Fu Qingjin nodded slightly. This was indeed an unprecedented opportunity to kill Strong Stone. A mere early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was actually able to forcefully block Strong Stone twice. This was truly astonishing. That arcane artifact seemed to be no ordinary item.
Without waiting for Strong Stone to force out the sword qi, Fu Qingjin became one with his sword and charged forward, clashing with Strong Stone.
Li Qingshan heaved a sigh of relief. He closed the Cursive Sword Calligraphy and sat down to meditate to recover his qi. Although the Cursive Sword Calligraphy was powerful, it also consumed a shocking amount of spiritual qi.
If it wasn't for the fact that the Arts of the Boundless Ocean provided a large amount of spiritual qi and an extremely fast recovery rate, a normal cultivation technique might not be able to support it.
Even now, he couldn't use it consecutively. He had to recover his qi every time he used it.
However, he still had a trump card that he hadn't used yet!
Within his body, a sword as black as ink floated above his sea of qi.
After Li Qingshan had obtained the Cursive Sword Calligraphy from Chu Shidao, he had refined it again. Now, he could also store the sword qi within the Cursive Sword Calligraphy into his sea of qi, ready for use.
However, it was no longer a messy hundred strands of sword qi. Instead, it had fused into a single black sword.
Li Qingshan had yet to test its might, but he believed that it would be able to give any enemy a pleasant surprise when paired with the Illusory Water Sword of Invisibility.
At this moment, Strong Stone suddenly let out a wild roar, piercing through the Green Ruins Illusion and reaching the horizon.
A moment later, the earth began to shake. Looking down from the sky, one could see huge bumps bulging out of Jiaping City. Earth and stone cracked, buildings were destroyed, and waves of demonic qi spread out.
The place where Li Qingshan was meditating was also pushed up. With a rumble, the earth split open, and a blood-red tongue stretched out towards Li Qingshan.
Li Qingshan's heart skipped a beat. Strong Stone finally couldn't help but summon his subordinates. These seven or eight waves of demonic qi were all powerful Daemon Generals. He used the Wave Treading Form to avoid the long tongue. Using the Illusory Water Sword of Invisibility, he turned invisible and retracted his aura.
Each of them was a giant creature that was more than a hundred feet tall. All of them drilled out of the ground in their true bodies, some resembling toads. Some of them resembled wolves, while others had strange forms. It was impossible to tell what kind of wild beasts they had originally been. All of them opened their bloody mouths wide and roared at Strong Stone in the Green Ruins Illusion.
As if responding to these roars, Strong Stone's body also began to grow. In the blink of an eye, he grew to more than ten feet tall, turning into a huge stone giant. His small eyes shone brightly as he looked down at Fu Qingjin.
Fu Qingjin remained unmoved. As Strong Stone grew larger, the Green Ruins Illusory Realm grew larger as well. However, under the onslaught of the Demonic Qi and malevolent Qi, it grew weaker as well.
"Fu Qingjin, I didn't come here to kill you. Since you don't know the difference between life and death, then leave your life behind! "Strong Stone's voice was extremely gloomy.
It was as if a huge rock was rolling in his stomach. As he spoke, he slammed his palm down at Fu Qingjin.
Strongboulder ordered, "Little ones, don't worry. Kill the human next to him! "
Li Qingshan exhaled. Plans really couldn't keep up with the changes. It wouldn't be so easy to continue watching from the sidelines.
Daemons had extremely strong senses, let alone a daemon that had undergone the first heavenly tribulation. If it wasn't intentional, he might be able to avoid their senses. But if it was intentional, it would definitely be difficult to avoid their detection.
A wave of Demonic Qi swept over and quickly locked onto Li Qingshan's position. The huge earthy yellow wolf pounced at the empty space, biting down viciously.
Li Qingshan dodged the bite and arrived at the side of the wave. His figure materialized as he slashed at the wolf's neck with the Illusory Water Sword of Invisibility.
The blade was still transparent, but it spat out a bright blue sword ray that resembled a waterfall. Tearing apart the wolf's fur, it was also completely exhausted.
The dagger was revealed. A thick, ink-black sword Qi directly pierced through the wolf's tough flesh.
This was the trump card that Li Qingshan had been holding back all this time, the black sword Qi stored in his dantian's sea of qi. The sword aura and sword intent that he had comprehended from the Cursive Sword Calligraphy had also completely fused into this attack. It was fine when he didn't attack, but when he did, he used his full strength.
The wolf let out a miserable howl. The black sword Qi spread out with its neck as the center, forming a circle that resembled an ink mark. Immediately after, the huge wave fell down from its neck. It had actually been decapitated in one blow. Although daemons had strong recovery abilities, they still died on the spot after suffering such a fatal injury. Their blood flowed like a river.
Li Qingshan cleanly put the wolf's corpse and daemon core into his hundred treasures pouch. Looking around, daemons surrounded him, eyeing him like a tiger watching its prey. In that instant, sharp claws, fangs, and mystical abilities all came at him.
Li Qingshan swiftly moved on his sword. The surging daemon qi kept pinpointing his location. He could only continuously use the Wave Treading Form to weave in and out of the daemons' attacks. He had just escaped a wave of poisonous mist that came at him when the Toad Mirror's tongue came at him again. Waves surged under his feet, and he suddenly turned. Just Now, he had avoided the disaster.
Every time he used the Wave Treading Form, his figure would flash for an instant and then disappear again. At first glance, it seemed like he had teleported.
The Illusory Water Sword of Invisibility was not useless. Although it could not achieve complete invisibility, it only needed to slightly confuse the enemy's vision, even if it was just for a moment, and that was enough for him.
Therefore, although it looked like danger after danger, there was actually not much danger. In just a few moves, Li Qingshan had escaped from the daemons' encirclement and arrived high in the sky. Obtaining a daemon core was not bad at all.
Strong Stone watched as the encirclement he had set up was torn apart so easily. Li Qingshan ground his teeth in hatred. He knew that if he continued fighting like this, there would definitely be no benefit, so he suddenly shrank.
"Little Ann, Strong Stone is about to run. Get ready."
Li Qingshan's eyes lit up. Little Ann had already arrived below Jiaping city. Fu Qingjin was not easy to deal with. He understood this the best. Strong Stone's daemon qi had been mostly depleted, and he was covered in slashes. Without a doubt, this was the perfect opportunity to kill him.
However, Fu Qingjin was not much better off either. His clothes were severely damaged, and the Green Ruins sword seemed much dimmer. Li Qingshan secretly calculated. What were his chances of killing him if he worked with Little Ann now?
"You will definitely die here today." The exhaustion on Fu Qingjin's face suddenly vanished. Cold light flashed through his eyes, and his words were filled with sternness.
With a wave of his hand, a scarlet talisman appeared between his fingers. He bellowed, "Wind!"
Before he had even finished speaking, a tornado appeared beneath Strong Stone's feet, sweeping up Strong Stone into the sky. It connected the sky and the earth like a black dragon.
Li Qingshan curled his lip. Didn't he say he wouldn't use talismans?
The wind of the tornado was thousands of times sharper than blades. It was like a huge meat grinder, scraping against Strong Stone and stripping him of stone.
Fu Qingjin sheathed his sword, and the Green Ruins Illusion dispersed as well. He stared at Strong Stone, who had been swept into the sky. All of his attention was focused on a single point.
In that moment, he drew his sword, but he vanished. A straight, green streak of light pierced through the sky, crossing with the tornado.
The tornado seemed to have been cut in half. It twisted a few times reluctantly before dispersing into a gust of wind. Strong Stone fell out of the sky. His eyes were wide open as if he struggled to believe that he would actually die here. A thin hole had been pierced through his chest, and he landed heavily on the ground.
Fu Qingjin separated from the Green Ruins sword. He looked back and frowned slightly. He murmured, "Did I still fail?"
Strong Stone leapt up. Although he was heavily injured, he still roared at the sky, "Fu Qingjin, I'll never die! If you kill me once, I'll slaughter thousands of cities again!"
Fu Qingjin sank into his thoughts. If there were no daemons around him, he could still give chase, but in a situation like this, he was not bold enough to risk his life. Killing someone of the same level was far too difficult. All he could do was watch the daemons sink into the ground.
However, he failed to notice that Li Qingshan was already looking at Strong Stone like he was looking at a corpse. Little Ann and the eighteen Skeleton Demons were already waiting there.
Li Qingshan looked away and slowly flew towards Fu Qingjin. The depths of his eyes hid a cold light. A few scarlet talismans had already been held between his fingers in his sleeves. Although their quality might not be as good as Fu Qingjin's talismans, they would definitely give him a pleasant surprise once he used them.
The accumulated power of belief could also be mobilized in an instant, turning into great destructive power. Most importantly, his daemon form possessed a few innate abilities.
His chances of success were seventy percent.
He had seventy percent confidence that he could kill Fu Qingjin here and deal with a huge problem for him. However, there was a thirty percent chance that Fu Qingjin would escape, and he would never be able to use Li Qingshan's identity to roam the human world again.
Victory and defeat ran through his mind before he made up his mind. He would take the gamble. If he did not have seventy percent confidence, what kind of man would he be?
Fu Qingjin said, "You're called Li Qingshan, right? Your swordsmanship is very good. It's very special."
"You're called Fu Qingjin, right? Your swordsmanship is very impressive as well." Li Qingshan exhaled gently and replied indifferently. He stowed the talismans away silently and looked back.
A few streaks of light shot over from the south-west, while a few streaks of light also shot over from the north-west. The reinforcements from the Demon Slayer and the Sword Collection palace had arrived.
Don't tell me I really have to fight him again like we agreed on? Li Qingshan felt some pity, but upon further thought, it was fine if he did not take the gamble. As his cultivation deepened, his chances at victory would only increase, not decrease. If he killed Fu Qingjin here, he would be the "checkmate", and the game of chess with the Clear River prefecture would come to a complete end.
There were two possibilities. One was that both sides recognised the cruelty of war and decided to continue abiding by the Treaty of Kings and maintain peace. However, the possibility of this was almost non-existent. The greater possibility was that war would engulf the entire Green province.
They had already had their appetizers anyway. The powerful figures could roll up their sleeves and prepare for a feast. A small fry like him probably could not even be considered a dish, so he was better off waiting.
Fu Qingjin was not angered by Li Qingshan's arrogance. Instead, he said sincerely, "Thank you for your assistance, fellow."
He admired Li Qingshan's performance in the battle very much. Not only was his swordsmanship extraordinary, but his thoughts were clear in battle as well, allowing him to avoid danger. The rarest part of it all was that he had broken through to Foundation Establishment at such a young age. Even in the Sword Collection palace, he could be regarded as a prodigy.
Due to a strange combination of circumstances, Li Qingshan failed to attack Fu Qingjin. Instead, he gained quite a good impression from him.
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