116: Chapter 116 Duke Ling of Qin is back

In a half-collapsed earthen house on East Street in Guanhai County City.

A man crawled up from a pile of hay, his entire body aching all over as if his bones were falling apart.

He had been hiding in this dilapidated house for several days.

He stood up while supporting himself against the wall and looked up at the sky through the half-collapsed roof.

He saw dark red skylight leaking through the gaps in that layer of black curtain, suffocatingly stuffy.

He squinted and looked for a moment, just about to lower his head, when he suddenly froze.

Because he saw that there were unexpectedly two suns in the sky!

He rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he had seen wrong, rubbed them again and looked.

There were still two.

One was in the east, dark red, looming vaguely behind the curtain.

The other was beside it, golden, so bright that his tears flowed out.

He stared at the golden sun for several breaths, when suddenly something exploded in his brain.

That day in the granary cellar, he had finished listening to what Clerk Liu said, so he immediately realized that the golden one was not the sun, but——

Lord Qinling!

"Lord Qinling has come again!"

The man scrambled and rushed to the doorway, pushed open the door, and shouted at the alley at the top of his lungs.

This golden sun was precisely Qin Ling.

Furthermore, it was not Qin Ling's avatar, but his true body.

After making his decision, his true body directly used Teleportation to arrive at Liuhe Village.

Then he descended upon Guanhai County City once again.

After descending upon Guanhai County City once again, Qin Ling did not go to attack the Evil Tree, but instead came directly to the very peak of the curtain.

At the very peak of the curtain, he saw a corpse pierced by the tree canopy, discovering that this corpse was actually a Third-turn Martial Artist.

Presumably, it should be a martial artist originally located in Guanhai County who was killed by the Evil Tree.

After sweeping his gaze past this corpse, Qin Ling directly used Divine Technique: Exorcism on the curtain.

Exactly because of this, he, radiating golden light, was regarded by the common people of Guanhai County City as a second sun!

At the cellar entrance, two bailiffs rushed down almost scrambling.

One bumped into the wooden ladder, his knees aching fiercely, too busy to rub them.

The other stepped into empty air, fell to the ground, scraping the skin of his palms, blood smeared all over his hands, but he didn't even look.

They rushed into the cellar, their voices changing tune.

"Clerk Liu! Clerk Liu! It's out! That golden light is out again!"

Clerk Liu was originally waiting for mice in the cellar. Hearing these words, he immediately stood up from the corner.

He pushed away the bailiffs blocking in front and recklessly rushed out of the cellar entrance.

The light outside slammed fiercely onto his face, stinging his vision into a blank whiteness so that he could see nothing.

He squinted and forced his eyes open hard, tears smearing all over his face, forcing them open hard until he finally saw it.

At the very top of the curtain hung a golden sun.

"Lord Qinling! It's Lord Qinling! This official knew it, this official knew he would come back!"

Clerk Liu shouted with his head tilted back.

Those still alive in the county city crawled out of their houses, stood up from the base of the walls, and poked their heads out of the cellar entrances.

Raising their heads, they saw that second sun, understanding that this was Lord Qinling making a divine descent upon Guanhai County City once again.

Not only inside Guanhai County City, but outside Guanhai County City, villagers in many villages also saw that golden sun.

That golden sun hung at the highest point of the black curtain, and everyone who could see it was raising their heads to look at him.

At this moment, Qin Ling was continuously purifying the evil Qi of the curtain using Divine Technique: Exorcism.

He had tried doing this matter before and had negated it himself, believing that this method had no way to leave the curtain.

But this time, Qin Ling did it again.

However, his purpose was different now; this time his purpose was not to leave the curtain.

But rather to covertly weaken the power of the Evil Tree.

Clearly, this curtain was unfurled by the Evil Tree, and presumably this evil Qi was also the power of the evil specter, similar to his divine power.

Evil Qi to the evil specter was like divine power to him, much like vital blood to a martial artist.

If a martial artist's vital blood decayed, then his combat power in all aspects would weaken.

Furthermore, if a martial artist of a higher realm was in a state of decayed vital blood, it was even possible for him to be killed by a martial artist of a lower realm than his.

In that case, as long as he continuously used Divine Technique: Exorcism to purify the evil Qi of the Evil Tree, he would naturally be consuming the power of the evil specter.

After all, although the evil specter was eerie, its power could not possibly come out of thin air!

Qin Ling hung at the highest point of the black curtain, his palm pressing against that layer of slowly flowing black curtain.

Golden light surged out from his palm, and evil Qi seeped out from the edges of the curtain, strand by strand, turning into nothingness in the golden light.

And as the price for purifying the evil Qi, his incense points were also dropping.

[incense points - 10, - 10, - 10 ...]

Moreover, the speed of dropping was extremely fast; for every strand of evil Qi that decreased, his incense points decreased by 10 points.

Before long, his incense points dropped below 7000.

[incense points: 6980]

Watching these rapidly falling incense points, it was impossible for Qin Ling to say he didn't feel distressed.

But since he had already made a decision, weakening the Evil Tree was something that had to be done.

That crack on the tree trunk opened again.

That eyeball was exposed, its eerie vertical pupil staring at the cluster of golden light at the top of the curtain, staring at that golden figure.

The Evil Tree naturally recognized that the other party was the fellow who had harmed it, and also realized that the other party was purifying its own evil Qi.

Sensing that the evil Qi on its curtain was writhing and turning into nothingness in the golden light, being purified inch by inch.

That eyeball blinked, and a trace of surprise flashed through its pupil.

Prior to this, it had indeed never encountered anything that could purify its evil Qi.

However, surprise was surprise, yet the Evil Tree did not make any moves.

Because it didn't care.

It knew deeply how abundant its evil Qi was; even if the other party purified some, it was nothing much.

Although this golden figure had injured it many times that day, it had also perceived that this golden figure was merely at the Fourth-Turn realm.

It could pose no threat to it at all.

The Evil Tree even closed its eyes, disdaining to look at the golden figure above its head.

After all, it indeed had no way to harm the other party.

Rather than wasting attention on this fellow, it was better to put more thought into devouring the living beings of Guanhai County properly.

Qin Ling noticed that the Evil Tree did not move, and roughly guessed the Evil Tree's thoughts.

The corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

How much evil Qi he could purify depended not on his divine power, but on his incense points!

[incense points: 6000]

[incense points: 5000]

[incense points: 4000]

...

[incense points: 2000]

When Qin Ling burned away over 5000 points, nearly 6000 points of incense points, the Evil Tree finally opened the eyes on its tree trunk once again.

However, this time, the eyes on the tree trunk stared at the golden figure overhead, their pupils filled with unbelievable horror.