Chapter 260 – Reunion of the Three (2/2)

Li Qingshan could sense that the spiritual qi inside was denser than outside, just as expected. There was no furniture inside, just a huge formation carved into the ground.

Qian Rongzhi said, “This is a Spirit Gathering formation, but activating it will cost you additional spiritual stones.”

Li Qingshan looked at the formation. Sure enough, there were several grooves. He nodded and thought, What a clever design.

Qian Rongzhi placed her hand on a round disc on the wall, channelling in true qi and turning it gently. A huge piece of rock slid over loudly.

“Once this stone door is sealed, you can only open it from the inside. If you want to open it from the outside, you’d need to tear it open forcefully. I think even the sect master of the Sect of Clouds and Rain isn’t bold enough to do something like that.”

Li Qingshan nodded. The entire Hawkwolf Guard would never allow something like that to occur. He took out a pill from his hundred treasures pouch and passed it to Qian Rongzhi. “If anything unexpected happens outside while I’m in seclusion, I’ll have to trouble you with handling it. If there are any dangers, I’ll have to trouble you with reminding me too.”

While those lies were enough to fool Fang Enshang, Fang Enshang was not the one to make any decisions with regard to the deaths of the two commanders and a group of Hawkwolf guards. He would have to report this to his higher-ups. Although there should not be any major issues according to Qian Rongzhi’s analysis, he just was taking precautions with this.

“A Sea of Qi pill!” Qian Rongzhi’s eyes lit up.

Sea of Qi pills were crucial pills for Qi Practitioners to break through to the sixth layer. It could assist the Qi Practitioner in condensing a sea of qi, so it truly was quite precious. However, Li Qingshan had found almost a hundred of them from all the hundred treasures pouches in his possession, so giving one away was nothing to him.

“I’ve already gotten my hands on one. With this one, it’ll increase my chances by thirty percent.” Qian Rongzhi accepted the pill, but she did not speak any words of gratitude.

This was their relationship. It was clear cut, where neither of them owed each other anything. They simply made use of one another without any efforts to hide their intentions. There were no meaningless interactions. They would not even say an additional word to each other when there was no need to.

At this moment, there was a thump, and the huge, stone door closed, plunging the cave into darkness.

Qian Rongzhi became extremely relaxed too. In this space that was sealed off from the world, her expression and bearing underwent a wondrous transformation. Her gentleness and kindness vanished, while a bone-chilling sensation filled Li Qingshan once again.

She was like a snake about to eat a person. Dim, cold light flashed through her eyes as she pursed her lips. She smiled. “Looks I can use the medicinal enhancers I’ve kept around now.”

The ugly man and his companions were the medicinal enhancers she had prepared for her breakthrough to the sixth layer. They could provide large quantities of true qi at crucial times.

Li Qingshan frowned. He turned the mechanism. As the stone door opened again and light landed on her face, it was like magic. Wherever the light reached, her expression would change slightly, and when the light engulfed her completely, she had recovered her image as a gentle and kind elder sister.

Li Qingshan felt that compared to him, she was more like those demons and daemons of the legends.

The light cast a long shadow in the cave. Li Qingshan looked at the owner of the shadow. “Diao Fei?”

Diao Fei faltered. “I heard that you’ve returned.” His cultivation had already reached the fourth layer. Although he had not improved as quickly as Li Qingshan and Qian Rongzhi after they had joined the Hawkwolf Guard, he had not been wasting his time either.