494: Chapter 69 494: Chapter 69 Huajian State, Qinghua City.
One hundred miles outside the city, in an old forest of withered trees.
A flash of lightning lit up the dense forest, drawing the attention of a woodcutter on the other side of the mountain.
Then it dimd again.
Under the lightning, Wang Hao was already on the verge of death.
In front of him stood a rough-looking, muscular woman with calloused hands, clearly a body refining cultivator.
Body refiners are rarely slim.
They are invariably muscular and scarred.
If a body refiner is slim, then they must be at the Mahayana stage, having returned to the truth.
“You and I have no grievances, why do you want to take my life?”
The woman adjusted her dislocated arm, her breath weak and showing signs of great physical exertion.
She did not know the man in front of her but felt an extraordinary sense of familiarity and invited him to drink and make friends.
After several interactions, he ntioned there was a cave with inheritance in the mountains but lacked a thod to break the array, so he asked for her help.
Later, upon arriving at this place, the man suddenly launched a sneak attack.
If it weren’t for the woman’s vigilance and the protection of her cross refining technique, she would have died on the spot.
Wang Hao, breathing heavily, retorted, “Ha ha, weren’t you thinking the sa?
You don’t look young.
Don’t you understand the intentions of strangers inviting you to explore a cave?”
“Even mortals know not to look into a well together.
You dared to explore the cave with ?
We’re the sa, both wanting to kill the other.”
The rough woman frowned but couldn’t refute.
She always believed in not offending others unless they offended her first.
But against a person she felt an imdiate familiarity with, she developed an intense killing intent, wanting nothing more than to crush the person!
She asked, “Why?”
“You are a great power reincarnated.”
As soon as Wang Hao finished speaking, the woman’s confusion disappeared, replaced by cold killing intent.
She asked word by word, “How do you know?”
This was sothing she had never told anyone.
Her na was Qi Ling, born eight hundred miles from Taiyi City, in an ordinary farming family.
She later joined a local martial arts school and at sixteen, while still dreaming of becoming a Qi cultivation master, suddenly awakened the mories of her previous life.
In her previous life, she was a true disciple of the Qianfeng Sect, a Golden Core Immortal, far more powerful than the Qi cultivation masters ntioned by her martial arts school teacher.
From that mont on, Qi Ling felt herself extraordinary, shedding the rustic air of her farming background and fully accepting the mories of her past life.
She also knew that reincarnation was rare, likely a once-in-a-millennium opportunity.
To protect herself, she never spoke of it, not even planning to return to her past life’s sect.
Now, at ninety, Qi Ling felt the need to return to her sect because she seed unable to break through to the Golden Core stage.
Although Foundation Establishnt provides at least a hundred and fifty years of life, and the long-lived may reach two hundred, one’s vitality diminishes after a hundred, making the breakthrough to Golden Core even harder.
Qi Ling was unwilling to accept this, being in the impoverished countryside without any background.
She could only seek help from her sect, hoping to obtain resources.
Cultivation of wealth, partner, thod, and place; without wealth, everything is difficult.
But she hadn’t yet returned to the sect, so how could anyone know this?
Qi Ling’s heart was filled with unease and suspicion.
“Ha ha, I know much more than you think.”
Taking advantage of the mont, Wang Hao consud a pill, then stood up shakily.
Qi Ling’s palm ford lightning, and she took a small step forward, ready to strike at any mont.
“Speak!
Or die!”
“If I speak now, I will surely die.
Let leave a hundred feet, and then I’ll tell you.”
“…”
“I am already severely injured and cannot run far.
A hundred feet is rely a few breaths’ ti for you.”
“Alright.”
Wang Hao cautiously took a few steps back, then clutched his chest and perford a movent technique.
At the mont he turned, lightning erupted from his chest, accompanied by the sound of thunder.
His chest was pierced by a hand, and blood seeped into the calloused skin.
At the sa ti, a talisman slipped from his hand, a bit of spirit light igniting as the Li Fire consud thirty feet around.
Both Wang Hao and Qi Ling were engulfed by the Li Fire, followed by a loud explosion, sending them flying another ten feet.
Qi Ling’s face was blackened, her hair and eyebrows reduced to ashes, her voice hoarse from the flas.
She crawled with all her might out of the sea of fire, pursued persistently by the mountain fire ignited by the Li Fire.
She could only keep crawling, not knowing how long had passed until Wang Hao’s breath completely vanished behind her.
Qi Ling had no strength to care about any of this, her whole body burned, her skin peeling away, her eyes on the brink of being scorched.
‘Damn it!
Damn it!
I should have killed him outright!’
Qi Ling knew the other had malicious intent and must have had a backup plan.
But she was more eager to uncover the reincarnation mystery, believing she could bear the risk.
At least she only considered Wang Hao fleeing.
But she hadn’t expected him to produce such a high-end item like a talisman.
Being at the sa Foundation Establishnt stage, why was he so wealthy?
This fire would surely have burned all his items, wouldn’t it?
Qi Ling’s body was in excruciating pain, and her heart hurt even more.
She was poor, terribly poor.
Clenching her teeth and stamping her foot, Qi Ling turned back and plunged into the fire.
By this ti, the Li Fire had faded, replaced by ordinary mountain fire.
For Foundation Establishnt cultivators, it was not life-threatening with so minor techniques.
Moreover, as a body refiner, body cultivation was extrely difficult, with many drawbacks but the singular advantage of being tough and resilient.
re full-body burns were not life-threatening.
A quarter of an hour later, Qi Ling dragged a corpse out of the sea of fire, then rolled and crawled another ten miles before stopping.
She gasped for a mont, took out so ointnt, and sared it on her face like mud, spreading it evenly to prevent future scarring.
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