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Li Qingshan said coldly, "Even without me, fellow Fu, you wouldn't have died in a place like this. There are plenty of talismans in the Sword Collection palace anyway. (...)
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"I still have to thank you." Fu Qingjin smiled, basically admitting that he was not in any danger.
Actually, what he truly thanked was Li Qingshan for saving Yu Zijian. He just did not want to point it out.
Li Qingshan could vaguely guess this, but he did not say it out loud.
Fu Qingjin sighed gently, "If it weren't for the fact that I had no other choice, I wouldn't have been willing to use this. This isn't the Way of the Sword of my Sword Collection palace. However, the rock demons are extremely dangerous. They've killed millions and massacred countless cities. In order to kill them, I couldn't care less. "
As if he had heard the greatest joke in the world, Li Qingshan laughed aloud.
"Why are you laughing, fellow?"
"If you hadn't broken the Treaty of Kings first, how would these daemons have been able to wreak havoc on the surface?"
"Since it's called the Treaty of Kings, how could I have broken it? I was just going with the flow." Fu Qingjin was born with the bearing of a monarch. His courteous words even gave off the feeling of being courteous to the wise, which made him feel overwhelmed by the favor.
"Don't try to shirk your responsibility. You'll always have a part to play." However, Li Qingshan did not buy it. Instead, he became even more displeased. He had always wanted to end his karma, yet the other party had so easily shirked it off.
Fu Qingjin smiled and really did not try to shirk his responsibility. He changed the topic and asked, "Fellow, can you let me see the arcane artifact you're Just Now?"
"The Sword Collection palace is a large organization. How could they lack a tiny arcane artifact of mine?"
As he said that, a few streaks of light arrived before him. They were from the Hundred Schools of Thought. They were led by Wang Pushi and Hwa Seung-zan.
"Qingshan, are you fine?"
When Hwa Seung-zan learnt that his sister and Yu Zijian had been massacred by the rock demons, he really had leapt in fright and hurried over. His seven orifices were exquisite, he calculated everything, but he was afraid of encountering this kind of uncontrollable variable.
If it really was the Stone Demon, not to mention the two puny Qi Practitioners, even Li Qingshan would be in danger.
Li Qingshan said, "I'm fine. I even killed a Goblin General. Lao Wang, don't forget to record my achievements when you go back. In any case, I'm a Foundation Establishment cultivator. I should've been promoted to be on equal footing with you a long time ago! "
Wang Pushi had already prepared himself for the worst, so he heaved a sigh of relief. Hearing his words, they only scolded him jokingly, "You stinking brat, what's yours won't go unrewarded. Tell us, what's going on?"
Li Qingshan then gave a brief account of what had happened.
Hwa Seung-zan clapped his hands and praised, "Qingshan, you really are a genius!"
The other cultivators could not help but raise their opinion of Li Qingshan as well. They never thought that the school of Novels would produce such a figure after so long of seclusion. Not only did he save the two Qi Practitioners from the Stone Demon, but he even dared to go back and assist Fu Qingjin in killing the Stone Demon. In the end, he even managed to kill one of the Goblin Generals when surrounded by them. Not only did such methods require intelligence, they also required tremendous courage.
If it were them, they would have to think twice about just going back to save the two Qi Practitioners. They had to walk step by step. It was like walking on a tightrope. One wrong step and they would lose their lives on the spot.
Actually, Li Qingshan did not think that much at all. If he let Strong Stone use a single hand, Strong Stone would not be able to kill him. A person who was not afraid of falling off a tightrope would naturally be daring enough to dance on it in a carefree manner. Instead, it would lead to waves of exclamations from those who did not know what was going on.
Fu Qingjin finished speaking to the Demon Slayer cultivators. He then stared deeply at Hwa Seung-zan, implying a hint of warning.
He then clasped his hands towards Li Qingshan with a smile, "If the people of the Hundred Schools can be like fellow Qingshan, both wise and courageous, letting bygones be bygones, there would be no need to worry about not being able to accomplish great things and not wiping out the demons."
The Demon Slayer cultivators looked at each other in surprise. It was very rare for Fu Qingjin to be so polite to someone.
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Deep underground, the Stone Demon shook off his Goblin Generals subordinates and used the Earth Movement Technique to burrow into a rock cave extremely deep underground. After confirming that no one was pursuing him, he relaxed. His face was filled with misfortune as he gnashed his teeth together.
"Fu Qingjin, and that brat, I'll definitely make you die a horrible death!"
He had been heavily injured this time. Fu Qingjin had become one with his sword and pierced through his chest to his back. This was not just a piercing wound. The powerful sword qi and sword intent contained in that strike was enough to destroy his internal organs.
If it was an ordinary Goblin General, he would definitely have died on the spot. Only a Stone Demon like him, who had no so-called vital points on his body, could tenaciously survive.
Just as he was about to force this sword qi out and return to his territory to heal his injuries.
Thump ~ Thump ~ Thump ~
In the darkness, a sparkling and translucent snow-white pearl bounced over. The bouncing sound was extremely loud in the silent underground.
Strong Stone felt that the situation was a bit strange. His pair of small eyes followed the pearl up and down until it was right in front of him. He grabbed the pearl and thought to himself, "What is this? It seems to be a bone. "
He could not feel any aura from it. When he casually squeezed it, the pearl actually did not move at all. He was even more surprised. There were not many things in this world that could withstand his squeeze and not break.
With a crackle, over a dozen beads bounced over like pearls landing on a jade plate. They arrived beside Strongboulder's feet and leapt about like living creatures.
"Who is playing tricks over there? Get the hell out here!" Strong Stone shouted loudly.
His perception was extremely sharp, but no matter how he probed, he could not feel any aura from the darkness.
He felt a little uneasy, but he had a fearless nature. He was confident that no matter how bad the situation was, he would be able to escape with the Earth Escape. Those beads were jumping around, making him anxious. He jumped up and kicked them. The beads that he kicked actually stuck to his foot.
He looked down and found that the pearl on his hand was also stuck to his hand. Looking at it carefully, it turned into a small skeleton that tightly hugged his finger. In the blink of an eye, it turned into the size of a baby and hugged Strong Stone's entire wrist. His teeth chattered as he let out a strange cackle.
The eighteen prayer beads turned into eighteen skeletons. Like eighteen monkeys, they hugged Strong Stone's hands, feet, back, neck, and entire body.
"I thought it was something special. It's just so-so!" Strong Stone laughed viciously, but his smile suddenly froze. Those slender skeletal arms exerted astonishing strength and tightened around his entire body, immobilizing him.
When Little Ann refined the Skull Prayer Beads from fourteen to eighteen, the strength of all the Skeleton Demons increased as well. Every single one of them could deal with a normal Daemon General. When the eighteen of them worked together, even Strong Stone was helpless against them, not to mention that he had just gone through a great battle and was still in a weakened state.
"Petty tricks!" Strong Stone abruptly enlarged his body. The eighteen Skeleton Demons above his head grew as well. Their bodies became abnormally thick, and their strength increased as well. They pressed down on Strong Stone as if he was carrying a small mountain on his back.
Strong Stone knelt on the ground loudly. When he opened his eyes, a "dignified" little skeleton was standing in front of him at some point in time.
Strong Stone's Stone of Slaughter could influence the minds of all living beings and stimulate their killing intent. However, at this moment, the other party had influenced his mind. His killing intent had been cleansed, turning into an "intent of death".
Beauty and white bones had become emptiness.
This tiny skeleton was like a soul-reaping emissary from the underworld. It had come to tell him the inevitable truth of the transition between life and death. No one could escape it, no one could change it. All struggles were futile.
"What are you!?" Strong Stone violently broke free from this thought. With a wild roar, he unleashed what little daemon qi he had left, filling the entire cavern.
The cavern suddenly began to squirm, like the stomach of a monster. Stalagmites bit down at Little Ann like long, sharp fangs. They also seemed like the fangs of a monster.
Strong Stone was filled with confidence. No matter what it was, only death awaited it if it dared to provoke him underground. It would definitely be crushed to death by this ability of his.
Little Ann took a step forward and swung the white bone sword, plunging it into the hole in Strong Stone's chest.
Due to Strong Stone's growth, the hole left behind by the Green Ruins sword had become extremely large as well. It was basically enough for a person to pass through.
As a result, Little Ann's white bone sword only stabbed into empty space, while Strong Stone smiled viciously.
Little Ann possessed the ability to turn flesh, blood, and bones into flames, but Strong Stone was transformed from a strange rock. He had no flesh, blood, or bones. Whether it was the Blood Flames of Corpse Incineration or the Pale Flames of Bone Smelting, they were all useless against Strong Stone. She could restrain Blood Shadow, but Strong Stone seemed to restrain her instead.
The flickering flames in Little Ann's eye sockets suddenly turned icy-blue.
Ice-blue flames suddenly surged out of the white bone sword, filling up the hole in Strong Stone's chest. The eighteen Skeleton Demons opened their ghastly mouths together and sprayed out icy-blue flames, enveloping Strong Stone.
Strong Stone laughed madly. He possessed a natural resistance to various techniques. The one he feared the least was fire. Even scorching magma could not melt him.
His laughter suddenly came to a halt. He felt a deep chill. This feeling did not come from his body, but from the depths of his soul. For the first time in his life, he shivered. So cold!
"Ice Flames of Soul Smelting!" Little Ann chanted inside. After reaching the first layer of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty, she had finally completely grasped these three flames — Corpse Incineration, Bone Smelting, and Soul Smelting.
When the three were combined, they would be completely obliterated.
"I'm going to take you down with me!"
Strong Stone felt colder and colder. He knew that if this continued, only death would await him. He wanted to blow up his daemon core in a frenzy. However, he discovered that the daemon core that was closely related to him was no longer under his control.
Before he knew it, the cavern had already stopped shaking. Strong Stone's daemon qi had dispersed.
And, it was not just his daemon core. He could not even move a finger. He had been frozen by the bone-chilling coldness. Not only had his thoughts been severed, but even his fear had become intermittent, as if he had become the senseless rock of the past once more.
"Don't … no …"
Little Ann reached out with her bone claw and extracted the frozen soul from Strong Stone's body.
Strong Stone collapsed loudly, landing before Little Ann as a strange rock. It flickered with light senselessly, giving off a powerful aura of malice.
The Ice Flames of Soul Smelting returned to Little Ann's body like a receding tide, merging with the other two flames and turning into an almost transparent, faint-white flame that flickered in her eye sockets.
This was the foundation of the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty — the Samādhi Flames of White Bone.
All living beings with souls and flesh in the world would be incinerated and frozen as soon as they came into contact with this fire. They would go from life to death, doomed beyond redemption.
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