Chapter 385: Chapter 385: Slaying the Earth Spirit Realm
Hearing this, Qingwa couldn’t help but burst into laughter, as if he’d just heard the most ridiculous joke.
"Hahaha, kill me? And you’re going to do it before he gets up here? Chu Qingyun, you’re a bit too full of yourself!"
"Whether I am or not, you’re about to find out..."
Chu Qingyun chuckled softly, controlling the ten vines of his Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine to lash away Qingwa’s Soul Technique.
"Thrusting Sword Technique!"
Seizing the opportunity, a cold glint flashed in Chu Qingyun’s eyes as he instantly unleashed the second form of the Celestial Sword Three Techniques: the Thrusting Sword Technique.
Chu Qingyun’s entire body blurred into a series of afterimages, while the Strange Sword, wreathed in Thunder Light Sword Qi, became a single streak of light.
A sword strike of ultimate speed!
Qingwa’s pupils shrank to pinpricks. In that instant, he felt the true threat of death!
His body instinctively dodged just a fraction, but the sword had already arrived.
Silently, the sword pierced through his chest.
Qingwa coughed up a great gout of Martial Soul Power. He clutched his chest and stumbled back more than a dozen steps, his entire aura weakening considerably.
The Thrusting Sword Technique was more than just a simple piercing attack.
The thrust contained immense power. A single move had been enough to severely injure Qingwa, an expert of the Earth Spirit Realm!
However, Chu Qingyun merely frowned slightly and sighed to himself.
’He’s an Earth Spirit Realm expert, after all. He sensed the danger in time to react and dodge a little.’
’I was originally aiming for his head with that strike.’
’I never expected him to dodge. To ensure the hit, I had no choice but to adjust at the last second and aim for his chest.’
"Cough... hack..." Qingwa wheezed like a broken bellows, his eyes dark as he glared at Chu Qingyun. "Chu Qingyun, I never thought you had a move like that. But an attack like that can’t come without a price, can it? You’re about to die!"
As an Earth Spirit Realm expert, Qingwa had enough experience to know that a technique of such power couldn’t be used casually.
And indeed, Chu Qingyun’s right arm had begun to tremble painfully.
But he didn’t seem to care at all. With a mere thought, he silently released the suppression on the small green dot on his right arm. A stream of emerald power flowed out from it, suffusing his arm.
In the span of a single breath, Chu Qingyun’s right arm was completely restored, the pain entirely gone.
"You managed to dodge last time. Let’s see you dodge this."
"Thrusting Sword Technique!"
Staring at Qingwa with an icy gaze, Chu Qingyun charged forward once more, unleashing the Thrusting Sword Technique again.
"No, impossible...!"
Before his words could fade, his head was pierced by the Thunder Light Sword Qi, killing him instantly!
BANG! Qingwa exploded into a cloud of Martial Soul Power.
A Fourth-level Martial Spirit, even one severely injured, was not to be underestimated. To avoid being caught in a pincer attack, Chu Qingyun was willing to risk using the Thrusting Sword Technique a second time to eliminate Qingwa before the other Fourth-level Martial Spirit arrived.
And just then, the other Fourth-level Martial Spirit finally leaped onto the city wall.
Seeing the cloud of Martial Soul Power, the Fourth-level Martial Spirit’s expression changed, and he couldn’t help but cry out in shock, "Qingwa... is dead? How is that possible!"
When he had rushed to the edge of the wall, he had seen Qingwa locked in a fierce, evenly-matched battle with Chu Qingyun.
But by the time he leaped onto the wall, Qingwa was already dead, reduced to a cloud of Martial Soul Power!
"Hmph. No need to be surprised. You’re next," Chu Qingyun said with a cold snort.
Another stream of emerald power was absorbed by his right arm, quickly repairing the damage from the previous overload.
The newly arrived Fourth-level Martial Spirit’s eyes flickered, a hint of fear now present in his gaze toward Chu Qingyun.
’My strength is about the same as Qingwa’s. If even Qingwa died at his hands, I probably wouldn’t fare any better.’
’Anyway, Yan told us to come up and kill all the Great Xia Dragon Guards. I might as well go kill the others first and leave this kid for Yan and his men to deal with...’
With that thought, the man suddenly turned and charged toward the thirty-odd other Great Xia Dragon Guards.
"Damn it."
"Thrusting Sword Technique!"
Seeing the man about to attack the others, Chu Qingyun’s expression changed slightly. He immediately used the ten vines of his Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine to intercept him.
Then, he pounced from behind, unhesitatingly using the Thrusting Sword Technique.
SQUELCH!
The sword pierced through his head.
The Fourth-level Martial Spirit’s body trembled, then exploded into a cloud of Martial Soul Power with a POOF.
He died without ever knowing how it happened!
Looking at the cloud of Martial Soul Power before him, Chu Qingyun shook his head helplessly. ’What a waste,’ he thought with a sigh.
’All that Primordial Power from two Fourth-level Martial Spirits, wasted just like that.’
’But it couldn’t be helped. At my current strength, even if I used my Devouring Power, I might not have been able to completely suppress a Fourth-level Martial Spirit. Worse, I would have risked exposing my Devouring Martial Soul.’
After using the Thrusting Sword Technique three times in a row, Chu Qingyun’s right arm was soon wracked with excruciating pain, far more intense than before!
Streams of emerald power flowed from the green dot on his inner forearm and were rapidly absorbed by his right arm.
Under waves of an icy-cool sensation, the sharp pain in his arm quickly dissipated.
But Chu Qingyun noticed that restoring his arm this time had consumed more emerald power than the previous two times combined!
Furthermore, the color of the green dot had faded considerably.
In fact, he had sensed after the second use that the emerald power consumption seemed higher than the first time. However, the increase had been slight and nowhere near as obvious as this time, so he hadn’t paid it much mind.
Unleashing the Thrusting Sword Technique was a massive overload on his body.
It was like pulling consecutive all-nighters. Pull one, and you might just feel tired. Pull two, and you’d be exhausted. Pull three, and you’d likely pass out. This kind of overload on the body caused exponentially greater damage the more it was repeated.
Below the city wall, seeing Chu Qingyun successively slay Qingwa and the other Fourth-level Martial Spirit, both Xu Baolin and the three from Flame Wolf were utterly astonished.
But Xu Baolin’s heart immediately filled with delight.
’My evaluation of Chu Qingyun was already very high, but I never imagined he would be so much more powerful than I estimated!’
’Killing an Earth Spirit Realm expert while only at the Third-level Martial Spirit Realm... a genius like that would be considered top-tier, even among the great sects.’
At that moment, the two Fifth-level Martial Spirits, Tu Gen and Han Jian, suddenly cried out anxiously.
"Yan, use your True Martial Soul! I can’t hold on much longer!"
"My time is almost up, too!"
As a method for erupting with power, the True Martial Soul could only be sustained for a limited time.
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