Chapter 988: I Didn’t Want To, But You Made Me!

“What is the treasure you wish to trade? Also... How did you manage to track the 3 of us?”

The youngest among the 3, and the only female cultivator among them, stepped out to ask.

Shang Xia smiled in response. “Like I said, I wasn’t tracking the 3 of you. I was following the treasure you obtained, but I don’t know its exact appearance. I will only be able to determine what it is after I see it.”

The cultivator who had been stopped by the female cultivator earlier burst out laughing with rage. “So, you’re telling us that we need to bring out all our treasures for you to choose?”

Shang Xia sighed helplessly, “Please believe that that’s not my intention. Moreover, the treasure is something that you obtained in the eastern region of the Azure Oddity World. All you need to do...”

Before he could finish, their second brother attacked. “Go fuck yourself!”

A hook sickle spear was created from his dipper qi and it tore through space to head straight for Shang Xia. He didn’t forget to curse, “I knew you were a piece of shit! Why don’t you take out your treasures for us to choose from?”

A mocking sneer left his lips. This time, no one stopped him. The other 2 experts cooperated flawlessly with him as they started to surround Shang Xia from all directions to prevent him from escaping.

Shang Xia had to admit that the 3 of them had pretty impressive cultivation levels and combat strength. Their leader refined 3 fate dippers, and their second brother and third sister were second element Martial Dipper Realm experts.

Moreover, it was clear that the 3 of them had been in many battles. They fought together and retreated as one, and their cooperation was seamless! They didn’t show mercy when they attacked and when working together, they even achieved impressive battle achievements of defeating fourth element Martial Dipper Realm experts. They were extremely confident in their strength.

It was just too bad... The person they ran into this time was Shang Xia!

In all honesty, Shang Xia was really planning to obtain the Spirituality of the East honestly with a proper trade.

Unfortunately, they determined that Shang Xia had bad intentions the moment he arrived. Also... With things as they were, unless it was someone they were close to, no one would easily trust others. Not to mention someone who had no idea what treasure he was looking for but still wanted them to show him everything they obtained.

It couldn’t be more normal for them to start killing!

Shang Xia was helpless and he could only wave his hand in the void where the hook sickle spear was falling. The void it tore through was instantly restored as the spear broke away from his hand to be stuck in the space beside Shang Xia.

Feeling a powerful wind above his head, a loud roar rang in his mind the next moment. A giant axe came cleaving down.

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

With a frown on his face, Shang Xia raised his hand into the air and squeezed, forming a giant palm with his Five Element Dipper Qi to grab at the axe’s handle. It was unable to budge the moment the giant hand closed in on it.

Shang Xia didn’t even bother looking at the axe from the moment he discovered its presence. The protection barrier around him started to condense to form a Five Element Shield behind him.

With a loud crack, a short sword stabbed deep into the shield. Even though it sank deep, it was unable to penetrate any further after reaching 3 inches away from him. By the time the person wielding the sword felt that something was wrong, they discovered they couldn’t pull it back.

It was then that Shang Xia suddenly exhaled into the void beside him.

Powerful spatial fluctuations appeared in the void and started to spread rapidly.

“AH!” A loud scream rang through the air as their third sister’s sorry figure staggered out from the void. She held her face with her hands as blood streamed through her fingers from where her eyes were.

“Third Sister!”

“Third Sister, what’s wrong?!”

They fell into a panic when they saw her hurt.

Their second brother, who had been rushing at Shang Xia after retrieving his hook sickle spear, stopped before rushing to her side.

As for their leader whose axe had been grabbed by Shang Xia, he ran over to cover the others as he yelled, “Fellow cultivator, we accept our defeat! Please allow us to live. We’ll give you the treasure you desire!”

In a single exchange, the 3 of them who had always dealt with their enemies decisively and ruthlessly, were completely defeated! Their third sister even lost her eyes!

It was clear they had a ton of combat experience. How could they not know that they kicked a steel plate when they faced Shang Xia? It was no surprise that their leader admitted defeat immediately as he hoped that Shang Xia would let them off.

Of course, Shang Xia was no fool. They were in a foreign world fighting for resources, and the grudge between them had already been formed the moment the other party attacked. There was no room for compassion. If he wasn’t strong enough, they would have killed him! There was no chance they would have shown mercy. As such, he wasn’t going to allow them to escape now that things had progressed to this point.

His Five Element Dipper Qi that surrounded him earlier expanded greatly as it filled the entire region. It created a separate region of space and trapped his 3 opponents.

“Fellow cultivator, are you really going to go so far as to kill us all? Aren’t you afraid that we’ll go all out in a life-or-death struggle to drag you down with us?” Their second brother roared while protecting their third sister. He glared at Shang Xia with bloodshot eyes while screaming.

Instead of rage, regret seemed to flash through the eyes of their leader. Seeing as they had already fallen into a desperate state, and their opponent wasn’t reacting to the threat of mutual destruction, he forced himself to calm down to make his final threat. “Do you think you can escape the revenge of our sect if you kill us today?”

Shang Xia chuckled in response. Not bothering to respond, the Five Element Space seemed to part in the middle before transforming into 2 massive whirlpools. From afar, it looked like giant grindstones!

Soon after, the Five Element Space started to spin with great intensity and their Dipper Qi Protection Barrier and whatever pitiful defenses they could put up were torn to shreds.

Shang Xia wasn’t one to waste his time on them. After exterminating them, he collected their treasures before leaving.

Even though the exchange didn’t take long, the commotion it caused was massive. More importantly, Shang Xia unleashed his Five Element Annihilation Yin Yang Ring and he was unable to restrain his trademark five colored dipper qi. His identity might have been revealed because of that.

Whatever he did in the Spirit Abundance World was just too eye-catching. It was possible that the True Immortals in charge of the siege on the Azure Oddity World had already received news and his identity as a Martial Dipper Realm expert from the Spirit Luxuriant World!

After running some distance away, Shang Xia restrained his presence and transformed his aura with his Five Element Origin once again. If no one had seen him earlier, they wouldn’t be able to make the connection between the person who attacked earlier and the person he transformed into.

Earlier, when faced with certain death, the 3 of them acted decisively. They wanted to destroy their treasures to ensure that Shang Xia wouldn’t be able to easily obtain what he wanted before they were killed!

However, Shang Xia expected as much. His Five Element Annihilation Yin Yang Ring didn’t just eliminate their Dipper Origin and their souls. It managed to suppress them completely and cause them to be unable to properly use their inner qi. Their plan to destroy their treasure was good, but they failed to make it happen!

Shang Xia looked through his loot and realized that the 3 of them actually obtained quite a bit of treasures. However, most of the treasures were completely useless to Shang Xia. The only thing that gave him a sense of familiarity was a strange withered branch.

The Green Forest Branch he examined might just be a rank four spiritual treasure, but it actually contained the Spirituality of the East he was searching for!