Qin Huaian did not go out of his way to compete with others for Fire Crystal Stones, but he certainly would not pass up one right before his eyes.
In a flash, Qin Huaian reached the Fire Crystal Stone. With a sweep of his hand, the dark red stone was in his palm.
The Fire Crystal Stone felt warm. The traces of the Fire-Attribute Law flowing across it made even Qin Huaian want to enter seclusion and contemplate them.
Just then, Qin Huaian spun around.
A middle-aged cultivator wielding a spear was thrusting it straight at him.
Qin Huaian had noticed the man as soon as he approached.
But he paid the cultivator no mind, picking up the Fire Crystal Stone first.
The man was only at the Immortal Venerable Late Stage, though he was fairly strong for that level.
To Qin Huaian, however, an attack of that caliber could not even stir his desire to fight.
Still, since someone had come looking for trouble, Qin Huaian would not hold back.
He unfurled his Golden Roc Wings and vanished from the spot, evading the spear light thrust at him.
Then Qin Huaian drew the Cangwu Sword and, holding nothing back, brought Yin-Yang First Manifestation down through the air.
The enormous black-and-white sword light, coiling like a dragon plunging from nine thousand feet, filled the Immortal Venerable Late Stage cultivator's entire field of vision.
The man's face changed drastically. He sensed an irresistible force in the attack.
With the sword light already above his head and nowhere to dodge, he cried out, "Fellow Daoist Qin, spare me!"
Though he belonged to a small or mid-sized sect, he knew who Qin Huaian was.
He had heard of Qin Huaian's genius, but Qin Huaian was only at the Immortal Venerable Middle Stage.
So