Chapter 514 - 510: The Power of the Spirit Explosion Pill

Hmph!

Shangguan Shiyu and Leng Yao rolled their eyes at Qin Li, pouting as they turned away.

Qin Li blinked innocently. Suddenly, his expression changed slightly. He turned to Bai Zhongshan and said, "Take everyone and go. After you return to the family, if Cao Hong is out of seclusion, have him stay there for the time being to instruct the Qin Family disciples in various assassination techniques!"

"Young Master, what about you?" Bai Zhongshan frowned slightly. He released his Divine Sense but felt nothing. However, his intuition told him that something was definitely wrong.

Shangguan Shiyu and Leng Yao also looked at Qin Li with concern. Shangguan Shiyu asked softly, "Husband, what happened?"

"It’s nothing. An old friend is coming to see me. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine!" Qin Li said with a smile, his expression relaxed.

But even She She knew it wasn’t that simple. It had to be something dangerous. So, She She couldn’t help but ask, "Young Master, is it an enemy? With so many of us Martial Artists at the Pill Nascent Soul Transformation realm, can’t we beat a single person?"

Qin Li’s voice grew heavy. "She She, don’t be ridiculous. Hurry and go with Old Bai."

As he spoke, Qin Li turned to Shangguan Shiyu, a trace of apology in his eyes. He wanted to keep his two wives, Shiyu and Leng Yao, by his side always, but unfortunately, fate had other plans. Trouble, one way or another, always found him.

Shangguan Shiyu bit her lip. After a long moment, a faint smile appeared on her stunningly beautiful face. "Husband, if there’s really something you must do, then go. I believe that nothing will happen to you!"

Leng Yao watched Qin Li silently, her face filled with reluctance to part.

Although Bai Zhongshan still couldn’t sense any danger, he urged the group, "Alright, let’s get going!"

Qin Li stood his ground, watching the group speed away. The reluctant gazes from Shangguan Shiyu and Leng Yao sent a pang of pain through his heart. At the same time, a rage that he hadn’t felt in a long time finally ignited.

As his power grew and his horizons broadened, it had become rare for Qin Li to be driven to uncontrollable anger. But some people were just too detestable!

Take the Hai Family, for example. The conflict had started with that so-called genius, Hai Jinzun, who looked down on everyone. Subsequent events had only intensified the feud, making the animosity between them irreconcilable.

But at its core, it was all because the great Hai Family wanted to stir up trouble and expand their own power. Qin Li was merely a convenient pretext!

Moreover, things like the Ancient Map in his possession and his identity as the Purple-eyed New King were originally unconfirmed. But after the Hai Family spread their wild rumors, the lies had become truth—not to mention they were true to begin with.

Lengqiu Palace was just as obnoxious. Although Qin Li had gained immense benefits there, that was his own good fortune! The extremely yin energy in the passages of the Lengqiu Palace Earth Palace would have killed anyone else long ago. Therefore, Qin Li didn’t feel like he had taken advantage of Lengqiu Palace by benefiting from it.

To put it bluntly, the people of Lengqiu Palace were no saints themselves!

And this Purple-eyed Emperor hunting him didn’t even seem to be from Lengqiu Palace. So how did he find out? Could he confirm it based on the Hai Family’s word alone?

’There must be some people from Lengqiu Palace involved in this.’ He had never once thought of becoming the Palace Master of Lengqiu Palace, yet they wanted to hunt him down over it.

A bone-chilling killing intent gradually surfaced in Qin Li’s eyes. ’If you want to kill me, then let’s see who kills whom!’

Half an hour after Shiyu and the others had left, an immense aura swept towards Qin Li from the distant sky, moving like flowing clouds.

Qin Li circulated his Innate Purple Qi, completely shielding his body as he hid within a forest.

The reason Qin Li hadn’t fled immediately was twofold. First, he wanted to buy Shiyu and the others time to get away; otherwise, his pursuer might have followed them. Second, Qin Li wanted to test whether his Innate Purple Qi could conceal him from a supreme expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm.

Qin Li’s breathing came to a near standstill. Even his heart would only beat after a long interval. He tried to awaken the Pill Nascent Soul in his dantian and then attached a sliver of his Divine Sense to it.

At that moment, Qin Li’s body entered a bizarre state. His heart stopped beating entirely, and his breathing ceased. He looked just like a dead man, yet his body remained soft and pliable, no different from a living person’s.

Meanwhile, the Pill Nascent Soul in his dantian suddenly opened its eyes. Those eyes were a pure, unadulterated purple, as was its body, which flowed with a fantastical light.

The fist-sized Pill Nascent Soul tightly clutched a soybean-sized seal. The seal looked simple and unadorned, but it had been nurtured by Qin Li to the point where it had returned to a state of primal simplicity!

The terrifying aura overhead came to a halt right above him. Then, a voice like a great bell resounded in the sky.

"Qin Li, stop hiding. I know you’re here! The number of people I was tracking dropped by one, which could only mean you noticed me! If you don’t come out, I’ll catch up to your group and slaughter every last one of them!"

The voice was cold and emotionless, as dry and chilling as a block of ice.

Qin Li immediately identified the man. It was the same person who had hunted him in Tongtian City!

A Purple-eyed Emperor!

The voice continued, "You managed to escape last time in Tongtian City. I didn’t expect you to be so fast. If I weren’t particularly clever, finding you would have been quite difficult. Qin Li, I’ll give you the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. If you don’t show yourself, I will show your people absolutely no mercy!"

After speaking, the man fell silent. The time it took for an incense stick to burn was nearly up. An impatient look gradually appeared on Qu Zhi’s face, and the wings on his back stirred slowly.

Suddenly, his wings flared wide. Like a hawk spotting its prey, he dove towards a certain spot in the forest below, his figure as swift as lightning!

Two beams of purple light flashed in Qu Zhi’s eyes. With a wave of his hands, a tornado formed around his body, matching the momentum of his dive.

The moment the tornado touched the forest below, ancient trees so thick it would take several people to encircle them were instantly uprooted and swept into the sky. The speed was unimaginable. In a flash, ancient trees from an area nearly a thousand meters across were ripped from the ground. Then, all of them were smashed down violently toward a single spot!

All these trees combined were nearly the size of a small mountain. Even a single massive ancient tree could smash an ordinary person to a pulp. The countless ancient trees crashing down created a scene no less spectacular than a landslide.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Deafening rumbles echoed continuously. The ancient trees uprooted by the tornado first smashed a deep crater into the ground, then piled up like a mountain on top of it!

The scene was utterly horrifying.

Qu Zhi laughed heartily. "Qin Li, don’t tell me I crushed you to death? How about it? Feels great, doesn’t it?"

Suddenly, Qu Zhi’s expression changed drastically. He spun around in utter shock to see an exceptionally handsome young man standing in the sky behind him, a mocking look on his face.

"Does destroying a forest really feel that great? I don’t think so," Qin Li said flatly. Then, he suddenly raised a hand, and a fingernail-sized elixir shot toward Qu Zhi.

Without a second thought, Qu Zhi flicked his hand, sending a powerful gust of wind toward the inconspicuous little object. He sneered internally, ’Hidden weapons have always been a trivial trick on the Celestial Essence Continent. Even ordinary Martial Artists in the secular world can’t be bothered to use them, yet you dare to make a fool of yourself with one?’

BOOM!

The sneer froze on Qu Zhi’s lips. With a powerful flap of his wings, he retreated several hundred meters. Looking back, he saw the space before him had been blown to smithereens!

"What is that?" Qu Zhi paled, asking reflexively.

His answer was three more Spirit Explosion Pills that Qin Li fired at him!

The power of a single exploding Spirit Explosion Pill was equivalent to the self-detonation of a Celestial Venerable realm Martial Artist. While an old monster of Qu Zhi’s level wouldn’t fear one Celestial Venerable self-destructing, what about ten? A hundred? A thousand?

In fact, he wouldn’t even need ten. If just five Celestial Venerable realm Martial Artists managed to get close to Qu Zhi and self-destruct, injury would be unavoidable!

Facing these little things again, Qu Zhi didn’t dare to be as careless as before. He instantly retreated a great distance, then shot out three gusts of wind that precisely struck the three Spirit Explosion Pills.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Three violent explosions blasted a huge swath of the mountain forest hundreds of meters below! The destruction spread out like a spiderweb, and all the birds and beasts within were instantly pulverized by the immense, unrivaled force!

Qu Zhi’s face turned extremely ugly. He never would have dreamed that this young man, whom he’d considered an easy catch, possessed so many secrets that even he couldn’t comprehend!

’It seems I can’t kill him. I must capture him alive!’

With that thought, Qu Zhi instantly used a Secret Technique of the Purple-eyed Race to send out a message. The other pursuers, though separated by thousands of miles, all received his message at the same time and began rushing toward his location!

Meanwhile, Lengqiu Palace’s Emperor Ancestor, Mo Li, was within range. Another Emperor Ancestor from Lengqiu Palace, Mo Shun, also received the message. Without hesitation, the two of them flew directly toward the area!

Qin Li could only sense that Qu Zhi seemed to be transmitting some kind of message, but he couldn’t decipher it. He figured the man was likely summoning his companions.

Qin Li then tossed another five Spirit Explosion Pills toward Qu Zhi as if they were worthless.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The five loud bangs sent Qu Zhi—a Great Power of the Thunder Tribulation Realm, a dignified Purple-eyed Emperor—scrambling in a frantic mess, and he flew into a rage!