Chapter 1287: Seeing Through It

The earth puppets’ strike missed. Qin Sang noticed that these earth puppets were different from the ones before. They seemed to be a kind of sword puppet.

Fairy Qiuzhi let out a light exclamation, somewhat surprised by how quickly Qin Sang had reacted.

However, the killing move she had painstakingly prepared was not so easy to evade. She immediately formed a strange sword seal, and the four earth puppets shattered at once, transforming into ten thousand swords!

Fairy Qiuzhi suddenly sensed a terrifying aura appear overhead. She frowned, and a sharp warning rose in her heart.

Crack! The peal of thunder was deafening. It was the Lightning Control Technique Qin Sang had unleashed.

Fairy Qiuzhi remembered that Qin Sang possessed a formidable lightning art and did not dare to be careless. She shot Qin Sang a furious glare and could only change her incantation and seals. The earth puppets around her flew above her head.

Crack, crack... In an instant, the earth puppets locked together and formed a heavy stone wall.

In the next moment, lightning crashed down from the heavens and struck the stone wall brutally.

A thunderous boom erupted as the wall shook violently. Cracks spread across it, and shattered stones rained down.

Then the stone wall split open from the middle, and the remaining lightning pierced through mercilessly. Yet it struck only empty air.

Fairy Qiuzhi’s figure appeared a hundred zhang away. She was uninjured, but having dodged in haste, she could not avoid looking somewhat bedraggled. She recalled the earth puppets and found that several had already been completely shattered and could no longer be restored.

Inwardly, her assessment of Qin Sang rose to another level.

His swordsmanship, lightning art, and evasion technique were all enough to threaten her. This man was not a cultivator who relied solely on external treasures. Even without the devilish flames, he was still one of the top experts in Beichen Realm.

That brief exchange had been extremely dangerous. Fairy Qiuzhi had been forced to stop and protect herself, and Qin Sang had taken the chance to escape danger as well.

But he did not stop there. Taking advantage of the damage to Fairy Qiuzhi’s earth puppets, he immediately drove the ebony sword into another fierce assault. At the same time, lightning flashed around his body, and he threw himself straight at Fairy Qiuzhi.

Fairy Qiuzhi inwardly cried out in alarm. Her sneak attack had failed, and Qin Sang had seized the initiative instead. She hurriedly urged the dark-yellow greatsword, retreating rapidly while urgently summoning the earth puppets to block Qin Sang.

In mid-air, the two flying swords tangled together and turned into a chaotic ball of light, impossible to distinguish. Only the sharp ringing of metal against metal echoed from within.

Boom! Boom! Using only his fists, Qin Sang actually sent several damaged earth puppets flying one after another and rapidly closed the distance.

Fairy Qiuzhi’s expression changed drastically at the sight. No wonder this man was able to disguise himself as a demon king without anyone seeing through him. His physical body is really as powerful as a demonic beast’s!

Fairy Qiuzhi suddenly flicked her arm, and two purple water sleeves shot out like agile spirit snakes. They were astonishingly flexible. Clearly, they were also an astra.

A flush suddenly appeared on Fairy Qiuzhi’s face, and she shouted angrily, "Shameless!"

She hastily used the water sleeves to cover her face, retreated again, and threw out a piece of azure jade.

As soon as the jade appeared, it released a suction force. Something in the void seemed to be instantly drawn into it completely, and the jade itself turned gray-white and lost its power.

The jade fell to the ground, shattered into several pieces, and became ordinary stone.

Qin Sang inwardly sighed in regret. His close advance had been a feint. Fairy Qiuzhi had only lost a single move and was still far from exhausted. She had not even used one of her true trump cards yet, and there was no telling what treasures she still had in reserve.

No matter how strong his physical body was, it still had limits. Qin Sang had no intention of using his body to take an astra head-on.

The real killing move had actually been Yue Sanren's poison, followed by the devilish flames.

After taking Yue Sanren’s belongings, Qin Sang had discovered that the flower fan was Yue Sanren’s life-bound astra, which he could not control himself. However, he could extract the poison contained within it.

Yue Sanren had spent enormous effort refining that poison. It was colorless and odorless, impossible to guard against. Unfortunately, Yue Sanren had died too quickly, and the poison had been no match for the devilish flames, so it had failed to affect Qin Sang.

To deal with Fairy Qiuzhi, Qin Sang had simply taken out all of the poison and released it secretly. Unexpectedly, Fairy Qiuzhi had possessed a treasure that warded off poison, so it had failed to work.

Fairy Qiuzhi quickly suppressed the flush on her face, her teeth clenched. Though she had not been injured, she was still both humiliated and furious. With a shake of her sleeves, she counterattacked.

What surprised her was that Qin Sang, who had clearly gained the upper hand, suddenly withdrew his sword and retreated for no apparent reason. Before she could react, he fled in a streak of light and was already far away.

On the battlefield, he had turned and fled in the middle of battle!

Fairy Qiuzhi could not help but pause in astonishment. Qin Sang’s actions were far too strange. She suspected there might be some sort of trap, so she remained secretly on guard as she prepared to pursue him.

Ripples suddenly stirred in the distance. Two people emerged, one pair from the left and one pair from the right. Looking in the direction Qin Sang had fled, they snorted coldly. "That brat escaped quickly enough!"

"Daoist Shan! Daoist Song! When did you arrive?" Fairy Qiuzhi’s face filled with surprise as she halted in place, both startled and delighted.

Both men were long-famous experts of Sin Abyss.The cultivator surnamed Shan was only slightly weaker than Fairy Qiuzhi.

The cultivator surnamed Song was one stage lower, but his Yin Wood Divine Saber had reached extraordinary mastery, and he also possessed the strength to challenge above his level. He had personally taken part in the battle at the blood pool, where he had gone to assist Jiang Chenzi and the others in controlling the banner gate array, so he had been unable to join that battle.

These two had originally not been at Shuangjing Mountain. This time, they had been ordered to rush over as reinforcements.

They had quietly approached, intending to ambush Qin Sang. To avoid exposing themselves, they had not transmitted any message to Fairy Qiuzhi. Even Fairy Qiuzhi had failed to notice them, yet Qin Sang had seen through them.

When Qin Sang had suddenly withdrawn, the two had been caught off guard and could only abandon the pursuit.

The cultivator surnamed Song stared in the direction Qin Sang had vanished and said flatly, "He did not even use the devilish banner, which means he was still holding back. Even if we had managed to surround him, we might not have been able to stop him."

Fairy Qiuzhi recalled the dark-yellow greatsword and added, "His spiritual awareness is far sharper than an ordinary person’s. Even the sword puppets I hid underground were discovered by him. Old Devil Ye once said that he was highly skilled in barriers, but in my view, that may not be the case. Rather, he likely possesses some powerful method of detection, perhaps some secret technique of spiritual consciousness, or perhaps some kind of spiritual sight technique..."

"Your sword puppets turned into stones, no different from dead objects and entirely without fluctuation, and he still discovered them?" The cultivator surnamed Shan was startled when he heard this. "You have always judged people accurately. It seems like we will have to guard against him in this regard from now on."

After a pause, Daoist Shan could not help but sigh. "What a troublesome fellow!"

"He really is difficult to deal with. Not only are his Dao techniques and astras top-tier, but the strength of his physical body is also unlike anything I have seen in my life. He is clearly proficient in some body-refining art..." Fairy Qiuzhi then revealed the discoveries she had just made, nearly stripping away Qin Sang’s hidden cards one by one.

The human race lacked the powerful bloodlines of the demon race. In the current age, the path of body refinement was extraordinarily difficult to walk.

Daoists Shan and Song both felt a wave of helplessness, inwardly wondering how Small Cold Domain had produced such a monster.

After a brief exchange, Fairy Qiuzhi said with ease, "With the two of you assisting me, Shuangjing Mountain will be absolutely secure. I will return now to take charge of the array. I ask that the two of you remain within the array, intercept the Two-Domain Alliance’s Spiritual Infant cultivators, and look for a chance to break the Xun Wind Grand Array!"

The two exchanged a glance, then hurriedly stopped Fairy Qiuzhi. "Fairy, you may not know this, but Old Devil Ye and Senior Canghong have already ordered a retreat. We were sent here under orders to assist you in withdrawing from Shuangjing Mountain!"

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