Chapter 533: Seriously Injured

The sheet of yellow light erupting from Leader Mo shattered instantly. He spat a mouthful of blood as he was blasted straight into the ice below, leaving a massive crater dozens of meters deep!

Qin Li didn’t hesitate. The Innate Purple Qi in his meridians surged, and he unleashed wave after wave of immense power, blasting it down toward Leader Mo in the deep crater!

Ji Yuyan didn’t hesitate either. Gritting her teeth, she unleashed her full power, frantically bombarding the crater below!

In a battle between equals, once one side gained the upper hand, the other could only suffer a steady retreat. And that was before factoring in a wildcard like Qin Li!

Leader Mo could never have imagined that Ji Yuyan had a companion who was not only a powerful Martial Artist, but one even stronger than she was.

Had he known this, he never would have come to the Ice and Snow Sect to cause trouble, even if Ji Yuyan hadn’t returned for another half a month.

But in this world, there were no “if onlys.”

Leader Mo was beaten senseless, but a Martial Artist of the Thunder Tribulation Realm was terrifyingly resilient. Even under Qin Li and Ji Yuyan’s ferocious assault, he was only severely injured. However, if a Martial Artist of his realm were to self-destruct, the resulting destructive force would likely kill everyone in the Ice and Snow Sect, with the probable exception of Qin Li and Ji Yuyan.

That was why both Qin Li and Ji Yuyan attacked relentlessly, giving Leader Mo no opportunity to self-destruct.

Then again, what expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm would resort to taking their enemy down with them through self-destruction unless they had absolutely no other choice?

The ground suddenly began to tremble. In an instant, the earth itself exploded with a deafening BOOM! Countless massive chunks of ice and soil shot toward the two figures in the sky.

From below came Leader Mo’s furious roar: “You want to kill me? Go to hell!”

‘This man’s comprehension of the Earth Element Law is astonishingly profound,’ Qin Li thought, secretly alarmed. His expression remained unchanged, however, as he pulled out a handful of Spirit Explosion Pills and hurled them continuously down at Leader Mo.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Deafening explosions echoed without end, and the crater below grew deeper and deeper. Amidst the explosions, Qin Li’s Treasure Seal also descended. Each time the seal struck Leader Mo, his injuries worsened.

A Treasure Artifact!

It was a true Magical Treasure. Even a supreme expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm like Leader Mo couldn’t withstand the constant assault of a Treasure Artifact.

Trapped at the bottom of a crater now a hundred meters deep, pummeled so badly he couldn’t charge back up, Leader Mo was consumed by rage. He roared, “If you want to kill me, then we’ll all die together!”

A sword suddenly appeared in Qin Li’s hand. It was none other than the Blood-Drinking Sword!

Qin Li plummeted from the sky, headfirst, feet toward the heavens. Holding the Blood-Drinking Sword, he achieved the Unity of Body and Sword. With one breathtaking strike, he plunged directly toward Leader Mo below!

Leader Mo felt the incomparably sharp Sword Intent, and his eyes flew wide in terror. He bit the tip of his tongue. The sharp pain caused his Spiritual Power to multiply instantly as he began to channel a vast amount of energy into his Dantian!

This immense power immediately triggered a celestial anomaly. Countless dark clouds roiled and converged on their location, filled with flashing lightning and roaring thunder.

KRAK!

KRAK!

Bolts of lightning continuously struck down from the sky, slamming into the glaciers and causing them to collapse on a massive scale.

The members of the Ice and Snow Sect and the Scorpion Gang, who were locked in fierce combat, were all stunned by this change. They instinctively stopped fighting, their faces pale with horror as they began to retreat into the distance.

The earth trembled. For hundreds of miles in every direction, glaciers crumbled and the ground caved in. Everyone had no choice but to take to the air, retreating ever further away!

Time seemed to freeze in that instant. Qin Li’s sword had already reached Leader Mo’s skull!

The chilling Sword Qi pierced Leader Mo’s skull!

The Blood-Drinking Sword let out a satisfied cry. At the same time, Leader Mo’s Dantian swelled violently, like a toad puffing out its belly in a comical display.

Behind them, Ji Yuyan screamed in horror, “Qin Li!”

As if he hadn’t heard her, Qin Li’s sword didn’t pause in the slightest. He ruthlessly… brought it down!

At the same time, Qin Li’s body traced a wide arc in the air. The very instant the Blood-Drinking Sword made contact with Leader Mo’s skull, Qin Li had already flipped back to an upright position. Then, using the momentum, he viciously kicked both feet at Leader Mo’s swelling, about-to-explode Dantian!

PUFF!

It felt like kicking a pile of rotten flesh. Qin Li’s kick, powerful enough to shatter mountains, caved in Leader Mo’s Dantian. Then, the tips of his toes landed squarely on Leader Mo’s Pill Core, which was undergoing Nascent Soul Transformation.

If one could have seen that Pill Core undergoing Nascent Soul Transformation, one would have witnessed the expression on the miniature, perfect replica of Leader Mo change from resolute determination to abject horror in that single instant!

SNAP!

With a sound like shattering glass, Leader Mo’s Pill Core, which was undergoing Nascent Soul Transformation, was smashed to pieces!

His skull was split open by the sword and his Pill Core was shattered by the kick at almost the exact same instant!

And so, this supreme expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm didn’t even have time to react, let alone cry out in pain, before he was killed instantly.

The immense power Leader Mo had gathered in his Dantian, though it didn’t self-destruct when the Dantian was shattered, was still unleashed in a violent surge.

This was the entirety of the energy Leader Mo had accumulated in his lifetime, all erupting in a single instant. The force was many times more powerful than a fatal strike from a Thunder Tribulation Realm expert!

Qin Li’s body was flung high into the air by the force. Ji Yuyan, arriving right behind him, tried to catch him, but she too was blasted high into the sky along with him.

The scene of the Thunder Tribulation Realm expert from the Ji Family self-destructing seemed to be replaying itself. Only this time, Qin Li wasn’t lucky enough to escape. The tyrannical force slammed into his body, leaving him severely injured and unconscious.

Ji Yuyan, however, was unharmed. While still in the air, she erupted with a powerful rage. She looked at the elite members of the Scorpion Gang who were retreating into the distance, poised to flee at any moment. For the first time in her life, her calm, beautiful eyes were filled with bloodshot veins. An overwhelming killing intent burst forth, completely unconcealed. Tucking Qin Li under one arm and holding her sword in the other, she charged directly into the crowd of elite Scorpion Gang members…

…

“Qin Li, Qin Li, please wake up!”

“Young Master, Young Master!” Watermelon’s eyes filled with tears as he looked at Qin Li, who had been lying in bed, unconscious, for over ten days. His mind was in turmoil.

He had heard the story. His Young Master had already fought one battle at the Ji Family, just to find the medicine that would completely heal Watermelon’s body. Although he wasn’t injured then, the fight had been exhausting. He had then rushed back here over a great distance without a single moment of rest, only to fight a desperate battle against a supreme expert of the Thunder Tribulation Realm. And he had succeeded, thwarting his opponent’s self-destruction and saving the entire Ice and Snow Sect from annihilation.

It was safe to say that if it weren’t for Qin Li, the Ice and Snow Sect would no longer exist. Everyone, except for Ji Yuyan, would have died.

Just then, Ji Ruyue pulled Watermelon up and gave him a meaningful look. Only then did Watermelon notice his Master, Ji Yuyan, sitting expressionlessly at Qin Li’s bedside. She was holding one of Qin Li’s hands, staring blankly at his face.

Watermelon came to his senses and quickly went outside with Ji Ruyue. Ji Yuyan showed no reaction to any of it.

As soon as the two stepped outside, a large number of Ice and Snow Sect disciples surrounded them, all asking how their Master and Young Master Qin were doing.

Unaware of the relationship between Qin Li and Ji Yuyan, they simply followed Watermelon’s example and addressed him as Young Master Qin.

Watermelon’s expression was grim, but he forced a smile. “He hasn’t woken up yet, but my Young Master is blessed. He’ll definitely be all right!”

“That’s right, Young Master Qin is blessed, nothing bad will happen to him!” a female disciple of the Ice and Snow Sect said, her eyes welling with tears. By now, every single one of them knew that if not for Qin Li, they all would have died in the terrifying self-destruction of Leader Mo.

Even though Ji Yuyan had slain every elite member of the Scorpion Gang on the spot in a fit of rage, it did little to quell the anger in the hearts of the Ice and Snow Sect members.

If anything were to happen to Young Master Qin, they would all spontaneously demand to attack the Scorpion Gang and avenge him.

In the room, Ji Yuyan held Qin Li’s hand, staring blankly at his seemingly lifeless face. With her cultivation level, she could feel the violent, rampaging power within his body. Normally, an injury like this was impossible to recover from. Even if he were lucky enough to survive, he would be left a cripple.

Ji Yuyan whispered to herself, “Qin Li, if you add it all up, we’ve known each other for less than a month, but I feel as though I’ve known you for centuries. If you weren’t injured, I believe I would have hidden these words in my heart for a lifetime, never to speak them to another soul. Now I’m saying them, and you can’t even hear me, but I really want to tell you… Qin Li, I like you! In the past, I was always wishing for the happiness of my adopted sons and daughters, but in truth, deep down, my own heart was three parts longing and seven parts resistant to the very idea of love…”

Two streams of clear tears slid from the corners of her eyes, landing silently on her hand before trickling onto Qin Li’s.

“Maybe it’s because of my past, especially when I heard you already have two wives… I truly wished I had never met you, never even seen you. If we had never met, I never would have liked you. If I’d never seen you, I wouldn’t miss you… But… but we did meet. We hit it off instantly. I like you, and I can feel that you like me too. So, you can’t die. We haven’t even begun. How can it end like this? Even if you become a cripple, as long as you wake up, I… I will stay by your side!”

Ji Yuyan continued to whisper to herself, saying many things she herself would later be unable to recall, so much so that when Qin Li would bring them up in the future, she would deny them to her dying breath…