73: Art is an explosion!

"Qingyuan, can you do it?" Xiao Yanrou glared at Wei Wuji, who was grinning foolishly, and asked in a low voice, a little nervous.

Although their group had burrowed underground,

Xiao Qingyuan actually surfaced to the ground.

Just now, the twenty people had almost wiped out their group.

Now, seeing the two hundred people getting closer and closer, her heart almost jumped into her throat.

"Relax, be at ease, be patient, Aunt, today your nephew will show you my strongest Spell."

"It's a guaranteed win!"

"If it really doesn't work, I still have Talismans and my fists; I can definitely escape."

Xiao Qingyuan continued to pour in spiritual power, speaking in a low voice without turning his head.

His goal was to make the range of this Spell a bit larger.

That's right, this time he planned to use the Hundred-Mile Ice Cone to wear down these guys.

Finally, he would use the Frozen Handprint to take them out one by one.

He even intended to research new uses... to further develop this Spell.

A small group of two hundred people, with the highest at Qi Training Stage 9, he wasn't afraid at all.

"Here they come!"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Qingyuan, judging the distance, reached out from the grass.

He stealthily threw an ice cloud into the sky.

Then, he led Xiao Yanrou and the others back underground to wait.

The leading Cultivator suddenly looked up at the sky.

He inexplicably felt a sense of oppression.

Ahead was the valley entrance, a narrow terrain.

But seeing his own people already standing on the hillside clearing the way,

he hesitated for a moment, then continued to lead the team forward.

However, after only a few steps, he suddenly felt something was off.

He saw an enormous dark blue cloud, more than a hundred acres in size, appearing high in the sky above him, he didn’t know when.

It was a vast, dark mass, approaching them rapidly.

Only when it got closer did he see that it was several hundred acres in size!

"What is that? A dark cloud?"

"How can a dark cloud be so low?"

"Be vigilant, it might be a Spell."

"Are you kidding? How can there be a Spell with such a large range?"

The crowd became agitated.

The leading black-robed man watched the sky grow darker and darker, cold sweat breaking out.

"This is..."

Boom!—

Lightning flashed; it seemed the dark cloud had finally absorbed enough Spiritual Qi.

An ice cone fell with extreme speed.

The team leader's pupils constricted.

The ice cone that landed on the ground completely disappeared, embedded deep underground.

No!

—It wasn't an ice cone!

It was an ice spike, even more solid and sharper.

One.

Two.

And then countless more, without warning, rained down like a storm.

"Enemy attack!!!"

A shrill scream erupted from the team.

But it was too late.

Many people were pierced through the neck by ice spikes.

Some were impaled in the arm, lying on the ground, wailing continuously.

In an instant, over half the people were injured, and more than a dozen unlucky ones died directly, with quite a few severely wounded being rescued by their teammates.

Pure Qi Training Cultivators, even those in the Middle Stage, had extremely fragile bodies.

Completely unprepared, they couldn't evade this attack at all.

The attack was dense.

Getting denser and denser!

There were many people.

More and more fell.

Those with flying Magical Artifacts were the first to die.

The team leader immediately activated his Magical Artifact for defense.

Xiao Qingyuan watched from underground, amused.

He had injected a lot of spiritual power, and the cloud absorbed a large amount of surrounding Spiritual Qi.

These ice cones would continue for a long time.

Xiao Qingyuan even had the leisure to chat with a few people.

At this moment, his cousin Xiao Qinglan looked at him with a somewhat complex expression.

The last time they met was at Xiao Qingyuan's wedding.

If he remembered correctly, Xiao Qingyuan was at Qi Training Stage 3 then, and he had unhesitatingly called him Seventeenth Brother.

In a blink of an eye, it hadn't even been a year, had it?

And he was already at Qi Training Completion?

"Seventeenth Brother, you've hidden yourself quite well. I haven't even thanked you yet for saving my life."

Xiao Qingyuan waved his hand.

"No need for formalities, right? We're all family. As for the cultivation matter..."

He pointed to his eyes, shook his head, and said:

"Hidden? Little brother, I haven't hidden anything. This is an Awakening of a talent."

"All of this comes from my eye technique Divine Ability."

"This thing suddenly Awakened when I broke through to Qi Training Stage 4, which is why my cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds."

Xiao Qingyuan finished speaking, not bothering whether he believed it or not.

However, Yang Zhantang merely pouted upon hearing this.

Such words could only fool naive fools who hadn't seen the world.

He, for one, didn't believe a word of it.

A Royal Family Genius at Qi Training Completion in Central Capital—could he pull off such a feat?

If he could, he'd eat excrement upside down.

Two basins of it.

Xiao Qinglan, hearing this, nodded as if enlightened: "So that's how it is."

Xiao Qingyuan glanced above, finding that these people were still quite vigilant.

It wasn't a good time for a sneak attack, so he decided to wait another two minutes.

He then asked curiously, "Aunt, where are your flying Magical Artifacts? How come when I found you, you were only escaping with movement techniques?"

Xiao Yanrou smiled bitterly upon hearing this: "They were damaged! While these flying Magical Artifacts can indeed escape, they aren't very sturdy, and their speed isn't very fast. Such a large target is easily concentrated on and attacked..."

Xiao Qingyuan nodded upon hearing this.

They were focused fired.

It seemed his geng metal gourd absolutely needed to be reinforced properly.

No!

It must be heavily reinforced.

Preferably, offensive capabilities should also be added.

At this moment, Xiao Qingyuan thought of various plans.

He planned to refine it as soon as he returned.

Now that he had broken through to Qi Training Stage 11,

as long as Guanyin Nu became pregnant again, even if it was just with a miscellaneous Spiritual Root,

his Spiritual Root would surely advance.

Then, using a Foundation Establishment spiritual item to break through to Qi Training Stage 12, he would soon be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

And it would be a Heavenly Foundation Establishment.

This was also why he was willing to let Yang Zhantang go.

The Royal Family's Foundation Establishment would not arrive for another half a year.

By then, he would have already broken through, fearing no one!

It was time to focus on cultivating his children and the development of the immortal clan.

Thinking of this,

he, as if by a ghost's prompting, pulled out the Storage Pouch he had obtained from Mo Wendao, which was a second-tier one.

It had a huge area!

A first-tier Storage Pouch couldn't compare at all.

That unfamiliar black-clad man had extraordinary methods, and his Magical Artifacts were one after another, so he must have been very wealthy.

He was probably the leader of these people.

He was too curious.

However, the next second, his expression suddenly changed.

"Damn it, that guy isn't dead!"

"Who?" Xiao Yanrou asked.

Xiao Qingyuan's expression suddenly became very serious.

"This is the black-clad leader from before. The Divine Sense on his Storage Pouch is still there, proving that this guy isn't dead!"

"No, I can't wait any longer; I must finish this quickly!"

With that, he hid the others underground.

He created a temporary space.

Then, his body rapidly moved upward.

He placed various Intermediate Five Elements Talisman arrays under each of their feet, one by one.

He didn't care if it was wasteful or not.

These people were gathered in twos and threes, which just made it convenient for him.

He used up all fifty sets that were left from last time.

Only then did Xiao Qingyuan return underground to hide.

The others were dumbfounded by his actions.

Fifty sets of Five Elements Talismans—this kind of spending was simply from a different world than theirs.

No wonder Xiao Qingyuan dared to say he could single-handedly challenge two hundred Cultivators above the Middle Stage of Qi Training.

Who could withstand this?

Yang Zhantang's mouth twitched uncontrollably as he watched.

Xiao Qingyuan had already snuck under their feet.

Yet not a single person had noticed.

Insidious!

This was too insidious!

Seeing this, Yang Zhantang suddenly shivered uncontrollably.

He warned himself in his heart.

Never, ever, ever offend Xiao Qingyuan.

Otherwise, from now on, he might not even be able to sleep soundly.

Thinking of this, he saw Xiao Qingyuan, who had returned, first lead the others to dive deeper again.

Until the team on the surface became a small dot, until they were completely out of sight.

Only then did a mischievous smile appear on Xiao Qingyuan's face, and he then brought his two fingers together, suddenly forming a hand seal: "Today, this young master will give you something elegant to play with, art—is explosion!"

Boom—!!!