LGHTNOVELBOOK 14: Brother, Save Me
“Seventh Senior Brother, are your injuries alright?”
Qiu Xiude had attacked with full force to kill. Tantai Ming’s magic robe had several large holes and he was wounded.
He casually cast a cleaning spell on himself, “Hmph, that guy couldn’t beat me. If Junior Sister hadn’t called for us to stop in time, I would have knocked him down already!”
“Stop boasting.”
Mu Chihuai threw him a bottle of Healing Pills, exasperated, “Wait until your legs stop shaking before you brag.”
Tantai Ming was indeed almost at his limit, having consumed too much energy. He caught the medicine bottle with one hand, casually stuck his sword in the ground, took the pill and sat cross-legged to meditate and recover.
Chu Sang crouched beside him and lightly patted something on his face.
“What’s this?”
Tantai Ming opened his eyes, touched the new thing on his face, looking curious. He took out a small mirror to look, finding that it perfectly covered the wound on his face, and actually made him look a bit handsome.
Chu Sang, “Band-aid.”
Just then, the ground in the distance suddenly began to shake violently. The three turned their heads to look in that direction, all inwardly breathing a huge sigh of relief.
“Thanks to Junior Sister’s warning, we ran away quickly. Otherwise, we would have really been caught up with those people.”
Tantai Ming lightly leaped onto a tree, looking towards the earth-shaking scene in the distance, grinning to show a tiger tooth, extremely schadenfreude.
Rare spirit herbs of several thousand years or more are likely to have guardian spirit beasts protecting them.
The more precious the spirit herb, the stronger the power of the guardian spirit beast.
Such a large patch of Heart Essence Ethereal Grass, though not in a particularly hidden location, had remained unpicked by anyone. It was easy to imagine that there was likely a spirit beast guarding it.
When they first went to pick it, there was no movement, so they guessed the spirit beast was probably still asleep. Originally, if they had carefully picked the herbs and run, all would have been well. But the Tianyan Sect group had to chase after them.
The two sides’ big fight had caused quite a commotion.
The most fatal was still the disturbance and pressure caused by Qin Xixue’s upper-grade Spirit Tool. Even if the guardian spirit beast was dead, it would have been angered enough to climb out of its coffin.
Judging by the mountain-collapsing, earth-splitting commotion over there.
It was at least a powerful Golden Core stage spirit beast.
Although Foundation Establishment and Golden Core seem to be only one realm apart, the gap in strength between them is like a heavenly moat, difficult to cross. Not to mention that spirit beasts of the same level have even more formidable physical bodies than human cultivators. One swipe from a Golden Core stage spirit beast could kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
“Let’s wait for the Tianyan Sect disciples to lure away the spirit beast, then we can go pick up the leftovers,” Chu Sang said, rubbing her hands together.
“This… doesn’t seem right?”
Although Tantai Ming didn’t like the Tianyan Sect group, taking advantage of others’ misfortune seemed like something legendary demon cultivators and evil cultivators would do.
Chu Sang said seriously, “If they hadn’t come to make trouble, the spirit beast wouldn’t have awakened. So they brought the spirit beast on themselves, it has nothing to do with us.”
“Moreover, we found those herbs first. This isn’t taking advantage of a fire to loot, it’s returning things to their rightful owner.”
Tantai Ming: …That makes so much sense, he was speechless!
Compared to the three of them eating melon seeds and watching the show, the Tianyan Sect side was a completely different scene, like the end of the world had arrived.
The ground suddenly shook violently. Qin Xixue let out a delicate cry, nearly falling to the ground. Qiu Xiude hurriedly stepped forward to catch her, “Junior Sister, are you alright!”
Unfortunately, the spirit beast didn’t give the two a chance for eye contact. A huge creature burst out of the ground, blotting out the sky—it was an enormous earthworm!
No one could see clearly how long the earthworm was. The moment it appeared, the sky suddenly darkened.
The earthworm’s earthy breath, when it swept across the ground, was like a series of hurricanes, easily overturning Foundation Establishment disciples with weaker strength.
An early-stage Foundation Establishment disciple didn’t react in time, frozen in fear on the spot. The spirit beast’s thick, long tail smashed towards him heavily.
“Boom—”
Instantly, that disciple turned into a pulp of flesh, blood splattering the scene!
The crowd let out screams.
“It’s, it’s a mid-stage Golden Core spirit beast! A Chaos Mud Kylin Worm!”
Everyone’s faces turned as white as paper in that instant, their blood flowing backwards.
A Golden Core stage spirit beast!
They actually encountered a Golden Core stage spirit beast?!
“Isn’t this supposed to be a small secret realm? How could a Golden Core stage spirit beast appear, and why did it suddenly show up?”
A knowledgeable disciple answered with a trembling voice, “This is the guardian spirit beast of the Heart Essence Ethereal Grass.”
“But I clearly remember seeing in the spirit beast classics that the Chaos Mud Kylin Worm is lazy by nature and doesn’t like to move. It usually sleeps hundreds of meters deep underground, each sleep lasting for decades. Ordinary disturbances won’t wake it from its slumber, unless, unless…”
The disciple looked at Qin Xixue with a complex expression, speaking with difficulty, “Unless the Chaos Mud Kylin Worm senses a disturbance threatening its survival, only then will it be forced to awaken from its sleep, frantically attacking the enemy that posed the threat!”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone realized, their gazes falling on the bewildered Qin Xixue, “You’re the one who lured out the Chaos Mud Kylin Worm!”
It was because of her, the strong pressure emitted by the upper-grade Spirit Tool that forced the Chaos Mud Kylin Worm to appear, causing them to suffer this undeserved disaster!
They might even lose their lives here!
Even though these disciples initially had some admiration and respect for Qin Xixue due to her appearance or talent and status, at this moment, their hearts were full of resentment.
Qiu Xiude was also extremely irritated, but still didn’t forget his role as a bootlicker, defending Qin Xixue, “Little Junior Sister didn’t know about these things, how can this be blamed on her?”
The other disciples were even more dissatisfied. If not her fault, then whose fault was it? Theirs?
“Alright, stop arguing. Fighting among ourselves will only make us die faster. The urgent matter now is to quickly deal with this stone worm.”
Qiu Xiude turned to look at Qin Xixue, his tone unable to hide his urgency, “Junior Sister, doesn’t your Spirit Tool have attacks at the Golden Core level? Quickly take it out!”
A look of conflict flashed in Qin Xixue’s eyes. This was an upper-grade Spirit Tool she had obtained with great difficulty, capable of only three attacks, extremely precious, saved for her own life-saving moments.
How could it be used on these unrelated sect disciples?
Moreover, she had other magical treasures to escape with, there was no need to waste her trump card at a time like this…
But, if she returned to the sect alone, while all the disciples who came with her perished, the sect would surely blame her…
After much consideration, she gritted her teeth and reluctantly took out the Immortal-Falling Seal again.
Qin Xixue was distracted, and the second attack, equivalent to a full-force strike from a Golden Core cultivator, only landed on the mud worm’s tail.
“Roar—!”
The mud worm let out a sky-piercing howl, its eyes filled with nearly overwhelming fury. The shattered section of its tail quickly regenerated by absorbing the surrounding debris, its body growing twice as large as before, charging even more fiercely towards the crowd!
“Not good!”
Not only did it fail to hit a vital spot, but it also enraged the mud worm!
The mud worm’s attacks became even more fierce and terrifying than before, charging and crashing about, smashing half a mountain peak and countless trees, with innumerable rocks tumbling down.
Everyone not only had to resist the stone worm’s attacks but also divert energy to defend against the falling rocks. Their resentment towards Qin Xixue reached its peak.
Even Qiu Xiude lost patience, almost shouting, “What are you doing! Aim for its head and eyes! What use is hitting its tail?!”
Being shouted at like this, Qin Xixue’s eyes instantly reddened, her fingers trembling slightly.
Qiu Xiude inwardly cursed and was about to snatch the Immortal-Falling Seal from her hand to use it himself. Just at this moment, a terrifying pressure swept over them like a tide, blowing the two of them back hundreds of meters, crashing hard into a rock wall.
Qiu Xiude coughed up a large mouthful of blood, in an extremely sorry state, unable to even stand up.
Qin Xixue had a heart-protecting mirror given by Chang Yu, so she wasn’t much hurt, but the mirror shattered after taking a full-force hit from the Golden Core spirit beast. The Immortal-Falling Seal was also lost somewhere.
With her life-saving trump card gone, she was terrified to the extreme.
Seeing the mud worm charging straight at her, Qin Xixue was so scared her legs went soft, unable to run.
In this critical moment, she used her remaining rationality to crush a token at her waist. With a voice full of tears,
“Brother Qingchen…”
Almost at the instant the token was crushed, the turbulent spiritual energy around suddenly froze as if encased in ice. A powerful sword qi wrapped in icy force cut through the void, brightening the sky!
The mighty presence, almost rivaling a Golden Core cultivator, accompanied that silvery-white sword qi as it slashed down on the mud worm’s vital spot—
The huge mud worm was directly cut in half, its enormous body bursting into countless particles of dust and mud, disappearing from sight.
The area swept by the sword qi was covered in ice and snow on the ground, leaving a huge ice scar hundreds of meters long. The trees and everything along its path were frozen into ice sculptures.
Qin Xixue hurriedly opened her eyes. Seeing that familiar cold-glinting long sword, tears rolled down her lotus-like cheeks as she threw herself into the young man’s arms without hesitation, “Brother Qingchen, I knew you would come to save me…”
That token was something she had begged from Mo Qingchen by chance. It contained a strand of Mo Qingchen’s divine sense. As long as she encountered danger and crushed the token, he would instantly sense it and rush over immediately.
Mo Qingchen was tightly embraced by the young woman, his body stiffening slightly. He only frowned slightly, not stopping her action of seeking comfort, and spoke softly, “Are you alright?”
“Fortunately, Brother Qingchen came in time. Xixue isn’t hurt.” She cried tears of joy, raising her small face to him. Though she was smiling, there were still pitiful tear traces on her cheeks, particularly moving.
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Everything happened too suddenly. The Tianyan Sect disciples hadn’t reacted yet. They only saw a black-robed young man holding a long sword, descending from the sky. With a flick of his wrist, a sword light slashed through the heavens, killing the mud dragon in one strike.
Killing a mid-stage Golden Core spirit beast with late-stage Foundation Establishment strength.
Such power was truly terrifying!
“It’s Chang Yu Elder’s personal head disciple, Mo Qingchen. I didn’t expect it would be him who saved us!”
Everyone cried tears of joy and crowded forward.
Qiu Xiude clutched his chest, shakily standing up from the ground.
Seeing Qin Xixue throw herself into Mo Qingchen’s arms like a frightened rabbit without a word, a flash of unwillingness passed through his eyes. He gritted his teeth and also walked over, “Senior Brother Mo, thank you for your help.”
Mo Qingchen nodded, not saying much. He was about to leave when his footsteps paused, his gaze coldly shifting to the side of a tree,
“Who’s there?”
With a turn of his wrist, the long sword forged of ice turned into a stream of light, carrying a huge pressure straight towards the tree.
“Come out.”
The young man spoke coldly, like the icy long sword in his hand, without a trace of warmth.
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[Author’s Note: I’m just testing the waters, is anyone there? Please give me some votes and comments, o(╥﹏╥)o]