CHAPTER 104: CHAPTER 96: MONEY POWER USER, BATTLE QI REALM_2

Hoo~ A red saber aura flew out from the sea of cyan saber lights, Wu Chang’s face tensed, and he struck a slash.

The cyan saber aura and the red saber aura collided and shattered, with cyan and red spiritual lights scattering in all directions.

Lu Yu walked out of Wu Chang’s attack area, a few cyan saber auras struck the meteor behind Lu Yu, leaving a few deep cuts.

"Mid-grade spirit weapon?" Wu Chang looked at the Demon-Breaking Saber in Lu Yu’s hand and said excitedly, unlike armor, spirit weapons usually don’t get damaged in battle.

This meant that if Wu Chang could kill Lu Yu, he could obtain the "mid-grade spirit weapon" in his hand.

Mid-grade spirit weapons refer to fourth to sixth-grade spirit weapons, their common feature is allowing martial cultivators who haven’t reached the Qi Controlling Realm to externally project spiritual power, possessing mid-range attack capabilities.

Wu Chang, now holding a saber he used during the Qi Cultivation realm, a third-grade spirit weapon, while a fourth-grade spirit weapon costs at least eight or nine hundred thousand gold coins, better ones can sell for over a million.

More critically, fourth-grade and above spirit weapons aren’t as easy to buy as lower-grade ones, often it’s not money that limits martial cultivators from gaining higher-grade weapons, but access.

Wu Chang glanced at another Qi Controlling Realm martial cultivator in the distance, moving towards Lu Yu, preparing to seize Lu Yu’s spirit weapon at the first opportunity, denying the other person a chance.

Another flame saber aura flew out, Wu Chang easily shattered the flame saber aura Lu Yu struck, pressing towards Lu Yu.

Seeing the opponent break through his attack so effortlessly, Lu Yu felt a bit helpless, judging by spiritual qi cultivation, he was completely outmatched by Wu Chang.

The saber aura he struck out at the cost of 40 points of spiritual qi was easily shattered, this is the crushing of a second-layer Qi Controlling against a third-layer Qi Cultivation.

Using one’s weakness to attack an enemy’s strength would lead to this result, Lu Yu wasn’t surprised.

Seeing Wu Chang approach, Lu Yu’s Qi Blood was boiling, attacking an opponent’s weakness with one’s strength is the correct strategy.

After absorbing the Celestial Falling Bright Flame from the meteor, Lu Yu’s Qi Blood now wasn’t lower than Wu Chang’s, even slightly higher.

Without unleashing the saber aura, Lu Yu exploded with Qi Blood, chopping towards Wu Chang with pure power.

Wu Chang received Lu Yu’s attack as before... Bang! Instantly, violent spiritual energy burst from Wu Chang’s body, forcing Lu Yu back, his hand holding the saber trembled, and a notch appeared on the blade.

The tremble wasn’t because Lu Yu’s strength overpowered him, but because he felt he was nearly cleaved in two by that sword!

The brief collision between the third-grade spirit weapon and the Demon-Breaking Saber had already caused a notch before the power fully exploded, when Lu Yu’s strength truly erupted, the inevitable result would be — saber broken, man dead.

"Sixth-grade spirit weapon?" Suddenly Wu Chang felt a bit scared, somewhat regretting attacking Lu Yu.

Wearing spiritual armor that can withstand Qi Controlling Realm attacks, holding a "sixth-grade spirit weapon," with a cultivation merely at the third-layer Qi Cultivation.

How powerful an organization it must be to equip a third-layer Qi Cultivation disciple with such luxurious gear.

Let alone third-layer Qi Cultivation, even the Qi Controlling and Qi Sea Realm members of many families in Beifeng City don’t possess such luxurious equipment.

Wu Chang suddenly felt the blade light cutting towards him wasn’t formed by spiritual qi, but the power of money.

"Wu Chang, let’s join forces, eliminate everyone here, and split the stuff on him." A voice rang in Wu Chang’s ear, spiritual power sound transmission, a minor technique used by Qi Controlling Realm spiritual power.

Wu Chang looked at Zhang Lihua approaching, and within a short time made a decision, nodding vigorously. He couldn’t use the Sound Transmission Technique, it required sophisticated control of spiritual power.

Lu Yu saw Wu Chang nod, and looked at Zhang Lihua walking behind him, Zhang Lihua took out a longbow.

"A bow?" Lu Yu saw someone using a bow for the first time, bows and crossbows are restricted weapons, ordinary martial cultivators find it hard to buy.

Zhang Lihua drew the bow, a delicate arrow formed by spiritual power was placed on the drawn bow, the whole bow flowed with spiritual light, converging from the bow’s ends onto the spiritual power arrow, the arrow’s light surged.

Whoosh~

Before he could see clearly, Lu Yu felt as if struck by a heavy hammer flying at him, he retreated three steps, leaving three deep footprints on the ground.

Martial cultivators using bows usually possess strong attack power.

"Hmm? It was actually blocked." Zhang Lihua drew the bow again, shooting four arrows in succession.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~

Lu Yu widened his eyes trying to see the flying arrows, but only saw broken spiritual light upon the arrows hitting the virtual spiritual armor.

He was hit by Zhang Lihua’s four arrows in succession, knocked flying.

Bam~ Lu Yu adjusted his posture, landing with both feet and carving two deep trenches on the ground before stopping.

"It hasn’t broken?" This time Zhang Lihua was also somewhat shocked, his expression turning serious, this time he got into deep trouble!

He exchanged a glance with Wu Chang, and the two simultaneously launched an attack on Lu Yu, a continuous stream of spiritual energy arrows flying towards Lu Yu, suppressing him, leaving him unable to move.

These spiritual energy arrows weren’t as powerful as the previous five arrows, but they contained a peculiar force making it hard for Lu Yu to move.

"Death Breath Slash!"

A terrifying saber light flew out from the arrow rain, hitting Lu Yu, sending him flying.

Before being knocked away, a black sphere fell towards Wu Chang who had unleashed his ultimate move, Lu Yu no longer counted on his strength to kill a Qi Controlling Realm.

In close combat, perhaps Lu Yu could threaten a Qi Controlling Realm, but absolutely couldn’t kill the opponent.

Wu Chang, still in the process of replenishing energy after the ultimate move, saw a black sphere flying towards him, feeling danger from it. Out of options, Wu Chang could only muster all his strength to raise a protective spiritual armor, hoping to block the black ball’s explosive damage.

Bam~ Zizziz!

A blue thunder domain enveloped Wu Chang, his protective spiritual armor melted within just three seconds in the thunder domain, and after it melted, he was vaporized by the Thunder Burst without even uttering a scream.

A drop of cold sweat dripped down Zhang Lihua’s face, watching Wu Chang being vaporized, he felt relieved, fortunately, he hadn’t approached Lu Yu.

He realized there was something odd about that black ball, but he was confident that if it were thrown at him, he could dodge it.

Whoosh~ A rapid sound of something slicing through the air, Zhang Lihua trembled all over, the longbow in his hand powerlessly fell, and his body fell to the ground.

Spirit-Breaking Crossbow, fourth-grade spirit weapon, priced at 4 million in the shop, limited to one per month.

Spirit-Breaking Crossbow Arrow, priced at 1.2 million each, with a daily purchase limit of one, paired with the Spirit-Breaking Crossbow, could easily penetrate a Qi Controlling Realm martial cultivator’s protective spiritual armor.

Putting away the Spirit-Breaking Crossbow, although there was no dust on him, Lu Yu instinctively patted his backside, having landed on it to fire the shot earlier.

Lu Yu looked at Wu Chang, who left nothing behind, then glanced at Zhang Lihua lying dead on the ground with eyes wide open, unaware of how he died, shrugged and said, "What’s the point? You forced me to use cash power, you died, and I spent money."

At the end of the battle, Lu Yu’s combat cost was 8 million for the virtual spiritual armor + 3.2 million for one Thunder Burst + 4 million for the Spirit-Breaking Crossbow + 1.2 million per Spirit-Breaking Crossbow Arrow = 16.4 million.

Plus the cost of consumed spiritual power and Qi Blood.

Although the virtual spiritual armor and Spirit-Breaking Crossbow could be used again, they counted as combat costs, as without the virtual spiritual armor, Lu Yu would have died facing Wu Chang.

Picked up the longbow Zhang Lihua dropped, a third-grade spiritual bow, worth 30 to 40 thousand gold, equivalent to 300 or 400 thousand points, completely a loss-making deal, not even enough for Lu Yu to buy the crossbow arrow that killed him.

If sold to players, perhaps he could break even and make a small profit, but even 3 million won’t buy a third-grade spiritual bow, although many noble families in Beifeng City don’t have such luxurious equipment even in the Qi Controlling and Qi Sea Realms.

He picked up Zhang Lihua’s fallen storage bag and checked it out.

In summary, this battle cost him money.

The only reassuring thing for Lu Yu was that he managed to kill the two Qi Controlling Realm players.

After looking at the remaining Celestial Falling Bright Flames, Lu Yu looked outside the valley and saw that he could no longer absorb the Celestial Falling Bright Flame.

Originally, the Seven Heavens of Ice and Fire was meant to hone the body with flames alone.

Besides, the store doesn’t sell "fire," although they sell ice, it’s just materials, not the "ice" Lu Yu wants.

The original path of the cultivation of Ice and Fire Seven Heavens is long, and the road ahead is treacherous!