236 A Slaughter (2/2)
To actually entertain the idea of letting them flee was something he had never once considered. This was the arrogance that came with having been at the very peak of the world.
Xue Wei had become unbelievably strong compared to his past self. He had climbed to where he was by walking on a mountain of corpses, through a river of blood. He had fought in an untold number of life and death situations.
He was prideful, but he was not arrogant. He knew his own ability and that he could not properly put an end to this feud should they start fleeing.
He could kill them one at a time, or he could transform into an Azure Dragon and straight out chomp down on them one after the other—maybe even take a few at a time now that his awakened bloodline had increased his other form's size.
Xue Wei's eyes suddenly brightened. Since he had awakened his bloodline, this also meant that he had awakened his innate abilities.
One of those abilities was to create a Qi Azure Dragon—a copy of himself—that would have the exact same strength as himself for a period of time. Naturally, it came with a heavy price.
The price to summon a Qi Azure Dragon was that he would use basically half of his total Qi, and it would permanently cost him a layer of cultivation afterwards.
This layer would not be returned to him—he would have to cultivate it back up the same way he had done previously.
There were two kinds of Qi Azure Dragons. One was the regular Qi Azure Dragon, and the other was a Devouring Qi Azure Dragon.
The regular Qi Azure Dragon was able to last for the time it took to eat a meal, while the Devouring Azure Dragon only lasted for as long as it took to brew a cup of tea.
The Devouring Qi Azure Dragon was capable of absorbing the cultivation base of the ones it consumed and directly deliver that to its controller.
Although the Devouring Qi Azure Dragon could run rampant for the time it took to brew a cup of tea, it was susceptible to group fire. So while it could absorb a lot, but the risks were also similarly heavy.
Xue Wei decided to summon the Devouring Qi Azure Dragon. Qi flowed out of his body liked a whirlpool in front of him, swiftly manifesting into the shape of a hundred meter long dragon.
It was abnormally detailed; the scales on the body glistened in the sunshine, and the teeth were so razor sharp that the crowd below felt a chill down their spine. The eyes of this azure dragon were not devoid of life. They were actually filled with battle intent. It seemed as if it had an intelligence of its own.
Only Xue Wei knew that the Azure Dragon Spirit from his dantian had entered this Devouring Qi Azure Dragon and was controlling it.
”Go, my Devouring Dragon,” Xue Wei muttered with a strange smile on his face. The many experts were observing the scene with great fear in their hearts. They knew he was doing something, but they could not figure out who the attack was aimed at.
The dragon's long body was coiled around Xue Wei. Its large head suddenly faced the skies and released a thundering roar that made every single person in the city feel tremors running through their bodies. The humans in the capital had a hard time withstanding this strength.
Some of them spat blood. Some were thrown backward from the shockwave. All the faces of the Heavenly Warriors in the sky were ugly.
”Everyone, gather together—send your strongest attack at that dragon!” The King was the first to speak. Although he had not wanted to take part in this, he knew he had no choice since it had ultimately been his choice to use Tie Haolong as bait to lure Xue Wei out.
If he had taken the oath, he would have died on the spot, so fighting for his life was his only option. Since he had reached the point where he was fighting for his life, he stood in the middle of the entire group. Many had the thought of protecting him, as he was after all, the kingdom's king.
There were even some deathsworn that had sought to avoid this confrontation who had flown into the air to protect their king.
As soon as the roar had been released, the Azure Dragon and Xue Wei made their moves. They attacked from one side each. The dragon chomped down on one expert after another; the moment its victims entered its mouth, strings of Azure Qi Dragons entered their body and consumed their cultivation bases before they simply imploded into a bloody mist from the inside out, leaving not even an intact corpse behind.
On the other side, Xue Wei had used Inner Might: Qi Sword Style. He used the Qi sword with a flourish. Xue Wei was much faster than the Heavenly Warriors in aerial combat.
Every flourish of his sword took off their heads from their necks with the same effort it took him to breathe; and with his speed, no one could escape from him.
Within a mere five minutes, more than half of the experts had been either fed to the dragon or executed by Xue Wei. Even though his cultivation base had dropped a layer to the sixth level of the Ordinary Knight rank, it did not change that fact that he was dominant in every imaginable way against them.
Xue Wei looked at his Devouring Qi Azure Dragon. It had lost quite a bit of its strength, but it was still fighting on. In its stomach was the Azure Dragon Spirit that had consumed the cultivation bases of around ninety Heavenly Warriors. When it returns to Xue Wei's body at some point, those would serve as nourishment for Xue Wei's cultivation base. Still, it was limited what the cultivation bases of Heavenly Warriors could do for him, even if there were this many.
Looking at the remaining thirty experts, Xue Wei could see the undisguised fear in their eyes. It had merely taken five minutes, but more than a hundred experts had been wiped out in that time. This was not a fight—this was a direct slaughter!