Xuanwu War Sovereign

As he shouted, Qian Kai’s face turned ashen with rage. He was filled with utter despair—he had been defeated by Qin Feng once again.

The ancient voice perceived Qian Kai’s thoughts and chided, "Boy, pull yourself together! It’s just one defeat. Which one of us experts hasn’t grown stronger step by step, bleeding countless times and suffering innumerable injuries along the way!"

Qian Kai grew frantic and roared, "Venerable Elder, cut the useless chatter! Just find a way to get me out of here, now!"

The ancient voice: "..."

The ancient voice said resignedly, "Fine. Immediately take out the Stone Talisman you obtained from the ruins! Crush it!"

Qian Kai hastily pulled a strange Stone Talisman from within his robes.

"A Void-Breaking Talisman!" Seeing Qian Kai pull out the Stone Talisman, Qin Feng’s expression changed.

Qin Feng recognized the Stone Talisman’s origin.

It was a precious Supreme Treasure that contained Spatial Power.

’So he’s trying to run!’ Realizing the Stone Talisman’s purpose, Qin Feng’s expression turned cold as boundless Innate Sun Water Essence Qi surged forth from the array.

In an instant, the ocean at his feet churned, and a geyser erupted before the black-robed youth. A strange, pale blue Battle Halberd materialized within the water!

The Battle Halberd resembled the Divine Weapon of an ancient Sea Emperor.

CRACK!

Just then, the Stone Talisman shattered. A dark, empty void appeared within the Xuanyuan Two Linked Spirit Array, tearing open a narrow rift in an instant.

An ancient voice roared, "Void and Chaos, King’s Talisman, break the realm!"

A beam of blood-red light shot out from Qian Kai’s hand, stabilizing the newly torn Space Gate.

"Sea God’s Fury!" A divine light flashed in Qin Feng’s eyes. He stomped his foot, and a colossal wave surged up behind him as he reached out to grasp the Sea Blue Battle Halberd gleaming with a pale blue light in the fountain.

His arm arced back like a drawn bow. He forcefully gripped the Battle Halberd, locked onto Qian Kai, and hurled it forward!

RUMBLE!

The Battle Halberd tore through the Void, locked dead-on to the gray-robed youth!

Qian Kai’s scalp went numb with terror, his mind feeling as if it might explode. A vision of his own death flashed before his eyes: he saw himself pierced by the terrifying Battle Halberd, blood arcing through the sky as his body was blasted apart by the single blow!

The ancient voice roared, "What are you gawking at? Go, now!"

Snapping back to his senses, Qian Kai’s figure darted like a sharp blade into the gaping black void.

The black void began to close!

Just then, the Battle Halberd Qin Feng had thrown arrived with a thunderous roar, violently smashing its way into the black void.

BOOM!

An earth-shattering explosion erupted from within the black void!

Faintly, Qin Feng heard a bloodcurdling scream.

At the same time, hundreds of miles away, a rift suddenly tore open in the Void, and a humanoid figure came crashing down.

It smashed into the ground with a loud THUD, letting out a series of pained groans.

The figure’s clothes were in tatters, its body covered in deep lacerations. A gruesome hole had been blasted through its chest, a horrific mess of blood and mangled flesh. Anyone else would have surely died from such wounds, but this person’s life force was incredibly tenacious, and they were somehow still clinging to life.

The figure struggled to its feet, one hand clutching its heart to keep it from falling out of the gaping wound. With the other hand, it pulled out bottle after bottle of Spirit Medicine and desperately poured them down its throat.

This figure was none other than Qian Kai.

Qin Feng’s Sea God’s Fury had followed him into the Space Gate, triggering a cataclysmic explosion that had nearly blown him to pieces.

Astonishingly, his wounds began to slowly heal, and the aura of death that clung to him gradually receded.

After a long moment, he collapsed to the ground, feeling waves of weakness wash over him. A dull ache throbbed from his internal organs. He knew that even with his vast supply of Spirit Medicines, it would take him at least seven or eight months to fully recover from such injuries.

But what devastated Qian Kai most was that the attack had caused him to lose most of his Treasures within the Space Gate.

The fruits of his diligent looting of the Lingxu Sect’s various ruins over the past two months—all gone!

The loss was so great it made Qian Kai want to spit blood!

Gazing at a distant mountain peak, Qian Kai gritted his teeth in fury.

"Qin Feng, this isn’t over between us!"

"Venerable Elder, are you all right?" Qian Kai suddenly grew tense as he thought of the figure in his mind, the one who was like a master and a father to him.

There was no way he could have dodged Qin Feng’s last attack. If the Venerable Elder hadn’t used a Secret Technique to block the brunt of the aftershock for him, he would have been killed instantly inside the Space Gate.

"I’m fine, little one." The ancient voice was faint and weak, clearly indicating a grave injury.

"I was gravely injured blocking that last attack. I must enter a deep slumber for a time. From here on, you are on your own."

With that, the ancient voice fell completely silent.

"Venerable Elder! Venerable Elder!"

...

’He still got away.’

Back in Bishui Cave, Qin Feng deactivated the Xuanyuan Two Phases Refining Spirit Array, a look of regret in his eyes. In reality, he hadn’t even unleashed one percent of the array’s true power.

If he had unleashed even that one percent, Qian Kai’s death would have been certain.

’Oh well. Those thousand-year-old ghosts and ancient fossils aren’t so easy to deal with,’ he mused. ’Still, even if he’s not dead, he’s definitely badly wounded. At the very least, he won’t be able to stir up any trouble for a while.’

Qin Feng smiled, his gaze falling upon the unscathed Green Water Golden Lotus. The Spiritual Root now radiated a lustrous Spiritual Light. Its leaves were a tender, dewy green, wreathed in dense Spiritual Qi and shimmering with a divine glow.

The place looked like a Heavenly God’s Cave Mansion.

It was completely undamaged.

Pushing open the cave door, Qin Feng looked out at the star-dusted sky. Outside, the patrolling Medicine Boys stood as if frozen in time.

Just then, with a flutter of wings, a strange bird descended from the sky and landed on Qin Feng’s shoulder.

"CAW! Brother Feng, where’d that little thief go?"

"Xiaoba, you weren’t affected by that strange fragrance?" Qin Feng asked, looking at Eighth Master on his shoulder in surprise.

Eighth Master let out a strange squawk. "CAW! Brother Feng, you look down on me too much! How could a measly fragrance like that knock me out? I’m from Poison God Ridge! What poison can’t I overcome? Even the King of Ten Thousand Poisons would be nothing more than a snack for me! If I got knocked out by a little scent like that, what would become of my reputation?"

Qin Feng pursed his lips. ’Now that’s what I call a tall tale,’ he thought.

Qin Feng glanced around, then waved his great sleeve. An invisible wave of moisture surged into the air. The dark clouds above rumbled, and a light rain began to fall upon Heavenly Red Peak.

The rain washed away the strange fragrance.

"Huh? Why did it suddenly start raining?" Luan Xiaochuan’s body trembled, and life returned to his eyes.

Luan Xiaochuan was baffled as he looked at the rain falling around him.

"Yeah, how did it start raining all of a sudden?" Xu Jie said as he patrolled over, leading a squad of torch-bearing Medicine Boys. Their flames flickered unsteadily.

None of the Medicine Boys, Luan Xiaochuan and Xu Jie included, sensed that anything unusual had just occurred.

It was as if a sliver of time had simply been forgotten.

But just when Qin Feng thought the matter of the Spirit Medicine theft was over, another piece of bad news arrived from the foot of the mountain the very next day.

"The Cave Guardian Spirit Object of Cangmang Mountain has been stolen too!"

Cangmang Mountain was a Spirit Mountain Blessed Land located hundreds of miles from Heavenly Red Peak. Its Cave Guardian Spirit Object was a piece of Ten Thousand Years of Cyan Sky that was nurturing Innate Wood Essence.

When Qin Feng heard this, his first reaction was disbelief. ’There’s no way Qian Kai could pull off two heists in one night!’