Chapter 87 How come the sect leader looks exactly like my mother?

Xiao Qidi and Ning Jinli couldn't hear what the two were arguing about, but they clearly heard everything Lu Xingfeng had just said loudly to the Snake God.

Now we basically understand the whole story.

Ning Jinli was furious.

She was peacefully staying at the Linxian Village camp when Lu Xingfeng, driven by selfishness, almost killed both her and Xiao Qidi.

Even after his mission failed, this man was still unwilling to give up. He even sacrificed the lives of his fellow disciples in the hope of gaining the help of the snake god.

Kidnapping the King of Xuan Kingdom, murdering hundreds of disciples, and usurping the position of sect leader—any one of these acts would be enough to warrant death!

"Can we kill him now?" Ning Jinli asked, her eyes red.

Xiao Qidi's dark eyes were already overflowing with killing intent. "This person is ambitious, cruel, and vicious, and his martial arts are extremely high. If he is not eliminated, he will definitely cause endless trouble in the future. Kill him."

Without hesitation, Ning Jinli conveyed the command to the snake swarm in a flash.

In an instant, countless snakes crawled up from below, surging towards Lu Xingfeng like a black tide.

She wanted to catch Lu Xingfeng off guard so that he wouldn't become wary and escape.

"Snake God! What do you mean by this?" Lu Xingfeng asked loudly as he watched the swarm of snakes crawling towards him, slowly backing away.

Xiao Qidi said, "Don't move, I will grant you power."

Lu Xingfeng was overjoyed, "Thank you, Lord Snake God!"

He then stopped moving, letting countless snakes crawl to his feet and then coil around his body along his legs. In no time, he was completely surrounded by a surging mass of snakes.

"Fine, go to hell." Ning Jinli gritted her teeth.

Instantly, the snakes that had surrounded Lu Xingfeng's entire body began to bite him frantically.

"Ah!" Lu Xingfeng screamed in agony, "Serpent God! You were going to grant me power! Why... why are the snakes biting me?!"

Xiao Qidi continued to deceive him, saying, "This is how I bestow power upon you. You must not move, otherwise the power will not be able to enter your body."

Upon hearing this, Lu Xingfeng initially intended to continue enduring it.

But he is, after all, the number one expert of the Tian Shu Sect today, and his martial arts skills are considered top-notch in the entire martial arts world.

Not only did he not die quickly, he also sensed that something was wrong.

Because he did not feel any so-called power entering his body; instead, he showed signs of being poisoned by snake venom.

Bang!

Suddenly, a muffled thud was heard.

The tangled swarm of snakes suddenly burst apart.

The immense impact caused Ye Zhi Qiu, who was standing right next to him, to stumble and fall.

Blood mist dissipated, and dead snakes lay scattered on the ground.

Although Lu Xingfeng's body swayed slightly and he was covered in blood, he still stood firm.

“Snake God…” Lu Xingfeng raised his head, using his powerful internal energy to force out all the snake venom that had just entered his body from the wound. A hint of confusion and ruthlessness appeared in his blood-red eyes. “Why is this? Why do you want to kill me!”

At the edge of the platform, amidst the giant snake head formed by the swarm of snakes, Xiao Qidi and Ning Jinli were both taken aback.

Neither of them expected that Lu Xingfeng's skill was so terrifying.

Despite being severely injured with a broken arm, he was still able to withstand the bites of a venomous snake.

Xiao Qidi knew that the man was already on guard and that he could no longer deceive him by saying anything, so he ordered Ning Jinli to continue attacking with the snake swarm.

Whoosh—

More and more snakes kept swarming onto the platform.

Lu Xingfeng roared, "Snake God! I've killed so many people to sacrifice to you, and this is how you treat me?!"

"I have no need for sacrifices," Xiao Qidi replied coldly. "You are cruel, vicious, and have brought ruin to countless lives. You deserve to die!"

Lu Xingfeng was slightly taken aback, then threw his head back and laughed wildly, "Hahahaha! I can't believe these words actually came from the Snake God's mouth. I'm starting to doubt... whether you really are the Snake God!"

As more snakes approached, Lu Xingfeng did not retreat but advanced instead.

He stomped down hard, and the powerful force instantly sent the snakes within a two-zhang radius in front of him flying.

"Serpent God! Is this all you've got?!" Lu Xingfeng shouted, staring at the massive outline at the edge of the platform in the distance. "If you're so capable, don't send these ordinary little beasts to deal with me!"

This put Xiao Qidi and Ning Jinli in a difficult position.

Neither of them were snake gods to begin with, and the only offensive method they could use was to control a swarm of snakes.

This method is more than enough to deal with ordinary experts, but I didn't expect Lu Xingfeng to be this powerful.

"If you were to take action, could you kill him?" Ning Jinli asked Xiao Qidi.

Xiao Qidi shook his head, "Even if my martial arts are fully restored, I'm still slightly inferior to him at this moment..."

Ning Jinli clenched her fists. "Then let's keep attacking with the snakes. I refuse to believe we can't wear him down!"

Ning Jinli mustered all her strength to continue controlling more snakes to move out.

To her surprise, Lu Xingfeng took the initiative to launch an attack.

Bang!

Lu Xingfeng crushed the stone slab beneath his feet and then kicked several pieces of gravel into the air, more than ten meters away.

Whoosh!

A stone slab, larger than an octagonal table, flew like lightning toward the snake god's head.

The enormous snake head was merely a result of Ning Jinli manipulating a swarm of snakes; it was utterly incapable of withstanding such an attack.

In a flash, Xiao Qidi grabbed Ning Jinli's waist and darted away from the swarm of snakes.

boom!

After a muffled thud.

A gap appeared in the snake god's head.

Immediately afterwards, the frightened snakes began to collapse and scatter, no longer able to maintain their original shape.

Under the pale moonlight, the enormous snake head, as big as a mountain, rapidly collapsed, and countless snakes of all sizes fell onto the platform and scurried around.

"So it was formed by a large number of snakes? Not the so-called snake god?" Ye Zhi Qiu stared in astonishment at the scene before him.

If even she could see it clearly, then Lu Xingfeng naturally saw it even more clearly.

Not only that, Lu Xingfeng also saw two figures fly out of the disguised giant snake's head.

"Who dares to impersonate the Snake God and play tricks on me!" Lu Xingfeng roared and kicked another piece of gravel at the two figures.

The gravel came with great force and at an extremely fast speed.

Although Xiao Qidi also knew a little about lightness skills, he was in mid-air for a moment and had nothing around him to use for leverage, so he didn't have time to dodge.

He could only hold Ning Jinli tightly, adjust his body, and use his back to block the falling rocks.

Then, with a muffled groan, it plummeted to the ground like a kite with a broken string.

Ning Jinli was shocked.

The two were still about ten meters above the ground of the platform.

If he were to be smashed like that, Xiao Qidi would be crippled if not killed.

In that instant of rapid descent, Ning Jinli spurred the snakes to quickly converge directly below.

Bang!

The two of them crashed into the swarm of snakes like meteors.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly, and with the thick layer of snakes acting as a buffer, both she and Xiao Qidi escaped unharmed.

"How are you?" Ning Jinli asked, supporting Xiao Qidi.

Xiao Qidi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "It's alright, I'm fine."

"Who are you people!" Lu Xingfeng demanded angrily from not far away.

He was absolutely furious.

After going through all that trouble to summon the giant snake, it turned out to be a fake!

Ning Jinli and Xiao Qidi helped each other up slowly.

When Ye Zhi Qiu saw the two people's appearances, he was stunned.

Although their clothes and appearance were strange, like those of wild men, and they were disheveled and dirty, if I remember correctly, this young man was none other than Xiao Qidi, the king of Xuan Kingdom, whom I had encountered once before!

And the girl next to him...

Strange... why does he look so familiar? Especially those big eyes...

Xiao Qidi instinctively shielded Ning Jinli behind him, then nodded to Ye Zhi Qiu a few meters away, "Sect Leader Ye, we meet again."

Ye Zhi Qiu bowed blankly.

Seeing this, Lu Xingfeng seemed to suddenly understand something and roared, "Ye Zhi Qiu! This... so it was all your doing?!"

"What?" Ye Zhi Qiu was even more confused. "What did I do?"

Lu Xingfeng rushed in front of her in one stride, "You know this kid? It's obvious that the two of you teamed up to mess with me!"

Ye Zhi Qiu frowned, "You're really crazy! Before you told me you had some kind of secret ritual summoning technique, I had absolutely no idea about giant snakes or anything like that! If I didn't know anything about them, how could I have found someone to team up with to mess with you?"

Lu Xingfeng was speechless when asked the question.

Beside Xiao Qidi, Ning Jinli was completely stunned.

At first, she noticed that the voice of the Tian Shu Sect leader was exactly the same as her mother's.

Just now, when Xiao Qidi greeted the sect leader, she noticed that the person's appearance was not much different from her mother's.

Apart from their different clothes and a slightly older face than she remembered, they were practically identical!

Then, she heard Lu Xingfeng call out the name—Ye Zhi Qiu!

Her mother's name is Ye Zhi Qiu!

The series of coincidences left Ning Jinli's mind blank!

Is it possible for someone in this world to have the same voice, appearance, and even name as your mother?

“Lu Xingfeng, your schemes have failed,” Xiao Qidi said. “If you surrender, I can spare your life.”

Xiao Qidi would naturally not let such a person go.

But he wasn't confident he could handle it, so he could only try to keep the other side calm to prevent them from becoming desperate and resorting to desperate measures.

"Spare my life? You have quite the nerve!" Lu Xingfeng stared at Xiao Qidi with a sinister look. "You're not bad, kid. You can control a swarm of snakes and even withstood one of my attacks without dying. But your skills are nothing compared to mine! Even if I lost both my arms, you still couldn't beat me, let alone if I was seriously injured and had lost an arm."

Xiao Qidi said calmly, "Maybe I can't beat you, but if I trap you here, I believe you won't be able to hold out for long."

Lu Xingfeng's blood-stained face trembled slightly. "Who exactly are you? And who is the woman beside you?"

He had already sensed Xiao Qidi's extraordinary aura.

Moreover, this couple emerged from the bottom of the cliff.

The man seemed to have good martial arts skills, while the woman... didn't have any. But strangely, he could sense an indescribable aura that made him feel inexplicably afraid.

He had to be cautious.

Xiao Qidi pondered for a moment, "I am the person you wanted to capture and hand over to Yu Kingdom, the King of Xuan Kingdom—Xiao Qidi."

Now that things had come to this, Xiao Qidi felt there was no need to hide his identity anymore.

Lu Xingfeng was taken aback. "You're Xiao Qidi??"

"Don't believe me? Then let me tell you what those men you sent to Xitun Pass look like." Xiao Qidi then gave a rough description of the eight men and casually took out the rope grappling hook.

The physical characteristics of all eight people matched, and there was also the hook claw used by the masters of the Tian Shu Sect as evidence.

Even if Lu Xingfeng found it unbelievable, he had no choice but to believe it.

Xiao Qidi then said, "I can guarantee with my status as the emperor that as long as you surrender, I will not execute you. What do you say?"

"Hahahaha!" Lu Xingfeng suddenly burst into laughter, "All our efforts have been in vain...all our efforts have been in vain! But don't think you can make me surrender. If I want to leave, none of you can stop me!"

After saying that, he grabbed Ye Zhi Qiu's arm, "Junior sister, I'll take you with me and leave this place forever."

"Let go!" Ye Zhi Qiu forcefully shook him off.

Lu Xingfeng suddenly grabbed her neck and sneered, "I've already gone this far, if I still don't get you in the end, wouldn't that be a huge loss?"

Ye Zhi Qiu quickly mobilized all his internal energy to resist, causing Lu Xing Feng's five fingers to loosen slightly.

Just as she was about to take the opportunity to distance herself from him, Lu Xingfeng reacted quickly and hooked his finger around the necklace around her neck.

"Junior sister, don't show off your meager martial arts skills in front of me," Lu Xingfeng said with a sneer, clutching the necklace.

Without thinking, Ye Zhi Qiu forcefully swung both palms and struck Lu Xing Feng's chest.

Bang!

Lu Xingfeng only took half a step back.

Ye Zhi Qiu, on the other hand, was sent flying two or three meters backward by the opponent's internal force.

The necklace broke at that moment.

"Ha! You think you can ambush me? You overestimate yourself!" Lu Xingfeng casually tossed a piece of necklace with a pendant onto the ground.

The pendant slipped off the necklace, bounced a few times, and rolled to Ning Jinli's feet.

"Sect Leader Ye!" Xiao Qidi exclaimed.

Ning Jinli's heart was in her throat, and she unconsciously clenched her hands.

Ye Zhi Qiu struggled to sit up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said to Xiao Qi Di, "Your Majesty... I'm sorry, my martial arts skills are really too poor, I couldn't be of any help..."

“However… it’s good that I tried it,” Ye Zhi Qiu’s lips curled up slightly, “I found that he was already at his last gasp, Your Majesty… you don’t need to worry about anything anymore, go ahead and kill him!”

Upon hearing this, Lu Xingfeng's expression changed slightly.

Xiao Qidi quickly said to Ning Jinli, "Now!"

Before the words had even faded, Xiao Qidi rushed in front of Lu Xingfeng and swung his fist at him hard.

Ning Jinli also focused her mind and gathered the snakes again, surrounding Lu Xingfeng from the left, right, and rear simultaneously, blocking his retreat.

Lu Xingfeng gritted his teeth and raised his palm to meet Xiao Qidi head-on.

The moment their fists collided, Lu Xingfeng spat out a mouthful of blood, staggered back several steps, and turned to run, only to be pounced on by the swarm of snakes.

Just as Ye Zhi Qiu had tentatively discovered.

He was already at his limit, his internal energy exhausted to the extreme, and he could no longer even force the snakes back as he had done before.

In desperation, he lunged to Ye Zhi Qiu's side and threatened sharply, "If you don't want Ye Zhi Qiu to die, let me go!"

Ye Zhi Qiu sneered indifferently, "I have no connection with His Majesty whatsoever, and besides, I am merely a member of a martial arts sect, insignificant before the ruler of a nation. You actually dare to use me to coerce him? You overestimate me, don't you?"