Interception

Jin Buhuan took the first step.

Li Qi responded with a smile.

The second step is for the two to look at each other gently, their expressions filled with appreciation and recognition.

Step by step, the two of them moved closer to each other in a friendly manner.

They walked right up to face to face.

Li Qi lowered his voice. "Brother Jin, please listen carefully."

Jin Buhuan in her ear.

In an instant, Li Qi made a sudden move!

A surprise attack without hesitation.

But in the next instant, Jin Buhuan unexpectedly raised his Innate Divine Weapon.

With a clang, it blocked Li Qi's sneak attack.

"Alas, Brother Li, you've given up the opportunity I gave you." Jin Buhuan shook his head.

"Have you forgotten that I am the spirit of metal? Metal governs killing and ruthlessness, and I am very sensitive to things like killing intent," he sighed.

Li Qi thought he had concealed his murderous intent well, calming it down and even transforming his emotions, which had expanded beyond his physical body, into a gentle and natural state.

However, Jin Buhuan, as the spirit of metal, could still clearly sense the killing intent.

However, he thought it was normal. Having murderous intent didn't mean he would kill someone. There were too many people in the world who wanted to kill him, but most of them were very respectful in front of him.

After all, one cannot let emotions control their actions.

Therefore, Young Master Jin was magnanimous and decided to give Li Qi a chance.

If it passes, then Li Qi will undoubtedly become his supporter or ally.

It didn't pass...

Then go die.

While Jin Buhuan sighing, Li Qi was not idle.

Without hesitation, he launched a series of fierce attacks.

With a burst of Carp Flowing Intent, Li Qi's fist shot out from the air, whistling as it slammed into Jin Buhuan's shoulder blade! The immense force dislocated the joint, rendering Jin Buhuan immobile for a moment.

Jin Buhuan batting an eye, and was still lamenting Li Qi's situation.

Li Qi's attack arrived in the next instant.

With his other hand, he drew his Tang sword and swung it at Jin Buhuan with a cruel momentum, unleashing astonishing speed.

Jin Buhuan was protected by a layer of golden light, but the Tang sword easily sliced through it, the whooshing sound of it cutting through the air was extremely piercing, and it was full of murderous intent.

But the plot is the same as before.

Jin Buhuan's body suddenly erupted with terrifying energy, and he transformed once again into a tiger-headed, human-bodied form.

His strength and agility instantly rose to a new level, and the aura of power and threat around him was almost tangible, incredibly heavy!

The shockwave that erupted propelled Li Qi away.

Just like that scene before, Li Qi was pushed five zhang away while maintaining his horse stance, his feet seemingly rooted to the ground, carving out two furrows.

The following plot is the same as before.

A flash of golden light.

Silent and without a trace.

A thin wisp of golden energy swept across Li Qi's throat, but Li Qi couldn't even make any useful reaction.

He couldn't even realize it.

The next moment, his head will be severed.

This was a tactic that Jin Buhuan had executed countless times and had never failed.

Without a doubt, Li Qi's head was indeed severed.

The head is the head of the six yang meridians; if it is severed, death is certain.

It's broken, but not completely broken.

Li Qi's charge has not stopped!

"Wait, it's Shaman's substitution technique! Young master, be careful!" Elder Si immediately saw through Li Qi's trick and spoke up!

Suddenly, Li Qi's speed exploded, his head grew back, and the severed head on the ground turned into a piece of blood-stained wood.

Jin Buhuan immediately prepared to dodge.

But how can one dodge when a ninth-rank martial artist gets close?

Caught off guard, Jin Buhuan was stabbed in the body by a Tang sword.

For some reason, the blade of the Tang sword was now surrounded by a dark halo. Some kind of energy surged into Jin Buhuan's wound, and a chilling aura, constructed of shadows, enveloped his heart and began to spread along his blood vessels to his limbs, bringing pain, weakness, and trembling.

With a thud, Jin Buhuan fell to the ground. As the black energy spread throughout his body, the expression on his face gradually changed from confusion to astonishment. The spreading black shadow gradually rendered him unable to move.

His body stiffened involuntarily, his face turned ashen, and he was covered in cold sweat, as if something had gripped his heart and could crush it with the slightest touch. His control over his body began to gradually disappear.

Ghostly energy enters the body, and the soul is no longer attached.

My soul is adrift, I feel as if I'm falling or stumbling.

This is the ghostly aura of Elder Li was an eighth-rank official back then!

Upon seeing this, Elder Si flew into a rage!

He, an eighth-rank Shaman, was actually ambushed by a mere ninth-rank minor shaman.

"You deserve to die!" Elder Si immediately intervened to stop Li Qi from delivering the final blow.

On the other side.

Li Qi originally wanted to finish off Jin Buhuan's soul with a whip, but before he could make a move, five fierce ghosts surged from all around!

A creature covered in knife wounds, its body torn and exposed, its bones exposed and its flesh stripped away, was charging toward Li Qi.

It was covered in bruises, as if it had been beaten into a pulp by sticks. There wasn't an inch of good skin on its body, nor an inch of good bone inside. Without skin or bone, it could only wriggle forward using its flesh, yet it moved with incredible speed.

A creature, its entire body pale and its skin swollen from being submerged in water, leaving a dent when pressed, was a giant, dragging its enormous belly as it moved forward.

Flames that tore through the surrounding air burned on its body. The flames were intense and the heat was intense, scorching its skin, flesh, tendons, fat, diaphragm, bones, and marrow, causing unbearable pain.

It was a stiff, desiccated corpse, thirsty and hungry, with no moisture on its body and nothing but yellow soil in its belly, yet it could neither drink nor eat.

Li Qi immediately abandoned all actions and retreated rapidly, dodging the first wave of attacks from the ghosts.

He recognized it as a malevolent ghost of the Five Elements.

Back then, Elder Si used the ghostly energy of these five evil spirits to Curse Piaoxu.

If touched by it, one will be immediately dragged into the Five Elements Purgatory, suffering the torment of the Five Elements Fiends, experiencing all their pains, and unable to escape.

But the Five Elements Demons immediately continued to pounce on Li Qi, while Elder Si rushed towards Jin Buhuan.

Elder Si had also realized that Jin Buhuan's body was being invaded by ghostly energy, causing his body and soul to separate.

Fortunately, he was Ghost Shaman, so dealing with ghostly energy was not difficult for him.

Upon careful examination, he discovered that the ghostly energy within Jin Buhuan yet arisen; his soul energy had flown away and could not re-enter his body, and he was on the verge of his soul leaving his body.

It's an eighth-grade ghostly aura, such high quality!

He immediately took out a cinnabar herb, lit it, and waved it over Jin Buhuan's head using the method of burning incense.

The essence of the herb calms the mind and spirit, wards off evil spirits, misfortune, and ghostly poison, and can cure fever.

Ghost Shaman always keep these things with them to prevent themselves from being devoured by the vengeful spirits around them.

He lit the medicinal herbs and offered incense using Shaman methods, successfully driving away the ghostly aura. Jin Buhuan coughed violently, and the chill in his body disappeared completely.

"Kill him!" Jin Buhuan roared, his rage uncontrollable!

Li Qi has already been given a chance!

You're being incredibly ungrateful!

Go to hell!

Elder Si nodded. "Although my Five Elemental Ghosts are all ninth-rank, when they form an array, they possess the combat strength of an eighth-rank. He can't hold out for long... What's going on!?"

Elder Si was stunned and looked up in utter surprise, only to find that one of the Five Elements Demons had already vanished.

The five evil spirits he painstakingly gathered over decades were all killed in a single encounter, within five breaths.

How is that possible?!

Five Elements Vengeful Ghosts are ghosts who died tragically under the influence of the Five Elements Method. The ghosts themselves must have a certain level of cultivation, and they must have suffered extremely much pain and had extremely strong resentment before they died in order to be used as raw materials.

Then, the raw materials are refined with the Yin Qi of the underworld, slowly boiled and tempered to remove their consciousness, and then arranged as the core of the formation.

Through years of painstaking effort, a mobile formation was created. The Five Ghosts are hidden and extremely ferocious. Their destructive power is not very strong, but they are insidious and almost impossible to defend against. They are also strange and hidden, making them difficult to detect. Therefore, when the formation is formed, it can fight against an eighth-rank official, and against a ninth-rank official, it will most likely be an instant kill.

This is one of Elder Si's most treasured possessions.

But why? What happened?

How could a ninth-rank official kill one of his five ghosts in a single exchange?

It should be noted that the greatest strength of the Five Elements Ghosts is that they possess all five elements, which allows them to form formations that rotate endlessly.

If the formation is broken, then there will only be five vengeful ghosts at the peak of the ninth rank.

While Elder Si was in astonishment, Li Qi seemed relaxed and carefree.

An eighth-grade treasure?

Only you guys have it?

You, Jin Buhuan, possess eighth-grade metal energy, and you, a mere Ghost Shaman, possess five-elemental fierce ghosts comparable to eighth-grade ones?

I, Li Qi, have the same! And the quality is much higher!

Li Qi brandished the willow branch in his hand, and with one whip, he turned the first Jinxing evil spirit in the path into a wisp of green smoke!

The willow branch, imbued with a trace of the Great Shaman's divine energy, had reached the pinnacle of the eighth rank. Even the golden energy in Jin Buhuan's hands could not compare. Only when the two golden energies were combined in yin and yang could it be defeated.

Moreover, the reason why this willow branch is ranked as an eighth-grade item is simply because its material is just a willow branch that Young Master Zhu casually broke off, so it is naturally limited.

The reason for choosing willow branches, besides the symbolic meaning of "breaking off a willow branch as a farewell," is probably simply because there happened to be a willow tree nearby.

However, Li Qi had always held this thing tightly, never revealing any of its power.

He had already planned this scene when he walked out the door, inviting Jin Buhuan to meet him and preparing to challenge him.

From the moment he locked himself in the inn and remained silent for several Chen, until he pushed open the door, he had already thought through everything he was going to do.

Elder Si Ghost Shaman. When he kills Jin Buhuan, if a fierce ghost appears, this thing can catch the opponent off guard!

The Great Shaman Sage was incredibly powerful; with a single whip, he shattered a Five Elements Demon.

Li Qi immediately continued to wield the whip, its shadow like a dragon, completely without any pattern, just wildly whipping around.

Even so, all five vengeful ghosts were scattered!

Elder Si coughed up a mouthful of blood, and all five evil spirits were annihilated. He suffered the backlash from his own soul being implicated.

The five ghosts were connected to his soul, which is why he could command them so easily.

The impact on the Five Ghosts spread to him, causing him to experience waves of dizziness.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Qi suddenly ran out.

"Boy! You'll pay with your life!" In a fit of rage, Elder Si threw Jin Buhuan aside, flung the weakened young master aside, and then grabbed Li Qi's hand tightly.

In his hand, there was a wisp of air.

This wisp of energy carried a trace of Li Qi's aura and a drop of his blood.

The blood was temporarily taken from the piece of wood that Li Qi had just used as a stand-in for.

Using blood to find the master and breath to mimic life is the "capturing life to replace death" method of Shaman Path Curse.

The Technique Method of making straw dolls or smashing stone figures is a manifestation of "capturing life to take the place of death." In essence, it involves linking the life of the other person to another thing, and then destroying that thing to indirectly destroy the life of the other person.

The principle behind Li Qi's method of taking someone else's place is essentially the same: to make something else bear the consequences, only the process is reversed.

But when this wisp of energy was crushed, Li Qi didn't react at all. Instead, he sped up and ran even further.

In contrast, the sacrificial wood on the ground shattered directly.

Elder Si immediately realized what was going on.

This person had anticipated this! So he deliberately created a loophole to trick himself into giving blood, but the blood was actually fake!

Li Qi, on the other hand, made arrangements for what would happen after he fled.

Elder Si had expected to be scammed.

The Shaman Path aims to maintain the balance and harmony of all things in the world, and the prerequisite for doing so is to understand all things in the world.

If you can't even understand, how can you achieve balance?

Therefore, the training manual of Wushen Mountain... is that book "Zhu", which records countless introductory knowledge, roughly equivalent to the Shaman Path version of "100,000 Whys".

Li Qi, through his own Daoist wisdom, had already memorized all of these things.

Before the orthodox Shaman of Wushen Mountain—

Elder Si? An eighth-rank Shaman?

Haha, just an illiterate person.

But Elder Si was unaware of all this. He only knew that he had already failed twice, and that the other party also possessed an Eighth-Rank Magic Treasure that appeared to be specifically designed to target the soul.

How could an eighth-rank official lose twice against a ninth-rank official?

It's an insult to myself.

He got serious and made another move.

Elder Si raised his finger and suddenly waved it, and a small altar appeared in front of him, with candles on it spontaneously igniting.

He cupped his hands and raised them, saying, "Please, Earthly Duke, Jiu Mei. Thank you for your trouble. I will reward you afterward."

Earthly Duke is the lowest-ranking Earthly Deity, also known as the Land God.

"Jiu Mei" refers to a mischievous imp that flies around causing trouble.

Elder Si used the method of invoking gods to ask these two kinds of ghosts and spirits to appear and stop Li Qi from escaping.

He instructed the two spirits to locate Li Qi, and then he would perform a ritual to curse him to death again, ensuring that he would not be able to escape this time.

Li Qi also noticed this.

However, Elder Si's actions delayed him by a few seconds, which was about the time it would take to say one sentence.

A few seconds was enough for him to escape a mile away. Martial arts are all about speed; the ability to burst out instantly is truly fast.

But the ground began to become rugged and steeper, slowing him down more and more.

Fireflies began to appear all around him, making him even more conspicuous.

However, Li Qi stopped instead.

He stopped and looked back. Was that enough?

Li Qi stopped looking up at the sky.

Sure enough, fiery clouds suddenly appeared on the horizon.

Jin Buhuan revealed a triumphant expression.

A vortex of flames suddenly appeared and enveloped Elder Si.

Accompanied by a violent explosion and heat wave.

Jin Buhuan and Li Qi shouted in unison:

"Yan! Lord!"