In the stone forest, saber light flashed constantly. In his beast form, Lu Ye's every slash had reached a new peak in both speed and power.
He Bing parried with his spear, but the web between his thumb and forefinger began to crack. His Spirit Energy was surging, and his situation was getting worse.
Li Baxian and Feng Yue Chan supported Lu Ye from the side, restraining He Bing's energy. Finally, Lu Ye found a good opportunity to stab his saber straight at He Bing's chest.
Panic flashed in He Bing's eyes. At this moment, his body leaned back, and his chest was wide open. Although he wanted to block the incoming saber, it was too late.
With Lu Ye's current strength, his Spirit Body Protection couldn't block this saber at all.
In other words, if he was really stabbed, it would definitely be a penetrating result. It was very likely that he would lose his life under this saber.
At this critical moment, He Bing suddenly pushed his Spirit Energy, and a bright triangular barrier appeared in front of him.
The Mountain Coiling Saber was blocked by the barrier and couldn't move an inch.
He Bing's face was full of fear. At that moment, he really felt the aura of death.
Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and looked at the flowing lines on the barrier that suddenly appeared. He recognized them at a glance. They were Spirit Runes.
[The enemy in front of me is a Battle Inscription Master?]
[No!]
[If he really is a Battle Inscription Master, there's no reason why he didn't activate his Spirit Runes in the battle just now. Since he isn't a Battle Inscription Master, he must have Spirit Runes on his body.]
Not every cultivator had the ability to inscribe spirit patterns. After all, there were not many Inscription Masters who could inscribe spirit patterns on cultivators. Moreover, the materials needed to inscribe spirit patterns were also extremely expensive. Generally speaking, with the foundation of a Cloud River Tier cultivator's body, they would only be able to bear one spirit pattern. Any more and they would not be able to bear it.
He Bing had Spirit Runes on his chest. At this moment, he pushed his Spirit Energy to stimulate the power of the Spirit Runes, which turned into a barrier and blocked Lu Ye's fatal blow.
This could be said to be He Bing's trump card. He wouldn't use it unless he had no other choice.
It had always been Lu Ye who activated his Spirit Runes to block others' attacks. This time, his attack was blocked by someone else's Spirit Runes, and he missed a good opportunity to kill his enemy.
Lu Ye's expression remained unchanged as he sheathed his saber and slashed again. However, the Defensive Spirit Rune was activated by a Seventh Order cultivator, and his Spirit Qi was constantly being poured into it, making it extremely sturdy.
If he wanted to break through these runes, he would need to have a sufficiently violent attack.
He retreated and raised his long saber horizontally. Fierce Qi and blood converged on his right arm, and his muscles bulged slightly.
But before Lu Ye could attack, Li Baxian had already made his move. The flying swords scattered in the surroundings suddenly gathered into the sword in his hand. Li Baxian held his sword in front of him with a solemn expression.
In an instant, a sharp killing intent swept out in all directions. Li Baxian seemed to have turned into an unsheathed sword.
Ever since Lu Ye had transformed into a beast, he had been watching from the side. He did not seek to injure or kill the enemy. His main goal was to tie down the enemy's energy. At this moment, seeing that He Bing had activated the defensive spirit rune, he no longer held back.
Li Baxian's entire body was integrated into the sword light. Like a flash of lightning, he appeared in front of He Bing and pointed his sword at the defensive rune.
It was a silent collision, but it was accompanied by a burst of strength.
With a loud crash, the impregnable defensive spirit rune shattered with a loud bang!
This was the terrifying power of a sword cultivator. With a cultivation weaker than He Bing's Third-Order, Li Baxian had broken through his strongest defence.
Under this sword strike, Li Baxian's face turned as pale as paper. He Bing swept out his spear and sent him flying.
At this moment, taking advantage of the opportunity created by Li Baxian, Lu Ye's long saber slashed down.
A flash!
He Bing's eyes were filled with panic as he pushed his Spirit Energy again, wanting to activate the defensive rune again, but he was still a step too slow.
As his long saber fell, the phantom of a fierce tiger flashed behind Lu Ye, and a tiger's roar seemed to ring out.
The fierce battlefield suddenly fell silent.
Lu Ye maintained the posture of his long saber and did not move for a long time. On the Mountain Coiling Saber, red blood gathered and dripped down.
* Drip … *
A faint sound broke the silence.
Feng Yue Chan pursed her red lips as she stared at He Bing, preparing to cast a Spirit Art.
Just ten metres in front of Lu Ye, He Bing froze in place, the long spear in his hand still in the posture of thrusting out, but the defensive spirit rune on his chest flashed and dissipated silently.
His eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Lu Ye in front of him. His face twitched, and then he fell on his back.
The moment he landed, his head separated from his body, his eyes wide open, filled with unwillingness and disbelief.
"Hu …"
Only now did Feng Yue Chan breathe a long sigh of relief, withdraw her Spirit Energy, and rush over to Li Baxian to check his condition.
Lu Ye also sat down on the ground, sprawled out on all fours, looking up at the void above his head.
His vision blurred and he appeared in the underground cave again. Yi Yi had noticed that the battle was over and had let them out.
"Lu Ye, are you okay?"
Yi Yi stepped forward and looked at Lu Ye, who looked like he was drenched in blood, her voice filled with tears.
"I'm fine, where's Fourth Senior Brother?"
Li Baxian's extremely weak voice came from the side, "Exhausted!"
His injuries were a bit better than Lu Ye's, but the last Secret Sword had exhausted all his strength.
Hearing Li Baxian's voice, Lu Ye felt relieved.
Relaxing his mind, a bloody light sprang out from his chest, revealing Hu Po's figure. However, Hu Po was clearly a bit weak at the moment, and it seemed that the beast form had also consumed a lot of his energy.
The moment Lu Ye deactivated his beast form, he felt an endless sense of weariness engulfing him. It was as if all of his essence, energy, and spirit had been sucked out of him.
This was not just the aftereffects of the beast form, but also the effects of the bloodstains. With the two added together, he simply could not bear it.
He only had time to say one sentence, "I'm going to sleep."
His consciousness fell directly into darkness.
Yi Yi was startled and hurriedly checked, and after confirming that Lu Ye's life was not in danger, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Baxian also fell asleep immediately after, and even Hu Po curled up beside Lu Ye, leaving Feng Yue Chan and Yi Yi to look after him.
After feeding Lu Ye a healing pill and carefully bandaging his wounds, Yi Yi said, "Senior Sister Feng, I'll go out and stand guard, please take care of things here."
Feng Yue Chan nodded, "Okay."
Having just experienced a great battle, Lu Ye and Li Baxian were both unconscious, so if someone were to come in at this time, the situation would not be good.
Yi Yi could escape through the ground, and when she was with Lu Ye, she was also responsible for keeping watch, so it was best for her to monitor the situation.
The moment Lu Ye killed He Bing, on the Bounty List hanging high in the sky, the number of Hunting Points behind his name suddenly increased by two hundred and fifty points, reaching three thousand nine hundred and ninety points in one fell swoop, only ten points short of four thousand.
This sudden change naturally attracted the attention of many people. Recently, the Hunting Points behind Lu Ye's name had often increased by hundreds or even hundreds of points, and when he killed a Sixth Order Master, it had increased by one hundred and eighty points, which naturally aroused many people's suspicions.
What was certain was that the cultivation of Lu Yi Ye, who was ranked first, was not too high, because only when he killed an enemy above his realm would his Hunting Points increase so much.
Now that his Hunting Points had increased by two hundred and fifty points, it really made people curious as to what kind of master he had killed. One had to know that a Ninth Order Cloud River Realm only represented a base number of sixty points, so two hundred and fifty points was four times that.
Five hundred kilometres away from the underground cave where Lu Ye and the others were, Wei Que frowned as he stared at the Bounty List with a gloomy expression.
He knew that Lu Ye was only a Third-Order cultivator, so an increase of two hundred and fifty Hunting Points undoubtedly meant that he had killed a Seventh Order Master!
A Third-Order Master killing a Seventh Order Master was simply unimaginable, and no one would believe it, even if he had Li Baxian and Feng Yue Chan as helpers.
But the facts were right in front of him.
What made him feel gloomy was not the increase in Lu Ye's Hunting Points. He had no intention of competing for a spot on the Bounty List, so no matter how many Lu Ye's Hunting Points increased, it had nothing to do with him.
His biggest goal was always Lu Ye.
The reason why he felt gloomy was because he was sure that he had been chasing in the wrong direction.
Several Third-Order Third-Order Masters killing a Seventh Order Master, the battle must have been fierce, so it was impossible to hide, but Wei Que had not found any trace of Lu Ye and the others.
[Those guys … Where did they run off to?]
[What method did they use to escape?]
Wei Que was completely confused.
As time passed, the rankings on the Bounty List continued to change, especially between the second and tenth places. The gap between them was very small, so it was possible that a random battle could cause a person's ranking to rise several places. Reading a book.
What made them even happier though was that Lu Ye's Hunting Points had stopped moving.
Previously, although Lu Ye's Hunting Points would not change for a long time, on the whole, they would increase almost every day, each time by a few hundred points.
But in the past few days, Lu Yiye's Hunting Points had completely stopped at three thousand nine hundred and ninety.
Originally, Lu Ye was far in the lead, leaving everyone behind him in despair, because with a gap of over a thousand Hunting Points, it was very difficult to catch up.
But now, they saw an opportunity again, so they worked even harder to search for traces of the enemy.
After three days, Tan Sheng, who was ranked second, finally overtook Lu Ye and occupied the first place on the Bounty List.
If it weren't for Lu Ye's name still hanging on the Bounty List, Tan Sheng would have almost suspected that this person was dead, but now that there had been no movement for three days, he must have been seriously injured and was most likely recuperating.
It had to be said that Tan Sheng's guess was correct.
Over the past three days, Lu Ye had indeed been recuperating, and his injuries were not too serious. For him, recuperating for a day or two wouldn't have much impact on his body. The key was the double sequelae of transforming into a beast and staining his Spirit Tattoo, which made his body feel weak.
The last time he had felt this weak was after he had activated his Fire Phoenix Spirit Tattoo at the Spirit Stream Battlefield, but at that time, Hua Ci had been by his side and had taken good care of him, allowing him to quickly recover.
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