Chapter 19: Curtain Falls
After Xie Tianshu mutated into a dragon-like form, his body’s defense was extremely strong, and he quickly stood up again.
But his body was numb, and his muscles were sore and painful.
“Swish!”
Without giving him time to fully recover, Li Weiyi had already arrived.
A yellow sword light slashed through the air, striking towards his abdomen.
Xie Tianshu instinctively waved his claws to block.
“Splat!”
The sword edge, with destructive force, severed his scale-covered claws and left a deep wound in his abdomen.
Blood flowed out uncontrollably.
“Ah…”
Xie Tianshu trembled in pain, fear, and confusion, retreating rapidly with sharp screams.
This pain was even greater than when his right arm was severed before, filled with despair. He was clearly already so strong, having transformed into a demon with immense power, yet he still suffered a crushing defeat.
He clearly remembered that the sword in Li Weiyi’s hand before could not break through his black scales.
Why, all of a sudden, was it so sharp?
His claws were severed as easily as cutting tofu.
He would never know that the Yellow Dragon Sword propelled by scalding qi flow and the Yellow Dragon Sword in its normal state were completely different artifacts.
Because his strange, uneven head had already been severed by Li Weiyi.
“Bang!”
His head fell to the ground, and his corpse collapsed.
Instantly, the entire world seemed to fall silent!
Li Weiyi looked at the thick blood constantly flowing from the neck of the headless giant corpse on the ground, then looked at the bloody scene of carnage all around, with only Zhao Meng and Chen Hong, who had lost their legs, still lying there.
The other scientific expedition team members had already fled after Xie Tianshu mutated into a dragon-like form, hiding in the distance and watching timidly.
It was unclear if they were afraid of him or of the corpses all over the ground.
This bloody scene was too terrifying for those who had never experienced slaughter! All their nightmares combined since childhood could not reach this extent.
Gradually, the killing intent ignited in Li Weiyi’s body by hatred and rage dissipated, as if all his strength had been drained away. His bloody hands trembled uncontrollably, and he could barely hold the Yellow Dragon Sword.
An uncomfortable feeling and physical discomfort, as if he was about to vomit his stomach, washed over him.
It was the first time he had killed anyone, and he had killed so many people.
The impact on his heart was even greater than when he fell into the bronze ship.
Li Weiyi’s heartbeat was like a rapid drumbeat, his mind sometimes blank, sometimes filled with blood. He sat on Xie Tianshu’s corpse’s chest. His eyes stared at Xie Tianshu’s head on the ground, though in reality, his pupils were unfocused.
Qi Shanshan walked to his side, squatted down, tugged at his sleeve, and softly called out, “Weiyi, Weiyi, don’t scare Shanshan jie, what’s wrong with you…”
“Weiyi… I’m Shanshan jie…”
Li Weiyi regained his composure, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, then performed the Jade Void Breathing Technique. His eyes gradually regained their vitality as he looked at Qi Shanshan’s beautiful and delicate face up close: “I’m fine, it’s just for a moment…”
“Don’t say another word!”
Qi Shanshan put her finger to Li Weiyi’s lips, an overly intimate gesture, and gently comforted him: “We know they deserved to die, don’t have any psychological burden.”
Li Weiyi felt that Doctor Qi’s behavior was too abnormal, even a bit boundaryless; she hadn’t treated him like this before. Back then, she had called him and Gao Huan “Heaven’s Cripple and Earth’s Defect.”
Soon, more and more scientific expedition team members gathered around, all concerned about Li Weiyi’s safety.
They weren’t afraid of Li Weiyi; they were just afraid of Xie Tianshu, which was why they had hidden in the distance.
So what if he killed?
Li Weiyi had risked his life to save them.
In times of national crisis, heroes are honored; in times of danger, people worship deities.
Li Weiyi was naturally not a deity, but he was the one who led them out of darkness in their most dangerous and helpless moments.
Not used to being surrounded by so many people showing respect, awe, flattery, and fawning, Li Weiyi quickly got up and fled as if escaping, to check on his senior disciple brother’s injuries.
Qi Shanshan, wearing her medical uniform, followed him like a shadow, her fragrance wafting, staying close by his side.
It was as if she was determined to follow him.
Zhao Meng had already been carried into the medical tent and lay flat on the medical bed, but he had already fainted from pain, his face ashen, his breath weak.
“Senior disciple brother, senior disciple brother…”
Li Weiyi’s fingers gently touched Zhao Meng’s swollen, bruised, and purple legs. The wound at his knee showed exposed bone. His shoulder injury was no better; the bone was severely dislocated, it was truly shocking.
He quickly looked at Qi Shanshan and earnestly pleaded, “Doctor Qi, please save my senior disciple brother.”
“Leave this to me for now!”
Thinking of something, Qi Shanshan added, “Weiyi, Shanshan jie knows that you only care about your senior disciple brother’s safety right now, but you need to go collect those Immortal Objects first. They are your rightful reward, don’t let those who didn’t contribute anything take them. Lest in the future, they, with their Supernatural Power, become the next Xie Tianshu, the next Kong Fan.”
Old Liu and the direct descendants following Zhao Meng, who were surrounding the sickbed, all nodded vigorously. Now they would follow Li Weiyi’s lead.
They felt that Doctor Qi was remarkable, always knowing what needed to be done most at the moment, and also seeing what might happen in the future. This required extreme reason and calmness!
And they, even now, had not fully emerged from the shock of the previous great change.
Left two female scientific expedition team members in the medical tent to assist Qi Shanshan.
Old Liu and others walked out of the medical tent and began to punch and kick Chen Hong, who was lying on the ground with serious injuries, to vent their anger.
On Chen Hong, the corpse clothes soft armor that originally belonged to Zhao Meng was naturally taken off and handed over to Li Weiyi for safekeeping.
Li Weiyi discovered that after this battle, everyone was extremely respectful towards him, a level of respect they hadn’t even shown Captain Gao before. He didn’t need to lift a finger; someone would retrieve the Silver Thread Gloves, Scripture Belt, and Dragon Pattern Ring from the corpses and bring them to him.
Even three Scientific Expedition Team Members lifted that spear, a zhang long, outside the medical tent and placed it at his feet.
Li Weiyi truly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Had he been bestowed the yellow robe?
A leader of the research group even instructed Qin Ke to stay by Li Weiyi’s side and do what she could.
“Weiyi, Brother… Just call me Keke.”
Qin Ke is Professor Xu’s student and a classmate of Gao Huan.
Among the scientific expedition team, besides Cai Yutong and Qi Shanshan, she and Liu Ying were the youngest and most attractive. But she was very timid, and didn’t dare to keep the shotgun, directly throwing it into the sea.
Li Weiyi found the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, very close to Han Qin’s corpse.
After wiping the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish clean, he put it back around his neck. Then he crouched down to examine Han Qin’s head. Where the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish had hit his head, the bone was broken, and blood had pooled and swollen.
There was no breath.
“It could kill a person from thirty meters away. It seems that in the future, I’ll need to carry some pebbles, metal shards, and flying daggers, which can completely rival a pistol.”
With his current strength, for him to kill with pebbles, the most crucial factor is actually accuracy.
And with eyes nourished by his scalding hot qi flow, his vision was extraordinary, coupled with the flying needles technique he learned in his sect, the accuracy was completely not an issue.
Xie Tianshu, Chen Hong, Kong Fan, including the Security Team members, these people were all too weak, so Li Weiyi could frequently succeed with his sword throws. When encountering a true master, carelessly throwing or abandoning one’s sword is a grave taboo.
……
Director Yang was curled up on the ground, having lost a large amount of blood, his body shriveled like a pile of bones.
His hair had all turned white, and his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, clearly an dying person.
Saw Li Weiyi walk up to him.
He used his last breath to tightly grab Li Weiyi’s pant leg, his neck stiffened, and he tried to lift his head, as if wanting to say something.
Li Weiyi helped him sit up. Seeing his miserable state, he couldn’t help but sigh. It had only been seven days; how had he become like this? It truly felt like a lifetime ago.
Director Yang tightly gripped Li Weiyi’s wrist and said hoarsely, with a tone of pleading, “Return to Earth… hurry back, you must take the Buddha’s Sarira as soon as possible… to the Ganlu Temple Underground Palace, you must… you absolutely must… otherwise…”
The power on his finger disappeared, and he passed away.
“What do you mean? Why go to the Ganlu Temple Underground Palace…” Li Weiyi’s fingers probed his pulse; he had already stopped breathing. He slowly placed Director Yang back on the ground.
Qin Ke, standing to the side, said, “It is said that Buddha’s Sarira was found in the Ganlu Temple Underground Palace.”
Li Weiyi believed that Director Yang’s obsession with recovering the Buddha’s Sarira and his desire to return to Earth might be related to this, so he went to question the two research personnel from Laboratory 705 who had been subdued and tied up.
But the two of them knew very little and were not clear about the situation in the Ganlu Temple Underground Palace.
Now, to return to Earth, it’s not something they can control. Li Weiyi can only put this matter aside for now. There are many more important things on the ship.
The Ghost Bear Emperor at the stern of the ship, the White Bone Demons in the grave mounds.
They are much more dangerous than Xie Tianshu, Kong Fan, Director Yang, and the others!
And this turmoil has many suspicious points.
…
Gao Huan and Old Liu, along with over twenty strong young Scientific Expedition Team Members, entered the Nether Mist carrying various weapons such as Protective Shields, Taser Guns, Steel Rebar, and Cleavers, to search for the five who had escaped: Xie Jin.
Li Weiyi walked into the medical tent, just as Qi Shanshan finished disinfecting, stopping the bleeding, bandaging, and setting the fracture for Zhao Meng’s wound and bone.
But Zhao Meng’s eyes remained tightly shut, his face deathly pale, and he had not woken up.
Li Weiyi looked at the fine beads of sweat on Qi Shanshan’s forehead and said, “You’ve worked hard…”
“Take off your clothes.”
Qi Shanshan tidied up various medical supplies.
Li Weiyi was stunned.
Qi Shanshan turned around and said, with both reproach and concern, “You only care about your senior disciple brother’s injuries? You’re hurt yourself and not saying a word, are all you men so chauvinistic?”
“I only have minor injuries, it’s nothing.”
Li Weiyi’s injuries were located on his left shoulder and right wrist.
The tip of his left shoulder was stained with a small amount of lightning released from the Black Iron Seal, his clothes carbonized, and his skin severely damaged, causing intense pain indeed.
His right wrist was cut by the edge of the ice coffin at the bottom of the grave mound. It had already scabbed over, but was re-opened when he used the black long spear. That spear was too heavy, and with Li Weiyi’s current strength, it was still very strenuous to use, injuring others while also harming his own tendons and bones.
These injuries were nothing to Li Weiyi, who had cultivated scalding hot qi flow.
It won’t even take a day for it to be mostly healed.
But Qi Shanshan insisted, so Li Weiyi had to take off his clothes and let her bandage him.
While Qi Shanshan was bandaging his wrist, Li Weiyi observed her face and eyes and asked, “I heard that before the turmoil broke out, Sister Shanshan took Cai Senior Student away. Where is she now?”
