Chapter 8 Unity of Sword and Light

Lu Li sized up his surroundings.

A dim yellow light flickered on the fleshy walls around him, with only a narrow passageway leading straight to the outside.

Beneath his feet was a sticky liquid, where a group of fish, shrimp, and seaweeds were dissolving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Such powerful corrosiveness."

Lu Li reverted to his original form, only to see his Daoist robe rapidly disintegrating.

He immediately released the Green Spirit Python and drew out the Aminokaze.

As soon as the Iron Pillar was released, it became very excited and started roaring loudly, making wooing noises.

Lu Li immediately conveyed the attack order to it and stood on the python's head, then performed the "Azure Water Light-Splitting Sword Technique."

Suddenly, more than a dozen pale sword lights appeared in the stomach space of the Giant Toothed Whale.

"Ha!"

Lu Li circulated all his mana, and the sword lights shone brightly before shooting out in all directions.

Iron Pillar, not to be outdone, whipped its massive tail fiercely forward.

"Woo..."

With a shrill scream, the stomach wall was crazily slashed by the Sword Qi.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a great suction force from the outside world; the Giant Toothed Whale was obviously trying to expel Lu Li.

Lu Li circulated his mana and firmly embedded the sword hilt into the stomach wall, pinning himself inside like a nail.

This was an opportunity sent from heaven; if he got out now, the outcome would be hard to predict.

Lu Li felt that his previous attack hadn't hurt the Giant Toothed Whale seriously; it was merely a flesh wound.

If he were outside, breaking through its defense would have been very difficult.

He quickly circulated his mana to its limit and exerted all his power to execute a killing move from the sword technique, "Sword Light as One."

In mid-air, more than a dozen sword lights suddenly merged into one, forming an enormous sword aura.

"Hum..."

The Aminokaze hummed, and a three-foot-long blade aura emerged at its tip, exuding an extreme sharpness.

Lu Li controlled the Aminokaze, following the direction of the Giant Toothed Whale's heartbeat, and madly charged forward.

All the surrounding flesh was rapidly shredded like rotting wood before an unstoppable blade.

At that time, a series of pitiful screams came from the giant whale.

Its entire body spun wildly in the depths of the sea, a lot of blood scattering in all directions, turning the nearby waters red.

Before long, Lu Li reached a massive heart, and with a flash of the sword light, he directly smashed it.

As the heart burst apart, the Giant Toothed Whale quickly fell silent and slowly sank into the depths of the sea.

"What strong defense."

Feeling the mana nearly depleted within him, Lu Li revealed a smile of a narrow escape from death.

Then, he put away the Flying Sword, transformed back into a giant serpent with the Green Spirit Python, and swam out from the whale's mouth.

Once outside, he saw the whale's body lying quietly on the sea floor shelf, feeling very delighted.

Although Barbaric Beasts had flesh far less dense than Demon Beasts, the sheer size of this creature made up for it.

By his estimate, the beast could match the corpses of at least a dozen Qi Cultivation seventh-layer Demon Beasts.

Lu Li took out his demon-refining pot and pointed it at the Giant Toothed Whale below. Upon activating the runes, the whale's corpse began to shrink rapidly, soon disappearing into the mouth of the pot.

After finishing all this, he put away the Iron Pillar and prepared to return to Golden Qilin Island.

Today's gains were sufficient, and continuing to explore with his mana almost exhausted would be dangerous. As for the northern seas, they were likely beyond his reach at the moment.

...

Just as Lu Li was making his way back along the same route, several hundred miles northeast of Golden Qilin Island, a large blue ship was stationary on the sea surface.

At the bow stood four Cultivators, three men and one woman.

The girl had a very playful and cute appearance, dressed in a green palace attire, her face bursting with excitement.

Lu Yuling spoke with a smile to the man beside her, "Big brother, can we really hunt Demon Beasts in this sea area? I heard there's a type of Dan Pill that can lure them out?"

It was her first time following the family on a sea adventure to hunt demon beasts, and she was extremely excited, asking questions nonstop along the way.

"Indeed, but the process is very dangerous."

Lu Heng smiled.

The two Guest Elders also nodded in agreement, wearing approving expressions on their faces.

One of them was Wang Ping, who had previously guarded Golden Qilin Island. The other, a middle-aged man at the sixth level of Qi Cultivation, had a bitter look on his face because he was to serve as the "bait" this time.

"Fang Tao, you need not worry too much. How about you take a third of the profits this time?"

Lu Heng gently reassured the other man.

"I've already agreed, so there's no reason for me to back down now."

Fang Tao clenched his teeth.

The four people reached an agreement and were just about to take action.

At that moment, a magnificent giant ship appeared on the sea ahead, swiftly sailing towards them.

At the bow stood a man around twenty-five or twenty-six, dressed in a brocade robe, and around him stood three Cultivators looking like guards.

The man had reached the seventh level of Qi Cultivation, while the three around him were all roughly at the sixth level.

Upon seeing the four members of the Lu Family, Chen Tianqi said with a haughty face, "This area is already claimed by my Chen Family. You should go hunt for demon beasts elsewhere."

Upon hearing these words, Lu Yuling's expression turned cold, ready to speak up, but she was stopped by Lu Heng.

"It's just a sea area. Since Mr. Chen would like it, then we'll just move to another."

Lu Heng's eyes concealed a cold light as he spoke indifferently.

He then maneuvered the azure boat to slowly sail away towards the back.

Watching the four people leave, Chen Tianqi did not stop them, watching them with an indifferent face.

The man beside him couldn't help but speak up, "Young Clan Chief, are you not willing to let them go?"

Chen Tianqi laughed coldly, "Even if the four wanted to escape, we couldn't keep them all. That old ghost of the Lu Family is not dead yet."

"A Foundation Establishment Cultivator nearing his end is quite terrifying. We just need to wait quietly."

Far away, the Lu Family members were somewhat silent.

"This person is Chen Tianqi, the Young Clan Chief of the Chen Family, and also the second most talented person of this generation. I'm afraid I'm no match for him."

Lu Heng's gaze emitted a faint glimmer.

"If we had started a fight just now, little sister, you would have been in great danger."

Lu Yuling was filled with indignation, "This Chen Family is really getting too much."

"That so-called second most talented person doesn't look better than my Sixth Brother. To only be at the seventh level of Qi Cultivation at such an age and still have the face to be the Young Clan Chief."

Hearing this, Lu Heng also smiled, "Li is just being too modest. I wonder how he's doing on Golden Qilin Island by now. He's probably not getting enough to satisfy his daily cultivation needs."

Lu Yuling was a bit puzzled, "Sixth Brother might as well come out and join us in killing Demon Beasts, where there are more Spirit Stones and resources."

Lu Heng also showed his agreement, "Let's kill another Demon Beast and then head back. That would make a profit of about a hundred or two hundred Spirit Stones for the month, not bad at all."

"These Demon Beasts are just too hard to find; you can't kill many in a month."

Lu Yuling looked somewhat dispirited.

Being the least advanced in her cultivation, she also got a smaller share.

......

Lu Li returned to his cave on Golden Qilin Island under the moonlight.

He checked his gains and found that this time he had collected nine Ice Spirit Fruits, as well as the body of a Barbaric Beast, which was an astonishing harvest.

Converted to Spirit Stones, it amounted to several hundreds, a day's gain that was more than what an ordinary Qi Cultivation cultivator would get from deep-sea hunting in a month.

He then went to the secret chamber to start his Qi Cultivation meditation.