Chapter 228: I am Qin Haoxuan of the Taichu Sect

You want to snatch my Talisman Beast? Qin Haoxuan smiled. He had originally been afraid that the other party might dodge or something, in which case the Talisman Beast would have been wasted. He never expected him to be so cooperative, to actually want to snatch it…

Since that’s the case… then, Senior… my apologies.

You’re courting death… I can’t stop you, can I?

In the short time it took for Qin Haoxuan to throw out the Bifang Talisman Beast, for the Mountain Hermit Yunhe to grab it, and for it to detonate, Qin Haoxuan, running at full speed with the Thousand-Mile Talisman, had already covered a distance of more than ten li.

He did not hesitate in the slightest. While speeding up his escape, he used his spiritual energy to detonate the half-finished beast. Its body erupted with ten thousand rays of rosy light, dyeing half the sky red. An endless, searingly hot air current blasted outwards.

BOOM!

The massive shockwave from the spiritual energy blast made Qin Haoxuan, who had already fled ten li away, stumble. In the vicinity of Yunhe, what had originally been a primeval forest of ancient, towering trees was now, within a ten-li radius of him, completely flattened. It had even blasted out a deep crater, five li in diameter and more than a hundred feet deep.

After the Talisman Beast exploded, Xing urgently said, “Let’s go, let’s see if he’s dead!”

Qin Haoxuan did not hesitate either and immediately activated the Thousand-Mile Talisman, running towards the deep crater.

At the bottom of the crater, Yunhe’s clothes were in tatters, and his entire body was covered in blood. If he had been at his peak strength, the explosion of this Talisman Beast, which contained a terrifying amount of spiritual energy, could have seriously injured him, let alone in his current, already wounded state.

Pain! He felt as if all his bones had been shattered. Misery! He realized he had never been this miserable before. Not even back then, when he had been chased by Guyun with a sword for three days and three nights, fleeing like a stray dog, had he been this miserable.

If not for the fact that at the moment of the explosion, the spiritual energy in his body had instinctively protected his vital points, he would have been crippled for life, if not dead. But even so, with his injuries piled on top of injuries, he was no longer a match for the Spirit Sprout Realm’s Qin Haoxuan.

You little beast! Yunhe spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. He desperately wanted to fly up, charge over, and cut Qin Haoxuan down to vent his anger.

But… at this moment, he was truly at the end of his rope. He was afraid. This kid, from the moment he had started running, had pulled out one strange thing after another. Do all the disciples of the Taichu Sect have so many trump cards? He didn’t have time to think about that. The only thing to do now was to run.

As long as the green mountain remains, there will be no lack of firewood. As long as he recovered from his injuries, how could a mere Spirit Sprout Realm junior possibly escape from his palm? So, when he saw Qin Haoxuan arrive at the crater, he shot him a venomous glare and then immediately mounted his flying sword and fled. He didn’t notice that a talisman had fallen from his tattered robes.

Seeing him flee, Qin Haoxuan had originally wanted to give chase with the Thousand-Mile Talisman, but Xing stopped him. “Don’t chase him. He is, after all, a Spirit Tree Realm expert, someone that even the Ninth Elder is somewhat wary of. If we push him into a corner, he will surely have other life-saving trump cards and killing moves.”

Qin Haoxuan thought that made sense. Even if Yunhe was a tiger that had been stranded in the plains and was being bullied by a dog, a starved camel was still bigger than a horse. To chase after him would be very dangerous.

Yunhe did not flee towards the stone mountain from before, but in another direction. After he had gone far, Qin Haoxuan picked up the talisman he had dropped. It was entirely ink-black and exuded a strange aura, even more peculiar than his own Thousand-Mile and Mortal Talismans.

Seeing this talisman, Xing, who had transformed back from armor to his human form, his eyes lit up, and he laughed happily. “Wahahaha, we’ve struck it rich, struck it rich! This is a Qiankun Talisman!”

“A Qiankun Talisman?” Qin Haoxuan asked with surprise. “What’s that? What does it do?”

Xing smiled mysteriously. “Infuse it with a hundred low-grade spirit stones, and you’ll find out.”

Qin Haoxuan used a hundred stones to infuse it with spiritual energy. Suddenly, a white light flashed from the talisman. There’s a restriction! Although the energy from the hundred stones was consumed, because of the restriction, the talisman did not open.

“Waah! What the hell is this thing? It even has a restriction! Wasted a hundred of my stones!” Qin Haoxuan cried out in anger. The escape today had already cost him a lot of spirit stones; to waste another hundred on some unknown talisman made his heart ache.

Xing rubbed his nose and smiled. “Don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious. A Qiankun Talisman is a good thing. Have you forgotten that Yunhe set up an array on the mountaintop? He also put down some spirit stones. That array hasn’t been activated yet, so the stones are still there. Let’s go back and see if we can find anything else.”

Urged on by Xing and the temptation of spirit stones, Qin Haoxuan headed towards Yunhe’s old lair.

Soon, he arrived at the summit of the stone mountain and collected the spirit stones from the unfinished array. There were only a few hundred of them, but as they say, even a mosquito is meat. He accepted them without ceremony. After collecting the stones, his gaze fell on the young girl who was bound by the Immortal-Binding Rope.

This young girl had snow-white skin, a head of raven-black hair, large, watery eyes, a high-bridged nose, small, red lips, delicate little earlobes, and curving eyebrows with slightly upturned eyelashes. Her delicate features combined to form a pure and beautiful face. He had to admit, she was even a little more beautiful than Xu Yu. And she had a unique air about her. Although her face and body were stained with some dust, it could not conceal her otherworldly aura.

The girl looked at the two of them with pleading eyes. Qin Haoxuan thought for a moment. Since she had been bound by Yunhe, and he had been preparing to use her as a catalyst for a spiritual array to heal his injuries, she was probably not on his side. Besides, with her pure and innocent face, she didn’t look like a bad person. So, he walked over, condensed a Heaven-Cleaving Slash, and cut the rope.

After freeing her, he paid her no more mind and went back to studying the Qiankun Talisman. After a good while, he noticed that she had not left. He turned his head in surprise and looked at her. “Aren’t you going home? This is a desolate mountain, and there’s a war going on nearby. You should hurry home, so your parents don’t worry.”

With that, he ignored her again and, along with Xing, started down the mountain, recalling the restriction from before. It hadn’t been very strong; he had just been caught off guard and hadn’t had time to break it with his spiritual sense.

After walking a few steps, he felt something was not right. He turned his head and found that the young girl he had rescued was still following behind him, step for step.

“What’s the matter with you? You’re safe now; hurry up and go home. Why are you following me?” he asked with surprise.

Xing, at his side, covered his mouth and laughed. “Buddy, you saved her. She’s so moved she’s decided to offer herself to you. I think this is a good thing, a good thing.”

Qin Haoxuan rolled his eyes and retorted without showing any weakness, “I think she’s taken a fancy to how handsome you are, so she’s following us.”

“That’s not certain. Have you forgotten the Pink Immortal? She took a fancy to you, not me. These days, pretty boys like me aren’t in fashion,” Xing said in a strange, teasing tone. “Look at you, all sturdy and masculine… With the chaos of war outside, if I were a woman, I’d also look for a man with a sense of security like you.”

After rolling his eyes at him again, Qin Haoxuan didn’t bother to argue any further. He asked the girl, “You’re following us. Is there something you need help with?”

The girl let out a cold snort, clearly displeased with their conversation. “I’m following you not because I’ve taken a fancy to you, but because I don’t know where I am.”

“Oh, that’s simple,” Qin Haoxuan said, quickly listing the names of the nearby places.

But after he had listed them, the girl still shook her head in confusion. “What is the Soaring Dragon Nation? I’ve never heard of it. And I don’t know where this is. I haven’t heard of a single one of the places you mentioned.”

Xing teased from the side, “Old Qin, a beautiful fortune has been delivered right to your door. Don’t refuse it.”

Qin Haoxuan kicked him in the rear and then looked the girl up and down again. Her attire was something he had never seen before, very different from the style of the Soaring Dragon Nation. And she didn’t seem panicked after being rescued. “Are you a cultivator?” he asked.

Her eyes lit up. “How did you know?”

“Because when Yunhe and I were fighting before, your expression wasn’t surprised at all. And after I rescued you, you seemed very calm,” he said with a smile. “There are only two possibilities: first, you are a cultivator; second, you are a fool. And from the looks of you, you don’t seem like a fool.”

“You’re the fool!” the girl said with a slight anger, a different kind of charm on her snow-white face. “Hey, what’s your name? My name is Lan Yan.”

On the open plain, the cold wind pressed the green grass to the ground.

“I am Qin Haoxuan of the Taichu Sect. He… is called Xing,” he introduced with a smile.

Lan Yan’s large, watery eyes swept over the two of them, and then she said thoughtfully, “The strength of you two cultivators isn’t that great.”

Xing’s eyes widened. This genius demon from the Netherworld couldn’t stand it when people said he wasn’t strong. He said angrily, “Where did you get the idea that I’m not strong?”

“That Yunhe just now, you two didn’t even kill him. And look at how tattered and wretched you both are. Who would believe you if you said you were strong?” she commented with disdain, completely forgetting that she herself had been his prisoner just a moment ago.

Hearing her words, Qin Haoxuan could only give two wry smiles. At least I was the one who saved you. And you’re here criticizing us for being weak? Alright, my cultivation really isn’t that profound.

He shrugged and smiled, generously admitting, “Miss Lan is right. We are indeed not strong.”

Xing shot him a fierce glare. “Just say you’re not strong; don’t drag me into it! I saved this little brat, and she says I’m not strong? Not strong, but I still saved you!” With that, he proudly lifted his neck and refused to look at her again.

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