Chapter 1307: Darkcorpse Evil Water
Li Qiye couldn't help but laugh and shake his head after listening to Yujian. He replied: "Such a vulgar action, hiring an assassin. Okay, I don't care who wants to buy my life, I'll pay you ten times more. What do you want, Immortal Emperor Refined Jades, imperial weapons, or supreme manuals? Just say the word."
The crowd was dumbfounded after hearing this. Everyone thought someone as fierce as Li Qiye would immediately erupt in anger upon finding out that someone wanted his life. A fight would ensue after.
No one expected for him to act as if he could smash someone to death with just money. He mentioned Immortal Emperor Refined Jades and imperial weapons right away. This youth was far too rich, he really could kill someone with wealth at any moment!
Yujian coldly said: "The buyer has already made the payment."
Li Qiye shook his head: "No problem, everything is negotiable in business. Just tell me what you want. I don't need you to tell me who the buyer was, you just have to kill him. I'll repay this lowly act in the same manner. Tell those who want my life that I have too much money and will pay ten times what they can afford."
Many were speechless. This was completely contrary to their image of Li Qiye being a warmonger. Right now, he was acting like a young master who had just fallen into wealth and wanted to show off his money.
Yujian didn't agree with his request; instead, she coldly uttered: "Prepare for your funeral, I'll take your life three days later."
"Fine, if you want my life, why wait? Take it now." Li Qiye smiled and suddenly teleported behind her before finishing his sentence.
He was way too fast. The majority of the crowd didn't see how he got behind her.
In this split second, Yujian also took action. Her sword silently flashed like a scorpion delivering a fatal sting under the night guise.
This sword glint was incomparably fast as it aimed for Li Qiye's chest.
There was no technique behind it, only pure murderous intent. This direct prick could pierce through his cavity.
She might be fast, but he was even faster. His two fingers immediately clamped the blade. However, this flashing edge seemed to have its own life as it jumped up to evade him.
Just like that, it pierced through his clothes and made contact with his flesh. A section of his skin was revealed.
The sword move didn't make full contact with him; Yujian immediately retreated with extreme speed the moment Li Qiye's skin was exposed. The sky was filled with her shadows, no one could tell which was real or fake.
"A bit interesting." Li Qiye smiled at this scene. He stretched out his palm.
"Whoosh!" A black hole emerged as Li Qiye's vitality soared. The black hole expanded as if it wanted to devour this whole region.
Heaven Devourer Evil Fist! This fist could devour all existences in the world with its tyrannical power of absorption. Once locked on by this attack, no one would be able to escape.
The shadows in the sky couldn't escape, all was devoured by the black hole. In the end, only one shadow was left. She flew away from the black hole like a ray of light with incredible speed, successful fleeing.
"How far can you run?" Li Qiye laughed while watching the fleeing girl. He took a single step on the ocean and traveled a thousand miles in order to capture her.
"Pluff! Pluff! Pluff!" He was right behind her when countless arrows shot out from the void. These arrows were quite fast as they penetrated the fabric of space. One could hear space being torn apart by their barrage.
The terrifying aspect about these arrows wasn't their speed, it was the material. They were made from refined white bones and carried an extremely terrifying corpse energy. This type of miasma trailing these arrows was the real weapon.
This energy held great destructive force and was capable of killing everything in its path. One could easily tell that they were crafted from some horrifying skeletons. Once hit, even if the impact didn't kill the enemy outright, the corrosive force of this corpse energy would destroy the body and true fate.
Sima Yujian came prepared without a doubt. She had come up with a path of retreat and laid these arrows beforehand.
Li Qiye didn't bat an eye against this oncoming onslaught. He casually pointed forward and space rippled. Even though Li Qiye was standing right there, the spectators started seeing a strange illusion.
The space surrounding him seemed to be liquefying. The fast arrows were going through this watery space right for Li Qiye, but strangely enough, they didn't make contact with his body.
After they reached his flesh, Li Qiye's body suddenly turned into air as space was restored to its initial form. The arrows all disappeared as if they were never shot in the first place.
This was space displacement, a technique from one of the four space controlling arts of the Space Scripture. It could move around space in the blink of an eye. Because of this, all of the arrows failed to hit Li Qiye's body since they were transferred to a different space.
With this opportunity, Yujian decisively escaped even further away, not daring to stop for a second.
The space Li Qiye was standing on suddenly lost all gravity. With a strange noise, a drop of water floated up from the sea.
A drop of seawater shouldn't be special at all, but the moment this drop touched Li Qiye, it wrapped around him completely. Moreover, this single droplet immediately became huge. It sealed his body completely and began to slowly petrify him in a block of amber.
At first, everyone thought that this was another trap left behind by Sima Yujian. However, they felt that something was amiss because Yujian was nowhere to be found. If this was another attack from her, she wouldn't have escaped this quickly.
Jianshi was startled and immediately warned Li Qiye: "Watch out, this is the Darkcorpse Evil Water!"
"Hehehe, you are indeed a schoolmaster. How knowledgeable, to be able to recognize my ultimate treasure." A gloomy laughter resounded at this moment.
Continuous splashing noises came from the water. Next, a person with a sinister smile surfaced from the sea.
The moment people saw who it was, they shivered in fear due to his horrific appearance. The man had a big, round fish head with many thorns protruding from it like needles.
Despite having a human body, many tentacles branched off from his body. These tentacles were very small, only around three to five inches long, so they looked like extra lumps of meat.
These lumps were all moving, instilling chills into the spines of the spectators. Moreover, they were as black as ink with poisonous juices leaking out.
A schoolmaster recognized who he was and exclaimed in horror: "Thornspur Ancestor!"
"Thornspur Ancestor?" Some people had never seen him before, but they had heard of this name: "That's the man whose body is poisonous through and through, right?"
"Hehehe, I haven't been out all these years, yet someone still remembers my name." The Thornspur Ancestor was happily feeding off the fear of others with a smug expression.
Thornspur belonged to a branch of sea demons, an extremely rare branch. Moreover, they were born with toxic bodies. Anyone who made contact with them would be poisoned to death unless they were strong enough to withstand the toxins.
Because of this characteristic, they could kill in secrecy. Thornspur was special among them. He himself was a Virtuous Paragon and had killed many great characters in the past with his poison.
"Hahaha, Junior, you might be strong, but there is no escaping from my Darkcorpse Evil Water." The ancestor stared at Li Qiye trapped in the bubble and deviously laughed: "Blame the person who paid the high price for your life. I'll turn you into amber before going to collect my bounty!"
"Is that so?" After the ancestor's gloat, Li Qiye unexpectedly went outside of the water that was sealing him. No one saw how he escaped.
"How?!" Thornspur was completely stunned and aghast.
"Trying to seal me with such a petty trick?" Li Qiye sneered. After training with the Space Scripture, not to mention this type of water, even the most heaven-defying sealing technique would find it prohibitively difficult to imprison him.
Chapter 1308: Provocation
The Thornspur Ancestor was shocked at the failed suppression and knew that the situation had gone sour. He turned to flee because he knew of Li Qiye's fierce reputation.
He initially wanted to ambush Li Qiye with his most terrifying Darkcorpse Evil Water, but after failing, he didn't dare to linger here any longer.
"Stay and play." Li Qiye suddenly appeared in front of him.
The frightened ancestor immediately changed directions and fled towards the horizon, but he couldn't escape. Li Qiye blocked his path again. The ancestor shifted once more, but Li Qiye was much faster in stopping him.
The ancestor's expression turned unsightly. He knew that his speed was inferior to Li Qiye, so escaping was impossible. He could only risk it all at this moment.
"Since you can't run, you might as well die." Li Qiye laughed and declared after seeing that the ancestor had given up on running.
With that, his finger aimed straight for the ancestor. It was just a very casual touch without any destructive force.
The ancestor didn't try to dodge and instead rushed forward. It was as if he became suicidal and wanted to be pierced by this finger.
"Pluff!" Unsurprisingly, Li Qiye's finger pierced the ancestor's chest.
Many people were confused by his actions and the intended consequences.
"Not good, Li Qiye fell into the trap. You can't touch the Thornspur Ancestor, his entire body is poisonous." An older cultivator reacted right away with a shout.
Although being pierced left him with unbearable pain, the ancestor still gave a devious smile with a gloating demeanor: "Hehehe… Little animal, you are truly strong, but you will still die to me. Even if you are a God-Monarch, you won't be able to survive. The poison from my body is a hundred times stronger than the external ones I can create."
The crowd was dumbfounded after hearing this. They knew that he was poisonous, but not to this extent.
"It really was a trap." An old cultivator murmured: "If his natural poison is really that strong, it will be insufferable even if Li Qiye could escape death."
Li Qiye was not surprised at all. He chuckled in response: "This is considered acute poison? What a joke, you think this can kill me?"
The gloating ancestor suddenly stopped after seeing that Li Qiye was just fine standing there. He cried out: "Impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible in this world." Li Qiye smiled. He cultivated the Void Imperfection Physique so even if this poison was stronger, it wouldn't hurt him in the slightest.
Having said that, he slammed his palm into the ancestor's chest. The palm became infinitely dazzling as if he was holding a sun.
"Ah—" The ancestor screamed pitifully. His chest was being incinerated, then his entire body turned to ashes.
He couldn't escape at all since this scorching fire torched him in a split second.
Extreme Yang Fist. The ancestor's poison trap backfired on him. He allowed Li Qiye to get close only to be burned by Li Qiye's fist.
Li Qiye patted his palms clean and flatly said: "Trying to kill me at your level?"
Many cultivators on the sea surface were alarmed after seeing this and quietly stared at each other.
They had heard of Li Qiye's reputation and he lived up to it today. A poisonous creature like the Thornspur Ancestor was easily annihilated by him. Even the frightening Sima Yujian almost got killed as well.
They trembled and thought about staying away from him in the future in order to avoid an indignant death.
After Li Qiye returned to the boat, Ruyan ordered her disciples to embark on their journey once more.
"Sima Yujian then the Thornspur Ancestor…" Jianshi spoke after Li Qiye sat down: "The bounty must be very high for people like them to take action. Not many could afford this price in Heaven Spirit."
"It's no big deal." Li Qiye smiled a little without a care in the world. In fact, he had a pretty good idea of who placed the bounty on his head.
Ruyan chuckled and added: "Wealth moves the heart and bounty invites brave people to accept challenges."
"That's fine, the more the merrier. Killing a few hundred thousand will only be a warm-up." Such a casual remark left the two girls in silence.
For cultivators, killing was a way of life in order to improve. However, Li Qiye's style of murder was different as shown by his earlier conquests. Calling him Fierce was a polite way to put it since he was more of a butcher.
"Sima Yujian is actually a bit interesting." Li Qiye commented while the two girls had wry smiles on their faces.
Jianshi replied: "She is indeed a rare genius. Unfortunately, she was born in the wrong generation, having to meet her junior brother and master. Otherwise, she would be the current sect master of the Swiftdao Holy Land."
"If she had stayed at the holy land and the Swiftdao God didn't exist, maybe she would have been the youngest person to be recognized by the Heaven's Will in Heaven Spirit." Ruyan chuckled and added: "Her talents are incredible, plus that holy land is known for its cultivation speed, making her a tiger with wings."
The Swiftdao Holy Hand was created by Immortal Emperor Su Dao. He didn't have as many eternal tales as the other emperors, but he created a supreme grand dao, allowing for the fastest cultivation speed in this world.
It could be said that under the same conditions and aptitudes, cultivating his emperor law would double the speed of other emperor laws or more. This was the reason why their disciples improved much faster than those of any other lineage.
"I'm talking about her assassination arts." Li Qiye smiled.
"Assassination arts?" Jianshi asked: "Young Noble, do you know the origin of her tactics?"
Sima Yujian had never returned after leaving the holy land. The moment she showed herself again was when she had already become a frightening assassin. People said that from that day onward, she stopped using merit laws from the holy land. Because of this, many believed that she had created a supreme dao of assassination.
Li Qiye only smiled without responding.
At this point, the boat suddenly stopped again.
Ruyan frowned and asked her disciples: "What is it this time?"
A disciple came in and reported with a strange expression: "Something, something is happening outside."
She inquired: "What's the matter?"
The disciple hesitated and glanced over at Li Qiye, but he didn't know how to phrase his words. Eventually, he stammered: "Some, someone has put a sign in the ocean."
"Let's go take a look." Li Qiye noticed his demeanor and smiled before walking outside.
There was a floating buoy with a particular message: "Li Qiye will die if he goes this way!"
There was also an arrow above the words pointing forward.
They were large enough to be visible from a distance. Many cultivators saw the message as well and started to whisper to each other.
This was blatantly provoking Li Qiye. Without a doubt, this was creating an irreconcilable feud with him.
Jianshi grimaced and said: "Someone is trying to goad you into a trap, Young Noble."
Li Qiye revealed a smile and replied: "I actually want to see what they can do with this trap."
"It's not Sima Yujian." Ruyan stated her opinion.
Jianshi gently shook her head: "I think so too. Despite being an assassin, she is still a great genius with pride. She wouldn't bother using this type of scheme."
Li Qiye looked over at the direction of the arrow and cheerfully commanded: "Go that way."
"But what about the trap waiting for you?" Jianshi was rather worried.
Li Qiye answered: "I'll just go alone. I like breaking others' schemes to see the desperation on their faces."
Ruyan chuckled and said: "If you want to go, then we will naturally follow you. Not too many people in the contemporary can scare us."