I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 852: Chapter 146: Fire-Stealing Grandmaster

Facing the boundlessly ferocious Divine Dragon Shadow attack, Luo Qingchi unexpectedly felt a sense of crisis that he hadn’t felt for who knows how many years, and his soul subconsciously made a decision for his body.

As if facing an equal opponent, the Divine Armor, already worn to withstand the Divine Sword’s attack, barely managed to be worn before the Divine Sword approached. A red shield of fire stood in the way of the gold and earth mixed Innate Divine Sword. He had thought the superior-grade Xuan-level Divine Armor would be sufficient to withstand the blow, yet the fire shield was directly shattered, and the Innate Divine Sword, undiminished in its momentum, pierced through the Divine Armor, drilling a large hole in Luo Qingchi’s right shoulder.

After a Grandmaster’s bodily transformation into Spirit Qualified form, their lifeform undergoes a complete change. The Innate Divine Sword, which could penetrate Divine Armor, only left a small hole in his body, and instead of flesh and blood exploding from the impact, there were crystal-like fragments. Looking through the wound, there was no flesh or bone to be seen, only substances like gemstones and Spirit Liquid.

The adage “what is learned from books is shallow” proves true here, implying that even if one read about Spirit Qualification transformation in books, witnessing it first-hand still inevitably leads to shock.

But shock aside, Tang Luo didn’t forget what he ought to do. Without waiting for Luo Qingchi to recover, he unleashed another Innate Divine Sword attack, equally as powerful as the first.

Before Luo Qingchi had the chance to lament over his damaged Divine Armor, the second blade of the Divine Sword had arrived in front of him. Yet, after creating some distance, such a direct attack became very difficult to land, because after becoming Spirit Qualified, regardless of the aspect, a Grandmaster is on a different level compared to ordinary Fierce Realm beings. The sword light, which seemed inevitable to those in the Fierce Realm, still couldn’t make a Grandmaster panic.

Another ripple of water appeared in the space, and this time Tang Luo finally understood why so many of his strikes, despite being filled with powerful force, merely grazed past this Grandmaster. Although this strike from the Innate Divine Sword was much more powerful than the punches, after several deviations, it still veered off its original target, shooting towards the sky.

Knowing his opponent’s mastery over water-based Spiritual Power was to this extraordinary degree, Tang Luo stopped the formation of a third Innate Divine Sword. After all, if it couldn’t hit, why waste the effort?

Luo Qingchi heard the silver giant’s cold snort and also dissolved the ripple in the space in front of him, turning his head to glance at the shattered Divine Armor, saying coldly, “There aren’t many in this world who can break through my Divine Armor, and among the warriors of the Fierce Realm, you are the first!”

“Although that’s a compliment, I can’t feel happy about it at all,” said Tang Luo coldly. “I just want to know if there’s something wrong with the feng shui at Qilin Mountain. Are Dao Children like hoodlums, and Grandmasters mentally unstable? Does everyone under your banner have to have some flaw to be admitted?”

Insulting both the Dao Child and the Grandmaster, any Grandmaster present today might have beaten Tang Luo for blaspheming a sacred place and then had the Arbitration Office called in to exterminate him, but Luo Qingchi just kept a dark face and remained silent.

What could he retort? Claim that Bu Lin was not a thug, or to defend himself?

If he truly had a valid point, how come no one supported him in the council hall at Bifang Mountain, necessitating the interception after he left the borders of Kunwu County?

Indeed, he too understood how absurd it was to deem someone guilty based on mystical powers, but the residual calamity left by the evil Beimang deity ran too deep. Since the other party possessed the power of the Innate Yin-Yang Millstone, it was inevitable that one day he would discover such a vile characteristic inherent within the mystical power. Human nature always succumbs to temptation, and no warrior would reject such a shortcut.

Even if Tang Luo was nobly born, thus unlikely to commit such brutal acts, Luo Qingchi still dared not gamble. As long as there was a sliver of a chance Tang Luo might follow the path of the evil Beimang deity, he intended to nip that possibility in the bud—blame it on the other’s bad luck.

His fingers tightened, and the complete Five Elements formation crushed the silver giant’s Heaven-gifted Divine Armor. Having learned from just now, Luo Qingchi planned to knock Tang Luo unconscious before approaching again.@@novelbin@@

After all, the Innate Divine Sword was too sharp. Even he did not wish to confront it head-on, but while he was manipulating the Divine Array, a sudden sense of alarm welled up. He knew this was his soul alerting him!

Turning his head, Luo Qingchi noticed that at some point, an old man had appeared beside the imperial carriage; dressed in dark cyan robes that could not hide his sturdy build. His tiger-like eyes were half-open, emitting a fierce light that made one’s heart tremble with fear.

Focusing all his energy on confronting Tang Luo, Luo Qingchi had no idea that such a formidable and terrifying expert was inside the imperial carriage!

Without any exchange, Luo Qingchi knew that this old man standing atop the imperial carriage was also a Grandmaster-level powerhouse, and at that moment, he found himself surrounded by two Divine Dragon Shadows!

After the Nine Dragons from the Xiao Family Monument Dragon Diagram had merged into one in the legendary realm, the technique Xiao Jinlin cast was no less powerful than the combined attack of two Fierce Realm experts. Even a Grandmaster would not dare to take such an attack lightly.

He withdrew the grand array from Tang Luo, and the complete Five Elements Spiritual Array switched from offense to defense, intending to trap the two Five-Color Divine Dragons. However, he grasped at nothing as the two Divine Dragon Shadows suddenly shattered into eighteen smaller dragons that slipped away like fish, only to gather into a dragon again on another front.

The drain on his spiritual power from dragging the complete Five Elements Array around was immense, and Luo Qingchi knew he could not afford to keep this up. He stretched out his hand to set up another Spiritual Array to trap the opponent, but at that moment, the earth suddenly split open, and a Yellow Dragon rose from the crack with a heaven-shaking dragon roar.

“Yellow Dragon Soaring to the Sky, you are the Fire-Stealing Grandmaster!”

Seeing the Yellow Dragon rising from the ground, Luo Qingchi exclaimed in shock and horror towards Xiao Jinlin.

In the last twenty years, in Longzhou, a nonconformist martial artist emerged who would show up alone whenever precious fires or Spiritual Fires were born.

Martial arts had flourished for a thousand years, and the world was filled with powerful families and feudal lords. Going solo might have been viable a thousand years ago, but now, it was nothing but delusional folly.

Whenever a precious treasure was born, the local powerhouses would form an alliance to clear the area. Under such circumstances, not to mention a lone warrior, even medium and small families of the vicinity would have no way to intervene, let alone compete for the treasure.

Precious fires and Spiritual Fires are types of heavenly and earthly treasures, extremely beneficial to fire-attuned martial artists. Therefore, whenever such fires appeared, the powerhouses would gather their forces, and a group made up of a dozen or even dozens of Fierce Realm experts would scare off anyone who saw them.

Yet the thief of fire was the one who time and again contended with the powerhouses for these precious fires. If the opponents were few, he would face them alone; if they were many, he would form alliances with others. In any case, as long as a precious fire was born in Longzhou, it was rare to acquire it smoothly and peacefully.

According to the statistics, this infamous Fire-Stealing thief of Longzhou had seized at least several precious fires and a dozen or more Spiritual Fires over twenty years, and his cultivation was continually improving.

The first time he appeared, he was injured by a Fierce Realm squad led by a top-tier Martial Ancestor, but later he became able to slaughter ordinary Fierce Realm squads. The last time he showed up, he had been promoted to Grandmaster, scattering dozens of Fierce Realm teams with a set of Yellow Dragon Soaring to the Sky moves, seizing the precious fire and leaving with his prize.

Who could have imagined that the notorious Fire-Stealing thief of Longzhou was none other than Xiao Jinlin, the sole master of the Longxi Alliance!