The Blood-Drinking Sword, bursting with intense red light, slashed through the body of the Lava Giant Scorpion King with a single strike, its bright red blood splashing into the magma and making a constant sizzling sound.
The moment the Lava Giant Scorpion King fell, Wu Fa, holding a jade-like sphere, charged directly at the Lava Giant Scorpion King's abdomen, drawing in the red-glowing spiritual veins emanating from it.
"withdraw!"
After successfully seizing the spiritual vein, Wu Fa immediately led the people of the North Peak to retreat, as if his attack would have aftereffects, and was extremely cautious.
When Rong Zhihe and Ye Langtian saw that Wu Fa had succeeded in getting the spiritual vein, they both showed a helpless expression. After all, Wu Fa was much stronger than the two of them, and even if the two of them joined forces, it would be difficult to stop him.
After the Kunmen disciples left, the area around the lava pool where the battle had been taking place fell into silence, with only the corpse of the Lava Giant Scorpion King floating on the lava, seemingly lifeless.
"Alas, what a pity. Beifeng has taken over this spiritual vein, and it seems his strength will increase considerably."
Shui Qingxi tossed her hair back with a touch of heroic spirit, her tone seemingly indignant at being stopped by Qin Xin when she was about to make a move.
Wu Fa had exhausted a lot of his true energy in the previous battle, and after unleashing that strange attack, he had almost no true energy left. That's why he immediately retreated with the disciples of Kunmen North Peak after succeeding.
Although Shui Qingxi is two minor realms lower than Wu Fa, if she were to strike unexpectedly the moment the Lava Giant Scorpion King fell, she would have a 50% chance of seizing the spiritual vein.
"Sister Shui, don't worry, look what that is."
Looking at Shui Qingxi's exquisite face, her eyes, as clear as autumn water, were slightly lowered, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, Qin Xin spoke up.
His finger pointed directly at the seemingly lifeless corpse of the Lava Giant Scorpion King.
Upon hearing this, Shui Qingxi curiously looked in the direction Qin Xin pointed, only to discover that the previously thought-dead Lava Giant Scorpion King had suddenly experienced a resurgence of life, its small eyes snapping open and warily scanning its surroundings.
"Did the Lava Giant Scorpion King fake its death?"
Shui Qingxi said in surprise, "But the spiritual veins have all been taken away, and with just you and me, I'm afraid it will be difficult to kill this Lava Giant Scorpion King."
“There’s another one beneath that lava,” Qin Xin said softly.
Qin Xin's reminder led Shui Qingxi to discover that the giant lava scorpion king was rapidly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and that the source of that spiritual energy was beneath the magma, where there seemed to be an even more powerful spiritual vein.
"Then what are we waiting for!" Shui Qingxi said impatiently.
“Senior Sister Shui, you can’t rush things. Didn’t you see that the spiritual vein is hidden in the magma? If we kill this injured Lava Giant Scorpion King directly, we’ll have a hard time finding it.”
"You mean...?"
"That's right. The Lava Giant Scorpion King is seriously injured, so it will definitely take out the spiritual vein to heal itself. It won't be too late to make a move then."
Qin Xin looked at Shui Qingxi, who was a little impatient, with a smile on his face, and carefully comforted her, afraid that she would rush out suddenly and scare away the Lava Giant Scorpion King.
After a few breaths, the giant lava scorpion king rose from the magma with its massive body emerging. A terrifying gash on its abdomen nearly pierced through it, and crimson blood flowed continuously.
"Click-click-click!"
The two pairs of enormous scorpion pincers collided repeatedly, producing strange noises.
A small dragon burst straight out of the magma. With the sound of its pincers colliding, several streams of spiritual energy poured into its body. The terrifying knife wound on its abdomen began to heal, and the blood that had been flowing out rapidly began to slow down.
"Make your move!"
With a soft shout from Qin Xin, a man and a woman suddenly burst out from among the rocks.
"Water Cloud Silk! Entangle, strangle!"
With a soft shout from Shui Qingxi, Wu Ling instantly appeared behind her. With the full power of the sixth level of the Qi Sea Realm, he transformed into a ribbon of water and shot directly towards the Lava Giant Scorpion King.
"roar!"
The sudden attack enraged the Lava Giant Scorpion King. It hadn't expected that its feigned death would fail to fool the two figures before it. With a roar and its tail hook gleaming coldly, it attacked the two figures directly.
Qin Xin swiftly dodged the attack of the tail hook, then held the cloud-like sphere containing spiritual energy in his hand. As true energy continued to flow into it, a powerful suction force emanated from it, directed towards the spiritual veins on the pair of pincers of the Lava Giant Scorpion King.
"roar!"
Seeing that the spiritual vein was about to be taken away by the young man in front of him, the Lava Giant Scorpion King was extremely angry. Its huge body burst out of the magma, trying to tear it apart completely.
The violent movement caused the wound, which had begun to heal, to bleed profusely again.
Before she could even swing her pincers, the flowing silk threads had already completely wrapped around her. As Shui Qingxi clenched her hands, the flowing silk threads tightened abruptly.
"Qin Xin, hurry up, this guy's defense is terrifying."
Shui Qingxi controlled the martial spirit behind her with her anger, and her expression darkened with each struggle of the Lava Giant Scorpion King.
Qin Xin also sped up the collection process, but the spiritual vein that had transformed into a dragon seemed to possess sentience and constantly resisted Qin Xin.
"roar!"
After another howl of rage, Qin Xin's brows furrowed sharply. Strange movements were coming from all around, as if the lava giant scorpion, which had already left, had been summoned back.
"Take it!"
Qin Xin secretly hardened his heart and used his spiritual sense to lock the dragon-shaped spiritual vein in place.
A flash of blue and red light appeared in a pair of dark eyes, and then the phantom of the Spirit Devouring Stone emerged. The spirit veins that were still resisting collapsed in an instant and were directly absorbed into the jade-like sphere.
"Walk!"
Holding the jade-like sphere in his hand, Qin Xin could feel it vibrating constantly, as if the spiritual vein was trying to burst out. He wanted to put it into his Qiankun bag, but he found that he couldn't.
They could only dart away and flee in one direction.
After seeing Qin Xin succeed, Shui Qingxi waited until he retreated to a safe distance before immediately withdrawing the control of her martial spirit and rushing towards Qin Xin as well.
"Roar! Roar! Roar..."
Upon seeing the spiritual vein stolen, the Lava Giant Scorpion King was filled with rage and roared incessantly, its tiny eyes turning blood red.
The massive scorpion body continued to surge outwards, causing the protective array to operate continuously, flashing with countless complex patterns.
Qin Xin and Shui Qingxi fled without looking back. They could feel a dense barrage of collisions behind them, as if countless giant lava scorpions were chasing them. If they were surrounded by these monsters, they would be in great danger.
In the underground space, under the constant roars of the Lava Giant Scorpion King, it seemed as if a beast tide had been launched. Many disciples of the Kun Sect, seeing dozens of Lava Giant Scorpions charging in as a group, were filled with terror in their eyes. They immediately abandoned the search for the spiritual vein, used their true energy to activate their identity crystals, and quickly fled the underground space.
At this moment, the two perpetrators were hiding in a secluded stone cave, waiting for the enraged lava scorpion outside to calm down before leaving with the spiritual vein.
Otherwise, when the two of them infused their true energy into the identity crystal and the jade-like container containing the spiritual vein, the aura emitted by the spiritual vein would not only attract the lava giant scorpion, but would also be detected by the jade plate in the hands of the Kun Sect disciple, inevitably leading to a struggle.
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