The bright moonlight shone down on the earth, and the entire Dead Leaf Forest seemed to be shrouded in a mysterious veil.
"hiss…".
With a light flick of his Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, an orange flame slowly drifted down onto the two already cold corpses.
The boy's eyes were bloodshot, as if he were in a bloodthirsty frenzy, and he darted into the dense forest.
As the young man slowly raised his head, a trace of weariness appeared on his handsome face under the bright moonlight. This young man was none other than Qin Xin.
In the past two days, Qin Xin has clearly felt that his escape is becoming increasingly difficult. These people seem to be constantly narrowing the encirclement by going through the locations of the slain warriors. Some mercenaries and family members have even joined the pursuit. They show no mercy to these people and kill anyone they encounter.
Of course, on several occasions, when Qin Xin was assassinating these Ding Dynasty warriors, he was careless and almost got trapped by the traps deliberately set by these warriors. Fortunately, he had planned his escape route in advance.
Now these warriors are closer together, and once a kill is made, the surrounding Ding Dynasty warriors will arrive instantly within about five breaths.
"Three days have passed, why hasn't the teacher woken up yet?"
After sneaking through the dense forest for a while, Qin Xin found a secluded spot in the thicket, curled up inside, and chewed on some simply roasted meat of some unknown beast, muttering to himself.
Three days have passed since Danqing began refining the Soul-Nourishing Spirit Tree. Originally, Danqing told Qin Xin that it would be completed in three days at most, but now that time has passed, there is still no movement from the mysterious fragment, which makes him somewhat worried.
While pondering, Qin Xin noticed several lone individuals. As he quietly approached, the appearance of one of them surprised him.
Although the young man was a bit taller and looked much more mature, Qin Xin recognized him at a glance as Qin Kunpeng.
"Didn't this guy run away? How did he end up here?"
After killing Qin Kunpeng's grandfather Qin Hongbing, the Qin clan of Tianyuan City did not deliberately search for him, mainly because they spared his life due to his young age. Qin Xin did not expect to encounter him in the Ding Dynasty.
At this moment, Qin Kunpeng sat cross-legged. As the surrounding warriors poured the essence blood of demonic beasts into a mysterious altar in front of him, a blood tiger three zhang tall appeared out of thin air amidst the flowing blood light around him, its scarlet tiger eyes piercing the starry sky.
Qin Xin sensed something was amiss. Just as he was about to retreat, the blood tiger's gaze suddenly turned directly towards him.
"Found it! It's there!"
Qin Kunpeng suddenly stood up, and the Blood Tiger flew through the air, spitting out a ball of light that directly illuminated the direction where Qin Xin was located.
Qin Xin realized something was wrong and tried to escape immediately, but he was already surrounded.
"Haha, I can't believe I've run into you here."
Qin Kunpeng arrived laughing, and a man in armor stepped forward quickly in front of him. A powerful gust of true energy swept through the air, making a whooshing sound.
Once the man stood up, Qin Xin realized that the armored man in front of him was Ding Hao, a member of a collateral branch of the royal family, with a strength at the fifth level of the Qi Sea Realm.
"If it weren't for your Martial Spirit Heavenly Star Tiger, cousin, it would have taken a lot of effort to find Qin Xin."
As Ding Hao spoke, he stared at Qin Xin as if he were looking at a dead man, a smile playing on his lips.
"Teacher! Teacher!"
Qin Xin's anxious voice kept calling out in his heart, but Danqing in the mysterious fragment of the painting did not respond at all. Faced with the crisis, he was also a little nervous.
When Qin Xin looked up at Qin Kunpeng again, he could sense that there was something indescribable about the aura emanating from him, like a somewhat evil aura. What surprised Qin Xin even more was that Qin Kunpeng's strength seemed to have entered the Qi Sea Realm, but it was somewhat unstable, as if it had been forcibly improved through special means.
"Cousin, I'm going to kill him with my own hands! You guys help me!"
Qin Kunpeng stared at Qin Xin, his eyes filled with hatred, as if he had endured countless hardships and lost a great deal for this day. His words were chilling.
Upon hearing this, Ding Hao nodded slightly, feeling that Qin Xin, who was only at the Enlightenment Realm, didn't need him to take action at all. He simply stood aside and blocked all possible escape routes.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Looking at Qin Kunpeng, who had already approached and whose meridians had been completely fused, exuding powerful true energy fluctuations, Qin Xin's lips curled into a cold smile.
"Yes, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, but I can't get into the Eastern Wilderness Academy, otherwise I wouldn't have kept you here until today!"
Qin Kunpeng licked his lips with his scarlet tongue, and as he spoke, the expression on his face was chilling.
"Why bother? Your grandfather deserved to die anyway."
Qin Xin shook his head as he looked at Qin Kunpeng. Back then, when his martial bone was dug out, Qin Kunpeng's grandfather was one of Qin Haotian's accomplices. However, after his death, Qin did not have much hatred for his descendants, because the culprit was Qin Haotian.
"If it weren't for you, the Qin clan of Tianyuan City would already belong to my grandfather!" Qin Kunpeng roared hysterically. "Fortunately, I have Young Master Haotian, and now I can also enter the Qi Sea Realm, hahaha."
Seeing Qin Kunpeng, who was now acting like a madman, Qin Xin shook his head helplessly.
In an instant, a powerful surge of blood energy rose from Qin Kunpeng's body, transforming into a blood-red Heavenly Star Tiger that roared through the air, "Speaking of which, Young Master Haotian, I have to thank your essence blood for helping me enter the Qi Sea Realm, hahaha."
Upon hearing this, Qin Xin's face instantly darkened, because he could sense a familiar bloodline connection with the mutated Heavenly Star Tiger.
A murderous intent suddenly erupted in Qin Xin's heart.
In order to perfectly fuse with his martial bones, Qin Haotian tormented him for a whole year, constantly extracting his essence and blood from his body. To this day, the pain still haunts Qin Xin's nightmares, and he cannot calm down for a long time.
Although the benefits of martial bones increase as a martial artist progresses through the later stages of cultivation, the very first martial bone forms a unique essence within the martial artist's body. This essence continuously transforms the martial artist's body, ultimately leading to a perfect unity between the martial artist and their physical form.
Qin Kunpeng's current strength and the mutation of his martial spirit are all thanks to the essence blood that Qin Xin had once had taken from him by Qin Haotian.
"You used my lifeblood! You deserve to die!"
As Qin Xin looked up, his martial spirit was instantly activated. A three-foot-long ancient staff was thrust into the ground, sending a large amount of soil flying. Orange flames surged on the Nine Flames Battle Immortal Staff, faintly emitting golden patterns. The Heavenly Phoenix Martial Spirit Pattern was also suddenly activated at this moment.
Qin Kunpeng was not afraid at all in the face of Qin Xin's suddenly increased momentum.
boom!
Several fiery blades suddenly shot out, and orange fireballs exploded all around.
Qin Kunpeng's figure seemed to merge with the blood-red Heavenly Star Tiger, his movements extremely agile, and the shockwaves of the explosion did not cause him any harm whatsoever.
Instead, the Ding Dynasty warriors who had surrounded Qin Xin retreated repeatedly, but still maintained their encirclement formation.
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