Chapter 283: Contract Wind Thunder Insect
Inside Tian Ji Fortress, the Demonic Path disciples quickly retreated. They had come aggressively, but after encountering Long Qiushui, they withdrew immediately without thinking.
Pang Su saw the opportunity and directly entangled the incoming Feng Lingtian.
Long Qiushui boldly struck out, using the Mysterious Frost Sky Centipede combined with the Frost Moon Ring to directly suppress.
Although Feng Lingtian was experienced and used all his life-saving means, he still could not escape the pincer attack of these two and was slain on the battlefield.
With the Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artist dead, the crisis was naturally resolved.
The two stayed in Tian Ji Fortress. Pang Su sincerely thanked her: “Thank you for your help, Senior Sister. This old demon is cunning. If you hadn’t come, it would have been hard to keep him.”
“No need for thanks between fellow disciples. Have someone clean up the battlefield. Once I confirm the Demonic Path has retreated, I’ll return to Wuyi City.”
Pang Su smiled and said, “Senior Sister, are you worried about Nephew Disciple Su guarding Wuyi City alone? Actually, Senior Sister need not worry. Wuyi City is protected by a great formation. As long as they don’t leave arbitrarily, there generally won’t be any danger. If Senior Sister is really that worried, just go back directly. This…”
While speaking, a Cloud Piercing Sparrow suddenly flew into the battlefield. The direction it came from was Wuyi City.
Pang Su’s expression changed abruptly. He immediately grabbed the Cloud Piercing Sparrow, took out its message, and said while opening it, “News from Wuyi City. Senior Sister, it’s probably sent by Nephew Disciple Su…”
Before he finished speaking, he froze in place, his eyes wide open.
“S-Senior Sister, your Su Yan just broke through to Dan Qiao Realm not long ago?”
She barely lifted her head, her face full of disbelief.
Long Qiushui showed a thoughtful expression, slightly tilting her head, and said, “Not really. It’s been nearly half a year since breaking through to Dan Qiao, and he just broke through to Second Heaven not long ago.”
Pang Su: ……
Pang Su took a deep breath, feeling in his heart as if a sense of the terror of Dan Qiao Realm Experts had arisen…
Ordinary Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists find even breakthrough difficult enough, but disciples like Long Qiushui who have made the Dragon Ranking have unfathomable strength and foundation, not to mention that their lineage is famous for producing geniuses and monsters.
She handed the battle report in her hand to Long Qiushui and sighed, “Driving bees to bloodily slaughter thirty li, killing over three thousand Demonic Path disciples, single-handedly fighting Qing Yunqian, slaying the enemy leader… Senior Sister, your lineage truly produces dragons.”
Hearing this, Long Qiushui’s brows showed a bit more smile, her lips curving slightly. This guy really did it.
……
On Cang Cui Mountain, Hong Qingyue and Shi Jingyi stared at each other with big eyes, nearly tugging at their beards in thought.
In front of the two was the same note, a battle report sent by Wang Mingqing.
“I say, Junior Brother Shi, you really haven’t seen or heard about this Nephew Disciple Su? He didn’t just break through to Dan Qiao Realm in the last two years. This, this thing is too exaggerated.”
Shi Jingyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: “I haven’t returned to Guizang Valley much in the last two years. I only heard that the Head Seat’s lineage produced a Heavenly Prodigy, but I didn’t know it was this kind of monster.”
“Damn it, what a loss of face.”
Hong Qingyue recalled his instructions to Su Yan before departing and now felt his face burning.
Others wouldn’t need his special care; it would be more like coming to care for him.
The two of them had joined forces to attack Chongshan of Black Tiger Fortress, but unexpectedly this old fellow had too many tricks and even hid a Third-order Late Stage Nether Wolf.
Too cunning. Black Tiger Fortress raises wolves.
Chongshan hid too deeply. Even with a sudden assault, it was hard to fully restrict him. They only severed one of his arms before he escaped.
Although Cang Cui Mountain was held, it was not a complete victory after all. Compared to Su Yan, it was truly small potatoes meeting the big one.
“Junior Brother, guard here well. I’ll go back to Wuyi City first to take a look. Maybe there’s an opportunity.”
Shi Jingyi’s eyes widened. He also wanted to go back and meet this Nephew Disciple from the same Guizang Valley lineage, but he didn’t expect Hong Qingyue to be so shameless as to make him stay behind.
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Rumbling thunder
In Wanmu City, the City Lord’s Mansion had an oppressively stifling aura, as if a storm was about to come.
The great hall, which should have been full of Dan Qiao, now only had a scant few people left.
“Big Brother, I’ll go bring Little Brother back!”
Qing Yunheng’s eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging on his forehead, his face full of rage.
“No!”
Qing Yunke’s eyes were somber, his voice ice-cold: “Since that brat Su Yan did this, he has probably already prepared an ambush. Yunqian, Fellow Daoist Xi, and Fellow Daoist Zheng are all trapped in Wuyi City. If you go, can you come back?”
Exposed corpses in the wilderness, hung as human flags.
Su Yan’s methods truly made one furious. Both wanted to skin him alive and tear him apart, but Qing Yunke was extremely calm.
“Chongshan heavily injured, Feng Lingtian fallen.”
Meng Youyun, seated below, scanned the Dan Qiao Realm True Persons present and said coldly: “Besides you two brothers, there’s only me and Fellow Daoist Wei Yun. Wanmu City lacks the power to pin down Wuyi City. Even if you and others have other connections, the trip to Poison Dragon Valley is probably impossible now. To gather or split, Fellow Daoist Qing, you need to say something.”
Meng Youyun had no good tone. Originally, Qing Yunke had incited everyone to come here for the inheritance of Poison Dragon Valley.
Everyone had their eyes on the opportunity and banded together, which was profitable.
But now, before even starting, they had lost more than half. They hadn’t even seen the shadow of Poison Dragon Valley.
How could Meng Youyun not be angry?
Perhaps she might just inexplicably perish here.
Wei Yun, at the side, although not mocking aloud like Meng Youyun, spoke in an equally ice-cold tone: “We now have only four people and no first-mover advantage. Rashly going to Poison Dragon Valley will likely leave us short-handed.”
Qing Yunheng suppressed his anger: “The idea to attack Tian Ji Fortress and Cang Cui Mountain was yours, Meng Youyun.”
“But the ones who caused Fellow Daoist Xi and Fellow Daoist Zheng to fall are Qing Yunqian.”
“You…”
“Enough!”
Qing Yunke said in a deep voice: “The diversion failed, couldn’t hold them back, so we’ll go straight to Poison Dragon Valley tonight. Any objections?”
Meng Youyun’s pupils slightly contracted, and Wei Yun also flashed a trace of incredulity.
The earlier aura flashed past. Qing Yunke was merely a Third Heaven Martial Artist, yet he could still make them feel danger.
This old guy is not simple.
After a long silence, Wei Yun said gravely: “If Wanmu City falls, and the higher-ups blame us, even if we get the Poison Dragon Valley inheritance, we’ll hardly escape punishment.”
Timid and hesitant.
A mocking glint flashed in Qing Yunke’s eyes. This woman wanted benefits but was unwilling to take any risk at all—truly useless.
He merely said coldly: “Wanmu City naturally has someone to guard it. Fellow Daoist Meng need not worry about this.”
Cold light flashed in Meng Youyun’s eyes, and she finally nodded: “Fine.”
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Inside the Wuyi City City Lord’s Mansion, Su Yan took out the storage rings of Qing Yunqian, Zheng Zhongfei, and Xi Junyue one by one, and inventoried everything inside.
After all, they were Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists who had led quite a bit of plundering. Each storage ring was worth two to three million Origin Stones.
High-order Origin Stones, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, precious materials…
Su Yan stored them all in the Insect Realm Space, then took out Xi Junyue’s Beast Taming Bag.
At this moment, the Beast Taming Bag was constantly bulging. The Wind Thunder Insect inside seemed to sense something wrong and was trying to escape.
“Master of wind and thunder power, seizing the merit of heavenly evasion…”
A smile appeared on Su Yan’s lips. He infused True Essence into his hand to remove the restriction on the Beast Taming Bag. Instantly, a blue light shot out from it.
In the blink of an eye, it shot toward the door like lightning.
“Stop!”
Su Yan reached out with his large hand, his Insect Lord Bloodline manifesting around him. Immediately, the Wind Thunder Insect’s body stalled, its movements slowing completely.
At this moment, within the blue light, the Wind Thunder Insect revealed its appearance.
The Wind Thunder Insect had two wings that seemed to exist or not, not insect membranes but insect wings formed by electric arcs, crisscrossing wind and thunder like lightning.
It was entirely blue, about the size of a palm, oval-shaped, with blue carapace, electric arcs constantly flashing, like a thunderball.
It was currently in larva form. Although it had shed its insect shell, the wind and thunder power condensed in its body had not reached its peak, and the number of electric arcs was somewhat sparse.
But even so, it had strength not weaker than Second-order Late-stage.
The speed it burst out with upon emerging was probably something even ordinary Dan Qiao Realm couldn’t catch up to in time.
“Hiss hiss”
The Wind Thunder Insect still wanted to escape but was imprisoned in Su Yan’s palm by the Star Picking Hand like a cage.
It emitted a dangerous sound, electric arcs crackling.
Su Yan showed a light smile and said, “Little fellow, staying with me is much better than freedom.”
With that, the power of his bloodline was fully unleashed without restraint. The majestic Insect Lord Bloodline aura made the Wind Thunder Insect instantly go quiet as if sensing some terrifying presence.
The Insect Lord Bloodline gathered all the bloodlines of the fierce insects under Su Yan, and the core of this bloodline was the power of the Fierce Insect Cauldron.
This supreme power from above instantly suppressed the Wind Thunder Insect in its larva form.
With a thought from Su Yan, the Fierce Insect Cauldron glowed red and directly entered the Wind Thunder Insect’s body.
The red light formed a cocoon, continuously transforming the Wind Thunder Insect’s body.
After about an hour like this, the Wind Thunder Insect broke out of the cocoon and landed in front of Su Yan.
Wind Thunder Insect: 1/100（ Nascent Stage）】
A surge of Insect Yuan entered Su Yan’s body, nourishing his three traits. The Insect Lord Bloodline advanced further, and the Insect Bone Armor Body and Insect Consciousness Seed also continuously strengthened.
With a thought from Su Yan, the Wind Thunder Insect turned into lightning and merged into his body. Instantly, two insect wings grew from his back, electric arcs flashing, faintly crackling with lightning sounds.
His body’s True Essence continuously consumed as he took one step and instantly arrived at the door, electric arcs flowing, as if teleporting.
“So fast!”
Su Yan smiled, his eyes full of delight.
In terms of combat power, the Wind Thunder Insect could only rank near the bottom. Even breaking through to Third-order, there would still be a considerable gap.
But with this evasion technique alone, wind and thunder as wings, leaping thousands of li—as long as the Wind Thunder Insect was strong enough and Su Yan had enough True Essence, there were few places under heaven he couldn’t go.
He summoned the Wind Thunder Insect out of his body and fed it a Blood Refining Golden Pill.
A Third-order High-grade beast-nurturing spirit pill—the Wind Thunder Insect had no such treatment under Xi Junyue.
After devouring it heartily, its Demonic Essence saw a considerable increase, and the electric arcs became much brighter.
“At this rate, in at most half a month, the Wind Thunder Insect can reach Third-order.”
The Wind Thunder Insect was originally an exotic insect with not-low bloodline. Its current strength was only at Second-order Late-stage because it was in larva state, but with sufficient nutrition and some time to develop, it could grow to Third-order level.
Su Yan stored it in the Insect Realm Space. The Insect Realm Space now had many transplanted Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and was arranged with many high-order Origin Stones.
The spiritual energy concentration in the Insect Realm Space was already no less than that of an ordinary spiritual vein.
The fierce insects raised inside each had their own activity areas, and their growth speed was also not low.
Su Yan’s expression shifted as he suddenly sensed two auras rapidly approaching outside Wuyi City. Upon closer inspection, he saw it was Long Qiushui and Hong Qingyue.
He strode out of the room and happened to see the two landing in the courtyard.
Seeing Su Yan again, Hong Qingyue felt as if he was shrouded in a layer of gauze, unable to see his true depths.
Clearly a Second Heaven Martial Artist, yet he gave an odd feeling.
“Nephew Disciple, with your strength, why hide it from me? Wouldn’t it be good to join forces and kill into Wanmu City?”
Hong Qingyue didn’t seem like someone from Fuyue Peak at all. He praised upon arrival, feeling even more slippery than Yuan Hong.
“A lucky coincidence. Qing Yunqian sought his own death.”
Su Yan smiled faintly and looked at Long Qiushui beside him: “Master, how did it go on your side?”
“Killed Feng Lingtian, but he had no value.”
Feng Lingtian and Chongshan were clearly pushed out to do the dirty work. Although they could gain the most from the attack, it was obvious the Qing Family didn’t bring them along for the real play.
Seeing the two exchanging riddles, Hong Qingyue kept asking: “Nephew Disciple, do you have another plan?”
“Martial Uncle, what do you think all the schemes around Wanmu City were for?”
“To take Wuyi City.”
Hong Qingyue answered without thinking, but suddenly reacted: “You discovered something else?”
“Outside Wuyi City, I killed not just one Dan Qiao like Qing Yunqian, but three, plus Xi Junyue and Zheng Zhongfei.”
Hong Qingyue’s expression changed abruptly. These two were both Third Heaven Martial Artists, well-known and tough opponents.
“No, if they had that many Dan Qiao, Tian Ji Fortress and Cang Cui Mountain would have fallen long ago.”
Hong Qingyue had self-awareness. Even with the city-protecting great formation, in a prolonged battle, that many Dan Qiao Realm Martial Artists would be enough to wear him down.
“The Qing Family’s goal is Poison Dragon Valley in the Thousand Cloud Ridge mountains. Attacking Wuyi City was just a diversion. Now that their setup is disrupted, news should come soon.”
Hong Qingyue’s eyes narrowed slightly. Far more than just possible.
Now with one younger brother dead and their goal exposed, sneaking into Poison Dragon Valley quietly was impossible. Next, Qing Yunke could only go all-in, or the longer it dragged, the higher the chance of failure.
“What are your plans, Nephew Disciple?”
Su Yan said: “Senior Brother guards Wuyi City. I’ll go to Poison Dragon Valley with Master tonight.”
Tonight?
Hong Qingyue was stunned, and even Long Qiushui showed surprise.
She reacted and immediately asked: “Qing Yunke decided to move today?”
“Yes.”
Su Yan closed his eyes. The Insect Consciousness Seed had already descended into the Thousand Cloud Ridge mountains. Blood Bees formed his body, perceiving everything around.
In the distant dense forest, Qing Yunke, Qing Yunheng, Meng Youyun, Wei Yun, and a man completely shrouded in a black robe were standing at the mountain pass waiting.
Two gray-robed martial artists flew over from not far away. They landed, their tones hostile and hoarse: “Qing Yunke, why change plans? Do you know that breaking the formation now will still cause shockwaves and attract others to spy on Poison Dragon Valley?”
“Fellow Daoists, it’s not me breaking the agreement. Su Yan killed my third brother and slaughtered Fellow Daoists Xi Junyue and Zheng Zhongfei. With Beast King Sect’s power, it won’t take long to follow the trail and guess our scheme.”
“Hmph, Su Yan.”
The man opposite sneered: “In that case, let’s start. Once in Poison Dragon Valley, it’s every man for himself. If you find some cultivation manuals deliberately scattered by that old Poison Dragon thing, count yourselves lucky.”
“Please, Fellow Daoists, make your move.”
The two exchanged a glance, nodded, and removed the hoods of their gray robes, revealing their faces. Meng Youyun and the others widened their eyes, full of disbelief.
Among the two, one was none other than Cao Cangfeng of Nine Peaks Sect.
