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Chapter 567 Li Xueqing must die!

The battle in Dongzhou City gradually moved out of the city.

And judging from this, it can't last much longer.

Li Xueqing skillfully dodged Shi Danqin's ferocious attacks every time.

As Li Xueqing moved, she unleashed her inner strength, as if dozens of invisible legs had instantly grown to help her move quickly.

This unique movement technique made her not only move with lightning speed, but also with incredible agility.

This is Li Xueqing’s famous light skill - "The Hundred-legged Immortal Escapes into the Earth".

Since Shi Danqin couldn't subdue this slippery and venomous woman in a short time, it was destined that the deadly poison, like a leech clinging to his bones, would spread wildly and erode along his blood vessels and meridians, dragging his powerful physique little by little towards the abyss of collapse.

Li Xueqing, on the other hand, was like a venomous snake with extreme patience, her cold gaze fixed on her prey.

She no longer rushed to attack; instead, after biting her prey, she maintained that desperate distance, patiently waiting for the prey to collapse from the poison.

"You vile woman! Don't you dare run away!"

"Fight me fair and square!"

Shi Danqin's roar was broken, filled with anger and resentment.

His face had an eerie bluish-gray hue, like a bronze vessel buried underground for a long time.

Two streams of thick, dark red blood trickled uncontrollably down his face, staining his gray beard and shimmering ominously in the moonlight. He only realized what was happening when the blood dripped onto his lapel.

Upon hearing this, Li Xueqing froze, hovering in mid-air.

The night wind whipped up her white robes, making them flutter and rustle, making her appear like a ghost under the moon.

Her cold eyes looked down at the disheveled Marquis below, a cruel and contemptuous smile curving her lips.

"Okay."

Her voice was eerily calm, yet it contained a chilling coldness that could freeze one's soul.
"I'm not running anymore."

Before she finished speaking, a chilling blue light suddenly gathered and surged in her palm!
For her, the time had come.

However, a hint of fear flashed in Shi Danqin's eyes when faced with this challenge!
Instead of stepping forward, he suddenly retreated several steps!

The deadly sense of crisis was like ice water poured over his head, instantly extinguishing his remaining anger.

He could clearly feel his heart pounding wildly like a war drum that had gone out of control, almost bursting out of the confinement of his chest!
The blood in my body seemed to be driven by an invisible force, rushing to my head, bringing waves of dizziness and tearing pain. The scene before my eyes began to blur and distort!
"The poison... the poison has entered my heart meridian!"

Shi Danqin was horrified.

At this moment, he has lost six-tenths of his strength!
To force a confrontation would be tantamount to courting death!
Without hesitation, Shi Danqin mustered her last bit of true energy, which had been almost completely eroded by the poison gas, and turned around, like an arrow released from a bow, and sped desperately towards the open fields outside the city!
If you can win, fight; if you can't, run away.

Having been a general himself, he naturally knew that in war, retreating to preserve one's life was not a disgrace.

"Want to escape?"

Li Xueqing watched the disheveled figure flee, her contempt almost tangible:

"Can you escape?"

She did not immediately give chase with all her might, but instead rose up like a ghost, following Shi Danqin at a leisurely pace.

That posture was like a cat watching its prey struggle in its death throes.

The wilderness was not deserted.

Thousands of Dongzhou City's garrison troops were already on high alert!

Clad in heavy armor and wielding long spears and shields, they formed a massive, imposing military formation on the desolate plain!

The torchlight stretched out in a continuous line, illuminating the tense yet resolute faces of the soldiers. The cold glint of metal against the night sky formed a chilling forest of death.

"My lord! Quickly, enter the battle!"

Upon seeing the staggering figure approaching, the garrison general hurriedly shouted, his voice filled with anxiety.

Like a drowning person grasping at a last straw, Shi Danqin plunged headlong into that steel jungle without hesitation.

Upon entering the formation, he immediately collapsed to the ground, disregarding his composure. He frantically pulled out a handful of colorful, precious pills from his robes, stuffed them into his mouth without even glancing at them, and swallowed them whole as if chewing beans.

Immediately, he closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and frantically circulated the last of his powerful internal energy, trying to forcefully suppress and expel the rampant poison from his body!

Large beads of sweat mixed with black, foul blood seeped continuously from his forehead and neck.

Just as he sat down and his breathing stabilized, the deadly white figure gracefully arrived, hovering in the sky outside the military formation.

"Anyone who dares to trespass into the army's ranks—kill! No mercy!"

The garrison general raised his sword high and roared at the top of his lungs, trying to intimidate the powerful enemy with his military might.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!!!"

Thousands of soldiers roared in unison, their voices rolling like waves crashing against the shore, shaking the dust off the wilderness!

The combined killing intent and the baleful aura of the military formation soared into the sky.

At the same time, within the military formation, bursts of violent internal energy rapidly flowed and surged among the soldiers!
The elite soldiers at the core pressed their palms against their comrades' backs, pouring their inner strength into them without reservation.

The entire military formation seemed to transform into a massive, sophisticated war machine, with power being transmitted and converged layer by layer.

If any enemy dares to break into the formation, they will face a thunderous strike formed by the combined will and power of these thousands of warriors.

Not to mention the garrison general at the heart of the formation and the Silver Wing Marquis who was expelling the poison, who could launch a deadly surprise attack at any moment.

Ordinary experts would tremble at the sight of such a formidable and murderous military formation, and would hesitate to step forward.

However, tonight, they are facing Li Xueqing, who is skilled in melee combat.

A being who has mastered poison skills to the highest level and enjoys defeating the many with the few!

Li Xueqing hovered in mid-air, her cold eyes sweeping over the dense steel jungle below, a cruel smile curling at the corner of her lips.

She suddenly raised her fair hand!
"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Several thin, cold glints tore through the air, like the fangs of venomous snakes, shooting towards different directions of the army formation!

"Watch out for hidden weapons! Shield!"

The garrison general issued a stern warning.

The military order is like a mountain!

The soldiers positioned along the trail of the cold light reacted swiftly, instantly erecting several thick, wide steel shields like sturdy dams in an attempt to intercept this unknown attack!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang—!!!"

The moment the cold light struck the shield, it wasn't a clang of metal against metal, but rather a dull yet violent explosion!

In an instant, large clumps of brightly colored poison powder, emitting a strong, pungent odor, exploded like smoke bombs inside the military formation!

These poisonous powders are "Bone-Corroding and Soul-Destroying Powder" meticulously crafted by Li Xueqing!
Once the toxic powder comes into contact with the air, it spreads wildly like a living thing!
They are ubiquitous, and when they touch the skin, they immediately emit a terrifying "sizzling" sound.

The soldier's exposed cheeks, neck, and the back of his hands instantly swelled up with a dense, chilling array of yellow blisters.

An unbearable, excruciating itch erupted instantly!

"Ah—it itches! It's so itchy!"

"My face! My face is ruined!!"

The shrill screams instantly replaced the orderly shouts of battle.

The soldiers were thrown into a vat of boiling oil, dropping their weapons and frantically scratching their own flesh with their fingernails.

The intense itching penetrated to their very bones, making them wish they could tear their flesh and blood off.

The blisters burst, and pus and blood gushed out, mixed with the flesh that had been torn off by himself; the scene was as horrific as hell on earth.

Some soldiers who were severely poisoned had their skin and flesh scratched off on their faces and necks, revealing their bare bones. They were still frantically scratching at their bones, making a chilling "crackling" sound!

If she were fighting against dozens of people in a small area, Li Xueqing could poison them without them even realizing it.

Faced with an army of a thousand men, Li Xueqing abandoned the idea of ​​secretly poisoning them and instead spread the poison directly over a large area.

What she wanted was efficiency! Maximum damage! Utter annihilation!

"Use your internal energy! Disperse the poison powder!"

The garrison general, his eyes blazing with fury, roared out the order.

The officers in the formation, whose strength was above the fifth rank, endured the intense itching and fear, and they all mustered their inner strength, trying to blow the pervasive poison powder into the sky with the force of their palms.

However, at the very moment they exerted their strength to blow the wind—

Li Xueqing had already arrived above the army formation:
"You can't blow it away!"

With her fair, jade-like hand, imbued with suffocatingly powerful internal energy and an even denser bluish-black poisonous gas, she slammed it down towards the chaotic army formation below!

A colossal, dark blue palm print, formed from highly poisonous internal energy, crashed down with the force of a collapsing mountain, carrying the power to destroy everything!
This palm print not only slammed the poison powder that had just been blown up back into the army formation, but also sent the terrifying palm force and even more potent poison directly towards the officers who were practicing their internal energy and the soldiers below!
The officers were instantly caught in a dilemma!

If you don't block the palm strike, you'll be instantly pulverized!
If you try to block the palm strike, you will inevitably inhale more poison and become contaminated with more toxic powder!

"Form ranks! Block!!!"

The garrison general let out a desperate roar and made the only choice.

Dozens of officers gritted their teeth and endured the attack, transforming the internal energy they had just gathered to prepare for the wind into protective qi and palm strikes to meet the sky-covering poisonous palm!
“Boom——!!!!!”

The deafening roar seemed to tear the earth apart!

A violent shockwave, mixed with highly toxic dust, swept outwards like a tsunami!

The officers shuddered violently, spitting out blood, and many were thrown backward by the shock!

Ordinary soldiers, on the other hand, fell in droves, like wheat fields swept by a raging wind!

Some of them had their bones shattered by the aftershocks of the palm strike, while others were covered in poison powder. They writhed and clawed amidst their agonizing screams, quickly losing their fighting ability.

The once imposing and menacing military formation collapsed instantly under the double blow of Li Xueqing's poisonous palm and poison powder, like an anthill hit by a boulder!
Desperate cries, painful wails, and terrified screams echoed through the night sky, drowning out the war drums and horns!
When Li Xueqing's second palm strike, imbued with an even stronger aura of death, descended once more like divine punishment—

The army was no longer able to offer any resistance.

"boom--!!!"

The dark blue palm print, like the scythe of death, fiercely plowed through the core of the military formation!
Those fifth-rank officers who fought back were like porcelain struck by a giant hammer; their protective aura shattered instantly, and their bodies twisted, deformed, and exploded under the terrifying force of the palm strike and the corrosive effects of the poison.

The surrounding soldiers were harvested like weeds, either blasted into mincemeat or instantly killed by poison gas, turning into pools of bubbling pus and blood.

Limbs and severed arms flew about, internal organs were scattered everywhere, and the foul-smelling pus and venom soaked the desolate land.

The Dongzhou City garrison's proud military formation was as fragile as paper in the face of Li Xueqing's unparalleled poison skills. In a short while, it crumbled and turned into a hellish scene of corpses and cries of agony!

The soldiers who had miraculously survived completely broke down, crying out and abandoning their armor and weapons, scattering like headless flies, desperate to get away from that white-clad demon.

Li Xueqing broke through the formation of the Dongzhou City garrison!

……

far away.

Behind a mound shrouded in deep shadow.

Xie Wuwei's eyes, gleaming with excitement, were fixed on the distant battlefield, which resembled a living hell.

However, when he saw the army's formation collapse so quickly, and Shi Danqin forced into a desperate situation like a stray dog, a barely concealed look of disappointment and contempt flashed beneath his furrowed brow. "Hmph!"

He spat under his breath, his voice dripping with sarcasm:
"The dignified Silverwing Marquis, a pillar of the army, is so utterly defeated! Useless trash!"

"I thought he could outmaneuver Li Xueqing, or even take her down with him, thus saving Senior Brother Xiong Ba from having any backup plans... I never expected him to be defeated so quickly and so thoroughly!"

His eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he quickly extinguished that unrealistic fantasy.

"It seems... we'll have to use my senior brother's trump card after all."

He muttered to himself, his tone carrying a hint of awe, yet also a hint of excitement at the impending revelation of the game's secrets.

Xie Wuwei slowly turned around, his gaze falling on the even deeper darkness behind him.

There, a towering, almost inhuman figure stood silently, like an ancient rock.

It was this figure!

When he left Hualong Island to carry out Liang Jin's plan, Liang Jin personally arranged for him to be his assistant.

It was under the terrifying military power of this humanoid weapon that he was able to successfully capture Liu Lixian, the heir of the Prince of Zhongshan, and seize the box of the "Southeast Five Prefectures Defense Map" which was enough to shake the foundation of the southeast.

Tonight, this silent god of death will become the final deciding factor!
Xie Wuwei suppressed all his arrogance and respectfully performed an extremely solemn salute to the tall figure.

His voice was extremely low, carrying an undeniable decisiveness and a barely perceptible hint of pleading:

"Senior, the situation has changed."

"Li Xueqing is more troublesome than expected, and Shi Danqin is not up to the task... The plan may be out of control."

He paused slightly, his sharp gaze pointing towards the white figure hovering above the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood in the distance:

"To ensure the success of Senior Brother Xiong Ba's grand plan, we humbly request your assistance, Senior!"

"Tonight, Li Xueqing... must die!"

……

The center of the battlefield.

Li Xueqing hovered above the corpses and bloodstains like a white crane under the moon, her cold eyes looking down at the completely collapsed army below as if she were looking at a group of ants.

The night wind fluttered her white clothes, but it could not dispel the strong stench of blood and death that permeated her.

"Ah……"

A chilling, utterly contemptuous laugh escaped her lips:

"The army of the Great Qian? They're nothing but a bunch of useless trash in armor!"

"No wonder it has already shown signs of collapse and decay in less than a century!"

The army of thousands crumbled before her like a sandcastle hit by waves.

The remaining soldiers were only concerned with fleeing for their lives, and had no will to fight left.

With the complete collapse of the military formation, Shi Danqin, who was protected in the core and was trying her best to expel the poison, was also completely exposed to Li Xueqing's death gaze.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, his face a mixture of blue and black, his breathing disordered, clearly indicating that the process of expelling the poison was far from satisfactory.

Seeing Li Xueqing's gaze, which was as if she were looking at a dead object, a chill mixed with overwhelming anger rushed straight to the top of his head!

"Vicious woman!"

Shi Danqin suddenly opened her bloodshot eyes, forcing her swaying body to stand firm, and roared sharply, trying to intimidate her opponent with her last bit of power:

"Tonight you slaughtered government soldiers and seriously injured me, committing an unforgivable crime punishable by the extermination of your entire family!"

"The imperial court is furious and has issued a nationwide warrant for his arrest!"

"Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, you will surely be caught and brought to justice, and subjected to the torture of being cut into a thousand pieces! Wherever the army goes, you will be reduced to ashes!"

He shouted himself hoarse, trying to salvage a sliver of hope by using the imperial court's authority and the strictness of the law.

However, the churning poison and weakness within him made the threat seem so pale and powerless.

He took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the metallic taste in his throat, a fierce determination flashing in his eyes, and roared again:
"Besides! Do you really think you've already won?!"

"I am the Silver Wing Marquis of the Great Qian Dynasty, having enjoyed all the riches and honors of the world. Even in death, I have no regrets!"

"If you drive me to a dead end..."

He suddenly straightened his back, and the remaining internal energy in his body began to surge wildly, revealing a tragic and desperate determination to destroy everything in his path.

"Even if it costs me my life, I will drag you down to the deepest hell with me!"

"And you, this venomous woman, are unknown, but you must have been lurking for years with a scheme in mind. Unfortunately for you, before you can succeed, you will die without a burial place!!"

Beside him, the few remaining trusted military officers, including the garrison general, were already deathly pale, their bodies trembling violently, barely able to hold their weapons.

Shi Danqin's harsh words did not give them any courage, only a deeper fear.

Li Xueqing listened to Shi Danqin's fierce but cowardly roar as if she were listening to the buzzing of a dying mosquito, her eyes filled with only cold mockery and impatience.

"Just you?"

Her voice was like ice rubbing together:
"You dare to fight me to the death?"

Her words were filled with absolute confidence, but when she reached the second half of her sentence, her icy tone showed an almost imperceptible, extremely subtle fluctuation:

"I am the sect's first elder, and below the second rank, I am already..."

Finally, she intended to say, "Below the second rank, I am invincible."

The word "invincible" seemed to be stuck in his throat.

She once truly believed that she had no rivals among third-rank martial artists.

But then I met Liang Jin!

That guy was immune to all poisons and completely countered Li Xueqing.

Furthermore, his physical body was like a dragon's, and he even condensed martial intent, which allowed him to defeat Li Xueqing head-on.

The moment she thought of Liang Jin, the idea was like a poisonous thorn, instantly piercing her newly risen absolute confidence. It made her declaration of "invincible below the second rank" seem completely unfounded, and even carried a trace of... apprehension that she herself was unaware of.

This slight fear instantly transformed into intense shame, anger, and resentment!

"enough!"

Li Xueqing shouted sharply, forcefully banishing the image she loathed from her mind, her killing intent surging:
"It's time to hit the road!"

"Go and enjoy your marquis's riches on your way to the underworld!"

She gave Shi Danqin no more chance to catch her breath or say anything more!
A fair hand suddenly shot out, its five fingers spread wide, and grabbed downwards!

"Sizzle—!!!"

The air seemed to be torn apart!
A surge of powerful azure internal energy erupted, instantly coalescing and transforming before her palm.

A gigantic, ferocious, and terrifying phantom of a blue venomous spider suddenly materialized!

What's even more chilling is that, just like a real spider spinning silk, countless fine, viscous, and shimmering blue threads of internal energy instantly shot out from the body of this venomous spider phantom.

These silk threads intertwined to form a giant blue net covering an area of ​​several dozen feet in radius. With strong corrosive and binding power, it swept down on Shi Danqin and her remaining subordinates on the ground.

They've sealed off all their escape routes!

"Green Spider Soul-Hanging Hand"!
One of Li Xueqing's signature moves!

The officers on the ground stared at the dark blue poison net that blotted out the sky and exuded a deadly aura, their eyes filled with endless despair, their faces ashen!
Shi Danqin knew that this was a true life-or-death situation!
If we don't fight now, we'll never live again!
"Roar—!!!!"

He unleashed the most devastating and ferocious tiger roar of his life.

The whistling sound pierced through metal and shattered stone, carrying a resolute fighting spirit!

He frantically and recklessly burned and squeezed out the remaining internal energy in his body, along with his essence blood that had been riddled with holes by the deadly poison!
A burst of yellowish-black internal energy, mixed with dense black energy, suddenly erupted from his body, enveloping him entirely.

At this moment, he seemed to have truly transformed into a ferocious tiger driven to the brink of despair, burning with the fury of life!

Shi Danqin stomped her feet hard on the ground, creating two deep craters!

He shot into the sky like a cannonball released from its barrel, carrying a fierce and desperate momentum of mutual destruction!

The giant tiger opened its blood-red maw and relentlessly bit at the swooping blue giant spider!

In mid-air, the giant blue spider, a symbol of deadly poison, clashed violently with the raging tiger!
"BOOM—!!!!!"

A terrifying roar, seemingly capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart, suddenly erupted!

The violent energy shockwave, like a real tsunami, swept wildly in all directions from the point of impact.

The ground was scraped away, and sand and stones flew everywhere!

The seemingly ferocious yellow-black tiger phantom shattered inch by inch like fragile glass!

The cyan giant spider phantom also fluctuated violently, becoming illusory and dim, and finally dissipated into countless cyan light spots like fireflies, slowly fading away.

Shi Danqin's figure was thrown out of the center of the explosion like a broken kite with a broken string.

"puff!!!"

What he spat out was no longer fresh blood, but a thick, black blood clot mixed with pieces of internal organs!
His magnificent brocade robe was already tattered and torn, and his breath was extremely weak. Like a candle flickering in the wind, he fell helplessly toward the ground!
Below, the few remaining officers had already been knocked unconscious by the terrifying shockwave, bleeding from all seven orifices, and no one could catch the falling Silverwing Marquis.

Li Xueqing hovered in the air, her cold face showing no emotion whatsoever.

She knew that this fall wouldn't kill a third-rank martial artist.

She slowly raised her right hand, and in her palm, the dark blue-black poisonous internal energy condensed and compressed once again, radiating a destructive wave.

But with just this one palm strike, the Silver Wing Marquis of the Great Qian Dynasty will become history forever!
Just as her palm was about to be pushed out—

An indescribable, cold, heavy, metallic, and terrifyingly oppressive killing intent, like a polar glacier, spread out without warning from the thick darkness behind her!
Li Xueqing's hand, which was gathering internal energy, suddenly froze!
A chilling sense of crisis, stemming from her very survival instincts, coiled around her spine like a cold, venomous snake and rushed straight to her mind!

In an instant, every hair on her body stood on end!

She suddenly turned her head!

Behind her, in the darkness that seemed to devour everything, a huge, heavy silhouette, like a mobile fortress, was slowly emerging!
What is most unsettling is that on that outline, two points suddenly lit up with a dark red light, like the burning depths of a hellish furnace!
Immediately afterwards——

"laugh!!!"

Several streams of scorching, condensed white steam, like the suppressed breath of a giant beast, suddenly spewed out from the three rows of bronze pipes standing upright on the back of the huge figure's neck!

Steam condensed rapidly into white mist in the cold night air, swirling around the massive body, adding to its mystery, inhuman terror, and suffocating pressure!
That enormous figure, amidst the billowing steam and heavy sense of oppression, took a step... out of the shadows!

Finally, the moonlight, though stingy with its rays, cast a few soft glows, illuminating his silhouette.

He is as majestic as a mountain!
His face was completely covered by a hideous bronze mask armor, stained with the marks of time and old bloodstains. He was clad in battle-scarred armor, and held in one hand a giant sword, Thousand Mountains Rippling, which was as big as a stone tablet, and in the other hand a Bone Erosion Wheel as big as a shield.

His heavy footsteps landed with a dull thud, like a giant hammer striking a war drum, kicking up clouds of dust!
Under his superhuman weight, clear and deep footprints were left on the solid ground beneath his feet!

This is a metal demon god that has stepped out of ancient legends!

A killing machine born solely for destruction!
His head, covered by a bronze-colored mask, slowly turned.

Those two dark red lights pierced through the pervasive steam, like two death rays from hell, firmly, coldly, and without emotion... locked onto Li Xueqing!
(End of this chapter)