Chapter 477 – The Day of the Battle (2/2)

However, the power that Li Qingshan wanted to make use of was something else.

A powerful killing intent radiated from the daemon core, enough to drive cultivators crazy. Just as Li Qingshan had expected, the daemon core did not only contain all of Strongboulder’s power. It was also the nucleus to the Rock of Slaughter.

Li Qingshan casually tossed the daemon core into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp. Immediately, killing intent rushed through his head. His eyes immediately turned blood-red.

He no longer suppressed it with the spirit turtle. Instead, he comprehended the killing intent closely.

In his sea of consciousness, the tiger demon appeared, leaping up and unleashing a vicious roar at the sky. It unfurled its wings and sped around, brandishing its claws and teeth, wanting to kill and fight to its heart’s content. However, there were no enemies in the empty sea of consciousness.

Li Qingshan’s body bent over. His claws protruded, and his teeth lengthened. His breathing became hurried as his heart beat faster and faster!

He was tempted to rush out of the dwelling immediately and find someone, human or daemon. All he wanted was a massacre, to slaughter everything in sight.

I mustn’t! Li Qingshan suddenly pressed against his chest, as if he wanted to force this killing intent back inside.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Yu Zijian. In Jiaping city, she did not rely on anything at all, yet she managed to resist the power of the Rock of Slaughter.

“Even a Qi Practitioner girl could do that, yet I can’t?”

Actually, as a woman, Yu Zijian was naturally kind-hearted. She had been stunned by the horrific sight before her, which made her think of the past, filling her with sorrow.

On the other hand, Li Qingshan possessed the boldness and valiance of a man, and there was a bloodthirsty and battle-hungry aspect to him too. Not only was he unable to use anything else to distract himself right now, but he instead poured all of his attention into the killing intent, so it was a hundred times more difficult.

The fifth of the fifth arrived quickly.

The endless Boundless mountains seemed like the rising and falling seas. The perilous peaks formed the colossal waves.

The surroundings were pitch-black. Rain poured down, swept about by the rain, sometimes falling northward, sometimes perpendicular to that, or even sometimes flying up towards the sky. It seemed like a thunderstorm above the sea.

Fu Qingjin stood alone on one of the waves, completely drenched by the rain. However, he did not waste even a shred of strength to block the rain. Instead, he seemed like he was enjoying it, allowing the rain to fall on his face while listening to the whistling wind by the cliffs.

Suddenly, a smile appeared on his handsome face. He tightened his grasp around the Green Ruins sword on his waist.

A scarlet figure spun and pierced through the cloud layer in a hurry. A ray of golden light abruptly appeared in the darkness, illuminating Fu Qingjin’s face.

Li Qingshan slowed down in the light. The wings of wind behind him folded up slightly as he descended gradually.

The sunlight dyed the droplets of rain, turning them into thousands of golden specks that danced around him. With his flawless appearance and calm expression, he seemed more like a god, not a diabolical daemon.

“You’ve changed.”

Fu Qingjin was slightly surprised. As a true swordsman, he had already committed everything about his opponent to heart. He had even undergone countless simulations in his head.

It was possible to say that he could confidently claim he was one of the few people who understood Northmoon the most in the world.

But meeting him again, he discovered everything he had been anticipating had been overturned and shattered.

He did not just see a change in strength from Li Qingshan. His entire vigour was completely different, which made him feel like he was facing a new opponent.

Aren’t daemons supposed to cultivate extremely slowly? Northmoon, how did you achieve this?

“Have I?” Li Qingshan answered calmly. Strongboulder’s daemon core was still in his belly, affecting him in the same way as before.

In only a few days, he had undergone pain and struggle that regular people could never even imagine, yet he still failed to break through to the fourth layer of the tiger demon. Sure enough, cultivation was becoming more and more difficult.

The ever-growling tiger demon became even more excited now, urging him to a battle to the death with Fu Qingjin.

At this moment, Li Qingshan actually hoped Fu Qingjin was a little stronger, strong enough to force him into dire straits. Only a true battle to the death could stimulate the tiger demon’s bloodthirstiness and craziness, allowing him to use this opportunity to break through to the fourth layer.

Suddenly, he discovered that he no longer placed so much importance on this battle that he originally cared so much about. Even his grievances with Fu Qingjin had become negligible. All he saw before him was a chance to become even stronger, a stepping stone leading to beyond the Nine Heavens.

“However, defeat is certain for you today,” Fu Qingjin said firmly.