In the future, Earth becomes a relic of the mythical era.

Chapter 176 They're all thieves!
The Liu Bingqing they were talking about was already swimming towards them with all her might.

You could see the terror on her face from afar, along with a hint of joy at finding a savior and escaping from a desperate situation.

However, she didn't see anyone or anything chasing her from behind.

"Sister Liu!"

At this moment, Liu Bing had already leaped out to meet Liu Bingqing and rush back this way.

Liu Bingqing showed no sign of joy; instead, she exclaimed in alarm, "Quick, run! It's Zhang Pi! He's coming after us!"

"Zhang Pi?! Zhang the Water Ghost?"

Leng Qingci gasped softly in surprise.

Xie Lingxin asked, "You know him?"

Leng Qingci said, "I've only heard that he's an evil cultivator who has committed many major crimes in the East Sea, and he hides in the Dragon Palace Dead Zone for many years, especially in this Dragon Abyss, where he robs and kills passing cultivators."

"Few who encounter him survive; his whereabouts are hard to find. I heard that many people in the city want to arrest him, but no one has been able to find him."

"careful!"

Liu Xing suddenly charged at Li Miaoyin like a bull.

At the same time, a strand of hair that had fallen to one side of Li Miaoyin's cheek suddenly snapped off as if cut by a sharp blade.

A bloodline appeared on her face.

Silent and eerie.

"boom!"

Liu Xing had already crashed into the empty space beside Li Miaoyin.

Just heard a muffled sound.

A transparent shadow was sent flying by the impact.

A figure rolled out.

Everyone was startled as Li Jingzhe's flying sword shot away.

It swept past the figure, but just as it was about to be pierced, the figure instantly disappeared into the dark water.

The flying sword pierced through the sky.

Li Jingzhe frowned, bent his finger and brought back the flying sword, which hovered around himself and Li Miaoyin.

"Are you OK?"

Li Miaoyin touched her face blankly, then looked at it and saw that her hands were covered in blood.

"what--!"

A sharp scream suddenly pierced the eardrums.

"my face!"

"Brother! My face!"

Xie Lingxin smacked her lips as she watched Li Miaoyin jumping and shouting.

It's just a small cut; it'll heal almost completely after a few more cries...

I couldn't be bothered with her; my inner strength was swirling around me.

Yet they couldn't find the slightest clue.

I don't know if that was a human or a ghost.

"It's a water escape technique!"

Leng Qingci said, "It is one of the legendary Five Elements Escape Techniques, which allows one to enter water without leaving a trace. When cultivated to a high level, one can even instantly travel thousands of miles away. Every thought can merge with water, changing at will and in countless ways."

"No wonder so many people have tried to catch that skin but failed. He has this water escape technique. He can hide in the sea and become the sea itself, so there's nowhere to find him."

Liu Bingqing, standing nearby, exclaimed in horror, "Yes! It was Zhang Pi! He just used this water escape technique to kill many sea monks, as well as those who were with us. They're all dead!"

"He died silently and without a trace; he just died inexplicably, and no one knew how he died!"

Leng Qingci said, "That's right. This is the sea, where water is everywhere. Every drop of water could become a deadly weapon. How could an ordinary person possibly defend against it?"

Just then, Li Miaoyin suddenly cried out in surprise, "Brother!"

Upon closer inspection, everyone noticed that Li Jingzhe had suddenly developed more than a dozen bloody marks all over his body without any warning.

Clothing and flesh were as if slashed open by an invisible blade.

One of the wounds was in the throat, where scarlet blood seeped into the water, a horrifying sight.

"Hey!"

Xie Lingxin was startled and slashed repeatedly with the Supreme King Sword in her hand.

A dozen or so sword energies pierced the sky as they slayed evil.

It enveloped Li Jingzhe from all sides.

The transparent phantom reappeared, but rolled several times, dodging the sword energy, and then disappeared again.

At the same time, Li Jingzhe held the long sword upside down, raised one palm to his chest, and muttered incantations.

A translucent cyan-gold light suddenly appeared on his body.

His crystal-clear appearance made him look like a glass sculpture.

A phantom image appeared behind him.

A pagoda, a lotus flower, and a tin staff.

The three treasures appeared, and the blue-gold lapis lazuli light shone even brighter.

It can reach more than a hundred meters away.

Under the radiant light, a phantom could not be hidden dozens of meters away, revealing a human figure.

He was a thin, young man.

They seemed not to have realized that they had been exposed.

The next moment, Li Jingzhe had already reversed his longsword.

"disease!"

With a clear shout, the long sword pierced the air.

"laugh!"

The man felt a sharp pain in his chest, and slowly looked down to find a bloody hole in his chest.

My mind immediately began to wander.

Before his consciousness faded, he subconsciously stammered, "Protective divine light! The Three Treasures Azure Glazed Buddha Light! You... are Bo...?!"

Before he could finish speaking, the longsword flew back, circled his neck, and his head rolled off, leaving his mangled corpse floating in the water.

The protection that the tiger-dragon had placed on it seemed to have become ineffective.

The terrifying water pressure instantly crushed the two severed corpses into a bloody pulp.
Looking at Li Jingzhe again, the dozen or so bloodstains on his throat and body were visibly healing under the golden-blue light.

With a wave of his hand, a precious light enveloped Li Miaoyin, and the bloodstain on her face rapidly healed.

Three Treasures Blue Glazed Buddha Light?
Xie Lingxin seemed to be deep in thought.

I heard at Seven Star Academy that this brother and sister were no ordinary people; they might be from a prestigious family outside of Far East Star.

It now appears that the rumor was true.

Where would an ordinary person have such methods?
Even if it were him, he would find it difficult to counter the methods of this water ghost Zhang.

This water escape technique is indeed powerful.

Ordinary telepathy wouldn't even be able to detect his presence.

He quickly let it go; their origins were unimportant to him. He swam towards the clump of drifting flesh.

He's really craving water escape techniques, but he doesn't know if he can find them.

It was a bit disgusting; the flesh and blood had been scattered in a large area mixed with seawater.

Even the bones were crushed into powder.

All that remained were a few pieces of clothing and a magic pot.

Xie Lingxin suppressed her nausea and retrieved the spirit pot.

His mind probed into it, and he immediately frowned.

He turned and tossed it to Li Jingzhe.

"You killed them, so they're yours."

It's not that he's generous.

Logically, aside from the Millennium Turtle Pearl, all the spoils from this operation should belong to him.

There's nothing wrong with taking it myself.

However, apart from a few spiritual particles, there was nothing else in this spirit pot.

Li Jingzhe noticed this at the same time. He looked at Xie Lingxin, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly, and then he put away the spirit pot.

"Brother Xie, it's almost time. Let's go to the second floor as soon as possible."

Xie Ling thought for a moment and didn't object: "Okay."

The Dragon Palace opens only at certain times; it opens with the ebb and flow of the tides.

With the time spent on previous challenges already taken, they don't have much time left.

"You're going to the second floor?"

The Liu siblings were both taken aback.

Liu Xing warned, "It's very dangerous there!"

Xie Ling thought to herself, "There's no other way, we have to go. How about you? Can you walk by yourselves?"

The two siblings exchanged a glance, and Liu Bing said, "Brother Lingxin, you two are so powerful, you should be able to handle the second floor too. But my brother and I are too weak, so we won't drag you down with us."

"So you're Xie Lingxin?"

Liu Bingqing seemed to only then realize what had happened, and said happily, "Thank you for saving me!"

Xie Lingxin laughed and said, "Since you want to thank us, you should at least offer something in return. Empty words, is your life worthless?"

Everyone was stunned by these words.

Except for Li Jingzhe.

With a slight movement of her fingers, the flying sword began to dance around Liu Bingqing.

It seemed as if it would pierce through her at any moment.

Liu Bingqing was so frightened that her face turned pale.

Liu Bing looked around and quickly asked, "Brother Lingxin, what are you doing?"

Xie Lingxin pointed her Supreme King Sword at Liu Bingqing: "Encountering bandits on the road, hero saves the beauty, isn't this trope too old?"

"Zhang Pi is in cahoots with you, isn't he?"

Liu Bingqing's face turned pale: "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by this?"

Only then did Li Miaoyin realize what was happening, and she angrily retorted, "What I mean is, you bitch, how dare you scheme against us! You're asking for death!"

She was truly frightened by the silent and stealthy methods employed by that skin.

Although Liu Xing's collision didn't kill her, she thought she was going to be disfigured.

When has she ever been so frightened?
"I don't!"

Liu Bingqing's face turned pale, and she shook her head in dismay.

Liu Bing also said, "Brother Lingxin, is there some misunderstanding? Sister Liu clearly came with us, how could she be with Zhang Pi?"

"Step aside!"

Xie Lingxin wielded the Supreme King Sword, and a stream of evil-slaying sword energy was already being swung towards Liu Bingqing.

Liu Bingqing was so frightened that her face turned pale.

But when the sword energy reached him, it suddenly turned into a ball of water.

The sword energy slashed through, exploding into countless water droplets that scattered into the sea and disappeared without a trace.

A murmur arose, and Li Jingzhe once again released the Three Treasures Azure Glazed Light.

The precious light spread, instantly illuminating a pool of water with a human-shaped outline.

Just like Zhang Pi from before.

The flying sword whistled through the air and pierced through it in an instant.

The outcome was exactly the same.

Seeing Liu Bingqing turn into minced meat and scatter into the sea, the Liu siblings both gasped in shock.

"How could she... how could this happen?"

Xie Ling thought to himself, "That skin belongs to a notorious evil cultivator and thief, who only has a few spiritual essences on his entire body?"

Liu Xing stared, mouth agape, at the spirit pot in Li Jingzhe's hand, and immediately understood the meaning behind their earlier glances: "You... just based on this, you... you can make that judgment?"

Li Jingzhe said, "It's just a suspicion; she's too easily frightened."

Xie Lingxin smiled and said, "Even if my sword energy hit her, it would only seriously injure her at most, and she wouldn't be able to hold back."

He and Li Jingzhe had a pretty good understanding.

I had my doubts from the very beginning.

The trick was too old, and with that spirit pot, she was only scared for a moment before she exposed herself.

"..."

The Liu siblings thought the two men were insane.

For such a trivial reason, they're going to seriously injure someone...

"Um... thank you all so much this time. My brother and I will definitely repay you if we have the chance in the future..."

Xie Lingxin waved her hand and said, "No need, no need."

Liu Bing quickly said, "Brother Lingxin, yes! If it weren't for you, my brother and I would be dead!"

Xie Lingxin said, "No, no, no, you misunderstood. What I meant was, if you want to repay someone, you don't have to wait until later. Repay them now."

"what?"

The two siblings were taken aback.

Xie Lingxin grinned: "Liu Bingqing is a thief. You two claim to be in cahoots with her. Tell me, do you think you can be innocent?"

The Liu siblings were startled.

next moment.

Liu Xing charged out like a bull.

Liu Bing turned and ran.

"Goodness! They're all thieves!"

(End of this chapter)