Chapter 84: Fighting the Foursome
Clear qi coated his whip, and his body flashed toward the four.
"You are courting death." One of the girls screamed.
They were no match for Jiang Yue if they fought alone, but they rarely fought alone.
"Let’s kill him."
The three stood in a triangle, and each held a whip in the right hand.
When Jiang Yue was four metres from them, the three swung their arms, and their whips flew out.
"They are targeting my vital organs."
With his current speed, Jiang Yue could avoid two whips, but one would inevitably hit.
However, Jiang Yue was not flustered.
He swung his whip and countered two whips while avoiding the third.
As soon as he landed, he released his pipa and struck a few notes.
These notes lacked refinement, but they could affect the soul of a same-level cultivator for a few breaths.
When the three heard the notes, they felt like someone had shaken their soul.
The feeling was uncomfortable, and for a moment, they couldn’t help but be distracted.
Before they recovered, Jiang Yue whipped the woman on the right side of the triangle.
His attack was brutal and showed no mercy for the opposite sex.
When it landed, the woman’s head flew up and fell a moment later.
"Her body is too weak."
When he attacked, Jiang Yue expected to injure the woman.
It was a surprise the female’s body was so weak that it couldn’t withstand his attack.
’This shows the importance of body refining.’
As he thought of this, Jiang Yue hardened his resolve to redeem a good body refinement technique when he returned to the sect.
If the woman had a strong body, she could have resisted longer.
’Now that I have the ginseng and other body strengthening herbs, it won’t be long before I have a strong body.’
"Do you dare to kill my woman?" The golden-robed young master reacted at this time.
In fact, these women were just random cultivators he came across after entering the secret realm.
However, they had surrendered to him and were counted as his.
Now that someone had killed one in front of him, he couldn’t help being angry.
This was a provocation, and the other party didn’t give him any face.
"Don’t talk nonsense." Jiang Yue uttered.
He looked at the golden-robed cultivator in contempt, and his lips curled a sneer.
In a secret realm, everyone depended on their ability to live and obtain resources.
What kind of face was he supposed to give?
Although he was a little apprehensive about killing the golden-robed young master, Jiang Yue would kill him if he had to.
In the end, his life was more important than the opponent’s life.
If worse came to worst, he would kill him and then stay in the sect to cultivate in seclusion.
At that time, even if the family of the golden-robed cultivator came to the sect, the Sea Cloud sect would not hand him over.
It wasn’t because the sect valued him, but because they couldn’t afford to lose that face.
After all, there was a difference between Jiang Yue being killed while travelling outside the sect, and the sect handing him over to be killed.
With such thoughts in mind, Jiang Yue swung his whip again.
However, the other side was prepared.
One of the girls also swung, and the tip of her whip tangled Jiang Yue’s.
In the blink of an eye, she handled the whip in a grabbing motion, and Jiang Yue was irresistibly dragged toward the three.
A moment later, the golden-robed young master and the remaining woman also took action.
The woman swung her whip, and the young master opened a fan.
With his position in the air, it was difficult for Jiang Yue to respond without letting go of his weapon.
In this situation, he gritted his teeth and removed a defence talisman from his storage ring.
He activated the talisman, and a barrier was erected around him.
At the same time, he poured a quarter of his qi into his whip.
This qi travelled along the whip and invaded the woman’s whip.
Because she was observing Jiang Yue’s predicament, she didn’t realise that a few strands of foreign qi had entered her body through her hand acupoints.
When she finally realised, it was already too late.
Jiang Yue’s qi was superior to her own.
As soon as it entered her body, it travelled along her meridians and eventually reached her dantian.
Although her qi was inferior, her body had more qi than the few strands injected by Jiang Yue.
She mobilised all her qi to isolate the foreign qi, which weakened her whip that was still tangled with Jiang Yue’s.
By injecting his qi into her body, Jiang Yue didn’t intend to kill the woman.
After all, their cultivation was in the same realm, and it was difficult to kill her using this method.
What he wanted was this moment of distraction.
As soon as the woman was distracted, Jiang Yue untangled his whip and jumped forward.
At the same time, he put away his whip and released a dagger.
This was the same dagger he used to dig out the ginseng from deep underground.
As he approached the woman, he coated the dagger with clear qi and stabbed toward her chest.
"Watch out." The remaining woman yelled.
However, she did not plan to help.
Although the three sisters were fellows from the same sect, they were also rivals.
In the outside world, they fought for resources in the sect, while in the secret realm, they not only fought for herbs but also for the golden-robed young master.
The young master came from a prominent family, and his means were endless.
If she could become his wife or concubine, she believed her life would change for the better.
Because of this, the extent of care for her sister was a warning and nothing more.
However, the warning was too late.
By the time the woman managed to isolate and expel the foreign qi, Jiang Yue was already in front of her.
He thrust the dagger, and it encountered a little resistance before it sunk into her left breast.
Soon after, the woman staggered backwards.
Her chest was covered in blood, and she tried to speak, but words wouldn’t come out.
When he saw this, Jiang Yue didn’t continue to pay attention to her.
Although she wasn’t dead yet, he knew she would die within a few breaths.
Unless she had a life-saving pill, an ordinary silver rank rejuvenation pill was no use in this situation.
"You are beginning to make me angry." The golden-robed young man shouted.
"Less talk, more action."
"Very good."
The golden-robed young man opened his fan again and swung it in Jiang Yue’s direction.
A fierce wind was released from the fan, and it galloped towards Jiang Yue.
"It’s more powerful than the previous attack."
In the previous attack, Jiang Yue had managed to block with a low-grade talisman.
However, this attack couldn’t be blocked unless he activated a mid-grade talisman.
’I can’t waste a talisman.’ Jiang Yue thought with a frown on his face.
He released his whip and swung more than a dozen times.
However, the wind was too strong.
The whip shadows were immediately devoured, and the wind continued toward Jiang Yue.
Because they were in the water, the wind was stirring the water, and small whirlpools had begun to form.
"I need to learn a defence art." Jiang Yue mumbled and continued to retreat.
His plan was to exhaust the attack or reduce it to a point where he could block.
However, his plan was failing.
Rather than reduce, the attack was gaining momentum.
The small whirlpools were quickly combining and rushing toward him, which made him feel a little flustered.
"Do I have to take it with my body?"
Although his body was not refined, it was slightly better than most other cultivators at the same level.
This was because his starting point was higher than others.
In the meridian awakening realm, he had cultivated nine divine meridians and accumulated a force value of ten thousand kilograms before breaking through to the origin forging realm.
After breaking through, he cultivated a powerful cultivation technique which refined high-quality qi.
This qi nourished him and had slightly strengthened his body over the years.
However, taking the attack with his body was still a little too much.
If he was not killed, he would be seriously injured.
He wasn’t worried about dying since they had the leaves of the tree of life, but Jiang Yue didn’t want to joke around with his life.
After all, there was no guarantee that he could control the situation after he was injured.
"My life is more important." He said with a sigh.
After saying that, he threw out his last mid-grade defence talisman.
A barrier appeared around, which was just in time to block the whirlpools.
However, the attack was more difficult to handle than Jiang Yue expected.
