Chapter 550: The Dauntless Huang Shiwo

Chapter 550 -516: The Dauntless Huang Shiwo

Qu Ming, however, stood his ground, completely motionless. He simply raised the Bone Staff in his hand and pointed it forward.

“CLATTER, CLATTER—”

The skulls hanging from his Bone Staff began to rattle violently before shooting forth. Expanding as they met the air, they became shrouded in a churning black mist and smashed into the nine Small Tripods. A series of deafening booms rang out, causing the entire Primordial City to tremble.

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH!

Several of the Small Tripods shuddered and were sent flying.

The remaining Small Tripods, however, continued their descent unimpeded. Qu Ming remained unperturbed. He lightly tapped the ground with his Bone Staff, and the black mist at his feet expanded with incredible speed. In the blink of an eye, it had spread for thousands of feet, blanketing the entire area.

The rest of the Small Tripods crashed into the mist, sinking into the black barrier as if it were a mire, pressing it inward.

In fact, the indentation nearly reached the top of Qu Ming’s head before it finally came to a halt.

However, as the Chief of the Pill Hall, Huang Shiwo was far more capable than that. Seeing that the attack with the nine Small Tripods had failed, he decisively formed a Seal Technique with his right hand. With a crackle, the nine Small Tripods transformed into nine electric serpents that rapidly converged in his palm.

They abruptly condensed, forming an Electric Spear that crackled with lightning. At that very moment, he thrust it furiously downward.

“RRRIP!”

The Electric Spear tore through the massive black barrier as easily as if it were made of paper, its tip aimed straight for the point between Qu Ming’s eyes.

The entire exchange, though long to describe, took place in mere moments.

“He did it!”

Seeing this, the Golden Core cultivators, including Meng Changtu and Chen Xi, couldn’t hide the joy on their faces. ‘If the Palace Master dies, the Golden Core cultivators of the three invading parties will be stunned. That single moment of distraction will be our chance to escape.’

“Oh no!”

The expressions on the faces of the Celestial Spirit Palace’s Golden Core cultivators changed drastically.

But they were too far away to intervene in time.

“Tsk…”

Zhang Miaqing frowned.

‘I never imagined the Nine Thunder Cauldron could transform like that. But battles between Golden Core cultivators change in a flash; the slightest carelessness is fatal. If Qu Ming can’t handle this, he’s a dead man.’

‘A centipede is not vanquished even in death. The Chief of a sect is truly a force to be reckoned with.’

Jiang Shaotian’s eyes narrowed. ‘The reason we’re besieging three sides and leaving one open is to avoid forcing the Primordial Sect into a corner and bringing out their desperation. If every one of them fought with the same disregard for their own lives as Huang Shiwo, our casualties from this siege would likely increase by half!’

Just then, however, the situation took a sudden turn—

Qu Ming, the tip of the Electric Spear aimed between his eyes, did not retreat. Instead, he took a step forward.

BOOM—

With a deafening roar, Qu Ming’s body trembled violently before dissolving into several streams of tranquil, ghostly-blue flame. The flames pounced forward with a speed that was deceptively slow, and in an instant, they had circled once around Huang Shiwo’s body.

Then, before the disbelieving eyes of the crowd, the streams of tranquil, ghostly-blue flame converged behind Huang Shiwo, reforming into the shape of Qu Ming. Huang Shiwo, however, remained frozen in mid-air, completely unable to move.

CRASH!

Huang Shiwo plummeted from mid-air, his impact shattering the ground and sending cracks spiderwebbing outward. At some point, his body had become encased in a layer of white Crystal Stone. From a distance, he looked like a mosquito trapped in amber.

And just like that, the Chief of the Primordial Sect’s Pill Hall had fallen.

To the Foundation Establishment cultivators watching, it seemed as if Qu Ming had accomplished all this with but a single step.

‘What kind of technique was that?’

Chen Che was stunned.

At the same time, he, who had been about to send a voice transmission to signal a breakout, stopped dead in his tracks at the sudden turn of events.