Chapter 370: Chapter 370: Attacking the County City
"C-can I ask you one last question? Why do you have so many Martial Souls?"
One of the last two men asked, his voice trembling.
After witnessing Chu Qingyun’s terrifying methods—ones he couldn’t easily show others—the two of them had despaired. They didn’t even have the will to run anymore.
"You’re about to die. Is there any point in asking so many questions?"
Chu Qingyun chuckled, darted forward, and grabbed the two men. The Devouring Power in his palms erupted, and he quickly consumed their Primordial Power and Martial Soul Power.
He had single-handedly and effortlessly slain eighteen Tier Three Martial Spirits, plus eighteen Tier Three Flying Demon Beasts.
After this battle, Chu Qingyun was filled with a sense of exhilarating satisfaction. From the inside out, he felt refreshed and invigorated.
He clearly possessed so many Martial Souls and Soul Techniques, yet the only one he could regularly use was the Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine!
But in this battle, there was no one else around.
So, Chu Qingyun had deliberately cycled through and used every single one of his Martial Soul Techniques!
It definitely wasn’t the most efficient way to fight, but it was by far the most satisfying and exhilarating!
The Devouring Martial Soul consumed eighteen Tier Three Martial Souls. They were all quite ordinary, so Chu Qingyun didn’t plan on keeping them. He used the Martial Soul Power from seven of the Tier Three Martial Souls to upgrade his Iron Wall Martial Soul to Tier Four.
’After the Iron Wall, I’ll strengthen the Shadow Martial Soul next!’
His remaining Martial Souls were sufficient for his current needs, so Chu Qingyun chose to enhance the one he used most frequently: the Shadow Martial Soul.
The Martial Soul Power from eight Tier Three Martial Souls strengthened the Shadow Martial Soul to 53% of the way to its next upgrade.
Besides the gains for his Martial Souls, when Chu Qingyun used the Great Devouring Palm to consume the six Demon Beasts, he obtained another six of those dark-red Elixir Pills.
They were identical to the one he had found before. Chu Qingyun still had no idea what they were for, so he stored them in his Storage Ring for now.
In addition, there were four Demon Beast corpses on the mountain that had been killed by his Black Arrow Martial Soul.
The Primordial Power within the Demon Beasts had surely dissipated. Chu Qingyun took out his Strange Sword and easily broke open the four Demon Beasts’ heads.
His luck was decent; one of them had a Tier Three Demon Core in its head.
After collecting the Demon Core, he looked at the four massive Demon Beast corpses. Chu Qingyun hesitated for a moment before deciding to use his Devouring Power to consume the flesh and blood of the four Tier Three Demon Beasts, creating another four dark-red Elixir Pills.
Although he still didn’t know what they were used for, judging by how his body had absorbed a small amount of their energy the first time, they couldn’t be anything bad.
So, he decided to keep them for now. He might discover their purpose in the future.
The battle between over thirty Small Spirit Realm experts had nearly flattened the entire mountain, causing a huge commotion.
Chu Qingyun leaped across the cliffs carved out by the battle, landing on a nearby, relatively intact mountain. From there, he looked toward Chu Family Village and saw dim lights flickering in many houses. Some people seemed to have come outside, staring in the direction of the earlier fight.
After a moment’s hesitation, Chu Qingyun shook his head and turned to leave.
It was so late; he didn’t want to enter the village again.
Besides, his parents and other important family members were in the County City. In such chaotic and turbulent times, he wanted to hurry back to them.
According to the Tier Four Martial Artist from before, the Martial Soul Hall’s Tier Three Martial Spirits had only found Chu Family Village by pure coincidence—someone who happened to know about it had spoken up.
With the decisive battle between the Martial Soul Hall and the Great Xia Dragon Guards imminent, they probably wouldn’t divert their attention to deal with a small place like Chu Family Village again.
He summoned back his Tier Three Flying Demon Beast, fed it some Primordial Spirit Liquid and food, and flew toward the County City through the rain that very night.
He wasn’t in a particular hurry on the way back.
He rested three times along the way. On the morning of the third day, as Chu Qingyun sat on the Flying Demon Beast’s back, he could faintly make out the massive silhouette of the County City.
As he flew closer, however, Chu Qingyun suddenly sensed that something was wrong. He could faintly hear the sounds of battle coming from the direction of Lianshan County City.
’Has something happened to the County City?’
Chu Qingyun frowned, stood up on the Flying Demon Beast’s back, and urged it to fly toward the County City at a greater speed.
The Tier Three Flying Demon Beast was extremely fast, and the outline of the County City rapidly grew larger in Chu Qingyun’s vision.
Soon, he could see clearly that a fierce battle seemed to be taking place at the southern wall of the County City.
As Chu Qingyun flew over the city wall on his Demon Beast, the Devouring Martial Soul in his Qi Sea suddenly began to tremble slightly.
’People from the Martial Soul Hall!’
A cold glint flashed in Chu Qingyun’s eyes.
He saw many Tier One Martial Spirits from the Martial Soul Hall coordinating their efforts to leap onto the city wall from below, where they battled against the Small Spirit Realm experts of the Great Xia Dragon Guards.
The County City’s walls were over twenty meters high and four to five meters thick. Combined with the structures on top, there was barely enough space for even two Small Spirit Realm experts to fight.
A wall over twenty meters high was utterly impossible for ordinary people, or even those in the Martial Master Realm, to scale.
For those in the Martial Spirit Realm, however, it was possible to get up by coordinating with each other.
However, just as Chu Qingyun’s Demon Beast flew over the wall, many of the Great Xia Dragon Guards in the Small Spirit Realm launched attacks at him. A barrage of Soul Techniques and Primordial Power blasts whistled toward the Demon Beast as it passed through the air.
No fewer than a dozen attacks startled the Tier Three Demon Beast so much that all its feathers stood on end.
’What the hell...’
Speechless, Chu Qingyun unleashed his Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine Martial Soul. Its ten vines whipped out rapidly, blocking all the incoming attacks.
Seeing a Demon Beast charge into the city, a dozen or so Small Spirit Realm experts from both on top of and behind the wall immediately rushed into the city, quickly pursuing Chu Qingyun.
’This is... They’ve mistaken me for someone from the Martial Soul Hall...’
Chu Qingyun thought for a moment and understood the misunderstanding.
The Martial Soul Hall also had a number of tamed Flying Demon Beasts. It was a strategy they would likely consider: using the beasts to fly into the city and attack from two sides.
"Stop attacking! I’m Chu Qingyun of the Great Xia Dragon Guards’ Celestial Wind Army!"
Chu Qingyun shouted at the dozen or so Small Spirit Realm experts, controlling the Flying Demon Beast to land slowly on a wide street.
With a Martial Spirit Level battle raging outside, basically no one in the city was out on the streets. Whether they were ordinary people, Martial Artists, or Martial Masters, everyone was obediently hiding in their homes.
A battle of this magnitude was completely beyond their ability to interfere with.
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