Chapter 420: Burning Soul Firebeam! (2/2)

A multicolored beam that resembled a burning needle had locked onto his forehead, flying straight toward it.

He felt as if his True Soul was being burned to dust, and the harsh sword aura contained within the rainbow beam made every hair on his body stand on end.

“Frost Shield!”

Qin Lie immediately stopped chasing Du Xiangyang and pressed his palms together. Cold mist began to shroud his palms.

“Krak krak krak!”

A thick, translucent shield of ice instantly formed in front of his palms.

“Ssss!”

The fire beam struck the shield, creating a shrill noise.

In response, the shield of ice began to swiftly melt!

The beam of fire resembled a pangolin, swiftly penetrating Qin Lie’s ice shield and travelling toward his forehead.

Such a sight shocked Qin Lie.

Since the ice shield was about to melt completely, and seeing as he had no viable plan in mind, Qin Lie could only dodge using Blood Escape like how Du Xiangyang had avoided his Thunder Lightning Balls.

The refined blood energy inside of Qin Lie’s blood instantly exploded forth.

He escaped in a burst of bloody light, appearing over a dozen kilometers away.

“Pfft!”

Qin Lie spat out a mouthful of blood. His face paled slightly, and he wore an ugly expression on his face.

He currently stood beside a pond of liquid fire more than a dozen kilometers away from the battlefield. The pond burned with terrifying flames, and its bubbling surface radiated a frightening amount of heat.

He could clearly feel that he had used up a great deal of blood energy.

Blood Escape required the activation of the energy inside one’s blood and instantaneous power. Upon unleashing this skill, a portion of the practitioner’s blood would evaporate, leaving them weak for a short period of time. This was actually a bloody art that damaged the practitioner that used it.

Qin Lie sat cross legged and took out the spirit stones from before, absorbing spirit energy from them and recovering as he did earlier.

The sword token around his waist no long emitted a low, ringing tone. This meant that Du Xiangyang had stopped searching for him, or chose not to immediately chase after him.

“I can’t believe that sword beam was so fierce and terrifying. If I had known about that, I would not have tried to take it head on. I should have just escaped,” Qin Lie said with a grim expression. He realized that he had underestimated Du Xiangyang. He hadn’t thought that he would be so powerful.

What Qin Lie didn’t know was that Du Xiangyang was even more shocked and upset than he was.

Several kilometers away.

Halfway up a volcano, Du Xiangyang constantly swore. “Dammit! He’s crazy! What a madman!”

After testing Qin Lie’s true strength, Du Xiangyang had been ready to stop there to talk to Qin Lie about the possibility of joining forces against Luo Chen.

He had already been prepared to show Qin Lie goodwill…

However, he hadn’t thought that Qin Lie would forcefully alter the trajectory of the descending flames with a strange gravity field and throw them at him just as he was about to propose a truce.

After fleeing from the fiery meteors that fell from the sky, two Thunder Lightning Balls shot toward where he stood before he was able to utter a single word. After shooting the Thunder Lightning Balls, Qin Lie himself had charged toward him.

The man actually hadn’t given him a single moment to breathe.

Left with no other choice, Du Xiangyang could only use his true strength and form a “Burning Soul Firebeam” with his spirit energy and soul consciousness to stop Qin Lie’s mad charge.

Burning Soul Firebeam was one of Du Xiangyang’s ultimate techniques. It was a powerful attack created by combining a large amount of refined spirit energy and imbuing it with soul consciousness.

It took a lot out of him to create a Burning Soul Firebeam, so he definitely regretted doing so.

However, just before the Burning Soul Fire Beam could pierce Qin Lie, he vanished.

Du Xiangyang had been busy dodging an attack, so he had not noticed how Qin Lie managed to escape. When he realized this and checked his sword token, Qin Lie had already escaped more than a dozen kilometers away.

“Dammit! I really screwed myself over this time. I didn’t think that this guy from the Scarlet Tide Continent would be so ruthless and powerful,” Du Xiangyang said, panting. His expression continuously changed as he touched his sword token.

A long time later, he decided to give up on searching for Qin Lie and instead prepared to recover his strength with spirit stones.

He did this to avoid martial practitioners of other forces from finding him and taking him out due to his exhaustion.

“Looks like this Qin Lie fellow can cause a bit of trouble for Luo Chen,” Du Xiangyang thought.

After testing each other’s strength, Qin Lie and Du Xiangyang took time to recover. In this time, a group of four young martial practitioners with “Xiahou” sewn to the shoulder area of their clothing were also operating near the fiery volcanos.

“Brother Yuan, this is a sword token that we got by killing a Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioner.” Xiahou Shang took out a sword token and passed it to his leader. “The Xiahou Family’s luck is good. We did not end up far from each other. Since we gathered together so quickly, we must use this advantage and kill as many people as possible! Otherwise, when the other martial practitioners have gathered into groups, it will be very difficult for us to kill anyone.”

Xiahou Yuan was tall and stalwart. He had a shiny bald head and he wore a black martial practitioner uniform with golden fringes. His face was plain, but his eyes glittered with a brutal light.

“Go see if there are any Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioners nearby. Kill them all as long as none of them are Luo Chen!”

Xiahou Yuan nodded repeatedly and probed the sword token with his soul consciousness.

After a while, he shook his head in disappointment. “No one is nearby.”

“Widen the area and keep searching. We must take advantage of this sword token!” Xiahou Yuan commanded.

Their group of people began to move in a certain direction.

Four hours later, when Xiahou Yuan made another attempt to search the area with the sword token, he exclaimed with an excited expression, “There’s a reaction! We found two Heavenly Sword Mountain martial practitioners!”

“Then let’s go and kill them!” Xiahou Yuan laughed wickedly.