Chapter 599 – Fire Devouring Folk (1/2)

Si Bao thought, Oh no. Originally, we still had a sixty percent chance of victory with this round, but with this, we probably don’t even have a thirty percent chance.

Gu Yanying expressed for her to not worry and glanced backwards.

Li Qingshan had already refined the five arcane artifacts, drinking heartily as he watched the duel in the Dragon Arena. His expression seemed rather similar to Si Qing’s.

Right now, he agreed with what Si Qing said very much. Duels truly were more interesting than dancing. Of course, if sect master Qiu were naked, that would be a whole different story.

Si Bao directly turned around and glanced at Li Qingshan, If we lose this round, then Si Qing will still have two fighters, and they’ll both be in perfect condition. Big sis trusts him so much, but is he really that powerful?

Li Qingshan grinned back at her, which Si Bao found extremely dissatisfying. “What’re you grinning for? You’ve drunken so much! Have you already come up with an idea?”

“Not yet, but when I go in later, hic, I’ll obviously have one,” Li Qingshan said. There was no need for him to find a way to deal with the rainforest environment. If Yan Xixin lost, they would obviously change the battleground.

Si Bao could see there was no drunkenness in Li Qingshan’s eyes at all. Instead, they blazed with a will to fight, shining even brighter than before.

A while later, only forty percent of Yan Xixin’s spiritual qi remained, while the dwarf was unscathed. He launched towards the huge tree again. Not only did he want to win this round, but he even wanted to maintain his strength and win the next one.

He did this to prevent Yan Xixin from forfeiting when he had basically run out of spiritual qi. If that happened, he would not be able to make use of this advantageous environment anymore.

Yan Xixin’s eyes suddenly lit up. Now! He stowed his shield away and used a technique. A swathe of yellow sand rose up in the sea of trees, whistling towards the dwarf and swallowing him.

This was not a real sandstorm, but the earth element technique “Shrouding Sand”. It was specially used to obscure the opponent’s six senses, to cut off their soul sense. If earth element cultivators encountered an undefeatable opponent, they could easily escape with this move.

The dwarf sneered coldly. He showed no fear at all. He watched as the sand swept over, but before it could even approach him, the sun vines extended out and produced a gentle glow.

Yan Xixin was currently maintaining the technique, but he suddenly discovered that his spiritual qi was being depleted at a rapid rate. If he tried to keep up the technique, all of his spiritual qi would be drained away before long.

Si Qing smiled. “Yanying, this move your subordinate has taken isn’t particularly clever. Even if spiritual and arcane artifacts become entangled by sun vines, they’ll lose all of their powers before long. It’s even more difficult for techniques to be of any use.”

Qian Rongzhi took note of this. The sun vines were rather similar to the Heaven Climbing Vine she possessed, but there was nothing strange about that. Many vines were parasitic plants. Draining spiritual qi could be considered as their instincts.

Strange plants like sun vines and Heaven Climbing Vines only amplified these instincts, while Heaven Climbing Vines possessed the ability to cross through worlds. It was far more powerful than sun vines, except it was far too difficult to nurture.

Ever since she reached Foundation Establishment, she basically spent all the resources she had built up over the years to buy spiritual water so that she could nourish the Heaven Climbing Vine. Despite her efforts, it was not even a foot tall. Although the rate at which it siphoned spiritual qi had become slightly faster, she did not use any of it at all, leaving it all to the Heaven Climbing Vine to nourish itself.

This required extremely great willpower. With the purity of the spiritual qi the Heaven Climbing Vine siphoned, it was extremely enticing to cultivators. It was basically like drugs from Li Qingshan’s past life. They would become addicted after tasting it once.

Chu Tian did not necessarily have much difficulty in understanding the principle of accumulation and delayed gratification, but he was unable to resist the temptation of the pure spiritual qi. Coupled with how he wanted to maintain his title of “genius”, he was eager for quick successes and benefits.

Any additional restraint and accumulation now would lead to additional benefits in the future. If the Heaven Climbing Vine could grow to the level of sun vines one day, then who could still be her opponent in the world?

These thoughts had only flashed through her head with lightning speed. With another slash, the dwarf obtained another mouthful of tree sap.

The sand that had its spiritual qi drained smashed into him. Yan Xixin continued to maintain the technique tirelessly, but it was merely a sandstorm now. It was unable to interfere with cultivators like him.

The dwarf launched back. As soon as he left the vicinity of the sun vines, he felt the sand suddenly become denser, bombarding him like secret weapons. However, this had always been an offensive technique without any lethal power, so it obviously could not get through his protective spiritual qi.

A sword slash whistled over. The dwarf had been anticipating a sneak attack, so he dodged it with ease. Afterwards, another huge sand man rushed out of the sand, lunging towards him with its arms outstretched.

The dwarf destroyed the sand man with a wave of his hand, and a figure burst out of the sand man’s chest. It was Yan Xixin. He had hidden in the sand man to approach him.

The dwarf sneered inside, Puny tricks. Are you trying to force me back into the range of the sun vines? Even if you ignore the fact that it’s impossible, what can you do to me even if I do retreat?