I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 124 Swift Kill (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Qin Bai quickly formed a magic seal, and the Green Wood Ape Puppet roared, shattering the vines around it, and its giant hand covered in poisonous thorns fiercely met the attack.

clang!
The stone sword clashed with the Green Wood Ape Puppet, producing a metallic sound. The stone sword was not sharp enough, and the Green Wood Ape Puppet, being in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, had extremely high defensive capabilities, making it difficult to deal with.

These puppets are quite valuable to make, comparable to top-grade magical artifacts. Once successfully made, they can be refined with superior beast souls and controlled like demon spirits. This is the method of the Puppet Master Mo family.

Nowadays, many demon tamers in Beixuan have also switched to this path.

Jiang Yi retreated immediately after missing his sword strike. Qin Bai was restrained by the wooden barrier and lacked true essence, so he could only throw out three second-grade true fire talismans.

"You mere Qi Refining cultivator dare to steal my things? You're asking for death!"

The sparks flew, but before they could explode, they were swallowed by Hong Li, who leaped up from Jiang Yi's shoulder.

hiccup~
Hongli let out a fiery burp and twitched her ears.

The Green Wood Ape Puppet pounced forward, spewing out corrosive poisonous mist from its mouth. Red Li's body was engulfed in crimson flames, and its form instantly grew enormous.

A fiery mark silently landed on the Green Wood Ape Puppet, and the fox tail lashed out a chain of fire that wrapped around the ape puppet's body, while the Hundred Beast Spirit Fire burned wildly.

The ape-like puppet roared in agony as hundreds of poisonous thorns rained down from its abdominal mechanism.

Hongli's emerald eyes narrowed slightly, and the scales on her crimson armor flew up, transforming into three crimson scale shields, dodging the poisonous spikes and circling behind the puppet.

Hong Li raised her claw and unleashed a massive, fiery red claw that grazed the back of the Green Wood Ape Puppet. The flames ignited upon contact with the wood, slowly seeping in like a malignant infection.

Hong Li deliberately led the Green Wood Ape Puppet away from the battlefield. Qin Bai cursed and urged the Green Vine Whip to attack head-on. Jiang Yishi's sword swept across, and the powerful sword shadows formed layer upon layer, constantly colliding with the Green Vine Whip and producing bursts of explosions.

Hua Gu soared into the air, instantly conjuring up clouds and thunder. Silver lightning, like snakes, darted erratically within the gray mist. A bolt of lightning struck the green vine whip, the current shooting straight into Qin Bai's palm, causing him to tremble and become stiff and paralyzed.

The Cloud Mist Thunder relentlessly bombarded Qin Bai's body. He had no time to control the Azure Wood Ape Puppet and could only squeeze out the last bit of true essence in his body to use the protective aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator to resist the Cloud Mist Thunder.

Without Jiang Yi's command, Hua Gu's entire body transformed into a swirling thundercloud vortex, and her wind and thunder claws, carrying immense force, tore through Qin Bai's protective azure light in one fell swoop.

Qin Bai's eyes were bloodshot, and his blue outfit was instantly charred black by the electric shock. As he staggered backward, Jiang Yi's stone sword, carrying layers of sword shadows, had already reached him.

clang!clang!clang!
The green vine whip hastily blocked the sword's edge, and every clang of metal against metal caused Jiang Yi excruciating pain in her tiger's mouth. The aftershocks penetrated the sword, pressing the bones in her arms so hard they creaked.

Qin Bai stared in shock. He, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, couldn't defeat a Qi Refining cultivator in more than a dozen moves, and even felt like he was being suppressed. This was unreasonable!
The true essence of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is incredibly profound. Compared to the peak Qi Refining cultivator, it's like a waterfall versus a river—both are water, but their impact and pressure are incomparable.

If Jiang Yi hadn't been tempered by the Yin-Yang True Qi, she wouldn't have been able to withstand Qin Bai's attacks at all.

Although she deliberately waited until Qin Bai's true essence was depleted before making her move, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. After all, he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and this battle had to be resolved quickly.

Zhenyue!

Jiang Yi's true essence surged into the sword like a flood bursting its banks, and layers of sword shadows solidified in the air, transforming into three towering mountain phantoms, with howling wind and thunder hidden among the overlapping peaks.

Qin Bai's pupils shrank drastically. No longer caring about holding back, he directly dropped the wooden restriction plaque in his hand. His Foundation Establishment stage protective aura surged wildly, forming a three-inch-thick cyan aura wall around his body. He whipped his green vine whip, leaving countless afterimages, to meet the mountain sword shadow.

Just as the two forces were about to collide, Jiang Yi suddenly touched the ground with his toes and retreated.

The stone sword slashed through the air with a piercing shriek, and the three illusory mountain shadows vanished silently. What seemed like a full-force killing move actually held back nine-tenths of its power, demonstrating an outrageous level of control over its power!

Qin Bai's neck hairs suddenly stood on end, and the crackling sound of electric arcs was right next to his ear. The Wind and Thunder Claw tore through the air, and five silver lightning-encircled claw marks pierced his back.

puff!

The muffled thud of wind blades piercing flesh and the sound of bones shattering in the thunder exploded simultaneously. Qin Bai's protective aura shattered like an eggshell, his back instantly becoming a bloody mess, and his body paralyzed and unable to move.

He spat out blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Jiang Yi's face, wearing a fox mask, suddenly appeared in front of him. The tip of the sword condensed into a spiraling, earth-yellow energy, piercing through his dantian in one fell swoop.

Qin Bai trembled violently. A burst of azure-yellow light erupted from his dantian. The true essence that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had painstakingly cultivated for decades gushed out like a burst dam. His legs buckled, and he collapsed to his knees, his vision blurring. The last thing he saw was Jiang Yi's cold, smiling chin, and the blood dripping from the tip of her stone sword—his own blood.

"This is... impossible..."

Not far away, the mournful howl of the Green Wood Ape Puppet echoed through the sky. Its wooden body twisted and deformed under the scorching of the Hundred Beast Spirit Fire, and cracks spread like a spider web.

Its movements became increasingly sluggish, and its joints emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound, as if it might disintegrate into a pile of charred wood at any moment.

Hong Li gracefully retreated, deliberately leaving the Green Wood Ape Puppet dangling in her wake.

Finally, the Green Wood Ape Puppet was burned to charred coals by the Hundred Beast Spirit Fire, while Hong Li's fiery red tail drew a graceful arc behind her, a hint of smugness flashing in her eyes.

Hong Li turned around, about to ask Jiang Yi for praise, when she saw Jiang Yi standing beside Qin Bai's corpse, her fingertips stained with blood, clutching the wooden plaque with its restriction.

The runes on the surface of the wooden plaque flickered, faintly emanating a chilling fluctuation that was frantically drawing in the surrounding wood elemental energy.

The miasma and thunder had not yet dissipated, and a large number of vines were still emerging from beneath the lake, crackling and twitching as they were electrocuted in the gray miasma.

Hong Li rushed over, and fire marks appeared one after another on the vines. Three crimson fire chains lashed out from the tips of the vines, instantly turning them into a sea of ​​fire that burned fiercely.

With the pressure lessened, Hua Gu picked up Qin Bai's storage bag and green vine whip, and presented them to Jiang Yi.

Whoosh!

Hua Gu pointed at Qin Bai's corpse, and Hong Li branded it with a fire mark. The fire chains that burned the vines immediately extended over, destroying Qin Bai's body and erasing all traces.

This was something Jiang Yi had specifically instructed them to do after the Song Ming incident: from now on, whenever someone kills someone, they must burn the body until it's reduced to ashes!
At this moment, the ground shook, and beams of light suddenly shot up from all directions of Peach Blossom Spring.

A gust of air surged into the sky, sending cherry blossom petals fluttering like a sea of ​​petals.

All that's missing is the Wood restriction on Jiang Yi's side to open the path to the Azure Emperor's Palace.

Just as Jiang Yi was hesitating about whether to deliberately delay and cause them to fail to activate the restriction this time...

Something landed gently on Jiang Yi's hairpin with a barely perceptible flapping sound.

This time it's not a matter of 'being on the verge of excrement,' but rather the traceless eyes nurtured by Shang Shixu.

Just in time!

Jiang Yi smiled, put away Qin Bai's storage bag, hung the Green Vine Whip on her waist, and began to pour wood-type true essence into the restriction wooden plaque.

A strange bluish light gradually appeared on the surface of the wooden plaque, as if something was awakening.

Thanks to Qin Bai's selfless contribution, Jiang Yi didn't expend much true essence before the wooden tablet was filled.

In an instant, a giant wave burst open on the lake surface. The vines that had been twisting wildly seemed to have their life force drained by some force, quickly withering and dissipating, sinking to the bottom of the lake.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of emerald light burst forth from the water and shot straight into the sky. Ancient runes could be faintly seen flowing within the beam, radiating a powerful life force.

Five beams of light intertwined in mid-air, forming a massive Five Elements array. The array patterns tightened like chains, causing the entire world to tremble.

The Five Elements Restriction has been activated!

As the light faded, the lake returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.

But at the reflection of the stone steps of Xuandu Temple in the middle of the lake, the water surface quietly distorts and gradually forms a whirlpool.

At the center of the vortex, a glittering silver light shimmered, like a gateway to another world.

The entrance to the Azure Emperor's Palace has finally appeared!
　That's all for today's two updates, time to go have some fun!
　　see you tomorrow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)