Chapter 499: Unknown Enemy! (1/2)

Chapter 499: Unknown Enemy!

Since Xue Moyan was suspicious, Qin Lie clarified the situation with an indifferent smile.

“No, we do not have a messy relationship like that. Your father simply… asked me to help you in the Graveyard of Gods. I told Chu Li we were engaged because I was worried that your identity as a member of Blood Fiend Sect would be exposed. Don’t think too much of it.”

After Qin Lie explained everything, Xue Moyan heaved a sigh of relief. Although this made her rejoice, she simultaneously felt a hint of disappointment.

“Ah, it seems I was overthinking things.” Pan Qianqian stuck out her tongue.

“Swish swish swish!”

Suddenly, the speed at which the sharp blades of the Moon Blade Barricade spun started to slow down.

Those silver crescent blades that resembled tranquil moonlight gradually stopped rotating.

Qin Lie’s group focused their attention on the Moon Blade Barricade and realized that it had turned back into brilliant silver light shaped like several crescent moons. Without warning, they began descending into the depths of the thunder lagoon.

Feng Yiyou’s face instantly appeared in Qin Lie’s mind.

Qin Lie looked up into the sky only to see a bright silver spatial ring floating in the air, gathering up the crescent moon fragments of the Moon Blade Barricade.

Feng Yiyou was actually putting the Moon Blade Barricade away!

In addition to that, Feng Yiyou hastily flew out of the space that it originally enclosed, immediately landing at the edge of the thunder lagoon with two other Celestial Artifact Sect martial practitioners by his side.

Du Xiangyang and the others were finally able to see how the thunder lagoon actually looked.

Six Pure Soul Springs in the form of clear streams of light were constantly flying about like meteors. Clusters of electric flames and arced lightning enveloped each spring, moving as they did.

The martial practitioners of Black Voodoo Cult, the three great families, and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain were positioned behind three of the Pure Soul Springs, using various methods to try and seize them.

However, no matter what spirit arts they used or what powerful spirit artifacts they had, the moment anything touched those violent lightning flames, it would immediately be blasted to smithereens.

At the bottom of the thunder lagoon, the crystalline thunder spirit waited patiently. It simply crouched there, its intelligent eyes overflowing with disdain.

The black, charred remains of eight corpses that had exploded lay at the bottom of the lagoon. Every single corpse belonged to a martial practitioner of the three forces that had gone down there.

“This…”

Du Xiangyang stroked his chin, shaking his head in regret as he said, “It seems like the people from Celestial Artifact Sect aren’t that stupid and actually thought to remove the Moon Blade Barricade in time. Now they’ll still be able to leisurely take their leave upon realizing that things aren’t working out.”

Qin Lie looked regretful as well.

He had hoped that the three forces would engage in a bloody battle within the thunder lagoon while the thunder spirit assaulted them with thunder and lightning energy.

After all of them had died, Qin Lie would then use the Demon Sealing Tombstone to seal the thunder spirit. From that point onward, acquiring the Pure Soul Springs would be child’s play, wrapping this whole matter up perfectly.

Unfortunately, Feng Yiyou wasn’t a fool.

The moment he realized that they were stuck in an unfavorable situation and the Pure Soul Springs couldn’t be acquired easily, he instantly decided to remove the Moon Blade Barricade and immediately left the thunder lagoon.

As soon as Feng Yiyou left the lagoon, Huang Zhuli, Ye Yihao, Yu Men, and their respective groups came to the same realization, then they curbed their greed for the Pure Soul Springs, also retreating from the thunder lagoon.

All of them ended up returning to the edge of the thunder lagoon.

In just fifteen short minutes, eight people from the three forces had died.

Yet not a single force had acquired a Pure Soul Spring.

Qin Lie’s group, on the other hand, hadn’t taken any casualties.

“The anomalies in the thunder lagoon, the electric flames and arced lightning around the Pure Soul Springs… the thunder spirit is the source of it all!” Ye Yihao exclaimed with a grim expression. “As long as the thunder spirit exists, no one can even think of seizing a single one of the Pure Soul Springs or soul crystals!”

The gazes of every martial practitioner present gathered on Qin Lie.

“Qin Lie! You have the Demon Sealing Tombstone, so why haven’t you sealed the thunder spirit yet!?” Huang Zhuli gnashed her teeth in contempt.

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone? He has the Demon Sealing Tombstone?” Feng Yiyou cried.

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone is in his possession!?” Yu Men yelled, flying into a rage.

Feng Yiyou and Yu Men hadn’t participated in the struggle in the Forbidden Land of Wood, so they didn’t know that Qin Lie sealed the wood spirit with the Demon Sealing Tombstone. They even thought that the Demon Sealing Tombstone didn’t exist.

When they heard Huang Zhuli bring it up, both of them instantly figured out what Qin Lie had planned.

Qin Lie had purposefully left the thunder spirit unsealed, summoned everyone to the thunder lagoon, and tricked the three forces into entering the thunder lagoon at the same time and fighting over the Pure Soul Springs. He clearly planned to clean them all out in one fell swoop.

Huang Zhuli and Ye Yihao had figured this out long ago, but they were absolutely confident in their own forces.

They believed that, even if Qin Lie had a despicable plan in place, he wouldn’t be able to carry it out.

This was especially the case when the thunder spirit intervened and seized control of the thunder and lightning in the area, preventing Qin Lie from wielding their power. This made Huang Zhuli and Ye Yihao grow even more confident that they would be victorious in the Forbidden Land of Thunder.

Unfortunately, the two of them had underestimated the tenacity of the thunder spirit.

Despite using many different methods, they still weren’t able to break through the electric flames and arced lightning protecting the Pure Soul Springs. Four of their people had even been killed by the thunder and lightning in the lagoon

Celestial Artifact Sect and Ten Thousand Beast Mountain only understood the reality of the situation after paying a similarly painful price—As long as the thunder spirit was in the lagoon, no one could even think of seizing the Pure Soul Springs!

“He wants everyone to die!”

“He can obviously wield the Demon Sealing Tombstone and is even capable of using the Sealing Obelisks to get through the Moon Blade Barricade, yet he refuses to enter the thunder lagoon! How ruthlessly cunning!”

“He’s despicable! Shameless!”

“What a treacherous, lowly being!”

Martial practitioners from all three forces criticized Qin Lie, throwing curses one after another.

No one dared to enter the thunder lagoon again and continue to try seizing the Pure Soul Springs. Instead, they all focused on Qin Lie.

They made a firm decision in their hearts that, unless Qin Lie used the Demon Sealing Tombstone to seal the thunder spirit, they wouldn’t enter the thunder lagoon again.

“Seize the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”