Chapter 83: Yao Yin’s Assassination
Leaving the Blood Mud Space, Li Weiyi’s mind kept echoing the words of the Spirit Tablet Master just now.
“Mind Power breakthrough again, what kind of changes will exactly happen to the Shaoyang Star?”
For the next three days, Li Weiyi did not dare to engage in intense activity. Apart from eating medicinal cuisine, he was healing injuries, or entering the Blood Tree Forest to cultivate Mind Power, Absorb Light Nourish Fire.
The trial participants returned one after another.
Li Weiyi was unclear about how many people had died or been injured in this first trial, but the Medicinal Cuisine Room had become much quieter than before.
Seeing Yao Yin walk out from the Stone Gate, Li Weiyi quickly stood up, preparing to leave.
“You… you wait a moment first!”
Yao Yin pretended to be calm and indifferent, with a pair of small hands behind her back, walking into the Blood Tree Forest, separated by about ten meters: “In the Spider Cave, why didn’t you kill me?”
In three days, this was the first time seeing her. Li Weiyi said: “When entering the cave, didn’t we agree to first wear down the other competitors? So, I was just fulfilling the promise.”
Dropping these words, Li Weiyi quickly left.
Heading to the Medicinal Cuisine Room.
Yao Yin clearly did not believe this answer and quickly followed, but kept at least a distance of one zhang: “Good, then it’s settled like that! The favor I owe you, I will definitely repay.”
“Repay the favor?” Li Weiyi said.
Yao Yin exuded the arrogance common to Pure Immortal Body martial cultivators: “The Rou Cong Rong Precious Medicine, it was you who fed it to me, right? I turned misfortune into fortune. In these three days, I have already broken through to Eight Springs. Among all competitors, only that Nine Springs Supreme Person is slightly troublesome. How about this: I will clear out all the competitors and keep you for last.”
“Kill you last?” Li Weiyi said.
Yao Yin’s face turned serious: “This is something unavoidable. At that time, I will give you a chance at a fair duel.”
Li Weiyi nodded, secretly deciding to also give her a chance at a fair duel.
“Right! In the Spider Cave, what exactly happened? Why did your whole body develop ice cracks?” Li Weiyi asked this casually.
Who knew that upon hearing this, Yao Yin’s mind only echoed the word “whole body” repeatedly, immediately thinking of some unpleasant scenes, her good complexion from earlier instantly vanished, and her gaze turned cold.
“Shameless, it seems Yin Twenty-Four was not wrong at all.”
Yao Yin snorted, mobilized her magic power, and hurried ahead first, unwilling to travel with him any longer.
Li Weiyi stood stunned in place, utterly confused, completely unaware of which words he had said wrong just now, muttering to himself: “It’s her problem, definitely not mine. Hmm… what nonsense did Yin Twenty-Four spout exactly? How is a Hidden Person so loose-tongued?”
Arriving at the Medicinal Cuisine Room, Li Weiyi and Yao Yin sat at the farthest distance from each other.
The surviving trial participants arrived one after another, only eighteen people, all gathered.
The reason they arrived so neatly.
Was because today’s medicinal cuisine was abundant, a reward for all who passed the trial.
“In the first trial, eight died. It seems that even without killing each other, surviving to the last month is absolutely not easy.” An Eight Springs mortal martial cultivator said in a reminding tone.
Those four Eight Springs martial cultivators, one had died, leaving three.
The tiger-like Deformed Humanoid Race Eight Springs martial cultivator licked his lips and smiled: “If we eliminate all competitors in advance, we don’t need to do the trials and can directly win.”
That Eight Springs mortal martial cultivator’s face looked ugly, knowing he was no match for him.
Once defeated, it meant death.
After finishing the medicinal cuisine.
Yao Yin suddenly shot out like lightning, her speed extremely swift, the dagger magic tool in her hand thrusting straight toward Li Qing.
Without any warning.
Even Li Weiyi was stunned, never expecting that the tiger-like Deformed Humanoid Race Eight Springs martial cultivator who had been talking tough would not act, but rather the soft and weak-looking Yao Yin would be the first to publicly assault and kill a competitor.
It clearly caught Li Qing off guard too, only able to hastily respond.
“Chi!”
The dagger narrowly grazed past Li Qing’s neck, leaving a blood mark at the chin.
Just a little more, and Li Qing would have been sent off with one strike.
“Good! Since you actively seek death, I’ll send this Pure Immortal Body out early.”
Li Qing touched his chin, his hand full of blood. After the shock, killing intent filled his eyes, drawing his sword and slashing out.
Yao Yin had wanted to rely on her advantage in movement technique, plus the secret that the opponent did not know she had already broken through, to catch him off guard and send away Li Qing, this strongest opponent. Because a month ago, when Li Qing fought Yin Nine, she had seen that Li Qing’s movement technique speed was a weakness.
But she did not expect that in merely a month, Li Qing had made up for the weakness.
The movement technique he used to dodge her assassination just now had clearly reached the Heavenly Law Integration level.
“Shua! Shua…”
Both their movement techniques were exquisitely marvelous, rushing out of the Medicinal Cuisine Room and appearing on the plaza below the Mind Power Stone Wall. In an instant, countless figures, magic tools clashing repeatedly.
The Pure Immortal Body possessed abnormal combat power to fight across one realm, this was common knowledge under heaven.
That Eight Springs tiger-like Deformed Humanoid Race stared at the battlefield: “What a pity! Just a little short, and the assassination would have succeeded.”
Although he said it was a pity, a relieved smile appeared on his face.
Li Weiyi said: “If you go assist her, perhaps you can send that Nine Springs Supreme Person away.”
“Then what? She would kill me first next.” The Eight Springs tiger-like Deformed Humanoid Race martial cultivator was not stupid and knew very well who the biggest enemy was at this stage.
“Pu!”
Li Qing executed a Heavenly Law Integration level sword technique, a piercing sword cry rang out, one sword breaking Yao Yin’s Heavenly Wind Palm Technique.
The sword edge pierced through her palm, protruding from the back of her hand.
Yao Yin gritted her teeth, enduring the pain, immediately pulling back her blood-drenched palm, using her movement technique to vanish instantly into the purple bamboo forest.
“Just broke through to Eight Springs and already daring to assassinate me, isn’t that a bit too hasty?”
Li Qing shouted angrily, did not pursue, but instead held the bloodstained long sword, murderously glaring at the crowd behind him. Especially, his gaze locked tightly on Li Weiyi.
Because when he wanted to press the advantage and kill Yao Yin earlier, Li Weiyi’s magic energy fluctuation appeared behind him.
He knew Li Weiyi was not simple, specially sent by the Earth Wolf King Army to monitor him, but in the current situation, obviously only one of them could live.
Li Weiyi had definitely wanted to learn from Yao Yin and sneak attack assassinate him just now.
After Yao Yin this Pure Immortal Body was injured, she would surely be pursued and killed by all Eight Springs martial cultivators. But before that, Li Qing was very worried that all Eight Springs martial cultivators would team up and take him out first.
So after thinking it over, Li Qing did not immediately pursue the “fugitive” who could not escape, but prepared to first deter the “group of bandits” who were itching to move.
“Yin Twenty-Four, Yin Twenty-Five, that Pure Immortal Body overreached and has already attacked me. Can I go kill her anytime now?”
Li Qing shouted loudly to the two Hidden Persons standing at the edge of the plaza.
Yin Twenty-Five said: “Low realm ones who strike first lose the qualification for protection. If you want to kill her, we certainly won’t stop you anymore.”
Li Qing’s gaze turned to all the Eight Springs martial cultivators including Li Weiyi: “Did you hear that? Life has only one chance. Before acting, better weigh your own strength carefully.”
Li Weiyi had truly wanted to act just now, but thinking there were still some doubts in his heart that needed private contact with Li Qing to verify, he restrained himself.
“If I challenge the Mind Power Stone Wall, can they sneak attack?” Li Qing prepared to add another layer of deterrence and asked this.
Yin Twenty-Four said: “Of course not.”
“That’s good!”
Li Qing strode toward the Mind Power Stone Wall and pressed his hand on it.
“Hua!”
Yin Nine’s half-virtual half-real light shadow walked out from the stone wall, holding a battle axe, attacking the challenger Li Qing.
With a booming sound, the battle axe collided with the long sword in Li Qing’s hand.
Li Qing’s body slid back four zhang, his face instantly turning pale, the hand holding the sword trembling nonstop. Facing Yin Nine’s second axe chop, he immediately used Heavenly Law Integration movement technique to dodge past.
“Hong!”
“Hong long!”
…
Li Weiyi watched the battlefield of one person and one shadow, nodding lightly.
Li Qing had progressed too much in this month!
A month ago, just one clash and he was struck by Yin Nine causing his long sword to fly away, with no power to resist.
Li Qing withstood seven moves, finally his long sword fell, and he immediately admitted defeat.
Yin Twenty-Five was shocked: “How did he progress so much? Even I now can only withstand four moves in Yin Nine’s hands.”
A look of astonishment also appeared in Yin Twenty-Four’s eyes: “Someone who can become a Nine Springs Supreme Person outside is naturally not simple.”
Yin Twenty-Three arrived, his massive body appearing beside them, saying: “In the Nine Springs trial, he obtained an opportunity. The veins in his body probably already approach full silver veins. At most another month, once he reaches full silver veins, he will truly be in an invincible position among this batch of people.”
“But he still can’t possibly be Yin Nine’s opponent! Yin Nine is Mortal Extreme, possessing one hundred silver veins.” Yin Twenty-Five said.
With such a strong newcomer, Yin Twenty-Four felt pressure, his gaze unconsciously glancing at Li Weiyi.
Li Qing picked up the long sword from the ground, his gaze sweeping over the group of intimidated Eight Springs martial cultivators, then chasing Yao Yin’s lingering aura, disappeared into the purple bamboo forest.
Someone was distraught, bitterly saying: “For our batch, is there any meaning in continuing the trials? I feel that Yin Twenty-Six’s slot is already impossible for anyone else!”
The tiger-like Deformed Humanoid Race Eight Springs martial cultivator said: “How about we all team up to eliminate him first?”
“Team up, just with us? If that Pure Immortal Body wasn’t injured in one hand, teaming with her we might have a chance. But now, with one hand, her combat power probably isn’t much stronger than yours.”
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Li Weiyi walked across the plaza, glanced at the distant red Mind Power Stone Wall, not wanting to further discourage that group of pitiful guys, deciding to first go find Li Qing.
Li Qing used his movement technique, following the Blood River downstream in pursuit.
“Want to escape, where can you escape to? Past this river valley, fierce insects infest everywhere.”
Li Qing chased over twenty li, suddenly slowing his steps, three underground river tributaries branching ahead.
His gaze locked on the narrowest underground river entrance on the far right, the corner of his mouth slightly upturned: “That fragrance on your body has always been exposing your whereabouts. How can you escape? You don’t dare go deep inside. You must be hiding right at the cave mouth. Fierce insects infest inside, your flesh and blood will be gnawed bite by bite, that pain like death by a thousand cuts, worse than death.”
“Come out. Dying under my sword is much more refreshing than dying in the mouths of fierce insects.”
Yao Yin hiding in the shadows at the cave mouth tore off a strip of cloth from her clothes, bit her teeth tightly, tremblingly bandaged her palm that kept oozing blood, pain causing sweat beads to continuously emerge on her face.
When Li Qing’s magic tool long sword pierced her palm, the sword edge contained magic energy, the wound unable to heal in a short time.
“Yao Yin don’t be afraid… sooner or later it’s death… don’t be afraid, lost is lost, but before coming to Hidden Sect, hadn’t you already prepared to lose? You won’t be afraid… no, fight!”
Her back against the stone wall sitting on the ground, chest heaving, she tried hard to overcome her fear of Li Qing, quickly recover fighting spirit and state, mustering courage just about to rush out, when suddenly a familiar voice rang from outside.
“Li Qing, the matter between us, shouldn’t we have a good talk now?”
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Seeking monthly tickets!
