Chapter 352: The Deeply Concealed Lin Suo

When the wisps of golden aura between Lv Qing'er's brows were drawn away by the black jade gourd, Li Luo's expression turned extremely grim. Now he could finally confirm that Lin Suo's target from the very start had never been him, but Lv Qing'er.

Or rather, the Golden Dragon Qi that Lv Qing'er had obtained?

But Lv Qing'er had only obtained the Golden Dragon Qi after entering the Golden Dragon Arena, whereas Lin Suo had joined before that. Could he have known about this in advance?

Moreover, by doing this, wasn't Lin Suo afraid of Yu Yu Hongxi?

If he returned to the Great Xia Empire, would he still have a way to survive?

Li Luo's thoughts raced, and he vaguely sensed that Lin Suo's move likely had something far from simple behind it.

However, thinking about this now was pointless. Although Li Luo didn't know what Lin Suo's purpose was in extracting the Golden Dragon Qi from Lv Qing'er's body, nor whether this would cause her any harm, he had to act to stop it.

The phase force within his body surged once more. Across the surface of his body, water-aspected phase force and wood-earth aspected phase force flowed in clear distinction, then swiftly coated his twin blades.

He stamped his foot, his figure shooting forth, a continuous blade-light slashing straight toward Lin Suo, the fierce blade-light tearing mark after mark into the ground.

Lin Suo gazed at the onrushing Li Luo with indifferent eyes, shook his head: "You don't know when to die."

"A mere third pattern of the Manifestation Stage—even if you possess dual aspects, what of it?"

He clenched his hand, and a blood-red iron mace appeared in his grasp. The blood mace swung, blood-red phase force spewed forth, transforming into clusters of blood-red plum blossoms that spun and swept toward Li Luo.

Li Luo watched those spinning blood-red plum blossoms, his gaze tightening slightly. He could faintly sense the baleful yin energy emanating from them, so he dared not be careless and unhesitatingly fused his two phase forces together for a brief moment.

Hiss!

Blade-light wrapped in the dual-aspect force like raging waves, slashing down again and again. Each time a blood-red plum blossom was shattered, a burst of baleful yin force erupted, but Li Luo, relying on the domineering nature of his dual-aspect force, forcibly withstood and dissolved it.

After a few steps, the blade-light pierced through the blood-red plum blossoms and slashed down toward Lin Suo's face as swift as thunder.

Simultaneously, four phase force bubbles within his body shattered, the phase force stored within them pouring out.

Clang!

The blood-red iron mace, wrapped in bloodthirsty phase force, stabbed forth violently, clashing head-on with the twin blades for over a dozen exchanges in an instant. Yet through these collisions, Lin Suo's figure remained utterly unmoved, like a wall, making it impossible for Li Luo to break through.

Li Luo's expression grew increasingly Solemn. Lin Suo's strength seemed to be even greater than Zhao Zhao Jieyang's and Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's. Even now, facing his full-force assault, the man still appeared to be holding back with ease.

This person had hidden himself far too deeply!

Clang!

Another head-on clash sent Li Luo's figure flying backward, landing in a patch of thicket. Just as Lin Suo attempted to press the attack, a tiger's roar suddenly rang out faintly, and a figure shot explosively from a nearby tent like a fierce tiger.

A heavy spear swept horizontally, wrapped in fierce baleful energy, tearing through the air with a piercing sonic boom as it smashed toward Lin Suo.

It was Qin Qin Zhulu!

Lin Suo's footstep paused, a hint of impatience surfacing in his eyes. Blood-light phase force surged over the blood-red iron mace in his hand, directly forming three rings of blood, and then the iron mace clashed head-on with the onrushing Qin Qin Zhulu like a bolt of lightning.

Clang!

Violent phase force erupted outward. In that instant, Qin Qin Zhulu's originally ferocious charging figure was sent flying backward, the golden tiger stripes on his body flickering as they withstood the howling force.

Bang!

His body snapped a large tree clean in half on impact.

Yet in the blink of an eye, he flipped back to his feet. Paying no heed to the bloody gouges corroded into his body by the blood-red phase force, his eyes blood-red, he charged back in to fight with utter fearlessness.

Qin Qin Zhulu's assault was extremely vicious—every move was trading life for life. He would rather take a grievous wound himself than inflict some injury on his opponent. Lin Suo clearly did not wish to trade wound for wound; after all, he was the one holding absolute superiority. So for the moment, he was actually entangled by Qin Qin Zhulu's frenzied assault.

Whoosh!

And it was at this moment that from the thicket Li Luo had retreated into, a streak of flowing light suddenly shot out at an astonishing speed, aimed straight at Lin Suo's throat.

Lin Suo's gaze sharpened. It was an arrow formed from phase force, and its speed was truly astonishing.

Lin Suo opened his mouth, blood light churned within, and he spat out a mouthful.

A blood arrow shot up to meet that astonishingly swift water arrow. But just as the two were about to collide, the gleaming water arrow suddenly veered, slipping past the blood arrow entirely, then unexpectedly swept past Lin Suo's flank.

Did that arrow miss entirely?

Lin Suo froze for an instant, but then realized something. His expression changed drastically and he hastily turned his head, only to see that the flowing-light water arrow, after sweeping past his side, had shot with cunning precision into the black jade gourd suspended at Lv Qing'er's brow.

Clang!

A crisp sound rang out. The black jade gourd was directly sent flying. Although it did not shatter, it had been knocked off position.

With the black jade gourd sent flying, a wisp of golden aura leaking from Lv Qing'er's brow instantly shot skyward, forming a pillar of golden light, within which a dragon's roar faintly echoed.

Seeing this scene, Lin Suo's expression instantly darkened.

At the same time, in the dense forest far away.

The chaotic battle also came to a halt at this moment because of the golden pillar of light that had suddenly risen from behind, along with the faintly discernible dragon's roar.

Whether it was Zhao Zhao Jieyang or Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's group, they all stared in astonishment at that direction.

"That direction is... the camp?!" Zhao Zhao Jieyang's expression changed.

"That golden pillar of light—is that Golden Dragon Qi?!" Gu Ying cried out in shock.

"Someone released the Golden Dragon Qi?"

Zhao Zhao Jieyang and the others all changed color, then shot furious looks at Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan and snapped: "Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, your methods are too despicable. Failing to seize Lv Qing'er, you actually want to release the Golden Dragon Qi?!"

"Lü Qing'er's mother is the president of the Great Xia Golden Dragon Treasure House. If you dare do this, she will not let you off afterward!"

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan's face was hideously ugly as he cursed: "You're talking nonsense! Do you think I don't know the gravity of this? How could I possibly do such a thing? Besides, I don't even understand the Golden Dragon Qi—what ability do I have to release it?!"

"Then did you send someone over?!" Zhao Zhao Jieyang raged.

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan faltered. He had indeed sent Lin Suo to sneak over, but only to get Lv Qing'er and the others under control first. After all, Li Luo was over there, and that kid was full of tricks—he needed to be guarded against in case he tried to sneak away with Lv Qing'er.

But he had absolutely not told Lin Suo to release the Golden Dragon Qi from Lv Qing'er's body. And what he had just said was true—even if he had the heart for it, he didn't have the ability!

Gu Ying, seeing Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan rendered speechless, sneered: "You really are vicious. We outsiders only wanted to tag along and scrape up some Dao Gold, yet you want to overturn the whole pot!"

At this moment, the helpers Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan had recruited also spoke up one after another: "Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan, what's going on here? If the Golden Dragon Qi is released, what's the point of us being here?"

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was drenched in cold sweat.

Ning Zhao also hurriedly came to his side and said urgently: "What's the situation? If the Golden Dragon Qi is damaged, there's no guarantee it won't harm Qing'er. When we go back, President Yu won't let us off!"

"How would I know what's going on!"

Senior Zhu Zhu Xuan was extremely irritated, and immediately gritted his teeth and said, "That Lin Suo—there's something strange about him!"

However, no one paid any more attention to his words. Zhao Zhao Jieyang, Gu Ying and the others could no longer spare a thought for anyone else, hurriedly turning around at full speed to rush back toward the camp.

Zhu Zhu Xuan clenched his teeth and also set off directly to follow. His gaze fixed on the direction over there, his eyes filled with a sullen, burning fury.

"Lin Suo, you bastard—exactly what are you doing?!"