Chapter Eleven: Asking the Heavens’ Blade

As soon as Qu Yi finished speaking, his figure flashed forward, appearing right in front of Yin Boqing. The Fengyan Sword sparkled as it pierced straight at Yin Boqing’s chest.
“Pretty fast!”
Yin Boqing smiled faintly and immediately moved swiftly, dodging Qu Yi’s attack. Then, wielding his fiery red great sword, he swung down fiercely.
Fifty million spiritual entities of metal, wood, water, and fire converged to form a hundred-meter-long sword. With a mighty roar, the void trembled as the sword swung down toward Qu Yi’s head.
“Just fifty million spiritual entities? Not enough.”
Qu Yi smiled lightly. As his figure moved, he lifted the Fengyan Sword upward, instantly creating a sea of flames in the air. Seventy million spiritual entities of metal, wood, water, and fire surged forth, turning an area of ten thousand meters into a land of flames.
During group battles among Divine General-level cultivators, Qu Yi had been at the center of the island, using seventy million spiritual entities to defeat Gongye Chen. Naturally, the eight royal families already knew about the seventy million spiritual entities within Qu Yi’s body. Now, he didn’t need to hide them and immediately unleashed them all.
Of course, Qu Yi also possessed two types of unified spiritual entities, each numbering in the hundreds of millions. He still didn’t want to reveal his true strength at this time.
Seventy million spiritual entities were more than enough to suppress Yin Boqing and kill him.
“Indeed, you have the means.”
Yin Boqing was shocked. He didn’t even have a chance to dodge; his entire body was already trapped in the land of flames. He had no choice but to form a divine essence shield to protect himself.
Seeing that Yin Boqing was trapped, Qu Yi smiled. His divine essence continued to fuel the Fengyan Sword, expanding the land of flames to keep Yin Boqing trapped until his divine essence was exhausted.
With the Xingluo Ding in his body, Qu Yi didn’t have to worry about running out of divine essence. He intended to torture Yin Boqing to death.
“Qu Yi, you’re too naive. Thinking that just because you have an advantage in divine essence, you can trap me?” Yin Boqing shouted mockingly from amidst the flames.
At that moment, a fiery red defensive armor appeared on Yin Boqing’s body. The armor exuded immense power, possessing complete control over the five elements. Undoubtedly, it was a Divine King-level defensive armor.
Yin Boqing dismissed his divine essence shield and freely moved through the land of flames, unafraid, with a proud smile on his face.
Qu Yi ignored him, letting Yin Boqing smile triumphantly. He continued to wield the Fengyan Sword, maintaining the land of flames that followed Yin Boqing’s movements, keeping him trapped.

“Qu Yi, do you dare to put out these flames so we can fight head-on?” Yin Boqing flew around in the sea of flames several times and found that the space was surrounded by fire, making it impossible for her to fly quickly. With Qu Yi continuously keeping the flames surrounding her, she grew anxious.

“Yin Boqing, are you scared? It’s right that you’re scared. Since I’ve decided to kill you, I certainly won’t let you go. Stay in this sea of flames for a while until your vital energy runs out—then that will be your death day,” Qu Yi replied cheerfully, his expression calm yet vigilant as he kept an eye on Yin Boqing’s movements, urging the Flame Kingdom to surround her further.

At that moment, Qing Wugui and Wu Yuan also arrived.

“Qu Yi, let me take care of this Yin Boqing,” Wu Yuan said, pulling out his Nine Heavens Staff with gleaming eyes, full of enthusiasm.

“Qu Yi, let me do it,” Qing Wugui said calmly, but his tone showed his determination to fight.

Hearing their words, Qu Yi nodded immediately and smiled, saying, “Alright, you two, defeat him together, then let the Four Beasts devour him.”

The Thunder-Eye Ice Crocodile, the Four-Armed Water Ape, the Nine-Headed Imperial Snake, and the Earth-Shaking Crab became excited upon hearing Qu Yi’s words and started dancing on the sea surface, causing massive waves hundreds of meters high that lasted for a long time. These four beasts had already devoured seven or eight tiger shark corpses, boosting their strength, and now they could obtain the essence of even better human cultivators—how could they not be excited?

Yin Boqing was also aware of what was happening outside and was furious at Qu Yi’s contempt for her.

“Qu Yi, you’re too arrogant! Do you really think you can trap me?” Yin Boqing shouted angrily, pulling out a golden great sword that emitted the aura of the Five Elements.

Another divine king-level artifact!

“Ask-Heaven Sword, destroy them for me!” In her anger, Yin Boqing used one of her last cards and swung it.

This divine king-level artifact, incorporating the laws of the Five Elements, would draw upon the primal energy of the five elements in the universe when activated, creating unstoppable, world-destroying spells.

As the one-meter-long Ask-Heaven Sword was swung, a rift tore open in space, and the entire Flame Kingdom vanished instantly, as if all the golden, wooden, water, fire, and spiritual entities had been swallowed up by the spatial rift.

The rift appeared and disappeared before Qu Yi, Qing Wugui, and Wu Yuan’s eyes, causing them to be shocked. This divine king-level artifact was indeed incredibly powerful, beyond any resistance.

But at this moment, Yin Boqing appeared exhausted. Undoubtedly, as a divine king-level artifact, activating the Ask Heaven Blade was not easy—it required a massive consumption of divine essence, leaving Yin Boqing unable to recover quickly.
“Attack!”
Seeing such a perfect opportunity, Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui didn’t hesitate. They immediately dashed forward to surround Yin Boqing.
Qu Yi stood in the air, refusing to intervene. He understood well that now that Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui had reached the Divine Marshal stage, they would need many battles to break through to the Divine King level, so he couldn’t interfere with their fights.
This was also one of the reasons Qu Yi came to the outer seas—after all, the outer seas were filled with Divine Marshal-level sea beasts, providing Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui with ample combat experience that could help them advance in strength.
Wu Yuan flew forward and struck with his Nine Heavens Rod, using the Nine-Nine Unity Strike technique. In that single strike, nearly eighty million golden, wooden, water, fire, and spiritual entities surged forth, creating an astonishing force.
Qing Wugui flew in front of Yin Boqing and gently pushed forward his Water Condensing Sword, then applied the art of slaughter. The primal energies of metal, wood, water, and fire in the surrounding space immediately converged to form a Divine Essence Sword, which, together with the Water Condensing Sword, was aimed at Yin Boqing’s back.
Yin Boqing reacted instantly, his body surging with energy. Clad in a divine king-level defensive armor and holding the Ask Heaven Blade, he looked solemn.
“I have the Ask Heaven Blade—no one dares to bully me!” he shouted angrily.
Immediately, the Ask Heaven Blade slashed left and right, creating two spatial rifts in front of him. Countless chaotic energies rushed out, blocking Wu Yuan’s strike and also repelling the Divine Essence Sword aimed at his back.
Those spatial rifts were essentially spatial chasms—neither divine essence nor primal energies could cross them. No matter how much divine essence or primal energy there was, it couldn’t compare in quantity to the chaotic energies within those rifts.
As for Qing Wugui’s Water Condensing Sword, it was easily blocked by Yin Boqing’s divine king-level defensive armor, causing no damage at all.
Yin Boqing effortlessly deflected the combined attacks of Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui.
After retreating and regaining their footing, Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui stared at Yin Boqing with complex expressions, especially at the Ask Heaven Blade in his hands.
A divine king-level artifact—with just one swing, it could tear through space, creating a spatial chasm in its path. Who could possibly counter that? Unless they also had a divine king-level artifact, using one spatial chasm to counter another, and overwhelming the opponent with powerful divine essence.

Of course, both Wuyuan and Qingwugui possessed mid-grade innate spiritual treasures, but neither wanted to use them at this moment. After all, there weren’t many cultivators at the Divine Marshal level in the entire divine realm. It would be a shame to kill someone who had come to fight alongside them so quickly.

“How about this? I have the Ask-Heaven Blade. Do you still dare to be arrogant? I’ll capture the three of you and hand them over to King Huoli—I’m sure I’ll get a huge reward.” Yin Boqing relaxed slightly, then looked at Qu Yi, Wuyuan, and Qingwugui with a mocking expression.

Qu Yi merely smiled faintly.

Wuyuan and Qingwugui exchanged a glance, then nodded. The unspoken understanding they had developed over 100 million years in the inner sea allowed them to instantly grasp each other’s thoughts.

“Fight!”

They shouted simultaneously, then rushed to Yin Boqing’s sides from left and right, attacking at the same time.

A club! A sword!

Nearly 80 million spiritual entities of metal, wood, water, and fire combined to form a club that smashed down on Yin Boqing’s head, determined to crush it.

The sword moved, and the primordial energies of space—metal, wood, water, and fire—condensed once again in an instant to form a Divine Essence Sword. Cold and domineering, it flashed like lightning, aiming straight at Yin Boqing’s chest.

Although these two attacks couldn’t break through a Divine King-level defensive armor, their force was enough to harm Yin Boqing’s physical body.

Seeing this, Yin Boqing became furious. His eyes widened as he angrily swung the Ask-Heaven Blade again, creating two more spatial rifts in front of him that swallowed up the spiritual club and the Divine Essence Sword, making them vanish.

Wuyuan and Qingwugui naturally wouldn’t wait for Yin Boqing to attack them. If they failed to dodge the Divine King-level attacks of the Ask-Heaven Blade, they would suffer severe injuries. So, while Yin Boqing was defending with his blade, they quickly moved again, surrounding him from both sides.

“You have a Divine King-level divine weapon, but your movement skills aren’t as good as ours. I wonder how many times you can use the Ask-Heaven Blade,” Wuyuan exclaimed excitedly.

At the Divine Marshal level, each use of a Divine King-level divine weapon consumed 10% of one’s Divine Essence. Naturally, despite having the Ask-Heaven Blade, Yin Boqing didn’t dare to attack recklessly—it would be fatal.

Without waiting for Yin Boqing to react, Wuyuan and Qingwugui swung their clubs and thrust their swords from both sides, attacking him together once more.

The spiritual club and the Divine Essence Sword came at him from both sides, making the entire space shake. Storms emerged out of nowhere, accompanied by loud noises that caused the waves to roar.

In such a dangerous situation, Yin Boqing had only one option: he swung the Ask-Heaven Blade again, ignoring the cost to his Divine Essence.

Two chasms lay directly ahead, once again blocking the Spirit Rod and the Divine Essence Sword.
“You want to deplete my Divine Essence? I won’t let you succeed. If I can’t kill you this time, I’ll bring a few city lords to deal with you.”
Yin Boqing roared as he swung the Heaven-Asking Sword.