Chapter Ninety-Eight: This Is Impossible

The sudden turn of events stunned everyone on the battlefield.

All eyes on the city wall turned at once to Qingxi.

Seeing that he was still holding the posture of having just loosed an arrow, no one could fail to guess that this feat had been his handiwork.

"How can someone at the peak of Qi Refinement be this strong?"

"So this is what a quasi prodigy looks like?"

"Unbelievable... truly unbelievable!"

The defenders of Five Blessings City stared in shock.

Wanhu's pupils contracted. "His strength has actually increased this much again!"

Zhou Yuanlong shrank his neck and silently wondered if his brain had once been caught in a door, to have challenged such a terrifying man.

It was fortunate they were fellow disciples. Otherwise, he would have lost his life already.

Dukan was equally stunned.

Only moments ago he had said that Qingxi merely needed to play a disruptive role.

Who would have thought this was no disruption at all, but a lethal strike?

Linfeng fared a little better. He had seen Qingxi's prowess in the land of Gu Luo, but even he felt that this brother of his had grown stronger still.

The Dragon Horse's legs stopped trembling. It crouched on the wall and looked at the two fallen fiends, then burst into loud laughter. "They always say my master is invincible. Now you believe it, don't you?"

The little golden-gibbon monkey waved its tiny paws atop the Dragon Horse's head, chirping excitedly as though to say, "My master is the best!"

The fiends who had been casting spells froze all at once. Looking at their companions lying on the ground, lifeless, they felt a chill run through every part of them.

Du Liang and Li Kantian stared at the two fiends already cold in death, then at Qingxi on the tower, and felt as though everything before them was a dream.

Even the Fiery Demon was stunned, but in the next instant his expression twisted ferociously and he roared, "How dare you kill my men? Die!"

Flames surged up from his body, rising five meters high like a distorted face as he lunged toward Qingxi.

Du Liang and Li Kantian exchanged a glance and cried in unison, "Protect Qingxi!"

They had already understood that this youth, once so underestimated, had become the key to breaking the deadlock.

Protect Qingxi, and they could turn defeat into victory.

Yet the two of them could not withstand the Fiery Demon's rage. They were sent flying dozens of meters by a single punch, coughing blood again and again.

Qingxi paid no heed to the Fiery Demon charging at him. Instead, he swiftly drew the Blazing Sun Bow to its seventh ringing and loosed a flaming arrow, piercing through an early Innate fiend.

The remaining fiends were enraged as well. They controlled the stone giant to raise its massive axe and hack down toward Qingxi.

"Move!"

That was all Qingxi said before vanishing with a whoosh.

Everyone froze.

How could a living, breathing person simply disappear?

But at that very moment, the stone giant brought down its axe. The Dragon Horse shrieked and bolted away in a flash, while the others reacted too, scattering in all directions.

Boom!

The axe fell, carving a huge breach in the city wall.

Swish!

Through the rain, a dazzling streak of arrow-light flashed past and nailed an early Innate fiend to the ground.

Only when everyone came to themselves did they realize that Qingxi had somehow appeared on the distant wall.

"Though it's only a Black Iron rank art, it's very useful."

Qingxi drew again and shot down another fiend.

His earlier disappearance had naturally been the result of the Black Iron rank art, Earth Escape.

The Fiery Demon glared at him with eyes full of hatred and charged.

Qingxi used the power of Earth Escape to shift positions in an instant, then seized the opening to unleash his strongest arrow, taking yet another fiend with him.

The rest of the fiends were both shocked and furious. They hurriedly commanded the stone giant to stand before them and block the charge of Li Kantian and Du Liang.

With several Innate fiends gone, the stone giant's might fell sharply. It was now only on par with an ordinary Innate perfection expert, and could merely fight Li Kantian and Du Liang to a standstill.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, Qingxi kept slipping into the earth to reposition himself, then seizing the chance to fire an arrow and eliminate another early Innate fiend.

The Fiery Demon was toyed with until he nearly exploded with rage. Flames surged around him to a height of nine meters, turning him into a towering beast of fire as waves of scorching heat rolled outward.

"Little thief, if you have the courage, fight me!"

"Come and get me!"

Qingxi showed no trace of panic. After loosing an arrow, he once more used Earth Escape to shift position.

At his current early Innate level, the Blazing Sun Arrow at its highest seventh ringing could amplify true energy sevenfold, enough to erupt with battle strength surpassing that of a typical Innate perfection expert.

These fiends could not withstand him at all. One arrow, one kill.

"I... I'll smash you to death!"

The Fiery Demon was furious beyond reason and could not help blurting out a curse.

His cultivation was high and his power formidable; a single punch from him could not be blocked even by an ordinary Innate perfection expert. But the problem was distance.

If he could not catch Qingxi, then his strength was useless.

That was precisely why he had chosen to stand guard behind those dozen fiends, blocking every human expert who sought to close in.

Who could have expected to meet Qingxi, a variable skilled in long-range killing?

On the other side, the remaining seven fiends at the Innate level soon found their power insufficient. The stone giant finally could not withstand the ferocious assault of Li Kantian and Du Liang and was hacked to pieces.

"Roar!"

The fiends left behind revealed anger in their eyes. Working together, they struck out with a huge palm of dense dust and sent Li Kantian and Du Liang flying.

Then, under everyone's astonished gaze, these fiends turned and fled, their decisiveness appalling.

Noticing his companions running, the Fiery Demon shouted in fury, "Cowards! I am ashamed to be in your company!"

Having said that, he stamped the ground and rolled away like a blazing fireball, fleeing even faster than before when he had been pursuing Qingxi.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished into the depths of the forest.

Everyone stood dumbstruck.

A dignified Innate perfection fiend from beyond the heavens had actually run away just like that.

"Stay here!"

How could Qingxi allow these fiends to escape?

To him, they were several tens of thousands of elements of the Five Elements source, along with a great number of spatial marks.

At that moment, the aura of the early Innate stage fully burst forth, shocking the entire field.

Everyone who sensed the cultivation aura that should never have belonged to Qingxi was utterly stunned.

Li Kantian's eyes widened. Staring in disbelief at Qingxi's retreating figure, his hand on the hilt of his treasured sword trembled uncontrollably.

"Early Innate? How is that possible?"

"Has he been cultivating since he was still in his mother's womb?"

Li Kantian had already forgotten to give chase.

He never would have imagined that this junior brother, whom he had once rebuked as lazy and frivolous, would possess a higher cultivation than his own.

Qingxi had no time to concern himself with the dazed looks around him.

He fully unleashed Earth Escape, moving three times faster than he could run on the surface. Before long, he had caught up with the Fiery Demon who had fled into the forest.

"Take this arrow!"

The Blazing Sun Bow was drawn to its seventh ringing, and the blazing arrow crossed dozens of meters in an instant. Yet to Qingxi's surprise, the Fiery Demon's body suddenly twisted, and he actually dodged it.

Immediately after, the Fiery Demon counterattacked with a vicious expression. A flaming giant fist burst forth with blinding firelight, and wherever it passed, the high temperature instantly vaporized the falling rain.

"Heh, you fell for it!"

Triumph gleamed in the Fiery Demon's eyes.

He had only feigned retreat in order to lure Qingxi into the trap.

It had merely been a trial at first; he had not expected it to succeed so easily.

"Ninefold Sword Wave!"

Suddenly, Qingxi put away the Blazing Sun Bow. In his hand appeared the Cold Light Sword, a low-grade Mystic artifact refined to its absolute limit, and he brought it down with a light slash.

Nine layers of pale golden sword energy surged forth, effortlessly crushing the flaming giant fist and splitting the Fiery Demon, whose face was still full of shock, cleanly in two.

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