Chapter 177: A Small Fry With Great Courage
“Of course! I don’t blame Xiao Man, but Zhao Guanghui, I wish I could drink his blood and eat his flesh!”
“World Honored One… Since that’s the case, please accept this Li Tan Banner, benefactor. Once this banner is activated, it’s like falling into the eighteen levels of hell, suffering the torments of tongue extraction, scissors, iron tree, and steamer, with the soul scattering and perishing, never to be reborn. But it is Immortal Fate, which may fulfill your long-cherished wish.”
“Cheng Bin, I seek nothing more.”
Jiu Chan Hui’s voice still echoed in Cheng Bin’s ears.
Then, Cheng Bin looked at that cicada shell and suddenly smiled.
The laughter was shrill, and even the viscous, gurgling blood pool could not cover this sound. His originally weak and dying qi surged in a bizarre and abnormal trend, becoming violently rampant. His black hair turned white as frost, his skin withered and aged, his teeth fell out, and his eyes became cloudy, just like the Five Labor and Seven Injuries…
But his qi continued to rise, his eyes filled with chilling blood-red, and a hysterical roar suddenly resounded in the underground palace—
“Zhao Guanghui, fuck your grandfather!!”
The next moment, a triangular black command flag flew out from Cheng Bin’s body, growing from small to large, and with a sweep in the air, it fluttered loudly.
Then, this Li Tan Banner carried all of Cheng Bin’s qi, the three essences of spirit, qi, and energy, and even his nascent spirit and conscious spirit, along with the fury of his deepest resentment and indignation before death, and crashed toward that cicada shell!
Small characters, with heavy courage.
Fate like a mustard seed dares to shake the peak.
In an instant, the entire underground palace blood pool fell into eerie silence.
That cicada shell was just a dead object, not controlled by anyone.
If it were an ordinary martial artist, it would be fine; relying on the status of Immortal Fate, it would be impossible to injure it even slightly.
But the same is Immortal Fate.
The Li Tan Banner stirred up yin wind and ghostly fire, and in just an instant, it truly landed on that cicada shell.
The yin wind tore open the cicada shell’s body, nearly splitting it apart. Upon contact, the ghostly fire burned a small hole in the cicada wing, with a tendency to spread, almost charring the entire cicada shell black.
The cicada shell instinctively wailed once and fell from the air.
Then, the Yin Sha Qi and bloody stench accumulated in the underground palace, no longer hindered, surged upward like erupting magma.
“Oh no!”
“What happened?!”
“Why has the treasure lost its effect?!”
In the blood pool, everyone’s faces changed in shock upon seeing this.
Above the underground palace, bricks and stones collapsed, soil poured down, and a huge crack gradually formed.
One could vaguely see the starry sky above, with fluttering snowflakes falling into the blood pool, covering this filthy and dirty place in a vast expanse of white, truly clean.
Cheng Bin gazed at the sky, his eyes gradually losing focus.
“I really want to go to West Mountain with Xiao Man to enjoy the snow…”
Cheng Bin thought silently.
Then his breath ceased entirely, his form disintegrated and spirit withered, completely devoid of vitality.
The wind and snow outside seemed to pause for a fleeting moment.
The next moment, a sound like a dragon’s roar resounded through the underground palace.
“It really is a Heretical Path!”
The people in the underground palace looked up in astonishment, only to see in the fast and heavy wind and snow, a seemingly slender red tassel spear, accompanied by vigorous qi and blood, occupying the entire field of vision, making even the wind, snow, and starry sky over there dim and colorless.
Tiger-head red tassel spear, Liu Qingyi.
Wherever the spear tip passed, a blood-red rainbow pierced into the underground palace.
It was no longer mortal martial arts, truly like a tiger dragon carrying fire.
The vigorous qi and blood roared and howled, blasting waves several feet high from the viscous blood pool.
The two in the lead didn’t even grunt before their bodies shattered inch by inch like kiln-fired clay embryos, turning into blood mist.
By the time the others realized, the spear light was already upon them.
The three on the left had just raised their arms to block when their chests collapsed together, shattered bones mixed with entrails spraying out from their backs; the two on the right showed horror in their eyes and tried to flee, but were intimidated by a spear intent condensed to the extreme, their minds seized, unable to move, only able to watch as the spear tip pierced their glabellas.
In merely a few breaths, Liu Qingyi was the first to land in the underground palace.
Wherever he passed, corpses littered the ground.
Gurgle…
From the blood pool, a young corpse with lingering terror on its face rolled out.
A small spirit body somewhat similar to Li Yaozu’s eyebrows and eyes suddenly drilled out from the eye sockets of this corpse.
Then it pounced toward Liu Qingyi.
Liu Qingyi paused silently, then flicked the spear tip, and the small spirit body turned into green smoke.
“Zhao Guanghui, you dare?!”
“Ah!! Help!”
“Run, run fast, demons, Zhao Guanghui is a demon!”
Suddenly, from the ground behind the crack, came waves of startled cries.
Liu Qingyi retracted the spear shaft, turned abruptly, like a streak of darting green wind, flashing back to the surface in an instant.
In the underground palace, the remaining two exchanged glances, their faces still pale with fear, and hurriedly fled outside.
……
“That fluctuation just now, was it the Li Tan Banner?!”
Hiding in the crowd, concealed behind a dense forest tree, distant clamor, panic, and the sound of weapons clashing could still be heard.
Chen Shun’an keenly sensed that from deep underground, a fleeting trace of Yin Sha Qi had emerged.
Only Immortal Fate can counter Immortal Fate.
So, who was wielding the Li Tan Banner?
Suddenly, Chen Shun’an thought of a possibility and fell silent.
Chen Shun’an knew that for martial artists ignorant of profound methods, once these Immortal Fates were wielded, they would damage one’s fate; a slight carelessness would lead to the fate of Five Labor and Seven Injuries.
Death is sometimes a relief and a happy thing.
Even worse, it would overdraw one’s fortune and luck, like that Ah Hua, clouded by calamity qi, sometimes not even in control of life and death.
“Huff…”
Chen Shun’an exhaled a breath of turbid qi, his face showing neither anger nor joy.
And in Chen Shun’an’s heart, the killing intent toward Zhao Guanghui had brewed into something almost substantial, making his qi and blood surge uncontrollably, a scorching force welling up from his dantian, roiling endlessly.
Not far away, Zhao Guanghui, though he didn’t know what method he used, or perhaps activated Immortal Fate, had burst open his acupoints, his whole body nearly turning into a shriveled walking corpse, skin bluish-purple, revealing two rows of dense, sharp black teeth.
In movement, it wasn’t muscle pulling, but stiff clicking from the joints.
Wherever he passed, wind and sand blotted the sky, corpse qi pervasive, like bone-eroding poison.
Even so, those who came today, Lu Jing and the others, were the top handful in Wuqing County.
Under the combined assault of the four, Zhao Guanghui was quickly suppressed, gradually emitting the snarls of a trapped beast.
“Two people escaped from below!”
“Chase him quick, he took a knife from me, he can’t have gone far!”
“It’s Giant Elephant Tian Ming? Didn’t he die long ago? How is he still alive?!”
“Quick, people ahead, get out of the way, don’t engage him head-on!”
Suddenly, as Chen Shun’an was sneaking toward Zhao Guanghui, a figure in tattered clothes, distorted face, emanating thick bloody stench, charged fiercely toward him.
“A mere second-rate martial artist dares to block me?”
Tian Ming sneered, seeing Chen Shun’an hiding in the grass, a cold, bloodthirsty glint flashed in his eyes.
His movements unchanged, he even added more force under his feet, charging straight at Chen Shun’an.
Just like a wild elephant breaking free from its reins, everything along the way would be torn apart and crushed!
