Chapter 43: Movements of Various Factions

The three members of LanYang Palace were under the perception of the Artifact God. They had now concealed their auras and were rushing swiftly toward where Qu Yi was.
Qu Yi sat quietly on the shoulder of the metal man.
The three from LanYang Palace surrounded Qu Yi from three directions. Now only a kilometer away, they all stopped, exchanged thoughts through their spiritual senses, and decided to attack him simultaneously.
Suddenly, Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke all soared into the air. Without waiting for the metal beasts and monsters below to attack, they teleported directly to the shoulder of the metal man where Qu Yi was sitting.
Each of them held a top-tier fire-type spiritual weapon—a whip, a halberd, and a flying wheel—and they all flew toward where Qu Yi had been sitting at the same time.
As they unleashed their top-tier spiritual weapons, Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke smiled, as if they could already see Qu Yi dead with various magical treasures falling from the sky.
However, the powerful strikes from the three weapons shattered the metal man Qu Yi was sitting on, but Qu Yi himself had disappeared.
Amidst their astonished expressions, Qu Yi’s voice came from the air.
“Lan Wei, Lie Gao, Lie Ke, you three bastards! Do you think this is enough to assassinate me, Qu Yi?” Qu Yi now hovered quietly in the air, laughing as he looked at the three from LanYang Palace.
Even more strangely, despite Qu Yi being in the air, those metal beasts and monsters did not attack him.
Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke were already quite surprised to see Qu Yi disappear. Seeing him float in the air unharmed by the metal beasts left them speechless. At the same time, the three from LanYang Palace felt a surge of panic, realizing that this ambush was a mistake.
“Qu Yi, how can you stay in the air? Why aren’t those metal beasts attacking you?” Lan Wei shouted in frustration.
While shouting, he also communicated with Lie Gao and Lie Ke through their spiritual senses, ready to attack Qu Yi again at any moment. After all, they had already attacked, and now that hostilities had begun, they would not stop until he was dead—there was no room for hesitation.
How could Qu Yi explain? He simply smiled faintly.
In fact, after being attacked by the metal crab, Qu Yi had realized that each metal beast had its own unique metallic aura. He suddenly remembered how, in the Emerald Bamboo World, he had absorbed wood-elemental energy using the Star Luo Ding. So, in this metal world, he could naturally absorb the gold-elemental energy from the metal beasts.

Thus, Qu Yi had already used the Star Luo Ding to absorb a portion of the Metal Beast’s Metal element energy in the air and enveloped his own body with it, so that he wouldn’t be recognized by the Metal Beast and thus wouldn’t be attacked. Seeing that Qu Yi didn’t respond, the three members of the Lan Yang Palace pretended to be angry, suddenly flew into the air together, and simultaneously shattered the Fire Immortal Fruit. The Fire Immortal Fruit contained extremely intense Fire element primordial energy; once it exploded, this energy burst forth, filling the entire space with blazing flames that not only melted the Metal Men on the ground but also the Metal Beasts flying in the air. The plan of the three from the Lan Yang Palace was to use three Fire Immortal Fruits to destroy Qu Yi before he could use the Ten Thousand Poisons Fruit. Of course, as the Fire Immortal Fruits exploded, the three from the Lan Yang Palace couldn’t escape either, but they had already prepared a countermeasure—they quickly wielded their top-grade spiritual weapons, creating an independent space around themselves to shield themselves from the attack of the Fire element primordial energy. At that moment, the three were convinced that Qu Yi was doomed to death, and each of them showed a triumphant expression. The fierce flames that had destroyed the space still left the air scorching hot. For the three from the Lan Yang Palace, this heat posed no threat at all. They immediately stopped circulating their vital energy and ceased creating the independent space, revealing their bodies. As soon as they appeared, they sensed the surroundings with their spiritual awareness, hoping that treasures like lower-grade immortal weapons, the Star Luo Ding, or the Fire Soaring Sword would fall to the ground. However, there was not the slightest trace of a lower-grade immortal weapon on the ground! “You three bastards! Don’t you know that the Star Luo Ding isn’t affected by Fire element primordial energy?” Suddenly, another loud voice rang out above them—coming from Qu Yi himself. Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke all looked up in terror. The Star Luo Ding floated in the air, with Qu Yi standing inside it, waving at them. Just as the three wanted to shout questions, Qu Yi suddenly threw three black balls the size of eggs—actually Starry Sky Fire Thunder. This was a treasure that Qu Yi had obtained from an elder of the Lan Yang Palace before, possessing the power of the late stage of tribulation, and now he returned it to the three from the Lan Yang Palace. “Starry Sky Fire Thunder!” How could Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke not recognize it as a treasure of their own sect? The moment they saw the Starry Sky Fire Thunder approaching, they immediately cried out in alarm. Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three loud explosions erupted as the starry fire thunder detonated, striking one of them. But Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke, who were capable of representing the Lan Yang Palace to enter the Vast Heaven Immortal Mansion, were naturally extremely strong. Even the powerful starry fire thunder in the later stage of the tribulation could be blocked by their fire-based spells.

However, before they could rejoice, they suddenly noticed a poisonous gas spreading in the air—it was the poison from the Thousand Poisons Fruit.

“Ah, the Thousand Poisons Fruit!” Lan Wei, Lie Gao, and Lie Ke cried out in terror.

They had already thrown away their Fire Immortal Fruits. With no treasures left to counter the poison of the Thousand Poisons Fruit, and being ambushed and poisoned by Qu Yi, they were quickly caught off guard.

It turned out that Qu Yi had used the starry fire thunder to delay them, ensuring a flawless deployment of the Thousand Poisons Fruit. Just one Thousand Poisons Fruit was enough to kill them all.

As expected, after inhaling a puff of the poison, the three members of the Lan Yang Palace struggled in panic before collapsing, their bodies decaying and disappearing.

Four top-grade spiritual weapons, three space rings, and three defensive armor pieces fell from the sky—these were the treasures carried by the three members of the Lan Yang Palace. In addition to their own top-grade spiritual weapons, they also possessed one Six Harmonies Sword, making a total of four lower-grade spiritual weapons.

With a gesture of his right hand, Qu Yi caused the top-grade spiritual weapons, space rings, and defensive armor to fly into the Star Luo Cauldron. After purifying the poison, he took out only the Six Harmonies Sword.

“Hehe, the Six Harmonies Sword… I now have two of them,” Qu Yi said triumphantly.

“Qu Yi, you’re really lucky. Out of all the people in the Lan Yang Palace, you had to be the one they chose to ambush. Not only did they die themselves, but they also gave you a Six Harmonies Sword,” the Voice of the Weapon God immediately spoke up.

Qu Yi could only smile, agreeing with the Weapon God’s words.

The turmoil at the Lan Yang Palace was naturally sensed by the powerful warriors of the other eight sects. Each of them was shocked and deeply afraid of Qu Yi’s strength, never daring to target him again.

The four members of the Tai Yuan Sect harbored even greater hatred toward Qu Yi. After all, he had stolen their sect’s Star Luo Cauldron and used it to defend himself against enemies—this was a blatant insult to the Tai Yuan Sect.

Qu Yi paid no attention to the thoughts of the powerful warriors of the eight sects. After cleaning up the scene, he simply flew into the air, landed on a metallic raven, and continued to sit in meditation to recuperate.

The powerful members of the other eight sects sensed that Qu Yi was no longer searching for other inferior spiritual weapons, and with the three members of the Lan Yang Palace having just died, the pressure on them decreased significantly, giving them more confidence in competing for the remaining nine inferior spiritual weapons.

Soon, the powerful members of the eight sects engaged in fierce battles with the metal beasts in nine locations across the Metal World to seize the inferior immortal weapons from them. All eight sects managed to obtain one such weapon each, with the Tai Yuan Gate even getting two.

For the members of the eight sects, obtaining these inferior immortal weapons was a cause for joy, but for the powerful members of the six sects—Qing Yun Sect, Jin Yang Sect, Cang Yang Valley, Bai Shou Peak, Xian Yue Cliff, and Jiu Gong Island—it was an extremely painful situation.

One inferior immortal weapon could only carry three people, but each of these six sects had four members, meaning one person had to be abandoned alive—a truly difficult decision.

Qing Yun Sect was fortunate enough to directly approach Tai Yuan Gate and, in exchange for a top-grade spiritual weapon, get their member helped to leave the Metal World.

Jin Yang Sect and Cang Yang Valley, being magic-cultivating sects, could not help each other and remained anxious, searching for solutions.

Bai Shou Peak, Xian Yue Cliff, and Jiu Gong Island, all demon-cultivating sects, each had one person who needed to find a way out, and all three sects turned to Qu Yi, deciding to make a deal with him.

Meanwhile, Qu Yi, in his meditative state, had already determined that his tribulation would occur three days later.