39: Chapter 39 Evil Qi

The golden light on the sea surface dissipated.

The thunder stopped, the wind stopped, and the waves no longer surged; only the moonlight quietly spilled over the sea surface.

The villagers of Qin Family Village, who had been praying for Lord Qinling, walked out of their houses one after another and headed toward the coastline.

The massive figure in the thunder light just now was truly too terrifying, making them all want to know the current situation of Lord Qinling.

Village Chief Qin Zongliang leaned on his crutch, walking step by step toward the seaside.

Behind him, the villagers of Qin Family Village followed him and surged toward the seaside.

By the seaside, Qin Yin and Qin Mo were still standing in place.

The hand with which Qin Mo held his long spear was slightly trembling.

It was not because of fear, but because everything he had just witnessed was too shocking.

That golden light diving down from the night sky, that giant sword intertwined with seven golden patterns, and that dragon disintegrating in the sword light.

He would never forget that scene in his entire life.

Qin Yin looked a bit better than Qin Mo, but her face was also filled with a look of astonishment.

Footsteps came from behind the two of them, getting closer and more numerous.

Village Chief Qin Zongliang walked to the seaside first, saw Qin Yin and Qin Mo, and opened his mouth to ask,

"That golden light just now was Lord Qinling, right?"

"Yes."

Qin Mo turned his head and saw almost all the villagers of Qin Family Village.

"What on earth happened just now?"

"What was that massive figure in the thunder light?"

"Was Lord Qinling fighting that massive figure?"

"Who won in the end?"

The villagers of Qin Family Village chattered noisily.

"The figure in the thunder light just now was a dragon."

Qin Yin's words made the villagers present instantly fall silent.

A dragon?

To the villagers of Qin Family Village, this kind of creature had only been heard of in legends.

And in legends, creatures like dragons were incomparably formidable, running rampant across the world.

Unease surfaced on the faces of the villagers of Qin Family Village.

They did not care about some dragon, but they cared about Lord Qinling.

"That was a mad dragon, and it has already been slain by Lord Qinling."

Qin Yin's words caused the expressions of the villagers of Qin Family Village to shake.

They were still worrying about whether Lord Qinling would be injured by the dragon, only to hear that Lord Qinling had already slain the dragon.

That was a dragon, after all!

"Lord Qinling truly possesses boundless divine powers."

Village Chief Qin Zongliang sighed with emotion.

"The reason why those Cone Snail Demons escaped from the sea to the shore earlier was precisely because of this mad dragon."

Qin Yin began to explain to the villagers of Qin Family Village.

All of this content had been told to her by that Clam Spirit.

"If this mad dragon came ashore, more than a dozen coastal villages would be turned into vast oceans. Lord Qinling could not bear to see living beings suffer catastrophe, so he went out to sea to slay the dragon."

Village Chief Qin Zongliang's hand shook slightly, and his crutch almost slipped from his grip.

Even those Cone Snail coming ashore had left them exhausted to cope with; they simply dared not imagine what kind of scene it would be if that mad dragon in the thunder light came ashore.

Thanks to Lord Qinling going out to sea to slay the dragon!

"Many thanks for the protection of Lord Qinling."

Village Chief Qin Zongliang muttered, and the rest of the villagers also chanted phrases like "Many thanks for the protection of Lord Qinling" and "Lord Qinling possesses boundless divine powers" one after another.

Meanwhile.

Qin Ling had already returned to the temple, sitting cross-legged within the shrine to recover his divine power.

Unleashing the divine art Seven-Kill Demon-Slaying Sword with full force had consumed a large amount of his divine power.

Qin Ling inside the shrine raised his eyes to look at the divine clone inside the temple.

Compared to his true body, that divine clone was much more disheveled.

Not only had the divine clone consumed a large amount of divine power, but it had also been grazed by the dragon breath spat out by the Little Li Dragon and injured.

However, Qin Ling quickly discovered that as long as he consumed incense points, he could repair the divine clone, and thus he set his mind at ease.

Just at this moment, Qin Ling heard the system voice in his mind.

[Detected that the host successfully killed the Little Li Dragon eroded by evil qi, completing the event "Going out to sea to slay the dragon".]

[Rewards are being distributed...]

[Obtained incense points +2000]

[Obtained divine art: Divine Travel Across the World]

Seeing those as high as 2000 incense points, the corners of Qin Ling's mouth could not help curving upward.

With this sum of incense points, the consumption for killing the Little Li Dragon this wave was simply nothing.

After accepting the incense points, Qin Ling checked the new divine art he had obtained.

[Divine Travel Across the World]

[Divine Travel Technique: By casting this art, one can traverse a distance of a hundred miles in a short time, ignoring terrain obstacles.]

Seeing this divine art, Qin Ling nodded.

Having this divine art, his movement speed could be said to have undergone a qualitative leap.

In this way, if he really needed to run away in the future, he would also have the capital to flee.

After all, rather than dying in despair, it is better to run away to one's heart's content~

In the distance, on the sea surface, the first ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds and fell upon the sparkling sea.

Before long, the temple door was pushed open.

The first to enter was Village Chief Qin Zongliang.

He inserted the joss stick in his hand into the censer, took two steps back, and knelt on the futon.

His forehead pressed against the cold stone bricks, and his graying hair trembled slightly in the morning light.

Then more and more villagers came into the courtyard of the temple.

They burned incense for Lord Qinling one after another.

Inside the temple, Qin Ling's divine clone sat quietly coiled, looking at those kneeling figures and listening to those intermittent prayers.

[incense points +2]

[incense points +2]

[incense points +2]

...

The reason why the divine clone sat cross-legged inside the temple was because the divine clone needed incense points to repair its wounds.

As for Qin Ling's true body, it appeared at the bottom of the East China Sea near the coast. Beside him, coming along to the seabed together, was the Second-Turn Clam Spirit.

The Clam Spirit followed behind him with its shell half-open, its tongue tightly wrapped around his lapel, and it had not loosened its grip the entire way.

At the bottom of the offshore waters was a dead stretch of black reefs.

Those reefs should have originally been covered with seaweed and coral, with countless fish and shrimp shuttling through the crevices.

But at this moment, there was nothing.

Only an aura of decay so thick it could not be dissolved remained.

Then Qin Ling saw the Little Li Dragon he had slain.

At this moment, the corpse of the Little Li Dragon lay horizontally across the reefs, its dozens-of-zhang-long dragon body emitting a pale white light in the dimness.

The fissures slashed open by the Seven Killings Sword were still there, running through from the dragon's head to its tail.

The dragon corpse was already dead, but that evil qi had not yet dissipated.

It seeped out from those fissures, wisp by wisp, like black snakes slithering across the reefs and writhing in the seawater. Wherever it passed, no living creature could exist.

The Clam Spirit's eyeballs poked out of its shell, looking at the scene before it as it said,

"Reporting to Lord Qinling, this is why this minor demon wanted to call you down here. This evil qi cannot dissipate; it will stay here forever and continuously pollute this sea."

"The surrounding fish and shrimp dare not come, and seaweed cannot grow either. From now on, this sea will be dead."

"Seeing that Lord Qinling protects Qin Family Village, this minor demon thought you might care about this matter, which is why I specially reported it."

Qin Ling looked at that patch of reefs and frowned.

The Little Li Dragon's corpse had only fallen onto that piece of reef for a few hours, yet the evil qi had already polluted the reefs to the point where no living creatures remained.

Was this evil qi truly so terrifying?

"Then is there any way to clear away the evil qi?"

Qin Ling asked the Clam Spirit beside him.

"Reporting to Lord Qinling, the only thing that can clear away evil qi are evil specters. Furthermore, to evil specters, that is not called clearing away, but rather—"

"Absorption."

The Clam Spirit said, sticking out its tongue.