Chapter 46: Wouldn’t It Have Been Better to Just Stay Put?

However,

He had barely rushed forward three zhang.

A figure in green robes appeared before him like a ghost.

Chen Ping.

“Wouldn’t it have been better to just stay put?”

His tone was flat.

“You just had to interfere.”

Xuetu’s eyes were blood-red, his killing intent surging to the heavens.

“Get out of my way!”

He raised his hand and struck out with a palm!

Bloody light flared, transforming into a massive crimson handprint that crashed down from above!

The aura of a third-level Divine Ability cultivator, unleashed without reservation!

The entire underground space trembled!

*

Chen Ping raised his hand.

And waved it gently.

Boom!

The crimson handprint exploded in midair, billowing into a cloud of blood mist.

Xuetu’s pupils constricted.

“You…”

He had no time for shock.

Because Chen Ping’s fist was already in front of his face.

A very ordinary punch.

No fancy moves, no earth-shattering momentum.

Just a simple, straightforward punch.

But Xuetu’s soul screamed a warning.

He couldn’t dodge!

Boom!

The fist crashed into his crossed arms.

Xuetu was sent flying backward, slamming heavily into the stone wall a hundred zhang away and leaving a deep crater.

Rubble rained down.

He struggled to crawl out of the crater, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, his face filled with disbelief.

“You… are you really in the Qi Refining Stage?”

Chen Ping did not answer.

He just watched him quietly.

But Xuetu had already felt it.

The aura of the person before him was indeed that of the Qi Refining Stage.

But the essence of that power was terrifyingly pure.

That was absolutely not ordinary spiritual energy.

It was a power of a much higher level than spiritual energy.

“Impossible…” he muttered.

“How could someone in the Qi Refining Stage have this kind of strength…”

Chen Ping said flatly,

“Stay right there. Don’t move.”

Xuetu gritted his teeth.

He looked at the high platform, where the young girl had already fought her way deep into the third level, with over a dozen third-level monsters struggling in their death throes.

If this continued, all would be lost.

He took a deep breath, a flash of resolve crossing his eyes.

*

“You forced my hand!”

He suddenly raised his hand and slapped his own chest!

Pfft!

A mouthful of essence blood sprayed out, turning into a bloody mist that dispersed throughout the underground space.

“Blood Burning Array, release!”

Boom!

The entire underground space shook violently!

On the high platform, the cultivators sitting cross-legged opened their eyes at the same time!

Blood-red eyes.

One hundred and eighty at the first level, one hundred and twenty at the second level, twenty-six at the third level, and that single fourth-level one.

All of them had awakened!

Though waking up early would damage their cultivation methods and greatly reduce their strength,

it was still better than all of them dying!

Xuetu panted heavily, pointed at Lin Xiaoyu on the high platform, and roared,

“Kill her!!”

*

On the high platform.

Lin Xiaoyu had just decapitated a third-level monster with a sweep of her sword.

Suddenly, she felt it.

Countless blood-red gazes fell upon her at the same time.

She looked up.

Over three hundred pairs of blood-red eyes were staring intently at her.

The monsters that had been unable to move before had all stood up now.

Blood energy surged around them, their killing intent towering.

“Kill her!”

“Kill her!”

“Kill her!”

Roars rose and fell, deafening.

*

Lin Xiaoyu gripped her hilt tightly.

There were already over a dozen wounds on her body, and blood soaked through her clothes.

Most of her stamina was depleted as well.

But she did not retreat.

She simply took a deep breath.

And then,

In her eyes, golden lightning suddenly flared!

Eye of Heavenly Punishment,

Open!

Boom!

Two beams of golden lightning shot from her eyes, instantly piercing through the three monsters charging at the front!

The three didn’t even have time to scream before the lightning burned them to cinders.

But there were even more behind them.

One hundred.

Two hundred.

Three hundred.

They surged forward like a tide.

*

Lin Xiaoyu moved.

Sword light flared again!

One strike decapitated a man, and she turned to pierce another’s heart with her next thrust.

Sidestepping the bloody claws of a third, she swung her sword backhanded to lop off his head.

But the fourth person’s attack had already arrived.

A claw slashed her left shoulder!

Pfft!

Blood splattered.

Lin Xiaoyu groaned, severing the man’s arm with one strike and piercing his throat with another.

But the fifth, the sixth, the seventh…

There were too many.

Too many!

Her sword grew faster, but the wounds on her body also multiplied.

Her left shoulder was torn open.

Her right arm was slashed.

Her abdomen was pierced.

A chunk of flesh was ripped from her back.

Blood dyed her entire body, making it impossible to tell if it was the enemy’s or her own.

But she did not stop.

She could not stop.

Because stopping meant death.

Because these people were all from the Blood Fiend Sect.

Because,

She had promised her mother she would get revenge.

She had promised her master she would become strong.

She could not die here.

*

“Kill!”

She growled low, her sword light flaring once more!

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment opened again, golden lightning sweeping across the area!

But after the lightning passed, new monsters rushed forward.

Endless.

*

Below the high platform.

Xuetu watched this scene, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

“Hahaha! Kill! Kill her!”

He looked at Chen Ping, his eyes full of madness.

“Aren’t you strong? Didn’t you want to stop me? Let’s see how you save her now!”

Chen Ping did not speak.

He just quietly watched the figure fighting a bloody battle on the high platform.

His hand inside his sleeve trembled slightly.

But he did not move.

Because he knew,

This was her path.

This was her vengeance.

She needed to walk it herself.

She needed to carry it out with her own hands.

*

On the high platform.

Lin Xiaoyu no longer knew how many she had killed.

Her vision began to darken.

Her sword grew slower and slower.

Her wounds multiplied.

But she was still swinging her sword.

One strike.

Two strikes.

Three strikes.

Every strike took all her strength.

Every strike claimed a life.

But there were still over two hundred enemies left.

*

A third-level monster lunged from the side, claws slashing her right arm!

Pfft!

The Qingfeng Sword slipped from her grasp and flew, embedding itself in the ground ten zhang away.

Lin Xiaoyu staggered back, her hands empty.

The eyes of the surrounding monsters lit up.

“She has no sword!”

“Kill her!”

“Kill her!”

They swarmed forward.

*

Lin Xiaoyu looked at the lunging bloody figures and suddenly smiled.

She had no sword.

But she still had her fists.

And her legs.

And her head.

And her teeth.

And,

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

She closed her eyes.

When she opened them again, golden lightning surged wildly in her eyes!

“Eye… of… Heavenly… Punishment!”

Boom!!!

Two beams of golden lightning shot from her eyes!

This time, it was not a sweep, but a rotation!

The lightning formed a massive vortex around her, sweeping all the charging monsters into it!

Screams rose and fell.

Within the lightning vortex, the bodies of those monsters melted, shattered, and turned to ash.

Ten people.

Twenty people.

Thirty people.

Fifty people.

When the lightning dissipated, not a single person stood within thirty zhang of her.

Only charred corpses and ashes covered the ground.

*

Lin Xiaoyu knelt on one knee, panting heavily.

The golden light in her eyes had already dimmed.

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment consumed too much.

In her current state, she could not use it a second time anytime soon.

She raised her head and looked ahead.

There were still over a hundred monsters.

They stood in the distance, fear in their eyes, not daring to step forward.

But they did not retreat either.

They were waiting.

Waiting for her strength to run out.

Waiting for her to collapse.

*

Lin Xiaoyu struggled to stand up.

She swayed, looking as if she might collapse at any moment.

But she stood up.

Step by step, she walked toward the Qingfeng Sword embedded in the ground.

Every step was incredibly difficult.

Every step left a bloody footprint.

The monsters watched her, not moving.

Because her eyes,

Were too terrifying.

That was not the look a young girl gave her enemies.

It was the look of someone who had crawled back from hell, staring at dead men.

*

Lin Xiaoyu reached the Qingfeng Sword.

She reached out and gripped the hilt.

The reflection on the blade showed a pale face.

Covered in blood, yet her eyes were astonishingly bright.

She raised her head and looked at the hundred-odd monsters before her.

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

“Come,”

she said.

Her voice was very soft, very quiet.

Yet it made all the monsters take a step back in unison.

*

Below the high platform.

The smile on Xuetu’s face froze.

Looking at that blood-soaked, swaying figure that still stood straight, fear surfaced in his eyes for the first time.

Not fear of her strength.

But fear of her will.

What in the world was this monster?

*

Chen Ping still stood where he was.

He did not move.

But his eyes had grown red.

Silly girl…

That’s enough…

It’s really enough…

But he could not say it.

Because this was her path.

She needed to walk it to the end herself.

*

On the high platform.

The battle continued.

Lin Xiaoyu gripped her hilt tightly and, step by step, walked toward the hundred-plus monsters.

Her steps faltered, her body swayed.

Yet she walked steadily.

Every single step was incredibly firm.

Behind her lay a path of blood.

Before her was a crowd of enemies with fear in their eyes.

She lifted her head.

Within her eyes, a golden light kindled once more.

Though faint.

It was still shining.

“Come.”