Chapter 236: Chapter 234: You Have No Chance!
Qin Li’s Divine Sense had been locked onto Pang Weiran the entire time. He finally sensed him enter a secret chamber, from which several powerful streams of Divine Sense swept back and forth. Only after they found nothing amiss did the people inside begin to speak.
An angry voice was the first to speak: "Sect Leader, everything is already prepared. Why are you doing this? Don’t tell me you intend to let that little bastard leave just like that? If so, the Thousand Kills Sect will surely become a laughingstock! And that’s the least of it. More importantly, that little bastard is clearly a peerless genius. Even I, at the peak of the Celestial Embracing Realm, can’t gauge his true depth. If we let him go today, the Thousand Kills Sect will surely suffer in the days to come!"
Qin Li recognized the voice as belonging to the white-haired elder.
At this moment, another aged voice spoke up: "That’s right. It’s just two letters from the Thousand Mechanism Sect and the Lin Family, isn’t it? What’s the big deal? We don’t even know if the letters are authentic. When the time comes, we can just claim they were forgeries! They don’t even have the tokens from those two families. Why should we have to swallow this insult in silence?"
The white-haired elder chimed in: "Sect Leader, my disciple is still grievously injured and hasn’t recovered. He’s been driven mad, acting like an imbecile all day. Even if I could swallow this slight, you know your own son, Sect Leader. Do you think he’ll give up on those two peerless beauties? And with the Young Sect Leader’s meager strength, how could he possibly be a match for Qin Li!"
Another voice rang out: "Yes, Sect Leader, give the order! Today is our only chance. If we miss it and let that kid escape, we’ll never get an opportunity like this again!"
Listening to this, Qin Li sneered inwardly. ’Your only chance? No, you don’t have a chance at all!’
At that moment, Pang Weiran’s voice finally sounded, tinged with a hint of weariness. "I can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong with this whole affair. How about... someone goes to Thousand Feet Peak and asks the Three Elders Jin, Yu, and Tie to come out?"
"Sect Leader, it seems to me that kid has scared you witless!"
The white-haired elder’s voice dripped with contempt. "Even though I can’t gauge that kid’s depth, who’s to say he isn’t just carrying some treasure that blocks Divine Sense? He’s just a boy. No matter how strong he is, how strong can he be? And those old geezers from the Qin Family are just four Celestial Embracing Realm cultivators. We have over a dozen Martial Artists at the Celestial Embracing Realm right here! Not to mention dozens more at the Celestial Integration Realm. Are you telling me we can’t even hold a few people like them?
"And you want to summon the Three Elders Jin, Yu, and Tie? What a joke! Are those three ancestors people we can disturb so easily? Besides, they’ve been on Thousand Feet Peak training Pang Wen. By now, Pang Wen has probably already reached the peak of the Celestial Integration Realm. In another year, he should be able to break through to the Celestial Embracing Realm! The entire Thousand Kills Sect is counting on Pang Wen to ascend to greatness at the Venerable tournament. If we go there rashly and disturb his cultivation, who can bear that responsibility?"
Pang Weiran’s brows knitted tightly together as he hesitated. "This..."
"Sect Leader, give the order! Don’t hesitate!"
"Yes, Sect Leader! They’re just a few pieces of trash. After we kill them, we’ll go to the Qin Family and use their lives to threaten them into handing over their Pill Formulas. The only reason those other families and sects allied with the Qin Family is because of their miraculous Pill Formulas, right? As long as we get our hands on them, we can also rise to power just as quickly!"
"That’s right, and we still have the Cui Family backing us..."
"Enough. Don’t mention the Cui Family again. They’re just trying to use us!" Pang Weiran finally made up his mind. In a low voice, he said, "Martial Uncle, you will take command with the Eighth Elder and Ninth Elder. Leave the two women. As for Qin Li, if you can spare his life, try to keep him alive. That kid has many secrets. I’ve long suspected that the Qin Family’s meteoric rise is directly related to him! As for the other four old bastards from the Qin Family, kill them! That unfathomable Spirit Beast, the Black Panther, kill it!"
The moment Pang Weiran’s voice fell, he suddenly felt a piercing pain in his mind and couldn’t help but let out a blood-curdling scream. The others in the room were thrown into a state of shock, and several immense auras and pressures erupted in an instant!
But no matter how they scanned the area, they couldn’t sense the slightest abnormality!
By now, Pang Weiran was clutching his head with both hands, writhing on the ground.
Everyone was dumbfounded. Although Pang Weiran’s strength wasn’t top-tier, he was still a Martial Artist at the Celestial Integration Realm. How could such a strange thing happen to him so suddenly?
Especially in this secret chamber, more than thirty meters underground!
The surrounding walls were all cast from bronze. Forget about Qin Li and his group, not even a Venerable Realm Martial Artist could break in so easily!
"Sect Leader, Sect Leader, what’s wrong?"
"What’s happened to the Sect Leader?"
"Nothing like this has ever happened in our Thousand Kills Sect! Could it be... he was suddenly poisoned?"
At this point, Pang Weiran was trembling uncontrollably on the floor. The elders all looked at each other, suddenly at a loss. Just then, the white-haired elder let out a furious roar, and a burst of light erupted from between his eyebrows!
The ball of light was incredibly blinding, and the other elders in the secret chamber felt a sudden, sharp pain in their eyes.
"Not good! A Great Power is indeed attacking us!"
"A Venerable!" someone finally stammered, uttering a word that terrified them all.
That’s right. Without being in the Venerable Realm, who could possibly execute such a terrifying attack from such a great distance?
The white-haired elder wasn’t heavily injured, but he was utterly terrified. A moment ago, he had been thinking that they absolutely must not disturb the Three Elders Jin, Yu, and Tie. Now, he wished he could sprout wings and fly to Thousand Feet Peak to bring those three ancestors back as reinforcements!
Meanwhile, a cold smirk touched Qin Li’s lips. ’If you plan to kill, you should be prepared to be killed!’ He felt not a shred of guilt for what he did to the Sect Leader of the Thousand Kills Sect.
"Let’s go!" Qin Li took the lead and walked out. Xiaohai followed close behind, with Shangguan Shiyu and Linghu Feiyue after him. The four Qin Family elders brought up the rear.
The moment the group stepped outside, they saw Pangqi standing there with a cold smile, flanked by eight elders.
"We haven’t even had the chance to entertain you properly. Why the rush to leave? Qin Li, you can go, but these two women must stay behind for me!" Pangqi’s expression was as smug as could be. He gave a casual order to the elders beside him: "Take them!"
"Pangqi, you’ve got some nerve! Even your father didn’t dare to make things difficult for us. Aren’t you afraid of your entire sect being annihilated?" Qin Li put on a brave front, shouting loudly as he gripped a Mid-grade Spirit Stone in each hand.
Behind him, Shangguan Shiyu also gripped a Mid-grade Spirit Stone in one hand, her expression calm as she faced the group before them.
Let there be storms of blood or mountains of daggers and seas of fire. As long as she could be with Qin Li, she was fearless!
"Your entire sect annihilated? By a trashy little family like the Qin Family? HAHA, stop dreaming!" Pangqi said, his handsome face filled with scornful mockery. "Wake up, Qin Li. You’re just a little bastard from the secular world. Profound Island is no place for someone like you to stand! In your next life, try to be reborn into a better family! Kill them!"
Pangqi held the Patriarch Token. The elders had been lying in ambush for half the day, eager for action, while the Patriarch had gone off to a secret chamber to confer with several Supreme Elders.
Now that Pangqi held the Patriarch Token, they naturally assumed a decision had been made. The eight elders lunged, each moving to kill a member of Qin Li’s group.
Xiaohai let out a sudden roar. His aura exploded forth as he charged toward the strongest-looking elder!
The eight elders at Pangqi’s side were indeed extraordinarily powerful!
When they stood still, they were unassuming, but when they moved, they struck with the force of a thunderbolt! Their steps were swift as lightning, their attacks vicious. In a flash, they were upon Qin Li and the others.
Pangqi stood there, composed and confident, an arrogant expression on his face. His eyes were fixed on Shangguan Shiyu and Linghu Feiyue as he shouted, "Elders, whatever you do, don’t hurt those two women! I have great use for them!"
Qin Li and Shangguan Shiyu exchanged a look and simultaneously activated the Suppression Technique!
A heaven-shattering pressure, like a massive lid descending from the sky, pressed down, its target locked directly onto the eight elders!
The figures of the eight Thousand Kills Sect elders froze abruptly in mid-air. Their confident expressions were suddenly replaced with shock. The air seemed to become incredibly viscous, making even the slightest movement immensely difficult!
In a battle between experts, a single blink of an eye can decide countless things. What’s more, the Qin Family ancestors had already reached the Celestial Embracing Realm, a level where life and death could be decided in an instant!
First was Xiaohai. Unaffected, his body lunged toward the elder charging at him. An Ice Arrow pierced the man’s Dantian, and like a black bolt of lightning, Xiaohai shot forward and tore out the elder’s throat with his teeth!
At the same time, the four Qin Family ancestors moved with incredible speed, cutting down the other seven Celestial Embracing Realm elders with their swords!
They knew that every extra second meant the pressure on Qin Li and Shangguan Shiyu would multiply!
The so-called Suppression Technique worked by extracting Spiritual Power from Spirit Stones and, through a peculiar method of circulation, instantly converting it into a heaven-shattering Primordial Power to suppress an opponent. It could be used as an indiscriminate, area-of-effect attack, which exerted less pressure on the user. However, an indiscriminate attack was almost no different from not using the technique at all, unless it was for the purpose of escaping.
If it was a targeted attack, however, the user of the Suppression Technique would have to endure a nearly equal amount of pressure!
And indeed, in the blink of an eye, eight Celestial Embracing Realm elders from the Thousand Kills Sect had fallen. At the same moment, both Qin Li and Shangguan Shiyu spat out a mouthful of blood.
Over on the side, the Little Fox, who had long since come to despise Pangqi for harassing her with filthy language over the past few days, viciously kicked him in the Dantian. Pangqi’s pitiful Pill Core instantly shattered! He died in a flash!
The ridiculous thing was, at the moment of his death, the lecherous, despicable smile had not yet fully faded from his face!
Qin Li gasped for breath. "I told you... you didn’t have a chance! Let’s go!"
The Little Fox grabbed Shangguan Shiyu under one arm, and Qin Haiyang grabbed Qin Li. The group shot off like a bolt of lightning toward the main gates of the Thousand Kills Sect!
