I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 450 Time
Chu Xingbai stood there blankly, with a struggle between his conscience and his desires.

The words of Gu Liancheng and Liu Qi echoed in his mind.

Finally, a moan woke Chu Xingbai up. He looked up suddenly, but Liu Qi was no longer in front of him. Then he quickly turned his head and saw that Tianxiang on the ground was moving.

She's not dead yet!

Chu Xingbai was shocked. After a brief moment of daze, he immediately stepped forward to help Tianxiang up and put his hand on Tianxiang's pulse.

"Where... am I?" Tianxiang looked around blankly, then looked at Chu Xingbai who had a look of surprise on his face.

Seeing Tianxiang's strong pulse, Chu Xingbai felt an indescribable joy in his heart. He suppressed his trembling and asked Tianxiang, "You don't remember what happened just now?"

Tianxiang frowned and recalled carefully, then shook her head: "Weren't we having breakfast just now?"

"Don't worry, nothing happened." Seeing Tianxiang's sad face, Chu Xingbai hurriedly spoke to comfort her.

The corners of his mouth curled up into a knowing smile: "With your sister Liu Qi here, what can go wrong!"

When Tianxiang heard Liu Qi's name, her originally uneasy heart instantly settled down, and then she stood up. At this time, she finally saw the bottomless canyon on the side, and then she showed surprise: "This is..."

Chu Xingbai stood beside Tianxiang and looked towards the canyon with a dim gaze.

No one could have imagined that this canyon, which was winding for miles and bottomless, was actually created by Liu Qi!
……

When Chu Xingbai brought Tianxiang back to the mansion, Liu Shijiu and Zhou Mi had also returned.

The two were counting today's "trophies" in the lobby, including rouge, powder, colorful clothes, and jewelry, which filled up half of the lobby.

Could it be that these two people have emptied out all the jewelry stores in Yongcheng!

Chu Xingbai couldn't help but blink when he looked at those expensive jewelry boxes.

When Nineteen saw Chu Xingbai and Tianxiang coming in, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he said to them excitedly: "You came at the right time. I didn't expect that the ordinary Yongcheng actually has so many good things."

"By the way, I also bought some clothes and jewelry for Tianxiang." Liu Shijiu showed his excitement without hiding it. "Look at you, you dress like a maid every day. It's unlucky to look at you!"

Tianxiang, who was originally a little confused and depressed, couldn't help but brighten her eyes when she heard this, and then trotted forward to join Liu Shijiu's team.

Chu Xingbai suddenly felt a headache, but the next words Liu Shijiu said almost made him jump up on the spot.

"By the way, Mr. Chu, we don't have enough money, so most of these things are on your account."

After saying that, Liu Nineteen started to count the jewelry on his own, muttering quietly: "It seems that the Golden Horse Gang is very powerful. They can buy so many things just by leaving their names."

Chu Xingbai couldn't help but hold his forehead with his hand, and veins bulged on the back of his hand.

He suddenly felt a little regretful!

I should have listened to Gu Liancheng and secretly sent someone to kill these two debt collectors!

Liu Nineteen was completely unaware that she had just had a near-death experience today and was now immersed in the happiness brought by the clothes and jewelry.

Zhou Mi looked at Tianxiang thoughtfully.

She couldn't help but purse her lips, faintly feeling that Tianxiang's aura seemed a little different from before.

Then he turned his eyes to look at Chu Xingbai, and then asked softly: "Where is Liu Qi?"

When Chu Xingbai was asked this question, he was also stunned.

Yes, where is Liu Qi!

……

On the outskirts of the city, on a cliff.

Liu Qi sat on a rock with his horse and sword in his arms, overlooking Yongcheng in the distance, and then his eyes slowly moved to the front.

On a flat stone surface in front of her, there were several things placed.

The Zhurong Pearl obtained from the Killing Sword.

The jade sceptre obtained from Zhu Weitong at the bottom of Danyang Lake.

There are also Yin-Yang Pills and the Imperial Seal.

Four of the Nine Cauldrons are already here.

Including Tianxiang, Liu Qi has obtained five of the Nine Dings.

There are four left.

The Cang Hai Juan Yun Sword has been broken, but the power of the Nine Cauldrons has obviously reached Xiao Qifeng.

Both the Bu Tian Stone and the Tian Ji Stone are in Gu Liancheng's hands.

This person has a changeable temperament and is full of tricks. He has brought out the characteristics of the Bu Tian Stone and the Tian Ji Stone to the fullest.

The last of the Nine Cauldrons is in the hands of Taiyi Sect.

According to Yue Qingyao, the sword in her brother Xiao Qingshan's hand is the Nine Cauldrons.

Liu Qi stretched out his hand, the back of his white hand reflected a faint fluorescence in the weak sunlight, and his hand brushed over the four nine tripods one by one.

buzzing...

The imperial seal was the first to react and began to tremble slightly.

At the same time, Liu Qi could feel the aura emanating from the imperial seal gradually merging with the aura of the mountain beneath her seat.

Liu Qi's hand paused above the imperial seal, then he clenched his five fingers and suddenly grabbed the seal.

In an instant, Liu Qi lowered her eyes as if she had sensed something, and saw that the solitary peak below her was actually transparent in her eyes, with countless silver-white rays of light flowing through it, like veins.

Liu Qi tried to pull one of the silver threads.

Rumble…

The earth suddenly shook, making a sound like thunder.

At the same time, the people in Yongcheng also felt the ground begin to shake, and the shaking became more and more violent.

"There's an earthquake, run!"

For a moment, the whole Yongcheng was filled with wailing, and countless people rushed out of their homes frantically, fleeing towards flat places.

When Liu Qi heard the noisy sound in the distance, she silently raised her eyes to look at Yongcheng, then let go of the imperial seal.

The earth fell silent in an instant!
Only the people in the city were hiding in the open space in panic, looking around with lingering fear.

This was Liu Qi's second time using the Imperial Seal. The last time was after the collapse of the Qin Emperor's Underground Palace. If she hadn't had the Imperial Seal protecting her, even with her level of cultivation, she probably wouldn't have been able to escape so quickly.

There was a legend in ancient times that the imperial seal was carved from the essence of the earth and could suppress the three mountains, five peaks, nine states and four directions.

Now it seems that the legend is true, but without Liu Qi's equal cultivation level, it is impossible to drive the imperial seal.

After taking down the imperial seal, Liu Qi looked at Zhu Rongzhu again.

In order to eliminate the murderous intent in Fang Hen's corpse, Xiao Lang buried the Zhurong Pearl with him.

In the end, Zhu Rongzhu merged Fang Hen's coffin, corpse and the killing knife into one, which was the broad-backed sword behind him when he first met the old man sharpening the knife. Unfortunately, the old man sharpening the knife could never have dreamed that the terrifying killing knife in the hand of the crazy knife Fang Hen was actually a wooden sword for children to play with.

Fang Hen's martial arts will was left in the killing knife, but fortunately the Zhurong Pearl was not affected.

Moreover, ever since the Zhurong Pearl and the Jade Sceptre had some kind of reaction at the bottom of Danyang Lake, it seemed to have lost its mystery. At first glance, it was just an ordinary black bead.

Liu Qi placed it in the palm of his hand, and as he continued to pour his true energy into it, the Zhurong Pearl still showed no reaction.

Liu Qi's eyes narrowed, and then he clenched his five fingers.

hum-

A wave of air emanated from the surface of the bead, and Liu Qi's slender five fingers pressed the bead tightly like steel pliers.

With Liu Qi's current cultivation level, even a thousand-year-old iron would be shattered in an instant by her grasp.

But there was not even a trace of crack on the surface of the Zhurong Pearl.

The reason is very simple. All the energy in Liu Qi's palm was assimilated by the Zhurong Pearl.

If you use murderous intent...

A thought flashed through Liu Qi's mind.

Just as this thought flashed through my mind, my hand suddenly trembled slightly.

Liu Qi focused his mind and looked carefully, only to see the dark surface of the Zhurong Pearl churning, and then emitting a dazzling red light, as if a raging fire was burning inside the pearl.

Liu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking, this thing also knows how to be afraid?
But Liu Qi soon realized that this was not fear, but a resistance.

Her true Qi and the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth are originally one, but her murderous intent is not.

Even though it was just a fleeting thought in his mind, Zhurongzhu, as one of the Nine Cauldrons, probably sensed the murderous intent in Liu Qi's body, which is why he showed such a strange behavior.

But as Liu Qi withdrew his hand, the Zhurong Pearl hung in the air, flashing red light for about a moment, then fell down and hit the stone surface with a "bang".

After this test, Liu Qi once again confirmed that there was no other person's mark in the Zhurong Pearl.

There is no need to say more about the Yin-Yang Mysterious Pill. If the red-horned black dragon had the ability to leave a mark on the Yin-Yang Mysterious Pill, I'm afraid Liu Qi and the others would have been buried in its belly.

The only thing that Liu Qi couldn't figure out now was Yugui.

At the bottom of Danyang Lake, there was clearly no life in Zhu Weitong's body, but he could perform martial arts like a living person, and his power seemed to be no less powerful than when he was alive.

Even the Emperor of Heaven couldn't do this alone.

So, was Zhu Weitong in this situation because of the mystery of the jade sceptre itself, or was it because he left a mark in the jade sceptre?

Liu Qi had tried to figure it out briefly before, but the Jade Sceptre was even more dormant than the Zhurong Pearl. No matter whether he used his true energy to stimulate it or tried it with murderous intent, the Jade Sceptre remained unmoved. It looked no different from an ordinary Jade Sceptre.

If Liu Qi had not been able to sense that the jade sceptre contained the same energy as the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth, he would have even doubted whether this thing was the Nine Cauldrons.

Liu Qi fiddled with the nine tripods in his hands one by one, and used his true energy to activate them, trying to fuse them together, but the result was naturally unsatisfactory.

Is it really necessary to gather all the nine tripods together before one can unlock the power of the nine tripods?
Liu Qi shook his head silently.

This situation should not exist.

Yuan Qi is everywhere, filling the entire Heavenly Emperor. In terms of space, the Nine Cauldrons are originally between heaven and earth, and there is no difference between gathering and dispersion.

The reason why the Great Qin Emperor wanted to gather the Nine Cauldrons was probably because the method of opening the Nine Cauldrons was recorded on the original Nine Cauldrons.

Now the key is in Gu Liancheng's hands.

As long as there are no marks left by other people on the Nine Cauldrons, Gu Liancheng will start to open the power of the Nine Cauldrons at any time and restart the road to heaven.

Therefore, based on Gu Liancheng's character, he would choose to activate the power of the Nine Cauldrons at a time that is most beneficial to him.

The question is, when is the right time in Gu Liancheng's mind?
……

It was already evening when Liu Qi returned to Yongcheng.

She saw a number of people at the door of Chu Xingbai's mansion moving things inside. Judging from their clothes, they should be members of the Golden Horse Gang.

Liu Qi asked someone at random and found out that the boxes of various sizes placed at the gate were the spoils of Liu Shijiu and Zhou Mi's fierce shopping today, and more than half of them were paid for by Chu Xingbai!
Liu Qi casually opened the box held by the gang member, and a golden hairpin appeared in front of him.

Liu Qi took the hairpin and put it on her head without hesitation, then walked into the mansion.

Hearing the familiar footsteps coming from outside, Chu Xingbai stood up from his armchair and rushed out of the hall. When he saw Liu Qi, his face suddenly darkened and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Do you know how much they spent today?"

Liu Qi ignored him and walked straight to the chair. After sitting down carelessly, he raised his head and said calmly, "Master Chu, don't you think you don't even have this little money?"

Only then did Chu Xingbai notice the hairpin on Liu Qi's hair bun, which was shining with golden light and was a bit dazzling.

He looked away with some distress, then said helplessly: "I must make it clear in advance that all this money belongs to Gu Liancheng."

"Okay, I helped him remove the mark on Tianxiang's body. Don't mention this little money. Even if you use the entire Golden Horse Gang as a reward, it would be worth it." Liu Qi said casually.

"But Gu Liancheng said that you were determined to gather the Nine Cauldrons to reopen the Heavenly Road and prove the Great Way." Chu Xingbai sat down and said weakly.

Liu Qi asked back: "Do you believe this yourself?"

Chu Xingbai shook his head and stared at Liu Qi: "I don't believe Gu Liancheng, but I know you. What he said is definitely not nonsense!"

"Then why don't you follow Gu Liancheng's plan?"

Chu Xingbai spread his hands and said, "I told you, I don't believe a word Gu Liancheng said. If you, Liu Qi, want to sacrifice the common people to prove the great Dao, can't he, Gu Liancheng, do it?"

Chu Xingbai's voice became a little softer as he spoke: "If I were to choose, I'd rather let Xiao Qifeng do it!"

Liu Qi sneered and said, "This is really ridiculous. Why should you let others decide your own fate? Now is a rare time for great strife. The top masters that everyone could only dream of in the past are now within reach, but they are no longer just a dream. Don't you, Chu Xingbai, want to fight for it?"

"Me?" Chu Xingbai's eyes flashed with light, but then he sank into his chair and waved his hands weakly, "Now I just want my family to be safe, so I don't have the energy to care about the world of great strife."

Liu Qi shook his head.

If a person has lost his spirit, he will be nothing more than a pile of dry bones waiting to be buried.

Chu Xingbai has good talent. Even if he cannot reach the Grandmaster level in the current environment, it is still possible for him to reach the top.

It is a pity……

Liu Qi lowered his eyes and stopped looking at him. Although the two of them had some friendship, Chu Xingbai was not even a chess piece now, let alone a chess table full of masters.

At this time, hurried footsteps were heard outside.

Liu Shijiu, Zhou Mi and Tianxiang came together.

Before the excited Liu Nineteen could speak, Liu Qi said, "Pack your things and get ready to leave tomorrow."

Liu Nineteen was about to say something, but after hearing what Liu Qi said, he swallowed it and changed his words, "Tomorrow? Where to?"

Liu Qi looked at her sideways: "Where do you want to go?"

Liu Nineteen fell into deep thought, then asked, "What about you?"

Liu Qi thought for a moment, and then replied: "How about Xiliu Villa?"

(End of this chapter)