Chapter 426: Mission Complete
Chapter 426: Mission Complete
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
One after another, Yi Chen launched several fireballs towards Liu Shen, who stubbornly continued to come after him again and again, hoping to get the opportunity to cut him with his sword once.
"Do you really think you can keep running away from me forever? With the constant barrage of these fireballs and your movement techniques, your Qi pool is bound to get depleted very soon!" Liu Shen roared and continued chasing after Yi Chen with gritted teeth.
Listening to his amateurish provoking tactics, Yi Chen mocked with a sneer evident on his face, "Huh? Is that so? The last time I checked, Tier 3 artefacts were known to consume a pretty good amount of Qi from their users. Surely you don’t think that it will be me who’s going to get his Qi pool depleted first, right?"
’How did he know?!’ Liu Shen’s eyes sharpened, seeing that Yi Chen was able to guess the Tier of his defensive artefact just from a distance. However, that was it. His words didn’t alter his belief that Yi Chen would soon be running out of his Qi.
"Like hell it would be me who’s going to run out first, you bastard!" Liu Shen declared with a confident expression while deflecting another set of fireballs that were launched in his direction.
The very next instant, as if to display where his confidence came from, he took out a small bottle full of Qi Nourishing Pills and popped a couple of them in his mouth.
"I’ve got more than enough to keep coming at you for hours at this rate!" Liu Shen snorted the very next instant and tried to cut Yi Chen in two, only for him to escape at the very last moment.
’Qi Nourishing Pills? So that’s where your confidence came from,’ Yi Chen nodded in realisation as he thought to himself, ’I wonder what face you’ll make if you knew that not only do I have several dozens of them, but along with that I also have hundreds of thousands of High-Grade Spirit Stones to make up for my Qi in case the pills ran out!’
’However, I have no intention of prolonging this for several hours.’ A playful smirk formed on Yi Chen’s face the very next instant. Before Liu Shen could even rush towards his new position, he was struck with a barrage of several dozen fireballs, each much stronger than the previous one.
"For hours, you say? I wonder how long you will be able to keep up your defences now!" Yi Chen exclaimed gleefully while keeping up with his incessant barrage.
Thanks to how high his comprehension of both Bursting Fire Steps and Crimson Fire Arts was, the amount of Qi that he needed to utilise was comparatively a lot lower than what Liu Shen was forced to use.
"Y-You! You’ll run out of Qi even before me at this rate!" Liu Shen exclaimed while pouring more of his Qi into the amulet he was wearing to defend against the massive balls of fire bombarded him."
"Why? Do you think you’re the only one who possesses Qi Nourishing Pills?" Yi Chen said in a teasing tone and swallowed a bottle of pills right in front of him in a carefree manner.
"This...Fine! Let’s see who goes down first then!" Liu Shen shouted at the top of his voice and thus began a battle of attrition between them, where each party kept using all the pills and stones which they had in their possession to overpower each other.
Five minutes...
Thirty-five minutes...
Seventy-five minutes...
Finally, when almost one and a half hours had passed, the result of this exchange lay bare for everyone to witness.
"T-This... just how..." Liu Shen, who had run out of both his Qi Nourishing Pills and High-Grade Spirit Stones, muttered in disbelief.
"Blame yourself for being too poor, you piece of shit!" Yi Chen snorted the very next moment and swung his sword.
"YO-"
Liu Shen wanted to respond, but before he could even say a word, his head fell down his torso and rolled sideways, leaving a trail of blood behind.
It was at that exact moment that Elder Ju’s words rang in everyone’s ears, "Disciple Yi Chen wins the Death Duel!"
"He did it!"
"YESSSSS!"
"Senior Brother Chen won!"
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Seeing Yi Chen’s victory, Zhou Mei and the group, including the rest of the newly admitted Outer Sect Disciples, were overjoyed and cheered for him.
Among the Senior Outer Sect Disciples as well, there were also many who cheered for Yi Chen.
Naturally, that wasn’t the case with Huo Xun, whose face had turned ugly the moment he saw Liu Shen’s head rolling.
"T-That useless trash!" he muttered under his breath while gnashing his teeth as he heard the crowd cheering for Yi Chen’s victory.
As for Yi Chen, he wasn’t at all bothered by the cheers that were directed his way, as his mind was completely preoccupied with the series of messages that kept popping up in front of his eyes.
[Mission Completed!]
[Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the System Store!]
[The System Store option will become visible in the Host’s Status Panel from now on!]
Yi Chen couldn’t help but draw a short breath when he read through those messages. A part of him wanted to check the system store as soon as possible, but he forcibly suppressed it, for there was an even more important thing he still needed to do.
Glancing at Liu Shen’s lifeless body, Yi Chen’s eyes glimmered with expectation. ’Let’s collect loot then, shall we?’
With that thought, he went to Liu Shen’s body, pulled out his storage ring, removed the amulet he was wearing, and finally grabbed the sword Liu Shen had been relying on to deal with him.
"You dare to desecrate a dead cultivator’s corpse?!" Huo Xun roared the moment he saw this scene. "How dare you steal Liu Shen’s storage ring and artefacts? Don’t you have any shame? Return it to me at once!"