Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen: Returning in Kind
Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen: Returning in Kind
On Xiaoqiong Peak, Fire swords darted, talismans rotated, and two figures engaged in aerial combat.
Today, Qinyuan Ya changed into an ice-blue long skirt, still exuding the same natural beauty and charm as usual;
In front of the thatched cottage, the junior martial uncle and junior martial sister sat on either side of the low table, looking up with snacks and tea by their hands.
Every time Qinyuan Ya flew over their heads, the junior martial uncle would exclaim,
"Wow..." "Qinyuan Ya is wearing..."
Ling'e hurriedly interrupted, "Junior martial uncle!"
"Ah, hehe, Qinyuan Ya is still as beautiful as yesterday."
In the air, Li Changshou smiled as he manipulated the talisman formation, relying on agile footwork to seemingly exchange blows with Qinyuan Ya, but in reality...
He was always on the defensive.
Following Jiujui's instructions, Qinyuan Ya only used eighty percent of her cultivation, but she still brought out all her magical treasures, treating each spar seriously...
The talisman symbols were consumables, though inexpensive, after several days of fighting, Li Changshou felt a bit distressed.
Their "poor" peak valued every bit of resources!
However, this bit of waste was also worth it. ...
Near the border between Beijulu Continent and Nanshanbu Continent, above a dense forest near a town.
A figure cloaked in a cape flew through the clouds, followed shortly by another figure...
The two figures were surprisingly close.
Naturally, the one who flew ahead was Li Changshou disguised as Master Kuai Si;
The one following behind was the real Master Kuai Si, whom Li Changshou had been monitoring without pause for over a decade.
Years of waiting...
Countless miles of pursuit...
The ease with which the opponent was lured out left Li Changshou with no chance to employ the strategies he had been pondering for a long time.
There was no sense of matching wits with the opponent.
Although the opponent looked down on him, Li Changshou still held him in high regard.
Li Changshou did not set up ambushes or formations in this direction because it might trigger the opponent's spiritual awareness;
Similarly, at this moment, Li Changshou was restraining his own killing intent, imagining scenes of friendly exchanges with the opponent in his heart to prevent the opponent from having any premonitions.
Glancing at the sensing stones, Li Changshou knew it was time to make a move, and there were few people paying attention to them at the moment...
No hurry, just a steady hand.
His divine sense never ceased, probing the environment within hundreds of miles, from high in the sky to a thousand feet underground;
Li Changshou fully exerted his mental power, continuously calculating and deducing.
One paper puppet lured out the opponent here, while another paper puppet was placed further away in another direction, releasing a third paper puppet and eight original paper puppets, quietly arranging the "main battlefield" for later...
Half of the treasures accumulated from years of alchemy and the monthly offerings within the sect were now here.
To give Ling'e a sense of participation, Li Changshou even deducted a few months' worth of her monthly offerings, allowing her to exchange for some materials used in refining the large array.
Of course, Ling'e didn't know what her senior brother needed those materials for, but if her senior brother needed them, she was willing to help.
Li Changshou liked to take the initiative but didn't like to provoke karma actively.
Today, Li Changshou took the initiative, having prepared a thorough plan and subsequent countermeasures.
Although he couldn't say he was one hundred percent confident, after all, the person he was dealing with was also a disciple of Renxian Sect;
But now that the opponent had taken the bait, Li Changshou was roughly ninety-eight percent confident. ...
The two figures flew thousands of miles, and Master Kuai Si's intent to kill the imposter ahead grew stronger. It could be seen that he had committed numerous acts of robbery and followed countless fools.
While tracking from behind, he maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far, showing his considerable experience...
After flying twelve hundred miles, Master Kuai Si began to subtly increase his speed, continuing to conceal his aura fluctuations and silently closing the distance from the side and rear.
As Master Kuai Si was about to make a move against the imposter ahead, what Li Changshou was concerned about was — at this moment, there were no more divine senses probing on several sensing stones.
Obviously, tailing and killing people for treasure was quite common in this mixed town of humans and demons.
The paper puppet pretending to be Master Kuai Si in front secretly opened a porcelain bottle, flew several hundred feet forward, then suddenly turned around to look behind.
Several thousand feet away to the side and rear; Master Kuai Si frowned and stopped his movement.
But then, he sneered and slowly ascended into the air, maintaining the same altitude as the imposter pretending to be him.
"Friend," Master Kuai Si said calmly, "Impersonating me and making a scene, should you not give me an explanation? Since we have forged this karma, today, it seems we must settle this matter."
The imposter's expression changed as he retreated in the air, bowing to Master Kuai Si and saying, "Friend, please don't be offended. I did this just to expedite matters and didn't mean to offend you."
"Expedite matters?"
Master Kuai Si advanced towards him on the clouds, with a long sword and a flying shuttle already in hand, and his immortal power infused into the magical treasures...
The imposter's face showed a hint of panic, and he spoke again, "Friend, I merely impersonated you and did not tarnish your reputation.
There's no need for this."
"Heh," Master Kuai Si narrowed his eyes, and the flying shuttle disappeared from his hand.
This shuttle seemed to have stealth abilities.
At this moment, it circled around in a large arc and silently approached the imposter's back.
Li Changshou smirked; this guy was quite skilled in sinister methods...
Hmm... why bother saying it...
Unfortunately, although Master Kuai Si had this flying shuttle magical treasure, he still lacked some vigilance...
It wasn't easy to poison someone in the air, as it required some time and was prone to being discovered by the other party;
But at this moment, with one figure retreating and the other advancing, and most of Master Kuai Si's attention focused on controlling the flying shuttle...
A rushing sound was heard, and the flying shuttle appeared behind the imposter, carrying a fierce blaze, smashing towards the back of his head.
Master Kuai Si's mouth curled into a sneer, but this sneer froze on his lips.
The imposter suddenly surged with power, from the early stage of True Immortal Realm to the late stage!
As the flying shuttle was about to strike the imposter's head, a large hand reached out from behind, gathering immortal power on its palm, grabbing the flying shuttle, and extinguishing the immortal fire on it.
"Friend," the imposter held the trembling flying shuttle and said coldly, "It seems you and I, today, must settle this matter."
Master Kuai Si's face changed, but he didn't say a word and immediately retreated!
But before he could turn around, just as he had retreated a dozen feet, darkness enveloped his vision, and he fell headfirst...
His primordial spirit was hazy, his mind interrupted. However, the imposter quickly flew forward, one hand holding the flying shuttle, the other lifting Master Kuai Si, and instantly sealing Master Kuai Si's cultivation;
Then, he swiftly descended into the woods below, using earth-escape to disappear.
The first step... went quite well.
Although it was just an ambush against a True Immortal, it still required attention to acting and scripting, calculating the opponent's reactions, and displaying perfect poison skills...
A moment later;
Two thousand five hundred miles away from that town, deep in a deserted valley shielded by a formation. ...
Pain, intense pain in the primordial spirit...
Master Kuai Si woke up from his stupor, feeling as if he had experienced a terrible nightmare;
In the dream, scenes flashed before him, as if someone was searching through his memories.
But in reality, from the moment he was knocked unconscious until now, it had only been about half an incense stick's time, and indeed, he had been subjected to soul-searching techniques.
To be on the safe side, Li Changshou still needed to confirm whether this guy was the one who harmed his master;
Although soul-searching was harmful, it was not difficult to master, as Li Changshou had seen it in a fragment of an ancient book.
It was better to search someone's soul than to kill them by mistake. However, not searching would have been better; this search...
This so-called mild-mannered, elegant, and cultured young disciple of Xuandao Sect almost ended up vaporizing this guy! Although Duoxian Sect was only a mediocre sect, there were still quite a few disciples.
It was understandable that a few bad apples might appear...
Quick and decisive action, followed by a swift retreat, was always Li Changshou's strict requirement for himself.
But this time, due to the earlier arrangement of a barrier formation and the need to leave some "evidence" and give the enemy a taste of something unpleasant, it took a few extra moments.
At this moment, Master Kuai Si woke up, and Li Changshou had already completed the introspection...
"No... my primordial spirit..."
Master Kuai Si shouted weakly, his once dignified middle-aged face now pale with despair.
His eyes were initially dull, but then filled with panic.
His primordial spirit had withered!
He didn't know what had happened, but his primordial spirit had plummeted directly, curling up, feeble, with barely any immortal energy left;
Nine long nails were inserted into his Dao body, sealing off his nine vital points such as the Purple Mansion, Profound Aperture, and Celestial Spirit, the source of excruciating pain...
Not only that, but clusters of impure energy from the Earth's veins had somehow invaded his immortal body, tarnishing his immortal radiance, causing the three budding Dao flowers to wither before they could bloom...
In that instant, Master Kuai Si knew for sure that he had been crippled by someone.
His Dao foundation was completely destroyed!
Master Kuai Si's eyes turned red, and he cursed furiously, "Who! Who the hell are you! How could you be so vicious!"
Suddenly, a figure emerged from the ground in front of him, dressed in black, with a narrow face surrounded by wisps of black mist, giving Master Kuai Si a cold smile. Master Kuai Si was visibly stunned and immediately recognized this person, unable to stop himself from cursing, "It's you! You took my spirit stones and precious materials. Why did you betray me and ambush me like this!"
This person was none other than the centipede demon that Li Changshou and Wine Wugu casually killed in the flower building that day.
At this moment, it was naturally Li Changshou disguised as a paper Daoist. Since he hadn't heard the centipede demon speak, Li Changshou could only rasp out in a hoarse voice, saying, "He offered more."
"I shouldn't have trusted you! What could a filthy immortal like him offer you!"
Master Kuai Si suddenly sensed something was off. He had never shown his face in front of the centipede demon...
Boom!
A muffled thunderclap sounded overhead, and Master Kuai Si looked up to see that the sky was already covered with dark clouds.
The person's face turned even paler...
The dark clouds pressed low, with flashes of lightning, and spiritual energy converging from all directions, gathering into thunderbolts.
On the grass not far away, a large hand reached out and picked up a sound-shadow ball that had been placed there earlier.
This sound-shadow ball was to prevent the matter from escalating and alerting the experts of the Immortal Teaching.
Although the probability of it happening was extremely low, caution was necessary.
The paper Daoist disguised as the centipede demon sneered, taking two steps back gradually, and his face gradually changed again.
He then pinched his face a few times, transforming into the appearance of Master Kuai Si right in front of him.
Master Kuai Si exclaimed angrily, "You!" "Look up," the paper Daoist pointed to the sky.
In the formation, Master Kuai Si looked up to see the dark clouds flashing, countless thunderbolts suddenly erupting and converging in the air to form a thunder pillar!
It was as if the Milky Way had burst open, or the sea of thunder was surging.
The lightning flashed, engulfing Master Kuai Si, who was kneeling on the ground with his head raised, directly swallowing him up...
The Triple Absolute Heavenly Thunder Formation!
Among the several thunder formations Li Changshou had set up, this was the most powerful and closest to the tribulation of becoming an immortal.
The formation base and disk had already been refined, and here, Li Changshou simply quickly deployed it and used a few small gathering spirit formations to quickly gather spiritual energy.
This grand formation consisted of three waves of thunderbolts; When the first thunder pillar descended, Master Kuai Si had no immortal energy to resist.
His immortal body was blasted apart, his primordial spirit torn apart, and a large hole was blasted into the ground;
Taking advantage of his fragile state and lingering senses, Li Changshou triggered the second wave of thunderbolts, which struck again...
Li Changshou sighed inwardly, regretting that this was not a true immortal tribulation after all, lacking that kind of power that could instantly annihilate a Qi Refiner.
After the third wave of heavenly thunder, Master Kuai Si was left with only half of his charred body.
Li Changshou focused his attention on the paper Daoist, who had already walked up to Master Kuai Si's corpse, silent, and thought to himself: 'Dao foundation destroyed, resisting heavenly thunder.You should be experiencing that feeling now.' With a wave of his sleeve, several paper figures somersaulted out, quickly cleaning up the remnants of the formation here;
Three Soul-capturing Beads were thrown out, madly absorbing the remaining souls of the corpse.
This time, there was no chanting for salvation; Li Changshou couldn't allow this person any chance to be reincarnated.
As a precaution, Li Changshou first burned him with True Inferno, then with Ghostly Cold Ghost Fire;
Still feeling uneasy, he released two Soul-devouring Bugs, letting the two poisonous insects linger around the ashes on the ground for a while.
Then, he also ignited the insects with True Inferno...
Li Changshou scattered the ashes on the ground, a slight sense of relief in his eyes, and his thoughts cleared a bit, vaguely gaining some insight.
But this time, he could only reject enlightenment because there were still many matters to be dealt with after killing the enemy.