The Heavenly Punishment Inscription!

Just then, the woman in purple on the stone bed suddenly opened her eyes. She looked at Xu Qingyang and Su Zilian, a flicker of wariness crossing her gaze.

"Who are you?"

Xu Qingyang stared at her without speaking, while Su Zilian cupped her hands and smiled. "Senior, we only came in to try our luck at finding an opportunity. We mean no harm!"

"Oh!"

Hearing that, the girl in purple breathed a sigh of relief.

She was gravely injured now. Forget a Grotto-Heaven cultivator—even a Golden Core cultivator could take her life.

Suddenly, Xu Qingyang spoke. "Miss, weren't you fighting a sword cultivator over a Dragon Orb just now?"

"Why are you asking?"

The woman in purple looked puzzled.

Xu Qingyang immediately took several steps forward and grinned. "Because I want it, of course!"

"How dare you!"

The woman in purple instantly flew into a rage at his words. She glared at Xu Qingyang. "You dare covet the Dragon Orb I obtained?"

Xu Qingyang shook his head with a wry smile. "The sword cultivator who fought you for it is here. You won't be able to keep the Dragon Orb!"

"Handing the Dragon Orb to me is your best option!"

At that moment, Su Zilian looked at Xu Qingyang in surprise. Was he trying to rob the woman in purple of her Dragon Orb, or had that sword cultivator really arrived?

The woman in purple glared at Xu Qingyang and was about to speak when a voice seething with murderous intent rang out from outside the cave.

"You little bastard! You dare snatch the Dragon Orb I've set my sights on? Who gave you the guts?"

Xu Qingyang remained composed at those words, but the woman in purple turned deathly pale.

She had confirmed that the person outside was Bai Fengliu.

Immediately afterward, Bai Fengliu appeared in the Waterfall Cave, clad in white robes. Su Zilian's expression changed drastically, and her slender body trembled.

Xu Qingyang glanced at Su Zilian and smiled. "Zilian, with me here, he can't hurt you!"

"You're awfully arrogant, brat!"

Bai Fengliu spoke coldly.

Xu Qingyang wore a faint, mocking smile. "If you were at your peak, I certainly wouldn't dare challenge you. But you're badly injured now. You should only be able to muster a tenth of your strength!"

Bai Fengliu fell silent.

Just then, Yi Qiushui, dressed in purple, opened her palm. A golden Dragon Orb appeared, faintly emanating a dragon's might.

Yi Qiushui promptly handed the Dragon Orb to Xu Qingyang, then chuckled.

It was as though she were saying, Since you want it, I'll give it to you. Whether you can keep it is none of my concern.

Xu Qingyang looked at the Dragon Orb in his hand and sneered. Naturally, he understood Yi Qiushui's scheme.

She wanted him and Bai Fengliu to fight until both were badly wounded, leaving the Dragon Orb to fall back into her hands in the end.

"Brother Qingyang, why don't we give up this Dragon Orb?"

Su Zilian sounded deeply worried.

Clearly, she still feared that Xu Qingyang was no match for Bai Fengliu.

Xu Qingyang smiled at her words. "The meat's already in my mouth. Why would I spit it out?"

Su Zilian: ???

Seeing how calmly Xu Qingyang faced him, without the slightest trace of fear, Bai Fengliu thought, Could this brat be bluffing?

"You're merely at the peak of Blood Moving, yet you dare fight me, Bai Fengliu, for the Dragon Orb? You truly don't know how to spell death!"

Bai Fengliu roared, then flicked his hand. An inscription shot straight out.

This inscription was called the Annihilation Inscription. It could destroy an enemy in an instant and was one of Bai Fengliu's more formidable inscriptions.

"What?"

"The Annihilation Inscription?"

Seeing Bai Fengliu unleash the Annihilation Inscription, Yi Qiushui's face filled with shock.

She and Bai Fengliu were both Inscription realm cultivators, so she naturally knew how terrifying the Annihilation Inscription was.

Although Bai Fengliu had only a tenth of his strength remaining, the Annihilation Inscription's power was still extraordinary.

"Little fellow, you won't be able to block this Annihilation Inscription. The Desolate Tower is beginning its upgrade!"

"The Desolate Tower has successfully upgraded. Inscription invincibility mode activated for you!"

"In Inscription invincibility mode, any inscription you unleash will crush its opposition outright. What's more, whichever inscription you think of will appear, even if you don't know how to craft it!"

As the Desolate Tower's voice rang out, a faint smile curled Xu Qingyang's lips.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...

The mode unlocked by the Desolate Tower's upgrade really was both simple and heaven-defying...

"Qingyang, watch out!"

When Su Zilian saw Bai Fengliu's Annihilation Inscription about to strike Xu Qingyang, she shouted a warning.

"It's fine!"

Xu Qingyang looked back at Su Zilian and smiled.

"Heavenly Punishment Inscription!"

At Xu Qingyang's thought, an inscription appeared at once, taking the form of a lightning sword that shimmered with intense lightning.

"You can use inscriptions too?"

At the sight, Bai Fengliu shook his head and spoke with utter scorn and contempt.

Clearly, he believed the so-called inscription Xu Qingyang had produced was nothing but an illusion.

One had to reach the Inscription realm before one could craft inscriptions.

But Yi Qiushui's and Su Zilian's eyes both widened.

Boom!

The two inscriptions collided, sending vast bursts of light splashing outward.

The next moment.

Just as Bai Fengliu was feeling smug, he saw his Annihilation Inscription obliterated by Xu Qingyang's Heavenly Punishment Inscription.

"How could this happen?"

Bai Fengliu cried out in disbelief.

But no one answered him.

At that moment, the Heavenly Punishment Sword, shaped from lightning, did not stop. Instead, it stabbed straight into the center of Bai Fengliu's brow.

"This is Inscription Manifestation?"

Bai Fengliu looked at Xu Qingyang and gritted his teeth, his voice filled with terror. "Who exactly are you?"

"How can you possess such terrifying inscription techniques?"

Xu Qingyang replied indifferently, "Why does a dead man need to know so much?"

With that said.

The Heavenly Punishment Inscription instantly pierced through Bai Fengliu's brow.

In the next instant, Bai Fengliu was annihilated, vanishing from this world completely.

"Heavens!"

"Did I see that right?"

"Qingyang killed Bai Fengliu?"

"And he even used Inscription Manifestation! That was incredible!"

Su Zilian gazed at Xu Qingyang's imposing figure, her face brimming with excitement, and murmured to herself.

As Yi Qiushui recalled the scene of Bai Fengliu's death, her heart held nothing but shock!

Even at Xu Qingyang's age, she could never have performed Inscription Manifestation.

"What a monster!"

Yi Qiushui sighed, then thought, It looks like getting the Dragon Orb back from this fellow is already impossible!

Then Xu Qingyang reached out, and the ring belonging to the newly deceased Bai Fengliu fell into his hand. Upon examining it, he found only several thousand spirit stones and a few dozen spirit herbs.

"Bai Fengliu was an Inscription-realm cultivator, after all. How could he be this poor?"

Xu Qingyang grumbled. Suddenly, Yi Qiushui's cool voice rang out.

"Young master, I'd like to invite you to join my Hundred Flowers Palace. Would you be interested?"