Chapter 1170, Lei Jiuchun

Translator: Silavin

  

Given Lei Jiuchun’s level of strength, even Jin Mi at his peak would have been no match for him, let alone in a condition where he had been left so thoroughly battered that he barely retained any fighting capacity whatsoever.

 

Moreover, others might have held some wariness towards the Golden Flame Race, but the Thunder Beast Race had not so much as half a shred of such reservations.

 

The Thunder Beast Race had always been extraordinarily overbearing, perhaps owing to their temperament and manner of conducting affairs, and had made enemies beyond counting across the continent.

 

And yet, despite all of that, they remained firmly planted at the peak of the Top Tier Races, with no one able to shake them. This spoke volumes about just how terrifying their Racial strength and accumulated foundation truly were.

 

“That brute. I’ve heard he’s had his eye on Jin Mi’s staff for quite some time now…”

 

Watching that muscular silhouette, Qing Luan’s mouth twitched, and he said gravely, “Brother Qin, it seems you’ve landed yourself in no small amount of trouble.”

 

The Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff was a treasure bestowed upon Jin Mi by the upper echelons of the Golden Flame Race. The thing was of immeasurable importance to Jin Mi, and so long as he still drew breath, he would never allow it to simply be snatched away.

 

And yet here it was now, the Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff, sitting comfortably in Lei Jiuchun’s hand, while Jin Mi himself was nowhere to be seen. One could only fear the worst had befallen the latter.

 

What made matters most troublesome of all was that, with Jin Mi meeting an untimely end, once the Golden Flame Race came investigating, the matter would likely prove impossible to disentangle from Qin Yichen as well.

 

After all, it was he who had made Jin Mi grievously injured in the first place, and in doing so, had handed Lei Jiuchun precisely the opportunity he needed.

 

As for the Thunder Beast Race, even if the Golden Flame Race nursed a grudge, they could not make an overt show of dispatching powerful experts to hunt down Lei Jiuchun. With Qin Yichen, however, the moment this news reached their ears, it was quite likely that Saints of the Golden Flame Race would come knocking to demand reparations.

 

“It isn’t as though I killed him. If blame must be placed, he has only himself to fault for being greedy beyond his own abilities.”

 

Qin Yichen merely shrugged his shoulders. He had struck out at Jin Mi in anger because the man had, time and again, assembled forces to encircle and cut him off. Even the most patient of temperaments had limits, and his had been exceeded long ago.

 

Furthermore, after defeating Jin Mi, the fact that he had refrained from delivering a killing blow was already a considerable show of restraint. Now that the man had gone and gotten himself killed, having the blame laid at his own doorstep was simply something he would have to accept.

 

In any case, no one knew which Race stood behind him. At worst, he would simply spend a considerable sum to hire a contingent of Saints to guard him, or he would vanish to the ends of the earth.

 

What Qin Yichen was truly concerned about was that hulking figure, Lei Jiuchun.

 

Though he had reduced Jin Mi to grievous injury earlier, the latter had never even revealed his True Form. Thus, Jin Mi had still retained a certain capacity to fight.

 

Furthermore, a genius of Jin Mi’s calibre, hailing from a Top Tier Race, would certainly have carried no small number of life-saving talismans when he set out to wander the continent.

 

Lei Jiuchun had nonetheless been able to seize the Reincarnating Flame Ghost Staff. This showed his strength was likely a full tier beyond even Jin Mi’s.

 

[The continent is truly something else. Even a few Martial Ancestors can possess such formidable strength.] Qin Yichen sighed quietly to himself, and a few more shades of gravity crept into his eyes.

 

The rather excessive confidence that had begun swelling in him after all that frenzied slaughter inside the Silent Forest began to settle back down into something much calmer.

 

Though those who had come this time were each among the outstanding youth of their respective Races, there remained many geniuses who had simply not come at all. Furthermore, among those outstanding young prodigies who had arrived, it was quite likely that a fair number had already broken through to the Saint Realm.

 

What Qin Yichen had seen was by no means the absolute pinnacle of the continent’s young generation. The true depth of strength across the Myriad Races was far from as simple as what lay before him.

 

In such an environment, the difficulty of carving out a place for the Human Race was something that no ordinary person could hope to imagine.

 

“Heavens… Lei Jiuchun is truly terrifying!”

 

“Not so long ago, quite a few experts had already died at his hands outside the Myriad Beasts Domain, and yet even now, participating in the Supreme Expert’s trial, he still can’t seem to sit still.”

 

“I wager he never came for that spot at all. He simply came looking for trouble!”

 

At that moment, the expressions of countless experts shifted just slightly, and that vast central expanse had emptied out a rather wide clearing, all owing to the arrival of a single person, Lei Jiuchun.

 

No one had any desire whatsoever to exchange any sort of pleasantries with Lei Jiuchun. One moment of carelessness, and if the man suddenly erupted in fury and went for the kill, the resulting death would be about the most gratuitous sort one could imagine.

 

“If you could somehow get yourself bundled together with him, I believe your troubles would decrease by no small margin.” While Qin Yichen was mulling it over, Qing Luan jutted his chin in Lei Jiuchun’s direction and spoke.

 

Hearing this, Qin Yichen’s mouth twitched. True, if dealing with Jin Mi led to him forming some connection with Lei Jiuchun, it would certainly relieve a fair amount of pressure. However, in the short span of time since that figure appeared, he had heard with perfect clarity just how spectacular the scope of trouble Lei Jiuchun habitually caused.

 

From supreme Top Tier Races such as the Golden Flame Race all the way down to various Second Tier Races that barely registered, there was simply no one whom Lei Jiuchun did not dare to offend.

 

Whether or not forming an association with him would even succeed was one question, but Qin Yichen also feared inviting a whole cartload of trouble onto himself in the bargain.

 

“I’ve heard Jin Mi was beaten to within an inch of his life by someone called Qin Yichen, is that right?”

 

“Qin Yichen? How is it I’ve never heard of this person?”

 

“Are you some sort of savage? You haven’t heard of him?”

 

“He’s the one who brought out those Pills that work for every Race, and he defeated Yao Jie in the Medicine Market in an Alchemy Duel!”

 

And at some point, from somewhere deep within that vast sea of people, someone appeared to have noticed Qin Yichen, and quite a number of conversations abruptly swung in his direction.

 

After all, in recent times, Qin Yichen had made too large a name for himself.

 

First, pursued by over a hundred experts, he had fled into a Dangerous Territory and then emerged from it again as though some sort of miracle had occurred.

 

After that, he had crossed the Silent Forest entirely on his own, and along the way, no one could say how many experts who had set their sights on him had ended up dead at his hands.

 

Finally, a massive ambush of a scale rarely seen across the continent was launched against Qin Yichen.

 

The outcome had left practically everyone dumbstruck. Faced with the ambush of over a thousand experts, Qin Yichen had slaughtered over a hundred of them. Then, under the watching gaze of countless experts, he defeated Jin Mi.

 

Such a record of achievements was dazzlingly rare even across the entirety of the continent.

 

Faced with gazes converging on him from every direction, Qin Yichen couldn’t help but furrow his brow, though he said nothing further.

 

He was not particularly fond of drawing attention to himself. What he disliked far more was being treated as an easy mark and being hunted without end.

 

And so, it had been out of anger that he had struck out at Jin Mi.

 

Even so, among all those countless gazes at this moment, there were quite a number of quite strong experts who nodded at Qin Yichen in what seemed a gesture of goodwill. Clearly, towards someone capable of defeating even Jin Mi, most hearts held a shade of wariness.

 

As for the gazes of those around him, Qin Yichen appeared to feel nothing at all. He simply stood quietly in mid-air, waiting for the first trial to reach its conclusion.