Chapter 37: The Peng Clan Elder Driven Mad by Torture!
In Lin Xuan's line of sight.
Within the thick dark clouds in the distance, an afterimage radiating a powerful aura fell like a meteor, splitting the dark clouds in two. It arrived above Lin Xuan's head almost instantly.
This was a middle-aged man in a black robe. His long hair moved with the wind, looking quite dashing. The pair of broad black wings behind him also indicated his identity; he was a member of the Peng Demon Clan.
This person exuded the aura of the Void Refining Realm from his whole body, making Lin Xuan feel as if a large mountain was pressing on his heart, feeling extremely oppressed.
Immediately, Lin Xuan turned on the system's inspection function.
Nickname: Li Qingfeng
Race: Monster Race
Level: Void Refining Realm Third Heaven
"Those who kill my Peng Clan members, die!"
This Peng Clan Elder, Li Qingfeng, roared without a single word of nonsense.
As soon as his voice fell, a momentum like toppling mountains and overturning seas pressed down towards Lin Xuan below.
Swish!
The pair of broad wings behind Li Qingfeng suddenly flapped. Moving like teleportation, he arrived directly in front of Lin Xuan.
Just when the sharp claws were about to pierce through Lin Xuan's skull, Lin Xuan vanished from before his eyes out of thin air, as if he had merged with the void.
Boom!
The claw hit nothing. The powerful shockwave of energy directly cleaved a deep hole several meters deep into the ground where Lin Xuan had been staying.
"Where is the person!?"
Li Qingfeng used his divine sense to probe the surroundings. Within a radius of ten thousand li, there was no aura of Lin Xuan whatsoever.
Immediately after, Li Qingfeng's gaze fell upon Xuanyuan Changqing's headless dried corpse on the side. The whole person was in a state of skin and bones, emitting an aura of deathly stillness from all over.
"Hiss!"
Li Qingfeng sucked in a breath of cold air. Such a miserable appearance was not the work of an orthodox disciple; on the contrary, it resembled some kind of demonic art.
Furthermore, he also sensed the aura of another person in the surroundings. It was very likely that two disciples from the Holy Lands had combined their forces to kill Xuanyuan Changqing.
Since the Peng Monster Clan suffered a defeat in Nine Dragons City, the Clan Leader decided to take revenge on the Nine Heavens Holy Land after healing his injuries.
He bestowed magic treasures that concealed auras and dispatched four Void Refining Realm Elders of the Peng Monster Clan to kill all disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land and the Big Dipper Holy Land here.
If they encountered Demon Race spies, they could choose to spare or kill them after the other party revealed their identity.
Now that the roundup had just begun, a junior of the Peng Monster Clan who acted as a spy had already died.
Li Qingfeng came back to his senses. After collecting the headless corpse of that Peng Monster Clan junior into his storage bag, his eyes became much sharper.
This Xuanyuan Changqing could be considered a famous genius of their Peng Monster Clan, yet unexpectedly, he fell into an ambush by two Holy Land disciples.
"I do not believe that your secret technique for concealing aura can be maintained forever!"
A trace of sternness flashed through Li Qingfeng's eyes.
His body slowly rose into the air, releasing his divine sense to its strongest state, carefully perceiving any movement in all directions.
At the same time.
Lin Xuan, who was situated in the crack of time and space, stared with doubt in his eyes at the Peng Clan Void Refining Realm powerhouse Li Qingfeng outside.
In the game in his previous life, there had never been a Peng Clan Void Refining Realm powerhouse causing trouble in the trial battle.
"Could it be because of the butterfly effect? In this life, Lin Xuan prevented the massacre of Nine Dragons City. Perhaps this is what led to this conspiracy battle within the trial battle!"
Lin Xuan guessed.
"If this Peng Clan really wants to besiege and kill the Holy Land disciples in the trial battle, they certainly cannot send just one Void Refining Realm powerhouse. There are definitely more than two Void Refining Realm powerhouses reinforcing them."
"Those above the Body Integration Realm integrate into the will of heaven and earth. Once they enter the Human Race territory, if they do not have heaven-defying magic treasures to shield their aura, they will definitely be discovered!"
"First, transmit this news to the other Nine Heavens Holy Land disciples, and then pass this matter on to that black-robed Elder responsible for this trial battle."
Immediately, Lin Xuan took out his identity token and transmitted the news.
Next.
Lin Xuan cast his gaze onto the Peng Clan Elder ten steps away, who was staring cautiously at the movement in the surroundings.
"Situated within the Great Void Technique, with the addition of the Aura Concealment Technique, no matter how this Peng Clan Void Refining Realm powerhouse searches, there won't be any result!"
"Great Heart Demon Technique!"
Lin Xuan's divine sense communicated with the source rune of the Great Heart Demon Technique inside his sea of consciousness, locked onto Li Qingfeng's figure, and activated it instantly.
Outside.
Li Qingfeng, who was concentrating fully on probing the surroundings, suddenly felt an inexplicable force enveloping him. It ignored his spiritual energy shield, directly merged into his sea of consciousness, and reached the core of his divine sense.
"What magic technique is this!"
Panic appeared in Li Qingfeng's eyes.
Once an accident happened to the core of his divine sense, at best he would suffer mental confusion, and at worst, his soul could fly away and scatter.
Li Qingfeng immediately controlled the core of his divine sense, mobilizing all his divine sense power to block the invasion of this force.
"It's effective!"
Li Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief.
When that inexplicable force was surrounded by all of Li Qingfeng's mental power, the speed of its penetration decreased greatly, and he could use his divine sense power to consume it.
"Phew, this must be the trump card of that Holy Land disciple hiding in the dark. I didn't expect that a mere Holy Land disciple would not only have a magic treasure to conceal aura but also possess such an ability to deal with divine sense."
While Li Qingfeng relaxed, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes. If he could obtain this divine sense attack technique, he would gain a great advantage in battles of the same rank!
Just as Li Qingfeng was fantasizing about obtaining that divine sense attack method.
Suddenly.
That mysterious and unpredictable penetrating force appeared from all directions. It easily passed through the spiritual energy shield and invaded his sea of consciousness.
"How is this possible!"
"His divine sense attack method is so strong, and he can still cast it multiple times!"
Li Qingfeng's pupils dilated several times, fully revealing a look of shock.
Just resisting one force required him to mobilize all his divine sense. Now there were four forces; he completely had the will but not the strength!
Li Qingfeng's divine sense core, a ball of divine sense already transformed into a human-shaped cultivator, mobilized a small amount of divine sense with a face full of panic, but it was completely like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
The power of the Great Heart Demon Technique invaded the core of his divine sense as silently as spring rain.
The moment Li Qingfeng's divine sense body was infected, the scene around him changed abruptly.
He actually directly turned into a giant Peng bird without any spiritual energy. His wings were broken, and he was thrown to the side of a cave stone wall along with several other similar Peng birds.
In front of him were three gray giant wolves, each three meters long, ferociously sharing a screaming Peng bird. According to the order, he would be the next one to be swallowed alive.
With all spiritual energy lost, slightly moving his broken wings caused piercing pain, making his whole body tremble.
This incomparably real feeling brought him an extremely intense sense of fear.
"It's over, I'm going to be eaten!"
Li Qingfeng, situated inside the stone cave, had the screams of being swallowed alive echoing in his ears, and his whole body trembled violently.
Swish!
Immediately after, one of the gray wolves suddenly turned its head. Its green wolf eyes caused all the feathers on Li Qingfeng's body to stand up.
Crack!
No matter how terrified Li Qingfeng was, that gray wolf bit down mercilessly, tearing a piece of flesh from his wing alive and swallowing it into its stomach.
At the same time, hearing Li Qingfeng's scream, the other two wolf demons suddenly turned their heads and locked onto Li Qingfeng's body...
Outside.
Lin Xuan, with curiosity on his face, looked at this Peng Monster Clan Void Refining Realm powerhouse. He seemed frozen in place as if petrified. Immediately, he started sweating, and his body began to tremble violently.
"Don't eat me!"
Immediately after, Li Qingfeng shouted in panic. The whole person seemed to have gone mad, starting to fall towards the ground. He began running around without distinguishing direction, roaring like he had lost his mind.
"The power of this Great Heart Demon Technique seems to be much stronger than in the game!"
Lin Xuan looked at the crazy Li Qingfeng with a trace of fear in his eyes.
Although the attack of the Great Heart Demon Technique was very weird, the source rune for casting the Great Heart Demon Technique became dim and dull after being cast five times in a row.
Moreover, according to the recovery speed of the source rune, it was estimated that it would take more than ten days to recover to its original state before the Great Heart Demon Technique could be used again!
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