Chapter 424: Continuous Kill

In the forest, the trees were scorched black.

The Young Marquis was shocked and enraged. How was it possible that the three elders had been killed by the opponent in such a short time?

Even if a Martial Cultivator at the seventh heaven of the Dao Seed Realm couldn't win a fight, they possessed many life-saving techniques bought with great sums of money. In most cases, if they were determined to escape, they could even flee from individuals at the eighth or ninth heaven.

It was a heavy artifact! The opponent carried a powerful heavy artifact.

The Young Marquis observed the lightning marks on the ground, struggling to suppress his anger and maintain rationality. He unleashed his Dharma Qi and Outer Manifestation of Dao Heart to prevent the opponent's escape, while patiently waiting for his own experts to arrive and join forces for a collective hunt.

The seven Phoenix-winged Moth Emperors not only took three Dao Fruits but also retrieved two perfectly preserved Dimensional Sacks.

Li Weiyi collected the Dao Fruits entirely to purchase thousand-year elixirs for them in the future.

A single Dao Fruit started at a price of a million Yongquan coins. Dao Fruit Pills, refined from them, were precious secret medicines for all kinds of Dao Martial Cultivators, especially those not of the dragon lineage.

Only with the outbreak of war could one relentlessly kill experts from the Demon Kingdom. In the past, killing a Dao Fruit expert from another major power would undoubtedly lead to investigations, or even provoke pursuit from Immortal Realm grandmasters.

Although war was brutal, it also offered opportunities for some to rise rapidly, a coexistence of crisis and opportunity.

Li Weiyi put away the Dao Fruits and Dimensional Sacks. His spiritual sense detected six other figures rapidly moving within ten miles, forming a fan-shaped encirclement.

Using Dharma Qi, he swept up the three Grade 7 Hundred-Character Spears from the ground and charged out at high speed.

If encircled by a group of experts, Li Weiyi could not possibly win with his own strength alone. Each trump card used was one less, and with the war already underway and a difficult path ahead, he had to conserve them.

A single Grade 7 Hundred-Character Artifact could often fetch a million Yongquan coins.

"Stop him!" the Young Marquis roared, chasing after him.

Above the treetops, the massive body of the Wind-chasing Beast swooped down.

Its body was enveloped in a meter-thick layer of protective Dharma Qi. Gale-force winds raged around it; even a slight touch would turn boulders into dust.

Li Weiyi had no intention of confronting it directly. He stepped on the phantom of a yellow dragon, ascending skyward step by step until he was above the treeline. Below him, the entire forest was flattened by the Wind-chasing Beast.

"Boom!" "Swish!" Bowstring and flying sword sounds came from two different directions, as two powerful cultivators launched attacks from several miles away.

The arrow burned with crimson flames, and the white flying sword was enveloped in scriptures, forming two beams of light, one red and one white.

In the void, Li Weiyi executed a misty, cyan footwork to evade the attacks. The next moment, he darted towards the dense forest from which the white flying sword originated, moving at maximum speed to meet the attacker.

With so many Demon Kingdom experts targeting him, escape was not an option.

He had to seize the opportunity before the encirclement fully formed to kill one or two more opponents if possible.

The Young Marquis rushed over, highly concerned, and shouted, "Sister Yi, be careful! This person carries a heavy artifact."

In the forest, filled with ice, snow, and thorns, Li Weiyi encountered Luo Yi, the daughter of the Divine Wing Marquis. From a mile away, he preemptively unleashed his Incinerating Finger technique.

"Whoosh!" A radiant golden finger-force wave, intensely hot and powerful, tore through the dense forest.

Along the trajectory of the finger-force within a mile, all vegetation ignited.

Seeing the opponent's fierce approach, Luo Yi immediately stopped. Her Ancestral Field Dharma Qi surged wildly, transforming into a cloud of blood mist. Her Blood Handprint Armor released over nine hundred scriptures, which imprinted onto her skin.

As she struck with her palm, a blood handprint flew out from her soft armor, colliding with the finger-force that had traveled a mile.

"Boom!" The blood handprint exploded.

Luo Yi's eyes widened in surprise. Agilely, she dodged to the right.

The opponent's Daoist techniques were exquisite, unleashing overwhelming heat waves and possessing astonishing penetrative power. He was clearly no ordinary individual.

Li Weiyi rapidly approached, the Golden Crow Flame aura around him growing brighter and brighter. Wherever he passed, all vegetation ignited, and ice and snow melted into mist.

The distance closed to fifteen zhang.

Li Weiyi leaped up like a divine ape, thrusting his Myriad Things Staff-Spear through the air. It was like a scorching sun suspended in the sky, with a dazzling beam of flame erupting from its tip.

"Clang!" Luo Yi reached out into the air, recalling her flying sword.

She slashed her sword forward, unleashing hundreds of sword qi simultaneously.

"Boom!" After the clash, Luo Yi held her sword horizontally to defend, stumbling back three zhang.

Her entire body's Dharma Qi was almost dispersed.

Just as she stabilized herself, a dazzling golden divine flame tree descended from mid-air. Its branches and leaves appeared cast from gold, and its flames, comparable to powerful grand spells, melted gold and iron, shattering the protective blood qi and scriptures of her Blood Handprint Armor.

Luo Yi's slender, curvaceous figure was sent flying.

Li Weiyi, knowing the importance of a swift victory, moved like a blur. He swung the spear like a staff in mid-air, striking her in the waist and abdomen.

The sound of bones breaking echoed, and Luo Yi crashed heavily to the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices.

"Stop!" "How dare you! Lingxiao Martial Cultivator, you're seeking death!"

Urgent shouts of anger came from the forest, followed by five layers of Outer Manifestations of Dao Heart pressing down from different directions to stop Li Weiyi.

"Thud!" Li Weiyi had no intention of taking a hostage. With one spear thrust, he pierced Luo Yi's neck, instantly severing her head.

There was no time to retrieve the Dao Fruit or Dimensional Sack, or even to remove the Blood Handprint Armor, as various attacks already assailed him from all directions.

The ancient forest, ignited by the Golden Crow flames, was filled with smoke and the whooshing sounds of flight.

A Spiritual Mind Master unleashed a rain of yellow talismans; at least a hundred talisman paper swords flew like a swift stream.

The Spiritual Mind Master's true body was hidden behind a distant ten-thousand-year-old redwood tree, riding on the back of a deer-like exotic beast. Their robe was made of talismans.

Three elders of the Blood-Winged Clan swooped down from mid-air.

Amidst a blood-red cloud, each of the three held a black battle flag embroidered with a blood-wing pattern, forming a battle formation.

The formation plate was thirty zhang in diameter.

Between the formation plate and the ground was a rapidly rotating tornado capable of sweeping away thousand-jin boulders.

After seeing Luo Yi's headless corpse, the Young Marquis roared in fury. Disregarding all reason, he recklessly unleashed his Dharma Qi and charged forward.

Li Weiyi retreated rapidly, circling his arm to swing the three Grade 7 Hundred-Character Spears, which were enveloped in Dharma Qi and had their internal scriptures activated. They flew towards the fastest targets, the Wind-chasing Beast and the Young Marquis.

He could not allow himself to be encircled.

He had to maintain the initiative in the battle, using the speed advantage of the talismans and the Provincial Governor's Robe to kite his enemies and defeat them one by one.

He channeled his Dharma Qi, activating the Provincial Governor's Robe.

"Whoosh!" Strands of silken purple light traces emanated, enveloping his entire body.

Li Weiyi moved like a nimble fish, using the power of the robe to break free from the suppression of the multiple layers of Outer Manifestations of Dao Heart, and charged towards the distant Spiritual Mind Master.

"Roar!" A Heavenly Emperor Dragon Soul, over a hundred meters long, flew out from the embroidered patch on the robe's chest, colliding with the rain of yellow talisman swords.

"Still trying to defeat us one by one? You underestimate the cultivators of my Blood-Winged Clan too much," a resonant, ear-splitting voice rang out from the front.

In front of the white misty dragon soul, soil, gravel, and trees from the ground abruptly rose dozens of meters high, forming a mountain-like earth wall, with scriptures and Dharma Qi shimmering on its surface.

The opponent had unleashed a formidable Daoist technique.

Li Weiyi, standing atop the dragon soul's head, had no time to stop or to activate the spatial power of his robe. His eyes suddenly narrowed, and holding his spear with both hands, he met the attack.

"Rumble!" Amidst the dragon's roar, the dozens-of-meters-high earth wall was struck, pierced, and torn apart.

The young figure who unleashed the Daoist technique was a Transcendent Disciple, an inheritor at the peak of the seventh heaven of the Dao Seed Realm, whose combat strength could rival some Martial Cultivators at the eighth heaven.

He looked at the charging misty giant dragon, momentarily awed by the Emperor's might, and felt a secret shock. Then, his eyelids narrowed, and he threw a wheel-shaped magical artifact from his hand.

"This person is definitely suspicious! His official robe is a rare and precious magical treasure that even Immortal Realm grandmasters might not possess. Go back quickly and inform the Marquis that he is a big fish who escaped from the Lingxiao Palace!"

Over a thousand scriptures flashed on the wheel-shaped magical artifact, expanding it to the size of a carriage wheel. It burned with brilliant flames, releasing vortex energy that sent the misty dragon soul flying askew, causing a large part of its body to dissipate.

Li Weiyi leaped up first, his eyes swiftly scanning in all directions, seeing the Young Marquis, the Wind-chasing Beast, and the three experts from the battle formation closing in from various directions.

Such a lineup would force even a Martial Cultivator at the ninth heaven of the Dao Seed Realm to retreat by spinning.

Li Weiyi took out a talisman and affixed it to his body.

It was one of the three life-saving talismans, a "Protective Charm," given to him by Grand Historian Yu before the Battle of Six Thoughts Zen Monastery.

A protective charm personally refined by a Nine-Star Spiritual Mind Master was, naturally, of extremely high quality.

"Boom!" Li Weiyi dived down, thrusting his spear forward, colliding with the Mirror-Light Shield Seal Daoist technique conjured by the Blood-Winged Clan's Transcendent Disciple.

The Transcendent Disciple, holding up the shield seal with both hands, took a step back. He made a rough assessment of Li Weiyi's strength: "His cultivation isn't too terrifying; he's only powerful because of the heavy artifact he carries... Ah..."

The Transcendent Disciple screamed as an artery in his neck was suddenly slashed by a sharp blade, instantly gushing blood.

It was Seven Phoenixes!

Seven Phoenixes, small as dust particles, approached in stealth and successfully launched a sneak attack while he was fully focused on defending against Li Weiyi's assault.

The fastest of them, Five Phoenixes, followed closely.

A foot-long feathered wing slashed across the Transcendent Disciple's left calf.

With his defenses compromised both high and low, the Transcendent Disciple could no longer fully resist Li Weiyi. He activated an escape technique and rapidly retreated into the distance.

In an instant, he was already three miles away.

Li Weiyi ignored the attacks striking him from all directions; the protective charm's barrier was sturdy, and the Demon Kingdom cultivators could not break through it. He pursued the Transcendent Disciple with all his might, employing spatial evasion, the "Advance" Character Art, and every other available technique.

In a chase and escape, they traversed mountains and ridges, exchanging over a dozen blows.

They flattened forests and shattered cliffs.

The Transcendent Disciple's neck and calf continued to bleed. He roared repeatedly, having entered a frantic, desperate state. He just needed to hold out for a few more breaths to save his life.

A beast's roar echoed.

The Wind-chasing Beast, being the fastest, with its massive body, had already appeared behind Li Weiyi.

"Bang!" Li Weiyi, without hesitation or evasion, swung his spear and struck the Transcendent Disciple's head, causing it to explode like a watermelon.

"Bang!" The next instant, Li Weiyi's body was struck by the Wind-chasing Beast's claws, sending him flying dozens of zhang away, where he fell and tumbled.

The protective charm on his body, having withstood dozens of enemy attacks, finally collapsed under the overwhelming pressure, shattering like a bubble.

The talisman paper turned into dust.

"Form the array!" Li Weiyi stood up and struck the ground with his spear.

Star-like patterns intertwined around his body, and a complex formation plate materialized.

The seven Phoenix-winged Moth Emperors, like stars, circled around him, flying in unison with the formation plate.

"Boom!" The Wind-chasing Beast, attacking again, unleashed terrifying power with its seven-to-eight-meter-long massive claws, colliding with the formation plate. Instantly, the ground beneath the plate cracked and collapsed, and the mountain itself trembled slightly.

Li Weiyi remained perfectly still, using the formation to directly withstand the blow.

"Whoosh!" The Purple Firmament Thunder Seal flew out from the formation plate, rising above his head.

Immediately, claps of thunder echoed, and dozens of thick lightning bolts spread outwards in all directions.

The Wind-chasing Beast's massive claws were shattered and torn by the several-zhang-sized seal, unable to withstand the force. The bowl-thick lightning scorched its abdomen black, and blood flowed like a waterfall beneath its feathers.

Severely wounded, the Wind-chasing Beast let out a high-pitched shriek of agony, spread its wings, and flew away, escaping back to the county town where the Divine Wing Marquis resided, over two hundred miles away.

The Young Marquis, the deer-riding Spiritual Mind Master, and the three Blood-Winged Clan elders holding battle flags were all powerful individuals of their respective groups. Some were "Heads of the Jiazi," unrivaled among those under sixty in their clan. Others had cultivated for a hundred years, survived a hundred battles, and possessed immense accumulated strength.

But at this moment, they were all terrified by Li Weiyi's killing prowess!

He was simply too ferocious. How could there be such a young killing god in the Lingxiao Living Realm?

"Is it a high-grade Thousand-Character Artifact, or even a Ten-Thousand-Character Artifact? How can he wield such a powerful treasure?"

"Go! Let's all go together! We can't be separated again."