Chapter 69: A Shot from the Gods

Xu Qi’an slowly swept over the faces of his fellow officers and said in a deep voice, “This is saltpeter.”

The name saltpeter was very strange to the few martial artists present who were poorly read and lacked knowledge of the subject.

Song Tingfeng exchanged glances with his fellow officers and asked with a frown, “Saltpeter?”

Xu Qi’an deliberated, “I’ll change the name, and you’ll all know a little more about Flame Nitre. It is the main material for making gunpowder.”

Present, everyone, their faces changed uncontrollably.

Gunpowder is one of the secret arts of the Great Fathers, one of the means to deter the countries of the four seas, but all the formulas and materials related to gunpowder, the Great Fathers are very strictly controlled (mainly saltpeter).

Even the night watchman knew little about the composition of gunpowder.

Saltpeter mine discovered in the Greater Yellow Mountains …. And there are traces of mining …. Song Tingfeng no longer had half a smile on his face and was unusually serious: “Immediately return to the capital and report this matter.”

The discovery of the saltpeter mine was the important thing compared to the demonic rebellion.

Lu Qing stared at the gray-haired Ri Chang and ordered, “Tie it up and take it away.”

The saltpeter mine even exists in Da Huangshan, and as the head of the village, he says he has no knowledge of it? No matter what, he must be taken back for interrogation.

The two constables took off the ropes around their waists, tied the Rikishi’s hands behind his back, and escorted him outside.

Li Chang should be unaware of the situation, otherwise he would not have brought us here, which is not logical ….. Moreover, analyzing from body language and other details, he doesn’t look like a knowledgeable person, an uneducated old man can’t be an actor ….. The reason the demons drove away the gray household was the saltpeter mine?

Eh…unlikely, would have to call in a professional to make a judgment on how long the saltpeter mines here have been mined.

Xu Qi’an combed through his various thoughts, holding the torch, and had just stepped out of the cave when Lu Qing’s scream came from his ears, “Watch out!”

At the same time, he heard the whistling sound of breaking air, and a black shadow shot from the side, so fast that he couldn’t make any response in time.

Bang!

The gong in his chest cracked, and Xu Qi’an felt like he had been hit head-on by a high-speed train, the powerful impact shaking him out, his consciousness instantly falling into darkness.

The sudden attack caught the crowd off guard, each responding differently.

The three constables from the government office drew their swords and took off their military crossbows.

Zhu Guangxiao kicked the Ri Chang into the grotto with a sweeping leg, Song Tingfeng drew his sword and drank after him, “Get in and don’t come out.”

On the boulder on the side of the grotto lay a monster two feet long, shaped like a salamander, with its body covered in thick armor.

The forehead has sharp horns, amber-colored vertical pupils, flashing cold brutal ferocious light.

The forelimbs have four toes.

Its gills bulged as if it hid a concealed weapon, ready to fire out and attack.

“Pfft!”

A black shadow that was almost impossible to catch with the naked eye catapulted out, striking straight at Song Tingfeng.

The latter’s eyes narrowed and his body reacted more than his brain, instinctively leaning back to avoid the heart-piercing blow.

Lu Qing bow-stepped forward, continuously stepping on cracked stones and splattering stone powder, and chopped with his sword in both hands.

Buzzing…the blade vibrated at a high frequency.

“ding ding ding ding ….”

In a series of toothy noises, the blade hacked out stinging sparks on the tip of his tongue.

It was then that the crowd saw that the monster’s long tongue was covered with a layer of fine scales.

The monster seemed to sense the pain and retracted its long tongue, bracing its massive body on all fours as it stood atop the boulder towering over the crowd.

It gills a stream, opens its bloody mouth, and lets out a thick hiss.

The roar startled the wild birds in the mountains and forests, and they all lifted their wings and flew up into the sky.

Song Tingfeng and the others were momentarily in a trance, and the back of their heads felt like they had been struck with a mallet.

Refining God Realm …. His heart fluttered, and he forced himself to endure the vertigo as the hilt of the blade was tapped towards his chest.

Clunk ….

The loud and clear sound of the gong, like a twilight drum and morning bell, counteracts the sound waves and brings clarity.

Both parties responded immediately after coming out of their trance.

Lu Qing instructed his two peers at the peak of the Refined Essence Realm as he backed away, “You guys use your military crossbows to assist you, and attack its eyes, jaws, and mouth.”

These are relatively soft places.

Song Tingfeng, on the other hand, took off the gong and threw it to Zhu Guangxiao: “You are responsible for frontal containment, be careful yourself.”

He had just clearly seen Xu Qi’an’s gong break and knew that a gong could not withstand the demon’s tongue.

Thinking of Xu Qi’an, Song Tingfeng was a bit saddened, although the gong could withstand the full force of a strike from the God Refining Realm, the monster had just won by sneak attack.

Xu Qi’an was unprepared, and it was possible that his heart would be shattered by the residual force. It was too tragic if the service was only one day.

Song Tingfeng gathered his emotions and dragged his sword wildly, attacking the monster from the side.

The salamander’s amber-colored fierce eyes moved, seemingly about to turn and spit out its tongue, but Zhu Guangxiao beat the gong surface ahead of him, shocking the spirit of the demon.

At the same time, the qi instills the blade, chopping out the thick blade qi in a deep low roar, the arc-shaped blade qi swept out, the air appeared high temperature distortion.

The monster was so large that it couldn’t dodge, it held its head low and used its hard forehead corner to harden against the blade energy. Then it whipped its tail, as if it had eyes behind it, and smacked Song Tingfeng with unerring precision.

Song Tingfeng crossed his sword to block, and his body flew out backwards.

Lu Qing, who was pouncing from the other side, seized the opportunity and stabbed at the demon’s abdomen. It was still dodged by the demon before it could see it coming.

Martial artists and demonic races at the God Refining Realm possessed exuberant spiritual energy that could radiate all around them, allowing the surrounding scenery to appear minutely within their brains.

No tracking, ambush, lockdown, or killing intent could escape the insight of a God Refining Realm martial artist.

This was a divine difference unique to the Refined God Realm.

…..

My mom, almost out of the division before the body first died, it is not easy to break through the practice of qi, the child body is not yet broken, martyrdom …. Xu Qi An came to his senses after experiencing a brief fainting spell.

He listened to the sound of a fierce fight in the distance, and instead of rising, he crept forward, and, unobserved by all, climbed to some elevated point.

Pulling out the small jade mirror in his pocket, he snapped the back and dumped out the military crossbow and bone-etching poison that Song Qing had given him, and after calmly applying the poison, he lifted the military crossbow without saying a word and aimed it at the demonic creature, waiting for his chance.

Clunk ….

Zhu Guangxiao struck the gong, shocking the demon’s Yuan Shen and clouding his perception.

Xu Qi’an was about to shoot when the demonic creature suddenly flipped over, which caused Song Tingfeng and the others to freeze, not knowing what it meant by this maneuver.

…. Damn it, sneak attacks don’t work against experts of the God Refining Realm!

Xu Qi’an, who knew the real reason, cursed.

The safest way was to continue to wait and let a few of Song Tingfeng’s toolmen consume the demon, severely injuring it and lowering its spiritual awareness. Then he would have the opportunity to use this magic weapon military crossbow that could kill the God Refining Realm to complete the beheading!

Soon, Xu Qi’an gave up this idea ….

As if Lu Qing was a sturdy female leopard, her two powerful long legs sprinted, and with a delicate rebuke, she finally stabbed the tip of the high-frequency trembling blade into the demon’s abdomen.

The blood soaked the blade as if it had touched a red-hot iron, snorting and steaming up blood smoke.

The demon roared in pain and rage, its head tilted, its jaws bulged, and the black shadow of the broken air shot out.

Lu Qing’s face sank, fear surfaced on her delicate face, she couldn’t avoid this strike.

At that moment, a figure swooped in from the slanting ground, embraced the plump and athletic body of the female constable, and carried her like a sideways tumble.

Song Tingfeng rescue followed, stabbing the demon in its soft abdomen. Forcing it to be unable to pursue its companion.

Lu Qing felt herself being held by a pair of strong arms around her waist, her body pressed against the man’s heavy body, she breathed in sharply for a moment, gazing at the man on top of her, and blurted out in surprise:

“You’re not dead.”

Xu Qi’an grinned, “Almost.”

If Song Qing hadn’t given me the heart protector to take credit ….

Lu Qing was just about to speak when she saw the monster’s tail splitting down above her head, and hurriedly hugged Xu Qi’an and rolled with him.

Bang!

Deep marks were drawn where the two men had originally been lying.

“Even.” Xu Qi’an smiled at her, and the two of them separated, tacitly cooperating with Song Tingfeng to surround the demonic creature.

The reason he gave up his sneak attack and chose to throw himself into the fight: the three Qi Practicing Realms simply couldn’t beat a Demonic creature of the God Refining Realm.

In the end, it would only end up with the demon not being ground to death, and Xu Qi’an becoming a bare-knuckle commander himself.

Seeing that their companions were not martyred, Zhu Guangxiao and Song Tingfeng’s eyes lit up with secret joy.

Xu Qi’an fished out the Bone Eroding Poison from his pocket and smeared it on the blade of his knife, tossing it to Lu Qing and saying, “Smear it on the blade.”

Lu Qing glanced at him and took a few steps back to apply the poison. Then he threw it to Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao.

Song Tingfeng was more unlucky, when applying the poison, he was attacked by the demon lock, his long tongue grazing his arm, his scales scraping the flesh and blood.

Lu Qing slashed at the demonic creature and saw the wound rapidly turn black, followed by a putrid odor, she looked at Xu Qi’an in surprise, “Effective!”

With Xu Qi’an joining them, the four Qi Practicing Realms teamed up to surround them, and with the two Essence Refining Realms shooting arrows from the sidelines to interfere, the advantage was extremely obvious.

The demon is powerful and has unrivaled tongue skills.

However, its huge size as well as the construction of its body determined that it was unable to roll around and be flexible like a human martial artist.

The injuries on his body grew and grew.

…..

“Be careful!” Xu Qi’an waved his saber and infused his qi, splitting the demon’s flinging tail and saving Lu Qing, who had traded his wounds for injuries.

His tiger’s mouth instantly disintegrated and blood flowed out.

He looked at Lu Qing angrily, “Don’t you want to die? A woman fighting so hard.”

Lu Qing’s eyes gazed at him for a moment, breaking into a few feminine pettiness, “Uh-huh.”

“Ouch ….”

The demonic creature shook the air and once again erupted into a terrifying mental storm.

Xu Qi’an and the others were prepared and flew backwards, pulling away to avoid being attacked by the long tongue.

Who knows, after the demon forced back the crowd, the body turned, four claws like flying, escaped ….

It burrowed into the forest, roughly knocking down tree after tree and reclaiming a clear, rough path.

Lu Qing lost her color: “Chase it, we can’t let it escape.”

Once the demon is in the water, it will be difficult to destroy it.

Song Tingfeng leaped up and stepped on the branch, like a martial arts master with superb lightness.

He stomped hard on a tree trunk and flew into mid-air, overlooking the entire forest, the muscles of his knife-wielding right hand expanding and ripping the loose cuffs.

“Drink!”

The saber shot out, drawing a bright silver beam in midair.

A second later, a hiss of pain from the demon came from the dense forest.

Sung Ting ran out of wind and crashed into the forest.

Zhu Guangxiao then took over, his lightness was not as good as Song Tingfeng’s, but his explosive power was not weak at all, running wildly against the ground, catching up with the demon, bellowing and rushing up to the sky, slashing fiercely at the demon.

Snap!

The demonic creature with a knife stuck in its spine whips him off with a sweeping motion and continues to run for his life.

Only Lu Qing and Xu Qi’an were left in pursuit, and the female panther-like female constable bit down dead center behind the demonic creature, not falling behind, but not catching up either.

Soon they were out of the woods, and after a few moments of chasing, the Toho River was in sight.

“Pfft!”

The demonic creature dug into the river and splashed.

In the valiant female constable’s disappointment, her afterglow glimpsed Xu Qi’an leaping high into the air, removing a military crossbow from her waist, aiming without even glancing, and dashingly pulling the trigger.

The moment the arrow was shot, a powerful Qi fluctuation exploded.

The female constable did not even catch the shadow of the arrow, but the sound of “swoosh” into the water came to her ears.

A few seconds later, the magic happened.

The river was flooded with blood-colored water, and a monster two feet long slowly floated up.

The cause of its death was an arrow through the head.

Lu Qing froze and twisted his head to look at the young and upright night watchman.

Xu Qi’an shrugged, “I’ve always been lucky.”

PS: Push a book: “Rebirth from a blind date”: tawdry life, starting from a blind date.

PS: There are revisions in this chapter, so it’s a slow update… well, remember to remind me of any typos.