Chapter 469: Fighting the Grandmaster

Deep in the wilderness.

A stream of light crossed the clouds in the sky, and then fell toward the ground like a meteor.

Such a fierce momentum contained at least an impact force of over hundreds of tons!

But when this stream of light landed, it only stirred up some smoke and dust, stepping out a pair of footprints on the ground.

The stream of light dissipated, revealing a figure, wearing a gray robe, with a blurry appearance.

It was the newly promoted "Demon" Qiming!

He was tracked all the way by the law power left by Yunshu in Bai Yan's body, and had already fled for more than a thousand miles deep into the wilderness.

But he still could not shake off the tracking.

Qiming looked back at the rear, his eyes somewhat gloomy.

Analyzing the Dao rules is too troublesome!

This Dao rule seemed to have no direct offensive or defensive ability, but it was very versatile and could be used in various fields.

Qiming did not even attack Bai Yan directly, just left a little "tail," but was still caught by Yunshu, and then chased for a whole night, almost being locked on several times!

Now he dared not leave the Northern Barbarians and return to the territory of the Great Lan Dynasty.

Once he entered the territory of the Great Lan Dynasty, Yunshu's power could get the supplement of national destiny and become more powerful.

Now all he could do was play "hide and seek" with Yunshu's Dao rule power within the Northern Barbarian territory, slowly exhausting it.

But the problem was that Yunshu could consume national destiny from a distance and replenish energy for this Dao rule power.

So this war of attrition could eventually turn into a consumption war between Qiming and the entire Great Lan Dynasty!

Although Yunshu consuming national destiny in this way was a huge loss, if he could completely lock on Qiming, he would inevitably spare no effort.

So Qiming dared not keep consuming like this.

But he dared not attack this Dao rule power directly and defeat it, because that would be equivalent to exposing himself directly and letting Yunshu lock on.

If it were the other three "Demons," even if they were locked on, there would still be a way to survive, not necessarily death.

But Qiming's "Great Dao" was completely contrary to the national destiny of the Great Lan Dynasty. Once he was locked on, he would immediately encounter "Heavenly Punishment" and be "airdropped" with a large amount of national destiny on his head.

This national destiny was no different from the most terrifying curse in this world to him!

Not wanting to be locked on, and not wanting to consume persistently, Qiming only had two paths ahead:

First, find a way to completely shake off Yunshu's tracking.

Second, let others help him break Yunshu's Dao rule power.

Qiming had "contingency plans" for both paths.

"Boerhu, don't let me down."

Qiming recuperated on the spot for a while, seeing that the "clone" he left behind was about to be seen through by Yunshu's Dao rule power again, he had to ascend into the sky again and fly in a certain direction.

He was going to find the Northern Barbarian King Boerhu!

Looking at the entire Northern Barbarians, only Boerhu, who had "Prince-level" combat power, had the ability to help him.

He did not need Boerhu to completely defeat Yunshu's Dao rule power, just a slight obstruction would be enough for him to shake off the tracking!

As for why Boerhu would help him.

He had just done the Northern Barbarians a huge favor, and it was even possible that he saved Boerhu's life!

The enemy of an enemy is a friend.

Qiming believed that Boerhu could understand such a simple truth and would certainly be willing to help.

After all, with a peak expert like him in the True One realm secretly restraining the Great Lan Dynasty, Boerhu would have the opportunity to unify the Northern Barbarians and take that final step.

Qiming rushed to the battlefield where the Killing Barbarian Army and the Northern Barbarian King's personal guard army fought.

He did not know the situation of the war after he left, but he thought the Northern Barbarian side must have the advantage.

Only one night had passed, and that personal guard army must not have gone far, and Boerhu was likely in the army.

More than an hour later, Qiming flew over the nameless mountain peak.

As he expected, the Northern Barbarian King's personal guard army indeed had not gone far and had already joined forces with the three-tribe coalition of the Fire Qilin, Flame Heart, and Green Ye tribes.

There was a large formation guarding the center of the coalition camp, making it difficult for people to perceive the situation inside the formation.

Qiming directly used magic to transmit sound, alarming the large formation below.

More than a dozen Ba-Du experts within the large formation were alarmed at the same time.

This was a large formation composed of experts from the three-tribe coalition and tens of thousands of martial artists!

Although the Northern Barbarians did not have the Sha weapons and military formations of the Central Plains, the means of gathering the strength of the crowd through formations to fight against the supreme experts had been passed down since ancient times.

It's just that the formation was far less flexible than the military formation.

At this time, this large formation below was enough to resist the attack of a peak Grandmaster, but it was still not enough in front of Qiming.

However, Qiming did not break into the formation directly.

He was here to seek cooperation, not to be an enemy of Boerhu.

And now he was being tracked and dared not take action at will, so as not to leave traces.

"Who is it?"

"This seat is the President of the Xintian Society, Qiming."

"..."

This title stunned the group of experts below.

Soon, the voice of Northern Barbarian King Boerhu came from within the large formation:

"So it is President Qiming who has come from afar. What is the matter?"

"There is indeed something I want the Northern Barbarian King to help with."

Yunshu's tracking would arrive soon, and Qiming did not have so much time, so he got straight to the point and directly informed Boerhu of his situation.

Inside the large formation, Boerhu was silent for a while, and then said:

"I am very sorry, I am injured and cannot help you for the time being."

"Oh?"

Qiming's first reaction to hearing this was that this was Boerhu's excuse.

The other party wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, and negotiate terms with him.

He was pressed for time and really did not have so much time to slowly pull with Boerhu, so he said directly:

"You should be very clear that only if I live well will you have the opportunity to complete your plot under the eyes of the Great Lan Dynasty. If I die, the Great Lan Dynasty can immediately free up its hands to kill you!"

If it weren't for him hiding in the dark, with uncertain tracks, why would Wen Ren Zheng be unable to leave Lanling City?

It was precisely because his Dao rule was a curse and he was hiding in the dark that Wen Ren Zheng and the Heavenly Blue Iron Cavalry dared not leave the capital.

After all, guarding is always harder than destroying.

If he died, the Great Lan Dynasty could completely leave only the Heavenly Blue Iron Cavalry to guard the capital and liberate Wen Ren Zheng.

Then the one who would come deep into the Northern Barbarians to execute the beheading next time might be that "God of War" leading the team!

Qiming believed that Boerhu must be able to understand these truths.

If the other party wants to unify the Northern Barbarians, he must have his help to restrain the Great Lan Dynasty!

"What conditions do you have, just say it."

Qiming said again.

He felt that the clone he left behind was about to be seen through by Yunshu's Dao rule power again.

As the other party's analysis went deeper, the further back it went, the harder it was for him to shake off the tracking.

An opponent like Yunshu would only become harder and harder to deal with!

"Since you are so frank, I will also speak directly."

Boerhu no longer hid it, and he did not want to annoy this peak expert who was good at cursing.

Looking at the whole world, Qiming might be the peak expert most skilled at killing ordinary people and the weak on a large scale!

So Boerhu told him about his injury to the origin and his inability to beast-transform for the time being.

"How could you possibly be injured to the origin?!"

After Qiming finished listening, his state of mind suddenly exploded somewhat:

"I helped you break Bai Yan's military formation and killed more than half of the Imperial Camp Army, and you can still lose?!"

And he also knew that Qi Zhou would inevitably take action at a critical moment.

In such a sure-win situation, Boerhu was actually injured to the origin?

Are you a piece of trash?!

And you still want to be the Northern Barbarian King?

Qiming really wanted to scold people now, but still restrained himself:

"Tell me the situation of the battle after I left."

Boerhu cooperated very well and informed Qiming of the general situation.

"That kid again?"

After Qiming finished listening, his eyes were gloomy.

This was the second time Li Fei had ruined his plan!

"Order a tribe to open the protective large formation and temporarily block Yunshu's Dao rule power for me."

Qiming said to Boerhu.

The seventeen tribes of the Northern Barbarians each had Heaven-Jingcheng level inheritance, which could ensure that there was at least one Heaven-Jingcheng level expert in every generation.

Moreover, the headquarters of the seventeen tribes all had protective large formations. After the large formation was opened, it could block the attack of a "Prince-level" expert! (Note 1)

"Every time the protective large formation is opened, the consumption is very alarming. Unless a disaster of extermination is encountered, the large formation will not be opened."

Boerhu said to Qiming.

"You can't order them to open the protective large formation?"

Qiming asked sternly.

"Very difficult."

"Trash!"

Qiming finally couldn't help scolding, and then turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the sky.

A few seconds after he left, a star also crossed the sky and chased in the direction he left.

Boerhu walked out of a tent below, looked up at the sky with a calm expression.

In fact, ordering a tribe to open the protective large formation to block for Qiming was not impossible.

It's just that he didn't believe at all that a person like Qiming would place all his hopes on others.

The other party must have a backup plan!

Since that was the case, why consume the strength of the Northern Barbarians to block disaster for the other party?

Boerhu looked at Qiming's disappearing figure.

The direction the other party left was consistent with the direction Li Fei and others retreated.

Li Fei slashed off the head of a Northern Barbarian warrior with one blade.

But this headless corpse still maintained amazing combat power and was not affected at all!

Both fists were like heavy hammers, hammering toward Li Fei from top to bottom.

Before the fist front arrived, the powerful force had already crushed the ground surface within ten zhang!

A giant flame wheel hundreds of meters high appeared out of thin air, rotating at high speed and crushing toward Li Fei.

As the giant flame wheel appeared, the surrounding airflow also spiraled at high speed, and the giant force of nearly a thousand tons frantically pulled Li Fei's body!

There was a sea of fire all around, the temperature rose sharply, burning the earth and burning the plants into ashes.

This giant flame wheel was also a Xuanjing-level Dao Force!

Li Fei held his blade horizontally to take the hammering fists and the giant flame wheel, the rock layer under his feet collapsed radially, eventually forming a giant pit.

At this moment, his whole body was wrapped in the Golden Jade Kirin Armor again, and his body surface was shining with brilliant golden light.

Sword State: Golden Body and Jade Marrow was a technique that synthesized all his defensive means, and this layer of golden light on his body surface was a symbol of his overall defensive power.

So when his flying sword body was strengthened, the defensive power of this layer of golden light was also raised by a level.

From the beginning of the war to now, this layer of golden light had never been broken!

The headless Northern Barbarian martial artist retracted his fists, spun and kicked, and seventeen leg whips exceeding the speed of sound bombarded Li Fei.

At the same time, the giant flame wheel above Li Fei's head also turned into seventeen smaller giant flame wheels, suppressing all parts of Li Fei's body.

Li Fei ignored the opponent's continuous kicking, hard-topped the suppression of the seventeen giant flame wheels, raised his arm and swung his blade, the back of the blade smashed the opponent's kneecap. Immediately after, his wrist flicked, the blade edge swept across the opponent's waist, breaking through the opponent's protective force like a hot knife cutting butter, and slashed him in half!

Until the body was cut in half, the spirit parasitized by Qi Zhou on it actively dissipated and exited Qiu Zi'an's Martial Arts Domain.

This was the fourth clone Li Fei had killed.

The clones controlled by Qi Zhou using 【Thread Manipulation】 combined with 【Spirit Parasitizing】 could not only burn themselves out at once, but also ignore any fatal wounds.

As long as the limbs were not disabled to a certain extent, they could continue to fight.

This made these clones even more difficult to deal with.

It was just that Li Fei dared to ignore the attacks and fight these clones with offense against offense; if it were another Martial Arts Master, it would be difficult to kill the clones as cleanly as he did.

Of course, this also had the reason that these clones were severely suppressed by Qiu Zi'an's Martial Arts Domain.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for Li Fei to kill these clones quickly.

And as Li Fei killed the fourth clone, Qiu Zi'an's Martial Arts Domain had been compressed from the initial hundred-meter range to only thirty meters left.

While Qi Zhou was distracted by controlling the clones to attack, he was also fighting Qiu Zi'an with the Martial Arts Domain and occupied a clear upper hand!

If this continued, once Qiu Zi'an's Martial Arts Domain collapsed, this female Grandmaster might die before Li Fei.

"Does President Qiu have any way?"

Li Fei asked via sound transmission.

"I must put away the Martial Arts Domain and spend a few minutes to re-condense it before it is possible to directly break Qi Zhou's 【Spirit-Parasitizing Thousand Shadow Domain】."

Qiu Zi'an hesitated for a moment and gave a method:

"During this period, I can rely on the Peace Token you gave me to protect myself, but you must face Qi Zhou alone..."

Letting a Martial Arts Master face a Grandmaster alone sounded like letting someone go to their death.

"Good, let's do as you say!"

Li Fei agreed without hesitation.

"Are you sure?"

Qiu Zi'an looked at Li Fei worriedly.

Although the other party had created miracles repeatedly, he had just experienced a great battle, and his state was not at its peak.

Moreover, the gap between a Martial Arts Master and a Grandmaster was too great!

Once the Martial Arts Domain is suppressed, no supernatural ability can be used; this is an iron rule.

Under such a restraining relationship, from ancient times to the present, there has never been a record of a Martial Arts Master defeating a Grandmaster!

The difficulty of this was much greater than Li Fei defeating the two-supernatural-ability You Ming with a Dao-Foundation cultivation base!

"I am sure, President Qiu, please feel free to act."

Li Fei's tone was firm.

"Good, if you die at Qi Zhou's hands, I will pay with this life and definitely drag him to die together to avenge you!"

Qiu Zi'an was also very straightforward, stopped talking, and decisively put away her Martial Arts Domain, her whole body wrapped in a golden light ball.

The purple flames dissipated, and the dark red light completely shrouded the whole field.

Li Fei suddenly felt his body sink, as if he were carrying a heavy object of tens of thousands of jin, and every move he made seemed to be stuck in the mud.

Not only that, the "Heavenly Gate" he opened was forced to close, 【Hun Tian Golden Palace】 could not be used, and he could no longer supplement heaven and earth energy from the outside world.

【No Distance】 naturally could not be used, and the newly acquired 【Object Refining】 was the same.

"Oh, so bold?"

Qi Zhou's voice came from all directions again.

He understood the strategy of the two at a glance and couldn't help but sneer:

"Li Fei, do you overestimate yourself, or underestimate a Grandmaster?"

As his voice came, thousands of transparent threads appeared, densely hanging on Li Fei's body.

These threads even passed through the gaps of the Golden Jade Kirin Armor, ignoring this level-7 divine garment, and directly contacted the golden light on Li Fei's body surface.

After thousands of threads appeared, they began to pull toward the surroundings!

Just now in Qiu Zi'an's Martial Arts Domain, Qi Zhou only used 【Thread Manipulation】 to control the clones and transmit power, and did not use 【Thread Manipulation】 on Li Fei.

Although that could interfere with Li Fei's attack, it was also easy for Qiu Zi'an to seize the traces and cut off these threads, after all, that was in the other party's Martial Arts Domain.

Now that Qiu Zi'an put away the Martial Arts Domain, Qi Zhou had no more worries.

A terrifying pulling force of up to several thousand tons came from these transparent threads, pulling Li Fei from the spot into the air at once!

Under the blessing of the Martial Arts Domain, several supernatural abilities were fused together, and the power of 【Thread Manipulation】 was further improved, not only becoming larger in power, but also constantly resolving and absorbing Li Fei's power.

Including body strength, qi, blood, force, and spirit!

The more Li Fei struggled, the more his power would be absorbed from this end to that end by these threads, making the power of these threads pulling him even greater!

And in the Martial Arts Domain, all heaven and earth energy was controlled by Qi Zhou. Li Fei couldn't even use 【Hun Tian Golden Palace】 to absorb heaven and earth energy, and even using his own Dao foundation to absorb it was impossible.

So the power in his body was used a little less, and there was no supplement at all.

Supernatural abilities were banned, heaven and earth energy was banned, and the opponent could not only use supernatural abilities at will, but also combine supernatural abilities to form an enhanced version of the killing move, and could also obtain the blessing of the power of a small world.

This is the end of a Martial Arts Master facing a Grandmaster!

So even a seven-supernatural-ability Martial Arts Master facing the weakest Grandmaster is destined to be hung and beaten, and there is no suspense in the outcome!

Seeing Li Fei pulled into the air and unable to move, Qi Zhou, who was hiding in the dark using 【Shadow Concealment】, smiled slightly.

He had specifically talked to Qiming about Li Fei before, and Qiming felt that the other party possessed the legendary Great Dao Body!

Born with Dao rules, such a physique is too shocking.

But then Qiming said: "Even if it is really a Great Dao Body, it is very difficult to break the shackles of the realm before it completely grows up."

"The Dao rules in Li Fei's body might be related to defense, but even a peak expert with defensive Dao rules cannot constantly activate the power of Dao rules, not to mention a mere Martial Arts Master?"

"When his Dao rules are still playing a role, it is indeed difficult to kill him. But when his power is exhausted and the Dao rules cannot play a role, he can only be slaughtered!"

Qi Zhou naturally believed in Qiming's judgment.

And he did not think that Li Fei, a Martial Arts Master, could exert the power of Dao rules for a long time.

Comparing killing power, he was far inferior to Qiu Zi'an. But comparing control, this was his specialty.

Even if Li Fei really possessed defensive Dao rules and could block his attacks, he could not block his control.

At this time in his Martial Arts Domain, Qi Zhou could perfectly control Li Fei and then constantly wear down the other party's power.

When Li Fei's power was exhausted, wouldn't he just become his puppet?

In the air, thousands of transparent threads were constantly pulling toward all directions.

The golden light on Li Fei's body surface began to show cracks, his defensive power was also constantly being "dismantled," and the power of the Golden Body and Jade Marrow was being constantly worn away!

He was not afraid of the kind of head-on attack just now, but Qi Zhou's method at this time was indeed very targeted.

Qiu Zi'an, whose whole body was wrapped in a golden light ball, couldn't help but sigh when she saw this:

"Sure enough, still... hmm?!"

She suddenly opened her eyes wide, showing a look of astonishment.

Bang, bang, bang, bang—

In the air, it seemed as if many steel ropes were breaking one after another, and shock waves were generated.

In the air, Li Fei, who was controlled by thousands of threads, suddenly moved, and those transparent threads hanging on him broke more than a hundred at once!

Qi Zhou, who was hiding in the dark, noticed the abnormality at the first time.

He felt as if a sun had suddenly appeared in Li Fei's body.

And then this sun—exploded!

Note 1: Forgot to write the protective large formation when destroying the Dream Lion tribe, it has been modified in Chapter 32 of this volume. This kind of fixed large formation is not as flexible as the military formation, and the upper limit is not as high as the military formation. The military formation is the peak of the formation in this era.

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