Li Shen watched as all of this happened, but at a certain point, he decided to step in and knock this boy unconscious.
If he continued like this he was going to kill himself, and Li Shen saw him as the only person who could answer his question as to what went on in here.
With that, Li Shen moved towards him, but the boy suddenly raised his head and release an unwilling scream.
“NOOO!!!”
Immediately, his body began to release an absurd amount of Demonic Qi while a powerful Soul Sense suddenly burst from his Sea of Consciousness.
The cavern tremble insistently at this outburst of power, and even Li Shen had to pause his movement towards him.
‘Such destructive energy, this is stronger than what he had shone previously.’
Li Shen's heart sank since this didn’t seem like anything good. However, something strange happened.
The power the boy was releasing, the powerful Soul Sense of a late-stage Foundation realm cultivator and the terrifying Demonic Qi that was almost equivalent to a mid-or even late-stage Core Formation realm cultivator. All of it suddenly vanish like a puff of smoke before everything went calm. But it didn’t stay that way for long.
Li Shen and the others watched as the boy’s hands fell from his bloodied face. With that, they immediately saw a tattoo on his forehead of a spider.
BANG!
His body suddenly burst into flesh and blood to the utter shock of Lihua and Li Wen.
Li Shen looked on with narrowed eyes as two runes in the shape of spiders absorbed the boy’s flesh and blood.
“This is a Demonic Art.”
Li Shen mumbled, but that was the only thing he could decipher from this situation. He didn’t know what type of Demonic Art this was.
After absorbing the boy’s flesh and bones, the two runes glowed with a blood-red light and floated motionlessly in the air.
Li Shen’s eyes flickered, and his body suddenly vanish to reappear in front of the two runes. One of his hands glow with a golden aura, while the other glowed with a black starry light as he reached for them both.
However, the two runes sensed this and instantly reacted. They shot back away from Li Shen’s grasp, but Li Shen quickly followed them.
His speed suddenly double as his body became as light as a feather, catching the runes off guard. Li Shen’s hand latched onto one but the other slipped passed his grasp to go around him.
Li Shen immediately turned around to watch the rune fly towards Lihua and Li Wen.
“Li Wen, destroy it!!”
Li Shen quickly yelled.
The rune was fast, but Li Wen reacted faster and his sword slashed out at the rune. However, the rune went right through his sword unaffected by it.
It seemed like both were on a completely different plane of existence for his sword to affect it.
Everything was in slow motion as Li Shen used his fastest speed to rush towards them, while Li wen watched as the rune went past him to Lihua.
Lihua tried to retreat but the rune caught up to her easily.
She slashed at it with her sword trying to keep it away from her, but it suddenly swerved around her attack and instead of aiming for her, went after Xian who she was still holding in her arms.
The rune released tentacles as they seeped into his chest.
Silence.
A deathly silence overcame the cavern, but only for a split second as it was merely silence before a storm.
Xian’s eyes immediately shot open and without any hesitation, his palm which was engulfed in sinister black energy slammed against Lihua's chest.
Lihua was sent flying backwards as she coughed out a mouth full of blood.
“You-”
Li Wen stared wide-eyed and said, but was immediately cut off by Xian who with a neutral expression pointed at him.
A green smoke suddenly burst to life in front of Li Wen about to engulf him, but he reacted quickly while one of his two Core Formation puppets leaped in front of him as he push off the ground in retreat.
Li Wen watched as his puppet was immediately devoured and destroyed after being engulfed by the green poisonous smoke.
All of this took a while to explain, but everything happened within a one-second window frame.
At the two-second mark, Li Shen’s body appeared next to Xian, a whirlwind around his arm as he threw out a punch to the side of his head.
Xian having the same neutral expression, raised his hand and allowed Li Shen’s fist to land on his palm.
A loud bang resounded out that caused fissures to appear beneath Xian's feet, but his body didn’t move an inch from Li Shen’s strike nor did the hand that blocked his fist shift in the slightest.
What little injuries his palm and arm suffered healed instantly.
Xian turned his head to Li Shen and cracked a smile, the same handsome smile as before, but now it looked different for some reason.
“Now I remember why brother Shen’s name seemed so familiar. You’re the Second Prince of the Li Royal Family.”
Xian spoke so familiar with Li Shen that it would catch anyone off guard that he was simultaneously having his palm that glowed with a black aura aiming towards Li Shen’s chest.
Li Shen ignored the palm attack towards his chest and instead have his foot lash out towards Xian dantian. His pivoting foot suddenly had cracks snaking underneath it as he increase his weight, putting more strength behind his kick.
Xian seeing this had his eyes flicker before his palm shifted to a grasp heading for Li Shen’s left hand, where he was holding the rune he caught.
Li Shen was thus forced to pull back his attack to dodge his advances. Taking three steps back, Li Shen glared at Xian who lowered his hand and stared at him with a smile.
“Give it back back. That’s not yours to keep brother Shen.”
“Come and get it if you want it.”
Li Shen wasn’t going to hand over this rune. Without much thought, he came to realize who Xian was.
He was prepared for a fight, but Xian suddenly shook his head and said.
“I’m in no mood to fight you.”
He then shifted his body to the side and the image of Lihua a distance away was shown to Li Shen.
“Goddess Lihua, or my rune. Choose.”
Xian simply said, and Li Shen’s heart immediately sank.
Seeing Li Shen’s silence, Xian suddenly raised his hand, and with that gesture, Lihua immediately let out a cry of agony from her position on the ground.
Li Wen seeing this situation moved towards Lihua.
Xian didn’t stop him and only trained his eyes on Li Shen.
“Even if your father was here I'm confident he would need more than a few seconds to extract my poison fully. That was enough time for my poison to dissolve her heart killing her. So, hand it over.”
Xian calmly reached out his hand towards Li Shen. His demeanor was relaxed as he was in complete control of this situation.
Li Shen looked at him and then at Li Wen who examined Lihua before turning to look in his direction with a worried expression.
Turning back to Xian, Li Shen’s shoulders dropped before his left hand loosen.
The rune having been freed shot towards Xian and seeped into his forehead between his eyebrows.
A feeling of being complete suddenly washed over Xian, and he couldn’t help but close his eyes to revel in it.
After a while, he released a sigh before saying.
“That’s much better.”
He opened his eyes and looked at Li Shen.
“Don’t look at me like that brother Shen, I’m not as shameless as my fellow demonic disciples. I truly do not intend to fight you, instead, who I wish to fight is…”
Xian’s expression suddenly turned cold and he growled out the words.
“...that Kun Peng boy.”
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