This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

Chapter 473: Chapter 14 The Carp Scramble for Food

“Dead?”

“The old vulture who dominated Mo Gao for so many years just died like this?”

A sense of unreality sprouted in everyone’s hearts.

It was too fast, the battle had changed in the blink of an eye. @@novelbin@@

A moment ago, the old vulture was displaying his mighty power, pressing down on both Jue Zhen and Lu Qingshan, breaking through Jue Zhen’s interception and killing his way to Lu Qingshan’s front.

The next instant, the Buddhist Lotus and Xiezhi appeared together, a sword cleaved across the sky, and by the time everyone came to their senses, the battle was already decided.

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The moment the old vulture’s presence vanished, all the cultivators watching from inside Giant Bear City understood that this sand bandit, who had given the nine clans such headaches, had been forcibly defeated by this sword cultivator of unknown origin.

Before the battle began, they already had a very high opinion of Lu Qingshan.

Yet, they had only thought that Lu Qingshan was relying on some external object. They hadn’t expected Lu Qingshan’s reliance to actually be his own strength.

“My great revenge has been exacted…” Xiong Li’s murky eyes instantly turned blood-red upon seeing this scene.

For him, the feeling of joy completely overshadowed the shock in his heart.

“A Nascent Soul sword cultivator actually defeated the old vulture, who was at the Void Refining Middle Stage… This is just too exaggerated…” The Bear Clan Leader, who had previously harbored resentment, now only had disbelief left, “With this level of skill, this sword cultivator could be on the Yellow List… Such a dragon crossing the river appearing in such shallow waters like ours…”

A cultivator from the Bear Clan suddenly thought of something and cautiously asked, “Clan Leader, the head that sword cultivator embedded in the city wall—how should we deal with it later on…?”

The scene fell into silence for a moment.

The Bear Clan Leader’s face turned ashen.

As long as the head of the Sand Sea evil monk remained embedded in the walls of Giant Bear City, the shadow of that sword cultivator would linger.

Everyone who saw this head would recall the sword cultivator when mentioning the Bear Clan.

“Allowing a sand bandit to commit atrocities on our couch and not daring to utter a word.”

The sooner that head was removed, the better.

But the current problem was…

They did not dare remove it.

If even the old vulture was no match for that sword cultivator, then the Bear Clan was even less able to withstand him.

Who knew what kind of temperament that sword cultivator had?

If they rashly removed that head, and the sword cultivator became enraged, then what would they do then?

The wrath of that sword cultivator was something that, at least currently, no one in the Bear Clan could bear.

…..

Lu Qingshan put away the old vulture’s storage ring and turned to look at the not lightly injured Jue Zhen. After a moment’s thought, a stream of spiritual light flew towards the calmly-faced young monk.

“Benefactor, what is the meaning of this?” The young monk was taken aback, momentarily unable to grasp the situation.

That spiritual light eventually hovered in front of Jue Zhen.

That was a storage ring, the storage ring of the Sand Sea evil monk.

“I was the main force in this battle, but you also contributed greatly. This is what you deserve,” Lu Qingshan said.

“My purpose in coming here was to resolve the calamity of Qi Luo; even if Qi Luo did not make a move against you, I would still have acted against him. I should be the one thanking the benefactor for drawing out Qi Luo,” the young monk pressed his palms together, his eyes stubborn.

“As for the old vulture, I hardly made much effort; even without me, with the methods demonstrated by the benefactor just now, dealing with him would surely not have been difficult.”

Lu Qingshan looked at Jue Zhen’s firm and shining eyes and smiled, “One thing is one thing. Whatever your reason for helping is another matter, but you did indeed lend a hand.”

He was also very firm.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Dragon Sparrow and Oblivion were taken back into Lu Qingshan’s body.

“How should I address the benefactor?” As Lu Qingshan was about to leave, Jue Zhen finally remembered to ask.

“Sword Sect, Lu Qingshan,” Lu Qingshan replied with a smile.

“If Lu Benefactor ever encounters trouble in the Western Sand Plateau, feel free to seek me out at Chicken Soup Temple,” Jue Zhen added.

“Definitely!” Lu Qingshan waved to the young monk, took off on his sword, and was gone.

….

Outside Giant Bear City, a battle erupted with the sand bandits deploying three late stage Nascent Soul leaders and the old vulture, at the Void Refining Middle Stage.

Without exception, all died under Lu Qingshan’s sword.

In addition to the one previously killed by Lu Qingshan’s poison.

Half of the sand bandits’ eight leaders were now lost.

Now, without the deterrence of the old vulture, the sand bandits were undoubtedly going to suffer a severe beating from the nine clans, like a dog falling into the water.

Their fate was quite apparent.

Why provoke a sword cultivator of all people?

….

Lu Qingshan followed the map deep into Mo Gao, carefully tallying up his loot from this venture.

Killing the old vulture should have brought a hefty sum of experience points, but alas, the cost of using that Netherworld sword was too high.

With expenses and gains, the experience points increase wasn’t particularly substantial, even with the four Nascent Soul sand bandit leaders’ experience points, it only amounted to an additional four hundred thousand in total.

Better than nothing.

The assets of those sand bandits, however, were a pleasant surprise for Lu Qingshan.

After all, the main goal of being a sand bandit was to loot resources, so their wealth far surpassed that of an average cultivator, which now benefited Lu Qingshan.

Just in terms of spirit crystals, there were as many as nine in the old vulture’s storage ring.

Could it be that he was saving them to break through to the Void Refining Late Stage?

Lu Qingshan thought to himself.

Putting aside those evil cultivator magic artifacts and making a rough estimate of the sellable pills and spirit materials, they were worth about six or seven spirit crystals.

It would just require finding a somewhat larger cultivator’s shop to offload them.

All in all, this trip netted him close to a million experience points.