My Cold and Elegant CEO Wife - Chapter 736

Chapter 736: Underground Magma River

 

Tianhao Luo called out to Qingfeng Li asking him to help the Luo Family. Casting him an indifferent glance, Qingfeng Li ignored him.

Qingfeng Li disliked Tianhao Luo in a very bad way and naturally would never help him.

“Ahh!” Tianhao Luo screamed. When he was calling to Qingfeng Li, Tianhao Luo was struck by a palm and spat blood from his mouth.

In order to get the Water Moon Sword, the rare grandmaster-grade weapon, everyone was trying their best, making the battle extremely fierce.

“Wolf King, you won’t help the Luo Family?” Shiwei Guo asked with a frown.

Qingfeng Li shook his head and said, “Niching Luo is my friend and I will help her when she’s in danger. As to the others, I don’t care if they die or not.”

At the same time, the battle for Water Moon Sword had become even more horrifying with more than a dozen deaths from all forces, including the Family Luo and Fiery Emperor Palace while Niching Luo and Xianzhi Qin were temporarily unscathed.

Swoosh!

With Cuilan Tie blocking their enemies for him, Jianlong Gu leapt onto the stone platform at a startling speed and grabbed Water Moon Sword in his hand.

Seeing Jianlong Gu take the sword, Niching Luo, Xianzhi Qin, Baidao Jiang, and Yun Tang surrounded him, trying to take it from him.

But Jianlong Gu just laughed, saying, “Hell King, Cold blood, come help me!”

At his words, Hell King and Cold Blood rushed over to join him. Including Cuilan Tie, they formed a group of four strong fighters, looking coldly at Niching Luo and the others on the opposite side.

“Jianlong Gu, as a member of the Gu Family from Tianjing City, how could you collude with the Ghost King Palace and Crimson Blood sect. Do you still call yourself an orthodox martial artist?” A flash of fury appeared on Niching Luo’s face, her words berating Jianlong.

There was nothing wrong with fighting each other for the Water Moon Sword, the highly tempting grandmaster-grade weapon, and neither was the partnership between Jianlong Gu and the Iron Fist sect since they were both orthodox forces. However, with their evil reputations, the Ghost King Palace and Crimson Blood sect were regarded as the unorthodox forces.

With a chilling sneer, Jianglong Gu said, “The winner takes all. You can come fight me if you don’t like it.”

At Jianglong Gu’s shameless answer, Niching Luo’s face darkened with fury. However, with Cuilan Tie, Hell King and Cold Blood joining Jianlong Gu, she was afraid that she couldn’t fight them all.

With the Water Moon Sword in his hand, Jianlong Gu infused vital essence into the weapon which immediately emitted a streak of silver light. The sword was so sharp that it cut a deep groove in the ground.

“What an amazing sword! No wonder it is a grandmaster-grade weapon.” Hell King complimented with a smile.

A flash of heat appeared in Cold Blood’s eyes. His father possessed a grandmaster-grade weapon while he had none even though he was ranked first on the Higher Heaven List.

“Hell King, Cold Blood, the next treasures we find will be yours.” Jianlong Gu smiled.

The truth was, before entering the tomb, Jianlong Gu had secretly reached an agreement with Hell King and Cold Blood that the first treasure would belong to any of them who grabbed it first and the treasures found after would go to the other party.

The partnership among the Gu Family, Iron Fist sect, Ghost King Palace and Crimson Blood sect was super powerful and forced even Xianzhi Qin of the Fiery Emperor Palace to back off temporarily, not to mention the Luo Family.

Qingfeng Li narrowed his eyes in which a flash chilling light glinted. He had planned for his enemies to kill each other but he had never expected that they would have formed an alliance in secret.

Though some members of each force had died in the fight for Water Moon Sword, they were just subordinates while the masters remained safe, which gave Qingfeng Li no satisfaction. He had no choice but to wait for the right time to kill his enemies.

Though everyone still coveted the Water Moon Sword that was now in the possession of Jianlong Gu, they decided to stop the fight since they could not defeat the many forces partnering with Jianlong Gu.

“Qingfeng Li, why didn’t you rescue us when I called for you to help our Luo Family members?” Tianhao Luo walked over to Qingfeng Li and questioned him.

“I only help Miss Niching Luo. I don’t give a sh*t for everyone else.” Smiling coldly, Qingfeng Li looked at Tianhao Luo with disdain.

“You, you, you…” pointing at Qingfeng Li, Tianhao Luo’s eyes were full of fury.

He thought Qingfeng Li was too wild and arrogant. It was the Luo Family that had taken Qingfeng Li to the grandmaster’s tomb and he should have refused to lend a helping hand when they were in danger.

With a sign, Niching Luo said, “Stop it, Tianhao Luo. I did take Qingfeng Li here but he has no duty to rescue you.”

With two family members dead, Niching Luo was in a bad mood but she didn’t think it was right to blame Qingfeng Li since she knew that his only purpose here was to look for the Black Crow Vine.

They continued forward after the Water Moon Sword was taken. The dead bodies were left behind and no one gave them a thought.

After they left, a mysterious figure covered in a red robe appeared from thin air.

The red-robed figure came to the bodies and opened its mouth, sucking their blood dry. These bodies soon became horrible mummies.

“Heihei, the fresh blood is so delicious.” Looking in the direction of the group of people who had just left, the red-robed figure disappeared in the tunnel with a chilling blood-thirsty snicker.

Blessed with very acute hearing, Qingfeng Li seemed to have heard something behind them, but when he stopped the sound disappeared.

“Wolf King, why did you stop?” Bafflement in her charming face, Niching Luo thought Qingfeng Li had found another trap.

He shook his head and said, “It was nothing. Let’s continue.”

Qingfeng Li glanced behind him and saw nothing but darkness in the tunnel, but he had the uneasy feeling that a pair of eyes were lurking there watching him.

The tunnel of the underground tomb was very large and at least 1,000 meters deep. One hour later, Qingfeng Li led the others to the very end of the tunnel.

Before them was a huge round palace with an area of about 1,000 square meters and a dozen or so rooms all built with black marble.

However, there lay between the tunnel and the palace a giant magma river, with red-hot lava bubbling with a temperature as high as over 1,000 degrees.

Underground lava river?

Everyone froze with astonishment. They had known the grandmaster tomb was not a simple place but they had never imagined that the super grandmaster was buried at the underground magma river.

Looking down from the rock he stood on at the moving magma and feeling the fiery heat, Qingfeng Li’s eyes flashed with astonishment.

He had now understood that the grandmaster buried here was not an ordinary one of his kind, but a super grandmaster.

Chapter 737: Elixir King’s Tomb

 

“Look, there’s a tombstone here.” All of a sudden, a surprised voice came in everyone’s ears.

When hearing the words, all the people cheered up and looked toward the tombstone. There was a tombstone on the bank of the lava river, opposite to the palace.

The tombstone was black, three meters high, in a rectangular shape, and made of extraterrestrial meteorites. Its material was so special that it kept intact even if it stayed close to the lava of over one thousand degrees.

“I am Alchemy Grandmaster Yun Xiao, and people called me ‘Elixir King Yun Xiao’. I devoted my entire lifetime to pursue alchemy, which helped me reach the peak of the grandmaster realm and dominate the world with my skill. I wondered if there is a higher realm above the grandmaster realm and I have never stopped seeking it, but my life is going to run out, and I am afraid I will not have the chance…”

“Here is the burial place of myself, the Elixir King. Across the lava river, in the palace ahead there lies the book in which I have written my knowledge: Alchemy of the Elixir King. In addition to that, there are some elixirs and grandmaster-tier martial arts skills as well.”

“In my lifetime, I have climbed up to the peak of grandmaster realm. It is said that there is a higher realm above the grandmaster realm, but it is a pity that I could not see it. If someone who comes later happens to inherit my legacy and they manage to break through to the grandmaster realm someday, be sure to tell me so I can rest in peace. ”

The inscription on the tombstone was very detailed, with an introduction of the tomb’s owner and the stuff he left.

After reading tombstone, everyone was wearing a shocking face with their mouth open, preoccupied by what they had just seen.

“Elixir King Yun Xiao, it is unexpectedly the number one Alchemist in Huaxia from fifty years ago. That Yun Xiao!”

“Unbelievable, he was an incomparable Elixir King who was well-known for not only his outstanding alchemy skill, but also his strength in cultivation.”

“Yes, I’ve even heard from my father that Yun Xiao was the top genius in Huaxia fifty years ago, with great talents in alchemy and martial arts.”

With shock and admiration in their eyes, the people around were excited to discuss the tomb’s owner. Since they were disciples of big family clans and big powers, they surely had heard of the name of Yun Xiao.

In Huaxia, apart from ancient martial arts, there was also alchemy. In ancient times, some Daoists served Emperors by providing elixirs and pills to them in order to increase their life spans, or making and extracting medicinal pills for disease treatment.

Even in modern society, the application of elixirs was very extensive, the most of which was used by traditional Chinese medicine. Most Chinese medicine pills could be put in the category of elixirs, such as the Six Flavor Rehmannia Pill, Waist and Muscle Strengthening Pill and so on.

The traditional medicine pills for the ordinary, of course, were different from those for martial warriors, and the latter’s pills were made of precious herbs like ginseng, ganoderma, snow lotus and so on, collected by alchemists. The extracted pills contained vital essence that could help promote a martial warriors’ strength.

In Huaxia, alchemists had very high status, and were the targets that many big powers competed for to chase and rope in. Alchemists were capable of making pills which could not only increase martial warriors’ strength, but also prolong the life of some people, and thus were very popular. To become an alchemist, however, was extremely difficult, because the first requirement was to possess a compatible alchemy skill, and the second was to have talent in alchemy. There were very few people who met both requirements.

Take the Fiery Emperor Palace for example, there were alchemists there, but those were average and had a very long way to go to become alchemy grandmasters. Among the numerous disciples of the Fiery Emperor Palace, there were only three with genuine talent in alchemy, and Hei Qin was one of them. As the young lady of Fiery Emperor Palace, Xianzhi Qin was talented and smart, but she merely did well in martial arts instead of alchemy.

From the side of the lava river bank, the group of people could even see the elixirs and martial arts skills in the palace that was opposite to them. The elixirs were extracted by the Elixir King and the martial arts skills were for grandmasters. All of the people’s eyes turned red, and they were very eager to fly past and grab those treasures.

Qingfeng Li’s eyes turned red as well, because he saw a Black Crow Vine in the middle of the palace, which was placed on an alchemy furnace. Apparently the Elixir King intended to extract elixirs with it when he was still alive, but he did not finish it since he died.

“No wonder the Black Crow Vines appeared in the Grandmaster Tomb. It turned out to be the tomb of the Elixir King.” Qingfeng Li nodded, suddenly enlightened.

To seek the Black Crow Vines, a kind of rare medicinal herb, Qingfeng Li had made every effort all over the country, ending up with nothing, as the Black Crow Vines had been extinct for fifty years. Therefore, Qingfeng Li did not believe it when Niching Luo told him that there could be Black Crow Vines in this Grandmaster Tomb. Now, he totally believed that the herb was definitely here, since it was the tomb of the Elixir King who had all of the herbs, even those being extinct in Huaxia.

Qingfeng Li also had never heard about the Elixir King, a dominant figure in Huaxia’s alchemy field fifty years ago.

“Qingfeng Li, think about how to get there.” Looking at Qingfeng Li, Jianlong Gu said with a faint smile.

The group of the people relied upon Qingfeng Li mostly to enter this Grandmaster Tomb. Since the first trap of stone gate and the second trap of arrows were figured out by Qingfeng Li, Jianlong Gu still wanted him to work out how to pass the lava river.

“The lava river is formed by the magma underneath the earth. I can’t fix it, it won’t go away automatically.” Qingfeng Li said indifferently with a hint of impatience in his tone.

To be honest, even if he knew how to pass the third trap of the lava river, Qingfeng Li would not say it out either. On the other side of this lava river, the real tomb of Elixir King was just there with endless treasures in it, which Qingfeng Li did not want to miss.

The reason why Qingfeng Li entered the tomb with the group was that he wanted his enemies to kill each other, but he had not expected that Jianlong Gu, Cuilan Tie, Hell King and Cold Blood joined together to go against him, destroying his wishful thinking.

Qingfeng Li was not a fool, and he knew that he would get nothing if those people followed him to go across the lava river and rushed to grab the treasures. He would be done if people like Jianlong Gu found the Black Crow Vines.

“Qingfeng Li, I know you’re knowledgeable in traps. Obviously, the Elixir King is a trap master and he set up lots of traps, so there must be some sort of mechanic system in the lava river. You go and find it out right away.” Cuilan Tie smiled coldly, ordering Qingfeng with an arrogant look.

Due to the fact that her younger brother was killed by Qingfeng Li, Cuilan Tie had been resenting him for a long time, and she would have started a fight earlier if she had not wanted to get the treasures in the Grandmaster Tomb. Now that it was the last trap in the tomb, she turned nasty at last.

“Who do you think you are, daring to order me?” Qingfeng Li replied with a faint smile.

Even the people like Niching Luo and Xianzhi Qin, were not qualified to order Qingfeng Li to do anything, let alone Cuilan Li. He only acted according to his own will, rather than anyone’s order.

“Qingfeng Li, how dare you curse at me. You’re going to die.” Cuilan Tie smiled brutally with a touch of murderous intent appearing on her pretty face. She stepped forward, ready to start a fight with Qingfeng Li.

As the sect master’s daughter of the Iron Fist sect, Cuilan Tie was very talented in cultivation and had reached the peak of the Higher Heaven realm. What Qingfeng Li said just now was right a provocation to her

“Cuilan, wait a moment, you can’t kill Qingfeng Li now, as we are still relying on him to pass the third trap. We can kill him after passing the lava river.” Jianlong Gu said, smiling slightly and stopping Cuilan Tie.

Chapter 738: The Murderous Intent of Cuilan Tie

 

“Qingfeng Li, I will give you a chance to figure out the trap in the lava river right away. If you do, I can allow you to live a bit longer. Otherwise, I’ll kill you now.” Jianlong Gu said indifferently, emitting a cruel murderous intent.

Kill me?

Qingfeng Li burst to laughter, looking up with a big smile in an arrogant and blatant manner. Just a weak chicken like Jianlong Gu dares to say he’s going to kill me? How ignorant was he?

If Jianlong Gu had reached the grandmaster realm, then he was competent to kill Qingfeng Li without any doubts, but considering that he was only at the peak of the Higher Heaven realm, he was unable to kill Qingfeng Li at all.

“You’re still not qualified to kill me, come fight me as you wish.” Qingfeng Li gave a cold smile arrogantly.

Jianlong Gu paled. Apparently, he did not expect Qingfeng Li to be so blatant that he had totally disregarded the threat. Jianlong Gu could recognize that Qingfeng Li was only at the Higher Heaven mid-stage, which was lower by two stages than him. This guy was not qualified to behave so arrogantly.

“Qingfeng Li, now that you want to die, I can help you.” Jianlong Gu walked to Qingfeng Li with a murderous look on his face. He thought he could let Qingfeng Li live a bit longer, but now he had to wipe him out since he was acting so recklessly.

“Jianlong Gu, it’s me, Niching Luo, who brought Qingfeng Li here. What’re you doing now?” Niching Luo stepped forward and stood in front of Qingfeng Li.

Xianzhi Qin walked out as well when she saw Niching Luo wanted to protect Qingfeng Li.

“We are all here for the treasures in the Grandmaster Tomb. There’s no need to behave with rage.” Xianzhi Qin smiled slightly, walking forward and standing beside Qingfeng too.

Seeing that Xianzhi Qin wanted to protect Qingfeng Li as well, Jianlong Gu frowned with a hint of worry in his eyes. He was not scared of Niching Luo, but Xianzhi Qin was another matter, as the latter was the young lady of the Fiery Emperor Palace with a special status.

Unlike Jianlong Gu who was worried about Xianzhi Qin’s background, Cold Blood did not care, so he smiled brutally and stepped forward.

Baidao Jiang sent Cold Blood a voice transmission just now that the reason why Qingfeng Li defeated Cold Blood at Sky Mountain was that the former had activated his bloodline power, and after Cold Blood left, Qingfeng was also exhausted.

Cold Blood got excited when he heard the voice transmission from Baidao Jiang. He always wanted to kill Qingfeng Li, but was afraid that he would go berserk. Now that knew Qingfeng Li would suffer a sequela after calling out his bloodline power, he came out without any hesitation.

All of a sudden, a dangerous atmosphere spread out around the bank of the lava river. Everyone stared at each other in hostility, and it looked like a battle was likely to take place at any moment.

On the other hand, Baidao Jiang, Yun Tang and the Assassin instructor Duluth, stood aside with their arms folded across their chests, looking at Qingfeng Li with amusement. They would be very happy if Qingfeng Li was killed by Jianlong Gu and the others.

Shiwei Guo also approached Qingfeng Li, asked, “Wolf King, do you really want to fight?”

Shiwei Guo implied clearly that Qingfeng Li came to the Grandmaster Tomb for Black Crow Vines. If he started a fight now, neither of the sides would win. Xue Lin would likely die if he couldn’t get the Black Crow Vines.

At the thought of Xue Lin, Qingfeng Li sighed to himself, as he would wipe out the group of people ahead of him at any price if he was alone. He had to bear them temporarily and try to get the Black Crow Vines so he could save Xue Lin.

“Okay, I’m afraid of you … I will help you find the trap in the lava river.” Qingfeng Li stepped back, and said with a resigned look.

Even though Qingfeng Li appeared helpless, he was thinking about how to kill those people in his mind. Qingfeng Li had come up with an idea that he would get rid of them and even kick them into the lava river by playing tricks when he finds the third trap later.

Jianlong Gu and others became very glad as they thought that Qingfeng Li had surrendered, but they did not know that Qingfeng Li was playing tricks on them.

“Come on, go and find the trap within this lava river. I can allow you to live a bit longer. Otherwise, I’ll throw you into the lava river and burn you to ash.” Looking at Qingfeng Li cruelly, Cuilan Tie said with a malicious voice.

Among this group of people, the ones who hated Qingfeng Li the most would be Cuilan Tie and Hell King, but Hell King had grown more sophisticated after the death of his two senior brothers, and he preferred not to attack Qingfeng Li until the last minute. This Cuilan Tie was just a rookie, who always liked rushing to the forefront and was exactly the kind of person that died the most quickly.

“Miss Tie, take it easy, don’t kill me, I’m going to look for the trap at once.” Qingfeng Li said, pretending to be scared, as he smiled grimly and thought silently. Bitch, I’ll let you be complacent for now before I kick you into the lava river later. That’s the consequence of being arrogant in front of me.

Qingfeng Li reached the bank of the lava river, and walked around slowly. He found that the lava river was in the shape of the letter S. The coffin and tomb of the Elixir King were right in the middle while the two vertical portions of the letter S connected with the tomb and the palace on the opposite sides respectively.

Tombstone?

With a trace of bright light flashing through his eyes, Qingfeng Li had sensed that the trap was very likely to be hidden in the tombstone which was enscribed with the life story of the Elixir King. Most people ignored the tombstone after reading it but something that appears to be not eye-catching tended to hide a huge secret. This was a lesson taught to him by the Wind-Edge Demon King, Qingfeng Li’s master.

Qingfeng Li came to the tombstone, and kept walking around it. The people around him also looked at the tombstone the same as Qingfeng Li did, but they found nothing interesting.

“Qingfeng Li, nothing’s wrong with this tombstone. Hurry to look for the trap.” Cuilan Tie ordered Qingfeng Li with a cold smile.

Cuilan Tie had taken Qingfeng Li as a dead man, so she did not care for him at all. As long as she passed the third trap, she would immediately kill Qingfeng Li to avenge her brother.

“Don’t worry, Miss Tie, I’m finding you the trap right away.” Said Qingfeng Li.

Qingfeng Li walked around the tombstone three times, then stopped at the back of the tombstone. He patted the back of the tombstone nine times.

Nine was regarded as the largest number, which represented the most honorable and dominant status. Therefore both emperors and martial arts masters showed special preference to it. Considering that the Elixir King had already reached the peak of the grandmaster realm, he would surely prefer to use the number nine for luck if he wanted to break through the grandmaster realm and move to a higher one.

Whooosh!

Once the tombstone was patted for nine times, a black iron chain suddenly jumped out of the tombstone, directly flying into the palace opposite and penetrating into the depth.

The iron chain connected the tombstone with the palace, acting as a chain bridge over the red lava river.

“Good, you’ve indeed found the third trap. Go onto the chain bridge to explore the access at once.” Cuilan smiled coldly, and instructed Qingfeng Li to get onto the iron chain.

The iron chain was as thick as a wrist, but no one knew whether it was sturdy or not. In the event that the chain turned rotten or loose, going onto it without careful consideration was very likely to result into falling down into the lava river below, which would absolutely lead to death. Qingfeng Li pretended to be scared and walked onto the iron chain bridge, trembling with fear and heading toward the opposite side.

Cuilan Tie stepped onto the iron chain bridge as well, following Qingfeng Li. When they were halfway there, a trace of murderous intent came into Cuilan Tie’s eyes, and she suddenly kicked out her right foot towards Qingfeng, in the hope of kicking him into the lava river below and burning him to death.

Chapter 739: Sending Her Down with One Kick

 

Cuilan Tie kicked out her foot with great strength, and she did it from behind. If Qingfeng Li was hit, he would have surely been kicked down into the lava river below, ending up dead.

“Look out, Wolf King.” Niching Luo cried, with a trace of horror on her enchanting face.

“Watch your back.” Xinzhi Qin also opened her red lips and shouted.

Although the two women did not get along well, they both hurried to warn Qingfeng Li when he was in danger. They also did not expect that Cuilan Tie would be so devious that she dared to sneak attack Qingfeng Li from the back when he was probing the way on the iron chain bridge.

Whoosh!

While Qingfeng Li walked in the front of the chain, he had already noticed the attack from behind. When Cuilan Tie kicked out her foot towards him, Qingfeng Li slightly swung his body and dodged her blow in an instant.

Cuilan Tie paled with a hint of shock in her eyes, as she did not expect Qingfeng would escape from her kick.

“Bitch, I’ve already known you had malicious intentions, and now that you want to die, I can help you out.” With a cold smile, Qingfeng Li stood on the chain bridge with one foot while suddenly kicking out the other foot like a flash of lightning, dealing a devastating blow to Cuilan Tie’s belly instantly.

Cuilan Tie could not withdraw the foot that was still in the air due to the fact that she had just tried to kick Qingfeng Li. As a result, she had to helplessly see Qingfeng Li’s foot smash her right in the belly.

Peng!

Cuilan Tie flew off of the bridge, falling down into the lava river. Her face scrunched up in pain as she felt the hot temperature below.

“Help me, Jianlong.” Cuilan Tie shouted at Jianlong Gu who was on the river bank, hoping he could save her.

Seeing Cuilan Tie get in danger, Jianlong Gu paled, and threw out a rope from his backpack to entangle Cuilan Tie in the air, intending to pull her back to the river bank.

When entering the tomb, everybody brought spelunking equipment like ropes, torches and food rations with them. It was apparent that the preparation came in handy now.

“Want to save Cuilan,Tie? No way.” Qingfeng Li smiled coldly, with a trace of murderous intent in his eyes. It was impossible for him to let go of Cuilan Tie who intended to kill him just now.

Kang!

Qingfeng Li pulled out the Red Fiery Sword, poured vital essence into it, and swung it outwards to split Jianlong Gu’s rope. With a touch of red light, the Red Fiery Sword directly cut off the rope.

“No!” At the sight of the rope being cut off, Cuilan Tie screamed with a pale face.

When Cuilan Tie tried to reach the rope, Qingfeng Li’s sword chopped down again, leaving her with a bleeding hole in her body. Due to the fact that the rope was broken and Cuilan Tie was injured, she could not stop herself from falling down into the lava river below.

Splash!

Cuilan Tie fell into the lava river with a miserable scream, and her body was engulfed by the over one thousand degrees lava, ending up as white bones floating in the river. The living beautiful woman turned into a skeleton in an instant.

All the people on the river bank paled with a trace of horror when they saw the skeleton. The temperature of the lava river was so high that people would instantly melt once the lava contacts their body.

“Qingfeng Li, you dared cut my rope and kill Cuilan Tie?” Jianlong Gu cried with rage, and a murderous intent appeared in his eyes. When Cuilan Tie was kicked down by Qingfeng Li, she had been tied up by the rope of Jianlong Gu, and would have been fine as long as she could be pulled onto the bank. Unexpectedly, the rope was cut off by Qingfeng Li.

“Hum, since Cuilan Tie and you intended to kill me, you should have been ready to lose your life. Catch me if you can!” Qingfeng Li gave a cold smile, and said arrogantly. In fact, the iron chain that Qingfeng Li was standing on merely could withstand no more than two persons. With regard to a one-to-one fight, Qingfeng Li feared nobody. The reason why he pretended to be scared just now was so that he could bait Cuilan Tie and kill her. What he really wanted to do was to start a slaughter.

Unlike the coward that he pretended to be just now, Qingfeng Li started behaving in a blatant and arrogant manner because he had to obtain the Black Crow Vines and Alchemy Skills of the Elixir King that were in the palace on the other side of the iron chain.

“You’re playing with fire.” Jianlong Gu smiled coldly, and rose to the air, flying onto the iron chain, hoping to avenge Cuilan Tie.

Jianlong Gu originally planned to deal with Qingfeng after getting the treasures of the Elixir King, but he could not wait to do it now, as the miserable death of Cuilan Tie had enraged him. He wanted to kill Qingfeng Li at once.

Kang!

Jianlong Gu pulled out his Water Moon Sword, a grandmaster-class weapon that he just got from the tomb, intending to get Qingfeng Li done with this sword.

Whoosh!

Jiangong Gu turned over his wrist, lifted the Water Moon Sword across his chest, and poured vital essence into the sword. He dashed to Qingfeng Li all of a sudden with a cold light, ripping through the air and leaving a cold white sword streak.

From the name of the Water Moon Sword, it could be deduced that it was most strongly attuned to water-related sword techniques. As the vital essence that Jianlong Gu cultivated was also water-related, the strength combined by the energy and the sword was really strong.

With a calm, disinterested look, Qingfeng suddenly swung out his Red Fiery Sword and turned it into a red sword light, colliding with the Water Moon Sword.

Peng! The two grandmaster-class weapons crashed into each other with a huge sound, sending shockwaves through the air.

Right, what you read was right, they indeed went off like a bomb, just like an explosion of gunpowder. The Water Moon Sword took advantage of the water energy while the Red Fiery Sword depended on flames. The both swords belonged to different power categories, and they would surely explode since water and fire were natural enemies to each other.

The giant energy wave spread all around, and when the energy spread into the lava river, the hot lava got boiling with the sound of rolling and roaring.

“You’re merely a Higher Heaven mid-stage, how could you resist the strike with my Higher Heaven peak stage strength?” Jianlong Gu paled with a hint of shock in his eyes.

Jianlong Gu had kept hiding his strength and did not even rank onto the Higher Heaven ranking list. This time he came to the Grandmaster Tomb for the treasures. He previously thought the strength of Qingfeng Li was lower by two stages than him, which meant he could beat and kill Qingfeng Li at will, but now it seemed the things were not like that at all.

“Young Master Gu, Qingfeng Li’s sword technique is very outstanding, and he’s capable of fighting people above his realm. Be careful.” Hell King warned from behind with a gloomy face.

Hell King had no good intentions because he hated Qingfeng and always wanted to kill him, but he knew that Qingfeng Li was too strong to kill by himself only. Therefore he encouraged others to kill Qingfeng Li, and Cuilan Tie was the one instigated by Hell King.

Hell King’s plan was very good, and his purpose was to deplete Qingfeng Li’s vital essence. Once Qingfeng Li ran out of his vital essence, Hell King would strike.

Battle people above his realm?

When he heard the words, Jianlong Gu paled, with a hint of worry in his eyes. The ability to fight people above one’s realm calls for no less than a grandmaster-class cultivation technique. Had Qingfeng Li learnt a grandmaster-class cultivation technique?

Chapter 740: A Fierce Battle with Jianlong Gu

 

Jianlong Gu starred at Qingfeng Li with a worried look, as he was reminded by Hell King that Qingfeng Li definitely had learnt a grandmaster-class cultivation technique.

In fact, Jianlong Gu did not know that Qingfeng Li’s True Martial Emperor Technique was emperor-class, which was even more powerful than grandmaster-class ones. However, it was not a full version, as it was incomplete with only the first three stages left, making it roughly equivalent to a grandmaster technique. Even so, Qingfeng Li was unbeatable within the same realm, and his Red Fiery Sword Technique was a grandmaster-class martial arts skill. Ultimately, he was not afraid of Jianlong Gu.

“Qingfeng, I don’t care what you have learnt. In the end, you must die today.” Jiangong Gu smiled coldly, with obvious killing intent in his eyes.

Indeed, Qingfeng Li had learnt a grandmaster-class martial arts skill. As the young lord of the Gu Family, one of the four great families in Tianjing City, Jianlong Gu had learned a grandmaster-class martial arts skill as well, since the Patriarch of Gu Family was in the grandmaster realm.

Jianlong Gu had realized that the iron chain bridge could only withstand two persons and was the only access to the Elixir King Palace on the other side. In this case, Qingfeng was no longer useful, and must be killed.

“Clear Water One Sword.” Jianlong Gu growled, and suddenly slashed out his Water Moon Sword, and the vital essence in his body condensed into another long sword that was like a white water blade, attacking Qingfeng Li at the same time.

Manifestation of vital essence?

At the sight of what had happened, the people around were all shocked. As one might know, the vital essence was stored inside the body as human energy, which did not take visible shape or form. Only an extremely talented person who learned a grandmaster-class martial arts skill was able to manifest vital essence.

The fact that Jianlong Gu was able to turn his water-elemental vital essence into a water blade and use it to fight, had indicated that he was a genius and even a genius with rare talent.

“Do you think you’re the only one who can manifest vital essence?” Qingfeng Li smiled emotionlessly with cold light flicking in his eyes. Now that the opponent used a martial arts skill, so would Qingfeng. He wanted to see which martial arts skill was stronger, the Sword King’s or the Gu Family’s.

“Red Fiery Blast.” Qingfeng Li suddenly swung out the long sword in his right hand, which shot out a flash of red fire blade. The vital essence he cultivated was fire-related, as a result of which it was a fire blade after the manifestation.

The water blade of vital essence crashed into the fire blade of vital essence with a world-shaking loud noise. The damage caused by the two forces of energy was so serious that the lava river below rolled violently like a fire wave, and the iron chain bridge had begun shaking intensely with squeaking sounds.

Deng!

Jianlong Gu backed up one pace while Qingfeng Li stayed still. In this collision of the grandmaster-class martial arts skill, Jianlong Gu looked inferior even though the vital essence strength of Jianlong Gu was higher than Qingfeng’s by two stages. He actually lost to Qingfeng! Even though he only took one step back from the clash, that was still a sign of defeat.

Jianlong Gu was surprised and felt fortunate that Qingfeng Li’s strength was lower than him, because if Qingfeng Li’s strength was the same as his, then the blow of the sword would have killed him.

I can’t let this guy live! I must kill him right away! Jianlong Gu thought siliently.

Jianlong Gu was very afraid of Qingfeng Li, as the latter was a monster. He still lost to Qingfeng Li even if his sword technique was the Gu Family’s grandmaster-class martial arts skill.

“The Red Fiery Sword Technique is indeed awesome.” At the sight of Jianlong Gu who was forced to step back by his sword, Qingfeng Li had a delighted look on his face. With the increase of his strength and vital essence, the power of the Red Fiery Sword Technique that Qingfeng Li could exert had become stronger.

Although the Gu Family of Tianjing City was powerful, they were still a bit inferior to the Sword King Wusuang Nie. After all, Wushuang Nie was regarded as the top master of the Sword Dao fifteen years ago, and none of the Sword Dao masters in Huaxia was able to fight against him.

“Kill.” Jianlong Gu shouted with rage, slashing at Qingfeng with the Water Moon Sword once again. He had to kill Qingfeng Li today, the bastard could not leave alive, as the opponent was so talented that he felt scared.

“Kill.” Qingfeng Li was full of murderous intent as well, and started to fight against the opponent with the Red Fiery Sword.

~BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG~

The Water Moon Sword and the Red Fiery Sword collided together many times. A fierce battle between the water-related vital essence and the fire-related, which were natural enemies to each other, occurred over the iron chain dangling over the lava river. For a while, the sword light flashed around and vital essence flew out freely. The iron chain kept swinging, and the lava river below was boiling with waves of lava flying out several meters high.

The people on the river bank also kept stepping back. Both of them were so strong that the collisions of the grandmaster-class martial arts skills and weapons had torn up the air, and the immense force energy had made these people terrified.

Since Qingfeng broke through to the Higher Heaven mid-stage, his strength had increased a lot, so he could fight with Jianlong Gu equally without using his bloodline power.

Jianlong Gu would already have died if Qingfeng Li used his bloodline power, but Qingfeng Li would rather not use it because there was the sequelae of the bloodline power. Once he turns weak after killing Jianlong Gu, he would definitely be killed by the other people lying in wait, including both Hell King and Cold Blood.

Therefore, Qingfeng Li would not use his bloodline power unless he was in a life-threatening danger.

The Water Moon Sword and the Red Fiery Sword were both the grandmaster-class weapons, which kept clashing onto each other, spilling vital essence and disturbing the lava river.

The Water Moon Sword also had a great background as it was the weapon of Water Moon, the Elixir King’s wife, who was not only a grandmaster but also a master of traps. Evidently, all the traps here were set up by Water Moon.

This place was not the tomb of only one grandmaster, but two grandmasters. The Water Moon Sword, as a grandmaster-class weapon, was very powerful as well and fortunately, Qingfeng Li had the Red Fiery Sword of Sword King Wushuang Nie. Otherwise he would have been in danger.

It costed a lot of vital essence to fight. Although Qingfeng Li’s strength was inferior to that of Jianlong Gu, there was an advantage of the True Martial Emperor Technique in that the vital essence could be constantly supplemented by absorbing the vital essence from the air at any time.

As a result, Qingfeng Li was more and more vigorous with an increasingly strong strength while Jianlong Gu was becoming sort of pale with a little sweat on his forehead. He was definitely starting to feel tired due to the huge depletion of his vital essence.

Titter!

When it was the thirtieth movement, Qingfeng Li took advantage of Jianlong Gu being exhaust, and hacked his sword towards Jianlong Gu’s arm, leaving him with a bleeding wound.

“Damn it, how could Qingfeng have so much vital essence. It feels like it hasn’t depleted at all!” Facing Qingfeng Li who was becoming more and more energetic, Jianlong Gu paled with rage.

At this moment, even a fool would realize that Qingfeng Li’s cultivation technique must be special and it could recover vital essence quickly.

Be merciless with bad guys even if they’re down. At the sight of injuring Jianlong Gu, Qingfeng Li slashed his sword once again, with a touch of cruelty in his eyes. This time, he was aiming at Jianlong Gu’s neck, as he intended to cut off his head.

Whoosh!

Just then, a hidden weapon flew out from the other side of the lava river, shooting violently to Qingfeng Li’s body.

“Fuck, how dare you sneak attack me?” Qingfeng Li’s facial expression changed, and a touch of anger appeared in his eyes. It was Hell King who shot out the hidden weapon. At this critical moment, he unexpectedly attacked Qingfeng Li in a sneaky way.