Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 624 Qing Emperor
"The Black Emperor was betrayed, his primordial spirit corrupted, and he has fallen into the ghost realm?"

While drifting in the boundless darkness, Qin Huai (Lu Wu), who was searching for a needle in a haystack, simultaneously learned the latest information heard by the Taotie clone. He was immediately relieved and had a greater grasp of the location of Emperor Tuoba's primordial spirit.

Under the blazing sun, Qin Huai dispelled the black mist and drifted forward along the Blood River at great speed. Although the future was uncertain and bleak, with surging waves, floating corpses, and a stench of blood, making it impossible to predict the exact direction of the flow, he had a sudden inspiration and felt that as long as he followed the Blood River, he would surely gain something.

Suddenly, Qin Huai's ears twitched, and he heard faint music coming from the surging waves of the blood river in front of him.

"Bone flutes and horns?"

Thanks to the horse's belly clone's mastery of music and instruments, Qin Huai only needed to discern the source of the music to quickly identify it. He immediately sped up and traveled at full speed. After a while, the rumbling sound of water ahead grew louder, the demonic mist dissipated, and the waves surged. Suddenly, the view opened up, revealing a deep cliff below. The rolling blood river transformed into a huge blood waterfall at this point, roaring and cascading down with a thunderous crash.

As the distance closed, the sound of the bone flute grew higher and sharper, carrying a faint chilling and eerie aura, completely different from the cold and mournful sound of the horn. The two voices resonated, not like a harmonious melody, but more like a tug-of-war between magic.

Qin Huai plunged swiftly down the steep vertical slope of the waterfall, disappearing into the hazy mist in the blink of an eye, falling along with the rolling curtain of water.

The waterfall was magnificent, about a hundred feet wide and nearly a thousand feet high. Countless corpses were thrown into the air by the blood waves, flying and dancing, and then crashing into the pool at the bottom. They were then carried by the raging river and surged forward. The sky was filled with water waves, blood droplets, and severed corpses.

Qin Huai was enveloped in a protective aura, and his ears were filled with the roar of water, the howling of ghosts and wolves, and the sound of flutes and horns that seemed to penetrate straight to the heart.

Just as the egg-shaped, colorful Qi shield reached the bottom of the waterfall and was about to rush into the curtain waterfall following the eerie flute sound, a deafening roar suddenly came from behind Qin Huai, followed by a thunderous and furious roar.

Roar!
The water at the bottom of the waterfall burst and exploded, and a huge winged tiger burst out of the waves, roaring as it pounced on Qin Huai.

The monster was entirely blood-red, with massive, fleshy wings that were at least four zhang wide when spread out. Its fierce eyes were purplish-red, and its fangs were long and backward-growing. When it spat out its blood-red mouth, a huge ball of flame, about ten zhang in diameter, would break through the air and attack, which was quite terrifying.

【King of Qiongqi】: With three thousand years of cultivation, one of the Ten Ferocious Beasts of the Great Wilderness, this is the Beast King of the Western Regions. His strength far surpasses that of his ordinary counterparts, and he is undoubtedly the most vicious among the Qiongqi.

Note: The power of Qiongqi is highly compatible with Taotie! Absorbing the power of Qiongqi will greatly increase the awakening level of Taotie's spirit and allow you to unlock the Qiongqi Treasure, where you can choose one of the four ancient fierce beasts' high-quality treasures to enhance!
Note: It ravaged the Western Regions, became enraged and ate people, and was captured by the Emperor and moved to Ghost Mountain to ward off evil spirits.

Qin Huai's body was enveloped in five colors, which danced and intertwined, suddenly swallowing the ball of flames. The fire turned into thunder, giving rise to a raging dragon with prominent horns, which struck down at Qiongqi like lightning.

Qiongqi roared, then suddenly flapped its wings and danced around, darting past the Azure Thunder Dragon like lightning. Flaming winds raged, and its giant tail swept across, slamming heavily onto the surface of the Qi shield.

Qin Huai remained motionless, only to be suddenly blasted open with a deafening roar. Pure ice burst forth, and icy crystals shot out furiously, instantly turning the huge beast's body, which was almost within reach, into a bloody sieve.

Qiongqi roared repeatedly, flapping its wings and soaring through the icy rain and storm, dodging and weaving, waiting for an opportunity to attack. Occasionally, it would strike with its giant claws and sweep its long tail with lightning speed, causing ripples to spread across the Qi shield, but it could never inflict any effective damage on Qin Huai.

Qin Huai observed that the monster moved like a ghost, was alert and brutal, possessed astonishing strength, and launched fierce attacks, truly deserving of its reputation as one of the Four Fiends. Immediately, a thought flashed through his mind, and he commanded thousands of thunder dragons to launch a simultaneous attack. Azure light danced and flew, and wherever the thunderbolts struck, waves splashed and blood stained the fields.

"Bind!"

Qin Huai focused his mind, and the wild and unrestrained blood river water instantly transformed into steel chains, climbing up Qiongqi's limbs and bones. Hundreds of thunder dragons also bravely charged forward, colliding with it with a spirit of mutual destruction.

boom!
Hundreds and thousands of emerald-green lightning bolts, each as thick as a water vat, struck Qiongqi's body, bombarding it relentlessly like a torrential downpour washing over its flesh and blood, leaving it half-dead in an instant.

Qiongqi roared in despair, its wounds burst open, and black blood spurted out. Before large clumps of snow-white maggots could even be expelled, they were scorched into charcoal by the thick thunderous magma.

"Go in."

Taking advantage of Qiongqi's imprisonment and inability to resist, Qin Huai condensed the yellowish-brown light on his body into a Wutu Genshan Hammer, which crashed down, completely stunning the Qiongqi, whose fleshy wings were broken and whose four claws were twitching, leaving it with no power to resist.

After taking the dying Western Regions beast king into the Kunlun Space, Qin Huai turned and passed through the waterfall, heading towards the deepest part of the mountain. He soon discovered that behind the waterfall was a huge, empty, cold, and desolate mountain belly, where the blood river surged and roared, forming a huge cold pool.

Inside the mountain, two people sat on the ground, facing each other across the pool.

The person sitting on the left was dressed in a black cloak, head bowed and knees crossed, his face obscured by the cloak. The man in black danced, his fingers moving nimbly as he played a seven-inch-long flute made of a seven-hole bird bone. The flute's sound was cold, sharp, eerie, and chilling; the murky pool of blood swayed and rose with the flute's melody.

A faint black light shone above the cold pool, and endless misty water vapor surged into the air, contracting and condensing into a huge water sphere. Thousands of tiny black insects swirled and danced on its surface, resembling a ring.

"Wow, so many Gu worms, quite a variety of species."

A fleeting glimpse revealed countless figures, so densely packed that they nearly obscured the entire view. Qin Huai turned to his right and saw that the man in black on the opposite bank had skin as white as snow, fiery red hair, a slightly protruding belly, and held a verdant dragon horn in both hands, blowing out battle cries from his lips.

Around her, countless stars rose and fell slowly with the sound of the horn, their iridescent light forming a faint haze.

"She is the concubine of the Dragon Queen and Rain Master, but who exactly is this person?"

Qin Huai turned to look at the man in black who was completely covered up. Just as he was about to make a move, a loud "boom" suddenly rang in his ears. A series of wild shouts and strange howls suddenly erupted around him, as if countless vengeful ghosts were screaming in the belly of the mountain. The sound was violent and deafening.

"Ok?"

Qin Huai frowned, diverting his attention to his surroundings, only to discover that the mountain's walls were riddled with caves, each enclosed on six sides by extremely thick, black ice iron fences. Inside the caves were skeletons, zombies, and demonic beasts, constantly ramming against the iron fences, screaming and howling at him in a frenzied and sorrowful manner, as if desperately hoping for his rescue.

Each time they collided, the zombies and monstrous creatures would howl and tremble in pain, their souls almost bursting out of their bodies, but even so, they continued to roar and crash into each other.

Suddenly, the dark and silent mountain belly was filled with the light of souls and a cacophony of noise.

"Silence."

Before the words were even finished, a fierce wind surged up from the mountainside, and all the surrounding air gathered in the center, forming a vacuum ring behind Qin Huai, Yu Shi Qie, and the man in black, where sound could not travel.

"What a skill! When did the Great Wilderness produce a Wind God whose magic surpasses even that of the Wind Lord?!" Seeing that the extremely annoying wailing and howling had disappeared, Qin Huai nodded and was about to continue when he suddenly heard a deep voice like a thunderclap enter his ears. If Qin Huai's soul had not been strong, he would have been dizzy from the shock.

"Hmm? There's another expert."

Realizing that someone could project sound into a line and forcefully cross the vacuum zone to deliver the words into his ears, Qin Huai suddenly looked back in the direction of the sound and discovered that in a dark cave far away, there was a transparent dome that looked like a crystal eggshell. A skeletal man sat cross-legged in it with his head hanging down. His withered yellow hair was disheveled like tangled grass, and a pale blue spear had pierced through the top of his head, with only the spear shaft about a foot long protruding from the top of his head, making him look like he had a single horn, which was extremely ferocious.

The man's neck and wrists were bound in thick, white gold steel shackles from the Western Sea. His long beard reached down to his knees, and he was draped in a tattered but spotless blue cloth robe. His limbs were almost entirely bare bones, with hundreds of dark blue-gold iron rings piercing through them and firmly anchoring them to a crystal dome, clanging softly. Countless transparent silk threads swayed and coiled around the surrounding black ice iron pillars.

[Azure Emperor's Spiritual Admiration]: The Azure Emperor of the Wood Clan, born with the spirit of wood, is an unparalleled genius. More than a hundred years ago, he was ambushed by the Wood God Jumang, the Black Emperor Zhiguangji, and others, and his meridians were all severed. He was then imprisoned in the Ghost Realm Spirit Cave, but after years of meditation, he mastered the ultimate skill [Azure Fire and Golden Light]. Struggling to survive in dire circumstances, he found another way and comprehended the unique supernatural power of using the [Seed God Great Technique] to possess his body and wield the five elements' true energy with his meridianless body.

Note: If one can heal the body and soul, expel lesions, replenish vital energy, and restore full strength, one can reach even greater heights and achieve the Six Offices.

"The Azure Emperor's spiritual inspiration? I didn't expect you to be ambushed as well."

After reading Yan Fu's instructions, Qin Huai ignored the two who were clearly locked in a stalemate by the cold pool and leaped directly to the front of the Azure Emperor's special prison.

"Who are you? How can you recognize me even in this disguise?"

Perhaps sensing the powerful magic power within Qin Huai's body, which contained all five elements, the Azure Emperor Ling Yang suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with cold light, and asked directly.

"The Primordial God, Lu Wu."

Looking at the still-powerful Azure Emperor Ling Yang, Qin Huai nodded, feeling a surge of appreciation for his talent and considering recruiting him.

"Lu Wu? What a joke. I've seen Lu Wu of the Jin Clan who guards Kunlun Mountain before. His strength is at most at the minor god level. How can he be compared to your body with all five virtues?"

Qingdi Linggan shook his head. Although he couldn't discern Qin Huai's true strength in a short time, the natural aura emanating from the man before him was undeniable. For someone to make even his peak-cultivated Azure Wood True Qi tremble and crumble, he must possess the same divine power as Shennong, the man who had once easily defeated him!

"I can save you from the ghost realm and even heal all your soul injuries."

Qin Huai was too lazy to argue with Ling Ganyang about his identity, so he directly offered the bargaining chips he was willing to give.

"What do I have to give?"

Inspiration comes from the wisdom of an old man, who immediately realized that this was an excellent opportunity to get out of trouble.

"Help me tend to the flowers, trees and shrubs of Kunlun Hill, and defend my home against enemies when necessary. Rest assured, considering you are an emperor of a clan, I will not make you a slave. Consider it as my hiring you as the Kunlun Wood Master, and your payment will be your freedom."

Qin Huai knew that most geniuses were proud and arrogant, and Ling Ganyang was a noble emperor of a clan, so he would definitely not swallow his pride and give up his dignity for freedom. Therefore, he simply offered extremely generous and lenient conditions to show his sincerity to the greatest extent.

"Yes, but my lifespan is short, and I can only serve you for two hundred years."

Ling Ganyang agreed to Qin Huai's conditions almost without hesitation.

"enough."

Qin Huai smiled slightly, flicked his finger, and the Xuanbing iron fence between the two softened and twisted on its own, making room for him to pass through.

bang~
Perhaps sensing Qin Huai's approach, the crystal dome covering Ling Ganyang's body immediately emitted a blinding white light, the air waves surged and exploded, the iron pillars hummed and vibrated, stones flew out, the sound was deafening, the ghosts wailed and retreated.

"Interesting, a sealing artifact that combines all five elements, too bad it ran into me."

Qin Huai stretched out his large hand, his five fingers gently touching the crystal cover. The iridescent light representing the Eastern Wood, Southern Fire, Western Metal, Northern Water, and Central Earth flickered continuously, changing its frequency hundreds of times in an instant.

Kaka~~
With a crisp sound, the colorful rainbow light, having found its resonant frequency, exerted continuous pressure, shattering the incomparably hard crystal dome. The rainbow light swept across, even easily melting the metal ring nails and heavy shackles that pierced Linggan's bones, without any effort.

"receive!"

With a shout from Qin Huai, the crystal shards that were about to burst out were swept up by the rainbow light and collected into his personal space along with the mixed gold chain.

With a casual gesture, Qin Huai summoned a vortex portal leading to Kunlun Hill. Looking at Ling Ganyang, who was in dire straits, he said, "Go inside and recuperate for a while. There are medicines and nourishing foods inside. When I return to the Great Wilderness, I will let you come out to take revenge."

"The flute player by the pool is that old scoundrel, Zhi Guangji. He has had many adventures in the ghost realm. You are fighting him alone, so be careful. If you find anything amiss, do not forget to call me for help!"

Watching Qin Huai effortlessly dismantle the Five Qi Mixed Yuan Cover and the North Sea Mixed Gold Lock that had bound him for years, Ling Ganyang, knowing his condition was extremely poor, wanted to take revenge himself and kill the Black Emperor Zhi Guangji, but he was still impressed by the terrifying strength Qin Huai displayed. Without saying a word, he immediately floated into Kunlun Hill.

"Master, you have subdued [Azure Heavenly Demon: Inspiration]!"

"Attention, Master! Your Dao Spiritual Power (Wood Element) bonus has reached its limit. Please further enhance your Kunlun Hill."

【Aoki Tenyo: Inspiration】

Cultivation level: Four thousand years (due to a damaged body and weak soul, all meridians are severed, and his strength is less than one-tenth of what it used to be)

Specialization: Swordsmanship 100%, Knife Skills 100%
Note: He is both a unique tree spirit born of nature and a grandmaster with unique insights into the Green Wood Martial Arts.

(End of this chapter)