Me and countless me.

Chapter 525 The Death of Ding Chunqiu

However, Ding Chunqiu didn't care at all what Kumārajīva thought, because in Ding Chunqiu's eyes, Kumārajīva was just a dying man.

His bones were all shattered, but two streams of true energy remained within him. Unless the opponent was a master as powerful as himself, he wouldn't need to kill such a person; he would die on his own.

But then again, how could someone as skilled as myself be beaten like this?
As he thought this, Ding Chunqiu couldn't help but laugh out loud and began to comment on Kumārajīva.

"Hmph, what a shrewish fellow who got carried away with his success and ended up with a tragic end."

He was extremely proud, because he had been riding high lately, and he couldn't help but raise his head proudly when he thought about his recent achievements.

"The study of the Divine Wood Cauldron is complete. If my daughter can see this treasure even once, her mother will know about it, and then Qiushui will be able to come back."

But thinking of this, Ding Chunqiu felt helpless again. He looked at the Beggar Clan disciples he had beaten and left them badly injured on the ground. He was very unhappy when he thought about how the other party said that Qiao Feng had left a few days ago. This was because he had come here to beat Qiao Feng to his knees and beg for mercy, then take him as his underling and make him give him 30% of all the money that beggars in the world beg for.

Unfortunately, he arrived too late; Qiao Feng had already left, which greatly angered him. That's why he sought out Kumārajīva and obtained the Sunflower Manual.

Although he was very happy to have obtained a martial arts manual that he had never seen before in the Free and Unfettered Sect, because he knew that Li Qiushui, her daughter, and grandson loved martial arts manuals that they had never seen before, he was still short of money.

"It's a pity that the cost of this Divine Wood King Cauldron is too high. This successful research has almost drained the resources of my Starry Sky Sect. It's really... making it impossible for me to even cultivate a basic undead."

Thinking about the cost of his research, Ding Chunqiu felt a real headache. Even a low-end version of the immortal was not something anyone could become. Only a strong and healthy person who had absorbed a large amount of life essence or true qi could be transformed by the iron mask made by the ancient divine wood cauldron to become the most basic immortal.

After becoming familiar with their own bodies, these immortal beings not only need a large amount of true energy and life force, but also need to cultivate with the help of the Divine Wood King Cauldron and numerous poisonous insects in order to become true ultimate beings.

Each of these tasks requires a massive amount of money. Just training disciples to become medicine people had nearly exhausted all the resources of his Starry Sea, and had even led him to slaughter many tribes. Although the first phase of the research is now complete, the subsequent research will require even more money, resources, and medicine people.

So he had to go out and earn money.

"Honestly, if only that old geezer Xiaoyaozi hadn't squandered all of the Xiaoyao Sect's resources! Now I have to go to Shaolin to collect protection money!"

Ding Chunqiu grew increasingly furious. He felt more and more certain that his affair with his master's wife, Li Qiushui, was absolutely right, so he was absolutely certain that Madam Wang, Li Qingluo, must be his daughter, and that Wang Yuyan was his daughter's daughter!
So he couldn't help but lick his lips and hurried toward Mantuo Manor, because he missed his daughter terribly!
Therefore, Ding Chunqiu didn't look at the Sunflower Manual in his hand at all, because he only read the first page and was determined not to practice this martial art. He even lost interest in reading it!
However, the moment he stepped into Mantuo Manor with the thought of seeing his beloved daughter, he smelled a floral fragrance, and then the world in front of him suddenly changed, returning him to the Wuliang Jade Cave. He was shocked to see Wuyazi sitting on the jade bed, glaring at him angrily!

Ding Chunqiu, being someone who had managed to recruit Wu Yazi into the Xiaoyao Sect, immediately realized that this was an illusion! The Wu Yazi glaring at him was just a hallucination caused by the fragrance of flowers; the Wu Yazi before him was not real at all.

However, he refused to believe it, because he could only smell the fragrance of the flower when he was in contact with Li Qiushui and his daughter Li Qingluo!
Every time he was intimate with Li Qiushui, the fragrance of this flower would appear.

The fragrance of the flowers would appear every time I came into contact with my daughter.

Every time the fragrance of flowers wafted out, he felt as if he had entered a fairyland, but this time, he saw Wuyazi, whom he had killed long ago!
He even thought that this was the unique body fragrance of celestial beings like Qiu Shui!
But now, that idea has been shattered!

Ding Chunqiu wasn't stupid; he realized something almost immediately!

All along, he believed that his intimate encounters with Li Qiushui and Li Qingluo were illusions, his own fantasies! They were hallucinations caused by a combination of sleeping pills and some kind of martial art from the Xiaoyao Sect!
What's even more terrifying is that the more he tries to deny it, the less he can remember what happened between him and them. He only has the memory of "it felt great" in his mind. As for what their bodies looked like, what size they were, and the process in between, he has no recollection of it at all. He only has the thought that he felt "it felt great"!

All the physical images he could think of were of other women! There were no images of Li Qiushui or Li Qingluo's bodies at all!
I was deceived!
been played!

He had never had anything happen between himself and Li Qiushui and Li Qingluo! These women wouldn't even let him have a fantasy!
"Oh!!!"

Ding Chunqiu's eyes widened instantly. He pulled out more than a dozen silver needles and pierced them directly into his brain, forcing his potential while also using the Lesser Formless Skill to break through these illusions. With the help of the Lesser Formless Skill of the Free and Unfettered Sect, he successfully broke through the illusion brought about by the fragrance of flowers and saw Madam Wang and Wang Yuyan looking at him with serious expressions!

He glared at his daughter and granddaughter, wanting to lash out, but when he saw their faces, which were exactly like Li Qiushui's, he immediately softened and spoke softly.

"Hmph, my good daughter, my sweet girl, tell me, have you found an even better young talent? Tell me, is it Qiao Feng or Murong Fu? If you tell me, I won't blame you for teasing me! I'll still be your dear old man!"

He carried a sense of longing and supplication. Outside, in the Starry Sea, he was the Starry Sea Immortal, whose word was law. But in the Free and Unfettered Sect, before Li Qiushui and others, he, Ding Chunqiu, was just someone who wanted to gain the attention of these Qiushui sisters.

After all, being noticed by the Qiu Shui sisters not only means gaining their bodies, but also being recognized as the most qualified, powerful, and talented person in the world to become an immortal!
Therefore, in their presence, he was always polite, gentle, and kind!
Madam Wang, who had previously harbored some thoughts about Ding Chunqiu and wanted to see if he could perfect the path of ultimate life, now had no intention of even using drugs and illusions to appease him. Instead, she looked at Ding Chunqiu with disdain.

"Ding Chunqiu, give up. There has never been anything between you and me, and Li Qiushui has never had anything with you either. Your past fantasies were just the effect of a drug. Here is 100,000 taels of silver. Take it. From now on, my Mantuo Manor has nothing to do with you!"

Madam Wang politely took a brocade box and intended to hand it to Ding Chunqiu, but Ding Chunqiu naturally didn't care about it.

He spent his whole life chasing Qiu Shui and Cang Hai, chasing after those fairies who sacrificed themselves for a noble goal. For this goal, he killed his master, drove away his junior brothers, and slaughtered countless Miao villages, all for the sake of obtaining Li Qiu Shui and all the Cang Hai sisters. But now Madam Wang says it has nothing to do with him!
But Ding Chunqiu wasn't angry. Instead, he looked at Li Ke, who was sitting in the center, and sneered. "I suppose this unassuming fellow is the new leader of the Xiaoyao Sect that you've chosen. But he looks rather ordinary."

He stared at Li Ke with a ferocious look in his eyes, and as he sneered, white mist emanated from his body, spreading in all directions, making him appear like an immortal.

However, Li Ke sensed a sense of danger, and Wang Yuyan, who was listed in the Martial Arts Forbidden Book Catalogue, immediately revealed the martial arts technique used by Ding Chunqiu!

"Young master, be careful! This is corpse poison, which releases countless tiny insects almost invisible to the naked eye to attack the human body! Please use your cleaving palm strike to deal with it!"

At this moment, Li Ke also reacted, his energy surged out, and he quickly used the Heavenly Will Four Symbols Technique that he had previously given to Duan Yu!

He made a gesture of extending two fingers, and the next moment, a figure wearing armor appeared behind him. This figure had wings, a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks. The moment Li Ke pointed at Ding Chunqiu, it suddenly flapped its wings and roared out!

"Roar!!!"

Then a gust of wind suddenly appeared, and countless gusts of wind rushed towards Ding Chunqiu from all directions, trapping all the white mist emanating from Ding Chunqiu's body!
At this moment, Li Ke finally saw clearly what was flying out of Ding Chunqiu's body!

They were insects, countless insects almost invisible to the naked eye!

"Is this corpse poison?"

Li Ke wanted to complain, but the next moment, Ding Chunqiu snorted coldly, and then Li Ke saw that his skin began to wriggle rapidly, and then countless dense insects crawled out of his hand!
These insects have a metallic sheen on their shells and resemble cockroaches, but they don't look like cockroaches at all. Instead, they look more like a combination of fire ants and cockroaches.

The moment these strange insects emerged, they rapidly grew larger and all looked at Li Ke, allowing him to see the red light flashing in their eyes and the greedy feeling they had for his flesh and blood!

Then these insects flew up around Ding Chunqiu. Their wings even reflected sunlight and emitted a rainbow of colors as they flapped. They were extremely fast. When they moved around Ding Chunqiu, people with poor eyesight could not tell that they were insects at all. Instead, they would think that they were countless rainbow-colored light balls moving around Ding Chunqiu!

"This is really an exaggeration."

Li Ke gently waved his folding fan, because he was certain that ordinary martial artists would be no match for these strange flying insects. In terms of speed alone, they were already faster than the leader of the Wuliang Sword Sect!

It can be said that Ding Chunqiu, who was completely disregarded by the Xiaoyao Sect, was already a level of strength that most martial artists in the Jianghu could not approach!
"Hmph! You think a mere breeze can trap me? Take a look at the Gu worms I've raised!"

With a wave of his sleeve, Ding Chunqiu summoned countless Gu worms around him, just like an immortal waving colorful clouds. These Gu worms completely ignored the attack of the raging storm and stabbed at Li Ke like sharp swords!
The seven-colored light, accompanied by white clouds, shot straight into Li Ke's heart, like colorful clouds turning into swords. If an uninformed martial artist were to witness this, they would probably call him an immortal.

But upon seeing this, Madam Wang spoke up arrogantly.

"You have truly tarnished the pride of your lineage as a disciple of the Free and Unfettered Sect! Ding Chunqiu! You have completely strayed into the evil path!"

Ding Chunqiu's current methods are entirely based on the first and second methods, with no trace of the third method! This means that Ding Chunqiu has not made any breakthroughs in the third method despite his years of research, which makes her increasingly disgusted with Ding Chunqiu.

If Ding Chunqiu had added some of his own understanding, she wouldn't have looked down on him so much, but her voice completely broke Ding Chunqiu's defenses!
Therefore, he hated Li Ke even more!
"I want you dead!!"

Ding Chunqiu's face became increasingly distorted, but Li Ke merely tapped his fingers lightly.

"Vulcan's Wrath".

Li Ke had no interest in talking to Ding Chunqiu. After hearing about Ding Chunqiu's actions from Madam Wang, he considered him a dead man.

So the next moment, a bird-headed, human-bodied Dharma Image instantly appeared behind Li Ke's stand-in... no, behind the Dharma Image. The violent ripple power combined with Li Ke's internal force turned into flames that could vaporize iron, completely igniting Ding Chunqiu, who was still trapped in the wind!
The wind tornado instantly transformed into a fire tornado. The immense heat amplified the wind tornado's suction force, and at the same time, the two Dharma images behind Li Ke waved their arms once more. The fire tornado expanded instantly, carrying Ding Chunqiu's remains outwards.

Engulfed by flames and instantly burned to only half his body, Ding Chunqiu's only thought at this moment was to survive.

Nothing else mattered to him. He slapped his forehead, and his brains shattered. But he grabbed his brains and stuffed them into the Divine Wood Cauldron in his arms. Then, he mustered his last bit of power and roared.

"Then I'll show you my ultimate technique! The Northern Darkness Rebirth Method!!"

The next moment, Ding Chunqiu unleashed a burst of violent power, charging straight at Li Ke while throwing the small cauldron and mask in his hand at his disciples!

The iron mask was instantly imprinted on a disciple's face, while Ding Chunqiu's body exploded violently in front of Li Ke, scattering countless poisonous fumes and insects everywhere!
But Li Ke wouldn't let Ding Chunqiu get away so easily! So he didn't hesitate to use the strongest move of the Heavenly Will Four Symbols Technique!
The God of Thunder's Wrath!
The figure of a burly man in purple appeared behind him, and then, in the next moment—

stopped!
(End of this chapter)