic cultivators, he didn't mind refining the souls of his enemies to strengthen the Thousand Soul Banner.

He had directly wiped out Chun Xu Zi's soul before because Chun Xu Zi was, after all, a disciple of the Great True Person Qing Ding, and he was worried about hidden methods.

But there was no such concern with Chen Ming.

Using him as the main soul for the Thousand Soul Banner was just right.

Li Rui walked off the carriage.

True qi dissipated, instantly grinding the entire carriage and the demon horse into ashes.

Leaving not a single clue.

Seeing that everything had been handled properly, he walked away toward the direction of the Profound Clarity Sect with his hands behind his back, satisfied.

Actually, on the first day Chen Ming broke into the spirit mine.

He had already had the thought of killing him.

It was just that there were too many powerhouses in the spirit mine at the time, making it inconvenient to use the Thousand Soul Banner.

That was why he had endured until today to take action.

Otherwise, with his temperament, he wouldn't even have let Chen Ming know that he was proficient in talismans.

Little did he know, the day he saw Li Rui use talismans to block prying eyes, the other party had already made up his mind.

Once a person hides things, they are not worth trusting.

And Chen Ming knew he was being hunted by a demonic cultivator, yet still chose to find him.

This was bringing disaster to his doorstep.

This was disregarding his life or death.

What kind of existence is a demonic cultivator?

Cruel by nature, with no reason to speak of.

It was even possible that they would rush into the spirit mine and take action by force.

In other words, it was very likely that Li Rui would be killed by Chen Ming.

This was a major taboo in the cultivation world, a great enmity that obstructed the Dao.

With Li Rui's temperament, naturally, he couldn't let it go.

Not to mention that Chen Ming had also tampered with the Dao oath, further confirming his impure intentions.

He must be killed!

As for the top-grade spirit stone, Chen Ming could find it, and he could find it too.

The curve of Li Rui's mouth widened.

In his hand, a palm-sized, brass-colored compass was shining in the sunlight.

Chen Ming's death didn't stir up any waves.

After all, he was just a wandering martial artist, without sect or faction, and the things he did were unscrupulous, so no one even knew he had come to the Ten Thousand Mountains, let alone investigate the cause of death.

A person dying in the Ten Thousand Mountains was like a drop in the ocean.

There was nothing to investigate.

Li Rui returned to the Profound Clarity Sect as if nothing had happened.

No one would know that he had killed someone on the way.

Back at Changqing Peak.

Li Rui was the same as usual, spending most of his time locked in his room cultivating; this was the normal state for a cultivator.

Look at the two Daoists, Xuan Wei and Xuan Yu; they were much the same as Li Rui.

Unless it was a major matter.

The rest of the time was also spent cultivating.

Some bitter cultivators wouldn't even move a step for decades, just practicing.

Li Rui practiced diligently every day, and his cultivation base rose smoothly.

Above Tongxuan, every barrier is difficult.

Every step forward requires countless years.

The old immortals in the world of martial arts were mostly at this realm.

Even a genius like Yuan Dingting took a full twenty years to comprehend the Great Dao and break through to the Heavenly Phenomenon Realm, and many second-rank Heavenly Phenomenon Grandmasters had wasted over a hundred years before finally achieving something.

It couldn't be rushed.

One must walk steadily step by step; otherwise, no matter how fast one walks, it is futile.

Li Rui stayed on Changqing Peak for a month.

Then he went down the mountain.

Returning to Qinghe City.

"It's been a long time since I've been back."

This time, Ge Hong followed behind Li Rui, looking at the familiar streets with emotion.

Among the few.

Except for Li Rui, he had stayed in Qinghe the longest, and naturally, his feelings were the deepest.

Although he certainly wasn't as familiar with every alley as Li Rui, he had walked through most places.

Ever since Ge Hong followed Li Rui to Changqing Peak, he hadn't been back.

This time, his cultivation base had also broken through, reaching the sixth rank.

That was why he had the thought of coming out to walk around.

Li Rui looked at Ge Hong: "Brother Ge, from now on, you will be an old immortal in the eyes of our Qinghe people."

Ge Hong was speechless:

"Old Brother, please don't tease me."

Li Rui just laughed.

Ge Hong's talent for cultivation was excellent, and he resolutely gave up the martial path to switch to cultivation; it had only been a few years, and he was already at the sixth rank, and even though it was also because his previous foundation was solid, it was still extremely impressive.

He was not weaker than the inner sect disciples of the Profound Clarity Sect.

Among the brothers, he was probably only behind Ning Zhongtian.

Even Tan Hu, who was born with a diamond body, was not as good.

So he was bound to become an immortal in the eyes of ordinary people.

Ge Hong smiled, his eyes full of emotion: "Cultivating immortality is truly different; the days pass by so fast."

Li Rui nodded:

"Indeed."

Ordinary people live for no more than a hundred years, while cultivators live for hundreds of years.

Coupled with the current resurgence of spiritual energy, cultivators can live even longer.

The changing of the world is nothing more than this.

The two chatted as they walked.

Before long, they returned to the camp of Annan Town in Qinghe.

Li Rui walked into the General's Mansion.

And saw a beautiful figure sitting quietly in the small courtyard.

"Miss Yao."

Yao Xue slowly opened her eyes, a flash of joy crossing them: "Uncle Master, you're back."

Li Rui nodded with a smile.

Ever since Yao Xue came to Qinghe that day, she had never left, but had been living in his residence in Qinghe.

Yao Xue was practicing, and she walked to Li Rui with a grin:

"Uncle Master, I will be heading north in a few days; I have troubled you much during this time."

Li Rui was surprised: "Miss Yao can keep staying here, it's no trouble."

Yao Xue shook her head with a smile:

"Little Uncle Master sent a letter saying that a spirit mine has appeared in the Northern Plains and asked me to go over and help."

(End of chapter)