Chapter 279

When Luo Chen killed the three Foundation Establishment cultivators in one fell swoop.

On both banks of the Qinhua River, among the green mountains on all sides, countless onlookers were silent.

Only on the side of the Li family's territory, after a brief silence, came a roar of cheers.

"Senior Luo is mighty!"

"Senior Luo is so powerful, invincible among his peers!"

"Killing three Foundation Establishment cultivators without even using magic tools, what a demeanor!"

"Our President is the most powerful."

That last sentence was clearly the loud shout of Yuan Dongsheng.

Luo Chen chuckled and controlled the vines of the Thorn Bone-Spike Flower to search for his spoils one by one.

A top-grade flying sword, a pair of top-grade magic tool gauntlets, a half-used talisman treasure, and a storage bag.

Apart from that, there was nothing else.

The storage bags of Hu Changnu and Hu Changle were destroyed in the eruption of the Blazing Sun Technique.

Things like magic robes and defensive magic tools were often the first to be damaged in such attacks.

Otherwise, why would the price of treasures with defensive attributes always remain high?

Looking at these spoils, Luo Chen didn't even have the interest to open the storage bags.

Just three poor ghosts!

His gaze looked toward the lower reaches of the Qinhua River.

Before long, a ghostly light flew back against the scorching sun.

Looking at Li Jinhuang, Luo Chen frowned.

"Where is your corpse?"

Li Jinhuang smiled frankly, "Killing Dan Yuanzi always requires paying some price."

That's true.

After all, he was a living mid-stage Foundation Establishment powerhouse!

"Here, this is the reward for your action this time."

To Luo Chen's surprise, a storage bag exuding the fragrance of elixir flew in front of him, accompanied by a precious sword.

"But you have already given enough before."

"Dan Yuanzi was also a second-level alchemist with considerable attainments; his storage bag will definitely be helpful to you."

Li Jinhuang said with a smile, then looked at the Li family disciples cheering for him in the distance.

"Besides, being able to protect the Li family, no matter how much reward I give you, it is not too much."

"This Chi Dragon Sword, after Yingzhang reaches Foundation Establishment, you give it to him! If he fails... you use it yourself!"

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

As he spoke, green smoke slowly rose.

Under the scorching sun, Li Jinhuang's ghostly body was constantly melting, just like snow melting.

It is true that he was a Foundation Establishment soul.

But before he switched to ghost cultivation techniques, the soul he gave birth to was only at the level of a low-level ghost soldier.

Moreover!

He also used the third-level secret technique "Intercepting Life Finger".

At this moment, his state was constantly declining, and he could not resist the heavenly power of the cultivation world at all.

Luo Chen put the storage bag into his arms, looking at the frank-faced Li Jinhuang.

"Any last words?"

"Sigh..."

With a long sigh, Li Jinhuang shook his head.

"Everything that should be said has already been said."

His gaze wandered, landing on the green mountains and wilderness; at this moment, his spiritual perception had reached its peak before his soul scattered.

Under his gaze, powerful souls were as dazzling as stars in the dark night.

He said without looking back: "Fellow Daoist Luo, I will have to trouble you with the things that follow."

Watching the ghost constantly melting, Luo Chen opened his mouth.

In the end, he only said one sentence.

"Fellow Daoist, have a safe journey!"

Li Jinhuang did not look back, just waved his hand.

Green smoke curled, and the ghost returned to the blue sky.

On the road to the Yellow Springs, I don't know if he can walk steadily.

Luo Chen took a deep breath, his gaze following the direction Li Jinhuang was in before he died.

A figure, seemingly afraid of being preempted by others, flew over here impatiently.

"Brother Li!"

"Sigh... why did you leave so hurriedly? Your old friend didn't even have time to see you off."

The visitor stepped on a white cloud, his beard and hair were all white, and he looked quite old.

He stood on the white cloud, beating his chest and stamping his feet, his expression mournful.

However, Luo Chen just looked at him coldly.

Feeling this cold gaze, the old man gave a dry laugh and put away the mournful expression he had before.

"It's little brother Luo, right!"

"Old man Wei Tuo, from Xuchen Mountain, isn't it a coincidence, it's the same as your name, also with the word 'Chen', which shows we are very destined!"

"Besides, I have been a good friend of Brother Li for many years. A friend's friend is a friend; you can call me Brother Wei."

Brother Wei?

I'm even Brother Wei!

Luo Chen smiled without warmth, "I don't know, fellow Daoist Wei, what is your advice now?"

Wei Tuo waved his hand quickly, "Advice is not the word."

He pointed to the Li family members waiting below.

"Brother Li left... heroically!"

"But he left behind this big family waiting to be fed, and I really feel bad."

"I was a step late in seeing him off, so I should at least contribute a little bit to the aftermath."

Wei Tuo looked at Luo Chen with a smile, "Little brother Luo, you still have to manage the Luotian Society, I'm afraid you can't spare any energy to take care of the Li family. I am at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment and have considerable strength; why don't you let me take care of it!"

"Hehe, fellow Daoist Wei is overthinking." Luo Chen sneered, "My Luotian Society has a large family and a big business; we can still spare one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators to guard this place."

Wei Tuo's smile gradually turned cold.

"You don't think that just because you killed a few insignificant little guys, there is no one left in Tianlan, do you?"

"I don't know if there are any capable people in Tianlan, but after today, there will be no name of Wei Tuo of Xuchen Mountain in Tianlan."

Luo Chen raised his hands slowly.

Wei Tuo frowned, "If you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit, a mere early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator dares to be so arrogant!"

He reached out and beckoned, and a nine-ringed tin staff fell into his hand.

Luo Chen glanced at the nine-ringed tin staff, a magic treasure?

He remained indifferent!

His hands were raised to mid-air, and then he suddenly pressed down!

Violent spiritual power fluctuations, without any concealment, poured out!

At this moment, Wei Tuo's expression changed.

"No, you are at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment!"

In his perception, the moment Luo Chen pressed his hands down, the hidden spiritual power fluctuations suddenly surged wildly from the third level of Foundation Establishment to the fourth level!

Not only that.

Its spiritual power was surging, like a vast ocean.

It didn't even look like the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, but like the sixth level.

What terrifying spiritual power fluctuations!

The terror did not just come from the realm the other party revealed.

Deep in Wei Tuo's soul, dangerous signals kept coming.

He sensed something was wrong, and without even launching a probing attack, he turned and fled without hesitation.

However, it was already too late!

A pressure as heavy as a mountain slammed down.

The majestic spiritual pressure suppressed him.

An illusory mountain peak appeared and disappeared above Wei Tuo's head.

"Ah!!!"

A roar erupted from his mouth, his spiritual power surged and tilted, and the nine-ringed tin staff smashed upward.

That illusory mountain peak was actually shaken by him.

The suppressing force loosened slightly.

He subconsciously wanted to escape from this range.

However, after taking only a few steps, the angry waves in the Qinhua River surged, and large waves slapped him back.

Suppression, slowness.

With two major forces applied, he couldn't move an inch.

Wei Tuo was terrified, and a golden bell floated above his head.

He turned around, "Fellow Daoist Luo, I won't touch the Li family, why bother to kill them all!"

Luo Chen just looked at him coldly, without saying a word.

His two hands had already closed together at some point.

All preparatory spells were ready.

How could it stop just because he said so!

Moreover, without a thunderous strike, how could he shock the four directions!

Everything was doomed from the moment Wei Tuo came out to try to pick up the scraps.

Luo Chen wanted to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys!

The three Hu brothers were not the chicken; this Wei Tuo of Xuchen Mountain was the chicken!

"Mountain Collapse!"

The mantra was spoken.

As Wei Tuo looked up in horror, the illusory mountain above his head suddenly shattered.

It was like a volcanic eruption!

The moment the illusory mountain shattered, a scorching and boiling energy poured out.

That was the destructive energy fused from the power of water and fire in the process of constant accumulation and collision!

Under this destructive energy, everything in the world seemed to have lost its meaning.

Wei Tuo was almost crazy.

The nine-ringed tin staff erupted with brilliant light, blasting toward the destructive energy stream.

The power of the magic treasure was extremely terrifying.

However, how much of the magic treasure's power could a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator mobilize?

And the "Mountain Collapse" cast by Luo Chen was a genuine second-level top-tier attack spell.

With his Great Perfection Fireball Technique, Great Perfection Earth Mountain Technique, and Great Perfection Wave Technique as prerequisites.

Three techniques fused into one!

At this moment, the Mountain Collapse had surpassed all cultivators who had cast this technique throughout history.

Because no one would cultivate three low-level spells to the peak.

At most, they would reach Great Success.

Under these circumstances, the terror of the Mountain Collapse cast by Luo Chen had already exceeded the limits of his realm.

Mid-stage Foundation Establishment?

Even a great cultivator at the late stage of Foundation Establishment could not take this blow head-on.

A magic treasure that could not be perfectly mobilized, and he dared to block it?

It was just a mantis trying to stop a chariot, overestimating his own strength!

Under Luo Chen's gaze, Wei Tuo desperately mobilized the nine-ringed tin staff, but he still could not block the power of the Mountain Collapse.

Bang!

Under the terrifying impact, the nine-ringed tin staff broke away from Wei Tuo's spiritual sense control and shot out directly.

He looked terrified, opened the golden bell, and tried to block the rolling red energy stream.

However, it was all in vain.

Boom...

The energy stream washed away everything, and wherever it passed, not a blade of grass grew.

Under the washing, Wei Tuo vanished in an instant.

After killing him, the torrent did not stop and slammed directly into the Qinhua River.

Boom!!!

Another loud noise erupted.

On the surface of the Qinhua River, which was ten thousand feet wide, a huge cave suddenly appeared.

The cave was huge, hundreds of feet in diameter and a hundred feet deep.

Inside, it was empty, with only endless high-temperature steam.

In the green mountains on both banks, countless loose cultivators watched this scene and couldn't help but gasp.

In their eyes, there was only horror.

Under the agitation of their minds, fear spread boundlessly.

Even Foundation Establishment cultivators were extremely shocked.

They usually fought with magic tools like flying swords, back and forth, focusing on condensing power and saving spiritual power.

The lethality was often at a point, at most a few feet or tens of feet.

Where had they seen Luo Chen like this, who could trigger giant waves when light and pull mountains and break mountains when heavy.

Now, it was even more terrifying.

He directly created a super-large-scale attack with a range of hundreds of feet.

Even the vast Qinhua River was blasted with a giant hole, and even the underground riverbed was revealed.

Under such a super-large-scale attack, who could escape in time?

Moreover, they also vaguely felt the power of suppression and slowness.

Almost at the same time, the nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators, whether early-stage or mid-stage, had a thought in their minds.

"This person, one must not be his enemy!"

After the thought, there were even more ups and downs in their minds, like waves and tides.

"Who the hell said that the President of the Luotian Society is kind-hearted and good to others?"

"Killing the three Hu brothers is fine, but killing this Wei Tuo, he seems to have only said three sentences in total!"

"This damn thing, killing people without saying a word, and not even listening to the other party's begging for mercy."

"Forget it, forget it, this Li family's stuff has nothing to do with me."

"I am at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment; I wonder what the odds of winning are compared to him? Can he still cast that move?"

"This person's strength is unfathomable; he didn't even use magic tools. No! As a master of one side, he must have magic treasures; I'd better not provoke him."

"Run, run!"

In the green mountains on both banks.

After the silence, there was a loud noise.

As Luo Chen's cold gaze swept over, those noises became silent again.

The loose cultivators at the Qi Refining stage fled in panic, no longer having the small thoughts of fishing in troubled waters.

Most of the Foundation Establishment cultivators left directly.

A few nodded to Luo Chen, got a familiar face, and then left.

Luo Chen stood in the sky, looking down at all directions.

The magnificent power was unstoppable!

One minute ago.

On an unnamed barren mountain.

A middle-aged Daoist with a sallow complexion stepped out.

However, the step he took was immediately retracted.

A figure holding a stick fell from the white clouds in the sky.

The middle-aged Daoist looked at the other party, his pupils shrinking.

"Tian Kuizi!"

Chu Kui carried the long stick and said helplessly:

"Daoist Huangsha, you weren't tempted when Li Jinhuang was alive, why go now that he's dead? Isn't this tarnishing your reputation?"

Daoist Huangsha said in a deep voice: "You and I know clearly that when he was alive, he had both incense feelings and interest dealings with Qingdan Valley; which late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator dared to make a move."

Chu Kui curled his lips, but nodded.

The cultivation world is like this.

When you are alive, because of interests, because of feelings, I will take care of you a little.

But when you die, the feelings are gone.

As for interests?

If it were someone else, they could still cooperate!

So, the principle of people leaving and tea cooling is just like this.

Seeing this, Daoist Huangsha said in a relaxed tone: "Did Li Jinhuang pay you to do this? He is about to die, you have already taken action, there is no need to stop me later."

"Unfortunately, no!"

Chu Kui shrugged.

Daoist Huangsha frowned, his gaze falling on the distant great river.

He just saw Wei Tuo walking toward the Foundation Establishment junior.

That's fine, let this fool take the lead to seize it, and he will be the oriole later, logically seizing the Li family's foundation.

However, his gaze fell on the Foundation Establishment junior.

"Luo Chen invited you?"

"Congratulations, you guessed right." Chu Kui stuck the stick into the ground, "He didn't die, so I still have to do this job."

Speaking of this, his eyebrows twitched.

"Actually, I highly recommend you to take action, so I can exercise my muscles and bones. Otherwise, the spirit stones I can get later will be greatly discounted."

"Let me tell you, that kid Luo Chen is very stingy, not as generous as the outside world says."

Daoist Huangsha's face darkened.

Originally his complexion was not good, and this gloom made it even uglier.

Chu Kui's Daoist name "Tian Kuizi" was not given by others, but fought out battle after battle.

In the one-third of an acre of Lanxiancheng, he is known as the leader of loose cultivators!

In the case of no sect Foundation Establishment, no one can do anything to him.

There are even rumors that the few times he lost to the sect Foundation Establishment disciples were all intentional.

With his strength as Daoist Huangsha, competing with Chu Kui, the outcome would be at most four-six.

He four, Chu Kui six.

The reason it was so high was because his realm was one level higher than Chu Kui's.

"If you ask me, you are old, at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, why don't you think about impacting the Jin Dan stage, and waste your energy on these petty profits?"

"It's not worth the loss!"

Daoist Huangsha suppressed the anger in his heart, looked into the distance, and said faintly:

"I am not like you, a lone person; I have a family and descendants."

"The original piece of spiritual land can no longer meet the needs of the family, so naturally we have to expand outward."

Chu Kui curled his lips and muttered: "But you can't grab what others have managed well! Like a bandit and robber, it damages the prestige of our generation."

Pretending not to hear his sarcasm.

Daoist Huangsha said coldly:

"The cultivation world is the law of the jungle; if you can't protect it, you might as well give it up."

Chu Kui became interested.

"Then do you think Luo Chen can protect the Li family?"

"Humph, that Wei Tuo is not an easy person..."

Daoist Huangsha didn't finish the rest of his words.

Because he felt the terrifying spiritual power fluctuations.

Even from so far away, he still felt cold!

Chu Kui also trembled in his heart, but his mouth remained hard.

"Look, do you still think he can hold it?"

Daoist Huangsha took a deep breath, "If I take action..."

Hearing this, Chu Kui's eyes lit up.

He quickly pulled out the stick.

"Come, come, come!"

"Humph!"

Daoist Huangsha flicked his sleeves and left.

He had no more thoughts about the Li family's resources.

Luo Chen could invite Chu Kui once, and he could invite him a second time.

If he really provoked the other party, with Chu Kui's character of taking money to do things, he might just fight his way to their family.

Moreover, that Luo Chen...

Watching his departing back, Chu Kui sighed repeatedly.

I earned hundreds of thousands less!

He picked up the stick and flew toward the Qinhua River.

When passing a green mountain, the corner of his eye suddenly froze.

"Eh?"

Sorry, I accidentally overslept, I'll post it first and then change it

(End of this chapter)