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Chapter 70 Melee (Seeking monthly votes and recommendations)

Upon seeing Li Shizhou's actions, the red-robed male cultivator said sternly, "Boy, don't get it wrong, your opponent is me."

Li Shizhou slammed a giant golden fist toward the man, coldly saying, "Get lost."

The red-robed male cultivator was struck by a punch that caused his blood and qi to surge. Instead of being angry, he was overjoyed and said, "That was great! Today I can finally have a proper fight."

Yuan Yao, having only recently entered the Core Formation stage, knew she was no match for the green-clad female cultivator in the mid-Core Formation stage, so she could only fight and retreat, focusing most of her energy on defense.

Suddenly, a strange sight appeared in the sky above the vast sea: four Core Formation cultivators lined up in a row.

Yuan Yao fled in the lead, followed by the green-skirted female cultivator from Qingyang Sect. Li Shizhou chased after the green-skirted female cultivator, with the red-robed male cultivator trailing behind.

The female cultivator in the green dress was quite skilled in escape techniques, but she was still a bit slower than Li Shizhou, who was blessed by the Hidden Dragon Miasma.

After a dozen or so breaths, the female cultivator in the green dress was enveloped in black mist, from which came the roars of demonic beasts and bursts of explosions.

In order to finish the battle quickly, Li Shizhou also summoned the Ink Beast and the Level 6 Purple Eyes.

Even Mo Li Beast Dog, although it is a level 5 demon beast, has a true spirit bloodline and can fly after reaching level 5.

Her strength was not much different from that of the green-skirted female cultivator in the mid-stage of Core Formation.

The level six Purple-Eyed Bi, who also possesses the bloodline of a true spirit, is far more powerful than this woman.

In less than three breaths, Li Shizhou, standing on a blue longsword and carrying a corpse, flew out of the Hidden Dragon Miasma, followed by a spirit beast on each side.

He looked at the red-robed male cultivator with a half-smile and said, "You just said that you wanted to have a good fight with me today."

The red-robed male cultivator shuddered as he looked at the man and two beasts, along with the churning black mist behind them; his earlier bravado had vanished.

Although the female cultivator in the green dress from the Qingyang Sect was weaker than him, she had fallen in such a short time, and he knew that his life was now hanging by a thread.

With a fierce look in his eyes, he took out a rough-looking black pottery jar and opened it.

Then he cut off his right leg and left arm and threw them into the air.

Smelling the blood, a cloud of blood mist emerged from the earthenware jar, transforming into a scarlet skull that swallowed the half-empty limb whole.

After consuming the blood, the skull grew larger and larger, and began to grow a body and limbs.

Finally, it transformed into a giant ghost over ten zhang tall, with special horns on its head and wielding a blood-red fork.

The aura it emitted was comparable to that of a peak late-stage Core Formation cultivator; the nauseating stench could be smelled from a great distance.

Li Shizhou originally wanted to end the battle quickly, but after seeing the red skull appear, he stopped channeling magic into his gauntlets and then summoned the Howling Soul Beast.

The Soul-Crying Beast was only a little over a foot tall, about the size of that ghost's fingernail.

The beast and the ghost exchanged a glance, and the ghost hurled several ten-foot-long blood-red tridents at the weeping soul.

The Soul-Crying Beast twitched its nose and spat out a beam of light. The Blood Fork melted instantly upon contact with the light, like ice and snow meeting a raging fire.

After absorbing the blood, the rosy light lashed out at the ghost again.

The giant ghost knew it had met its nemesis, and its face showed a human-like look of terror as it instinctively took a step back.

The other cultivators who were fighting nearby noticed the strange phenomenon and couldn't help but turn around to look.

On the ghost's side, it was enveloped in the glow of the sunset and pulled toward the nose of the Weeping Soul Beast, and no matter how much it struggled, it could not break free.

Its body, over ten feet long, disappeared into Tihun's nostrils in the blink of an eye, vanishing without a trace.

The red-robed male cultivator's face was ashen. He hadn't expected his trump card to be so easily exposed. He could only channel his magic power into the magic weapon in his hand, and a black giant claw, several meters wide, howled like a ghost as it reached out to grab Li Shizhou.

Li Shizhou waved his left hand, and the Hidden Dragon Miasma enveloped his body again, while simultaneously unleashing a punch.

Although the red-robed male cultivator took the pill immediately after his limb was severed, he hadn't had time to refine it, and his aura was now much weaker than before.

The black giant claw began to break apart inch by inch as soon as it touched the golden fist, and finally exploded.

Before long, Li Shizhou had gathered up the remaining troops and begun to survey the battlefield.

At this moment, Yuan Yao was already helping Murong Lou deal with Yu Kun from Jiyin Island, as well as a level six demonic beast.

The golden-robed cultivator with the highest cultivation level in the Reverse Star Alliance panicked when he saw that his side had lost two mid-stage Core Formation cultivators in a short period of time despite having the upper hand.

He unleashed several powerful divine abilities to break free from Chen Qinggu's entanglement, then with a thought, he put away the level six demonic beast and turned to flee.

This demonic beast was originally his spirit beast; he was just lending it to the people of Jiyin Island to put on a show.

Now only Yu Kun from Jiyin Island remained. He was only at the early stage of Core Formation and was surrounded by the four from Xinggong. He was sweating profusely.

This time, Li Shizhou didn't make a move. With so many fellow disciples present, he couldn't possibly take all the credit, especially since he was the weakest one on the opposing side.

After succeeding, the three of them all looked at Li Shizhou, clearly showing an attitude of following his lead.

Team leader Chen Qinggu said, "Junior brother, we have now collected the corpses of three Core Formation cultivators from the Reverse Star Alliance. Should we return to Tianxing City or continue patrolling?"

He had long since lost the worry he had shown when he first set out; instead, his expression was filled with excitement. It was probably because he saw that his side had a powerful cultivator and wanted to take this opportunity to get more spoils.

Li Shizhou, on the other hand, was much calmer. He didn't lack these spoils; he had only come out on patrol out of necessity, and now that he could go back as soon as possible, he naturally didn't want to delay.

So he said seriously, "The Reverse Star Alliance has lost three Core Formation cultivators. They might send Nascent Soul level experts to search this area. We should return to Tianxing City immediately."

After a moment's thought, Chen Qinggu nodded, took out his flying boat magic weapon, and carried everyone towards Huangming Island.

On the way, they opened the storage bags of the cultivators from Jiyin Island and began distributing the spoils of war.

He was reasonable enough to hand two level-five demon cores to Li Shizhou.

Li Shizhou was collecting this item and accepted it without hesitation.

Soon after, the group returned safely to the Tianxing City Internal Affairs Hall.

The cultivator in charge was still the same white-haired, youthful-looking senior brother in the late-stage Core Formation realm, who was leisurely drinking tea.

Upon seeing the four approach, he said in an unfriendly tone, "Junior brothers and sisters, why are you back so soon? If you can't produce evidence of killing three people of the same level, the punishment will be very severe."

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He only put down his teacup and stood up after seeing the three corpses of the Reverse Star Alliance cultivators and their identity jade tokens.

Gan chuckled a few times and said, "It's because I was blind, Senior Brother."

After the handover was completed, the group left the Inner Affairs Hall, bid each other farewell, and returned to their respective caves.

With the Void Stone in hand, Li Shizhou's most pressing task now is to refine his natal magic weapon. After all, the sooner he refines it, the more time he will have to nurture it in his dantian, and the greater its power will be in the future.

So he went back to his cave and had a good sleep. The next day, after resting up, he flew towards the weapon-refining room.

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