Chapter 363: Decapitation Strike
Qian Liqin had conflicting thoughts about the assemblage she found herself in. On one hand, she’d never seen so many Nascent Souls gathered in one place. Counting Esteemed Formations Master Lei Bohai and herself, there were sixteen on the roof of a single building.
Overall, though, the quality of her companions was … lacking, and she wasn’t just talking about in minor realms, either. That judgment excluded Deng Boqin from the Azure Cliff Hunter Sect and Lai Xiaowen from the Harmonic Yellow Mercantile Pavilion, of course. But everyone else…
Not that the power of the others mattered. Qian Liqin was enough to cow a lone charlatan who dared call himself a Formations Master without the Order’s backing. Other than the five Nihility realm cultivators, she was the second most advanced in cultivation on the entire Da Qing continent, and the man ranked higher than her had been bottlenecked for centuries.
She couldn’t help but mentally shake her head that she’d traveled nearly a week’s flight time away to gang up with fourteen other cultivators— Esteemed Formations Master Lei Bohai surely wouldn’t lower himself to fighting physically!—against a single Nascent Soul.
If a man were judged by the quality of his enemies, Chao Su must rank supreme under the heavens as a Nascent Soul. Too bad he wouldn’t be alive much longer to appreciate the honor.
Still, the indignity of the travel time and her forced association with so many lessers was worth it as her participation in the fight, along with a truly ruinous amount of resources, would finally secure the services of an Order Formations Master. The Thousandth Heavenly Li Sect had sought to have an Enlightenment Array constructed for more than a century, and she would have the honor of providing the crucial piece to having it built.
She couldn’t wait to use it.
Of course, the array didn’t actually cause enlightenment. Only the heavens could do that. But its effects were so beneficial to Nascent Soul realm cultivators that the name might as well have been accurate.
The boost to her sect’s Nascent Souls alone would be worth both the cost and her inconvenience. Factor in that they would easily recoup the cost over the next century by charging the occasional allied cultivator for its use, and her participation was absolutely guaranteed.
Thus, she kept her mouth shut as she and the others were forced to wait for the ambush to be triggered. Finally, though, Esteemed Formations Master Lei Bohai triggered the beacon.
If she had been less experienced, she might have held her breath at that point. Her reward was contingent on the charlatan being punished. Should Chao Su not respond to the beacon, all her effort would have been wasted.
Instead, seconds later, he appeared, and she almost allowed a tiny grin to appear on her face. It grew even more difficult to maintain her dispassionate visage when Esteemed Formations Master Lei Bohai activated his formation.