In the Southern Military Camp.
Si Yue muttered, “Why is our life so hard? When we return to City 10 this time, we must eat hot pot for seven days. No, ten days.”
The surrounding crows let out friendly laughter. “Boss is at the Southern front lines, he took all the six-eyed crows with him, surely it’s not easier for them. There’s so much work this year, and it’s almost New Year’s, I guess the bonuses this year won’t be small.”
A group of Metahumans corpse collectors stood in the bloody battlefield, discussing hot pot and year-end bonuses, a particularly incongruous scene.
The crows collected the bodies of the Metahumans one by one, then they prepared to head north regardless.
Seeing this, Fire Pit Grand Elder curiously asked, “Wait, where are you going?”
Si Yue turned back curiously, “Of course, we continue to collect Metahumans, maybe we can even collect Forbidden Artifacts.”
“Hmm?” The Grand Elder stroked his beard curiously, “Isn’t your destination here? There’s also a Field Army next door, aren’t you going?”
“No need to go there,” Si Yue sighed, “Someone there likes to use Metahumans to grow tea, they will usually take the corpses away directly. We don’t want to have a direct conflict with this person for the time being, so we plan to wait until he dies, then collect his tea garden!”
“Ah?” Li Ke was stunned, “The Field Army next door is being dealt with by Qing Family Shadow?”The matter of Shadow using Metahumans to grow tea is known to few people in the Federation, but as a core member of the Li Clan, Li Ke naturally heard of it.
Once, the Li Clan specifically sent people to find that tea garden, but unfortunately, they didn’t find it.
But what’s strange is that the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal is unwilling to have a direct conflict with someone?
You must know that the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal is an organization that has collected dying Demi-Gods.
Years ago, a Demi-God was nearing the end of his life, because he firmly believed that after being collected by the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal, he would not be able to be reincarnated, so he planned to hide in the depths of Forbidden Zone 001.
Before he could hide, he was found by the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal, and then forcibly collected.
The Forbidden Artifact Tribunal suffered heavy losses in that battle, but the result was that the collection was successful.
The Forbidden Artifact Tribunal rarely does this kind of thing, so many people have forgotten the cruelty of the principle upheld by these crows: they occasionally collect living people!
But such an existence is unwilling to be an enemy of Qing Family Shadow, and plans to wait for Shadow to die?
This is too strange.
Si Yue thought for a moment and explained, “This is a very special existence, he alone controls both time and space, fortunately, the world is also fair, such an existence will not exist in the world for too long. We feel the decaying aura on him, so there’s no need to rush now.”
Fire Pit Grand Elder pouted, “So the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal also compromises.”
Si Yue seriously corrected, “This is strategy.”
As everyone knows, the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal used to be an organization that never talked about strategy.
At this time, Li Yunjing asked, “Is the north your destination?”
Si Yue nodded, “This is purely passing by, if it weren’t for you, we wouldn’t have to work overtime… Forget it, we’re running out of time.”
Fire Pit Grand Elder turned to look at the other side, Ye Wan was carrying Lin Xiaoxiao towards the west, “Hey, Ye Wan boy, aren’t you going north?”
“No, our mission is completed,” Ye Wan calmly replied.
“Huh? Your Boss is clearly going to fight in the north, you don’t go to help, aren’t you afraid that he will die there?” Fire Pit Grand Elder said gloatingly, “Shendai Consortium used two Field Armies as bait, dragging all those who could help him here, isn’t it just eyeing Li Shutong’s life? As far as I know, Knights have very long lifespans, a Knight like Li Shutong who has reached Demi-God level, can live at least three to five hundred years, which is a perfect body for those dirty guys in Shendai… including his apprentice Qing Chen.”
The old grump continued to analyze gloatingly, “Shendai used such a big battle, if it’s just for a small Knight, it wouldn’t make sense. So I guess, from the beginning, they had Li Shutong in their plan.”
There’s a lot of information the old grump doesn’t know, but as the Grand Elder of Fire Pit, he knows that when a Conglomerate pays a corresponding price, there must be a plan that matches this price.
A Qing Chen is not enough for Shendai to suffer such heavy losses.
But if it’s to seize two perfect bodies, and one of them is a Demi-God, then the price is justifiable!
As soon as he finished speaking, Fire Pit Grand Elder saw Qin Yiyi running north.
He quickly grabbed the girl angrily, “Little ancestor, what are you doing?”
“Go help!” Qin Yiyi said.
The Grand Elder was about to die of anger, “I’m provoking those two, how did it provoke you first!”
This is really gloating to the point of getting it back on yourself!
The Grand Elder continued, “Listen to me, it’s useless for us to go north, it’s really useless! Li Yunjing and I are exhausted, going there is just sending ourselves to death!”
As he spoke, the old grump took advantage of Qin Yiyi’s distraction and knocked her unconscious with a palm strike, carrying her towards the south, “Let’s go, Shendai lost two Field Armies, there will definitely be real main forces coming. Ye Wan boy, whether your Boss can survive or not, the favor of Fire Pit is repaid! I advise you to go north, at least help!”
However, Ye Wan only thought for a moment, and continued to walk west, “Boss told us to retreat after we dealt with the Field Army. Also, our Boss isn’t as simple as you think, even though Knights are dwindling in numbers, even though he is already a Demi-God, he still plans to fight in groups every day.”
Fighting in groups seems to be the nature of Knights.
Fighting in groups rather than fighting alone is also the tradition of Knights generation after generation.
Many people know that Ye Wan, Lin Xiaoxiao, and Li Dongze were all orphans adopted by Li Shutong, and they are also “messengers” under the Knight Order.
But few people know how many orphans Li Shutong adopted, nor how many messengers there are in this generation of Knights.
Just as no one knows that Su Xingzhi, the black market Boss of City 18, is also one of the Knight Messengers.
Moreover, no one knows how many friends a person who upholds romanticism and does chivalry all over the world has.
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On the northern snowfield.
After Li Shutong appeared, the snowfield became quiet.
The forces hidden in the dark seemed to be weighing and observing, judging whether to continue to attack.
Life or death is a choice that must be made cautiously.
Li Shutong stood still without hurrying, he allowed the enemy to think carefully, after all, fighting him is worth making a careful choice.
The master looked curiously at his apprentice, “I just saw you blow a breath of Knight True Qi… How did you do it?”
Qing Chen was stunned, “Master, you were here long ago, and then you saw me scratched by that white tiger?”
Li Shutong said with a smile, “If a Knight doesn’t have any injuries, can he still be called a Knight? As a master, I also need to check the progress of my apprentice. You’re growing faster than I imagined. When I completed the four Trials of Life and Death, it took me two years, and before each challenge of the Trials of Life and Death, I had to train for half a year before I could barely meet the qualifications for the challenge.”
Li Shutong brought the topic back, “Let’s talk about that breath of Knight True Qi first.”
Qing Chen understood, Master was envious…
Yes, Li Shutong was sure that Qing Chen had just used Knight methods, but why, as the leader of this generation of Knights, did he not understand such a powerful large-scale killing skill?
A large-scale killing ability is the dream of every Knight!
Qing Chen thought for a moment and explained carefully and softly, “Master, after my Knight True Qi is gasified, it has accumulated too much, so now it has permeated my whole body and become liquid. After becoming liquid, I naturally have this ability.”
“There is a liquid state after the gaseous state?!” Li Shutong raised his eyebrows, could there be such a good thing?!
He knew that his apprentice was special, but he didn’t expect him to be so special, first awakening, and then liquefying the Knight True Qi…
Qing Chen pondered for a moment and sorted out the clues, “Ancestor Qin Sheng originally went to kidnap the Buddha Master from the southwest snow mountain, and then snatched the Zhunti Method…”
Li Shutong interrupted Qing Chen and corrected, “He voluntarily gave it to the Knights.”
Qing Chen paused, he thought that his master knew this piece of history, “Yes, it was voluntary. The Zhunti Method has a total of four sections, the first three sections are useless to Knights, so they were abandoned. But later I found out in Autumn Leaf Manor that after becoming a Knight, practicing the Zhunti Method can continue to increase Knight True Qi without challenging the Trials of Life and Death.”
The Cultivation method of Knight True Qi has always been simple: after B-Class, complete the Trials of Life and Death, and then increase a section.
“No,” Li Shutong shook his head, “Our ancestors recorded this, the KnightCultivation Zhunti Method, what you get is Zhunti True Qi, not Knight True Qi.”
The premise for a Knight to challenge the Trials of Life and Death is that he must use the Reverse Breathing Technique to return to the state of an ordinary person.
But if there is Zhunti True Qi in the body, even if the Reverse Breathing Technique is activated, the Knight is still not an ordinary person.
If you are not an ordinary person, completing the Trials of Life and Death is useless.
Only after reaching Demi-God level, when the Knight True Qi is all over the body, will the Zhunti True Qi be forcibly absorbed into Knight True Qi. But at that time, the Knight True Qi is already all over the body, and if you continue to Cultivation Zhunti Method, it will be accompanied by pain in the meridians.
Therefore, Knights abandoned the first three sections of Breathing Technique.
And now, Li Shutong is moved, he wants to bear the pain in the meridians to try and see if Knight True Qi, to a certain extent, will turn into liquid.
If it can, then the Demi-God level of Knights will have a new method.
On the other side, Qing Chen is thinking, his B-Class cloud gas is already very terrifying, what kind of scene will it be if it is used by his Demi-God level Master?!
Li Shutong smiled, “Unexpectedly, there’s a new harvest before the battle.”
These master and apprentice are actually chatting in the battlefield.
The next moment, Li Shutong looked up ahead, where there was a four-meter-tall minotaur, holding a huge nine-ringed knife, slowly walking.
With every step, the ground trembled.
Li Shutong smiled, “Ox Head Rakshasa.”
Ox Head Rakshasa’s breath condensed into mist in the cold air, like a steam engine.
On the left, a short, black, furry dwarf was jumping and hopping.
“Bing Zhu Bu.”
On the right, was a young man with a huge wine gourd on his back, red hair, and bare feet on the snow.
“Wine Swallowing Child.”
Behind, a tall, red-faced, long-nosed, strange monster in monk’s clothes, high wooden clogs, holding a feather fan and a treasure mallet, was staring at Li Shutong.
“Great Heavenly Dog.”
Li Shutong smiled, “They’re all the Shikigami of the Old Turtle, it seems the Old Turtle has made a decision. Apprentice, you’ve dealt with these Yin-Yang Masters before, right.”
“Yes,” Qing Chen nodded.
“Let me give you some common sense, in the Yin-Yang Master Shikigami, there are many Shikigami with the same names as our divine beasts, such as Gu Huo Niao, such as Zhu Jiuyin, but those are what they have raided. Of course, we can’t control what they like to call Shikigami, but Master will teach you a way to distinguish them, ours are gods, theirs are ghosts.”
Qing Chen smiled, “This way of distinguishing is indeed simple.”
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In an instant, Li Shutong beside Qing Chen disappeared.
As if a 155-caliber howitzer suddenly fired, the huge recoil blasted up the snow and dust behind, Qing Chen had to use his arm to cover his eyes, the snow and wind blowing his clothes and hair backward.
When he put down his arm, he saw Li Shutong had already appeared in front of Wine Swallowing Child.
A punch.
As he punched, the wind and snow surged.
The red-haired child crossed his arms in front of him to block this punch, but before he could cross his arms, the punch had already passed through the gap between his arms.
Boom!
Tremor!
Wine Swallowing Child, as if he had been hit by a howitzer, rolled out dozens of meters.
A terrifying air wave blasted a radial pattern in the snow behind Wine Swallowing Child.
Qing Chen watched his Master’s full-strength blow, his whole body was stunned.
This Shikigami was different from the ones he had fought before, the ones he fought were either B-Class or A-Class, but this was a real S-Class Shikigami.
Yet, in front of Li Shutong, it didn’t even have the ability to block!
He thought that when his Master used his full power, he might become the peak of human martial arts like Master Roshi, that would be about it.
Qing Chen never thought that when his Master used his full power, it was a Super Saiyan, One-Punch Man mode!
It wasn’t over yet.
But he saw Bing Zhu Bu roar, hundreds of steel halberds suddenly appeared in the sky, covering the hundreds of meters around Li Shutong in a Matrix mode.
Hundreds of halberds fell, as if they wanted to blast the ground into collapse, blasting through the earth’s core! This is the power of an S-Class Shikigami!
But Li Shutong didn’t dodge or evade, he took a few snowflakes from the air and shot them into the sky, shattering the halberds that were shot towards him.
He stood in this Matrix of halberds like a torrential rain, unscathed.
It was as if Bing Zhu Bu had deliberately avoided Li Shutong when attacking.
In an instant, Li Shutong caught a halberd from mid-air with his bare hands and threw it at Bing Zhu Bu!
With a buzz, the halberd seemed to resonate with space, as the halberd shot out, the air it drove pushed away the snow below, like a speedboat breaking the waves.
The dwarf Bing Zhu Bu was hit on the head by his own halberd and flew out!
Great Heavenly Dog and Ox Head Rakshasa moved, they went straight for Qing Chen.
Qing Chen only felt his hair stand on end, the moment the S-Class Shikigami attacked, he even felt that he couldn’t avoid it!
Can’t avoid it!
Will die!
“Scram.”
Li Shutong casually said.
This all happened in an instant, Qing Chen didn’t even react to what had happened, Li Shutong had already returned to his side.
The Great Heavenly Dog, which had been holding the mallet to kill Qing Chen, and the Ox Head Rakshasa, which had been wielding the nine-ringed knife to slash at Qing Chen, saw that Li Shutong had returned to Qing Chen’s side, and immediately retreated in fright, Great Heavenly Dog even crushed the high wooden clogs on its feet!
At one point, Qing Chen suddenly had a feeling that there were actually finer divisions among S-class, such as S-class, SS-class, SSS-class, they’re all S-class…
But there’s a big difference between SSS and S…
Earlier, he had been wondering what his Master should do in the Face[-] of the twelve S-class Shikigami of the Old Turtle in Shendai, now he realized that he had overthought it!
If Li Shutong didn’t have to protect him in the battlefield, the remaining Great Heavenly Dog and Ox Head Rakshasa would have been severely injured.
At this time, Qing Chen remembered what his Master had just said: See, this is Knight!
Li Shutong stood beside Qing Chen, red flame patterns spreading on his cheeks, his breath was steady, there was no sign of exhaustion.
This means that the previous battle was just a warm-up…
“Master, why don’t these S-class Shikigami die?” Qing Chen frowned and asked.
In front of them, the dwarf Bing Zhu Bu clearly had a halberd stuck in his forehead, but he was slowly struggling to stand up.
In that case, wouldn’t the battle be endless? They must find the Yin-Yang Master behind them!
Li Shutong pondered, “Only four of the twelve Shikigami have been released, what is the Old Turtle’s plan?”
Qing Chen asked aside, “Master, am I holding you back here?”
If it weren’t for him, Li Shutong could completely rush to find the Old Turtle’s main body, after all, to kill the Yin-Yang Master, you have to kill the main body first.
But Li Shutong had to protect Qing Chen, he couldn’t rush with Qing Chen.
This means that Li Shutong can only stay here to guard.
Li Shutong smiled, “There’s no such thing as holding me back, just watch here.”
As he spoke, Qing Chen suddenly looked into the distance, where a strange man was standing quietly, empty-handed, but particularly eye-catching.
At a glance, this person was clearly small in the field of vision, but could not be ignored.
A natural focal point, the center of the world.
Qing Chen also had the same feeling on Li Shutong, just like in Prison 18, he noticed Li Shutong’s uniqueness at a glance.
That’s the harmony between a Demi-God transcending the mundane and gradually merging with the world, they breathe the heavens and earth, overlooking all living beings!
“Master, is this the Old Turtle of Shendai?” Qing Chen asked.
Li Shutong smiled, “No, this is Li Bingxi, Koshima’s younger brother. It seems that after the Old Turtle failed to trade with Shadow, he found the Koshima family, and presumably paid a huge price. Qing Chen, it’s not that you’re holding me back, perhaps they came for you in the beginning, but when Shendai Yunhe found a way to spread the news that you are the Knight’s heir, this situation became what I prepared for.”
“Shendai Yunhe isn’t dead?” Qing Chen frowned.
“No, you broke his arm, and he just got a mechanical prosthetic limb in City 22 some time ago. The old man from Qing Family spared his life, probably wanting to continue to hone you,” Li Shutong smiled, “If we talk about ruthlessness, this one is even more ruthless, you must be careful of him, he has no feelings.”
Qing Chen was stunned, this so-called “old man” of Qing Family, is probably the Head of the Qingshi Clan, right?
Before this, Shadow hadn’t mentioned anything about this old man to him, and now Li Shutong has revealed a little bit of the secret to him.
At this time, Li Bingxi in the distance slowly walked, a Koshima Demi-God, a Shendai Demi-God, and a Knight Demi-God, all gathered here.
Qing Chen guessed that this kind of battle might only happen once in a century.
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