Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Chapter 1143 - 537: I Still Have_2

As Xiao Jing watched, a certain shackle on Ma Hua’s body was quietly unlocked.But he stared at this Ma Hua for a long time, yet he saw no movement from Ma Hua.

Ma Hua just stood right there with its arms horizontally, staring straight ahead at him.

"An inanimate object?"

Xiao Jing was a bit puzzled, hesitant for a moment, but after thinking for a while, he decided to temporarily give up.

Here was not far from the place where that foul-mouthed stone doll resided, and if he delayed any longer, it might chase after him.

With a sigh, Xiao Jing’s gaze left Ma Hua, and he continued to flee deeper into the forest.

However, he hadn’t taken a few steps when he suddenly felt a tightness around his neck; a pair of hands like iron clamps grabbed his neck.

The force was so great that in an instant, the sound of a cracking neck vertebra traveled through the bone into Xiao Jing’s ears.

Yet after breaking Xiao Jing’s neck, the hand didn’t loosen but continued to exert force, crushing all the bones in his upper body to powder.

With the cessation of breathing, the divine techniques Xiao Jing applied to Ma Hua also dissipated.

Ma Hua released its grip, and Xiao Jing, who had been crushed beyond recognition, dropped to the ground like a broken sack.

Looking down at Xiao Jing’s corpse, Ma Hua suddenly panicked.

Clearly, it had promised its master not to strangle anyone anymore, to focus on proper massages from now on, but this...

Bouncing around in place for a while, Ma Hua decided to destroy the corpse.

It heaved some stones over, throwing them over Xiao Jing’s body, then gathered some twigs and decaying leaves to cover the blood. After everything was taken care of, it ran a good distance away, then crashed to the ground with its hands behind its back, pretending it knew nothing.

After a pause, the figure of Chen Qianhu appeared beside Ma Hua. He placed the little Earth Immortal he had captured on Ma Hua, and with a slight wave of his finger, sent them both back to Dubhe City.

"You reap what you sow."

He chuckled lightly, then turned and stepped forward, arriving in front of the stone-constructed grave, reaching out to grasp the air, capturing a faint trace of a soul.

With a gentle clench, this last wisp of the soul completely turned to dust and dispersed.

...

Dubhe City.

"You mean, even though Xiao Jing is gone, the issues with the Holy Land haven’t been resolved?"

Zhang Ze, looking like an old lady in autumn, nestled in a recliner, watched his Junior Sister, who was similarly nestled in a recliner, and the floating Xiangxiang.

"Yes." Xiangxiang waved her hand, and an overview map of the Holy Land, along with records retrieved from within Dubhe City, appeared before Zhang Ze.

From the overview map, beneath the Holy Land, under the Cultivator Cities built to monitor the tribes of the Holy Land, there lay countless interconnected arrays.

The Junior Sister, while playing with a fruit kernel with her tongue, spoke unclearly, "It’s a calamity."

"Calamity?" Zhang Ze was stunned for a while, only then recalling that the Junior Sister referred to those infinitely resurrecting monsters wandering in the wastelands of the Central Continent.

Xiangxiang continued, "Although not written in the records, the cause of those monsters is very likely related to Xiao Jing’s experiments back then.

"Their existence is somewhat similar to the incident with the small white figures emerging before the Northern Territory Great Wall, but due to Xiao Jing’s relationship with the Earth Sea, these calamities are more troublesome.

"To ensure the subsequent plans are not affected, it is imperative to completely eradicate them."

"And to completely eradicate them, we have to start with the Holy Land.... "

Zhang Ze, "You mean...this time we’re planting Taisui in the Holy Land?"

Xiangxiang, "No need...this time we have another way."

Zhang Ze, "What a pity."

Heaving a sigh, Zhang Ze attempted to get up, but as soon as he raised his hand, his Junior Sister, springing like a coil, pinned him back down into his lap.

"Don’t worry, my father has already taken care of everything. Your most important task now is to rest well."

"Alright then..." Feeling the soft weight on his chest, Zhang Ze laughed wryly, pulled out his other hand, and motioned for Xiangxiang to come over.

Everyone rest together.

....

In the open space outside Dubhe City, beside a new Fuji Brand Human Race Base, Li Yueqi held a jar of fast-growing Taisui seeds, her expression complex.

Clearly, the fact that they couldn’t plant Taisui left her feeling a bit lonely, but it wasn’t the main reason for her complex expression.

What really troubled her was her brother.

With the refresh of the legendary epic quest [Defend the Four Continents·Resist the Tide], the Six Sects and various mid to small sects connected to the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion’s quest achievement system immediately sprang into action.

A large number of idle cultivators used the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion’s Teleportation Array to enter the Holy Land, participating in this legendary epic quest concerning whether the ’entire server’s players’ would be purged.

Among them was naturally Li Yueqi’s brother, Li Jue.

As the saying goes, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west, Li Jue was no longer the same as before.

Whatever was going through his mind was uncertain, but he appeared now in the form of a Super Beast Armament.

Two massive triceratopses covered in Thousand Mechanism Magical Artifacts, with spiritual light swirling around them, formed the legs.

A platform was set between them, and Li Jue stood in a red outfit with sunglasses, striking a pose as flamboyant as any show-off.

On his shoulder sat a similarly decked-out huge fat bear, atop which crouched a little qilin, forming the head.

On either side, two long-necked birds of complete golden hue, looking less than smart in their gaze, formed the arms.

As for Li Jue’s natal spirit beast, Bai Xiao, it refrained from participating in the Integration this time, thinking its Imperial Lord was too moronic, and instead perched on Li Yueqi’s shoulder preening its feathers.

"What exactly are you doing?" Li Yueqi felt a headache coming on.

"Obviously, I’m training in advance. To fully utilize the power of the Super Beast Integration, we must ensure the synchronization of spiritual qi, reaching a state where you have me, and I have you, with me as the core..."