Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Blood Dyes Sea Lizard Island

The weather changed when night fell; it became just as unpredictable as the deep sea itself.

Around Sea Lizard Lightning, thunder rumbled in the sky and streaks of lightning flashed between the clouds.

A storm was coming.

As lightning flashed, atop the tallest mountain peak on Sea Lizard Island, a mad slaughter had broken out.

Three divinity-touched lizard skins were enough to make loose cultivators put everything on the line.

As the sounds of battle and the rumbles of thunder overlapped, surging killing intent filled Xu Qing’s eyes. He slammed into a Departurist Church cultivator, shoving that person backward.

Xu Qing ignored the Departurist Church cultivator’s counterattack and also ignored the spells falling on his body. The iron skewer in his hand stabbed through the opponent’s heart six times in a row.

Each blow made the Departurist Church cultivator tremble violently. The next moment, as countless spells were about to strike him, Xu Qing’s body flickered and he instantly moved away. The spells all fell on the Departurist Church cultivator’s dead body, blowing it to pieces.

As soon as Xu Qing retreated, four alien Sea Ghost cultivators rushed over. They relied on their physical strength to surround him and attack desperately.

There was also the burly Sea Ghost cultivator with the ghastly face on his chest. A huge ball of blood appeared between his hands and turned into a blood-colored bat that flew towards Xu Qing. Its mouth was full of sharp teeth, and once a person was bitten, even if they didn’t die, they would still be heavily injured.

Sensing danger, Xu Qing controlled his talisman treasure to form a barrier to resist the attack of the blood bat and those Sea Ghost cultivators. Using the counterforce of their blows, he backed up quickly and headed straight for three Departurist Church cultivators who were rushing over from behind him.

His goal was very clear. Kill all the Departurist Church cultivators first!

The reason he targeted the Departurist Church was because they were the ones who posed the greatest threat to him.

The Departurist Church was indifferent not only to the lives of others but also to their own lives, making them incredibly difficult opponents.

As Xu Qing retreated, a sea of flames burst out. However, the three Departurist Church cultivators didn’t hesitate at all, continuing to charge forward and instantly colliding with Xu Qing. It was as if they were trying to wound him even at the cost of their own lives.

With a bang, one of the three Departurist Church cultivators had his chest caved in, and the other’s forehead was cleanly pierced by the iron skewer. However, the first one firmly hugged Xu Qing’s waist and the second tightly grasped the iron skewer, not giving Xu Qing the chance to pull back.

As for the last person, he showed emotion for the first time. His eyes glowed with the light of fanaticism.

“Departurism!” With a shout, his entire body began to burn, turning into a dazzling spear of light that shot at Xu Qing at an astonishing speed.

In an instant, the spear of light arrived in front of Xu Qing.

A cold light suddenly appeared in Xu Qing’s eyes, and the 90-meter spiritual sea within his body exploded outwards, appearing outside his body and sweeping in all directions.

The corpses of the two dead Departurist Church cultivators were pulverized instantly when it touched them. Even the cultivators who were rushing over to him couldn’t help being knocked back.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Qing’s body suddenly twisted sideways. The blazing spear of light filled with a destructive aura just barely glanced past his chest.

Although it wasn’t a direct hit, this glancing blow still ripped his clothes and turned his flesh into a bloody mess.

Panting heavily, Xu Qing retreated 15 meters before coming to a stop. His whole body bent as his right foot stomped heavily on the ground. Like an arrow leaving the bowstring, he shot out again.

An afterimage remained in his previous position, but his real body instantly appeared in front of another Departurist Church cultivator, whose eyes also burned with fanaticism.

“Departurism!” With a boom, he blew himself up.

Now, there were only three people remaining from the Departurist Church’s group.

One didn’t move, but the other two quickly rushed over to Xu Qing.

Their eyes were just as fanatical as the others, and they also chose to blow themselves up.

The Sea Ghost Association also grew anxious, and the remaining dozen or so cultivators immediately attacked as well. They all unleashed their trump cards, even pulling out three talisman treasures to suppress Xu Qing.

That wasn’t all. The loose cultivators who were originally watching from the side, as well as some others who had come from the other mountains, all had burning gazes. They crept closer and some of them even attacked as well.

Xu Qing seemed to be in great danger. As the three Departurist Church cultivators self-destructed, the Sea Ghost cultivators attacked, and the talisman treasures activated, Xu Qing’s location was instantly submerged in dust and explosions.

However, before the dust could settle, Xu Qing rushed out like lightning.

A yellow barrier shone outside his body. It was formed by another talisman treasure.

There was also a flight talisman plastered on his leg.

Xu Qing’s speed now far exceeded what he had shown before, and he flew directly into the crowd with boundless killing intent. In the blink of an eye, he viciously collided with a loose cultivator that was holding a dagger.

With a miserable scream, the loose cultivator’s body collapsed. Xu Qing didn’t stop, grabbing the loose cultivator’s dagger and continuing to charge through the crowd.

Blood was trickling out of the corner of his mouth, and the Seven Blood Pupils Daoist robe on his body was in tatters. However, the coldness in his eyes didn’t decrease in the slightest.

Wherever he passed, miserable screams would ring out, and corpses would fall to the ground one after another. Blood flowed everywhere, dyeing the soil of the mountain red.

Several Sea Ghost cultivators died with their heads flying off their bodies as Xu Qing flashed by.

This brutal massacre continued until the remaining Departurist Church cultivator and the burly man from the Sea Ghost Association joined forces to stop Xu Qing.

As these two people bombarded Xu Qing with spells, Xu Qing pierced the chest of a nearby loose cultivator before retreating. Landing on a large boulder, he squatted down and scanned the surroundings with a cold gaze to see how many cultivators were left.

There was a single Departurist Church cultivator remaining who seemed to be the leader.

As for the Sea Ghost Association, including the burly man with the ghastly face on his chest, there were four people in total.

As Xu Qing retracted his gaze, blood dripped down the blade of his dagger, merging with the pools of blood on the ground.

With the flight talisman on him, it wasn’t impossible for Xu Qing to simply fly away. However, flying away wouldn’t quell the killing intent of all the cultivators here.

Xu Qing’s principles made him refuse to leave. He had to get rid of as many threats to his life as possible.

At that moment, there were more than 40 corpses scattered around, and the aura of death created a powerful deterrent. The scattered loose cultivators didn’t dare to keep fighting and retreated one after another.

Xu Qing frowned slightly.

He had no intentions of letting any of them leave. Even if their cultivation base was negligible, Xu Qing still felt that they could be a hidden danger, so he was about to move to stop them.

But at that moment, the remaining Departurist Church cultivator suddenly opened his mouth.

“I only want one lizard skin. Give it to me, and after I make my report, you will gain the friendship of my Departurist Church!”

“I also only want one. If you refuse… In your current state, your life and death aren’t so certain.” A sharp voice came from the face on the burly Sea Ghost cultivator’s chest. The red light in its eyes had become even more intense.

Xu Qing ignored them. The flight talisman shone, and he charged straight towards the loose cultivators fleeing in the distance. In an instant, he neared them with blinding speed, sending heads flying into the air with a swing of his dagger.

Just as he was about to continue killing, the Departurist Church and Sea Ghost Association chose to join forces and rushed at him together.

The Departurist Church cultivator’s black robe had loosened, revealing a middle-aged face and ice-cold eyes. Astonishing fluctuations rolled off his body.

His aura surpassed the peak of Qi Condensation and even seemed not far away from Foundation Establishment.

A thick black fog appeared behind him. With a wave of his hand, the rolling fog churned and formed a huge stele.

This stele was filled with cracked, and there were countless dead souls struggling inside the cracks. However, looking closely, the stele was actually extremely blurry. Clearly, with this person’s cultivation, he couldn’t fully manifest the stele and could only borrow its form.

With a wave of his hand, the illusory stele charged straight at Xu Qing.

On the other side, the burly Sea Ghost cultivator let out a sharp roar. His body instantly withered, but the face on his chest turned ruddy and the red light in its eyes became even more intense. The face soon turned completely red and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The mouthful of blood immediately turned into a blood sword that carried a dense baleful aura as it shot toward Xu Qing.

The rest of the Sea Ghost cultivators also unleashed their trump cards one after another.

In this moment of crisis, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and suddenly raised his right hand to point toward the sky. Purple light instantly appeared from his body and converged above his head, forming a huge blade.

This blade was 30 meters long and 10 meters wide. Its whole body shone with purple light, and the sharp edge emitted a terrifying chill!

It was like a heavenly blade, emitting an unspeakable Dao rhythm as it floated in midair. It was as if it contained the laws of the world, pressing down with an earth-shattering aura.

As soon as this blade appeared, the Sea Ghost leader’s expression suddenly changed.

“He comprehended a Dao spell in Qi Condensation?? What the f\*ck… that isn’t something a Qi Condensation cultivator can comprehend!!!” As he shouted, he suddenly retreated.

The Departurist Church cultivator also trembled violently, his complexion instantly turning pale.

Xu Qing expressionlessly chopped downwards.

An earth-shattering boom echoed as the purple blade in the sky suddenly slashed down, falling directly towards the basin. Everything in its path was instantly destroyed!

The blood sword shattered to nothingness.

The black stele collapsed and burst open.

With a boom, a huge blade mark appeared in the earth, slicing the basin cleanly in half. The Departurist Church cultivator was also cleanly sliced in half.

He stared blankly at Xu Qing for a moment before his body burst open and blood splattered everywhere.

The burly Sea Ghost cultivator trembled with despair in his eyes. He tried to look down, but before he could, his body directly split in two at the waist and he breathed his last. The face on his chest had also turned lifeless.

At the same time, the remaining Sea Ghost cultivators all split apart and the pieces of their corpses fell to the ground.

Silence suddenly descended on the battlefield. Only the thunder in the sky could be heard as well as… the pitter-patter of rain, which finally began to fall at this moment.

Heavy rain poured on the ground, but even this rain couldn’t was away the blood in a short period of time.

Xu Qing panted as raindrops fell on him. His body was covered with injuries, and although most of them were visibly healing, there were still some grievous wounds that couldn’t be healed immediately.

This battle hadn’t been easy for him. There were too many enemies.

At that moment, he turned his head to look at the trembling alien cultivator in the straw raincoat and the elephant-trunked man not far away.

“We didn’t do anything!”

“From the very beginning, we didn’t make a single move!!” The pair trembled under Xu Qing’s gaze.

Xu Qing didn’t speak, retracting his gaze and looking at the fleeing loose cultivators in the distance. They had once attacked Xu Qing, but as soon as things went awry they all ran away.

Xu Qing didn’t chase them, only staring at them coldly. Before they could leave the island, those loose cultivators let out miserable screams one after another. Their bodies turned greenish-black as their poison acted up and they fell to the ground, dead.

This scene made the alien in the straw raincoat and the elephant-trunked burly man tremble even more.

Xu Qing ignored them and grabbed the air with his right hand. Suddenly, the black skewer flew towards him and landed in his hand. With another wave of his hand, it flew out again and nimbly weaved its way through the corpses.

Just in case someone was trying to play dead, Xu Qing dealt the finishing blows.

The alien cultivator in the straw raincoat and the elephant-trunked man nervously backed away. After retreating far away and finding that Xu Qing didn’t pay them any attention, as if he was letting them go, they felt relieved, but they continued to run away hastily. They didn’t truly breathe a sigh of relief until they had descended the mountain and entered the jungle.

However, the greed in their hearts couldn’t be extinguished so easily. At that moment, each of them secretly took out a jade slip, wanting to inform some big bosses outside before Xu Qing took the opportunity to escape.

But before they could send their voice transmissions, two cold light whistled from behind them, piercing their necks while their expressions changed drastically.

They died instantly.

Xu Qing calmly withdrew his gaze. He knew that although there weren’t any Foundation Establishment cultivators on Sea Lizard Island, that didn’t meant that there were no Foundation Establishment cultivators in nearby sea regions. These two people’s action of trying to send voice transmissions after fleeing a short distance was extremely suspicious, and he was almost certain that they were trying to inform someone.

A normal person would be too busy running away to send voice transmissions.

Xu Qing cleaned up his dagger while looting the battlefield.

Soon, he raised his head to look at the corpses on the ground. Suddenly, the shadow beneath his feet shot out and lifted three loose cultivators who were pretending to be dead.

Crack! Their necks were instantly broken before they could beg for mercy, and they died of mutation immediately afterwards.

At the same time, the lifeless face on the chest of the burly Sea Ghost cultivator suddenly opened its eyes. It instantly turned into a blood-colored goblin and rushed out.

The method it used was unknown, but it didn’t hesitated to expend energy to fly into the air. It was so fast that in the next instant, it had already left the island and flew over the sea, frantically fleeing into the distance.

Xu Qing looked at it coldly and finally spoke for the first time since the battle started.

"Forbidden Sea Dragonwhale!"

The surface of the sea next to Sea Lizard Island instantly exploded, and a plesiosaur hundreds of meters long burst into the air, devouring the blood-colored goblin in one gulp!

Its massive body blotted out the moonlight as the surroundings were filled with the distinctive smell of the sea. After swallowing the red goblin, its body crashed against the surface of the sea before sinking down once more.

The sea rumbled, and waves churned.

The rain grew heavier.

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