sinovels Chapter 44 Feint 1 Shots
Chapter 44 Feint 1 Shots
The entire city of Xuan Ce was instantly shrouded in surging calamity clouds.
The sky hung low, and the dark sea of clouds surged like raging waves, completely obscuring the blazing sun.
The mortals in the city trembled under the wrath of the heavens, and even the cultivators turned pale, looking up at the sky with fear in their eyes.
"What...what's going on?" an old Taoist priest with white hair muttered to himself in a trembling voice.
"Could it be... could it be that a powerful being is undergoing tribulation here?" a cultivator in brocade robes murmured, unconsciously taking several steps back.
"Immortal, please relinquish your supernatural powers!" A cry came from the street corner, and a merchant knelt down, kowtowing repeatedly towards the sky.
Panic spread like wildfire, and everyone feared that the aftershocks of the day would crush them to dust.
Li Qingyi's heart sank, and she quickly walked out of the house.
Gazing at the ever-thickening clouds of calamity, his face was as solemn as iron. Lightning bolts darted and flashed within the clouds, each flash causing his heart to skip a beat.
"Brother Feng, did you cause this?" Ling'er was also startled by the commotion of the heavenly tribulation and quickly came to the courtyard, her pretty face full of surprise and doubt.
"It's complicated, so stay away from me," Li Qingyi said in a deep voice, her gaze never leaving the horizon.
Ling'er's eyes narrowed, and she immediately retreated gracefully, her skirt fluttering in the wind. In the blink of an eye, she was hundreds of feet away.
Li Qingyi stood alone in the courtyard, her blue robe fluttering in the strong wind.
He waited patiently for the tribulation to strike, but the sea of lightning surged even more violently, and bolts of lightning crisscrossed in the clouds, yet the thunder did not descend.
"Why hasn't it landed yet?" he thought anxiously; this kind of waiting was the most agonizing.
Li Qingyi wished the tribulation lightning would strike immediately, thinking, "Is it going to accumulate to its maximum and annihilate me completely in one blow?"
He swallowed hard, extremely nervous.
The calamity cloud lingered above Xuan Ce City for a long time, but ultimately, unable to find its target, it simply rolled around a few times before dissipating.
"Huh...? A feint?"
Looking at the gradually clearing sky, Li Qingyi was a little confused.
He was certain that the heavenly tribulation was aimed at him, but he didn't know why it had stopped halfway.
"It can't be because I have a system, can it?" he muttered to himself.
"I thought Brother Feng had done something that angered both heaven and man, causing even the heavens to be disgusted."
Ling'er rushed back from afar, her voice filled with disappointment, "I never expected it to end like this."
"Do you really want me to get struck by lightning?"
"Otherwise what?"
Li Qingyi: "..."
He ignored Ling'er and turned back into the house to meditate and regulate his breathing.
He had indeed expended a great deal of energy during those seven days of corpse refining, leaving him with depleted magical power and exhausted spiritual consciousness.
Li Qingyi sat down cross-legged, circulating her energy to restore her mana while carefully sensing the mysteries of the corpse puppet.
What surprised him most was that controlling the corpse puppet was as easy as controlling his own body.
What's even better is that when controlling the crafted corpse puppet, he doesn't need to expend much effort; it's as simple and natural as waving or clenching a fist.
"That's brilliant!" he couldn't help but exclaim.
Moreover, the corpse puppet's cultivation level was completely equivalent to his, making it a perfect one-to-one replica.
Because they share the same origin, he can even take the corpse puppet into his sea of consciousness and nurture it with a single thought.
All these pleasant surprises made Li Qingyi beam with joy, feeling that the ten days of hard training were completely worthwhile.
"This is me without my mind..." Li Qingyi concluded.
"Senior Youhuang's corpse refining technique is truly heaven-defying! No wonder it triggered a heavenly tribulation, but I wonder why it didn't fall."
"Never mind all that, now let's see how far it goes before it can't be retrieved."
Moved by her thoughts, Li Qingyi immediately controlled the corpse puppet and rushed out of the city.
……
In Xuan Ce City, just as the cultivators were preparing to flee this dangerous place, the tribulation clouds vanished without a trace.
"Has that senior already perished?" A young cultivator gazed at the sky and murmured to himself.
"This is...too fast!" His companion shook his head in disbelief.
"this……"
The group looked at each other, all feeling a sense of relief at having survived a disaster.
The streets gradually returned to their usual hustle and bustle, but a mystery remained unsolved in everyone's heart.
……
Inside the main hall of the Dao Sect, eight figures floated in mid-air, their robes fluttering even without wind.
They closed their eyes and concentrated, their bodies swirling with spiritual energy, clearly indicating that they were all at least at the Purple Mansion level.
"What are your thoughts on what just happened?" The Dao Sect Master spoke slowly, his voice echoing throughout the hall.
"The Heavenly Tribulation covers an extremely wide area, making it difficult for divine sense to penetrate. When it dissipates, nothing can be calculated anymore," a white-haired elder said with a frown.
"There are no high-ranking cultivators in the city, and we don't know exactly what happened," another person added.
"How strange! With such a commotion, the city seems to be as if nothing has happened..." The third elder stroked his beard and pondered.
"Changes are about to occur, and this world is about to descend into chaos..." The Dao Sect Master sighed softly.
The high-ranking members of the Dao Sect discussed the strange phenomenon of the heavenly tribulation that had just occurred.
However, no matter how they deduced the solution, it ultimately came to nothing.
The Heavenly Tribulation Gang provided Li Qingyi with the best cover, preventing them from discovering any clues.
……
Outside Xuan Ce City, Li Qingyi controlled the corpse puppet as it moved through the forest, silently counting the distances in her mind.
After traveling about ten miles, he realized that he could no longer instantly retract the corpse puppet into his soul.
"With my current cultivation level, this is the limit," the corpse puppet muttered to itself, stroking its chin.
Suddenly, the ground trembled violently, and the surrounding trees shook violently.
A deafening roar came from afar. The corpse puppet frowned, then smiled faintly:
"Perfect opportunity for me to test whether I can fully utilize my cultivation level."
Li Qingyi discovered that a caravan of ordinary people was fleeing in the far distance towards Xuan Ce City.
The horses neighed incessantly, and the leader looked anxiously at the carriages behind the caravan.
Many of the vehicles behind had already broken apart and become dust under the feet of the five-meter-tall demonic ape.
The demonic ape was entirely black, with exposed fangs, and every step it took caused the earth to tremble.
"Miss! Give me the Qinghui Tongqiao Orchid; that beast must have been attracted by it."
A middle-aged man dressed in a tight-fitting outfit lifted the carriage curtain and said anxiously:
"I'll act as bait to attract the demonic ape's attention, giving you the opportunity to escape."
"But... this is the most important product we commissioned this time. We can lose anything else, but we can't lose this one." A hint of hesitation flashed in the girl's eyes in the car.
She was about sixteen years old, with beautiful features, but her face was deathly pale.
"If you're dead, what use are these external things?" Zhang Fang said sternly, veins bulging on his forehead.
"But...how do you deal with a demonic beast in the early stage of Qi Refining?" Qiu Yao's voice trembled.
Zhang Fang gave a bitter laugh: "The master saved my life back then, and now it's time to repay him."
The demonic ape behind her drew ever closer, a foul stench assaulting her nostrils. Struggle and hesitation flashed in Qiu Yao's eyes…
As the screams grew closer, she finally took out a brocade box from her storage bag and handed it to Zhang Fang with trembling hands.
"Miss, please take care..." A resolute look flashed in Zhang Fang's eyes. He was about to jump off the carriage when he saw a sword light streak across the sky like a shooting star.
The five-meter-tall demonic ape didn't even have time to let out a wail before it was instantly split in two by the sword energy and crashed to the ground.
Everyone in the caravan was stunned by this sudden turn of events, and the carriages all came to a stop.
As the smoke and dust cleared, a monk in a green robe stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering in the wind.
Qiu Yao stared blankly at Li Qingyi after she had been disguised, then quickly got out of the carriage and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your help, Immortal Master."
The survivors all bowed respectfully to Li Qingyi, but Zhang Fang's eyes flashed with a barely perceptible cold glint.
Just as Li Qingyi was about to speak, lightning suddenly gathered in the sky, and the tribulation clouds stretched for miles at a visible speed, even more terrifying than when they were in the city.
Li Qingyi: "???"
"Damn it! You were waiting for me here?"
"If you don't want to die, take your men and get out of here!" Li Qingyi shouted, then sped off in an empty direction.
He didn't want to involve these ordinary people.
The caravan members had never seen anything like it before. They were terrified, and cries of despair filled the air.
They wanted to gallop at full speed, but the horses, weakened by the wrath of the heavens, became foamy at the mouth and collapsed to the ground.
"Uncle Zhang... what do we do now?"
"What else can we do but run!" Zhang Fang's face was ashen.
"This is a legendary phenomenon that occurs when cultivators undergo tribulation. That young man must be a legendary immortal. We must leave quickly, or we'll be caught in the crossfire!"
The remaining dozen or so members of the caravan scrambled and stumbled in the opposite direction from Li Qingyi.
Just then, a thunderclap crashed down, the sound deafening and sending shivers down everyone's spines.