79: The Shadow of Qingluan

The Great Peng Bird was probably experiencing being drenched for the first time, flapping its wings wildly in a panic, but it didn't notice that Qin Shilei had quietly snuck over from the river.

Battle Skill Seven Stars Falling!

Qin Shilei used the unsheathed Jinghong Sword to lightly stab the Great Peng Bird's thick leg, and then, before the other party could react, he swam to the other side and stabbed its upper abdomen.

The Great Peng Bird finally realized that there was still an enemy nearby, so it stopped flapping and drifted downstream with the river current.

A pair of sharp eyes scanned the river back and forth, hoping to find Qin Shilei.

At this moment, Qin Shilei swam behind it again and landed two more moves.

The Great Peng Bird forcefully flapped its right wing to turn its body, and at the same time, twisted its neck backward, pecking its sharp beak into the river.

However, due to the inconvenience of moving in the river, it pecked at nothing.

Fifth Sword!

Qin Shilei followed the current forward, striking a sword across the Great Peng Bird's injured wing.

Because the river was deep, the Great Peng Bird's claws couldn't touch the bottom, making it unable to exert force, and with its wings injured, at least ninety percent of its strength was gone.

Qin Shilei continued to swim underwater, heading towards the Great Peng Bird's head.

The Jinghong Sword smoothly sliced into the Great Peng Bird's upper abdomen.

The sixth sword had already landed.

One-Punch Man!

Qin Shilei simultaneously drew the Jinghong Sword and slashed towards the opponent's neck.

At this moment, the Great Peng Bird also discovered Qin Shilei in the water, lowered its head, and fiercely pecked down with its sharp beak.

The Great Peng Bird was at least in the Silver Realm, and its physical quality was far superior to Qin Shilei's.

Even if Qin Shilei activated the One-Punch Man entry, he would likely be pecked first by the opponent.

Once pecked, he would probably end up like last time, knocked unconscious by a single blow and entering a severely injured state.

An Qian, who was lying on Qin Shilei's back, also clearly saw this scene and thought that Qin Shilei might be pecked to death by the Great Peng Bird on the spot.

Her heart ached instantly, wishing she could kill this damned Great Peng Bird with a single sword strike.

In this critical moment, a phantom suddenly emerged from An Qian's back.

It let out a cry with its head raised.

An invisible pressure immediately enveloped the Great Peng Bird in front.

Under the pressure from a higher bloodline, the Great Peng Bird was instantly startled, and its pecking motion slowed down.

It was this momentary delay that allowed Qin Shilei to strike first.

The sword light flashed, and crimson blood spurted out, as the huge bird's head detached from its body and fell down.

The terrifying Great Peng Bird was finally decapitated by Qin Shilei with a combination of One-Punch Man, Battle Skill Seven Stars Falling, and the nurturing entry on the Jinghong Sword.

"Hoo... hoo... hoo." An Qian took deep breaths of air.

Qin Shilei had been underwater the whole time, and she was really suffocating.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Two smaller Great Peng Birds cried mournfully from the sky.

Qin Shilei looked up at the sky, scaring the two giant birds into fleeing in disarray.

With a wave of his hand, he put the Great Peng Bird's corpse and the dropped silver treasure chest into his ring.

"Let's go." Qin Shilei swam along the river towards the distant town.

"Okay." Since Qin Shilei didn't mention going ashore, An Qian was also more willing to let him carry her as they swam in the river.

Long winds will break the waves at times, and directly hoist the cloud sail to cross the vast sea!

It was as if as long as she was by Qin Shilei's side, she had nothing to fear and could advance bravely.

"What was that bird cry I heard from behind you just now?" Qin Shilei asked.

"I don't know either. I was so anxious just now that the phantom of the Azure Phoenix appeared on my body," An Qian explained.

"Thanks to its cry, which scared the Great Peng Bird, otherwise I would have been pecked to death by it," Qin Shilei said with great relief.

"It's a pity that I can't summon that phantom again now," An Qian said regretfully.

She paused, then continued, "I don't seem to be afraid of water anymore."

Qin Shilei joked, "How about you let go of me and try swimming by yourself?"

"Okay." An Qian said okay, but her hands tightly hugged Qin Shilei's neck.

More than twenty minutes later, Qin Shilei and An Qian arrived at the downstream town again.

"Why did it take so long this time? Nothing unexpected happened, did it?" Zhang Xiaoli and the others asked worriedly.

"Something unexpected did happen. We killed that Great Peng Bird," Qin Shilei said calmly.

"........"

Zhang Xiaoli and the others were dumbfounded and couldn't speak for a long time.

They couldn't understand why Qin Shilei had become so powerful after just one night.

The day before, he was almost killed by a single move from the Great Peng Bird.

Now he had killed the opponent without a single scratch.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, an eagle cry sounded outside the house again.

"It can't be that Great Peng Bird's companions coming for revenge, can it?" Zhang Xiaoli remembered the two Crimson Eagles behind the school mountain.

"What's there to be afraid of? With Brother Qin here, we'll kill as many as come," Zhang Qiang said nonchalantly.

Qin Shilei, however, flashed to blow out the candle in the room and whispered, "Everyone, don't speak."

"Whoosh whoosh!"

The eagle cries grew closer and closer.

"No, it seems to be Little Qiang."

Qin Shilei suddenly felt that this cry was very familiar.

He pushed open the door and walked out, just in time to see Little Qiang landing on the street ahead.

As soon as Little Qiang saw its master, it flapped its wings and ran over, rubbing its head affectionately against Qin Shilei's chest.

Qin Shilei patted its head and said displeasedly, "You coward, I haven't seen you in over a day. I thought you had defected."

"Whoosh whoosh." Little Qiang cried softly, as if explaining why it hadn't appeared.

Qin Shilei lightly hit Little Qiang's head, then took out a bloody piece of Tibetan Mastiff meat and fed it to Little Qiang. After it had eaten enough, he casually put it into his pet space.

Seeing that it was just a false alarm, Qin Shilei told everyone to go back and rest, and to continue their journey when it was light.

He, however, secretly pulled An Qian into a room.

An Qian asked excitedly, "Are we opening the treasure chest?"

Qin Shilei nodded and replied, "En."

After speaking, he took out the silver treasure chest dropped by the Great Peng Bird.

"Wait a moment." An Qian hurriedly ran out and returned more than ten minutes later, having changed into a new dress.

"Did you bathe and change?" Qin Shilei asked somewhat strangely, "Don't you usually open treasure chests casually?"

An Qian nodded, "This is a silver treasure chest, you know. It might be the first silver treasure chest on Blue Star, so of course, it needs a sense of ritual."

After speaking, she clasped her hands together and bowed to the treasure chest, then reached out and tapped it, opening the treasure chest.

Immediately, three mixed colors of red, green, and purple light shot out from the treasure chest.

The Lucky Empress An Qian, truly lives up to her name!

Horn of Passion (Green): Once the Horn of Passion is blown, teammates within ten meters will become filled with passion, increasing their combat power by ten percent, lasting for five minutes, with a cooldown of forty-eight hours.

Battle Skill White Rainbow Pierces the Sun (Red): Unleashes a powerful strike against a single target, ignoring fifty percent of the opponent's defense.

Phantom (Purple): Forms an energy phantom with eighty percent of one's own strength. The phantom possesses all of the main body's skills, exists for three minutes, with a cooldown of forty-eight hours.