Chapter 381 – The Third Layer of the Spirit Turtle (1/2)

“Yes, matriarch.” Ye Liusu closed her eyes, but she still refused to accept it.

“My good daughter. I’m doing all of this for your sake. You will understand in the future.” Ye Mingzhu let go of her and rubbed Ye Liusu’s face gently.

After completing the deal, Li Qingshan immediately set off. After being circled a few hundred times by Bloodshadow, most of his daemon qi had already been depleted. If he wasted too much time, he might not be able to maintain his mirror clone.

Blacklustre city completely vanished into the darkness behind him, and the sound of the waterfall grew closer and closer. The three of them travelled upstream. Li Qingshan suddenly halted an hour later.

“What’s wrong, master?” Ye Liubo asked. Ye Liusu frowned, as if she had sensed something too.

“Hmph, he sure likes to haunt people. Let’s go!” Li Qingshan picked up Ye Liubo and sped up.

Bloodshadow unfurled his cloak and whistled up the waterfall like a huge, black bat. His teeth protruded from his mouth, which made his handsome face seem very vicious. “Northmoon, are you bold enough to fight me? Show me what you’re capable of. Show me how you killed the three elders.”

He did not speak loudly, but it was like an invisible sword, piercing through the cavern and reaching Li Qingshan’s ears, which made them buzz.

“How dare you tail me? Aren’t you afraid of being punished by ma’am Spider Queen?” Li Qingshan said loudly. Wild gusts of wind and wind blades shot over with his voice.

“I won’t kill you. I’ll just suck you dry so that you understand the consequences of offending me.” Bloodshadow swept his cloak and smashed apart the wind blades. He did not slow down at all.

“I don’t have the time to play these games with you.”

As this conversation unfolded, the distance between them had halved. Their movement speed was far too slow compared to Bloodshadow.

“You go first! I’ll take him for a spin!”

Li Qingshan stopped and turned around. He passed his hundred treasures pouch and blade to Ye Liubo before tossing Ye Liubo to Ye Liusu.

“Master!” “I can assist you.” Ye Liusu gripped her curved dagger.

“It’s rare of you to be so devoted. However, his target is me. Keep Liubo and yourself safe. This is an order!”

Ye Liusu said nothing more. She immediately took off, while Li Qingshan turned around and flew into a cave to the side. Bloodshadow also turned and entered the cave with a flash. He basically moved with no hesitation at all, chasing after Li Qingshan. However, Li Qingshan’s aura suddenly vanished at this moment.

“Puny tricks!” Bloodshadow sneered. A sound wave expanded like a dense filter, covering every inch of space there. Li Qingshan’s figure immediately appeared in his senses.

As Li Qingshan fled, Bloodshadow closed the distance between them rapidly.

Suddenly, he stopped. The cave ended in front of him. It was actually a dead end.

Li Qingshan exhaled. This should do! He placed his hand on the wall.

Bloodshadow had already found out about the dead end from his echolocation, so the corner of his lips curled up into a smile. He turned into the cave and saw Li Qingshan a few hundred meters away. He could cover this distance in a single breath.

Rumble! Tremoring booms filled the caves as cracks immediately riddled the wall. Thousands of tonnes of rock and soil collapsed down.

Li Qingshan’s sneer was blocked by a huge stalactite. Dust filled the air, and the echolocation probing was immediately disrupted.

“Don’t even think about escaping!” Bloodshadow advanced instead of retreating. He revolved rapidly, turning into a drill of red and black that pierced the layers of rock and soil. The huge boulders disintegrated into dust-like loam.

However, by the time he arrived in the depths of the cave, Li Qingshan had already disappeared; it was like he had vanished into thin air.

Unleashing the shockwaves had already depleted his final bit of daemon qi. He was unable to maintain his mirror clone anymore, so it automatically dispersed.

“Very impressive. I’ve already remembered your name and your smell. Northmoon, I will taste your blood sooner or later!” Fury flashed through his eyes. Bloodshadow raised his head and took a gentle sniff, revealing his sharp teeth as he smiled viciously. With a sweep of his cloak, he turned around and left.

“Is master going to be fine?” Ye Liubo asked in worry.

Ye Liusu remained silent. He had lured away the enemy while getting his servants to escape. She had never seen a daemon, no, person, like this.

Li Qingshan opened his eyes in the sea of Blue Butterfly flowers. The sneer lingered on his face. If he had been there in person, he definitely would have wanted to fight Bloodshadow.

Li Qingshan glanced at Xiao An, who was concentrating on forging artifacts, before closing his eyes again. All the pills in the hundred treasures pouches of the Lone Grave Elder and the Golden Pheasant Elder had already entered his belly. He had polished off everything the two sects had accumulated over the years.

After becoming a Daemon General, his ability to digest pills had grown. The pills turned into pulses of spiritual qi, pushing him towards the third layer of the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression.

Li Qingshan suddenly opened his eyes. He extended his hand into his clothes. The Scarlet Wolf tablet was flashing urgently.

This was an emergency summoning from the Hawkwolf Guard!

Li Qingshan touched it gently with his finger, and the tablet stopped flashing. If he did not answer it, he would be presumed dead, which was why Li Qingshan had always carried it on him. Of course, it was unable to track his location.

“Just what is going on? Has it got to do with the three elders? Whatever, I’ll worry about it once I break through with the Spirit Turtle’s Method of Sea Suppression. I need to wait for them to return too.”

He settled down once more. After who knew how long, all the pills were completely digested and converted. Pulses of spiritual qi rampaged through Li Qingshan’s body. If his body had not been tough enough, just this power alone would have been enough to blast him to pieces.

The spirit turtle’s daemon core revolved rapidly. It turned into a huge vortex above his sea of qi, sweeping up the spiritual qi and absorbing it strand by strand into the vortex.