267: Chapter 267 Admitting Defeat

The three dragons forcefully clashed with the opponent's move. Aside from the middle-aged man who retreated several steps, the other two were knocked back several zhang.

"Hmm?" The middle-aged man was shocked. How was this possible?

The gazes of the other two were likewise filled with disbelief.

On the other side, Li Qingling similarly beat back the burly man.

All four opponents were shocked by the strength of Chen Changqing and his companion.

Chen Changqing and his companion did not indulge the other side in the slightest. They attacked simultaneously, deploying a cyan and a white Flying Sword at the same time.

The four opponents hurriedly moved to defend themselves.

"Stop, two Fellow Daoists, this is a misunderstanding."

The middle-aged man could see that Chen Changqing and his companion possessed formidable strength. Although their auras did not seem strong, they likely had numerous Cultivation Technique methods for concealing their auras.

These two looked young, but in reality, they were old monsters who had lived who knows how many years.

"A misunderstanding? Just now you bullied my couple for having low cultivation, and now you turn around and call it a misunderstanding?" Chen Changqing said coldly.

How could the four of them not be clear that the Tier 3 Flame Beast killed by Chen Changqing and his partner was not the one they had injured at all?

It was simply because they saw that Chen Changqing and his companion had relatively weak cultivation and numbered only two that the four of them harbored malicious intentions.

Among the four of them, there was one Late Stage Purple Mansion Cultivator and three Middle Stage Purple Mansion Cultivators. They originally thought taking down the opponents would be effortless, but the combat power erupted by Chen Changqing and his partner was completely not weak.

Leaving aside the man in front of them, just looking at the woman beside him, she was able to suppress Qian Kun in a mere single round.

Yet the three of them were actually at a disadvantage during the very first round of clashes.

What in the world!

Clearly, when the four of them joined forces, they would dare to go head-to-head even against a Level 9 Purple Mansion Cultivator.

Chen Changqing raised his palm and unleashed the Qingxuan Exorcism Palm. After delivering this palm strike, he pointed with a single finger, and a cyan dragon roared as it charged toward the three of them.

Although he could unleash four cyan dragons, the Azure Flood Dragon Finger had immense power and an equally massive consumption, preventing him from casually casting cyan dragons like he could with Azure Thunder.

At this moment, being able to unleash a single cyan dragon was already his limit.

After two consecutive strikes, the three opponents had originally managed to block the Qingxuan Exorcism Palm, but they were powerless to resist the subsequent cyan dragon, leaving them no choice but to dodge in different directions.

Chen Changqing did not care. The qingtian sword pursued one of them, and then he deployed the qingluo umbrella.

The three opponents hurriedly deployed their own Magical Artifacts to entangle with Chen Changqing.

Seeing this, Chen Changqing arrived before one of them in a few steps and smashed out with a punch.

Tens of millions of catties of physical strength, combined with the thirty-million-catties strength amplification from the wanjun armor, produced a superimposed explosive power that was no less than that of a Tier 3 Medium Grade Body Refining Cultivator.

Facing Chen Changqing's heavy and powerful punch, that person's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly produced an escape Talisman to dodge away.

Swoosh!

Watching the opponent's receding figure, Chen Changqing blasted out another punch directed at the middle-aged man.

While dealing with the cyan dragon, the middle-aged man watched the punch approaching him.

"Quickly help me, Fellow Daoist Lin!" the middle-aged man shouted toward the man who had previously escaped.

Lin Qiongxin started in surprise and turned back to help.

Bang!

Chen Changqing's punch bypassed all of the middle-aged man—namely Xiao Che's—defensive methods, directly striking his body.

Pfft!

Xiao Che spat out a mouthful of blood, his entire body flying backward like a kite with a broken string.

Seeing this, the Cultivator surnamed Lin who came to the rescue was torn on whether to step forward or not.

Chen Changqing glanced at him and turned his target to the grey-robed old man being hunted down by the qingtian sword.

The grey-robed old man was only at the 5th layer of Purple Mansion, one layer higher than him, yet even that was not enough.

When Chen Changqing unleashed his full strength, his combat power was that of the 9th layer of Purple Mansion, and he had even faintly reached the Perfection of the 9th layer of Purple Mansion by now.

As for these four, their highest cultivation was no more than the 7th layer of Purple Mansion. Even if they were extraordinary, their highest combat power was at most the 8th layer of Purple Mansion.

Among the other three, one was at the 5th layer of Purple Mansion and two were at the 4th layer of Purple Mansion. At the level of Purple Mansion Cultivators, they were very ordinary.

Moreover, one of them was held back by Li Qingling. No matter how the other three joined forces, they were no match for Chen Changqing at this moment.

On the other side, Li Qingling wielded the baizhou sword, sword lights flashing. With every slash, she brushed past the burly man, bringing up a trace of scalding hot blood.

Although Li Qingling had just broken through to Purple Mansion, in terms of true combat power, even someone at the 6th layer of Purple Mansion would not be her match, let alone a 4th layer Purple Mansion Cultivator.

The burly man retreated continuously. He drove his ring-headed saber to hack at Li Qingling, but it was blocked by the bailing shield.

Filled with helplessness, he had no choice but to recall the ring-headed saber and clash directly against the baizhou sword.

How could she be so strong?

The burly man was already starting to doubt his life. It wasn't that he had never encountered opponents stronger than himself; it was just that he generally didn't provoke them, and thus rarely fought against Cultivators stronger than himself.

He only had a ring-headed saber in his hand, along with a Tier 3 Low Grade defensive Magical Artifact. However, that defensive Magical Artifact could not completely block the opponent's attacks, which was why the baizhou sword could pierce through the defensive Magical Artifact and directly injure him.

Fortunately, the defensive Magical Artifact still had some effect; otherwise, his injuries would only have been heavier.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man Xiao Che hurriedly spoke up. He had already climbed up from the ground. Fortunately, he had timely produced a Talisman to block that punch, thus avoiding having his body pierced through, but the shockwave force still made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"Fellow Daoist, this time it was our fault. We are willing to pay some price to make amends and write off this grievance here and now, how about it?" Xiao Che's gaze was sharp and burning.

"Stop!" Chen Changqing said. Hearing this, Li Qingling also stopped her hands.

"I wonder what price you are able to pay?" Chen Changqing turned his head and said to the four of them, realizing that it would not be a small difficulty for the two of them to resolve these four people.

Furthermore, they were not local Cultivators after all. If they offended too many people, their Family's future development here would also be restricted.

Moreover, the other side had already yielded. Since that was the case, they might as well give each other a way out.

"We are willing to each produce fifty thousand Spirit Stones to apologize. What do you two think?" Xiao Che proposed.

The other three raised their eyebrows, but they did not interrupt.

"Very well. As long as Fellow Daoist sincerely apologizes to my couple, I am willing to turn hostility into friendship with you all." Chen Changqing was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected this person to speak so straightforwardly, directly offering two hundred thousand Spirit Stones right off the bat.

Two hundred thousand Spirit Stones was almost equivalent to the entire net worth of an Early Stage Purple Mansion Cultivator. Even for these people, fifty thousand Spirit Stones per person was by no means a small amount.

Xiao Che produced a Storage Pouch and tossed it to Chen Changqing.

"From now on, the four of us and Your Excellency have no further grievances." After saying this, he left with the other three.

After taking it, Chen Changqing checked it carefully, fearing that the other party had left some tricks behind.

However, he was indeed being overly cautious. Inside lay impressively two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and aside from that, absolutely nothing else.

"Let's go. I didn't expect these four to be so strong." Chen Changqing said. He had originally intended to kill all four of them.

But when the four opponents joined forces, it was truly difficult to kill them, especially that middle-aged man who was definitely not a Loose Cultivator and surely hailed from some powerful force. If he couldn't kill them in a short time, they would send messages to others for help or transmit his appearance and characteristics to the force behind them.

In the future, what Chen Changqing and his companion would encounter would be the assassination squads of some major power.