Chapter 750: Chapter 750: Lu Chen Uses Beasts to Counter-Kill, Uses People to Delay!

Qing Nan and the other two, just as they prepared to unsheathe their swords, felt an extreme heat from behind, rendering them powerless to escape!

At the moment between the waning of their old strength and the surge of new, a massive hand of Earth Fire forcefully pushed them towards the gaping maw of the monster!

"Roar—"

The monster was never one to turn away comer, its massive body more than capable of swallowing a person whole with ease, and the strength of these three Nascent Soul cultivators was something it was acutely aware of; they wouldn’t affect its pursuit of Lu Chen!

In the blink of an eye, the bloodied mouth was upon them!

Qing Jie and Qing Er were too slow to react and were suddenly devoured by two of the monsters, vanishing from sight instantly!

Qing Nan, slightly more skilled, narrowly escaped, interrupting his Imperial Command’s sword technique and causing a backlash from the Sword Qi that made him spew a mouthful of essence blood, using the force to boost himself a bit higher!

"Fellow Daoist, why have you done this?"

He strenuously pursued Lu Chen, roaring with unwilling anger!

"Why, you ask? Ask yourselves!"

Lu Chen didn’t even turn his head as he spoke, holding the Heavenly Inquiry Spear that was still merging with the Ice-Strange Fire and shot back the question without looking back.

"We intended to subdue the monster and to think that we saved you from the Demon Power Sphere. Yet you repay kindness with enmity?"

Qing Nan’s face was contorted with indignant fury.

Without Qing Jie and Qing Er, he had no hope of defeating Lu Chen; he didn’t have the courage to point his sword at Lu Chen anymore!

All he could do was muster his words in desperation, hoping to stir feelings of guilt in Lu Chen. If not to save him, then at least to avoid the same fate as the other two!

"Repay kindness with enmity? How dare you utter these words," chuckled Lu Chen coldly. "I had put aside past grievances, one might say I was repaying enmity with virtue! To think, when the upper beam is not straight, the lower ones will go aslant!"

Qing Nan exclaimed in shock, "Fellow Daoist, do not spout nonsense! The three of us have just met you for the first time!"

Lu Chen sneered, "But the Qingyun Sect has instigated many to slay me in the Haotian Secret Realm! Alas, I chanced upon a fortunate encounter and gained a transformative opportunity! Too bad..."

Qing Nan and his party were no longer involved with their sect’s affairs and obviously had no knowledge of what had transpired in the Qingyun Sect nor of the events within the Haotian Secret Realm.

They also couldn’t recall that everything was triggered by the Xuanji Sect’s issues.

He was dumbstruck for a moment, at a loss for words, but completely unaware that Lu Chen was deliberately using these words to cloud his mind!

"Earth Fire!"

Lu Chen gave a low shout; the Earth Fire that had just been a flickering flame coalesced into another massive fiery hand and ferociously struck at Qing Nan in the midst of his astonishment!

"Not good!"

Qing Nan was startled and hurriedly tried to Teleport away, but his earlier backlash from his spiritual power made his Teleportation not as swift!

"No!"

Amidst a scream of terror, he was slapped away by the Earth Fire, sent flying straight towards the leading ancient monster!

"Roar—"

The ancient monster welcomed all comers.

Ordinary cultivator flesh and blood were of little interest to it.

But those at the Nascent Soul Stage...

Well, they were just barely worth its while!

It slightly twisted its head, caught Qing Nan in its massive mouth, and chewed with vigor, only to suddenly change its expression!

The monster, originally soaring after Lu Chen, stalled midair as the flow of its demonic power was disturbed, and it immediately began to fall towards the ground!

At that moment, Lu Chen’s eyes revealed a triumphant glint!

"It may not be a situation where both sides suffer, but at least he can buy me some time!"

That was his true intention!

The three Nascent Soul cultivators had successively slowed the momentum of three monsters, and Lu Chen continued to gain altitude while only three other monsters could still pursue him!

Lu Chen quietly said, "Earth Fire!"

"Master, what are your orders?"

Earth Fire immediately responded.

Having contended with the ancient monsters, it could stand its ground against one of them!

And in mid-air, Earth Fire could certainly claim some advantage!

"Turn into a Sea of Transformative Fire, cover for me!"

As he watched the Demon Pupil on the spear tip gradually become one with the Ice-Strange Fire, Lu Chen knew the time was nearly right!

But as the Ice-Strange Fire merged the Demon Pupil with the Heavenly Inquiry Spear, he wondered what change would come over the spear!

Regardless, it definitely won’t be worse than the original Heavenly Inquiry Spear!

And now, what he needed to do was to use the Sea of Transformative Fire formed by the Earth Fire to hide his actions from the monsters’ view!

Conversely, Lu Chen could still see them through the flames using the Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique!

The obvious attacks are easy to dodge; the hidden ones, difficult to guard against!

I, Lu Chen, will let you taste the bitterness of hidden arrows!

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