Chapter 452: Senior Brother, ride the wind and waves
The setting sun fell into the water.
The originally green river surface was now dyed red by the sunset.
A small boat drifted with the current, and bits of smoke rose from the small stove on the boat.
Ye Anping was wearing a raincoat, sitting at the end of the boat, holding a small cattail leaf fan in his right hand, fanning the fire, cooking fish soup with green onions and ginger, concentrating on it.
After a while, the water in the pot turned a touch of snow-white, and a delicious smell wafted out.
Pei Lianxue, who was squatting next to her, nodded her nose, knocked on the bowl and chopsticks, and asked expectantly:
“Senior brother, is it okay?”
“Um…”
Ye Anping was silent for a while, and suddenly heard the whistling of the wind. He immediately raised his head and looked toward the sunset in the distance. Then, he picked up the pot lid, covered the stone pot, and then raised his hand to pat Pei Lianxue’s head, and replied:
“Let it simmer for a while.”
“Oh…”
Seeing the direction of her senior brother’s gaze, Pei Lianxue squinted her eyes, nodded in disappointment, then stood up, raised her hand to take off the sun-shading hat above her head and threw it aside.
Silver light flashed, and a spiritual sword flew out of Pei Lianxue’s storage bag and landed in her right hand.
The sword finger of her left hand swept across the sword’s body, making a buzzing sound.
Buzz—!
The spiritual energy expanded from the fingertips, creating ripples under the boat that were slightly glowing with ice-blue spiritual light.
Pei Lianxue opened her lips slightly, narrowed her eyes slightly, and bent her knees slightly, trying to strike first, but Ye Anping suddenly raised his hand to stop her:
“Don’t worry, it’s not a trash fish. It needs to be processed first.”
“…Oh~”
Ye Anping nodded to her, took out a pink cloth bag from his storage bag, hid it in his sleeve, and then turned to face the sunset.
Hearing just a few “whoosh” sounds piercing the air, eight dark spiritual lights came from the west. They went from motion to stillness in an instant, hanging in eight directions of the small boat, wrapping him and Pei Lianxue in the center.
Ye Anping’s eyes under his bamboo hat glanced sideways, and after passing over the faces of the seven demon cultivators at the core formation stage, ti landed on the face of the man in purple who had the highest level of cultivation.
If he remembered correctly, this woman should be the “Immortal Hehua” of the Hehuan Sect.
In the game, she was considered a pretty powerful mini-boss.
Although she was a charming cultivator and was not very good at fighting, her cultivation was at the mid-stage of Nascent Soul, and there were many annoying magic weapons in his bag. If he had not prepared in advance, he and his junior sister might not be able to deal with them with their current cultivation.
What’s more, she also brought with her seven demon cultivators who were in the core formation stage.
But, then again, this was the territory of the Western Domain, and the Hehuan Sect sent her and these seven core-formation demon cultivators across the realm, which was considered a big deal.
The person in charge of the frontier was Lei Wanjun.
Why is Elder Lei so careless…
——”The young master is the young master of Hundred Lotus Sect?”
The charming voice came from above, causing Ye Anping, who was thinking randomly, to come back to his senses, cupped his hands and said with a smile:
“Exactly.”
“Ha…” Master Hehua sneered and couldn’t help but sarcastically said, “Did you not see the purpose of my visit? Or do you think that you can be unscrupulous and have peace of mind when you are in the Western Domain?”
“Neither.”
“Does that mean you gave up the resistance? Well, it helps me save my spiritual energy. When the town asked for news about you, Mr. Ye, I provoked a very annoying follower.”
Annoying follower?
Could it be that Zu Lingzhi has arrived and met her before?
Ye Anping listened to this and thought for a moment, then since Zu Lingzhi had arrived, she was probably nearby…
He raised his head slightly and glanced around, but he couldn’t find Zu Lingzhi.
After thinking for a while, he took off the bamboo hat on his head and covered it on his chest.
Seeing Ye Anping’s face, the boring look on Master Hehuan’s face disappeared instantly. When the sect leader asked her to come and catch the young master of Hundred Lotus Sect, she was quite unhappy.
After all, they had to cross the border of the Western Domain guarded by the elder of the Xuanxing Sect, and they also had to find out the whereabouts of the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect. This was not an easy task.
But now, she saw that Ye Anping was just like the rumors, he was a handsome young man with a solemn look.
She suddenly felt that all the hardships were really rewarded, and the troubles on the road were nothing at all.
“Hey, it looks like we can have some fun on the way back~~” Master Hehua squinted and smiled, her eyes moved to Pei Lianxue, and she raised her hand slightly, “It’s just the look in this little girl’s eyes that is a little dazzling.”
Ye Anping glanced sideways at the murderous intent in his junior sister’s eyes, smiled helplessly, and said:
“It’s natural to be dazzling. My junior sister hates those who covet my beauty the most.”
“…”
“However, please rest assured that my junior sister is not a demon cultivator and does not eat people. I just want to remind you, Senior Hehua, do you know why this river is called the ‘Qinshui’ River?”
Ye Anping slightly raised the pink bag he was holding in his right hand, opened it, and poured out a few black pills, with a sneer on his face.
Seeing the smile on his face and the pill in his hand, Elder Hehua’s eyes showed a little surprise, and she felt a threat almost instinctively.
A threat that she couldn’t explain clearly, but it was an intuition she had gained from practicing immortality for hundreds of years.
She raised her right hand and waved it slightly, ordering the seven cultivators in the core formation stage who had followed her to rush forward. She quickly took out a cauldron of incense, protected herself with spiritual power, and stepped back fifty feet.
First, use your own subordinates to explore Ye Anping’s reality.
If there was a problem, she would just run away.
Thinking of this, the surprise in Master Hehua’s eyes dissipated, she calmed down, and stared closely at Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue, observing their every move.
Seeing her being so cautious, Ye Anping felt helpless. He glanced at the seven core-formation demon cultivators surrounding them, and immediately threw a black pill in his hand toward the lake.
At the same time, Pei Lianxue also quickly raised the spirit sword in her hand, preparing to help her senior brother withstand the first wave of attacks from the group.
However, that’s about it.
Choking—!
A white light flashed across the river.
A whisk came from the west bank of the river and shot directly toward the boat where Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue were sitting. On the calm river surface, it created a ditch nearly ten feet long and lined ridges of waves with two white flowers.
“Hiss–”
Ye Anping glanced at it, and was so frightened that he couldn’t help but take a deep breath. He quickly stretched out his hand to catch the black pill that was thrown out of the air, and then sent a signal to Pei Lianxue with his eyes, telling her not to leave his side.
Boom–
“Uh…!”
With a wailing sound, the fly whisk shot from the shore, after knocking away a demon cultivator in the Core Formation stage, shot straight toward Ye AnPing’s chest, but when it was about to land, it suddenly turned from motion to stillness, hovering five inches in front of his chest.
The white ponytail at the front of the whisk, like hair, expanded and grew rapidly, immediately wrapping Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue in it, forming a huge ball of white yarn on the board of the boat, which covered the remaining six knots, blocking the spiritual swords in the Demon Cultivator’s hand blocked all the attacks.
The six people just felt like they were chopping on a pile of cotton that was being chopped continuously, and they couldn’t use any strength at all.
Before they could react, the whisk’s ponytail suddenly turned into a long white whip and swept across.
Bang bang——
Boom–!
The six cultivators in the Core Formation stage were all unable to parry, and were whipped by the whisk and flew in the opposite direction. Just like a goddess scattering flowers, they shot out a series of water splashes in six directions with Ye Anping’s boat as the center and then smashed them into the water and exploded them into six water splashes.
After seeing Elder Hehua in the distance, he quickly turned his eyes toward the shore and saw a busty female cultivator in black and white robes standing on a flying sword with her chest raised and her head slowly moving toward him.
“You came so soon?”
Elder Cao stepped on the flying sword and slowly came to the front of Elder Hehua. She raised her hand and called back the whisk that had been protecting Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue. She put it on her left arm and raised her head to look at Elder Hehua:
“Hmph, the enchantress of the Hehuan Sect actually dares to cause trouble in the hinterland of the Immortal Family.”
“Oh, if I dare to set foot in the Western Domain, that means I have the confidence. You, a Taibai Sect elder at the Nascent Soul stage, can’t do anything to me!”
“Extremely arrogant!”
Both Nascent Soul cultivators opened their eyes slightly.
Black clouds gathered in the sky, casting a shadow on the river.
The wind was strong and the waves were sloping, and God moved with the force.
Two figures, one black and one white, collided back and forth from a hundred feet above the river. The spiritual energy exploded with bursts of explosions, causing waves of dozens of feet on the shadowed river surface.
The boat rose and fell rapidly from the waves.
Ye Anping stood on the board of the boat, pointing his sword finger with his left hand at the stone pot beside him, using his spiritual power to hold up his fish soup to prevent it from being knocked over by the waves of the river.
Seeing Taibai Sect’s Elder Cao fighting with Elder Hehua, he now felt an indescribable helplessness in his heart.
He thought that Zu Lingzhi and Cao Yan’er would come to find him, and he also thought that the Hehuan Sect or the Gu Poison Sect would send minions to tie him up.
But he didn’t expect that the two waves of people would happen to collide.
Two cultivators in the Nascent Soul Stage were facing off head-on. Moreover, their strength was not evenly matched. This battle would last only a few days and nights, and the winner would probably be indistinguishable.
And it was easy to talk before the fight started, but now that the fight had started, it was really hard for him to intervene.
Rumble——
Because the wind and waves were too strong, Pei Lianxue beside him raised her voice and asked loudly:
“Brother!! What should we do?!
“Let’s watch a show!!!”
“Brother!! I can’t hear you!!”
Ye Anping leaned close to Pei Lianxue’s ear and said:
“Watch a show!!”
“Oh!!”
Two Nascent Souls exploded between the sky and the earth, making the sky dark and the earth dark. The small boat rode the wind and waves in the waves. Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue stood on the board, their figures swaying with the boat, but they stood still in place relative to the boat.
Suddenly, two black figures emerged from the turbulent waves.
Two of the Demonic Cultivators at the Core Stage who had just been blown away by the whisk, holding two spiritual swords in their hands, attacked the two people who looked stunned and defenseless at first glance.
Ye Anping glanced at them and was about to raise his hand to signal his junior sister to chop them down.
But before his hand could fall, and before Pei Lianxue could draw out his sword, another figure jumped up from behind a huge wave and cut one of the core-formation demon cultivators in half with a swing of her sword.
Swish——
“Snort!!”
After Zu Lingzhi beheaded one person, she kicked the other person away with her whip-like legs, then bit the hilt of the spirit sword in his right hand, and with both hands free, she grabbed the shoulders of Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue on the ship:
“Ouch!!!”
She wanted to say “Let’s go”, but she couldn’t speak clearly because she was biting her sword. Then, she grabbed the two people’s shoulders and lifted them up, trying to take them away.
However, when she was trying to lift the two of them, Zu Lingzhi discovered that their feet seemed to be stuck to the boat, and she couldn’t lift them at all.
“?”
Zu Lingzhi was stunned for a moment, then tried her best again, but found that the two of them still couldn’t move, and was dumbfounded:
“Ohh Ohh ohh–!”
“…” “…”
Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue were on the left and right, their faces expressionless, staring at her with no intention of speaking.
Seeing these two paralyzed faces made Zu Lingzhi feel angry for no reason, but she had no intention of cursing at the moment.
The moment she grabbed the shoulders of the two of them, another demon cultivator in the core formation stage jumped out of the river, landed on the boat, raised his sword, and swung it toward her.
Ding–
Zu Lingzhi’s eyes widened slightly, and she immediately let go of their shoulders, grabbed the hilt of the sword in her mouth to block it, then forced the man back and shouted:
“Follow me quickly…!!”
Before she could finish her words, another demon cultivator at the Core Formation Stage stepped out from behind her, thrusting his sword toward her back.
But Zu Lingzhi reacted quickly, and immediately turned around and moved the scabbard on her back, blocking the demon cultivator’s stabbing sword.
When——!
However, although she blocked the sword, she flew directly away from Ye Anping and Pei Lianxue because of this strength.
The remaining five Demonic Cultivators in the Core Formation stage seemed to have been drawn into hatred. After Zu Lingzhi was knocked into the air, they all jumped out of the turbulent river and attacked from five directions.
Zu Lingzhi reacted very quickly and summoned the magical weapon, wrapped herself in a golden bowl, and blocked the five people’s spiritual swords.
Ding–
Rumble——!
In the sky above, the battle between Elder Cao and Elder Hehua continued, with bursts of auras shaking the sky and the earth.
On the river, Zu Lingzhi used the waves as a stepping stone to deal with the encirclement of five cultivators in the core formation stage alone.
The small boat was rising and falling in the waves. Ye Anping was holding his own fish soup and standing quietly at the bow of the boat with his junior sister, like passers-by, watching expressionlessly the fierce fight between the two groups of people.
Although Ye Anping seemed stunned at first glance, he was actually always looking for opportunities to take action.
Unfortunately, he just didn’t find any opportunity.
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, Ye Anping had no choice but to sigh, then leaned into Pei Lianxue’s ear and said:
“Junior sister!!! Act according to the situation and prioritize saving people!!!”
“…Oh!”
Pei Lianxue hesitated for a while, and understood that the senior brother wanted her to save the girl with the “∞” on her head depending on the situation, so she nodded and followed her.
Seeing that she understood, Ye Anping sighed and murmured:
“Don’t die.”
Then he raised his hand, flicked the black pill in his right hand hard, and threw a parabola, which was then blown away by the strong wind and fell silently into the river.
Ding ding——
Zu Lingzhi stepped on the top of the undulating waves and forced back a demon cultivator in the core formation stage with one sword. Looking at the boat that had drifted away and the two people standing motionless on it, the corners of her eyes suddenly twitched.
However, the next moment, she felt that the river water under her feet, which had been covered with a layer of shadow due to dark clouds in the sky, suddenly became as black as thick ink.
“?”
“…”
! ! !
After being stunned for a moment, Zu Lingzhi’s eyes suddenly widened, and she immediately used the body control technique to jump up from the river and quickly escape into the air.
And just two breaths after her feet left the river, she heard a “Boom”, and a Qinshui dragon opened its mouth and jumped out of the water, swallowing an unresponsive Demonic Cultivator in the Core Formation Stage into its mouth.
Roar–!
The silver-white dragon body seemed to have a bridge of hundreds of feet sandwiched between the waves.
But just a few breaths after the dragon’s head fell into the water, it once again opened its mouth a hundred feet away and poured out of the water, swallowing another demonic cultivator in the core formation stage.
The remaining three demonic cultivators at the Core Formation stage finally reacted, and quickly imitated Zu Lingzhi’s method of using the imperial movement technique to leave the river, and chased her toward the sky where the two Nascent Soul cultivators were fighting.
The four of them quickly flew into the sky in one direction. Neither Zu Lingzhi nor the three demon cultivators had any intention of continuing to fight at this moment.
Rather than dying in a sword fight, they didn’t want to fall into the mouth of the dragon and become the food of the Qinshui dragon.
However, just because they were escaping in one direction, the Qinshui Jiao suddenly broke through the water’s surface again after being silent for a moment. Like a moon, it opened its mouth and rushed toward the four of them.
Seeing that she was about to fall into the belly of the dragon, Zu Lingzhi quickly came to her senses and quickly leaned next to a demon cultivator in the Core Formation stage, stepped on him, and used the strength of her feet and spiritual power to speed away.
“Uhhhhhhhh-!”
After Ye Anping, who was on the boat, saw this scene, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows slightly. He quickly raised his hand to suppress the junior sister’s movement to rush to the mouth of the dragon to save people, and murmured:
“Oh~ the reaction is quite fast…”
Then, he looked toward the top of the mountain to the east and said:
“It’s almost time to come.”
Just when these words were blurted out, suddenly a flash of lightning flashed between the dark clouds in the sky and illuminated the river surface white.
Boom–
Thunderbolt–!
Immediately, more than twenty sky thunders were like sky pillars, connecting the clouds and the river surface.
A ray of white light came from the west and exploded a hundred feet above the sky, and then an old man wearing a purple robe with a forehead covered with veins appeared.
“Who is so desperate as to make a nest and fish for dragons in the Qinshui River?!!”
The roaring thunder spread hundreds of miles along with the roar.
Elder Hehua, who was fighting with Elder Cao a little further away, looked at the lightning and her eyes widened suddenly, and she quickly prepared to use escape skills to escape from this place.
But just as she took out the escape magic weapon from the storage bag, Lei Wanjun’s eyes shining with lightning were already staring at her.
“Demonic cultivator!!!”
Thunderbolt–!!
Boom–
A thunder dragon descended from top to bottom, swallowing Elder Hehua into its belly, and then smashed into the river, along with countless fish in the river, and exploded into ashes.
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