The man in black rolled on the ground, and the flying dagger missed. He had already shoved a pill into his mouth. The flying dagger turned around and pressed forward again.
Roar!
He produced a beast-like roar, and his legs erupted with startling power. He lunged towards Hua Chenglu with a speed that completely exceeded Qi Practitioners.
He had ingested a pill that could unleash his potential. Pills like this would inevitably come with side effects, but he was forced to use it in a moment of life and death. If Hua Chenglu took out another scarlet talisman, his life would be in danger. He primarily cultivated the wood element, so he was skilled in nurturing his body. He could slowly recover afterwards.
Hua Chenglu's lips parted slightly. She was taken aback. She no longer thought about killing the cultivator in black. She pushed off with her slender legs and rushed into the air. A pair of beautiful wings unfurled on her back, and she flew into the sky.
The wings were forged from overlapping metal pieces. They were the crystallization of the school of Mohism's mechanical arts. Then, she had painted them according to her preferences, so they seemed like real wings.
Regular Qi Practitioners lacked the ability to fly at high altitudes. As long as they reached a certain altitude, they would be invincible. Of course, the pair of wings was worth a lot as well.
The moment she was about to fly out of the sea of trees, her ankle suddenly tightened. A jade-green vine wrapped around her. It was the man in black's spiritual artifact. He pulled her down forcefully. "Get down!"
"Argh!" Hua Chenglu cried out and fell out of the sky. A thick, powerful hand gripped her slender neck firmly.
"Run!" The man in black smiled viciously. The veins on his face were clearly visible, which made him seem even more vicious and terrifying. There had always been a great disparity between their cultivation and experience. After ingesting the pill that could unleash his potential, the man in black gained an overwhelming advantage.
"If you dare to kill me … my elder brother won't spare you!" A sliver of pain appeared on Hua Chenglu's beautiful face, but her eyes remained stubborn.
"Kill you? Don't worry, I can't bear to do that right now! Wait until I find a secret place, and then I'll slowly torture you. Don't we have ten days? By the time your elder brother finds you, you'll already be a corpse, and you'll be completely naked! "
Hua Chenglu could not help but become afraid. If she really ended up like that, she would be better off dead right now. Was she really a cultivator?
"Elder brother, where are you?"
"Ahem, I don't have a real brother, but I do have a brother, Brother Li!"
At this moment, the man in black heard a voice from behind. Hua Chenglu's eyes suddenly lit up. "Big brother Li!"
The black-clothed man suddenly turned his head and saw the speaker clearly. It was a burly young man who was looking at him as if he was a dead man. The black-clothed man's expression changed. "Li Qingshan … don't come any closer. If you come any closer, I'll …"
He hadn't finished speaking when a flash appeared before his eyes and Li Qingshan had already arrived before him. Li Qingshan casually patted the black clothed man's shoulder, and the black clothed man instantly felt as if his bones had been pulled out and he fell weakly to the ground.
Hua Chenglu also landed on the ground, almost collapsing. Li Qingshan supported her waist and asked in concern, "Are you fine?"
Under the impact of the boulder just now, even though she had the protection of the amulet, she still couldn't avoid some injuries. However, in the tense battle, she had no time to take care of it. Now that she was finally free, she felt pain all over her body.
Water spiritual energy permeated from Li Qingshan's hand, and only then did she feel much better. She coughed a few more times and rubbed her neck. "Something almost happened. Fortunately, sir- commander Li, you came in time!"
"You've become a commander so quickly!" Li Qingshan smiled. He had met Hua Chenglu very early on. Although they did not spend much time together after that, he had a very good impression of her. Seeing how the little loli of the past had become a great beauty, he could not help but sigh over the passage of time.
"If you don't mind my cultivation being too weak, I'll still call you that!"
Hua Chenglu stuck out her tongue, feeling rather embarrassed. The current Li Qingshan could no longer be compared to the past. The difference in cultivation was like an invisible chasm, and their statuses were worlds apart. Seeing how he still remembered old times and did not look down on her, she rejoiced inside. However, she asked in confusion, "Big brother Li, how did you know I was here?"
Li Qingshan's arrival here was not a coincidence. In order to recover his spiritual qi as quickly as possible, he had specially come to the great banyan tree, planning to drink some tree sap like the dwarf. He just happened to hear Hua Chenglu's cry, so he hurried over.
"So it's here. Fortunately, you came, or who knows what would have happened," Hua Chenglu said with lingering fear. Hua Chenglu said with lingering fear before becoming furious again. She controlled the flying blade and swung it at the man in black on the ground.
"Hold on, I still have use for this person!" Li Qingshan caught her flying blade and removed the hundred treasures pouch and two medals from the man in black. He tossed them to Hua Chenglu and said, "Just treat it as compensation for the mental damage this bastard has done to you."
With a wave of his hand, a white cloud slowly descended. It was filled with people, and from their attire, they were all Si Qing's subordinates. There were around a dozen of them. Although they did not move at all, they were all still alive.
These were the captives Li Qingshan had captured along the way. He tossed the man in black onto the cloud and thought, "This should be enough!"
Hua Chenglu asked in surprise, "Big brother Li, what are you doing?"
"Feeding the tree!"
"Feeding the tree?"
"More accurately, feeding the vines. I can't explain it to you in such a short amount of time. I'm going, so you better go meet up with them!" Li Qingshan stepped onto the cloud, and Hua Chenglu grabbed his sleeve. "Big brother Li, can I come with you?"
"Hmm? You might be in danger if you come with me! "Li Qingshan said. He had no idea when those people would charge over.
"I'm not afraid! I beg you!" Hua Chenglu brought her palms together and pleaded.
"Fair enough. Come on up!"
Li Qingshan thought about it and felt that it was rather inappropriate for Hua Chenglu to pass through so many battlefields alone. Along the way, he saw that the battles between the cultivators had suddenly become extremely intense. He needed to retrieve the tree sap as soon as possible and then send her to Liu Changqing's side!
He made Hua Chenglu ascend as well, riding the cloud and arriving before the great banyan tree. Retrieving the tree sap was not a simple matter. He needed to pass through the frenzied sun vines first.
However, as a cultivator, he was not necessarily faster than the dwarf in terms of speed. He was much larger too, so the difficulty of passing through the sun vines had increased without a doubt. Moreover, he did not understand the pattern of the sun vines' attacks, so he dared not try it recklessly, just in case he accidentally unleashed his daemon powers and gave himself away.
As a result, he came up with an idea like this. He used these people as bait to draw away the sun vines' attacks, and then he could take advantage of the situation to reap the benefits.
Hua Chenglu sighed in amazement, "So big!"
"Why don't you try tossing this guy over?" Li Qingshan picked up the man in black and passed it to Hua Chenglu. He wanted to see how the sun vines would react. He basically wanted her to kill her enemy with her own hands!
The man in black was immobilized, but his eyes were filled with shock. He obviously knew how terrifying the sun vines were.
"Is this what you call feeding a tree?" Hua Chenglu lifted up the man in black happily before lowering him again. "Can you raise the cloud a little higher?"
"What for?"
"There's a tree below to catch him. I'm afraid he won't die from the fall!"
"Haha, don't worry, he'll definitely die. If he doesn't, I'll just throw him again!"
Hua Chenglu adjusted the man's position so that his head was facing the tree. With a cry, she threw him towards the great banyan tree as hard as she could. She was a cultivator after all. Although she was just a Qi Practitioner, throwing something that weighed over fifty kilograms was very easy. The man in black slammed his head into the tree.
Swish! A sun vine as thick as an arm pierced through him and coiled around him a few times. In the blink of an eye, he was reduced to a dried-up corpse.
Hua Chenglu covered her mouth. She never thought the vines would be so powerful, and Just Now, only the relatively thin sun vines moved. Meanwhile, the huge sun vines that coiled around the tree like dragons did not move at all, as if they could not be bothered with small prey like that.
"The effects aren't too ideal!"
Li Qingshan rubbed his chin in thought. Suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, he grabbed a captive and tossed him out as well. He threw him much slower than Hua Chenglu, while the captive flew into the air and let out a despairing howl. He circulated his true qi desperately in an attempt to flee in the opposite direction.
When Li Qingshan tossed him out, he released the seal along the way.
Immediately, over a dozen sun vines were alarmed. One of them was as thick as Hua Chenglu's waist. Of course, there was a limit to how thick it was, but it was still an improvement.
"I see!" Li Qingshan smiled. With a step on the cloud, all of them were launched into the air. He struck out with his palms consecutively, sending them flying in different directions. At the same time, he released the seal in their bodies. They all knew they were done for, but with death at hand, all of them struggled as hard as they could, circulating their true qi with everything they had.
Several hundred sun vines began to dance about madly. Just when Li Qingshan wanted to follow them closely, he suddenly heard a bellow from behind, "Li Qingshan!" The bellow rang out from behind. The first word was still far away, but the final word was already five kilometers away.
Li Qingshan suddenly looked back. It was the group of Foundation Establishment cultivators from the marquis' estate charging over. When they saw Li Qingshan use their subordinates and disciples as live bait to feed the golden vines, their eyes were filled with fury.
The dwarf used an Escape talisman and flew towards Li Qingshan as a streak of light. He could tell what Li Qingshan was planning with a single glance. He would never let him obtain the tree sap to recover his spiritual qi.
As long as he could keep him busy for a while, he would be able to block the great banyan tree and end his life. If he dared to force his way through, then all he needed to do was disturb the rhythm of the sun vines' dance slightly, and he would not be able to return. He had learned this move during that duel.
Li Qingshan had never expected them to come at such a perfect time. He frowned slightly, grabbed Hua Chenglu, and charged towards the great banyan tree.
The dwarf was overjoyed. He cursed, "Idiot!" Just as he was about to disturb the sun vines, he saw a strange sword suddenly appear in Li Qingshan's hand, swinging it at him from afar.
The sword Qi that had fused with fifty percent of Li Qingshan's spiritual qi traveled from his dantian to his arm, then to the Traitorous Demon sword. It became even sharper, whistling towards the dwarf.
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