12dz Chapter 169: Silencing
Chapter 169: Silencing
"Qin Zhixue is too strong. This junior... this junior is not confident that I can kill her. Therefore, I did not make a move. I was also afraid of ruining your important plans, so I thought I would retreat and ask for your permission first!" Sun Bufan explained hastily, sweat beading on his forehead.
"Very well, it was indeed difficult for you to assassinate a disciple of the immortal sect!" Su Beichuan nodded and said, "Find a place to lay low for a while, and don't return to Xihe County anytime soon!"
"Yes!" Sun Bufan nodded. He glanced at Su Beichuan and, seeing that the latter made no other move, bowed and said, "In that case, this junior will take his leave!" He was nervous and wished he could leave this place immediately. The pressure from the Core Formation Realm cultivator made him feel uneasy.
"Go!" Su Beichuan waved his wrinkled hand.
Sun Bufan bowed and took a step back.
After walking about ten feet away, he turned around to jump into the spaceship.
However, at that moment, a figure flashed behind him, and a large, cold iron hand reached out, its five fingers like sharp blades, directly piercing Sun Bufan's back and crushing his heart meridian. Then, it slowly withdrew the iron hand, leaving a hole.
Blood is flowing.
Sun Bufan turned around and looked at the man behind him who was wearing a cold iron mask and whose arms were made of cold iron.
"Why...?" He glanced at the man, then looked at the elegantly dressed old man standing on the mountain peak.
"Useless trash. You can't even handle this simple matter. What use are you?" the man wearing the cold iron mask said coldly.
Immediately, he reached out his large hand and grabbed Sun Bufan's head.
A surge of immense magical power erupted forth.
boom!
Sun Bufan was crushed.
The man wearing the cold iron mask swept his hand and took the storage bag from Sun Bufan's waist into his palm.
Immediately, a flaming talisman flew out and burned Sun Bufan to ashes.
"Real person..." The man wearing the cold iron mask flew to Su Beichuan's side and respectfully handed over the storage bag.
"You may stay here by yourself!" Su Beichuan said calmly.
The man wearing the cold iron mask nodded and accepted the storage bag.
Then he looked at the spaceship in front of him.
Inside the spaceship at this moment.
Sun Haohua and the old man Sun Dushui used their divine senses to take in everything outside the boat.
"It's a Core Formation cultivator from Ice River Valley... Grandpa, it's a Core Formation cultivator from Ice River Valley... What do we do? What do we do?"
Sun Haohua was terrified.
He looked at Sun Dushui, who was trembling.
"It's all Grandpa's fault! It's all Grandpa's fault!" Sun Dushui sighed, despair in his eyes.
He was over seventy years old and had long since seen the storms of life, so he naturally knew why Su Beichuan had taken action.
This is murder to silence witnesses.
To ensure that Qin Zhixue has no way to prove anything after her death, this matter cannot be used to make things difficult for the Su family in the future.
"This is a top-grade first-tier 'Divine Speed Talisman,' run!" With a long sigh, Sun Dushui flipped his hand, and a talisman appeared in his palm. He flew to Sun Haohua's feet and hurriedly said, "I had already given up hope of facing a Core Formation True Person."
But she also harbored a certain fantasy, wanting her grandson to try and see if he could escape and avoid this calamity.
"Then it's you!" Sun Haohua said.
"What are you waiting for! Whether we live or die depends on God's blessing. Quick, run to Black Wind City!" Sun Dushui said.
After speaking, he walked to the array room next to him, intending to activate the array within to propel the spaceship away from this area.
At this moment, on the nearby mountain peak.
The man wearing the cold iron mask glanced at the spaceship ahead.
Then he looked at Su Beichuan.
Su Beichuan remained silent, only gazing coldly ahead.
The man wearing the cold iron mask understood, and with a whistling wind beneath his feet, his body transformed into a streak of light and flew forward.
At this moment, inside the boat.
Sun Haohua sensed the approaching man wearing a cold iron mask with his divine sense. Terrified, he disregarded his grandfather's and his elder brother's corpses, and with a flash, his magical power surged, and he broke through the window, fleeing towards the outside of the ship.
At this moment, Sun Dushui urged the spaceship to crash into the man wearing the cold iron mask.
At the same time, the second-order array on the spaceship was activated the instant Sun Haohua flew out of the ship.
Waves of light rose from the ship's hull, forming a protective shield that enveloped the entire spaceship.
However, because Sun Dushui was only at the Qi Refining stage, he could only unleash the power of the formation at three levels.
The formation activated, and the water rippled, transforming into a water python that lunged at the man wearing a cold iron mask.
"Overestimating yourself!" The man wearing the cold iron mask had an icy gaze. With a hand gesture, a surge of powerful magic power erupted from his body, and the raging river water surged out, directly attacking the water python in front of him and instantly crushing it.
Immediately, the river water crashed into the light shield of the spaceship array in front, causing the light shield to shatter directly.
The next moment, the man wearing the cold iron mask flew into the air above the spaceship like a rainbow. With a hand gesture, the "Human Flower" light pattern in his dantian bloomed, and cold air rose from his body and soared into the sky, transforming into a "Human Flower" that hung high in the sky.
The lake within this human-shaped flower is vast, with ripples spreading across its surface and a chill permeating the air.
"Frost descends upon the ice spikes!" As the "Human Flower" hovered in the air, the man wearing the cold iron mask made a hand gesture, and the cold air spread from the Human Flower. Frost condensed in the air and turned into diamond-shaped ice spikes, which shot down towards Sun Dushui on the spaceship below.
High in the sky, the "human flower" was filled with cold air, which condensed into ice cones and attacked Sun Haohua, who had only flown a hundred meters.
The ice picks haven't arrived yet.
A cold front swept in.
Sun Haohua felt a chill creep over him, his body stiffened, and he froze in mid-air.
The next instant, ice crystals began to condense on his body, and even the magic power of the 'Swiftness Talisman' under his feet was frozen.
The sound of ice spikes piercing the air could be heard from behind.
The howling wind, like the whisper of death, filled Sun Haohua with dread.
He immediately turned around to look.
"No..." He cried out in despair as he saw the countless ice spikes overhead.
The calls had just begun.
The ice spike had already fallen, piercing through Sun Haohua's body.
His heart meridian ruptured, and he died.
Even a mere Qi Refining cultivator, with a top-grade first-tier 'Divine Speed Talisman,' is still helpless against a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
On the other side, Sun Dushui was also pierced by countless ice spikes and died.
The man wearing the cold iron mask had an icy expression. With a gesture of his hand, the 'human flower' that had appeared in the sky became less prominent.
It transformed into a cold current and entered the dantian.
The next instant, he flicked his hand, and a 'Blazing Flame Talisman' flew out from his palm and was thrown into the spaceship, immediately bursting into raging flames.
The spaceship was burned bit by bit.
Sun Dushui's body turned to ashes.
Sun Haohua, whose body was pierced and frozen solid, was also drawn into the ship by a blast of cold air and burned to ashes.
……
Blackwind City.
Qin Zhixue and Yang Jiuli chatted happily until late at night before she got up to say goodbye.
Yang Jiuli escorted him to the entrance of Black Wind City.
Qin Zhixue leaped onto the back of the ice sparrow.
Lu Wenqing piloted the flying boat, a magical artifact, which hovered to one side.
"Take care!" Yang Jiuli bowed to Qin Zhixue.
"Take care!" Qin Zhixue turned around, glanced at Yang Jiuli, and all the words in her heart were uttered in just these two words.
Then, she flew away from Blackwind City on an ice sparrow.
After flying a kilometer away, Lu Wenqing asked with a concerned expression, "Sister Zhixue, how did your talk with Ninth Brother go?"
"Everything went smoothly!" Qin Zhixue said.
At this moment, she was in a very good mood.
This trip not only yielded the secret technique she desired, but also revealed that Ninth Brother was preparing to forge a near-fourth-tier 'Immortal Foundation'. This finally put down Qin Zhixue's long-held worries, allowing her to focus on achieving her goals!
"That's wonderful!" Lu Wenqing said happily. "Ninth Brother is really amazing. He has become a second-level alchemist in just twenty years."
"This is the 'Great Blood Qi Pill' that your ninth brother gave you." Qin Zhixue flipped her jade hand, and a bottle of pills appeared in her palm.
That was the "Great Blood Qi Pill," a gift from Yang Jiuli before their parting.
"The Great Blood Qi Pill..." Upon seeing this, Lu Wenqing's eyes lit up, his face full of surprise.
Qin Zhixue gestured for Lu Wenqing to accept it.
"I never expected that Ninth Brother would still remember my Foundation Establishment!" Lu Wenqing said, his face full of emotion.
She accepted it without hesitation.
"Next, you should also prepare to establish your foundation!" Qin Zhixue nodded and then said to Lu Wenqing.
"Yes!" Lu Wenqing nodded, his eyes clear and bright, full of confidence.
With this premium-grade "Great Blood Qi Pill," along with the Foundation Establishment spiritual item he had prepared and the support of the third-tier spiritual vein of Ice River Valley, he was able to achieve his goal.
She is 60% confident of establishing a foundation.
Unbeknownst to them, they had flown a hundred miles.
As they approached a valley, Ice Sparrow's eyes darted around, revealing unease, as if there was lurking danger in the night.
Qin Zhixue also looked in one direction.
A cold glint flashed in her beautiful eyes.
"Xiao Lan, don't be afraid." Qin Zhixue comforted Bing Que and continued forward, showing no intention of going around the area.
Lu Wenqing also looked wary, his expression cold and stern, as if he had expected this.
call!
Ice sparrows flew over the valley between the two mountains.
After traveling 1,800 meters, it seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and let out a cheerful low hum.
Meanwhile, between the two mountains, clouds and mist swirled.
Two figures appeared.
It was Su Beichuan and the man wearing the cold iron mask, Su Mo.
"Master, why didn't you make a move just now?" Su Mo, who was usually taciturn, spoke up. He looked at Qin Zhixue, who was walking away, and said with a look of resentment. Their purpose in coming here was not to deal with Sun Bufan, but Qin Zhixue.
"This woman dared to come, she must have a third-tier talisman in her hand," Su Beichuan said, his eyes narrowing as he looked in the direction Qin Zhixue had left.
"If we go all out, we might have a chance to kill him!" Su Mo said, still unwilling to give up.
Although Su Beichuan's strength was not at its peak, he still had a remarkable foundation and had refined many talisman treasures in the past.
As a 'sword' for a Core Formation cultivator, Su Mo also possesses one in his hand.
"If we can kill it, what does it matter if I risk my old life?" Su Beichuan sighed.
Su Mo frowned, puzzled.
At this moment, Su Beichuan's eyes darted around, and he looked at the mountain peak on the right with a look of apprehension.
Su Mo looked in the direction of the sound.
But then they saw the cold mist swirling there, and before they knew it, a woman dressed in a moon-colored robe, exuding elegance and nobility, had appeared.
"Master Wanyue!" Upon seeing this, Su Mo's heart trembled, and he shuddered. A deep fear appeared in his eyes, which were filled with murderous intent. He had a talisman in hand and was confident that he could fight against a fake Core Formation Master, but the Master Wanyue before him was only a Void Core Formation Master.
Faced with such a powerful figure, Su Mo dared not be the slightest bit arrogant.
Across from them, Master Wanyue looked at Su Beichuan and Su Mo with a cold and stern expression and sharp eyes.
A biting wind swept around her, causing ice crystals to spread for miles between the mountain peaks.
The terrifying killing intent instilled fear in everyone.
Su Mo fell silent, knowing that Wan Yue Zhenren was truly intent on killing him.
Su Beichuan stood there, unmoved, showing no intention of making a move.
This standoff lasted for a full fifteen minutes.
"If you dare to make any further moves, don't blame Wan Yue for disregarding our kinship and destroying your Su Clan's Core Formation seed," Wan Yue Zhenren said.
His voice was cold and indifferent.
As soon as she finished speaking, she flicked her sleeve and rode away on the wind, riding the cold mist.
Across from him, Su Mo was drenched in cold sweat, his clothes soaked as if by rain.
"A Core Formation cultivator... is not to be underestimated!" Su Mo murmured.
Then, he looked at Su Beichuan.
"Go!" Su Beichuan waved his hand, and a cold iron sword appeared beneath his feet, growing to be about ten feet wide. He then rode away on the sword.
However, the direction it was heading was opposite to Qin Zhixue's.