The sunlight was getting hot…
The temperature in the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range also increased sharply. It felt a little stuffy.
Ling Xiao leaned under a tree shade and looked down the mountain.
He was very surprised. How come so many herb collectors are entering the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range today?
These people obviously didn’t have any hostility towards him. They just went to gather medicinal herbs. Since Ling Xiao never killed innocent people indiscriminately, it was naturally impossible for him to attack these people.
While waiting, he didn’t forget to cultivate.
The two sword soul clones were sitting beside him, while his main body was continuously playing with qi sword in his hand.
He had a kind of feeling.
<Nine Meridian Qi Sword> could display its true might only after condensing nine qi swords, just like <Shadow Transformation Sword Art> where he could start practicing sword skills only after condensing thirteen sword clones.
Therefore, he was very impatient to improve <Nine Meridian Qi Sword> now.
It seemed like he was playing, but he was actually comprehending it.
Suddenly, he noticed that there was something fishy with those martial artists who came to gather herbs.
Ling Xiao had also gathered herbs before, moreover, his herb gathering skill was learned from Yang Danlin. What needed to be paid attention to during this process, he was very clear about it.
But today, most of these herb gatherers didn’t pay attention to these basic skills at all, as if they didn’t know anything about herbs.
Upon noticing this, he felt even more that something was wrong.
He retracted the sword soul clones and prepared to capture someone to ask.
If the other party was truly innocent, he would naturally let him go. However, if the other party had come to deal with him pretending to be an herb gatherer, then he wouldn’t be merciful!
After a while, an herb gatherer was caught by Ling Xiao and brought to a hidden place.
“Tell me, what are you all doing? Be honest, and I will let you live, otherwise, I will kill you!”
“I’ll speak! I’ll speak!”
These martial artists had been frightened by Ling Xiao’s notoriety. How dare they resist?
“We were forced to enter the mountain by Fairy Linglong. And she said that we are to immediately send the signal flare to notify her as soon as we found your location.”
“Humph, sure enough, it’s like this!”
Ling Xiao had always believed in his intuition. As it now seemed that his prediction was correct. That woman had actually entered the mountain.
Now that you have entered the mountain, it will be much easier to deal with you. Whether you want to live or die, it won’t be easy.
Ling Xiao sneered and continued to ask: “How many have come? How strong are they?”
“Most of them are martial artists below Rank Five Transcendent Realm, however, there are three martial artists from the Moonlight Sect, whose cultivation is above Rank Seven Transcendent Realm. Furthermore, there is one core disciple of the Beast King Palace, whose cultivation is Rank Eight Transcendent Realm.”
“Not bad, not bad, you are very honest. By the way, do you have the signal flare? Give it to me!”
Ling Xiao said with a smile.
“Yes, yes, yes, but please don’t kill me. I truly don’t want to die. That woman forced us.”
“Okay, give me your storage ring, and you can scram.”
Ling Xiao said indifferently.
That martial artist quickly took off his storage ring and handed it over to Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao checked and found that there was truly nothing else on that martial artist, so he kicked him away and said: “Scram!”
After the martial artist left, Ling Xiao arranged a formation nearby, using all Fiery Snake Array Stones on him.
These bastards, since you all are not afraid of death, I’ll let you all die enough.
The might of Fiery Snake Array was not set in stone. As long as the materials used are good enough, and one was also skilled enough, the might of the formation would naturally be much bigger.
It was absolutely not a problem for Ling Xiao to use these Fiery Snake Array Stones to kill martial artists below Rank Three Transcendent Realm.
Let’s take care of the first batch.
Although the Fiery Snake Formation couldn’t kill Rank Four Transcendent Realm martial artists, it could still affect them, and injuries would be certain.
Take your time.
When this young master had nothing to do in the sect, and this young master couldn’t refine other formations, this young master kept refining the Fiery Snake Array Stones.
After everything was set up, he directly sent the signal flare.
At that moment, he felt an extremely powerful aura approaching him.
“Tsk tsk, all came. If I was outside, I might be afraid of you all, but this is the depths of the Crouching Dragon Mountain Range. If you all come here without being afraid of death, then I will play with you all to death!”
Ling Xiao smiled and quickly hid in the darkness, leaving behind just a sword soul clone, waiting for the enemies.
After a while, a lot of people finally arrived.
Ling Xiao noticed that Fairy Linglong was hiding behind a man.
He didn’t need to guess, that man should be Wang She, the tenth-ranked core disciple of the Beast King Palace, and his strength was slightly inferior to Ying Wuya.
In addition, there were three people, and he also had their information——
Zhan Liu, Wu Yang, and Qin Wu. They were three of the Four Tree Guests under Meng Yuan.
Since he had killed Tie Shan, these three were chasing after him to take revenge. Their brotherly affection was truly deep. They came to seek death.
“Ling Xiao, let’s see where you can run today!”
Upon seeing Ling Xiao’s sword soul clone was standing there so leisurely, Fairy Linglong cursed angrily: “You actually killed so many martial artists. You are a public enemy of the twelve sects.”
“Heh heh, it’s truly laughable. You should worry about yourself. Soon, you will accompany your Leng Mian brother in hell.”
“Little beast! You are daring. You actually killed a fellow sect member. If you let us capture you today, then your punishment will be lighter, and we will leave your corpse intact. Otherwise, you will be torn into thousands of pieces!”
Before Fairy Linglong could speak again, Qin Wu roared in anger.
“What a fart! Do you think I will stay still when Tie Shan came to kill me? You four idiots, you all are clearly being fooled by Meng Yuan, but you all still haven’t wakened up yet. Today, if you all scram obediently, then considering that we are fellow sect members, I will not kill you all.”
Ling Xiao cursed. This was clearly the best example of the thief crying thief. It was too shameless.
“Qin Wu, no need to talk nonsense with him, kill!”
Zhan Liu shouted angrily and people rushed forward.
“That kid has a peak-gold-grade martial art manual on him. Whoever grabs it, it’s his.”
At this moment, Fairy Linglong also shouted.
Now, she already didn’t care about treasures anymore. As long as Ling Xiao was dead, nothing else matters. Otherwise, she felt that she would have sleepless nights forever.
“Grab!”
There was a saying, men die for wealth, as birds for food.
These martial artists hesitated for just a moment, then rushed forward.
Even though they knew that Ling Xiao had already killed hundreds of martial artists like them, their greed still prevented them from sitting on the sidelines when they heard that they had a chance to obtain a peak-gold-grade martial art.
“Fiery Snake Formation, activate!”
Ling Xiao quickly retracted the sword soul clone, then activated the Fiery Snake Formation.
At that instant, dozens of Fiery Snake Formations activated simultaneously, and thousands of fiery snakes spat out terrifying flames at those martial artists.
These flames were remolded by Ling Xiao with the Death Dark Flame, increasing the terrifying ‘death ability’.
According to the legend, the Death dark Flame was the flame that controlled death. As long as someone was burned by this flame, the flame would never extinguish unless that person died.
