Chapter 69: Mu Hongxiong Seeks Recommendation Votes

  Bai Qi's face turned red, he originally thought that killing Zhu Que would be troublesome, but didn't expect Zi Hong to handle things decisively, without any hesitation. First, they destroyed Zhu Que's reputation, then forced him to confess.

  It was originally a survival rule in the school that one had to guard against Zi Hong, but it's a bit embarrassing for oneself.

  Outside the starry sky, a hundred feet of green silk wrapped around, carrying this law into the river water. Zi Hong unfolded his sword and carried the white rising law to slowly dive upstream. The younger brother has the matter of Qingdi Xianbing, it is indeed not suitable for external transmission, in these years, I'm afraid the younger brother will have to travel alone outside, once this news spreads, it will be a step-by-step crisis.

  In the starry sky of the chess world, Zhu Di was in a daze. Bai walked up to him and looked at his honest face, saying: "I'll ask once more, who else knows about my Inverse Scale Spear?"

  Zhu Di's face turned pale, and he smiled wryly: "Even if I don't say anything, what can you do? As an outer sect disciple, I have a life-saving lantern to rely on. If I die, the elders of the sect will know that it was you who killed me."

  Bai Qi smiled and said, "A person like you, wouldn't spread the news, would you? The matter of the Inverse Scale Spear should only be known to you. As for how to deal with you, I still have a few methods. Kill you? That's too easy on you."

  "It's no use trying to deceive me." Zhu Di gritted his teeth and stopped talking. If a cultivator has any misgivings in their heart, it will affect their cultivation. He wanted to leave this knot in Bai Qi's heart, making him suspicious and uncertain.

  "Deceive you?" Bai Qi smiled and took out the Tianmo Mirror, saying: "Take a look at yourself now."

  Zhu Di couldn't help but take a glance at the mirror, and the reflection showed himself with disheveled hair, his Taoist robe all wrinkled, the veins on his face bulging out, having turned a deep purple color, resembling an ugly demon.

  "You're already done for, Zhu Jue. Originally, I didn't want to rush to kill you, as you were a whetstone for me. Now take a look at yourself, do you still need me to make a move?"

  "White start!" Zhu Que's hand pressed on the hilt of the Qingfeng sword, and with a forceful pull, his wrist stung in pain. The Qingfeng sword didn't budge an inch within its scabbard. Only then did Zhu Que remember that he was no longer a Lianqi warrior, and that inferior magical weapon, he couldn't use it at all.

  In his haste and rage, Zhu spat a mouthful of blood onto the Tianmo Mirror. Immediately, several large hands appeared on the mirror and pulled him in.

  "I told you, I don't need to do it myself." Bai Qi put away the Tianmo Mirror and closed the Xingkong Chessboard. He then rode on the Water Escape Technique. Zhu Que entered the Tianmo Mirror, his soul would not be destroyed, but he would gradually become a demon, mixed in with the Tianmo, losing himself. His dantian was already ruined, there was no way to escape this fate.

  Zi Hong then put away the Qing Si sword and no longer used the Sword Escape technique to hurry along, instead letting Bai Qi's escape light carry her rapidly upstream.

  "Resolved?"

  "Hmm." Bai nodded.

  "Next time something like this happens, make a decision on the spot."

  "Yes, sister." Bai Qi listened and if he had known earlier that Zhu Que was planning to plot against the Inverse Scale Spear, he would have taken action when they first met the Blood Fiend.

  As for Zhu Que wanting to leave a shadow in his own heart, it's impossible. Bai Qi was born optimistic and calculated carefully. Zhu Que's personality wouldn't allow others to share this secret.

  Zhu Di didn't know that Bai Qi was a demon, otherwise he wouldn't have thought that way. The nature of demons is quite different from humans. Most demons are free and easy-going, although cautious, they still like to take risks. It seems contradictory, but it's not awkward at all. However, with more adventures, accidents will happen, and the mortality rate of demon cultivators compared to human cultivators is much higher.

  "Junior brother, if this happens again in the future, you are not allowed to let it go." Zi Hong rarely nagged, and Bai Qi smiled.

  When Zhu Que wanted to take action, his own sword intent had already hurt him. In fact, no matter when he took action, the remaining sword intent in Zhu Que's soul would always play tricks on him, so Bai Qi didn't worry about it either. The biggest mistake in this whole thing was that he didn't understand why Zhu Que was hostile towards him.

  The only danger is that Zhu Que might leak out the matter of the inverted scales spear.

  The water escaped quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it had gone out for more than a hundred miles. On the riverbank, a dilapidated Chu Wang Temple appeared in Bai Qi's divine sense scan. This time, he directly unfolded the Starry Sky Chessboard Domain, wrapping the Chu Wang Temple inside.

  In the Chu Wang Temple, there were no evil spirits guarding it. The remaining divine power in the statue of King Chu Jiang was also very little. This time, Bai Qi did not use the jade seal of King Chu Jiang, but instead pulled out the Inverse Scale Spear and stabbed it into the chest and abdomen of the statue of King Chu Jiang, absorbing the divine power into the Inverse Scale Spear. The Inverse Scale Spear honestly returned two-tenths of the cyan-golden energy to Bai Qi. Bai Qi pulled out his spear and let the Chu Wang Temple collapse, then continued westward with Zi Hong.

  Along the way, whether a hundred miles or sixty to seventy miles, there will always be a Chu Wang Temple. The reason why the Chu Jiang King can leave his nest and head north to Jinling City is that he relies on his powerful divine power; otherwise, as a demon god with millions of demon soldiers, he would exhaust himself. Every time Bai Qi arrives at a place, he uses the Xingkong Chess Boundary Seal to isolate the Chu Wang Temple from the outside world, and then uses the Inverse Scale Gun to extract the divine power from the Chu Jiang King's statue.

  Along the way, the cyan and gold aura in Bai Qi's body had condensed to an extreme degree, and a crystal of inverted scales had formed in each of his three dan tians. Suddenly, Bai Qi understood that this was the Inverted Scale Spear trying to repair itself. These crystals of inverted scales would eventually restore the Inverted Scale Spear to its original form as a divine artifact after being cultivated to their limit.

  Although slow, there is finally a glimmer of hope.

  When Bai Qi and Zi Hong arrived at the source of the Chu River, in the middle reaches of the river, at a huge bend, eight authentic disciples of Yunmeng Zong had already gathered together.

  "Brother Chu, this is already the second place. Could it be that Qing Yunzi and Zi Hong have..." a young Daoist said to Chu Liuqin.

  Chu Liu Qin's face didn't look too good, all the way, they set up front and back, wanting to interfere with Bai Qi's mission, but didn't find any trace of Bai Qi. They also didn't think that Bai Qi would take action ahead of time and come to the middle reaches.

  But the other side only had three people, one of whom was just a Qi-refining cultivator in the gasification stage. Wanting to destroy the Chu Wang Temple with the power of three people would be quite slow.

  However, facing the collapsed mountain peak, everyone was shocked in their hearts. Zi Hong's Qingfeng sword came down, and although the rock powder was washed away by the river water, these true disciples could still see the clues, and see the shocking sword that shook the sky and earth at that time.

  With such great power, if nothing good is gained, all the way to kill, this task is won by Zǐméi Zhēnrén Yīmài.

  "Everyone scatter and head upstream to reconvene 800 miles later!" Chu Liu Qing made a swift decision, unfolding his magical banner and absorbing his subordinates into it as he flew away upstream.

  The team split up again, with Chu Liuqin taking the lead and Wu Fenglai from Xing Ze's lineage following closely behind. The ones who fell behind were the Hong Hu lineage. These two true transmission disciples didn't really want to get involved, but since Hong Hu occupied the most mountain peaks, their master let them join Guang Tongchen, so they had no choice but to follow Chu Liuqin's orders.

  Two young cultivators lagged behind, not in a hurry to catch up. They had twenty inner sect disciples under their command, and after fighting all the way, they only lost three outer sect cultivators, while the inner sect disciples were unscathed.

  It's not just Zǐ Méi Zhēn Rén who gave his disciples life-saving equipment, Lǐ Xìn Líng controls Hóng Hú, and he has six fellow apprentices, a total of seven people in the same vein. He has nearly a hundred true transmission disciples under him. This Hóng Hú vein is skilled in talismans and symbols. The two true transmission disciples who came out this time not only received the required equipment and talismans for their mission but also received Dao-level equipment from Lǐ Xìn Líng.

  If this seal is released, its power will be enormous, and it's not something that the White Star Chess Realm Seal can compare to.

  Having fallen behind by over a hundred miles, the two people proceeded slowly, and on the vast river surface, a thick fog suddenly rose. The two true disciples of Honghu almost without thinking, manipulated their flying swords, and flew towards the right bank of the river. They were originally not far from the riverbank, and this distance of several dozen zhang, would normally be traversed in an instant.

  This time, two true disciples rushed head-on into the thick fog.

  "Don't panic, set up the formation." Discovering that they had fallen into the enemy's trap, these two true transmission disciples remained calm and composed, unfolding another magical banner. For this mission, each of the true transmission disciples had a magical banner in hand, used to isolate space, ready to make their move on Chu Wang Temple.

  Among the divine images of Chu Wang Temple, there is a rich heavenly energy, guarding the temple's evil spirits, which are also good materials for refining instruments. This time, Yun Meng Zong made a big move against Chu Wang Temple, and it was said that the divine power of the prayer in Chu Wang Temple had not been collected for a long time.

  Chu Jiang Wang must have encountered a problem, this is the perfect opportunity to attack. Take advantage of this to expand our influence to the Chu Jiang line and accelerate the expansion of the Men's faction, which was a unanimous decision by the elders of the sect.

  These two true disciples also both have the surname Li, and they don't have any familial relationship with Li Xingling.

  Senior Brother Li Zhenyi, Junior Brother Li Helun, in the Honghu lineage, although not considered top-notch true transmission disciples, they are also proficient in Taoist techniques and have participated in several sect missions, and have experience traveling outside.

  Upon discovering the ambush, the two immediately had the inner and outer door disciples form a large array together. They also brought over a hundred people with them; although the outer door disciples' magical powers were somewhat weaker, their experience in battle was richer. With one command, these over a hundred disciples immediately took up positions, forming Cloud Dream Sect's introductory array - the Eight Gates Trapping Immortals Array.

  The Eight Gates Formation is set up quickly and simply, with a slightly weaker attack power, but its defensive power is astonishing.

  Out of the thick fog on the river, a large hand stretched out, with black fog swirling around it, and grabbed Li Zhenyi's magic banner. The magic banner creaked in response, and in an instant, one side was missing. The big hand was also bounced off by the power on the magic banner, dispersing.

  Li He Lun unfolded the Taoist scroll given by his master without hesitation, and the two were inseparable even in the doorway. Li Zhenyi arranged the formation, and Li He Lun already knew what to do.

  The banner unfolded, and the thick fog suddenly dispersed, revealing the enemy.

  Li He-lun's road is seventy-two paths of pale blue light that twist and combine together, enveloping everyone inside.

  Li Zhenyi had already released three wooden tokens at this time. These were high-quality spell tokens, and after they were released, three fire tigers roared and rushed across the river surface, charging towards a giant who was leading the opposing group.

  The giant's feet trod on the waves, with a tiger skin draped over his body and a belt casually tied around his waist. The giant was about ten feet tall, followed by thirty-six Qi-refining warriors who also formed an array. Above the array, a gigantic red bear's shadow roared, as if it would pounce out at any moment.

  That giant swung his palm and sent the fire tiger conjured by Fa Xuan flying out. The giant laughed maniacally, "You little ones from Yun Meng Sect, Mu Hong Xiong under Night Emperor's seat has come to take your lives."