Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 319 - 307: Doomed for Sure?

"Becoming a burden is secondary, the real problem is if we actually run into Lu Yu’an... Lu Yu’an hates Qin Qing to the bone and will certainly want to kill him. What do we do then, as Qin Qing’s teammates?" Qi Chong curled his lip.

Luo Qingshan nodded in agreement, "If Lu Yu’an wants to kill Qin Qing, and we don’t stand up for him, others will laugh at us. They’ll say we watched our teammate get killed without even daring to say a word. But if we really do stand up... then Lu Yu’an’s wrath will turn to us, and with our abilities, how could we possibly stand against Lu Yu’an?"

"So... letting Qin Qing go is the wisest decision!" Qi Chong declared.

Both were glad about the decision they had made.

"It’s just that... after we leave Tianjue Forest, it’ll be hard to say what will happen with the Third Prince," Luo Qingshan said.

"There’s nothing hard to say!" Qi Chong waved his hand, "It was the Third Prince’s decision as well. We had such a good thing going with Lu Yu’an’s team, we could have easily taken the top spot in this Spring Hunt. He chose Qin Qing over Lu Yu’an... that’s not our fault!"

"That’s true..." Luo Qingshan nodded.

As the two were talking, a sudden surge of Spiritual Power interrupted them.

A figure raced towards them from not too far away.

"Be careful!"

Qi Chong said gravely.

"Swoosh!"

A spear shadow thrust straight at Luo Qingshan.

Luo Qingshan’s complexion changed slightly as he slashed out with his knife.

"Ding!"

With the sound of a crisp collision, Luo Qingshan was forced several steps back and finally got a clear view of the attacker.

"Shen Gongyuan, what are you doing?"

The assailant was none other than Shen Gongyuan, holding a black spear, smiling playfully as he looked at Luo Qingshan.

"Just testing your skills!" Shen Gongyuan chuckled, then spoke seriously, "Where is Qin Qing? Weren’t you in the same team as him?"

"Was it Lu Yu’an who sent you to look for Qin Qing?" Qi Chong looked towards Shen Gongyuan.

"Yes!" Shen Gongyuan shrugged helplessly, "Can’t help it, the task given by Young Master Lu is not something we can ignore... he commanded us to search from two different directions, and to let him know immediately via Horn Token if we see Qin Qing. But... now I only see the two of you. Did Qin Qing not go with you?"

"We drove him away!"

Qi Chong shrugged.

People like Qi Chong, Shen Gongyuan, and Luo Qingshan, all on the Hidden Dragon list of geniuses, were very familiar with each other.

Except for a few who had conflicts, the rest generally got along well.

Shen Gongyuan’s surprise attack on Luo Qingshan was not truly meant to harm him, it was just a joke between them.

Therefore, Qi Chong didn’t hide anything from Shen Gongyuan.

"Heh..." Hearing Qi Chong’s response, Shen Gongyuan laughed, seeming to have expected as much, and said, "Qi Chong, you made a wise decision. Having Qin Qing with you is all risk with no benefit. It’s different for me; I have no grudge against Qin Qing, and I couldn’t target him. But if Young Master Lu sees him, heh... you all know what will happen!"

Qi Chong’s lips twisted into a mocking smile as he said, "Well, it’s Qin Qing’s own doing. Whom to offend but the Lu family? I really don’t know where he got the guts to kill Lu Yuming. If it were me... heh, I definitely wouldn’t have the audacity he has."

"Alright! Since Qin Qing isn’t with you, I won’t keep you any longer. Now the question is... if I find Qin Qing, to kill or not to kill? To kill... seems quite difficult, seeing as I have no vendetta against him."

"Not to kill... but then, there’s a reward of ten thousand Spirit Stones to consider, not to be missed."

"Qin Qing is worth ten thousand Spirit Stones?" Qi Chong’s eyes bulged, as if feeling he’d missed out on something.

"Ten thousand is just the starting price. This was stated by Young Master Yu An himself, he said that as long as someone brings Qin Qing back alive, the reward would be at least thirty thousand Spirit Stones, and if it’s his corpse, then it would still be a minimum of ten thousand Spirit Stones," Shen Gongyuan explained.

Qi Chong and Luo Qingshan exchanged glances.

"Off I go. If you see Qin Qing... and you can’t bring yourself to do it, remember to let me know. You all have my Divine Sense Horn Token..."

Shen Gongyuan waved his hand and disappeared from their sight in the blink of an eye.

"Heh..." Qi Chong sneered, shaking his head, "Qin Qing is a dead man this time! Unless... he reaches the safe point in Heifeng Valley before being discovered, otherwise... there’s no doubt he’s a dead man!" Qi Chong jeered.

...

Elsewhere.

Qin Qing continued to hungrily hunt Ferocious Beasts.

This time he encountered a herd of Flame Rhinoceroses.

The Flame Rhinoceroses were covered in red, as if blazing with red flames, emitting waves of heat.

This herd had nearly three hundred individuals, charging through the forest filled with towering trees, creating a momentum that resembled an army charging through the woods.

Each Flame Rhinoceros weighed over a thousand pounds, thundering across the land, making the ground rumble under their stampede.

The sight of over three hundred Flame Rhinoceroses surging together was terrifying.

Moreover, each one of them burned with flames, giving off the sense of a flowing sea of fire. Wherever they passed, most of the vegetation was scorched black.

Qin Qing leaped into the midst of the flame torrent created by the charging Flame Rhinoceros herd.

He then turned his Azure Dragon Spear into a scythe that reaped lives.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

One after another, the Flame Rhinoceroses continued to fall.