Chapter 122
Chapter 122: Just Accidentally Ate a Few Disciples, Is That Really Such a Big Deal?
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Unlike the scene on Lin Muyu’s side, Su Wanqing’s spiritual energy had already dimmed considerably, with threads of fresh blood seeping from the corners of her mouth.
She was secretly gritting her teeth, preparing to use Blood Burning.
“What? Still unwilling to give up struggling?”
The skeleton giant’s hoarse voice rang out again, with eerie green ghost fire dancing in its hollow eye sockets.
Since the confrontation began, it had repeated such taunts and interference to Su Wanqing no fewer than a hundred times.
Su Wanqing forcibly suppressed the irritation in her heart, her gaze sweeping over the skeleton giant’s incessantly chattering appearance.
This monster really was a chatterbox, the sound produced by its grinding bones was truly torturous for Su Wanqing.
Su Wanqing took a deep breath and suddenly relaxed the tense aura around her body, her tone also softening:
“Fine, I give up.”
The moment her words fell, she abruptly withdrew her stance, letting the sword in her hand drop, her form also relaxing as she assumed a submissive posture of someone resigned to their fate.
The skeleton giant clearly hadn’t expected her to suddenly surrender. The eerie green ghost fire shook violently in its eye sockets, and its movements instinctively paused.
The attack it had originally been gathering was forcibly pulled back as it stared at Su Wanqing full of confusion.
Now’s the time!
Su Wanqing’s heart tightened. Taking advantage of the skeleton giant’s brief moment of bewilderment, she suddenly bit down hard on her lower lip, spiritual energy spinning frantically within her dantian:
“Blood Burn—”
But before Blood Burning could fully activate, a dazzling golden lightning bolt descended from the heavens without warning, accompanied by crackling electrical sounds, striking precisely on the still-dazed skeleton giant!
“BOOM——”
The tremendous sound shook the surrounding air, and golden lightning instantly enveloped the skeleton giant’s massive form, with electrical current running wild through the gaps between its bones.
The dense black aura that had originally surrounded its body actually began to rapidly dim under the lightning’s scorching, even showing faint signs of dissipating.
This sudden turn of events made Su Wanqing freeze mid-motion, the blood that was about to boil in her dantian instantly cooling.
She stared wide-eyed at that golden lightning, filled with shock and bewilderment.
“Who is it!!!”
The skeleton giant finally snapped back to its senses from the lightning’s impact, its hoarse voice carrying unprecedented terror.
“Immortal Withered Bones, there’s no need to hide anymore. Show your true form.”
A clear male voice came from mid-air.
Su Wanqing looked up following the sound and saw a young man in blue Daoist robes standing in the air, faint lightning surrounding his body.
Several dancing golden lightning bolts were wrapped around his right wrist, his appearance handsome and his bearing imposing.
What was even more eye-catching was that the man’s long hair wasn’t the usual black, but rather gleamed with a dazzling golden yellow luster like tempered lightning, the strands gently floating with the fluctuations of his spiritual energy.
“Someone from Xuanlei Sect?!”
After the skeleton giant clearly saw the man’s appearance, the ghost fire in its hollow eye sockets flickered violently, its voice filled with fear.
Its massive body instinctively retreated backward, as if wanting to escape.
It trembled as it spoke:
“You… how could you possibly find me…”
But the young man didn’t answer its question, merely giving it a cold look and raising his wrist slightly.
Another thick golden-yellow lightning bolt condensed, carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and earth, striking toward the skeleton giant once more!
This time, the lightning’s power was even greater than before. The golden lightning struck the skeleton giant’s body.
The skeleton giant’s massive bone frame was directly split into pieces, with broken bones scattered across the ground.
Just as the bones shattered, a thin black shadow darted out from the pile of broken bones, transforming into a dense black aura that fled desperately into the distance.
“Want to run?”
The young man’s brow furrowed slightly. Lightning flashed beneath his feet, his form instantly becoming a blur as he pursued like lightning.
In just moments, the man and shadow disappeared into the horizon.
Only Su Wanqing remained at the scene, still maintaining her previous posture, staring at the ground full of broken bones with a bewildered expression.
“Why would people from Xuanlei Sect suddenly come here?”
She murmured to herself, her heart full of confusion.
Su Wanqing had heard of Xuanlei Sect before. Qinglan Sect was the number one sect, most inclusive in nature.
While Xuanlei Sect was the number one righteous sect, righteous to an almost evil degree.
Their entire sect was extremely zealous in fighting evil, unable to tolerate even the slightest trace of wickedness.
They were especially swift and decisive when dealing with evil cultivators, once they set their sights on someone, they would fight to the death.
Moreover, Xuanlei Sect bordered Qinglan Sect and was the righteous sect closest to Qinglan Sect.
But even being the closest, the two sects were still separated by several thousand kilometers.
Under normal circumstances, Xuanlei Sect disciples would never easily set foot in Qinglan Sect’s territory.
“I see now…”
Thinking of this, Su Wanqing had a sudden realization and understood some things.
“No wonder this skeleton giant was hiding in Qinglan Sect’s territory, it was being hunted by Xuanlei Sect.”
This strategy of hiding in plain sight wasn’t bad.
No matter how rigid Xuanlei Sect was, they wouldn’t disregard the friendship between sects and directly invade a friendly sect’s territory to hunt evil cultivators.
But this skeleton giant had clearly underestimated Xuanlei Sect’s determination and investigative abilities.
The moment it appeared in Qinglan Sect’s territory, Xuanlei Sect’s people had probably already detected its aura and rushed over without stopping.
Just as Su Wanqing’s thoughts were wandering, urgent footsteps approached, and Lin Muyu’s voice rang out:
“Are you alright?”
It turned out that after Lin Muyu heard that tremendous sound earlier, her heart had tightened, fearing that Su Wanqing might have met with misfortune, so she immediately rushed over at the fastest speed.
After all, Su Wanqing was stronger than her and was also the female lead, so the probability of something happening to her was very small.
But just in case there was an accident, she, a small Qi Refining stage cultivator, definitely wouldn’t be able to escape.
For the sake of her life, she still decided to come back and check.
When Lin Muyu ran up close, she saw Su Wanqing falling straight down from mid-air with her eyes closed.
Her heart jumped in alarm. Without time to think, she immediately circulated her spiritual energy, quickly stepped forward, and steadily caught Su Wanqing in her arms.
Su Wanqing’s body was very light, and Lin Muyu held her effortlessly.
She looked down at Su Wanqing in her arms with her eyes tightly closed, then looked at the broken bones scattered on the ground, her face full of confusion:
“What happened here? What exactly occurred just now?”
When she arrived, she had seen only a ground full of broken bones, and then Su Wanqing, who had been in a daze, suddenly fell down.
Lin Muyu didn’t dare delay. She first carefully checked Su Wanqing’s breathing and, feeling that it was steady, relaxed slightly.
Then she carefully examined Su Wanqing’s body and found only a few minor injuries, with no serious wounds, which puzzled her even more:
“The injuries aren’t serious either. How could she have fainted? Could it be that her spiritual energy was exhausted during the battle just now?”
Although she didn’t understand the specific situation, Lin Muyu knew this place wasn’t suitable for lingering.
She immediately decided to first take Su Wanqing to a safe place, then slowly investigate the cause.
But she didn’t notice that the corners of Su Wanqing’s mouth had quietly curved into a barely perceptible smile.
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On the other side, that black aura was still fleeing desperately, with only one thought in its mind.
Escape! Use every possible method to escape!
“Why… just why!”
A roar filled with regret came from within the black aura.
“I just accidentally ate a few of your Xuanlei Sect disciples! Is it really necessary to pursue me so relentlessly?”
Heaven could bear witness, it had merely accidentally consumed a few Xuanlei Sect disciples while eating rogue cultivators.
Those straightforward Xuanlei Sect people then began their endless hunt for it.
It was truly wronged!
Ever since offending Xuanlei Sect, it had lived a life of constant wandering, fleeing every day.
If it hadn’t had a flash of inspiration back then and hidden in Qinglan Sect’s territory, it would probably have been ground to dust by Xuanlei Sect people long ago.
But now, even Qinglan Sect’s territory wasn’t safe anymore.
The black aura felt nothing but despair. No matter how much it accelerated, the aura belonging to the Xuanlei Sect cultivator behind it always followed closely.
Occasionally, several lightning bolts would strike over. Although they didn’t hurt its foundation, they made its aura increasingly weak.
Just when the black aura was about to be unable to hold on, a gentle voice suddenly rang out in front of it:
“Friend, speeding isn’t allowed in Qinglan Sect’s territory~”
The black aura abruptly stopped and looked up to see a figure in white robes that had appeared in front of it at some unknown time.
The person wore a gentle smile, surrounded by faint blue spiritual energy, with a temperament as warm and refined as jade.
But this made the black aura feel even deeper pressure than the Xuanlei Sect disciple behind it.
“You are… the Qinglan Sect Master?!”
The black aura’s voice was filled with disbelief, and the black mist itself began to tremble.
Tell the boss that Bone-Bone won’t need to catch dinner anymore…