Up in the sky, dark clouds gradually covered the moon, and the Forbidden Sea turned pitch black.
Even Burial Song didn't dare to disturb them and hurriedly left. The quiet mountain peak seemed to be invaded by an oppressive aura.
Suddenly, a shrill, mournful wail rang out, piercing through the night and shattering the silence.
Everyone's attention was on high alert at this moment.
Xu Qing opened his eyes.
He saw numerous figures whistling through the air. Their targets were the Cultivators who had acquired the lizard slough during the day. A slaughter had broken out.
Xu Qing didn't pay any attention to the Cultivators who had acquired the lizard slough. Instead, he focused on the seven or eight figures charging toward him.
The moonlight was hazy, but it couldn't conceal the cold light in Xu Qing's eyes. The night was dark, but it couldn't dispel the killing intent in his eyes. As soon as the figures arrived, Xu Qing made his move.
The night was a cover for the attackers. However, what they didn't know was that Xu Qing liked the night even more than they did.
In the blink of an eye, Xu Qing's figure vanished from the treetop.
At the same time, three of the seven or eight Cultivators approached. Their bodies suddenly trembled, and one of them had his forehead shattered. A black metal skewer, filled with cruelty and coldness, pierced through.
Another one coughed up blood and saw Xu Qing's blurry figure flash by.
The third person was the most wretched. He was a bloated Outsider, and as he neared the treetop, a sharp dagger shot out from behind him and slashed viciously into his neck.
The force of the blow was so great that his head was separated from his body. Blood sprayed out.
At this moment, bloodcurdling screams rang out from the mouths of the other two Cultivators.
After cleanly cutting down three Cultivators, Xu Qing shot backward, slamming into the body of the fourth Cultivator who was in the middle of casting magic. It was a Human Cultivator. A boom rang out as his chest caved in and he collapsed to the ground, blood gushing out.
When the remaining three Cultivators saw this, they gasped.
"You guys cast your magic! I'll hold him down!"
Roared one of the Outsiders. He was short, like a five-year-old child. However, as he took a step forward, his body suddenly expanded to three meters tall. He roared as he charged toward Xu Qing.
Xu Qing's expression remained the same. He didn't pay any attention to the giant foreign cultivator approaching him, nor did he pay any attention to the two foreign cultivators who were forming hand seals behind him. Instead, he raised his right hand and clenched it.
Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound all around. Drops of dew rose from the vegetation in all directions. In an instant, they converged into threads that weaved into a circular net of water.
Under the moonlight, the threads of water glowed with a cold light. As they enveloped the three cultivators, they began to shrink with Xu Qing at the center.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The expressions of the two cultivators who had cast the spell changed drastically. Their bodies were touched by the water net, and their spiritual defenses were unable to resist it in the slightest. Their bodies were also pierced by the water net, and they were torn to shreds, turning into minced meat on the ground.
As for the Outsider who was charging toward Xu Qing, his face was pale, and his eyes filled with terror. Just when he was about to open his mouth to speak, his entire body turned black and blue. Clutching his throat, he staggered to the ground, where he spasmed and died.
The water net covered him, dismembering him, as well as the surrounding corpses.
The bloated Outsider whose throat had been slit was clearly dead. However, as he was being dismembered, he let out a bloodcurdling scream. Then, a demon-like entity flew out from within his body. Clearly, this Outsider had many life-saving methods that no one else knew about.
It was impossible to say what technique he had used, but his body suddenly became long and thin, and he shot out of the water net in an attempt to flee.
Xu Qing didn't give chase. He looked on coldly, silently counting down.
"One, two, three …."
A moment later, the demon-like cultivator's body began to tremble violently, and he turned to look at Xu Qing.
"Let me go …."
He only had time to utter those two words before his body began to melt away. The first thing to melt away was his tongue.
Despite having lost his tongue, the intense pain caused him to let out a miserable shriek.
It pierced through the air, suppressing the rumbling of the battle between the other three cultivators.
Everyone's attention was drawn to it.
They watched with their own eyes as the little black person screamed and rolled on the ground in pain. In the end, his body dissolved, turning into a pool of blood. Even in death, he couldn't say anything else.
Gasps could be heard from all directions, but they quickly quieted down. Almost everyone immediately took out antidotes and swallowed them.
Only the old man from the inn remained calm.
In truth, when Xu Qing had arrived yesterday, he had already begun taking antidotes. After all, he had experienced Xu Qing's poison before.
Xu Qing didn't pay attention to the actions of the surrounding cultivators. He calmly put away the dagger and the metal skewer, then picked up the leather pouches of these people. Finally, he returned to the crown of the tree, sat down cross-legged, and closed his eyes to cultivate.
Perhaps it was because this island was the back of the terrifying lizard, but the spiritual energy and foreign matter here were very dense.
For other cultivators, if they could live on the sea for a long time, they would naturally adapt to such an environment. They would have their own cultivation methods that could separate the foreign matter from their bodies. However, after going out for a period of time, they would have to go ashore and use medicinal pills or other methods to expel the foreign matter from their bodies.
But for Xu Qing, he didn't need to do so, so he didn't have any worries when cultivating. The aura of the Forbidden Sea here was also helpful for his cultivation of the Sea Transformation Scripture.
At this moment, although Xu Qing's eyes were closed while he was cultivating, no one around him dared to have any ideas about him. Most of them stayed far away, afraid of being poisoned.
The fight between them was obviously affected, and they gradually ended.
Just like that, the night passed.
In the sky, dawn bit open Night's lips, leaving a trail of blood in the sky. The trail of blood slowly flowed, becoming fainter and fainter until it covered the entire sky.
The sky was bright.
Around the mountain basin, the lone alien who had snatched the lizard molt yesterday was still there, and there was one more person beside him. It seemed that they had reached an agreement.
The one with the other was the cultivator in the woven rush raincoat who fought with Xu Qing yesterday.
As for the other party, the group of four or five cultivators obviously didn't leave behind the lizard molt and became corpses. They were replaced by the elephant-nosed man and seven or eight people.
Only Xu Qing and old man Banquan Lu were fine.
However, the difference was that Xu Qing was surrounded by minced meat, while the latter … didn't have a single corpse.
Xu Qing glanced at the big snake beside the old man. After the snake noticed, it immediately looked at him and nodded as if it was greeting him.
Xu Qing felt that it was a bit strange, but he didn't think too much about it. He withdrew his gaze and continued to meditate.
Behind old man Banquan Lu's rock, he kicked the big snake beside him and let out a snort.
"Did you see that? He's ignoring you, so don't keep thinking about that brat. In this world, I'm your only family."
"Gulu gulu."
The big snake felt a bit wronged. It looked at Xu Qing on the tree crown in the distance, and its expression gradually became listless. When the old man saw this, he sighed.
"Why are you crying? You, that brat doesn't understand snake language, so he's ignoring you …" After saying this, the old man felt a bit of regret. The big snake's eyes suddenly brightened.
"A grown woman can't be kept at home, and a stupid snake can't be kept at home either."
The old man was helpless. He wondered if he should find a chance to kill Xu Qing here, but when he thought about how ruthless Xu Qing was, he gave up on the idea.
Time slowly passed like this, and soon, ten days passed.
During these ten days, some of the cultivators on the mountain range left, and some came. When there were more cultivators around the basin, there were more than a hundred, and when there were fewer, there were dozens.
Some were lone travelers, some were pirates, and some were alien races from other islands. Because of the cultivators here, killing and fighting continued to happen.
During this time, the Ocean Lizards also appeared three times, and each time, it was a battle of killing. Xu Qing's actions were ruthless and decisive. Not only did he snatch some Ocean Lizard skins, he also piled up the corpses of all the people he killed in the meditation area.
From afar, the big tree seemed to be dyed red with blood, and it was a ghastly sight.
As the shock and awe accumulated, the place where Xu Qing was was was like a forbidden area to others.
There were a few people like Xu Qing. Whether it was old man Banquan Lu, the cultivator in the straw raincoat and his companions who had fought against Xu Qing, or the elephant-nosed man, they all kept their gains and didn't choose to leave. It was as if they were waiting for something.
Xu Qing was also aware of this, so he didn't leave. Instead, he cultivated silently in these ten days.
The spiritual energy here was active, and the heterogeneity was rich. Especially in such an environment where one's mind was highly concentrated, it made him feel as if he had returned to the jungle where the scavengers were forbidden. The speed of his cultivation increased significantly.
Now, he wasn't far from the ninth level of the Sea Transformation Scripture.
"I should be able to break through in three days at most."
Xu Qing murmured in his heart and continued to meditate. Threads of spiritual energy flowed in from all directions and entered his body. While nourishing his body, it also integrated the heterogeneity into his shadow, causing the 870 feet spirit sea in Xu Qing's body to expand continuously.
880 feet, 890 feet …
Two days passed, and when noon arrived on the third day, the spirit sea in Xu Qing's body was infinitely close to 900 feet.
Once it reached 900 feet, it would mean that his Sea Transformation Scripture had reached the ninth level.
And disciples who cultivated the Seven Blood Pupils Scripture to the ninth level could basically wipe out the majority of the human sects in the Southern Phoenix Continent in the same realm. If it was a Foundation Establishment cultivator from a small sect who cultivated a low-grade scripture, he might be able to put up a fight.
Needless to say, Xu Qing's Sea Mountain Scripture had reached an unprecedented level of body refinement, forming a terrifying shadow. It could be said that once the Sea Transformation Scripture broke through, Xu Qing's battle prowess would erupt once again.
At that time, he would be an existence whose battle prowess surpassed the peak of the Qi Condensation realm. He could be considered a Foundation Establishment expert, like the Vajra Sect's Patriarch. Xu Qing was confident that he could suppress him, be it on the sea or on land. As for killing him, it would only take some time.
"Tonight, I can break through!"
Xu Qing's eyes shone with anticipation. Just as he was about to continue cultivating, dense footsteps and whistling sounds suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.
Before the people arrived, waves of cold and savage aura spread out in advance, enveloping the entire basin. Everyone's expression changed as they looked down the mountain.
The people who had arrived … were not sea lizards, but a group of cultivators!
A group of figures in messy clothes, astonishingly ferocious and ferocious, with great killing intent.
There were a total of 16 of them, and each of them exuded a powerful aura of cultivation. The murderous aura on each of them was enough to make one's heart tremble.
"Sea Ghosts!"
"It's the Sea Ghosts!"
"Damn it, why are they here?!"
Exclamations immediately came from all around the basin.
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