Chaotic Times and Disasters: I Hunt Down Martial Arts Masters and Become a God

Fu Qing opened his eyes and slowly stood up from the pool, water droplets rolling down the muscle lines of his shoulders and back.

His bare upper body was covered with scars of varying depths—knife wounds, arrow wounds, and marks from the claws and teeth of demonic beasts; each scar represented a deadly battle.

But at this moment, these scars, illuminated by the pale golden aura, resembled medals.

A pale golden aura emanated from his skin; it was the protective aura possessed only by those at the Qi Refining Realm, and its flow even slightly distorted the air.

He had completely refined and absorbed the remnant soul of the Golden Body Realm, and his cultivation level broke through from the ninth level of the Meridian Opening Realm to the first level of the Qi Condensation Realm, thus breaking through the suppression of this secret realm.

He stepped into the blood pool and appeared before Mang Kui like a ghost.

Upon seeing Fu Qing appear before him, Mang Kui's pupils constricted sharply. He instinctively raised his arms to block, but before he could even cross his arms in front of his chest, Fu Qing's fist had already slammed into his chest.

A series of cracking sounds rang out as Mang Kui's massive body flew backward, smashing through the palace door and landing at Bai Suli's feet. A mouthful of blood gushed from his mouth. He struggled to get up, but his arms only managed to support him halfway before he fell back down and remained motionless.

"brother!"

Seeing this, Bone Sharp, enraged, pounced from the side.

His bone knife was as thin as a cicada's wing, making almost no sound as it sliced ​​through the air.

He thought he could gain an advantage by attacking from the side, but Fu Qing retaliated with a backhand strike, the back of the blade hitting the top of Gu Feng's head.

With a muffled thud, Gu Feng was slammed into the ground, shattering the bluestone slabs inside the Heavenly Palace, with cracks extending several feet from the center of the pit outwards.

Bone Edge lay at the bottom of the pit, the bone knife flew out of his hand and stuck into the mural on the wall, the blade embedded in the neck of a demon warrior.

Kill a ninth-level Qi-opening demon to plunder points +...

Sold out instantly.

Two demon warriors at the ninth level of the Qi Refining stage were instantly killed in one move.

The entire Heavenly Palace remained silent for several breaths. The demon warriors all stood frozen in place, their hands gripping bone knives and spears trembling slightly.

Mang Kui and Gu Feng were Bai Suli's two strongest warriors, and were well-known experts in the Demon Realm. However, one of them had his chest shattered by a punch, and the other was smashed into the ground by the back of a knife.

The human who stood up from the pool didn't even breathe a sigh of relief.

An Sheng, leaning on his silver spear, got up from the ground and looked at the pale golden aura on Fu Qing's body.

Looking down at his spear shaft, which was trembling terribly from his fierce battle with Bai Suli, he suddenly felt that there was nothing to be proud of in breaking through to the eighth level of the Meridian Opening Realm from the Blood Pool.

"Damn it, I was just celebrating my breakthrough, thinking I'd jumped from the peak of the seventh level to the eighth, making me a decent expert, and then Brother Fu skipped a whole major realm, going from the ninth level of the Meridian Opening Realm to the first level of the Qi Refining Realm. Making a friend like this is such a blow!"

Xiahou Jun sat on the ground and refused to get up. He placed his double maces across his lap and looked up at the layer of pale golden energy flowing around Fu Qing.

Yu Fu jumped up from the corner, stuffed the Heart Lamp into his chest, and was so excited he almost bounced off the floor and onto the ceiling. "My god! You're awesome! You actually reached the Qi Refining stage!!"

He clapped his hands as he shouted, until his palms were red, then suddenly stopped, turned to look at Su Xue.

"Senior Sister Su, after we leave the secret realm, could you make a note for me and draw a picture of Brother Fu's heroic figure as he instantly killed Mang Kui and Gu Feng? I'll hang it in my living room when I get back!"

Su Xue stared, mouth agape, at the pale gold aura emanating from Fu Qing. It took her a long time to come to her senses. She tugged at Su Wen's sleeve and whispered, "..."

"Junior Sister, you've always been by General Fu's side. Was he always this freakish?"

Suwen expressionlessly withdrew the silver needles, wiped the remaining bloodstains on the needle tips clean on the medicine cloth, and inserted them back into the needle pouch.

"More or less."

Yunnan leaned against the stone tablet, blood still dripping from the corner of his mouth when he was knocked away by Bai Suli.

She watched Fu Qing stand up from the pool, watched him step into the blood pool, watched him punch the python Kui away and smash the bone blade with the back of his knife, watched him not say a word from beginning to end, and used only two moves to defeat two demon warriors at the ninth level of the Meridian Opening Realm.

She suddenly smiled, looked down at the old injury on her foot that she had twisted again when Bai Suli slapped her, and murmured to herself,

"It's always the same. He always shows up at the last minute, and then solves everything in just a few breaths. Being friends with this guy is too risky. He strikes at the last second, isn't he afraid we'll die..."

Fu Qing, carrying the Cold Iron Blade, walked step by step toward Bai Suli. The pale golden aura on the blade swirled under the starlight from the palace ceiling. With each step he took, the demon warriors retreated a step.

For the first time, fear appeared in Bai Suli's vertical pupils. Her snake tail swayed uneasily behind her, and the scales rubbed against the bluestone slabs, making a rustling sound.

She didn't understand why there were Qi Condensation Realm cultivators in the secret realm—the rules of this secret realm clearly restricted entry to those at the Meridian Opening Realm, and the restrictions set up by Qingming Jushi were effective for all entrants.

Why didn't the restriction react when he broke through in the pool?

Or is it that his breakthrough speed was too fast, so fast that even the restrictions couldn't suppress it in time?

She gritted her teeth, the fear in her vertical pupils gradually replaced by resentment, "I don't believe that just because you can instantly kill Mang Kui and Gu Feng, you can defeat me!"

The divine light of Xuan Shui shot out from her vertical pupils, the silvery-white beams shining directly at Fu Qing's face.

This beam of light has repelled An Sheng and forced Xiahou Jun to retreat in the ancient city. It is the innate divine power of the Xuan Shui Snake Clan, which is specifically designed to counter the soul!

At the same time, her snake tail swept across, the scales on it making a whooshing sound as they cut through the air.

Fu Qing raised his hand and slashed out with his sword. The dark blue blade split the Xuan Shui Divine Light in two. The silvery-white beam of light tore apart like a piece of cloth being cut and dissipated into the air.

Immediately afterwards, he swung his blade backhand and struck the snake's tail a second time. The blade cut into the snake's scales and into the bone, and demonic blood flowed down the blade.

"Ugh~"

Bai Suli let out a suppressed scream, her snake tail suddenly retracted, revealing a deep, bone-revealing cut on her scales, from which blood was still seeping.

She glanced down at the soft armor on her arm that had been cracked by the blade, then at the dissipating remnants of the Xuan Shui Divine Light that had been split in two on the ground, and gritted her teeth as she looked at Fu Qing.

Fu Qing raised his knife and stepped forward, intending to capture Bai Suli alive. Bai Suli gritted her teeth and suddenly pulled out a stone talisman from her bosom.

The stone talisman was only the size of a palm, completely black, and covered with bone script unique to the demon race.

She hurled the stone talisman at Fu Qing. The talisman exploded in mid-air, and a huge whip phantom emerged from the runes. Countless layers of demonic energy were wrapped around the whip, each layer equivalent to a full-force attack from a ninth-level demon.

Fu Qing parried with his sword, and the moment the blade collided with the whip's shadow, the entire Heavenly Palace trembled violently. The sun, moon, and star patterns on the dome flickered wildly, and the mountains and rivers on the murals twisted and deformed in the tremor.

Fu Qing gritted his teeth and withstood the force, causing several pieces of the bluestone slab beneath his feet to shatter.

When the whip's shadow dissipated, Bai Suli had already disappeared.

Only a scorch mark left on the ground by the Xuan Shui Divine Light and a few drops of still-dry demon blood extended out of the hall along the bluestone slab.

The remaining demon warriors turned and fled when they saw their master run away. An Sheng and Xiahou Jun chased after them and cut down several more. The others abandoned their armor and rolled down the ten thousand stone steps.

After the demons withdrew, Fu Qing sheathed his sword and went to help Yunnan Zhi up.

"Are you alright?"

"Something's up!"

Yunnan blinked, her eyes full of tenderness, but before she could speak, the fat man beside her was rolling around on the ground.

"My brother, I think I've suffered internal injuries! Please take a look!"

Fu Qing helped Yunnan Zhi up, then kicked the fat man speechlessly, "If you're injured, go find a doctor. What are you yelling about?"

With that, he released his grip on the Yunnan flag, looked at the crowd, and said, "Everyone, take a break and let's start sweeping!"