Chapter 68: Decisive

  The woman said to Bai Qi, "You can't beat me." Bai Qi was at a loss for words and could only say, "Is this considered robbery?"

  He wanted to release a sword aura like a teacher, but the woman's background was not small, and her body might have had corresponding Taoist instruments. In case of mutual destruction, being escaped by this woman, and coming back to retaliate, his own sect's mission would be ruined.

  You can't be unaware of the enemy's situation, so let's use the Yuqing Divine Thunder. If we mistakenly kill someone, it will be too late to regret.

  "Should be, I guess?" The woman chose her words carefully and spoke a bit more slowly.

  "I am on a mission for my sect, fellow Taoist. Please return the treasure to me, I am Qing Yunzi of the Yunmeng Sect."

  "Ah!" The woman laughed and called out: "Qing Cheng Luo Xiu, I've met Qing Yuan Zi Daozhang."

  The woman who called herself Qing Chengluo Xiu slowly stopped smiling, with a sullen expression: "Qing Mingzi, do you know that by announcing your name like this, you are showing weakness!"

  "I'm no match for Daoist friends, and I also can't control this Dao tool." Bai Qi felt depressed in his heart, but he didn't seem to think of a way out. This woman hadn't moved her hand or left for half a day, definitely not here for that jade seal of hers.

  Lu Xiu saw Bai Qi showing weakness, his eyes glanced at the battle below, and that Zi Hong had already relied on Qing Si Sword to kill seven or eight of the monsters below, only the leader of the big monster was still struggling, relying on its thick demonic energy, but there was nothing to be afraid of in terms of magic.

  "I was originally going to rob you, but it wouldn't be good for my reputation if word got out. Qingmingzi, why don't I just force a deal on you instead?" Luo Xiu said to Bai Qi in a negotiating tone.

  Bai Qi couldn't help but reveal a hint of a smile. Luo Xiu had the demeanor of an adult, with exceptional temperament, but his heart was surprisingly simple.

  "Lu Xiu, if you want to make friends with me, I'm willing to trade with you, but forcing a deal is out of the question."

  "Oh no, you... how can you be like this! This friend is not easily made, what if you harm me in the future, am I supposed to go against the Cloud Dream Sect?"

  "Friends have their distances and relatives have their closeness. And it's not like we're sworn to be together for life and death, you're from a big family with high social status, it's hard to keep up with that."

  Lu Xiu's face fell as soon as Bai Qi finished speaking, and he shouted: "You little brat, you're too rude!" At this point, Lu Xiu couldn't help but smile and said: "Forget it, I plan to buy your Ziyang Lian Shen Dan. I don't want to bother my father to get it from Yunmeng Sect, so as not to owe your master a favor. I want three of them, name your price."

  Bai let out a sigh of relief, but then became worried again. This Zi Yang Lian Shen Dan can even be exchanged for lower-grade Dao equipment. Luo Xiu wants three of them, how should he set the price?

  If it's set too high, then Luo Xiu won't be able to afford it. If it's set too low, it will seem like I'm afraid of Qingcheng Sect. Once the news gets out, it will become a joke.

  "I've heard that Qingcheng's Taoist skills are unparalleled..."

  Lu Xiu hastily interrupted Bai Qi and said: "This won't do, the secret sword technique can't be told to you! If you want the immortal jade, I can think of a way to get it for you."

  Bai Qi's heart calmed down upon hearing this. Although the Xian Yu is a consumable item, its value is not inferior to that of a Dao instrument. It seems that Luo Xiu's strong buying and selling was just an empty threat. This woman urgently needs Dan medicine, probably to break through some kind of boundary, but her yuan qi is insufficient. The Qing Cheng Sect does not rely on alchemy to make a name for itself, even if there are refining Qi practitioners who can refine alchemy, they are not as good as the teacher's methods.

  Zi Yang Lian Shen Dan is a thing that consumes the most time and produces very little. Even a powerful sect like Qing Cheng, can't accumulate more than a few pills.

  Although this elixir is precious, once one reaches the realm of harmony with the Tao, its uses become smaller and it's impossible to use it all up oneself. Leaving some for future disciples will do. If there were immortal jade, then this business would still be worth doing.

  But Bai Qi opened his mouth and said: "Luo Xiu, if you let you take the immortal jade to exchange, you will be at a disadvantage. How about this? Do you have a high enough realm of gun technique to exchange for my Zi Yang Lian Shen Dan?"

  Bai Qi had the Leiyin Divine Spear and the Inverse Scale Spear in his hands, but he only knew one spear technique, the True Dragon Seven Killings Spear. It was a close combat skill, so even if he could cultivate seven green dragons in the future, for now, he could only attack enemies within a few hundred meters. Any farther than that, and it would be no better than flying swords.

  The art of gun fu is not rare, but those who can cultivate it to a high level are few.

  Bai Qi looked at Luo Xiu, who furrowed his brow and said, "As for marksmanship, I do have a small trick up my sleeve. I'm not sure if you can cultivate it."

  She said, taking out a strange jade slip, nearly transparent in color, and tossing it to Bai Qi, not fearing that Bai Qi would refuse to pay.

  Bai Qi took it over, and his consciousness swept slightly, and he was attracted. This jade slip indeed left a door of gun technique. However, this gun technique only has the introductory chapter, just like the Qing Lei True Solution on the Qing Emperor's clothes, if you don't cultivate further, you can't see what's behind. Such a Taoist technique, wanting to cultivate it, is quite dependent on luck, and if it doesn't match with oneself, it will be difficult to give up in the future.

  Bai Qi slightly pondered, but put away the transparent jade slip, tossed out three Purple Yang Refining Spirit Pills and said: "Return the Jade Seal to me."

  Na Luo Xiu hastily took out a jade bottle, put away the three Purple Yang Refining Spirit Pills, and returned the jade seal to Bai Qi. If this medicine is not stored properly, the rate of loss of its efficacy can be heartbreaking.

  Jian Wang saw the white jade seal being returned to Chu Jiang Wang, and Luo Xiu hummed a sound, saying: "The jade slip I gave you can barely be considered as immortal jade, don't say that I'm taking advantage of you."

  Bai Qi didn't argue, he gave Luo Xiu three Purple Sun Spirit Refining Pills. He just nodded and said: "When I have time, I will visit Qingcheng, don't say you don't know me."

  "You'd better work harder, if you're still at this level and get bullied by others, I'll be too embarrassed to help you." Luo Xiu said, and a massive force emerged from the colorful clouds, throwing Bai Qi directly down from high altitude.

  Zi Hong kept staring at that colorful cloud in a daze. After Bai Qi came out, the colorful cloud rushed straight up to the sky and disappeared in an instant.

  "Junior brother, have you been injured!" Zi Hong sent out a strand of green silk, flying towards Bai Qi, circling around him three times. Since he didn't sense any harm to Bai Qi through his divine sense, he then withdrew the Qing Si sword.

  "Sister, I'm fine." Bai Qi said, releasing the Moon Wheel Sword Orb, and joined forces with Zi Hong to attack the demon god. The demon god had almost been beheaded by their hands, and at this time, although it broke out of the Starry Sky Chessboard Boundary, it couldn't withstand the joint attack from Bai Qi and Zi Hong.

  Bai Qi's twenty-four sword pellets flashed, sealing off all the demon god's escape routes. A loud crack of thunder, and Qing Si Sword sliced down on the demon god's head, splitting its skull open.

  That demon god was also a natural talent, and even after being beheaded, he didn't die. He wanted to escape with the yin spirit, but Bai Qi released the demon gourd, which sucked him in.

  As soon as he entered the gourd, thousands of golden-winged cicada bees flew up and stung the demon god, who rolled on the ground in pain. Pi Luo Tong Zi stepped forward, trampled him with one foot, wrapped his long whip around him several times, and tied the demon god up.

  "Hmm, what great fertilizer! The old master has not treated me poorly!" That Piro child looked at the demon god with even more joy, tied it up and directly buried it under his own body. The roots of that giant tree stirred, piercing into the demon god's body, starting to absorb its primordial energy.

  "Brother, this calabaza is not bad." Zi Hong said with some envy.

  "My mother gave me..." Bai Qi said half of it and didn't continue. Zi Hong saw that it had stirred up Bai Qi's thoughts, so he didn't mention it again either.

  That demon gourd nodded three times, absorbing the remaining defeated soldiers and several tens of thousands of pounds of river water. The Chu River suddenly emptied, and then a huge wave crashed down from behind, striking the stone wall. The stone statues on the stone wall had already been shattered, and with this crash, the huge wave carried boundless power, causing the stone wall to collapse.

  Zi Hong was shocked. If the river water became blocked, it would harm many people. Hundreds of green threads flew out from her head, and with a full-force thrust of her Green Thread Sword, she slashed downwards.

  The sword's thunderous sound reached the ninth heaven. Bai Qi saw that the green silk sword had truly produced a thunderbolt, and with this one stroke, the mountain rocks facing Chu Jiang were split in two, the cut surface smooth beyond compare, but was immediately washed away by the river water, turning into a turbid countercurrent.

  But Zi Hong shattered this huge rock with just one sword.

  So cool!

  Bai Qi felt that this sword contained a powerful force, extremely hot, yet difficult to detect. The Qing Si sword did not reveal even half a degree of temperature, but when the sword cut through the rock, the fire power contained within the sword was instantly released, shattering a mountain stone hundreds of feet in size.

  Zhu Di's face turned ashen, and he knew that if he were to take action against Bai Qi, it would be disadvantageous for himself. Zi Hong would certainly kill him with one sword strike, and even his soul would not be able to escape.

  Zi Hong sheathed his sword and suddenly a strand of green silk separated from it, wrapping itself around Zhu Que's neck.

  "Master!" Zhu Que's soul was frightened out of him, and at this moment he completely disregarded his dignity, kneeling down on both knees.

  "Junior brother, this person has ulterior motives and means you harm, why did you let him stay until today?"

  "Sister, I don't have it!"

  Zi Hong's eyebrows stood on end, those green threads had already tied themselves around Zhu Que's neck, with a downward stab, the sword energy pierced through his body, crushing his dantian into powder.

  Zhu Que's Dantian was destroyed, and all his thoughts turned to dust. He glared venomously at Bai Qi and asked Zi Hong: "Do you know who he is?"

  Zi Hong turned his head and asked Bai Qi: "Younger martial brother, what kind of person are you?"

  "Also known as Bai Qi." Bai Qi said calmly.

  Zhu Que saw Bai Qi calmly admit it and with a ruthless heart said: "He has the Qing Emperor's divine spear, the Inverse Scale Gun.

  Zi Hong's black hair suddenly scattered, wrapping the starry sky chessboard around her. She looked at Zhu Que with a strange expression and said, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

  Zhu was secretly delighted, but then he heard Zi Hong say: "If you had announced it earlier, someone in the sect might have been greedy and harmed your junior brother. But now that you've only just spoken up, it's truly foolish to the extreme! Junior Brother, come and interrogate him, see if anyone else knows about this matter!"

  Zhu Di's face suddenly turned pale, this female cultivator was unexpectedly immune to temptation and didn't make a move on Bai Qi, how could this be possible?

  "Elder sister?" Bai Qi looked at Zi Hong, who waved his hand and said: "Since you've joined our sect, it doesn't matter who you were originally. Even if you have the Qing Emperor's divine sword or are the reincarnation of the Jade Emperor, it's all just fate. However, before your Dao is complete, this matter can only be known to Master and Eldest Brother, not outsiders. Otherwise, it'll cause trouble. You should ask him who else knows about this, then we'll go kill them. This task for our sect is unnecessary now."