Becoming a Saint Starts with Copying Martial Arts

Chapter 160 Severe Injury

He flipped to his feet, turned and left at an extremely fast speed. In Qiu Changming's eyes, he was just flashing. His position kept changing, and in an instant he rushed out hundreds of steps.

Lin Siming immediately gave chase, and the two quickly disappeared into the night.

"Chase?" Qiu Changming asked tentatively.

"You stay here, I'll go check it out," Lin Qing said, and immediately used his lightness skill to chase after him.

With a thought, he added five lightness skills to his equipment slot. One of them was a new lightness skill called "Thousand Miles Without Leaving a Trace," which he obtained from Sima Yi. It was a fourth-rank martial art that allowed for long-distance raids, and its level had already reached its peak.

Lin Qing replaced his original second-grade lightness skill with this new one, so at this moment, his movement speed was extremely fast, even faster than when he fought Sima Yi that day.

After chasing for over a thousand steps, he arrived at the training ground of a nearby martial arts school, where Lin Siming caught up with the Devouring Spirit Demon again, and the two once again engaged in fierce combat.

The Devouring Spirit Demon's figure flickered, his hands forming claws. Each strike brought forth gusts of wind, aiming straight for Lin Siming's vitals. Lin Siming countered with a set of palm techniques, which appeared extremely mysterious and blocked all of the Devouring Spirit Demon's attacks.

In the fierce battle, Lin Siming once again gained the upper hand. Suddenly, he struck out with his palm, hitting the Devouring Spirit Demon in the chest. A surge of Yuan Gang Qi erupted from his palm and exploded in the Demon's chest.

The Devouring Spirit Demon let out a scream and flew out again, crashing into a large rock not far away.

This palm strike caused even greater damage than the last one, directly blasting a bloody hole in his chest, with greenish-blue blood mist drifting out and flesh and blood flying everywhere.

In that instant, Lin Qing could clearly feel that the Devouring Spirit Demon's aura had plummeted.

"Hey, is that all you've got, kid? I think you should just give up and kill yourself, save yourself the trouble." Lin Siming put his hands behind his head and slowly walked towards the Devouring Spirit Demon.

The latter rolled over and sat up, its chest flesh writhing, the wound rapidly healing.

"Just you wait, I'll be back for you soon! Such surging energy, tsk tsk, if I devour you, my combat power will more than double!" The white-robed youth licked his lips, a burning greed flashing in his eyes.

"Oh dear, this brat is really fearless. Even at a time like this, he's still thinking about eating me. I'll send you on your way right now."

Lin Siming suddenly drew his sword, strode forward, and transformed into a black shadow, rushing straight at the Devouring Spirit Demon.

Just then, a streak of purple light shot from afar, heading straight for Lin Siming.

Lin Siming's figure froze for a moment, then he dodged to the left. The streak of light landed with a bang, creating a huge explosion that blasted a large crater in the ground.

But that wasn't all. Immediately afterward, three more arrows shot out, each enveloped in a thick layer of primordial energy.

Lin Siming dodged two more arrows in succession, but the third arrow was unavoidable, so he raised his hand and slashed at it with his sword.

boom!

With a loud bang, the arrow exploded, and Lin Siming was forced to retreat more than thirty steps.

He glanced around and looked in the direction from which the arrows had come, and said loudly, "Old man Li, you've arrived just in time. It seems that the beating you received during the day wasn't painful enough."

"Hmph! Lin Siming, don't be so smug. Once the Devouring Spirit Demon grows up, you'll be in for a world of hurt." A loud male voice came from the darkness.

"Oh ho, the Soul-Devouring Demon has escaped. Then you can die in his place."

With that brief delay, the Devouring Spirit Demon had vanished without a trace. Lin Siming's words carried a hint of anger as he immediately pounced on Li Wantao.

Li Wantao turned and ran. The two were about three hundred paces apart. Li Wantao was extremely fast and quickly disappeared into the night.

Lin Siming chased for a while, but soon gave up and turned back to land next to Lin Qing.

"What a pity. If it weren't for that old thief Li's sudden arrival, I would have surely killed the Devouring Spirit Demon tonight," Lin Siming lamented.

"It's alright, I'll hold another ceremony when we get back, and we'll do it again," Lin Qing said.

"Next time we must be fully prepared, and we must also take that old scoundrel Li into account. It would be best to catch them all in one fell swoop," Lin Siming added.

I

That night.

The three returned to the town of Zhenhunsi, and Lin Qing immediately began to arrange the sacrificial ceremony.

The process is the same again, with the blood of five kinds of animals as offerings. While slowly walking around the offering table, they repeatedly recite the sacrificial inscription.

When the eulogy was finished, Lin Qing once again fell into an illusion. It was still a black and white world, and in the distance, he could still see a ball of will-o'-the-wisp shining like a small sun.

This time, however, it was traveling westward at an extremely fast speed and had already left the city center.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred, and a cold, youthful voice suddenly rang in Lin Qing's ears.

"Traitors should be executed!"

The next instant, a surge of evil energy rushed into his body, and the illusion shattered instantly.

Lin Qing was startled, feeling this evil energy rampaging through his body, frantically devouring his blood and qi, and growing stronger at an alarming rate.

"not good."

He immediately swallowed an evil-repelling pill and then immediately circulated the Harmony of Heaven Technique. In an instant, his blood and qi surged throughout his body, and his body was covered with a layer of light golden Tathagata Qi.

Under the double blow, this evil aura quickly weakened and suddenly collapsed and dissipated.

Lin Qing let out a long breath, his brows furrowing slightly. He vaguely sensed that the evil energy had not completely disappeared, but had instead broken down and dispersed throughout his body.

Meanwhile, the meat and blood of the five sacrificial animals on the table quickly began to rot and stink.

Seeing Lin Qing's pale face, Qiu Changming asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"The Devouring Spirit Demon seems to have sensed my abnormality and has used a remote curse to kill me," Lin Qing said.

"Worshiping evil spirits is inherently a dangerous thing. It's best not to do it if you can avoid it. Have you found its location?" Lin Siming asked.

"It ran away and has left the city. It's heading west," Lin Qing said.

"It ran away? That's troublesome. If it stayed in the prefectural city, it would be easier to find. But if it ran away, there's really no way to find it." Lin Siming frowned. "Such evil spirits roaming the world will be a scourge sooner or later." Qiu Changming said.

"He won't go far. Such evil spirits need to constantly devour blood and qi to strengthen themselves, otherwise they will soon perish in the world. Moreover, the blood and qi of ordinary people are useless to him; it must be the blood and qi of powerful martial artists. Just wait, he will come back. Last night, my palm strike took at least half of his life," Lin Siming added.

In the following days, no further news of attacks or mutilation of people in the prefectural city was reported.

However, the entire Zhenhun Division still dared not relax for a moment, maintaining a city-wide curfew and patrolling day and night.

Lin Qing continued to collect corpses and practice martial arts, making the most of every moment to improve his strength. His swordsmanship, external martial arts, and internal strength were all increasing rapidly.

During the journey, the Soul Suppression Division arranged for an officer to perform another ritual, but the Soul Devouring Demon simply did not respond, so they gained nothing and the matter was put aside.

For half a month, all was calm. Just when everyone thought that the Devouring Spirits had left the city, Lin Qing was suddenly attacked.

On this day, as he led Wei Dong and the others by carriage from the Soul Suppression Division to the prefectural city, they passed through a grove of trees when the white-clad youth suddenly blocked their path.