Senior Sisters, I Don’t Want To Work Hard Anymore

Chapter 23: Decisive Qi Xianzi

Sword qi filled the air.

The spacious square was filled with craters. Thick square bricks, each several feet in size, were easily shattered by the fleshy tentacles, causing countless stone fragments to shoot out, stirring up a cloud of dust and blood mist.

In mid-air, Qin Muling controlled his flying sword, swiftly launching a continuous attack on the hideous and ferocious creature below.

It looked like a small stone mountain covered in hundreds of snake-like tentacles, each as thick as a water bucket and hundreds of feet long. The surface of these tentacles was covered in countless pale bone spurs, which could detach and shoot out like hidden weapons, with killing power rivaling that of a Spiritual Weapon-grade flying sword.

This was the Brain-Eating Demon Vine from the depths of the underground world, a strange species between beast demons and plant demons. Its tentacles were incredibly strong, its life force tenacious, and it was extremely greedy and cruel. Moreover, adult individuals had already awakened their intelligence, possessing wisdom comparable to that of humans. They particularly enjoyed hunting and devouring cultivators' blood and marrow, making them extremely dangerous.

A snow-white sword light, over forty zhang long and chillingly cold, swept through at high speed. One of the thick tentacles failed to dodge in time and was directly severed, gushing out a large amount of flesh and blood. Even when it fell to the ground, it continued to twist and bounce, trying to reconnect with its own body.

Furthermore, the most terrifying ability of the Brain-Eating Demon Vine was to manipulate and control the minds of living beings, creating various dream illusions that made it difficult for its prey to escape, thus easily killing them.

Therefore, Qin Muling was not at ease at the moment. Fortunately, the mysterious seed in his sea of consciousness prevented the mental manipulation and control from having much effect on him. He only needed to focus on dealing with the bone spurs and tentacle attacks.

As time went on, he became more cautious, no longer getting too close, only attacking from a distance. Of course, he couldn't be too far away either, otherwise, this cunning creature would hide in the underground holes, making it difficult to lure it out again.

Qi Yalan stood by with his hands behind his back, smiling as he watched his junior brother's performance. He would only lend a hand when he couldn't handle it.

After half an hour of fierce battle, Qin Muling finally severed all the tentacles of this powerful creature, which was at the peak of the Infant Formation realm and had even more exaggerated actual combat power. He left enough fatal wounds on its ugly and huge head.

The price was that Qin Muling's mana was on the verge of depletion, even the mysterious seed couldn't fully replenish it, and the Supreme Grade Spiritual Weapon flying sword also dimmed, showing obvious signs of wear and tear.

Although Qi Yalan didn't say anything, he already highly recognized his junior brother's strength. Being able to exhaust and severely injure a creature that surpassed him by nearly two realms was not an achievement that ordinary core disciples could attempt. One slight mistake could lead to failure and death.

Seeing the brain-eating demon vine struggling to dive into the underground pit, it was clear that it intended to escape. Qi Yalan raised her fair wrist, and the space within a radius of several thousand zhang suddenly solidified. A devastating sword energy, sharper and more powerful than ever before, poured down, instantly cutting it into countless pieces of flesh!

This poor creature didn't even have time to scream before its last trace of vitality was extinguished.

Among the pieces of flesh, a sword light gracefully spun, carrying a human-sized, clear and lustrous inner core, soaring into the air and flying back into Qi Yalan's hand.

Without even looking at it, she still threw the inner core to Qin Muling. The value of these things might be considered high, but to her, it was just pocket money.

"Younger Junior Brother did well, are you coming again?" Qi Yalan handed him a restorative elixir, asking with a smile.

"Of course, let's take a fifteen-minute break and then continue," Qin Muling replied, taking the pill and sitting down to adjust his breath. This kind of extreme training had a significant effect on improving his combat ability. If his energy and spirit could always be in such a highly tense state, his cultivation progress would not be too far from the next breakthrough.

In a short while, Qin Muling opened his eyes and regained his vitality. From his physical body to his spiritual soul, he had returned to his peak state, surprising Qi Yalan a little.

Even with the assistance of the elixir, it usually took some time for cultivators who had exhausted their strength to recover, and it wouldn't be too short. To achieve what Qin Muling did, it would take several hours of meditation and rest.

"There seem to be a few more brain-eating demon vines inside. Shall I lure them out for you to deal with?" Qi Yalan looked at the pitch-black pit below, suggesting. With her cultivation, she couldn't miss any space within hundreds of li underground with her divine sense.

"No problem, but..." Qin Muling hesitated and said, "I want to try my abilities. They should be effective against these big guys, right?"

Qi Yalan pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that your talent ability can only be effective on plants and trees. This thing... can be considered passable, I suppose? It's worth a try."

The Great Pong Sword split from her hand and hovered for a moment before generating a torrential river of sword energy, flowing into the deep pit underground, illuminating the pitch-black space.

Screams could be heard from the deep pit, and after a dozen breaths, the sword energy returned, dragging the bodies of sixteen brain-eating demon vines of varying sizes out of the ground.

Qi Yalan waved her hand again, and the ice-blue cold air flowed like mercury, causing the temperature around to suddenly drop, freezing all the struggling bodies of the corpses.

Their souls had been annihilated by the sword energy, but their bodies were intact, preserving the vitality within them to facilitate Qin Muling's actions.

Qin Muling's mind moved slightly, and a rolling green aura spread out, turning into scattered spiritual lights that enveloped all these big guys. After a while, strands of green and purple spiritual energy were stripped away, forming a cloud of faintly glowing mist that slowly surged into his body.

Immediately, Qin Muling felt an unusually intense heat throughout his body, and his spiritual power surged. His blood and qi became even purer and more condensed, and even his physical body underwent a transformation and sublimation from the inside out.

Qi Yalan had been watching with a smile, but suddenly a warning sign arose in her heart. She turned around abruptly and scanned the area with her divine sense, and her gaze immediately turned cold.

Thousands of sword lights scattered and enveloped the area like a torrential rain.

Faint groans could be heard, and a space several miles away was torn apart like a curtain, revealing seven or eight figures that seemed to be there and yet not there.

"Fellow Daoists, I suppose you've seen enough? Why not come out for a chat?" Qi Yalan said in a deep voice, her beautiful eyes filled with killing intent.

The attention had mostly been on Qin Muling before, and she had inadvertently allowed a few ill-intentioned people to approach.

"Qi Fairy, your methods are impressive. You even saw through this!" The leader, an old man in a gray robe, looked somewhat pained as he glanced at the broken beads in his hand. This treasure that could hide and conceal had been hard to come by and had accompanied him for many years, helping him escape several life-threatening crises. He never expected it to be destroyed here today.

"I wonder who it is? Turns out it's an old thing from Lu Ming Island!" Qi Yalan's tone was cold, and a chilling Sword Intent resonated around her. There was no friendship between this sect and Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace, and there had even been some accumulated grievances. Now that they had stumbled upon Qin Muling's biggest secret, what was there left to say?

Qin Muling's existence meant something significant for Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace. Ordinary cultivators might not understand, but as soon as news of what happened today reached the ears of those immortal powerhouses, it wouldn't be long before formidable enemies came knocking on their door!

For the future plans of Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace, none of these people could be left alive!

Before the gray-robed old man could say anything, a young scholar with deep eyes beside him spoke, "Qi Fairy, we have never crossed paths with Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace. Why be so aggressive?"

"That's right, although your cultivation is formidable, with so many of us joining forces, you may not be able to keep us all. It's your junior fellow disciple who seems weaker, having just entered the Profound Comprehension Realm, right? If we decide to take him along, can you stop us?" Another skinny young man in black clothes said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes, greed evident in his gaze as he stared at Qi Yalan's beautiful face.

It seemed that their group had discovered something extraordinary today. This was truly a stroke of luck. They could use this as a reason to coerce and extort benefits from the number one beauty of Cloud Dream Heavenly Palace. Afterwards, they could sell this information to interested big shots, benefiting from both ends. How wonderful!

The gray-robed old man glared at the man, then eased his tone and said, "Qi Fairy, we have no grudges with you. Let's forget about today's events. We didn't see anything, and from now on, we'll go our separate ways. How about that?"

Qi Yalan sighed softly and said, "Since that's the case, we..."

Before she could finish speaking, she shielded Qin Muling behind her, and her body suddenly surged with sword light. The sky was filled with sword shadows, sealing everything off...

End of chapter.