Chapter 559 - 559: Interception

However, jumping up at this moment was a much better option for Chu Qingyun.

He controlled the ten vines behind him, lashing them out at the Molten Beasts attacking him. At the same time, he continuously unleashed his Thunder Sword, striking down one Molten Beast after another.

Moreover, Chu Qingyun controlled the angle of the ten vines' attacks with exceptional skill.

While attacking the Molten Beasts, the ten vines also allowed Chu Qingyun to use the force of their lashes to propel himself out of the Fire Poison District while he was in mid-air.

With each successive lash, Chu Qingyun was propelled a full two hundred meters farther out than where he would have normally landed.

With this one leap, he shot ahead of everyone.

He even shot ahead of all the Molten Beasts!

At the edge of the Fire Poison District, there were no other Saint Extreme Sect disciples. Only a dozen or so Molten Beasts remained, heavily injured and collapsed on the ground, clinging to life.

His flexible use of the Iron Wire Ten-Star Vine Martial Soul allowed Chu Qingyun to evade all the Molten Beasts.

Of course, using it this way required a careful assessment of the situation; it couldn't be used recklessly.

For example, the last time he had charged out of the Fire Poison District alone, this move would have been unsuitable.

Because he was alone back then, the moment he used the vines to leap into the air, dozens, even hundreds, of Molten Beasts would have jumped after him.

At that point, he feared even a hundred vines wouldn't have been enough.

And suspended in mid-air with nowhere to leverage his strength, he would have had to face that many Molten Beasts head-on…

Chu Qingyun glanced back, then his figure flickered and he charged out of the Fire Poison District.

The people behind him were on the verge of going insane with rage.

When Chu Qingyun had entered, they had been the ones to clear the path.

When Chu Qingyun took the Magma Essence, they had attracted the Molten Beasts' attention, acting as his shield.

Now that Chu Qingyun was out, they were the ones left to cover the retreat.

Everything was for those ninety-thousand-plus Saint Extreme Points.

And yet, they hadn't obtained a single Saint Extreme Point!

"Hua Xin'an! Li Qin! Stop Chu Qingyun!"

Seeing Chu Qingyun charge out, Zheng Tianrong, who was locked in a bitter struggle with the Molten Beasts, suddenly roared to those outside.

Zheng Tianrong and his group had arrived in a hurry and hadn't prepared anything in advance to deal with the Fire Poison.

As a result, his eleven level-seven Martial Spirit subordinates, unable to withstand the Fire Poison's assault, could not enter the Fire Poison District and were waiting outside.

Zheng Tianrong's voice reached the outside before Chu Qingyun did.

The moment Chu Qingyun burst out of the Fire Poison District, eleven level-seven Martial Spirits surrounded him, blocking his path.

The task for these eleven level-seven Martial Spirits was actually very simple. They just needed to hold Chu Qingyun up and prevent him from leaving until the people behind them charged out. Once the level-nine Martial Spirits made their move, Chu Qingyun would have no chance of escape.

However, people are selfish.

Those eleven people also coveted the more than ninety thousand Saint Extreme Points.

They also wanted to achieve a great merit, giving them more bargaining power when the Saint Extreme Points were distributed.

So, all eleven of them scrambled to be the first to pounce on Chu Qingyun, wanting to be the one to kill him and seize his Storage Ring and sect Token.

And this gave Chu Qingyun an opportunity.

An opportunity to end the fight quickly!

"Great Devouring Palm!"

Chu Qingyun shouted lightly, thrusting out a palm.

A massive amount of Devouring Power surged out, coalescing into a black cylinder. The cylinder expanded rapidly, and the eleven of them had no time to stop, retreat, or dodge before they were completely engulfed within it.

Eleven streams of powerful Primordial Power flowed along the Devouring Power into his Devouring Martial Soul, where they were refined into Primordial Liquid and added to his Qi Sea.

And eleven Blood Pills were also taken by Chu Qingyun into his Storage Ring.

After quickly dispatching these eleven people, Chu Qingyun unleashed his Devouring Martial Soul and devoured their Martial Souls. Then, with a shock of Primordial Power on the ground, he swept away the withered bones and ash, picked up the Storage Rings they had left behind, and vanished into the nearby darkness.

However, Chu Qingyun didn't go far.

He huddled down, hiding in a concealed crevice on the nearby Shi Mountain. At the same time, he activated his Hidden Qi Technique and Shadow Martial Soul to completely conceal himself.

Once the Shadow Martial Soul had concealed the entire crevice, Chu Qingyun, now hidden inside, swallowed an Ice Pattern Pill. Then, he took out two portions of Cold Heart Marrow and applied them to several external injuries on his body.

The previous battle had been utterly chaotic.

Although Chu Qingyun had been under relatively less pressure, injuries were still unavoidable.

Moreover, during the intense battle, his breathing had become rapid, and the amount of Fire Poison he inhaled had exceeded the limit of a single Ice Pattern Pill. As a result, some Fire Poison had accumulated in his body.

The Fire Poison in his body was rapidly being purged by the power of the Ice Pattern Pill and the Cold Heart Marrow.

But Chu Qingyun was peering through the crevice, carefully watching the spot where he had exited the Fire Poison District.

'Logically, I have the Magma Essence now and haven't suffered any major losses. I should leave the Molten Rock District immediately and hurry back to the Saint Extreme Sect.'

However, he had another plan: to completely fill his Qi Sea with Primordial Liquid while still in the Molten Rock District.

It had been five days since he entered the Molten Rock District.

During these five days, not only did Chu Qingyun fight Molten Beasts every day, killing quite a few of them, but in the last two or three days, after Chen Yi, Zheng Tianrong, and others spread the news about him, he had also begun to clash with some of the Saint Extreme Sect's Outer Disciples.

Five days of intense combat.

The fighting had not only condensed his Primordial Power and advanced his comprehension of the Lightning Sword, but through his Devouring Power, the Primordial Liquid in his Qi Sea was also constantly increasing.

Now, his Qi Sea was almost completely filled with Primordial Liquid.

If he could just devour the Primordial Power of a few more high-level Martial Spirit Realm experts, he could probably fill his Qi Sea completely.

Striking a few more times in the Molten Rock District could save him a huge amount of Primordial Spirit Liquid, and ready-made Primordial Spirit Liquid was something Chu Qingyun was rather short on.

Moreover, this time, Chu Qingyun set his sights on the Inner Sect Disciples of the Saint Extreme Sect.

'Because after they come out of the Fire Poison District, they're bound to be afflicted with Fire Poison, and their strength will be greatly diminished!'

Soon, the people inside the Fire Poison District fought their way out together.

However, only thirty to forty people, all in a wretched state, managed to make it out this time.

Compared to the high-spirited, mighty group of over a hundred from before, their losses were truly disastrous.

By the time they emerged, the area outside was, of course, long since empty. Not a single person was in sight.

"Zheng Tianrong, weren't you just shouting for your men outside to stop that Chu Qingyun? Where are they now?"

Almost everyone inside had heard Zheng Tianrong's earlier shouts, so one of them couldn't help but confront him.