Chapter 176: Chasing
Qin Ziling's speed was such that each leap was dozens of meters long.
It is even not inferior to the blood goshawk flying in the sky.
In the blink of an eye, the man and the eagle had already moved away from the official road.
"This little thief has really good running strength. He ran such a long distance with all his strength, but he didn't show any sign of fatigue. But you can run. I am riding on the Blood Falcon and waiting for you to tire yourself out. I don't believe I can let you run all the way to Wuyang Mountain!"
On the back of the Blood Goshawk, Long Xiaotian saw fields and rivers flying backwards below, and scattered small hills began to appear in front. Further ahead, it was already close to the mountainous area outside the Wuyang Mountains. He couldn't help but frowned slightly, but soon calmed down and looked down at the figure running at full speed below with a playful look like a cat playing with a mouse.
"Humph, this old thief must have thought that this would drain Master Qin's energy, but he didn't know that Master Qin had eaten too much Huachi meat in the Dragon Vein World, and there was still a lot that he hadn't had time to truly digest and absorb. Today is just the opportunity to digest and absorb it properly. It feels so good! It feels so good!"
Qin Ziling felt that the more he ran, the more the blood in his body became like the surging river, becoming more and more powerful. He wanted to roar to the sky to ease the joy in his heart.
"But this old thief is riding a bloody goshawk, waiting for the opportunity. It will be more difficult to kill him then. We still have to find a way to kill this old thief's mount first to consume his energy."
After running for a while, a hill appeared in front of him and Qin Ziling dived into it.
"Fool, do you think you can escape my detection by fleeing into the forest? You underestimate the sharp senses of the Bone Refining Master! You can run a little further on flat ground, but in the forest, where the terrain is complex, how can you possibly outrun the Blood Eagle?"
When Long Xiaotian saw Qin Ziling fleeing into the forest, a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He gently pressed the blood hawk's head with his hand.
The blood hawk swooped down at an even faster speed.
Long Xiaotian looked at Qin Ziling's increasingly larger figure in the forest, and a ferocious sneer appeared on his face.
Seeing that the Blood Eagle was about to dive into the forest, Long Xiaotian suddenly jumped down and slashed at Qin Ziling below with his palm knife.
At this moment, Qin Ziling's body moved and jumped in the jungle like an extremely nimble snake. He not only avoided Long Xiaotian's palm knife, but also disappeared mysteriously out of thin air.
Wood Release!
Before entering the Dragon Vein World, the number of green wooden phantoms in Qin Ziling's Dantian had reached ninety, not far from the one hundred and eight phantoms of the late stage of true power.
This time, Qin Ziling ate half of a Huachi in the Dragon Vein World. His water element cultivation level soared, and the number of black snake shadows in the water element air mass in his dantian reached two hundred and thirty-six.
Water gives birth to wood.
As the water element's cultivation has soared, the wood element will naturally follow suit.
The number of green wooden phantoms reached one hundred and nine, barely crossing the threshold of the late stage of true power.
The wood escape technique of the late stage of wood-type true power, coupled with Qin Ziling's powerful soul and meticulous control.
Although it was not able to completely conceal the fluctuations of the magical energy, its sudden attack still caught Long Xiaotian off guard, and he was unable to lock onto Qin Ziling for a while.
"Wood Release!" Long Xiaotian's expression changed slightly, his pupils shrank slightly, and finally a solemn look appeared on his face.
He is in the late stage of water element true power, late stage of wood element true power, plus his martial arts combat power is slightly better than that of an ordinary great martial artist in the early stage of bone refining. If Long Xiaotian was not a great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining, he would really be scared!
When Long Xiaotian finally realized that Qin Ziling was more powerful than he had imagined, nine golden rays of light suddenly lit up, followed by "Dang! Dang! Dang!" nine soul-shaking sounds rang out in quick succession.
"How dare you, little thief!" Long Xiaotian roared angrily and rushed to the left like lightning.
As his body swept sideways, all the strength in his body surged, and with a wave of his hand, a four or five meter long phantom of a Vajra Flame Blade chopped in the direction of the sweep.
But it's too late!
As Long Xiaotian swooped across like lightning, a figure holding a nine-hole ring knife leaped high into the air and rushed towards the blood hawk standing on a rock.
The blade light flickered, bringing up a biting cold wind.
The most crucial thing was that the close collision sounds were so shocking that the Blood Eagle felt dizzy for a moment, and was unable to spread its wings and fly away in time. It only had time to raise its sharp black claws to grab the nine-hole ring knife that was coming at it.
Qin Ziling's lips curled up into a disdainful sneer.
Different times, different circumstances.
Now that his qi, blood and strength are combined into one, he can kill Hua Chi. How can a captive third-grade blood hawk be able to block his powerful sword attack?
"Bang!" A sound was heard.
The nine-hole large ring knife slashed down and directly cut off one of the blood eagle's claws, and then slashed it down.
Blood gushed out and the blood eagle's body was split into two.
Almost at the same time, the twelve Water Cloud Swords gathered into a giant sword and slashed towards the phantom of the Vajra Flame Blade that Long Xiaotian was slashing at from the air.
"Bang!" With a loud bang, twelve Water Cloud swords flew everywhere, but the phantom of the Vajra Flame Knife condensed by Long Xiaotian's strength was blocked by this and slowed down slightly.
In just a short while , Qin Ziling waved his hand, collected the blood eagle's body that was split into two, and quickly retreated to a safe distance, looking at Long Xiaotian from afar.
"Good! Good! Mao Zongjun's nine-hole big ring knife, it turned out that you were the ones who killed Mao Zongjun and Pang Tianpeng!" Long Xiaotian's face turned pale and he was filled with murderous intent.
"It turns out that the older you are, the wiser you are. You actually figured it out!" Qin Ziling said with a sarcastic look on his face.
But Long Xiaotian seemed to ignore Qin Ziling's sarcasm. The anger and murderous intent on his face were quickly replaced by greed. He smiled and said, "Just now you didn't have the Nine-hole Ring Knife in your hand, and the body of the Blood Falcon was gone. It seems that you still have a storage magic weapon with a large space in your hand!
You look like you are only in your 30s or 40s at most. No, you should have changed your appearance not only have you mastered both Taoism and martial arts, but your wood and water Taoist methods have reached the late stage of true strength. Your martial arts combat power is even better than Pang Tianpeng, a great martial artist who has a solid foundation in the early stage of bone refining.
If I guess correctly, you must have had a great adventure. There must be a lot of good things in your storage magic weapon, yes, there should also be Hua Chi!
With your strength, if Pang Tianpeng and his men had not fought with Hua Chi and both sides were injured, even with Xiao Qing's cooperation, it would be impossible for you to kill all thirty of them!
"Tsk tsk, Hua Chi! It's really hard to find it, but it comes without any effort!" When he said this, the greed in Long Xiaotian's eyes became even stronger.
Long Xiaotian is already over 70 years old. Even though he has extraordinary talents and physique, he worked hard and bravely to break through to the Bone Refining Realm when he was young.
However, there is a huge hurdle between refining the bones and refining the internal organs.
Afterwards, his cultivation progress fell into a slow period, and each step became extremely difficult. After reaching the late stage of bone refining, his progress stagnated.
Now Long Xiaotian seems to be in the late stage of bone refining, and he holds the position of elder of Jinlie Sect, which makes him very powerful. But in fact, his energy and blood are constantly declining. If there is no progress in the next few years, not only will he have no hope of refining his internal organs, but his strength will also decline at a fast rate.
This is different from the Qigong sect. The Qigong sect cultivates the Qi of heaven and earth, absorbs and condenses the Qi of heaven and earth, and stores it in the meridians and Dantian. It contains the mystery of stealing from the heavens and being less restricted by the physical body.
However, martial arts cultivate one's own real body. As the body decays due to natural laws, one's strength will naturally decline as well.
Therefore, martial arts sects need to have young and powerful people constantly rising up to replenish fresh blood in order to avoid decline.
Hua Chi has relatively pure ancient Chi dragon blood in its body, which is most capable of strengthening qi and blood. It is also water-based and can nourish all things.
If Long Xiaotian could take Hua Chi, even if his hope of refining his internal organs was still very slim, he could at least maintain his peak state for another ten years.
"You old thief, if you have the guts to stay here I will say this to you later!" Qin Ziling's face changed drastically, and then he sneered, kicked the ground with his feet, and flew out like an arrow.
Long Xiaotian naturally didn't know that Qin Ziling was deliberately trying to arouse his greed.
Money can tempt people, so he will pursue it relentlessly. He will also be blinded by greed and ignore many details that he should be wary of.
Qin Ziling will have a greater chance of killing him and not letting him escape!
"Where are you going, little thief?" Long Xiaotian sneered and chased him with all his might.
One young and one old, one fleeing and one chasing, the mountains and rivers and the earth retreated under their feet.
Before long, the two men were getting closer and closer to the outskirts of the Wuyang Mountains.
The more Long Xiaotian chased, the more frightened he became.
Qin Ziling was not only extremely fast, not inferior to the great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining, but also had extremely long physical strength. He had run for at least a hundred miles, but he did not show any signs of fatigue.
However, Long Xiaotian felt that his strength was being depleted too quickly.
Of course, he is a great martial artist in the late stage of bone refining, so this amount of expenditure is nothing. Besides, all his attention is on killing people and seizing treasures at this moment, so how could he give up?
"You old thief, the Wuyang Mountains are ahead. If you keep chasing me, I believe that Master Qin will escape into the depths of the Wuyang Mountains." Qin Ziling said while running, panting, and finally showed a trace of "fatigue".
"Haha, little thief, do you think you have a chance?" Seeing that Qin Ziling finally showed signs of fatigue, Long Xiaotian could not help but be overjoyed. He suddenly exerted force with his feet and instantly closed the distance between him and Qin Ziling. His five fingers formed into claws and grabbed at the back of his neck through the air.
"You old thief!" Qin Ziling felt the claw force coming from behind him, and couldn't help but be "shocked", and hurriedly drew his knife and slashed backwards.
"Bang!" A knife hit the powerful claw shadow, and Qin Ziling let out a dull sound in his throat. Then he continued to escape with the knife.
Long Xiaotian felt that the power of Qin Ziling's previous knife attack was obviously weakened. His eyebrows raised slightly, a smug sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he chased after him without hesitation.
On the way, Qin Ziling was almost caught up by Long Xiaotian several times. After several fights, he barely escaped.
Soon, the young and the old finally entered the outer area of Wuyang Mountains.
