I am a boss in the world of nine uncles

Anlu Village.

Inside the barrier.

The enormous serpent demon, with eight heads and eight tails, resembling a patchwork, tightly coiled its tails around the waists of Ling Yue, Ling Duan, Shao Gong, and the five Tianyong cultivators, tossing them around in the air like toys, showing no sign of intending to hunt them down.

As Ling Yue was forced to fly at high speed, he desperately gathered his strength, preparing for a fatal blow.

Compared to him, the others were in a much worse state. They were so dazzled that they saw stars and kept gagging. The feeling was worse than death.

Much later.

Ling Yue finally gathered the power for his full-power attack, opened his mouth and spat out a sword aura, heading straight for the snake demon's head in the very center.

Ouyang Shaogong was the first to spot this scene and immediately sent a telepathic message to the snake demon.

The snake demon reacted quickly, and seeing that it couldn't dodge in time, it hid the head behind another head.

"boom!"

The sword energy exploded the moment it touched the head, blasting the slippery, ugly snake head into a cloud of blood mist.

"hiss!"

The snake demon hissed in pain, its tail suddenly tightening, causing all the Tianyong disciples except Ling Yue to scream in agony.

Ling Yue was helpless.

This is troublesome.

"boom."

Just as the snake demon, writhing in agony, unleashed boundless killing intent, intending to devour someone, the barrier suddenly shattered, and two figures slowly approached.

"Tu Su, it's you?"

Ling Yue was shocked and immediately questioned, "Zhao Lin, I told you to go back and ask for help, why did you bring Tu Su with you?"

Zhao Lin responded, "The sect leader is not here, and I dare not disturb the elder who holds the sword in seclusion. Apart from them, the only person I can turn to is Tu Su."

Ling Yue: "..."

Given the terrifying power the snake demon has displayed, what use is it to bring Tu Su here?
"Senior brother, didn't you go to Beihai? What are you doing here?" Qin Yao asked.

"You two are actually chatting? Don't you even respect me?" the snake demon roared.

Qin Yao replied, "No."

The snake demon was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage and used its tail to smash a Tianyong disciple to the ground.

Qin Yao remained indifferent, raised his arm, and used his fingers as a sword to release a black and red sword aura out of thin air.

"puff!"

In the blink of an eye, the sword energy arrived with unpredictable speed, severing the entire snake tail before it could hit the ground.

After escaping, the Tianyong disciple hurriedly circulated his spiritual energy and staggered to steady himself.

"what!"

The snake demon roared, and all its eyes instantly turned blood red.

Qin Yao's gaze was indifferent, and the sword energy on his fingers continued to surge, sweeping across the snake demon's seven heads like a red laser. The screams stopped abruptly, and the tails that were tightly wrapped around the others fell limply.

Upon landing, everyone, including Ling Yue and Ouyang Shaogong, stared in astonishment.

If it were Master Ziyin who released this power, they would not be surprised in the slightest.

After all, Ziyin is the number one sword immortal in the world, and he is hard to match in the human realm.

But Tu Su...

How did he do that?
As a result, a long silence fell over the open space stained red with snake blood, with only the sound of the wind echoing above everyone's heads.

"Monster, you're a monster too!" After an unknown amount of time, Ling Duan suddenly shouted.

"Snapped!"

Qin Yao flicked his palm out from mid-air, and before anyone could see any immortal energy emanating from him, Ling Duan was directly knocked to the ground.

"Although I only saved you incidentally, you don't have to be grateful for my life-saving grace, but you can't be an ingrate."

In the silence, Qin Yao spoke in a deep voice.

Ling Duan was stunned by the blow and instinctively flew into a rage, but after recalling how the other party used his finger as a sword to kill the snake demon, all the curses were stuck in his throat.

"Senior Brother, you haven't answered my question yet." Seeing that he was being sensible, Qin Yao then looked at Ling Yue.

Ling Yue exhaled a breath of turbid air and said, "I just returned from the North Sea and sensed the overwhelming demonic energy here. After descending from the sky, I saw the snake demon toying with my junior brothers."

Qin Yao seemed to be deep in thought.

The snake demon wouldn't play tricks on the Tianyong disciples for no reason, so this was a trap set for itself, either to steal the Burning Sword or to steal the sword spirit within its body.

However, the strategist severely underestimated his own strength, leading to a situation where brute force was used to break the deadlock...

"Ling Duan, you and your fellow disciples stay here and clean up the snake corpses," Qin Yao said, looking up after figuring out the key point.

"Why should I?" Ling Duan protested.

"Just because I saved you." Qin Yao waved his hand and laughed, "Senior brother, Shao Gong, let's go first."

Ling Yue summoned back his own spirit sword, enlarging it to the size of a door: "I'll take you back..."

Not long after.

The spirit sword slowly descended into the back mountain of Tianyong City. Upon seeing this, Chang'e quickly came over and said with a smile, "You're back quite quickly."

"Just a little snake demon," Qin Yao replied.

Ling Yue: "..."

This "tiny" snake demon nearly wiped them all out; it would be a terrifying calamity anywhere in the human world!

Ouyang Shaogong, standing to the side, had mixed feelings.

He had personally raised that snake demon, and no one knew its potential better than him.

His original plan was to threaten Tu Su with the lives of Ling Duan and the others to obtain the Burning Sword. He never expected that Ling Yue would suddenly appear with divine weapons, and he never expected that Tu Su's strength would be so great.

"Tu Su, the sword energy you unleashed... seems to be the power of the Burning Sword, right?" At this moment, Ling Yue finally couldn't help but ask.

Qin Yao nodded: "Yes."

"How could you unleash the Burning Sword Qi?" Despite having anticipated it, Ling Yue was still shocked.

Practice makes perfect, and Qin Yao repeated his response to Granny Youdu almost without thinking.

After listening, Ling Yue's reaction was almost exactly the same as Granny Youdu's; his brain went blank for a long time.

Ouyang Shaogong, who was standing beside him, was the same. After all, he was also very clear about the origin of Fenji and the terrifying nature of Fenji's demonic energy.

"No, I'll go ask my master to come out of seclusion right now and give you a proper look." After a while, Ling Yue said immediately after realizing what was going on.

He was still worried about his junior brother, fearing that there might be some trap hidden in the matter.

Qin Yao raised his hand and pulled the other person back, saying earnestly, "Senior brother, since I refined the Burning Soul Qi, I will no longer feel pain."

Ling Yue: "..."

“I feel that the snake demon’s arrival is too suspicious.” At this moment, Chang’e suddenly changed the subject: “What’s even stranger is that when Zhao Lin returned, the sect leader was not there; it’s as if the snake demon knew that the sect leader was not there, so it deliberately showed itself and launched the attack.”

Qin Yao chuckled inwardly, but on the surface remained solemn: "You mean, there's a mole?"

“That’s the most reasonable explanation,” Chang’e said.

Ouyang Shaogong pursed his lips and deliberately prompted, "Could it be... Senior Brother Ling Duan?" Qin Yao cooperated perfectly, saying, "Besides him, who else would hate me so much?"

Ling Yue frowned slightly: "But the problem is, Ling Duan doesn't have the strength to set up this scheme."

Chang'e said, "There must be a mastermind behind Ling Duan."

Ouyang Shaogong gasped: "Senior Brother Ling Duan, it's the Sect Leader..."

"Don't talk nonsense," Ling Yue suddenly interrupted, "The sect leader will not have any problems!"

evening.

The sunset glows alongside the lone wild goose in flight.

When the sect leader landed slowly in front of the Lintian Pavilion on his flying sword, Ling Duan, who had been waiting there, rushed forward and said with a heavy expression, "Master, you've finally returned."

"What happened?" The sect leader noticed his unusual expression and asked directly.

"Let's go inside the hall and talk," Ling Duan said softly, glancing to his left and right.

The sect leader raised an eyebrow slightly, but did not refuse. Instead, he led the other party into the hall and said, "Speak."

“Master, Tu Su is a monster,” Ling Duan said.

The sect leader's gaze sharpened: "What makes you say that?"

Ling Duan then recounted the snake demon's and Tu Su's actions one by one, leaving the sect leader utterly astonished.

Putting aside whether he's a monster or not, the speed at which Tu Su's strength is increasing is quite bizarre.

Unless, of course, the child has been hiding his talents since childhood, but this situation would indicate that the other party is very shrewd and calculating.

“Master, for the safety of all our fellow disciples in Tianyong City, don’t you think we should thoroughly examine him?” Ling Duan suggested softly.

The sect leader seemed to awaken from a dream, and suddenly looked into his eyes:
"Ling Duan, I gave you this name in the hope that you would have upright character. Is betraying your savior, or even regarding your savior as a monster, a sign of upright character?"

Ling Duan's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly said, "Master, I did it for the sake of all my fellow disciples..."

"Alright, no need to say more."

The sect leader was too lazy to listen to his sophistry and raised his hand, saying, "You are not allowed to target Tu Su again. I am not blind or deaf, nor am I unaware of your usual behavior."

Lingduan: "..."

a few days later.

The lawn behind the hill.

Just as Qin Yao was refining the power of Burning Soul as usual, the sword spirit went berserk again, manipulating the Burning Soul fire to crash against Tu Su's primordial spirit like a raging storm.

Qin Yao immediately stopped absorbing the power of the Burning Soul and used the laws of time and space to imprison all the Burning Soul flames in place.

"You must be the reincarnation of an ancient god, the god of metal Ru Shou, the god of wood Ju Mang, the god of water Gong Gong, the god of fire Zhu Rong, the god of wind Fei Lian, the god of rain Shang Yang, the god of earth Hou Tu, the god of night Yan Luo... Who are you?" The sword spirit roared unwillingly.

It was transformed from the spirit of Prince Changqin, and was born with knowledge of the gods' information, and even knew many of their secrets!

Qin Yao said, "I am who I am, not anyone you know... oh no, I am a god."

The sword spirit remained silent for a moment, then said, "If you help me take human form, I will give you the Burning Sword."

"The Burning Sword doesn't seem to belong to you anymore, does it?" Qin Yao said with a smile.

"I am the spirit of the Burning Sword. If the Burning Sword doesn't belong to me, to whom does it belong?" the sword spirit retorted.

Qin Yao shook his head: "I can get the Burning Sword without you giving it to me."

The sword spirit threatened, "Don't you think my presence inside you is a potential threat? You'll have your weak moments eventually, won't you?"

Qin Yao chuckled: "You are just a hidden danger inside me, but if I release you, you will be my calamity!"

He would never allow the story of the Evil Sword Immortal to repeat itself in the world of Ancient Sword, so he preferred to use his body as a cage to suppress the Burning Sword.

"Ding ding ding..."

"boom!"

As evening fell, the sun began to set.

As Qin Yao and Chang'e were watching the sunset together in front of the Cloud Cliff on the back mountain, they heard the sounds of weapons clashing and Hongyu's urgent shouts.

"Someone has trespassed into the Sword Pavilion," Chang'e said, turning her head.

Qin Yao raised his hand and cast a Xuan Guang Mirror in the void in front of him, shining it towards the location of the Sword Pavilion. He saw a group of cultivators ignoring Hong Yu's warnings and frantically attacking the gate of the Sword Pavilion. If it weren't for the elders guarding the Sword Pavilion at this moment, they would probably have broken in.

"Whoosh~"

Suddenly, a sword light flashed by, revealing itself to be the sect leader. After repelling many spiritual cultivators with a single sword strike, he shouted sternly, "This is the most important place in Tianyong City. What do you intend to do?"

Among the assembled spiritual cultivators, a dwarf with crimson hair and wielding two hammers spoke loudly: "We have heard that the ancient divine sword Fenji is currently located in the Sword Pavilion of Tianyong City. We have come here to have a look at it."

The sect leader's lips twitched.

The fact that the Burning Sword is in the Sword Pavilion is a secret, even within Tianyong City. How could these people know about it?

Is there a traitor among the elders?
impossible!
He knew all the elders in Tianyong City inside and out.

“You’ve been deceived. The Burning Sword is not in the Sword Pavilion,” Hongyu said solemnly.

The red-haired dwarf laughed and said, "If that's the case, why do you all need to stop us?"

The elder who guarded the Sword Pavilion with Hongyu said, "Nonsense, if someone wanted to trespass on your property, would you be happy to let them in?"

From the crowd, a swordsman said in a low voice, "Enough with the nonsense, let us in for a look. If we don't see the Burning Sword, we'll turn around and leave."

The sect leader coldly replied, "Absolutely impossible."

"Then there's nothing more to say, brothers, let's go! Whoever gets the Burning Sword will become the ruler of the cultivation world!" A cultivator wielding a heavy sword shouted, leading the charge.

The sect leader was furious. He single-handedly killed all the greedy people with his sword, and their blood stained the ground in front of the Sword Pavilion.

However, news of the Burning Sword's presence in Tianyong City had already spread, and from then on, cultivators who stole or robbed the sword appeared one after another.

As time went on, some renowned experts from the cultivation world arrived one after another, and even the sect leader gradually found it difficult to keep up.

In response to this situation, the high-ranking officials of Tianyong City unanimously requested the Sect Leader to awaken the Sword-Holding Elder and discuss how to handle the matter together.

Just as the sect leader was hesitating about this, Qin Yao suddenly arrived on the wind, fluttering to the front of Lintian Pavilion like a falling leaf.

The sect leader sensed his presence and looked up, asking, "Is there something you need, Tu Su?"

Under the gaze of the other party and the elders, Qin Yao smiled and said, "Before my master comes out of seclusion, why don't I take care of the Burning Sword?"

"No."

As soon as these words were spoken, several elders immediately voiced their opposition.

The sect leader did not agree with them. Instead, he solemnly stared at Qin Yao and said, "Tu Su, even I and the elders could not withstand those sword snatchers. What do you have to do to resist them?"

"Of course, we'll use the Burning Sword to fight them," Qin Yao said without hesitation. "I can control the Burning Sword."

"Impossible." The elders shook their heads repeatedly.

To control the Burning Sword?
This is something even Master Ziyin couldn't do!
Qin Yao said, "If you don't believe me, how about I prove it to you?"

The elders: "..."

After hesitating for a long time, the sect leader finally stepped forward slowly and said, "Let's go to Sword Pavilion."

He really couldn't take it anymore.

Therefore, it would be good to let Tu Su try. If Tu Su cannot control the Burning Sword, then the only option is to forcibly awaken Zi Yin.

This matter must be resolved, otherwise Tianyong City will never have peace again! (End of Chapter)