Chapter 276 - Oh, you will be.
"I don't think the seniors are here to congratulate me, right?" Qingyi let out a bitter smile, his hand resting on the handle of the heaven-defying thunder sword.
His eyes swept over the faces of each of the transcendents before settling on Heidu, who shuddered.
In all honesty, he had hardly thought about that fattie after that mission.
He was too busy with his women to waste his attention on some cockroach.
Now he regretted it. Not because it had caused him problems, but because he would probably have to kill people he didn't want to have to kill.
"Don't play innocent, you treacherous brat!" Yanxiao roared, his feline face taken by fury.
"I knew you were with that damned immortal! What else would explain your absurd talent? Hand over your head and tell me where she is now and I promise a quick death!"
He only didn't advance on Qingyi's throat right there because the tigress next to him stopped him.
"My talent has nothing to do with her. And she's no longer in this world." Qingyi replied coolly.
"Besides, I don't think the guardian has the power to decide whether my death will be painless or not. Not anymore. Senile old tiger."
"You..." Yanxiao took a threatening step forward, his Qi exploding in violent waves.
He was about to attack, but the other transcendents restrained him.
"Qingyi." The icy tigress's voice echoed.
"We don't want a confrontation with you. We know you defeated Mochen, we are eternally grateful to you for saving the orthodox way.
But we have received serious accusations about your relationship with a demon, and we want answers about that, this is a crime punishable by death!"
"You did?" Qingyi's gaze slid to Heidu, filled with murderous intent.
The fat man raised his hands defensively "Senior Brother Qingyi, I-I'm sorry, I-I-"
"Oh, you will be."
Qingyi interrupted Heidu with a casual flick of his sword, a line of thunderous Qi emerging from its blade and tearing through the air at an absurd speed.
In the blink of an eye, the fattie's head was ripped off, leaping through the air while staining the fur of Yanxiao next to him with blood.
The eyes of all the transcendents widened.
They had seen the attack perfectly, but they simply couldn't react in time. And that terrified them.
"How insolent!" The leader of the ancestral dragon sect roared. "We know you're hiding that demon woman, Qingyi! We'll turn a blind eye to what's just happened, we'll forgive your crimes, but you must hand her over to us!"
"Not just her," the divine sword sect leader added. "You must also hand over the artifact you use to hide her. We need to make sure you're not hiding anything else!"
"Ah... hahahahaha" Qingyi sighed longingly, before bursting into uncontrollable laughter, his face full of amusement.
"I alone killed Mochen, the one who terrorized all of you like frightened children.
Yet you, or rather what's left of you, think you have the authority to make demands of me?"
Qingyi shook his head, unable to hide his scorn.
Honestly, without even talking about himself, his women would be enough to deal with these bastards.
But he wouldn't use them like that.
He had plenty of confidence in victory. Why lower himself and ask his wives to fight his battles?
"We recognize your power, boy, but you're tired-"
"So are you." Qingyi turned his face to the one who had just spoken, one of the survivors of the four great families.
He had only recovered about 50% of his strength during the trip. But he wasn't worried in the slightest.
He had more than forty million lust points stored up. Even just 50% of his strength was more than enough.
With a sigh, he readied his sword and his lightning Qi enveloped his body in a powerful aura, not inferior to that exuded by the twelve transcendents combined.
There was nothing left to talk about with anyone there.
"Damn..." The leader of the divine sword sect turned to Yanxiao. "What are you waiting for? Activate your sect's defensive arrays! We'll help you maintain them!"
The moment the words fell, Yanxiao acted. His roar echoed through the skies and was answered as the entire sect shook.
The Qi of the sect's main spiritual vein began to drain rapidly towards the walls surrounding the territory.
From the walls, all the Qi began to rise, converging towards the sky in the center of the sect, where the leader's palace stood.
The transcendents quickly surrounded Qingyi, raising their hands and receiving instructions from Yanxiao via sound transmission on how to connect to and control the sect's arrays.
Within moments, Qingyi found himself trapped between the twelve transcendents.
A powerful Qi fell on him like a mountain, immobilizing him in place while more and more energy accumulated directly above his head.
It only took a single moment for him to understand how that defensive array worked.
They planned to use all the Qi of the sect's powerful spiritual vein to crush him in a single blow.
"This is your last chance! Surrender and we promise you a fair trial!"
Qingyi ignored those words, glancing briefly at his status screen.
Perhaps he wouldn't be able to deal with this defensive array in his current state, but in the end, the price for improving his cultivation was only ten million.
One more breakthrough was all he needed to defeat everyone there without lifting a finger.
Closing his eyes, he clicked to improve his cultivation, his body immediately overcome by a wave of strangeness.
There was no pain, just a slight discomfort in his temples, spreading down his back to his feet.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw himself and everyone there in a world without color, just lines and more lines in a universe where everything seemed frozen in time.
Everything but him.
He reached out, trying to touch his own face, but his fingers went straight to his cheeks.
"Ruxue... what is this place?"
"Hmm... See this place as a forge. Your soul is separated from your body and totally connected to the primordial laws.
These lines are the primordial laws, they are everything and they define everything. You have as much time as you need here, but the power of your law will depend only on your own comprehension of the primordial laws."