Though a Battle Weapon could dissipate Battle Qi, that was always relative! Especially against Qian Jin, a Forging Master who understood weapon and equipment construction, who recognized the long sword’s force-dispelling structure on the first impact. The Battle Qi trajectory of his next strike avoided numerous exploitable weaknesses, and compounded by the Battle Weapon's inherent inability to fully negate the dual impact of Battle Qi, the blow severely wounded the Elf King bloodline warrior of the Five Subduing Demon Battles.
“Still alive? A fine Battle Weapon,” Qian Jin strode forward to pursue, his Zhanmadao falling once more. Kill!
Regardless of whether they belonged to the Qian family or any other, anyone killed in this Ancient Desolate Sand Sea would be counted as having perished by the Sand Sea itself; even Qian Zhanxuan would have nothing to say about it. The battle blade descended again. For the first time, Qian Wutian smelled the true scent of death.
Was this truly a Qian family disciple being eliminated? How could he be this strong? How could he have condensed a Battle Heart I?
Wasn't condensing a Battle Heart an incredibly troublesome and arduous task for ordinary warriors? The battle blade rushed closer, allowing Qian Wutian no time for further thought. The scabbard clutched tightly in his left hand suddenly erupted with blinding radiance.
In an instant, the scabbard seemed no longer a scabbard, but the sun! Qian Wutian held a miniature sun! The magical energy fluctuations expanded, expanded, and kept expanding!
Not good! Qian Jin’s widened eyes immediately narrowed to slits. He rapidly stamped his feet, retreating backward repeatedly—he intended to detonate the inscribed Magic Tool!
Qian Zhanxuan truly cherished this Qian Wutian, to actually grant him a detonatable Magic Tool G! The light, once revealed, surged continuously. Qian Jin rapidly retreated, grabbing Checkefulit and Duan Fengbuer with both hands, and retreated even further!
As a deafening roar sounded over the golden sands, a searing blast of fire rushed toward Qian Jin like a runaway train! Its overwhelming power, capable of destroying everything, slammed into the mountainside. The entire mountain seemed to gently sway.
A crater, ten meters high and twenty meters wide, appeared in the metal-ore-composed mountain, penetrating ten meters deep! The violent explosion of impact sent countless grains of yellow sand soaring, almost completely obscuring the sky above the battlefield. Innumerable dazzling beams of light shot out from between the dust, piercing the eyes and making it impossible to look.
Having struck, Qian Wutian turned and fled! Whether this blow killed Qian Jin was difficult to say. Without the life-saving scabbard, he stood no chance against that demonic woman.
Leaving now would be foolish. “Trying to run?” Qian Jin, having barely weathered the blow while pulling the two with him, flipped his wrist. A throwing knife from his Battle Realm slipped silently into his palm.
“Stay here!” The throwing knife sliced through the air without a sound, darting like lightning through the dense sand dust straight toward the back of Qian Wutian’s head! Locating targets by sound—this was a fundamental skill required by the Divine Archery technique. Danger!
An instinct flashed in Qian Wutian’s warrior mind. He grabbed Qian Wuchen beside him and tossed him behind his back just as the throwing knife neared his body. “You…” Qian Wuchen saw the deadly projectile.
He wanted to curse but it was too late. Under the Elf King Bloodline Battle Form, he gathered the surrounding sand to create an iron-hard shield before his head. The throwing knife struck the sand shield, passing through it as if piercing paper, going straight through Qian Wuchen’s brow, then piercing through his brow again to stab toward the back of Qian Wutian’s head.
Sand shield! Sand shield! Sand shield!
In an instant, the metal belt around Qian Wutian’s waist pulsed with magical light. Three layers of sand shield defense magic instantaneously materialized behind his head. The throwing knife pierced through all three shields, its trajectory finally altering slightly, grazing past his ear and cleanly shearing off the outer lobe.
“Ah!” Blood immediately streamed from Qian Wutian’s ear. In agonizing pain, he let out a shriek, yet dared not pause for even a moment, accelerating his desperate run. Run!
Run! Run! This Qian Jin was too terrifying!
“See…” Qian Jin’s palm manifested another throwing knife. Suddenly, he flung the two people beside him far away, raising his hand to gather all the thermal currents and air waves within half a meter of his body, condensing them in his palm! Lucifer’s Flow!
Destruction Demon Eye Ray! The moment the scabbard exploded, Lucifer’s Flow made her decision: she would use the chaos to launch a surprise attack and kill Qian Jin! What did the Battle Heart signify?
It represented invincibility at the level of a Second Tier Warrior, or perhaps the Demon Subduing Warrior echelon of the True Policy Dynasty! The ability to manipulate the ambient power of heaven and earth! What concept was that?
If she didn't kill him at this moment, she would surely be the one killed next! Seeing Qian Jin fling out the throwing knife, Lucifer’s Flow, taking advantage of the sand dust and blinding light, lunged beside him. Her heart was further convinced her decision was correct; the killing methods of a warrior possessing a ‘Battle Heart’ were too potent.
Amidst the blinding, intense light and the swirling yellow sand, Qian Jin saw Lucifer’s Flow’s beautiful face, and within her slender eyes, inlaid like rubies, a six-pointed star array materialized in each pupil! Black fine lines rapidly traced a searingly bright six-pointed star array on her eyeballs. The focus point flashed and shot out a ray of scorching light capable of incinerating everything.
Boom! The powerful destructive fire instantly engulfed Qian Jin’s body. The ground beneath trembled in the next moment, and countless yellow sands surged skyward in the explosion.
Hit! Lucifer’s Flow rejoiced internally. Even with a Battle Heart, at such close range, with all the destructive flames hitting him directly, he should have been reduced to ash.
“Seeking death!” From within the yellow sand, a cold shout arose. A large hand pierced through the dust and lunged directly for Lucifer’s Flow’s cheek and forehead. In an instant, Lucifer’s Flow felt like an ant beneath the grasp of a giant hand, with nowhere to dodge; heaven and earth seemed to be completely controlled by this single palm strike.
Death loomed over Lucifer’s Flow! Death? No!
Lucifer instinctively retreated backward, activating the Destruction Demon Eye once more! In the swirling sand, she saw what her previous Destruction Demon Eye Ray had struck! It hadn't struck Qian Jin’s body, but rather a blade!
The extremely broad surface of the Zhanmadao had absorbed the majority of the Destruction Demon Eye’s power. The gleaming blade was now pitted and uneven, resembling a face covered in pox marks, its former magnificent Battle Weapon appearance utterly gone. Such was the power of the Destruction Demon Eye!
Qian Jin glanced at the aftermath of the ray, and his heart tightened. Had that strike truly hit his body, his chances of survival would not have exceeded fifty percent, perhaps even lower. The Destruction Demon Eye erupted again!
This time, however, Qian Jin was prepared. The moment the black fine lines completed the six-pointed array, a flicker of fire appeared. Qian Jin’s muscles and legs below the waist vibrated at high speed.
Myriad Shadows, a technique that had never failed, launched first! At point-blank range, facing the scorching light, Lucifer’s Flow’s tense heart suddenly leaped with joy. This time she saw clearly: the destructive heat ray had struck Qian Jin’s body!
“Idiot! What you hit was just my afterimage!” Qian Jin’s voice sounded next to Lucifer’s Flow’s body as his large hand swept toward her face again, carrying the sheer intent to crush her skull. This… In her haste, Lucifer’s Flow had no time for surprise.
A gigantic shadow of a black hand appeared beside her body, grabbing her and violently yanking her sideways. Simultaneously, the Destruction Demon Eye activated again! If only she could blast away that terrifying hand!
Thwack! The hand’s speed surpassed Lucifer’s Flow’s imagination. The instant the Destruction Demon Eye completed its formation, a single finger!
pierced into her eye socket. The powerful Battle Qi and the nearly-launched Destruction Ray completely canceled each other out, but the finger did not stop its momentum. “Again!” In a flash of lightning and fire, the shadowy great hand dragged Lucifer’s Flow out from under Qian Jin’s grasp, avoiding the danger of her head being crushed.
Her right eye, however, could not evade Qian Jin’s finger. That steel-like digit plunged into her eye socket, hooked, and dug out! The eyeball was violently wrenched free!
A pillar of blood erupted from the socket! Lucifer’s Flow’s right eye bled profusely, instantly covering her exquisite face in crimson. The intense pain of losing an eye caused her body to tremble uncontrollably, and her hand instinctively rose to cover the sightless right eye.
Pain! Pain unlike anything she had ever known! Having her eye gouged out was pain beyond description!
Even under the Fallen Angel Battle Form, Lucifer’s Flow could not stop the agony. Even using pain-numbing techniques or magic could not erase the piercing torment, much less the terror of losing an eye. “Princess!” Blood Bat bloodline Magic Warrior, Bat Wing, spread his wings and appeared behind Lucifer’s Flow, seizing her waist and flapping his wings rapidly to ascend.
Trying to escape? Qian Jin’s eyebrow twitched. After the Qian family members ran, could he let her escape too?
He flicked his wrist, and the bones in both his arms trembled simultaneously. Pain! The high-pitched momentum from just breaking through the barrier suppressed the pain of his broken arm bones.
The battle with Lucifer’s Flow had already aggravated his bone injuries. Although Myriad Shadows appeared to only use the legs, it was actually a high-level technique that agitated the entire body; the high-speed vibrations just now had injured his arms as well. In that brief moment of pain, Lucifer’s Flow, having risen high into the air, made her left eye flash again!
Before, when both eyes were intact, releasing the Destruction Heat Line was almost instantaneous, without any sign. Now, having just lost one eye, her control was significantly weakened; a visible glimmer preceded the release of the Destruction Heat Line. Checkefulit!
Qian Jin sensed that this demoness, even while escaping, had not forgotten her intent to kill! Even if she couldn't kill him, she wanted to kill someone else. The scorching flame, truly like a ray of light, shot down from the sky.
The powerful beam was no longer wide-area, but an extremely thin line of fire, compressing all the heat together—it was aimed at the Zhanmadao! Lucifer’s Flow was certain that the blade could not block this! Qian Jin flying to save them was too late.
Danger! Qian Jin instinctively pulled an item from his Battle Realm and tossed it toward Checkefulit’s front without looking. Half a shield?
Lucifer’s Flow clearly saw the projectile flying toward her, and an expression of infinite mirth crossed her face. Even the Zhanmadao couldn’t block this flame ray, let alone a broken piece of a shield. Clang!
The flame ray struck the half-shield, emitting a piercing, vibrating sound. The half-shield spun wildly through the air, successfully blocking the entire flame. ps: The update is a bit late today because Gao Louzhou just got back from an IV drip; he’s been battling a cold and on drips these past few days, leaving him weak.
There won’t be just one chapter today; whether it’s two, three, or more… I don’t know myself, but it won’t be just one chapter… If you found this chapter satisfying, please give me your monthly ticket.