"You... how is this possible!"
Sheng Shi'an stared at Li Musheng before him. Feeling the massive amount of heaven and earth true qi he had just absorbed now completely dissipated from his body, his clouded eyes were full of disbelief.
Even the originally violent and powerful hidden blood energy had subsided.
He discovered that with his Heaven-Human Realm cultivation, he had now actually lost control over the true qi of heaven and earth, and could no longer absorb any true qi from the surrounding heaven and earth into his body.
It was as if in just that single instant, he had been directly knocked down from a Heaven-Human Realm martial arts expert to an ordinary person without any martial arts true qi.
"Elder Sheng!"
At this moment, Tu Yao shouted deeply, as if trying to awaken the motionless Sheng Shi'an.
His arm muscles bulged, his fist intent shook the void like a roaring dragon. With one punch, the sky filled with dark fist shadows.
Each fist shadow was like a thousand-pound hammer. The terrifying sound of breaking air exploded thunderously. A hundred fist shadows overlapped heavily, like a hundred surging waves instantly accumulating unimaginable terrifying power, smashing down toward Li Musheng.
Li Musheng turned to look, raising his eyebrows slightly, and said, "This fist technique looks decent enough, but compared to me it's far too inferior. Moreover, even if I stood still and let you hit me, this wouldn't have the slightest effect."
With that, he raised his hand and grabbed. Those overlapping fist shadows that seemed capable of collapsing mountains instantly dissipated and scattered.
At the same time, Tu Yao in the distance suddenly felt his heart seized with fear, immediately revealing a shocked expression.
He felt his entire being restrained by an irresistible force. Even the martial arts true qi in his meridians and dantian had become like a stagnant pool, already completely unable to circulate in the slightest.
Soon after, his entire person flew uncontrollably toward Li Musheng, arriving before him in the blink of an eye.
Immediately after, Tu Yao saw Li Musheng flick his fingers, releasing two talisman lights that separately fell into his and Sheng Shi'an's bodies.
"Hand over the Qilin Blood, and you can suffer a bit less."
Li Musheng spoke slowly. At the same time, the Life and Death Talismans inside Sheng Shi'an and Tu Yao's bodies immediately took effect.
Like ten thousand ants gnawing at their bodies, bone-piercing itching and pain eroded their bodies. For these two who hadn't suffered such agony in many years since entering the Heaven-Human Realm, they immediately trembled and convulsed all over, unable to endure it as they screamed and howled like wild beasts.
"Sworn brother, what kind of demonic technique have you cultivated? It looks far too frightening!"
Seeing these two Heaven-Human experts whose auras had been terrifying moments ago now instantly reduced to such a miserable state in Li Musheng's hands, Li Yuanling immediately shrank her neck and looked at Li Musheng with some fear.
However, at this moment she was being held by her collar by Li Musheng, so even if she wanted to distance herself, she simply couldn't.
At this moment, Li Musheng shook the pale-faced young lady in his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense. How could this be considered a demonic technique?"
With that, he continued threatening her, "Also, don't go spreading what happened today around. I have quite a few little fangirls in the martial world. Don't slander my reputation for nothing."
Hearing this, Li Yuanling pressed her lips together and muttered something quietly.
But soon, she nodded her head vigorously and hurriedly said, "I remember, I remember! Stop shaking me!"
...
Soon after, even martial world experts like Sheng Shi'an and Tu Yao couldn't resist the torment of the Life and Death Talismans under Li Musheng's control. They successively confessed everything about the Qilin Blood.
After obtaining the information he wanted, Li Musheng's eyes flickered slightly. He turned his head to look toward the depths of the cavern, narrowing his eyes and saying, "Looks like I need to speed up. Can't let that so-called City Lord consume all the Qilin Blood!"
As his words fell, Li Yuanling beside him suddenly felt the scenery before her eyes rapidly recede once again.
At the same time, in her line of sight she could clearly see that gray-robed Elder Sheng and Tu Yao both somehow had finger-sized holes appear in their foreheads. They simultaneously fell backward from midair, silently plummeting toward the underground palace below.
Even in death, both their faces revealed expressions of terror and disbelief.
Apart from the final pain brought by the Life and Death Talismans, they had never been able to believe that Li Musheng, so young, actually possessed terrifying martial arts strength that could crush them!
Moreover, after he made his move, they didn't even have the slightest ability to fight back. They could only be slaughtered at will. No matter how many ambitions lurked in their hearts, they could ultimately only meet the end of death and dissipation.
...
Before long, Li Musheng carried Li Yuanling through several dark rock caverns and arrived before a half-open heavy stone door.
"Could it be that someone already beat us here?"
Li Yuanling, dangling and swaying in midair, spoke. Along this path they had seen only the corpses of guards. Very obviously, they seemed to have arrived a step too late.
Li Musheng didn't speak. Swallowing Qilin Blood was extremely difficult to begin with. Now that someone had interrupted that City Lord ahead of time, it actually wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Immediately after, he carried Li Yuanling through the stone door.
After proceeding several dozen zhang, they arrived at a narrow rock cliff. Below the cliff was a natural underground cold pool.
The cold pool was deep. Wisps of cold air continuously rose from the calm water surface. The extremely low temperature caused the surrounding rocks to be covered with a thick layer of frost.
However, at this moment on the other side of the cold pool, firelight blazed brilliantly, with rolling heat waves constantly sweeping in all directions.
On the opposite side of the cold pool, four figures could be seen rapidly exchanging blows.
An old woman in fluttering white robes moved with body techniques as swift as the wind. The sky filled with white shadows and sharp, astonishing sword light.
The other two were Han Meiyan and Zhang He.
Han Meiyan's eyes glowed as she continuously struck with her palms. Using powerful palm winds, she constantly wrapped up layers of crimson powder mist, bombarding a man whose entire skin was scorched and burning with scarlet residual flames.
Zhang He clung tightly to that man, his mouth biting into the other's back. His own body was a bloody mess, and even several sections of his legs and feet were broken.
But even facing the man's fist and foot attacks, Zhang He stubbornly refused to let go. Instead, he continued biting off several mouthfuls of flesh from the other party, constantly swallowing them down.
At this moment, the man's surrounding aura seemed powerful, but it was unstable and fluctuating. Inside his body there seemed to be an extremely domineering force continuously destroying his body from within.
Therefore, facing the attacks from Han Meiyan and the other three at this time, he could only struggle to cope.
"You all deserve to die!"
Su Changqing roared furiously. His entire appearance was as if he had experienced a great fire.
All his body hair had been completely burned away. The skin on his body and face also had not a single intact spot, leaving only patches of scorched, rotting flesh. It looked extremely horrifying.
Beyond this, Han Meiyan's enchanting poison caused him to become dazed from time to time. The Wave-Treading Immortal Maiden's sword energy added injury upon injury.
And Zhang He clung to his body like a stubborn plaster, constantly gnawing at him, which made him even more furious beyond measure.