Chapter 1504: Scoundrel Spreads His Name
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Translator: Attas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Xu Qing was also feeling helpless.
According to his nature, he wouldn’t act or speak like this.
However… this was the Empress’ decree after all.
The Empress’ words hinted at him to show off. Since Xu Qing had received Her kindness, he had no choice but to carry it out.
So he could only recall in his mind the methods and tone of his senior brother, which led to his previous words and his current arrogance.
And in the eyes of others, his figure was not just arrogant.
It could be described as outright brazen!
At that moment, Xu Qing, who was standing at the foot of the Ruler Mountain with his hands behind his back, gave everyone on the mountain the feeling that he was incomparably domineering.
He actually said such words to a high-level almighty like the Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation.
At the next instant, the anger of many cultivators on this mountain rose one after another. Figures rose into the air and their gazes gathered, all of them locking onto Xu Qing.
Facing such pressure, Xu Qing was incomparably vigilant. However, he didn’t reveal it on the surface and even closed his eyes.
All of this caused the Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation old man who walked out to laugh angrily.
“Good, good, good!”
Xu Qing’s words and arrogant att.i.tude caused a cold glint to flash in the old man’s eyes. It wasn’t like he hadn’t encountered such an arrogant person in his life.
However, almost all of them had turned into corpses.
At that moment, seeing that Xu Qing had even closed his eyes, the old man raised his right hand. At the next instant, the sky changed color and the ground rumbled. A storm circled in the surroundings.
At the moment the old man’s right hand descended, a gigantic palm print materialized directly behind him, seemingly replacing the sky, piercing through itself, and together with his hand… crashed toward Xu Qing.
This palm strike completely displayed the power of the Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation, forming a destructive might. In fact, the laws and rules were even tearing apart under this palm print.
More cracks appeared in the void.
It headed straight for Xu Qing.
It was like a violent wind sweeping past, lifting Xu Qing’s long hair and robe. However, Xu Qing still had his eyes closed and didn’t move at all.
The huge palm print descended with destructive power, causing the area here to shake violently.
In everyone’s eyes, black flames appeared on Xu Qing’s body at this instant. These flames rapidly spread under his feet, forming a resplendent black lotus! This lotus was in full bloom and countless fire petals surrounded it. Xu Qing’s location was at the center of the lotus.
The black fire lotus that rose around him seemed to have molded a perfect defense for him.
It directly collided with the huge palm print that fell from the sky.
A deafening rumbling sound spread through the area.
The black lotus was still burning as usual. Its petals surrounded it and continued to flutter.
Within it, Xu Qing was not affected in the slightest, not even a strand of his hair was touched. He didn’t even open his eyes, only spoke faintly.
“There are still two moves left.”
As his voice echoed, the eyes of the old man in the sky narrowed. The expressions of the many cultivators on the Seventeenth Ruler Mountain also changed.
Not everyone could withstand an all-out attack from a Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation expert.
To be able to do this, it represented strength.
Among them, there was a scholar who stared fixedly at the black fire lotus around Xu Qing. He vaguely felt that it was familiar, as though he had seen it in some texts before.
Soon, someone recognized it and exclaimed involuntarily.
“That is the Underworld Lotus!”
“Great Emperor Nether Flame’s protective secret art!!”
As the person exclaimed, more and more people recalled the various rumors and records about Great Emperor Nether Flame that were recorded in the books.
Xue Chenzi actually mastered such a secret art!”
“No wonder Ruler Lu Lingzi came to West Demon Feather with this person!” “This is also the reason why Xue Chenzi is so arrogant!”
An uproar spread in all directions. Xu Qing calmly stood there with his eyes closed. As for the old man in the air, his brows were tightly furrowed.
He had heard of the Underworld Lotus. It was rumored that this secret art was extremely astonishing in terms of defense.
He narrowed his eyes and raised his hands, quickly forming a seal. Instantly, the nine great worlds behind him began to shine brightly, each one raising the highest peak within its world.
these nine peaks transformed from illusion to reality, appearing in the sky of the holy land. The moment they emerged, they triggered the laws of the heavens and earth, causing lightning and thunder to continuously erupt. After that, the old man pointed with both hands and the nine mountain peaks charged straight toward Xu Qing.
This wasn’t the end. After using the second spell, the old man pressed his forehead. Immediately, the nine great worlds behind him rumbled again.
I hey emitted countless rules and laws, all of which were the Dao that the old man had comprehended in his life.
After it appeared, the old man shouted.
“Transforming the Dao into the tip!”
His Dao gathered in front of him, forming a huge spearhead!
After that, the old man’s deep voice echoed again.
“Using the worlds as the body!”
I he nine great worlds were arranged in sequence, connected to each other. From a distance, they truly resembled the body of a spear!
“Change the eruption of the spells into the spear ta.s.sel!”
The old man shouted and countless spells erupted from his body. Amidst the colorful lights, they surrounded the earth-shattering spear.
Finally, killing intent flashed in the old man’s eyes as he ruthlessly pushed. This shocking huge spear headed straight for Xu Qing.
The old man’s plan was to use the spell and the divine ability at the same time, using up the second and third moves.
With such a method, he tried to blast open the legendary Underworld Lotus.
1 he color of the sky changed and countless gazes were focused on this fight. It could be seen that the first to reach Xu Qing was the nine mountains.
These nine mountains were huge but they shrunk as they sped. In the end, they were like nine large swords that blasted out with all their might at the Underworld Lotus around Xu Qing’s body.
Its momentum was vast like a mountain, and its strength was like a tumultuous sea.
Xu Qing trembled and the Underground Lotus in everyone’s eyes shone intensely. Under the churning flames, no matter how sharp the swords formed by the nine mountain peaks were, they couldn’t shake Xu Qing at all.
As the fire of the Underworld Lotus erupted, the nine mountains swords returned from reality to illusion until they disappeared.
However, the instant they dissipated, that terrifying spear pierced through all illusions and directly landed on Xu Qing’s head.
The spearhead formed extreme strength that erupted intensely.
A loud explosion rang out, accompanied by an astonishing impact.
Under the impact, Xu Qing couldn’t maintain his original position and was forced back.
While being forced back, this terrifying spear continued to rush over like a hot knife through b.u.t.ter.
Xu Qing suddenly opened his eyes and wanted to raise his hand to block it. However, the speed of this spear was too fast. Before Xu Qing could raise his arm, it had already stabbed Xu Qing’s chest.
When the spearhead came into contact with his body, Xu Qing trembled and was forced back again.
100 feet, 1,000 feet, 5,000 feet.
He was sent back for a long distance.
However, the spear couldn’t break through Xu Qing’s body, no matter how powerful it was. At that moment, when Xu Qing’s body retreated to 10,000 feet, the force finally weakened. He took a step back and stopped.
In an instant, the spearhead that stabbed into his chest shook and emitted cracking sounds.
Starting from the tip, the cracks continued to spread. Very soon, it spread to the spear body. Finally, with a loud sound, the spear… shattered.
The power of this spear had already reached the peak of the Soul Acc.u.mulation realm, but in the end, it still hadn’t reached the Ruler level.
The wind blew through the world. Xu Qing, who was standing there, calmly spoke.
“It’s finished.”
The surroundings were silent.
In the air, the old man looked at Xu Qing with a complicated expression. After a long time, he silently shook his head.
He turned and returned to the mountain.
Xu Qing walked forward and crossed ten thousand feet, arriving at the foot of the Ruler Mountain again. He took a step up the steps in front of him and sat down cross-legged, raising his head to look at the mountain.
He recalled his eldest senior brother’s usual att.i.tude and calmly spoke.
“I’ll sit here. If anyone below Ruler level and without using a Ruler-level treasure, can break through my defense in three days, it will be my loss!” On the Seventeenth Ruler Mountain, the cultivators were silent.
Even a cultivator at Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation Realm couldn’t break through Xu Qing’s defense. The other Soul Acc.u.mulation cultivators felt powerless.
It was meaningless to continue attacking.
As for Nine Worlds Soul Acc.u.mulation cultivators, there wasn’t just one of them on this mountain. However, through the battles earlier, they had already determined that Xu Qing’s lethality wasn’t enough, but his defense was too extreme.
Unless they imitated the other party and sat there asking the other party to attack them, they would be helpless against Xue Chenzi.
However, those with cultivation levels higher than Xue Chenzi couldn’t choose this option. It was equivalent to admitting that they were inferior…
Because the cultivation levels of both sides were unequal, it was reasonable for Xue Chenzi to not be able to break through their defense.
However, to them, relying on this method to obtain victory… was no different from failure.
In fact, it was very likely that they would lose even more reputation like this than if they lost.
Most importantly, although this looked like a battle between cultivators, in reality, it was a battle between Rulers and also a compet.i.tion between the eastern and western Demon Feather.
Hence, the entire Ruler Mountain fell silent.
Time flowed by and three days pa.s.sed.
The West Demon Feather was already in turmoil.
Xu Qing opened his eyes and stood up. Under the complicated gazes of the cultivators on this mountain, he walked toward the horizon, heading toward the Sixteenth Ruler Mountain.
After he got close, under the hostile gazes of the cultivators on the Sixteenth Ruler Mountain, Xu Qing sat cross-legged on the steps of the mountain and calmly spoke.
“You guys should know the rules.”
“If anyone below Ruler level and without using a Ruler-level treasure, can break through my defense in three days, it will be my loss!”
Three days later, Xu Qing shook his head and left.
During this period, several cultivators from this mountain attacked but they all failed. In the end, just like the Seventeenth Mountain, they chose to remain silent.
Hence, Xu Qing went to the Fifteenth Ruler Mountain and repeated the same action and words.
He stayed three days on every mountain. Half a month later, when his figure appeared on the Tenth Ruler Mountain, Xue Chenzi’s name had completely spread throughout the entire West Demon Feather.
Everyone knew about him and he became the focus of countless West Demon Feather cultivators.
Similarly, Xu Qing’s deeds in the West Demon Feather also spread back to the East Demon Feather.
The cultivators of the East Demon Feather were excited. Many of them even crossed the border and came to the West Demon Feather to witness everything with their own eyes.
At the same time, in the Immortal Arts Hall in the East Demon Feather.
Yue Dong sat cross-legged in a hall. The smell of blood from the outside world spread here.
Soon, the sound of footsteps echoed outside the hall. Yue Dong opened her beautiful eyes and stared outside.
A youth in a luxurious robe walked over quickly with an affectionate expression. He was holding a head in his hand.
When he got close to Yue Dong, the luxuriously-dressed youth spoke gently.
‘Dong’er, this old thief actually dares to question your ident.i.ty. I’ve already gotten rid of him for you. Don’t worry, with me around, no one in the East Demon Feather will dare to hurt you.”
“It’s just that… something happened.”
“You still remember Xue Chenzi, right? It’s all my fault. Last time, you could clearly have killed that scoundrel, but I disrupted you. Sigh.”
“I didn’t expect this scoundrel to gain an opportunity and become the follower of the Tenth Ruler. Now, he has spread his name in the West Demon Feather. d.a.m.n it!”
“But don’t worry, I’ll definitely help you kill this scoundrel and take his measly life!”
The luxuriously-dressed youth swore.
Yue Dong blinked and was stunned. During this time, someone had helped her deal with the power seizure of the Immortal Arts Hall, so she focused on studying the immortal arts she had obtained.
She didn’t know what was happening in the West Demon Feather.
Hearing these words, Yue Dong’s heart skipped a beat.
“Little Qing actually snuck to the Empress’ side? He even made a name for himself?”
At the thought that his junior brother’s limelight had overshadowed him again, Ermu took a deep breath. He felt immense pressure and inexplicably felt aggrieved.
“Weren’t they acting alone? How come they’re together now, leaving me behind?”