Chapter 454: One Stroke from the West (1/2)

Qi Hai.

Qi Hai was dead. Although his spirit was intact, his soul wasn’t. That put him in a similar predicament as Empress Myrtlestar, which was why he could enter hell. He needed a special method to allow him to tap into his power; the Blood Formation of Ten Thousand Spirits being one such example.

This was a formation set up with the hearts’ blood of ten thousand living souls and anchored to a shamanic altar. It drew upon the power of the underground vein in Destiny City and conjured a great fiend so that Qi Hai might manifest through it.

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“Qi Hai?” The seventeen origin dao immortals blinked when they heard the name. They knew each other well, but no one among them knew of any peer named Qi Hai.

The Qi Clan was an above average faction in the world, but there was only one arcane dao immortal among their ranks. In fact, Qi Hai was a name as common as mud. There were close to a million men with that same name in the world of immortals.

There had been a famous Qi Hai from the Primordial Era, but the famous pill master wasn’t a possibility at all. After all, the man had died long before the great war of immortals.

“Senior brother!” came an exclamation from Destiny City. The city lord quickly appeared before Qi Hai with an expression of excitement and delight.

“He’s the Destiny city lord’s senior brother?” The seventeen origin dao immortals gawked at the newcomer.

Many signs pointed to the city lord being one of the old eccentrics from the Primordial Era. There were immortals like him among the seventeen origin dao immortals, but none whose status and influence could rival those of the city lord. The man had been a mover and shaker even back in the Primordial Era!

The restriction against immortals had damaged the memories of many ancient immortals that’d been struck down from their immortality, and their recollections of the past were oddly fuzzy at best. Many of them had to rely on records unearthed from ancient tombs to understand a period of time they’d lived through.

However, someone like the Destiny city lord might’ve preserved his memories. Him calling the newcomer his senior brother proved the long-held theory right.

“Is he from the Primordial Era as well?” exclaimed Dong Lin.

“Hehehe, hahaha...” Qi Hai laughed suddenly. “I’d have to teach you all a lesson even if I weren’t with the two little ones. My junior brother is mild-mannered and dislikes conflict, so he often gets pushed around by others. Still, as his senior brother, I won’t stand for him getting bullied by insects like you!”

Qi Hai made a move.

Bam!

A great force rippled through heaven and earth. The crimson fiend beneath his feet transformed into Qi Hai and accommodated his damaged soul.

“Die, all of you!!” His eyes turned red as he threw a punch, the raw power threatening to puncture this area of the world.

“Dammit!” His sudden attack caught the seventeen origin dao immortals off guard.

In the blink of an eye, the crimson fist connected with an origin dao immortal who wasn’t fast enough to get out of the way and shattered his body. Ensconced in a broken origin dao fruit, his broken soul fled to the sky.

Qi Hai ignored him in favor of throwing another punch at a second origin dao immortal.

“Qi Hai!!” the man with fiery long hair shouted. “Aren’t you concerned that we’ll slaughter every living being in the city after you attack us?”

He didn’t know who Qi Hai was, but as the city lord’s senior brother, he wouldn’t just ignore the fate of Destiny City, which was why he made the threat. With a quick tremor, a burst of fire wrapped around his body.

“Someone from the Fire Spirit Tribe?” Qi Hai paused and stared at the man. “There are fire spirits in the world of immortals? Back in my day, a fire spirit would’ve been taken and refined into treasures if they dared show up in public.”

Qi Hai was talking about the era of human dao, of course.

Fire spirits were a unique species born in nature. They could control all fires between heaven and earth, and their potential rivaled that of the divine race despite not being a part of said race.

“Well, it’s no wonder. Immortals today don’t know the marvelous uses of fire spirits.”