“Qingshan’s doubts are very reasonable. Daoist priest Qiu is very crafty. I’ll come with you. An additional person brings additional help.” Fang Enshang could still remember how Wu Gen had failed even with all the Hawkwolf guards accompanying him.
Han Qiongzhi said, “There’s no need. Give this brother a proper burial. If he had family, take good care of them. He won’t die in vain. We will avenge him.”
She saw how Fang Enshang wanted to say something else, so Han Qiongzhi cut him off. “If the two of us work together, there won’t be any problems at all!”
PS: Gotta build up before the battle, gotta think before the twist. The chapter tomorrow morning might be missing. Allow me to think about it carefully.
Chapter 323: Altar Lord of White Lotus | Legend of the Great Sage
With great confidence as well as trust in Li Qingshan, Han Qiongzhi waved her hand, and the two of them set off.
Han Qiongzhi urged him, “Hurry up and summon the cloud!”
It was early in the afternoon when Ancient Wind city, which sat on the side of the mountain and faced fertile land, appeared before them. It was dyed a faint yellow by the dim sun of winter.
Under the ancient city gates, Li Qingshan and Han Qiongzhi gazed ahead.
Although it was winter, quite a lot of people moved around on the streets. There were both adults and children, giving off a worldly hubbub. It was the same as the past, and it would remain like this in the future too. There did not seem to be any danger or hidden killing intent.
As they walked through the streets, the two of them had instead raised quite a lot of attention, treated as outsiders.
Li Qingshan said, “Let’s look around for him!”
Han Qiongzhi called out, “Qiu Ruiliu, we can already see you, so come out!”
They attracted even more gazes over. Li Qingshan shook his head with a smile. Was a move used to trick children supposed to work?
A creak followed her voice. At the end of the main road, the doors to the Qian estate swung open loudly.
No different from the past, Qiu Ruiliu wore the robes of a daoist priest as he stood at the entrance. He clasped his hands. “I was unaware that esteemed guests would be coming, so please forgive me for failing to welcome you!”
It actually worked!
Before he had even finished talking, Li Qingshan felt a scorching gust of wind kick up beside him. Han Qiongzhi shot over, leaping towards the entrance of the Qian estate.
With a swish, she drew her blade from her sheathe. It lit up with flames that were ten meters long as she swung it towards Qiu Ruiliu’s head.
“Die!”
This attack was the school of Legalism’s Blade Aura of the Death Sentence. It possessed the dignity of law, the right to execute people, as well as the decisiveness of the school of the Military. Before the attack had even arrived, it could already overwhelm the opponent with awe.
However, Qiu Ruiliu simply stood right there, smiling as he watched the blade arrive before him.
With a clang, the blade landed on a black barrier of light. A formation enveloped the entire Qian estate. It would be extremely difficult for her to contend against the formation alone.
Knocked back, Han Qiongzhi made a flip in the air and landed gracefully.
Qiu Ruiliu said, “Originally, I wanted to lure some powerful people here, but I never thought I’d only lure over some shrimp.”
“Murder!” Only now did the passersby on the streets react. They all called out as they fled towards their homes. They were merely some poor people, so why would they want to become involved in a battle like this?
“Why aren’t you helping me?” Han Qiongzhi turned around and asked Li Qingshan. However, all she saw was Li Qingshan staring at the black barrier around the Qian estate with a frown.
“Let’s go!” Li Qingshan suddenly grabbed Han Qiongzhi, and they took off into the sky.
“What are you doing?” Han Qiongzhi said as she put up a struggle. Even if Qiu Ruiliu was protected by a formation, the power of the formation would not be endless. Moreover, she possessed a few supreme grade talismans too. Even if this was an ambush, there was nothing for her to worry about.
However, Li Qingshan said nothing at all. His face was sunken as he wrapped his arm around her waist like a hoop of metal. An unprecedented feeling of alarm loomed over his heart.
“You want to leave? It’s too late!” Qiu Ruiliu laughed aloud. Even in this moment, he seemed to be brimming with righteousness, more upright than insidious.
A black streak of light shot into the sky from within the Qian estate, pushing the black barrier outwards. It caught up with Li Qingshan instantly, enveloping the entire city.
As if night had suddenly descended, even the winter sun in the sky dimmed. Some of the people who had yet to flee back home suddenly halted. They became riddled with cracks before collapsing like sand statues, reduced to a dark red smear on the ground silently.
Without any preparations or prior signs, the entire city, whether they were male or female, whether they were old, frail, women, or children, had died in that instant.
There were no heroes that appeared, engaging in a battle between good and evil to save the common people. There were no laments or pain. All it was was an instant, and everything became deathly silent. The hubbub of the streets seemed to have never existed in the first place.
The moment Li Qingshan and Han Qiongzhi were enveloped by the black barrier of light, they stiffened. They felt like they were being crushed and ripped apart by a terrifying force, as if it wanted to crush them to a pulp, yet also rip them to pieces.
Under the balance of the two powers, it was almost like nothing, but destruction was omnipresent. They could feel it in their bodies.
The cloud condensed from spiritual energy collapsed quietly. The two of them fell out of the air.
Han Qiongzhi’s confidence was completely replaced with fear. It was impossible for just a person like Qiu Ruiliu to cast down a formation like this. At the very least, they needed an Altar Lord of the White Lotus cult to achieve this.
Li Qingshan, on the other hand, immediately thought of the story Gu Yanying had once told him, about how the White Lotus Mother had sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives.
This time, they had unfortunately won the grand prize. There was an Altar Lord hiding within the Qian estate at the very least.
Han Qiongzhi mobilised her true qi desperately, but her true qi refused to obey her. She wanted to say something to Li Qingshan, but she saw how stunned he was as he stared at her. She subconsciously touched her cheek.
Her fair, smooth cheek had become like an age-old oil painting. A tiny crack had appeared, oozing with blood.
……
Ancient Wind city has probably been reduced to a ghost city now!
In the Academy of the Hundred Schools, Qian Rongzhi gazed at the blue sky and thought about that.
Everything that had once been would be reduced to nothing in the White Lotus cult’s Lotus Bloom formation.
She chanted softly, “All sins annihilated ,the lotus blooms.”
The first time she had met Qiu Ruiliu was during the encirclement mission last time. In order to hunt him down in the caves that were as complicated as a cobweb, they had split up, communicating with one another with their tablets.
In the end, she had found the injured Qiu Ruiliu.
This time, it was a complete coincidence, or perhaps it was inevitable. She did her best to search for traces before entering a cave that was least likely for Qiu Ruiliu to choose to escape in.
In the darkness, two pairs of eyes met one another. There was no conversation, nor was there any fighting. She acted like she had seen nothing before backing out again.
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