Chapter 325: Chapter 323: Playing You to Collapse!
Cui Buping’s eyes held a hint of madness. He stared at Qin Li, a hoarse laugh escaping his throat. "Qin Li, oh, Qin Li. Did you really think I was talking about *these* things when I mentioned my wealth?"
As he spoke, Cui Buping gestured at the treasures in the basement. "That’s right. Any single item in this secret room is priceless! But the real treasure is this Ancient Map in my hand! Qin Li, I’m going to destroy it right now! You can forget about ever getting your hands on it! HAHAHAHA!"
Amid his maniacal laughter, he pulled out the Ancient Map and, with both hands, began to tear at it furiously.
Even with a destroyed Dantian, a Martial Artist of the Venerable Realm possessed enough physical strength to shatter stone tablets! In his mind, tearing a mere map should be effortless, right?
Unfortunately, Cui Buping had underestimated the toughness of the Ancient Map. Although the Cui Family had possessed it for many years, they had likely treated it as a precious treasure. Why would they have ever thought to test its durability?
Qin Li stood there with a cold smile, watching as Cui Buping’s face contorted while he ripped at the map in his hands. A flush crept over Cui Buping’s pale face as he strained with all his might, yet he couldn’t damage the map in the slightest. His eyes filled with disbelief as he exclaimed, "This... how is this possible? How can it not tear?"
"And here I thought you were just ignorant. Did you really think a map that’s been around for a hundred thousand years could be so easily destroyed by you?" Qin Li watched Cui Buping with a mocking expression, not moving an inch.
Cui Buping was filled with hatred. He roared madly, "Why? Why is this happening?"
A black shadow flashed, and the map appeared in the Snake Woman’s hand. She glanced at it, realized she couldn’t understand it, and pursed her lips. Swaying her hips, she walked back and handed the map to Qin Li.
Qin Li took it and found that its texture was identical to the one he already possessed. He knew this was the map that could drive the entire Profound Island into a frenzy. Under Cui Buping’s venomous glare, Qin Li casually put the map away. Then, he looked at the room full of treasures and used his Spiritual Power to open his Storage Ring, only to discover that the space inside the black ring on his hand had grown larger again!
Inside, various Spirit Flowers and Herbs grew lushly. The red Vermilion Fruit plant had many new flower buds, all enveloped in dense Spiritual Qi. The Nine-Turned White Jade Lotus was also growing well in its stone trough. The only regret was that the ring couldn’t sustain living creatures. In his spare time, Qin Li had run a few experiments and found that any living thing could only survive inside for about two hours.
This was a bit of a disappointment to Qin Li, but fortunately, the corpses of Spirit Beasts wouldn’t decay in the ring. For inanimate objects, time inside the ring seemed to stand still.
But Qin Li couldn’t understand why those Spirit Flowers and Herbs could continue to grow perfectly fine inside the ring.
Watching Qin Li take away the treasures in the basement one by one, Cui Buping’s heart was bleeding. At the same time, he was astounded by the capacity of Qin Li’s Storage Magical Treasure.
He had never seen any Storage Magical Treasure that could hold so many things.
"Qin Li, you animal, you bastard! You’ll die a horrible death!" Cui Buping cursed loudly, his eyes filled with venomous hatred as he stared at Qin Li.
Qin Li completely ignored him and continued to load treasures into his ring.
"Qin Li, you animal who’ll bear sons with no assholes! I curse you to have no descendants! I curse all the women of the Qin Family to be..."
A sharp SLAP!
The Snake Woman viciously slapped Cui Buping across the face, forcing him to swallow the rest of his words. She said harshly, "Enough. Shut up! Only the weak ramble on and on!"
Blood trickled from the corner of Cui Buping’s mouth. A crazed light flashed in his eyes as he suddenly threw his head back and laughed. "I’d like to see how you’re going to leave this basement!"
A faint blue mist suddenly began to rise from all corners of the basement, quickly growing thicker.
"This poison is a mixture of the ten most venomous insects and eight most poisonous Spirit Grasses on Profound Island! There is no antidote! HAHAHAHA! You damned couple, you can die with me! HAHAHAHA... HAHAHA!"
Cui Buping laughed with extreme delight, tears streaming from his eyes. He had finally gotten this damned couple to lower their guard and had launched his devastating attack.
With this deadly poison, even if you held your breath, a single drop on the skin was enough to be fatal. Even a Great Power at the Shattered Void realm couldn’t escape!
Because back in the Ancient Era, an ancestor of the Cui Family had used this very poison to kill a Martial Artist at the Shattered Void realm. Once afflicted, neither Cultivating to force out the poison nor making heroic sacrifices... nothing worked.
The outcome was a single word—death!
But to Cui Buping’s astonishment, Qin Li just stood there, continuing to rapidly collect the treasures in the basement. He hadn’t even released an ounce of his Protective Gang Qi!
Cui Buping watched with his own eyes as the poisonous mist enveloped Qin Li, but Qin Li acted as if nothing was wrong...
Even more outrageous, the woman in black glanced at him contemptuously, took a deep breath, and sighed in admiration, "What a sweet fragrance! Such rich, pure poisonous gas. It must be delicious!"
As she spoke, she opened her mouth and inhaled like a whale swallowing the sea. All the poisonous mist in the room formed an azure thread and shot into the Snake Woman’s mouth!
A bit of the mist had touched his own skin, and as his thoughts began to seize up, Cui Buping muttered in disbelief, "Impossible, this is impossible! How... how can this be?"
Until the moment of his death, he never understood how these two could be unafraid of a poison rumored to be lethal even to gods.
Watching as a black miasma quickly covered Cui Buping’s face and his body began to dissolve like snow under a scorching sun, Qin Li sighed softly. "Was it really necessary?"
How could Qin Li—whose body had been reformed countless times by all sorts of Top-Grade Spiritual Objects from across the world, in addition to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Only I am Venerable technique—fear such a poison like any ordinary Martial Artist?
"I say, you should leave a bit of the poisonous gas behind. I suspect someone will find their way to this secret room eventually. Wouldn’t it be... rather boring if there was nothing to welcome them?"
"You’re too wicked, aren’t you? As expected, human minds are all devious and quick!" the Snake Woman said, looking at Qin Li with feigned shock and a reluctant expression.
In reality, she felt the poisonous gas was a rare tonic and couldn’t bear to leave any for others.
"Alright, it’s just a bit of gas from some Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects. I’ll refine a few Elixirs suitable for you later to help you improve." How could this snake’s thoughts possibly escape Qin Li?
The treasures in here were truly innumerable. The Snake Woman sucked clean all the poisonous gas clinging to them. After more than two hours, once Qin Li had taken all the treasures, the Snake Woman regretfully spat out a mouthful of blue poisonous gas.
The two of them took the keys from Cui Buping’s body and prepared to leave.
...
Ma Wuchang and the old beggar were in their room, each Cultivating to heal their wounds. They had just agreed to wait a few months until Ma Wuchang’s injuries were fully healed, then they would return to their Sect together to get reinforcements.
At the moment, they were likely hundreds of thousands of miles from the Land of the Far West, with countless impassable natural barriers in between. Therefore, communication was completely impossible.
In fact, when the four of them had been sent out by the Sect, it was with the understanding that the Sect would only learn of their success or failure upon their return.
The two of them had seen how crazed the powers on Profound Island were, but they were still very confident in the Cui Family’s defenses. To breach Cui City and infiltrate the Cui Family compound would be absolutely impossible without three to five months’ time.
By that time, Ma Wuchang’s injuries would be mostly recovered. They could slip away quietly then—who could possibly stop them? As for the life or death of the Cui Family, what did it have to do with them?
"Big Brother, we must get revenge for this! Even if we can’t kill that Qin Li, we have to slaughter the entire Qin Family! Otherwise, I can’t stand having this anger bottled up inside me!"
The old beggar said, his eyes bloodshot and his voice choked with emotion.
Ma Wuchang nodded resolutely, a hint of resentment in his eyes. "Sigh, it’s all my fault for being too careless. I never thought that group of Martial Artists on Profound Island were all lunatics! To think they would actually dare to do something like this! Before we leave, we’ll eliminate the Qin Family first! As for the other families, we’ll wait until we return to our Sect and bring back reinforcements, then we’ll deal with them one by one! We will avenge Old Second and Old Fourth!"
"Yes! When the time comes, I’ll tear anyone who participated in surrounding Second Brother and Fourth Brother to pieces!" the old beggar said, grinding his teeth.
Suddenly, Ma Wuchang’s expression changed. He said in horror, "Old Third, get out of here, someone’s coming!"
"What? How can I just abandon you?" A sharp light glinted in the old beggar’s eyes. He sneered, "I’d like to see just how capable these people are, to be able to sneak into the Cui Family compound!"
"See my ass! How could anyone who snuck in here without a trace be weaker than you? Listen to me, Old Third, go! I’ll cover your escape! Remember... avenge me!" Ma Wuchang said, his eyes nearly splitting with rage and desperation.
The old beggar gritted his teeth and stomped his foot hard. Tears of blood streamed from his eyes as he let out a roar like a wounded beast, smashed through the window, and flew into the night sky.
The old beggar was trying to use himself to draw the enemy’s attention; no matter what, he was unwilling to abandon his Big Brother.
However, what he never could have expected was that three incomparably fierce attacks suddenly appeared in the sky!
BOOM!
Following a world-shaking bang, a massive surge of energy erupted, blasting all the buildings within a one-li radius to pieces and cracking the very earth!
The old beggar was sent flying backward by the blast, violently coughing up blood. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com for more Chapters and to support the author and legitimate reading!)
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