Chapter 451 – Jiaping City, Strongboulder Emerges (1/2)

Li Qingshan’s eyes shone, and a spirit turtle appeared in his sea of consciousness, suppressing the sword intent. The figure wielding the sword was reduced to ink strokes before dispersing.

Only then did he make out the rugged ink strokes scattered on the scroll. A stroke of the sword was a stroke of the brush, and a stroke of the brush was a stroke of the sword. In that instant, the hundred swords had struck out together, dancing and weaving into an earthshaking sword style. However, there were still flaws unfortunately. It was not everything.

However, those few strokes alone were like the horns of kylins and the claws of dragons. He could already sense the power of its original form.

Li Qingshan was utterly delighted. This was an arcane artifact through and through.

“It might just be an inferior arcane artifact, but it’s probably no weaker than regular low grade arcane artifacts. As I repaired it, my understanding of the Five Absolutes Immortal’s epoch-making talent only grew deeper. Qingshan, your strength will definitely increase tremendously with this.” Chu Shidao sighed.

“Thank you, senior.” Li Qingshan stowed the Cursive Sword Calligraphy away and bowed deeply.

Chu Shidao waved his hand with a smile. “There’s no need to thank me. I’m a little tired. You’re welcome to leave, the two of you!”

After Li Qingshan and Ru Xin had left, Chu Shidao said, “Danqing, I can tell that this child Qingshan is valiant and courageous, placing great emphasis on debts of gratitude and grievances. Now that this has been done, seek help from him if you encounter any problems. He shouldn’t turn you down.”

“Master…” Chu Danqing’s heart warmed up, unable to say anything more. As it turned out, he had done all of this for him.

“None of your senior brothers and sisters are easy people to deal with. You must confront them slowly. There’s no need to search for the location of the Painting Tomb in a hurry.”

As if he was speaking his last words to him, tears immediately pooled in Chu Danqing’s eyes.

Chu Shidao smiled. “My dumb child, don’t be sad. Life and death are all set by fate. You should go. I want to talk to your mistress a little.”

Leaving the school of Painting, Li Qingshan said to Ru Xin, “I didn’t think you’d actually refine it. Why have you been ignoring me the whole time?”

Ru Xin looked back and asked in confusion, “Who are you?”

Li Qingshan was taken aback. He went up and tugged her sleeve. “What do you mean?”

“It’s not like I know you, so please stop pestering me.” Ru Xin shook him off in displeasure and took off on her artifact.

“I may have. I forgot. However, since I’ve forgotten it, it’s not worth remembering. No matter what we had going on between us, none of it matters anymore. Goodbye, fellow Qingshan.” Ru Xin clasped her hands as soon as she said that and sped up resolutely. She flew away.

Li Qingshan watched her grow further away as he remained stunned for quite a while. Suddenly, he returned to his senses and began cursing aloud, “None of it matters my ass! You damn woman! You took all those spiritual herbs from me! You better spit it all out right now!”

In the distance, the corner of Ru Xin’s mouth curled into a smile. This bastard is getting more and more clever. Fooling him is really quite difficult now.

Li Qingshan used tremendous effort, almost attacking Ru Xin’s very dwelling, before finally getting everything he needed from her. However, Ru Xin stuck to her statement the entire time. “I don’t know who you are, but since you insist these are yours, I’ll give them to you.”

Afterwards, even Li Qingshan began to wonder a little whether she had actually drunk the Water of Oblivion and forgotten about him. After receiving this batch of pills, Li Qingshan cultivated for a few more days in his dwelling, converting it all into his own cultivation. When he had nothing to do, he would study the sword intent within the Cursive Sword Calligraphy together with Xiao An.

Yu Zijian’s group set off once more, and Li Qingshan could not help but take to the road again as their babysitter. The missions allocated to them this time were clearly much more difficult than the last. The group encountered many dangers. If it were not for Li Qingshan’s secret protection, they probably would have sustained a few injuries and losses already.

Li Qingshan knew Hua Chengzan was placing pressure on Fu Qingjin with this, and he had probably even included Hua Chenglu’s confession and Yu Zijian’s reaction in his calculations. He wanted to force Fu Qingjin into yielding.

Winter had already passed now. The ground began to heat up again.

Yu Zijian flew above the Clear river on her sword. The two sides were both lush with vegetation.

“Junior sister Yu, up ahead is Jiaping city.” Sun Yi closed the distance between them.

“Yep.” Yu Zijian nodded. After facing life-threatening danger again and again, she had become more and more composed, and her halted cultivation finally broke through again, having reached the eighth layer now. With a supreme grade spiritual artifact, the Nine Yang sword, in hand, she had basically become the strongest among them. No one dared to brush her aside anymore.

Gazing at the city that appeared in the distance, Li Qingshan was slightly touched. I never thought I’d get the opportunity to come back here.