Chapter 124 - 124: Powerful Sword Intent_l
Due to spending day and night with Qin Changqing, the ladies of Qin Mansion naturally did not notice anything. However, the maids experienced it more deeply, and as a result, strange noises would always come from the courtyard where the maids lived at night.
Later, the ladies gradually realized that their husband had a unique charm.
Qin Changqing also discovered this. Ever since the level of his Innate Furnace Cauldron reached a high level, let alone young girls, even Iolis and grannies would look at him strangely. There was one time when he went to the depths of the mountain to slay demonic beasts, and Steward Qin went alone to kill one. In the end, the beast, which was comparable to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, let him slaughter it.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
It was only later that Qin Changqing found out the beast was female.
After this incident, he had to be careful about the gender of any dog he met on the road.
“My husband,” Bai Liu whispered, “Many of these people are from the Red Mill.”
“Oh?” Qin Changqing calmly asked, “How many?”
“About half of those Golden Elixir cultivators are from there.’
Qin Changqing nodded slightly.
The people from the Red Mill were different from ordinary cultivators.
They specialized in assassinations and ambushes, with the same cultivation level, they could unleash much greater combat power. Moreover, there was one more thing, they were fearless.
“Senior Brother! ”
“Senior Brother! ”
Several Xuanyi Peak disciples greeted Qin Changqing one by one.
“Senior Brother, it’s been so long since we’ve seen you!” a cute junior sister happily said, “You haven’t been to my cave dwelling for a long time.”
“Yes, Senior Brother, you’ve been away for so long and never came back to see us.”
“I miss the royal chicken Senior Brother made so much, Avoiding Grain Pills don’t taste good at all.”
“Senior Brother, what’s your cultivation level now? I can’t see through it.”
The junior brothers and sisters were so cute. Qin Changqing greeted them with a smile.
“Brother Qin! ”
Another familiar voice came over.
Jin Xiaoxiao enthusiastically joined the Xuanyi Peak disciples, this girl had great talent. During the Sect’s Grand Competition, she was only at Tier 3 Foundation Establishment. In just over a decade, she had reached Tier 8 Foundation Establishment.
If all goes well, she was likely to form her Golden Elixir before the age of fifty.
If she had gone to the Qin family back then, she might have already formed her Golden Elixir by borrowing Qin Changqing’s fortune.
“Is that Qin Changqing?”
On the side of the Dayan Dynasty, a white-robed elder stroked his beard and looked at Qin Changqing, who was surrounded by people, “His cultivation is only at the Golden Elixir first tier, but his aura is quite deep, suggesting the quality of his Golden Elixir is not low.”
“No matter how high it is, it’s only Tier 5 at most, nothing serious,” another person said calmly.
He was holding a long sword, his aura restrained but revealing a hint of sharpness.
“Even so, we should not underestimate him,” the elder laughed, “Just based on their identity as disciples, we should take it seriously. However… this kid does resemble him somewhat, one risking his life for a beauty, and the other being lustful by nature.”
“Unfit for great responsibility,” the sword cultivator elder sneered, “What did MO Jiuzhou gain after going all out at Tianyuan? In the end, it all came down to a character issue, being troubled by Heart Devils. Even if there were no accidents at Tianyuan, he would have fallen sooner or later.”
“Your words sound a bit envious.”
“I’m just speaking the truth. Do you think this disciple of his can live any longer?” >
The white-robed elder chuckled lightly but didn’t say anything, seemingly agreeing with the sword cultivator elder’s words.
Sometime later, he summoned several disciples behind him and whispered a few orders.
“Remember, kill the person first, then seize the sword,” the elder said.
As the Dayan Dynasty put Qin Changqing on their kill list, he was also learning about the people who had entered Duanjian Mountain.
This time, the Dayan Dynasty still sent mainly the Tianjian Academy. The highest cultivation level was a person named Wang Ping, Tier 10 Golden Elixir. Besides, there was a Tier 9 Golden Elixir white-faced scholar from Tianshu Academy. Among the rest, there were two Tier 8 Golden Elixir cultivators, three Tier 7 Golden Elixir cultivators, and the remainder included Golden Elixir early and middle stages, totaling thirty people.
There were a total of thirty Golden Elixir cultivators, while the Foundation Establishment and Cultivating Qi cultivators were just making up the paratively speaking, the strength of those who entered from the Dayan Dynasty this time was evidently higher than before.
Especially Wang Ping, who had once fought a battle against a cultivator at the Golden Elixir Peak without defeat after initially entering the late Golden Elixir stage.
However, the Lingxiao Sect was not weak either, and the strengths of both
sides were not much different on the surface.
“The strength gap doesn’t look big on the surface, so the Dayan Dynasty has pinned its hopes on Liu’er.” Qin Changqing thought to himself.
If the gap between the two sides were too wide, such as if the Dayan Dynasty sent out even more powerful disciples, then the Lingxiao Sect would definitely add more people as well.
That would never end.
Right now, both sides were evenly matched, and when Bai Liu, the super killer, erupted, it would be the key to breaking the balance.
For example, once a cultivator at the Tier 10 Golden Elixir perished, a higher realm fighting a lower realm would be like a father battling his son, and after all, everyone came from major forces, so there wouldn’t be much talk about challenging across realms.
He took Bai Liu’s hand, and she stood by his side. The two of them looked like a fairy couple, immediately drawing the teasing of their fellow disciples.
And this scene, in the eyes of the white-robed elder, brought out a touch of laughter.
“Elder Duan, let’s begin.”
The elder of the Lingxiao Sect shouted to the Dayan Dynasty. The white-robed elder smiled and nodded: “Let’s begin.” “The Sword Test begins!
Both of them simultaneously sacrificed half a sword talisman.
The next moment, radiant light blossomed from the sword talisman, shooting out a powerful beam of light onto the barrier of Duanjian Mountain, and then opening a crack.
“Enter!” The elder yelled softly.
The disciples took the order and stepped into the crack one by one on their swords.
Whoosh!
Light flashed by.
Qin Changqing appeared on an unfamiliar cliff.
“What powerful Sword Intent.” He looked around, and astonishment filled his eyes.
He saw swords everywhere, near and far. These swords were inserted into the ground, as if they were one with the earth, emitting an inexplicable Sword
Intent.
He didn’t try to pull out a sword.
Because there was a rule in Duanjian Mountain: everyone who enters can only take one sword with them.
As soon as a sword was pulled out, they would quickly be ejected from the barrier.
But each sword was buried in the ground, making it impossible to discern which was good or bad.
So, every time someone came in to test the sword, they would spend a lot of time selecting one.
However, after so many attempts, the Lingxiao Sect had also concluded that the deeper the sword was in Duanjian Mountain, the better it was.
Qin Changqing looked into the distance, seeing that the further in, the higher the terrain, the fewer the swords, and the stronger the Sword Intent.
According to past experiences, that was where the final battle between the two sides would take place.
“Huh?
His eyelids twitched.
In the dark, he felt as if something in the depths of the mountain was drawing him in.
“Sword, Sword Intent…
Qin Changqing pondered for a bit, taking note of his surroundings without noticing any suspicious traces, before heading towards the depths of Duanjian Mountain.
Half a day later.
In a forest.
A squad of around fifteen people gathered here.
Wang Ping’s expression was cold, and he stood with his sword.
The rest were all from the Red Mill.
The barrier of Duanjian Mountain would teleport people randomly, and they had gathered here using a special sensing talisman from the Dayan Dynasty..