Chapter 694
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“How could your Spirit Sword Mountain have the Yuanling Pill?” Ye Wushuang asked with a smile. “You still claim there’s no connection between Spirit Sword Mountain and the Spirit Sword Pavilion?”
“Humph!” Su Jinyue retorted. “A senior from our Spirit Sword Mountain happened to purchase the pill formula at an auction.”
“Is that so?”
Ye Wushuang continued to look at Su Jinyue with a knowing smile. Su Jinyue merely humphed again and ignored him.
Without further ado, Ye Wushuang swallowed the Yuanling Pill. His nearly depleted spiritual energy began to recover at a visible speed.
As she observed Ye Wushuang, Su Jinyue couldn’t help but ask, “The Mountain-Crushing Palm you used earlier—such a powerful and domineering technique. It must have been a rare and formidable earth-grade spiritual skill. I don’t think there’s anything like it in the Qingyun Empire, is there?”
“Curious about me?” Ye Wushuang smiled. “Be careful, or you might fall in love with me uncontrollably.”
“Ha!” Su Jinyue scoffed. “You, a genius from a minor empire, must have had some extraordinary encounters. There are plenty like you at the Hundred Nations Martial Contest. You seem to know a lot about the Tianyuan Continent. Did you perhaps meet some ancient master from Tianyuan who taught you?”
“I’ve got it!” Su Jinyue suddenly became excited. “You must have encountered a great master from the Spirit Sword Pavilion. He must have taught you and given you those spiritual skills!”
Ignoring her, Ye Wushuang simply said, “Let’s keep moving and find the next place.”
“Come on, Ye Wushuang, don’t be so cold…” Su Jinyue pleaded.
The two continued to venture deeper together. However, soon, Ye Wushuang’s brow furrowed.
“Be careful,” he warned.
“I feel it too,” Su Jinyue said, her expression turning stern.
At that moment, the sound of blades slicing through the air echoed around them.
Without hesitation, Ye Wushuang grabbed Su Jinyue’s delicate wrist and leaped forward, landing on the trunk of an ancient tree.
Boom…
The ground behind them exploded where they had just stood. Two arrows, emitting a cold, pale blue light, were embedded in the earth.
“Huh?” a surprised voice sounded from behind.
Then another voice spoke, “Ruochen, even your Bow of Heavenly Attraction can be evaded?”
“Stop wasting words. These two are not ordinary,” the first voice replied.
When Ye Wushuang and Su Jinyue turned around, they saw six people standing on several ancient trees about ten zhang away. Among them, one young man held a spiritual bow that shimmered with a faint blue light, while another, with his arms crossed and leaning against the tree trunk, had a pair of charming yet sinister eyes fixed on Ye Wushuang and Su Jinyue.
“Gu Ruochen!”
“Qi Ying! It’s you!”
Su Jinyue’s face was filled with disbelief as she looked at the young man with his arms crossed. She quickly whispered, “Be careful. Gu Ruochen is one of the leading figures from the Gu Feng Empire this time. As for Qi Ying… he is a genius from the Tianji Mansion.”
Ye Wushuang also observed the group. Gu Ruochen was likely here for Su Jinyue, while Qi Ying was probably after him.
“Seeing is believing,” Qi Ying said with a smile, his charming eyes scrutinizing Ye Wushuang. “Did you kill Sheng Shaoqing?”
“I didn’t expect that someone like you could emerge from the minor Qingyun Empire,” he continued.
“Unfortunately, you’ve offended Elder Shengxuan and are from the Ye clan. You must die this time,” Qi Ying declared.
Ye Wushuang looked at Qi Ying coldly. “Who will die is still uncertain.”
“It seems these past few days in the Youlong Mountain have built up quite a bit of confidence,” Qi Ying remarked, looking at Gu Ruochen beside him. “How about I take this one, and you take Su Jinyue?”
“Sure,” Gu Ruochen replied indifferently with a nod.
Both Gu Ruochen and Qi Ying were at the ninth level of the Yuanfu realm, and the four people behind them were at the eighth level. Among them were the fleeing Gu Wentian and Feng Ling.
“Be careful,” Su Jinyue said. “Once I deal with Gu Ruochen, I’ll help you kill Qi Ying.”
Ye Wushuang glanced at Su Jinyue with a strange look in his eyes. Ignoring his gaze, Su Jinyue flashed forward and launched into battle.
Qi Ying, however, paid no attention to Su Jinyue. Her status within the Spirit Sword Mountain was significant; it was none of his business if the Gu Feng Empire wanted to kill her. His target was Ye Wushuang.
This time, at the Hundred Nations Martial Contest, the Tianji Mansion and the Shengdan Sect had secretly reached an agreement. Any disciple who could kill Ye Wushuang would be rewarded with a heavenly-grade spiritual weapon, spiritual skill, and a third-grade spiritual pill, all of which could be chosen at will.
This promise had greatly motivated the geniuses from the Tianji Mansion and the Shengdan Sect. Now, among the five to six hundred Yuanfu realm geniuses from the Tianji Mansion and the Shengdan Sect participating in the contest, many who knew they had no hope of securing one of the top seven spots were instead searching everywhere for Ye Wushuang.
Now that Qi Ying had found him, it seemed Ye Wushuang’s fate was sealed.
