Chapter 43

At this moment, the golden light had long since dissipated. The middle-aged elder saw clearly that a young man with sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, standing tall and straight like a spear, was holding a purple hard bow that emitted no spiritual energy fluctuations and was continuously shooting arrows. Every time he drew the bow, an ice arrow would instantly condense and be shot out by the taut bowstring. The young man's expression was indifferent, and his movements of drawing the bow and shooting arrows were as steady as a mountain, unchanged. However, the speed of shooting arrows was so fast that it did not seem human at all.

The middle-aged elder had never seen or even imagined that the Ice Arrow Spell could be cast so quickly and used in such a manner. Generally speaking, when the Ice Arrow Spell is cast, it can only travel about twenty meters before losing its power, and both its speed and power are among the most ordinary in the Spirit Condensation Realm spells.

Bang, bang, bang——

Ice arrows continuously struck the same point without stopping, causing the earth-yellow turtle shell to flicker and rapidly dim.

Seeing this, the middle-aged elder's face changed, and he was inwardly terrified, thinking he had underestimated this somewhat different Ice Arrow Spell.

In the next moment, he let out a cold snort, and a surge of true essence energy erupted from his body, drawing earth elemental energy from the surroundings to replenish the earth-yellow turtle shell. Instantly, the earth-yellow turtle shell stabilized visibly. Then, the middle-aged elder tried to break free from the Ice Arrow Spell's entanglement, change his tactics, and use a decisive move to temporarily suppress Hua Xiajiu, then escape.

However, the ice arrows showed no sign of stopping, forming a cold, crystalline line of frost that continuously struck the same point on the yellow turtle shell, leaving him no chance to change his tactics. He could only desperately transmit true essence energy into the earth-yellow turtle shell; otherwise, any slight relaxation would cause the turtle shell to be penetrated, and he would be shot dead before he could react.

"This is impossible, how can the casting speed be so fast——" The middle-aged elder was filled with fear and despair in the face of death.

In front of the destroyed study at Qingyun Temple, a strange and miraculous scene unfolded.

A young man held a hard bow and, like a machine, continuously shot ice arrows. The middle-aged elder had condensed an earth-yellow turtle shell, which seemed to firmly resist the ice arrows.

However, as time passed, the middle-aged elder's face gradually turned pale and difficult. After several dozen breaths, his true essence energy was already more than half depleted, while Hua Xiajiu's face was only slightly pale.

Earth-based defensive spells have strong defensive power but also consume a lot of true essence energy. The Ice Arrow Spell, on the other hand, consumes less energy, and the physical strength transmitted through the hard bow adds to the ice arrows. Therefore, in the same amount of time, Hua Xiajiu's true essence energy consumption was less than one-third of the middle-aged elder's.

Thus, although Hua Xiajiu's true essence energy was not as strong as the middle-aged elder's, if this continued, the middle-aged elder would first run out of true essence energy and be killed by the ordinary Ice Arrow Spell if he had no special means to break free from the Ice Arrow Spell's entanglement.

As for the few young disciples in the temple, although they had begun to cultivate true essence energy, their strength was too weak, not even reaching the early Spirit Condensation Realm.

Therefore, although the young disciples heard the sounds of the battle, they were scared and fled from Qingyun Temple long before. Hua Xiajiu had other means to kill the elder, but he wanted to test the effectiveness of the Ice Arrow Spell with the hard bow, so he did not change his tactics.

Sure enough, after about half an incense stick's time, when Hua Xiajiu's true essence energy was less than one-fifth, the middle-aged elder's true essence energy in his dantian was finally depleted, and he could no longer maintain the earth-yellow shield. He let out a mournful roar, his eyes filled with unwillingness, and was then shot dead by a series of over a dozen ice arrows.

Hua Xiajiu had foreseen this outcome when the middle-aged elder cast the defensive spell, and even the amount of true essence energy he consumed was not far off from what he had calculated in his mind.

Hua Xiajiu was relatively satisfied with the result of this battle. The effectiveness of the Ice Arrow Spell with the hard bow was even better than he had expected.

This was Hua Xiajiu's first direct combat with a cultivator, although it started with a sneak attack.

His habit of sneaking attacks might have been formed during his time as a robotic police officer on Earth, as police often prefer surprise attacks when apprehending criminals.

Therefore, in the past two months, when Hua Xiajiu killed two Core Formation Realm cultivators and three Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators, sneak attacks played a significant role. Before his strength grew to the point where he could completely defeat enemies in a direct confrontation, Hua Xiajiu did not resist sneak attacks and felt that it was an extremely effective way to eliminate enemies.

After absorbing the soul of the middle-aged elder and casually putting away the storage bag, Hua Xiajiu did not rush to leave. Instead, he returned to the nearly collapsed study behind him and spent another incense stick's time reading the remaining books that were still in relatively good condition before leaving Qingyun Temple.

An hour later, in a secluded cave in an unnamed mountain range north of Changzhou City.

Hua Xiajiu temporarily sealed the cave and sat quietly in it.

Several glowing stones were embedded in the cave ceiling, making the cave as bright as daylight. These glowing stones, called phosphorescent stones, are a common type of mineral in the cultivation world and were found in the storage bag of the beautiful young woman.

Hua Xiajiu had been in continuous battles and used the Wind Traveling Spell to travel, consuming a large amount of true essence energy and physical strength, so he naturally needed to rest and recover.

With a flip of his hands, he took out two low-grade spirit stones, closed his eyes slightly, and soon entered a meditative state.

As the spiritual energy entered his body, Hua Xiajiu was startled. The speed at which the spiritual energy entered his body was much faster than usual meditation, about five times faster.

Spirit stones, which contain extremely pure spiritual energy, are considered the most important minerals in the cultivation world and are also used as currency.

Spirit stones are divided into four grades based on the amount of spiritual energy they contain per unit volume: low, medium, high, and supreme. One medium-grade spirit stone is equivalent to a hundred low-grade spirit stones, one high-grade spirit stone is equivalent to a thousand low-grade spirit stones, and one supreme spirit stone is equivalent to ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.

However, because supreme spirit stones are extremely rare and can be used for special refining and spell activation, one supreme spirit stone can often be exchanged for three to four hundred high-grade spirit stones or three to four thousand low-grade spirit stones, and they are often in high demand.

Hua Xiajiu obtained some spirit stones from Yu Mingfu and Ma Zhikuo's storage bags, but not many, totaling only about four to five hundred low-grade spirit stones, so he had never used them. However, the three scar-faced middle-aged men's storage bags contained a considerable amount, totaling over two thousand low-grade spirit stones, as well as several low-grade elixirs and over a dozen low-grade talismans.

After half an incense stick's time, Hua Xiajiu slowly opened his eyes. His physical strength and true essence energy had both been restored to their peak state.

Calculating the time, Hua Xiajiu couldn't help but sigh deeply. Using spirit stones to cultivate, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy was at least five times faster than absorbing spiritual energy from the surroundings. Of course, this does not apply to places with abundant spiritual energy.

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