"Young Master Qin, can you contact the outside world?"
Ning Shuying's Divine Sense transmitted the message. Qin Li silently tried for a moment, then shook his head.
The sound transmission talismans on him also couldn't reach his mother or Zhou Dage.
The instant space son bead could be used normally, but there was a price for using this bead.
Qin Li turned his head to look at Constable Ning, who was calm in the face of danger and heroic. He didn't want to call for help now, knowing that with Zhou Dage's personality, he would never return empty-handed.
"Qin Li, be careful!"
Just as Qin Li was lost in thought, Ning Shuying's voice made him notice the sudden attack in front of him.
A red-black ghost claw suddenly appeared before him. Qin Li quickly drew his sword to block, but the immense strange power on this ghost claw was something Qin Li, at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, simply couldn't withstand.
He was sent flying, man and sword, by a single strike from the ghost claw. Ning Shuying quickly appeared behind Qin Li to help him disperse the force, but the force was too strong for either of them to disperse. They were both ultimately slammed against the black curtain, and blood overflowed from the corner of Ning Shuying's mouth.
Qin Li lay on the ground, having lost his combat ability. He felt as if his internal organs had been displaced by that blow.
To be able to strike down two Cultivators with extraordinary combat power to such a state in one blow, the ambushers' Realm had definitely reached the Core Formation Stage.
"Hehehe, little brat of the Qin family, your strength is still too tender compared to your father's."
A Cultivator, half-human, half-ghost, with green light in his eyes and black smoke coming from his mouth, appeared before them. He was dressed in burial clothes and suddenly extended an extremely long tongue to lick the lower part of himself, saying,
"Little girl, it seems you are very worried about this Qin family brat's condition."
"Want to save him? Hehehe, as long as you serve this Venerable One happily, this Venerable One will spare this Qin family brat's life."
Upon hearing this, Ning Shuying's gaze, which had been worried about Qin Li, paused, but then she spoke coldly: "Do you take this Constable to be a three-year-old child? How can you utter such a clumsy lie?"
"If you have the guts, kill me today. After I die, the Constable Gate will definitely hunt you down to the ends of the earth."
Qin Li slowly stood up at this moment. He endured the intense pain throughout his body, straightened his back, and re-gathered the surrounding Spiritual Qi as if a sharp sword had been unsheathed.
With his long sword held level, Qin Li, in a life-and-death crisis, finally comprehended the next stance of his self-created sword technique, "Autumn Wind"—"Qingyang."
Autumn Wind, which takes the image of metallic Kill , the sword moves when autumn is deep and dew is heavy, leaves fall without return, its momentum is like a cold blade splitting the air, indomitable, severing delusions and breaking attachments. In the initial stage of this sword, its sharpness is hidden within its melancholy.
Qingyang, which is comprehended through tempering the heart in desperate situations—Foundation Establishment against Core Formation, life hanging by a thread, suddenly a bright azure sky breaks the Yin, and Yang flames scorch the cold.
The sword draws forth a grand Qi, transforming vitality into a blade, burning all Magic Power, not seeking victory, but seeking the preservation of the Dao in an instant. This stance is named Qingyang, taking the meaning of renewal from facing death.
The sword opened the gloom, like a long rainbow piercing the sky, striking directly at the Core Formation ghost Cultivator's head, its Aura even stronger than the previous ghost claw by a fraction.
The Core Formation ghost Cultivator, suddenly struck by this sword, did not panic. He merely rolled his long tongue, and a High Grade Magical Artifact, the Soul-Summoning Banner, appeared before him. Layers upon layers of ghost shadows flew out from the Soul-Summoning Banner like an endless stream, using their ghost bodies to block in front of the Core Formation ghost Cultivator.
Qin Li's Qingyang stance broke through six layers of Foundation Establishment level ghost shadows, but ultimately, his Magic Power was exhausted, and he was blocked by the seventh Foundation Establishment ghost shadow.
Ning Shuying also seized this opportunity to attack, releasing another pure white Saber Qi, but it only cut down two more ghost shadows. The Core Formation ghost Cultivator, protected by layers of the Soul-Summoning Banner, remained completely unharmed.
Seeing that the two no longer had the strength to struggle, he immediately let out a loud, "Hehehe"Strange Laughter.
Taking two steps forward, he was about to act with a roll of his long tongue when Qin Li finally couldn't hold back.
He transmitted his Divine Sense into the instant space son bead, quickly speaking the distress signal agreed upon with Zhou Dage.
"Daddy save me!"
The distress signal was transmitted in an instant, and a loud bang suddenly came from the sky.
A handsome and robust figure, tall and strong, appeared before Qin Li as if by teleportation.
"You've got strength, Li Di. How many days has it been since you came down the mountain, and you've already found a little girlfriend."
Zhou Fan glanced at his junior sister, who was full of heroic spirit and possessed the demeanor of a woman who could stand shoulder to shoulder with men. He was very satisfied with Qin Li's efficiency in finding Luck.
"Zhou Dage, now is not the time to talk about these things. That ghost Cultivator behind you is at the Core Formation Stage..."
Before Qin Li could finish speaking, his peripheral vision noticed that the ghost Cultivator had already manipulated two larger red-black ghost claws to attack Zhou Fan, and he quickly shouted a warning.
"Beware of a sneak attack!"
Zhou Fan had roamed the Fan Realm for many years, so it was naturally impossible for him to be ambushed by such a petty trick.
As soon as he arrived beside Qin Li, Zhou Fan had already locked onto this Core Formation ghost Cultivator, whose Aura was unstable, with his Divine Sense.
Given the attack power of this watered-down Core Formation Cultivator, even if Zhou Fan were to take his spells head-on with his Physical Body, he wouldn't suffer any damage.
But in order not to make Li Di worry unnecessarily, Zhou Fan still turned around and threw a punch.
Protective Aura and Magic Power intertwined on his fist, and the two forces of Yin and Yang constantly circulated within the punch's wind.
With a single normal attack, the Core Formation ghost Cultivator's two ghost claws, along with his Physical Body, were shattered by the punch. Even the black curtain behind him was struck by this punch, creating a huge hole.
Grabbing the Core Formation ghost Cultivator's panicked, scurrying greenish-yellow soul body, Zhou Fan directly used his Divine Sense, which was dozens of times stronger than the ghost Cultivator's, to forcibly conduct a soul search. In the end, due to the excessive force, he directly caused the Core Formation ghost Cultivator's soul body to explode.
Not even a speck of ghost residue remained.
"Qiankun Sword Sect, Old Sword Master, promoted to Nascent Soul Stage ten days ago and came out of seclusion..."
Zhou Fan was organizing the ghost Cultivator's identity information in his mind. He was one of the nine Disciples under the Qiankun Sword Sect's Old Sword Master. The reason for this ambush on Qin Li was mainly the Old Sword Master's intention.
That Old Sword Master was an old monster who had lived for several hundred years. Even before Qin Li's father began cultivating the Dao, he was already a Core Formation Stage existence.
Later, Qin Li's father cultivated the Dao for a hundred years, successfully entered the Core Formation Stage, then traveled the world and formed an enmity with that Old Sword Master.
Nangong Wan had also told him about this matter. She suspected that Qin Li's father's death was related to this Old Sword Master, but her past cultivation had always been stuck at the third stage, equal to that Old Sword Master, making her unable to avenge Qin Li's father.
Now that she had Broken through to the fourth stage, and had just stabilized her cultivation, preparing to visit the Qiankun Sword Sect, she heard that this Old Sword Master had successfully Broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage as his lifespan was nearing its end.
After sorting out the cause and effect of the incident in his mind, Zhou Fan transferred ownership of the Core Formation ghost Cultivator's Storage Pouch and put the black curtain, which was only slightly inferior to a Magic Treasure and could be considered a High Grade Magical Artifact, into his Storage Pouch.
This black curtain Magical Artifact was called "Prison." It could isolate the imprisoned space from the outside world, and communication methods below Magic Treasure could not be transmitted out. To break it by brute force, at least a Cultivator at the Core Formation Late Stage would need to attack with full power.
After explaining the whole story of this matter to Qin Li and Ning Shuying, Zhou Fan saw that their injuries had largely healed after taking the Medicinal Pill for healing, and he immediately asked Qin Li in a serious tone.
"Li Di, this instant space son bead is good to use, but with your current Realm forcibly controlling it, you're probably almost unable to suppress the side effects of using the instant space son bead, right?"