Chapter 98: Overwhelming Kill
King Zhenbei chuckled lightly.
Li Qingyue completely lost it, disregarding her princess dignity, clutching King Zhenbei’s clothing corner and bursting into loud sobs:
“Imperial Uncle, I want to go back to the palace!”
Li Ling held back his tears with effort, just stubbornly tilting his head up, mouth pursed, King Zhenbei smilingly patted his head, and Li Ling immediately threw himself into King Zhenbei’s arms, shoulders shaking.
The two were after all just children not yet ten years old.
In the past, they didn’t know the dangers of the world, today they suffered a calamity, walked once on the edge of life and death, although they got a bit frightened, but they also understood many great truths that elders had told them before.
A thousand teachings and ten thousand teachings are not as good as experiencing it oneself.
This was also King Zhenbei’s purpose.
He didn’t have time to always watch over his young son, he had to let him learn to grow up, otherwise if one day he really sneaked out without him knowing, it would be too late for regrets.
However.
Seeing his young son like this, he couldn’t help but feel heartbroken, and his gaze towards the many Demonic Sect Heavenly Humans also began to turn indifferent.
At this moment.
The many experts currently battling all noticed the situation here.
That middle-aged man appeared silently, pinching a Heavenly Human Realm expert to death like a chick!
The gap was terrifyingly large.
“Is this the strength of ninth on the Heavenly Human Ranking?” Ning Qi’s eyes shook within the Scripture Depository.
He had heard before that every ten or so on the Heavenly Human Ranking, strength underwent a qualitative change, but those he had contact with were basically the experts at the end of the Heavenly Human Ranking, without direct experience. Now seeing King Zhenbei act for the first time, that gap made him feel as if the Heavenly Human opposite was merely Gang Yuan Realm.
“This guy wouldn’t have already reached Heavenly Human Realm Perfection, would he?”
Ning Qi even more carefully restrained his own aura and fluctuations. Now with King Zhenbei here, he didn’t need to worry about other aspects, just focusing on urging the Heavenly Sword to entangle Elder Wang.
Eunuch Ye, Dragon Mountain Daoist, and the Butcher saw King Zhenbei appear, all with invigorated gazes.
While the Demonic Sect experts had incredulity surging in their eyes.
Even Elder Wang couldn’t help but exclaim in horror:
“King Zhenbei?!”
His voice was sharp and distorted, filled with strands of fear.
A man’s fame is like a tree’s shadow.
King Zhenbei’s prestige resounded throughout Great Yan.
“Shouldn’t you be guarding against the Northern Barbarians? How could you appear here!”
Elder Wang’s gaze fell on Li Ling, as if suddenly realizing:
“You actually used your own young son as bait?! Truly cunning!”
King Zhenbei snorted coldly:
“Insolent! You lot worthy?”
“Bullying Ling’er, you deserve ten thousand deaths!”
He was too lazy to explain, his left hand lightly stroking Li Ling’s head, while his right fist clenched, slowly blasting towards Elder Wang.
It looked like an ordinary punch, but actually contained many profound mysteries.
But Ning Qi’s gaze was grave, seeing within it an even more ingenious combination of Essence, Qi, Spirit and Heaven and Earth Power, he was comprehending, first imprinting this punch in his mind.
Elder Wang’s eyes showed shock, pupils contracting sharply.
He let out a strange cry, without any hesitation, spitting out essence blood from his mouth.
Strands of Heaven and Earth Power gathered at his side, mixing with the poisonous mist, forming the shape of a Giant Toad, that Giant Toad continuously spewing green poisonous mist, turning into barrier after barrier intercepting before that fist print.
But it was useless.
Everything turned to dust under this punch, green mist shattering, layer after layer of barriers exploding.
Elder Wang used all his techniques, but couldn’t withstand King Zhenbei’s punch at the peak of perfection.
The poison toad wailed and burst, the light fist print landing on Elder Wang’s body.
“Boom!”
Terrifying power exploded, Elder Wang’s entire body nearly blasted into two sections.
He spat large mouthfuls of blood, suffering heavy injuries.
Ning Qi’s eyes flashed slightly, seizing the opportunity, the Heavenly Sword struck through the air, furiously slashing Elder Wang. Elder Wang took another sword to the back, but the unparalleled sharp Heavenly Sword surprisingly didn’t cut him in two.
Elder Wang was injured again, spitting large mouthfuls of blood, a dazzling blood light fled, he didn’t even dare utter a harsh word, directly using a secret technique to burn essence blood and escape. He couldn’t care about the other Demonic Sect Heavenly Humans anymore.
King Zhenbei frowned slightly, somewhat surprised:
“Treasure Armor?”
That wasn’t an ordinary punch, by reason it should have blasted this fellow to pieces, at worst rendering him unable to move.
But Elder Wang took a punch and a sword, yet could still escape.
He had some trump cards.
King Zhenbei watched the blood light gradually disappear in the distance, ultimately suppressing the thought of pursuit. With his strength, he could catch up if he chased, but glancing at Li Ling and Li Qingyue beside him, he ultimately gave up.
“Whatever.”
Just an Old Demon, not important.
But his gaze looked towards the depths of True Martial Sect, with some astonishment. That sword just now made him take notice:
“This Heavenly Sword True Person has some strength, especially when acting without any aura fluctuations, even I didn’t detect where he was. Interesting.”
But he had no intention of delving deeper.
Anyone who could cultivate to this level had some trump cards.
At this time.
The remaining three Demonic Sect Heavenly Humans saw Elder Wang heavily injured and fleeing in an instant, each scared out of their wits, all wanting to escape.
But they neither had Elder Wang’s strength nor his Treasure Armor.
King Zhenbei threw three punches, and True Martial Mountain immediately gained three Heavenly Human corpses.
Such style made everyone dazzled.
Everyone looked at that majestic middle-aged man, eyes revealing reverence.
Truly killing Heavenly Humans like killing chickens.
Only Ning Qi.
His gaze looked towards the horizon.
That was the direction Elder Wang had fled. Looking at True Martial Sect’s wreckage, cold killing intent rose in his heart. Now with King Zhenbei at True Martial Mountain, it was very safe. If the Demonic Sect dared come, they must pay the price.
That final sword slashing Elder Wang’s back, he had already left a Sword Qi mark within.
Ning Qi silently circulated the Silent Art and Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art, stepping out of the Scripture Depository.
…
In the night sky.
Blood light like a rainbow shot towards the distance, in the blink of an eye flying extremely far.
Elder Wang’s soul was still unsettled, not yet recovered from the shock of King Zhenbei’s sudden arrival. That punch had nearly blasted his entire body apart.
“If not for the Cyan Thorn Treasure Armor, I fear I would have died at True Martial Mountain.”
“Damn King Zhenbei, damn Heavenly Sword True Person!”
He cursed in his heart, but didn’t dare slow down, frantically circulating the Blood Burning Great Law, afraid King Zhenbei would chase and suppress him.
The fear in his heart even made him not dare look back.
Although there was no King Zhenbei’s aura behind, that punch was like a nightmare, leaving him shadowed.
But unlike Old Demon Lin back then who had the Blood Demon Flower’s power to support, now circulating the Blood Burning Great Law, every minute and second burned his own essence blood, his face visibly turning pale.
He didn’t know how far he had fled.
When he realized King Zhenbei truly wasn’t chasing, he finally stopped the blood burning secret technique.
At this moment, he looked withered, his already short body even more shrunken like dehydrated, from afar like a small skeleton.
He had already burned nearly half his essence blood.
“Damn it, if I knew King Zhenbei wasn’t coming, I wouldn’t have burned blood for so long.”
Elder Wang’s heart was dripping blood.
Essence blood is the essence of the human body; losing more than half damages the foundation, and now like this, it would shorten his lifespan greatly. But earlier in panic, he didn’t dare stop.
Elder Wang landed in a mountain range, slightly panting.
Reflecting on this night assault on True Martial Mountain, he felt it all too strange. Originally he thought King Zhenbei was fishing, but later thinking, he hadn’t known beforehand that this envoy group included his son and Princess Qingyue.
So wasn’t he purely unlucky?
Thinking of this, Elder Wang was so angry he wanted to spit blood.
If he’d known, better to assault a few days earlier.
But what’s done is done, he could only suppress his frustration and anger, sit down to regulate his breathing and stabilize his injuries, plan the follow-up with the sect after returning. Thinking of losing four Heavenly Human Realm experts again, he wanted to spit blood. In these short months, the Demonic Sect’s losses were heavy.
Cultivating a Heavenly Human Realm isn’t easy.
Just after regulating for a moment, Elder Wang’s heart jolted, he instinctively flew to dodge. A sharp Sword Qi attacked, splitting the tree he was sitting under in two, the Sword Qi whistling into the mountain forest, leaving a terrifying sword mark.
“Who?!”
Elder Wang roared in anger. Truly a tiger fallen in the flatland bullied by dogs; unlucky wherever he went, he could be sneak attacked. If not for his usual vigilance detecting the fluctuation as the Sword Qi struck, he would have been injured again.
Ning Qi stepped through the air, his current appearance an old Daoist with white hair.
Elder Wang immediately reacted:
“Heavenly Sword True Person?!”
He gnashed his teeth.
Couldn’t believe King Zhenbei didn’t chase, but this old thing did.
Ning Qi snorted coldly:
“Reaction is pretty fast.”
But he wasn’t surprised; if it were that simple, the opponent would have died at True Martial Mountain long ago.
Elder Wang held his breath and focused, relaxing slightly upon discovering only Ning Qi alone. He was wary of Ning Qi’s Heavenly Sword; that sword made him somewhat fearful. In his injured state, he might not be a match, needed to find a way to slip away.
But beyond his expectations.
The Heavenly Sword True Person opposite showed no sign of condensing Sword Qi.
Ning Qi looked at Elder Wang whose aura was declining, no nonsense.
He communed with the Fake Core in his body, Heaven and Earth Power gradually gathering.
Ning Qi stepped through the sky, faintly with True Dragon and Divine Eagle roars, lightning light gradually emerging on his body surface. Elder Wang’s eyes were shocked, as if the old Daoist before him had vanished, replaced by a thunder god tiger. What shocked him most was Ning Qi’s body rapidly expanding with every step.
In a few short steps, the white-haired old Daoist before him had become a giant several zhang tall, muscles bulging high under the Daoist Robe gleaming with lightning, the vigorous life aura making him involuntarily gasp.
Wasn’t the Heavenly Sword True Person supposed to be nearing his limit?
Ning Qi gave no chance to breathe.
His figure rapidly broke through the air, the lightning-clad fist suppressing like a mountain range.
He wanted to test the might of Ape King True Body.
This secret technique, since its creation, had never been practiced; now was the opportunity. He discovered that perhaps because Ape King True Body derived from White Ape bloodline, it had greater compatibility with the Fake Core, the erupted power exceeding expectations.
“Boom!”
Elder Wang’s expression drastically changed, his vicious poison palm print blasted apart by Ning Qi’s punch, lightning blooming, the giant fist smashing onto Elder Wang’s body.
In the mountain forest, Elder Wang was plowed out a hundred-zhang long trench, smashing countless trees and mountain stones, ultimately embedded in the cliff face.
Elder Wang spat blood, feeling his bones about to break.
Ning Qi raised his brow in evaluation:
“Pretty tough.”
Elder Wang struggled out with effort, looking at that giant old Daoist, pupils horrified. This was simply a humanoid fierce beast; even at his peak, he feared he wouldn’t be a match, let alone now in this half-dead state.
He had only one thought: flee, flee quickly!
He gritted his teeth, burned blood and shot into the sky.
But Ning Qi had long anticipated, waiting. Tiger roar shook the horizon, Ning Qi lifted his leg like a heaven-supporting thunder pillar, stepping again onto Elder Wang’s spine.
With a boom, Elder Wang was smashed into the ground. Crawling up again, disheveled, clothes tattered, the Treasure Armor gleaming green underneath surprised Ning Qi somewhat.
“Let’s see how long you can hold.”
No matter how strong the Treasure Armor, it had its limit.
Ning Qi flashed down, shadowing him, another punch aimed at Elder Wang’s head. Fortunately Elder Wang’s mind was still clear, dodging vitals, raising fist to meet.
As expected, Elder Wang was blasted flying again, spitting blood mist from his mouth.
In the mountain forest.
The great earth shook, like two Beast Kings in combat, some exotic beasts hiding deep in the mountains all fled in horror.
But they didn’t know this was one-sided suppression.
Ning Qi’s plain punches one after another completely shattered Elder Wang’s arrogance, all his bones inside shattered, suffering extremely severe injuries. Without prompt treatment, he wouldn’t last long; he had completely lost resistance.
“No, Heavenly Sword True Person, you can’t kill me. If you kill me, my Sacred Sect’s countless experts will one day trample True Martial Mountain!”
Elder Wang, pinched in Ning Qi’s palm, begged in horror.
“If you let me go, from now on all grudges erased.”
Ning Qi calmly watched Elder Wang, faintly saying:
“I think you misunderstood.”
Elder Wang was stunned.
Ning Qi gently clenched his palm, with force. Blood mist spread from his tiger mouth. He opened his hand, looking at Elder Wang’s corpse, softly saying:
“The one who killed you is King Zhenbei.”
