Chapter 171: Three Men Attack, Mere Soul Formation

The Spiritual Qi vortex grew larger and then stabilized.

Everyone still alive began to emerge from the secret realm one after another.

Once everyone had exited, Fang Xiuxian’s three Senior Brothers immediately stepped forward and blocked the path.

“Which of you killed my Junior Brother?”

Although Sun Lianghan directed the question at everyone, his gaze remained fixed on Qin Xiao.

He was Chen Shunyi’s eldest disciple, having studied under him for over three hundred years, and was already at the mid-stage of Soul Formation. Naturally, he knew of his master’s grudges with the Heavenly Clothes Pavilion and Qin Xiao, and he knew his Junior Brother had most likely died at Qin Xiao’s hands.

“Stop guessing. You’re staring right at me, so why ask? I killed him.”

Qin Xiao knew these three must be Fang Xiuxian’s three Senior Brothers. He stopped pretending and laid the cards on the table. I killed him, so what can you do?

“So it was you, brat. You’re courting death.”

Shi Pengfei was Fang Xiuxian’s second senior brother and had always doted on him. Hearing Qin Xiao’s answer, he prepared to attack. He too had reached mid-stage Soul Formation and was confident he could capture Qin Xiao.

“You two intend to make a move against my boss?”

Zhang Zuo and Li You stepped in front of Qin Xiao at the same time.

Neither concealed his mid-stage Soul Formation cultivation. What a joke. Where else would they find a boss like this? And these men wanted to kill him?

“Did you think we didn’t know you two were at the mid-stage of Soul Formation? What if you add me?”

Nie Yuanzheng stepped forward as well.

He had broken through to the Soul Formation stage not long ago, naturally giving him the right to speak this way.

After taking him in three hundred years ago, their master had never accepted another disciple. It was only after encountering their little Junior Brother that he made an exception. That Junior Brother possessed exceptional talent, serving not only as their master’s favored treasure but also as the darling of all three Senior Brothers.

Previously, the three brothers had been in Secluded Cultivation and had no part in the earlier grievances. After emerging, their master had sent them to pick up their Junior Brother. To think he had actually been killed-this completely infuriated the three brothers.

“Just the three of you? Anyone else?”

Qin Xiao wore an expression of complete indifference. A mere three people, and they wanted to kill me?

“The three of us are enough.”

Nie Yuanzheng took the initiative, launching an attack straight at Qin Xiao.

The eldest and second senior brothers would keep Qin Xiao’s bodyguards busy. Their master had sent all three of them; they had already planned for this.

Zhang Zuo prepared to stop him, but Sun Lianghan immediately blocked his path.

Li You was similarly checked by Shi Pengfei.

“Qin Xiao, you should never have killed our Junior Brother. If you had only injured him, we might have left you an intact corpse. Now, I will tear you to pieces.” You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.

Fury burned in Nie Yuanzheng’s eyes. With their Junior Brother dead, the three of them would also face punishment. Only by killing Qin Xiao could they appease their master’s wrath.

Seeing this, Yun Man stepped directly in front of Qin Xiao.

“Master, run! With your speed, he cannot catch you. I will hold him off for a moment.”

Yun Man naturally knew Qin Xiao was unafraid, especially given his speed. Escaping would be easy, but she needed to hold the enemy off to prevent interception.

“Good disciple. In the end, you really do care about your master most. It’s all right, step back. I’ve had a breakthrough too. This is a good chance to test myself against Soul Formation.”

Qin Xiao directly pulled Yun Man back.

If it were before, fleeing might have been his only option. But now, it wasn’t certain who would be running.

“Brat, since you actively seek death, I will let you truly understand what the Soul Formation stage means today.”

Nie Yuanzheng held out his right hand. A hand made of Spiritual Qi reached for Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao did not dodge, and the Spiritual Qi hand clamped directly around his throat.

Seeing the attack land instantly, Nie Yuanzheng gave a tug, wanting to drag Qin Xiao over, yet Qin Xiao did not budge an inch.

“How is this possible?”

Nie Yuanzheng could not understand it. He pulled several more times, but could not move Qin Xiao at all.

Qin Xiao simply threw a punch, shattering Nie Yuanzheng’s Spiritual Qi arm entirely.

“Show me something worthwhile. Those little tricks won’t work on me.”

Qin Xiao could hardly be bothered to attack first; he still wanted to test his defense. Did Nie Yuanzheng expect to strangle him with that pathetic hand of Spiritual Qi?

“Brat, I don’t know what crooked arts you are using, but this next strike will surely kill you.”

Nie Yuanzheng was enraged. A mere Body Refinement practitioner, even one with strength comparable to the Nascent Soul stage, was still trash in front of his Soul Formation stage.

With a twist of his hands, ten flying darts appeared in his grasp.

These ten flying darts had all reached the level of Top Grade Spirit Weapons. Thrown together, even an ordinary Low Grade Dharma Treasure could not defend against them.

Sweeping his hands outward, the ten darts shot toward Qin Xiao simultaneously.

“Finally, something worthwhile. I’ll take it.”

Though there was a risk, Qin Xiao believed he could take the hit. After all, Body Refinement Fifth Layer explicitly stated Unbreakable by Weapons, and he wanted to see if that was actually true.

“Master, dodge!”

Seeing Qin Xiao stand completely motionless, Yun Man hastily cried out a warning. You are reading on novelping.com, the official source.

“It is too late to dodge now.”

Without advance preparation, an ordinary cultivator would find this move hard to dodge. Throwing concealed weapons openly sacrificed some surprise, but Nie Yuanzheng considered it more than enough against a body refiner with only Nascent Soul strength.

Following that, all ten darts perfectly struck Qin Xiao. After all, Qin Xiao hadn’t moved an inch; if they had missed, Nie Yuanzheng might as well stop playing with darts.

However, the outcome defied Nie Yuanzheng’s expectations. The scene of Qin Xiao being pierced through by the ten darts did not occur. Instead, after a rapid series of metallic clangs, all ten darts clattered to the ground at Qin Xiao’s feet.

Qin Xiao bent down and picked up the ten darts, holding them in his hand.

“These things should be decent. Coming from a Soul Formation cultivator, I’ll take them as a gift.”

Qin Xiao could feel the darts wanting to fly back, but he gripped them tightly, and the darts remained completely immobile.

“What is going on? Why can’t I retrieve them?”

Nie Yuanzheng was completely stunned. These were weapons he had fully refined, so why couldn’t he retrieve them?

He tried summoning them again, but they stayed motionless in Qin Xiao’s hand.

“So it was you, old geezer, trying to drag them back. I was wondering why the darts kept twitching.”

Qin Xiao noticed Nie Yuanzheng channeling something and knew the other party was trying to take them back.

Without hesitation, Qin Xiao tossed all ten darts straight into his System Space.

The moment the darts entered the System Space, their connection to Nie Yuanzheng was severed entirely.

Forcibly cut off from his connection, Nie Yuanzheng suffered an immediate backlash and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

“What did you do to my darts?”

Nie Yuanzheng could no longer figure Qin Xiao out.

Nie Yuanzheng knew that even putting his darts in someone’s Storage Bag would not sever his link to them. A Dharma Treasure could lose its link only if it was destroyed or forcibly refined by someone else. Qin Xiao had not refined them. Were they destroyed, then?

How could that be? He hadn’t seen Qin Xiao destroy them either! It was simply too abnormal.

What he didn’t know was that Qin Xiao’s System Space didn’t belong to this world at all. Once placed inside, the items effectively vanished from this world, which was akin to being destroyed, as they simply ceased to exist in this realm.

A Storage Bag contained a space that still belonged to this world; it had been refined here. Even if a Dharma Treasure was put inside, its link would not be fully severed unless someone else refined it.

“What do you mean? Since you gifted them to me, I naturally accepted them. Do you have any other good stuff? Stronger weapons or Dharma Treasures, maybe? If not, coming over for some hand-to-hand combat works too.”

Qin Xiao was exasperated. After all that, the man had made two moves and handed him a few lousy darts. Couldn’t he try something stronger?

Nie Yuanzheng was going crazy. Stealing his darts and daring to spout such arrogant words-if he didn’t kill him today, he wasn’t fit to be a Soul Formation cultivator!

Under his violent rage, Nie Yuanzheng didn’t dare to use other methods. He lunged straight at Qin Xiao, intending to kill him with his own two hands.