The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 238 - 50: Entering (In a so-so mood, extra update to lift spirits)

Chapter 238: Chapter 50: Entering (In a so-so mood, extra update to lift spirits)

"You? Why are you here?" the Demon Young Master asked coldly.

"Through the endless night, sleep eludes us. Coincidentally, Brother Qiao feels the same; thus, the two of us are boating on this lake and talking about everything under the sun to alleviate our boredom. Are you doing the same? If so, why don’t we join arms and row together, swinging our double oars?" Qing Yu said with a smile.

It’s this guy again, having killed Li Qiuran whom he had just saved yesterday, now he’s here to cause even more trouble.

"You..." The Demon Young Master was about to explode with anger.

"Their boat, Master!" Xiang Haorang exclaimed.

The Demon Young Master then noticed that the small boat they were riding was of the same model as the one they were in, which brought up a question...

"Where is Jue Jian?"

"Brother Jue Jian went swimming in the lake," Qiao Baixuan said indifferently.

His meaning was implicit, but the Demon Young Master, being so intelligent, naturally understood what had become of Jue Jian.

"In that case, I invite you two to go swimming as well."

With killing intent surging, the Demon Young Master suddenly stood up, his hands transforming into a thousand shadows, unleashing rolling Demonic Qi.

Illusionary Heavenly Demon Hand.

"Where fate resides, there’s no escape," Qiao Baixuan said softly, striking out with his usual plain, simplistic move, yet it was omnipresent, like a Heaven and Earth Net.

However, this time, against the Demon Young Master, who was comparable to Yuan Jianyi, Qiao Baixuan could no longer hold back to merely the power of the Innate Seventh Layer.

An ordinary palm strike, upon touching the Illusionary Heavenly Demon Hand that the Demon Young Master sent from afar, suddenly shifted left and moved right. The technique, casual and unrestrained, was like the stroke of a Heavenly Person, impossible to trace.

With every change in hand technique, each move targeted the weak points of the Illusionary Heavenly Demon Hand, piercing through the myriad of Heavenly Demon Hand shadows, and in a flash, rendered the Demon Young Master’s attack into nothingness.

’This guy is certainly concealing his true strength,’ Qing Yu assessed Qiao Baixuan secretly, thinking to himself.

’His observational skill is not inferior to mine, either.’

The Demon Young Master’s Illusionary Heavenly Demon Hand was an exquisitely clever move. He had once, with its ingenious force, deflected and neutralized the extremely sharp Sword Qi of Yuan Jianyi. But now, it was being countered with equal ingenuity, striking at its vulnerabilities and dissolving its momentum.

Such skill could not be achieved without superior observation.

Is it the superpower of double pupils?

Qing Yu’s gaze swept quietly over Qiao Baixuan’s bright and shining eyes. In this unscientific world, if the so-called "double pupils", hailed as the "Saint’s Image", possessed superpowers, that would indeed make sense.

"What a Heavenly Destiny Palm!" the Demon Young Master exclaimed in admiration.

However, within this praise was a fierce undertone filled with rage and killing intent, which only someone as nescient to auditory cues as Qing Yu would fail to detect.

Lifting his energy, the Demon Young Master stepped upon the water, causing ripples to spread with his Demonic Qi stirred movement.

"Hmm?" Just as Qing Yu was about to witness the fierce battle between the two, he suddenly noticed an abnormal tremor on the surface of the water. This tremor was not due to the waves stirred by the Demon Young Master, but...

The entire surface of the lake began to tremble.

"Whoosh—"

Following a sound like water being drained, a sudden change took place, and the surface of the lake started to bend and twist, sinking towards the center.

This was a vortex.

The entire lake had turned into a colossal vortex. As the vortex continued to spin, the previously calm lake turned wild, and those upon it were like passengers of a shipwreck.

At the same time, the mist-like Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi also began to converge, forming a Yuan Qi Vortex. It reached up to the heavens and churned the clouds in the sky.

"The inheritance has been activated," Xiang Haorang shouted.

The sudden outburst of Primordial Energy was definitely related to the Great Formation within the inheritance ruins. The time was almost 5:00 AM.

At that moment, the Demon Young Master could no longer care about making Qing Yu and Qiao Baixuan swim in the lake. He struck the surface of the water with his palm, used the force to spring back, and landed on the small boat.

"Secure the boat properly!" While the Demon Young Master used his True Qi to stabilize the boat to prevent it from capsizing in the spinning vortex, he shouted to the other four.

On the other side, Qing Yu and his companion also controlled the boat with True Qi, following the constant rotation of the vortex.

"If we keep going like this, our boat will reach the center of the vortex, and we’ll likely end up wrecked and drowned," Qing Yu said. "Should we go ashore first?"

With their level of power, the current strength of the vortex still couldn’t stop them.

"Do you see them heading ashore?" Qiao Baixuan gestured towards the six people from the Demon Path.

Those six were even closer to the center of the lake, and they were about to be engulfed by the vortex’s center. Yet, despite this, they showed no signs of wanting to go ashore. Far from it, they steered their boat towards the vortex center as if hurrying to their deaths.

"Looks like the Demon Path has much more knowledge about the inheritance ruins than we do," Qing Yu sighed.

If they are not heading ashore, they are either fools or very confident. The Demon Young Master and his people did not look like fools at all, so this vortex could likely be the pathway to the inheritance.

"With such a commotion, people in the town must have noticed by now," Qiao Baixuan said indifferently.

Indeed, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi had formed a vortex in the sky. Such a huge disturbance would surely be noticed not just in the small town, but from ten miles away. The vast majority of people in the town were Innate Realm masters, and they could get here in no time.

If they waited for the vortex to stop before entering, then what would be the value of having waited here all night?

"So, what do you plan to do..."

Just then, the Demon Young Master and his group abandoned their boat en masse and leaped into the center of the vortex.

Watching them, Qing Yu and his companion exchanged a glance and nodded at each other.

"Let’s go."

The two of them stomped hard on the boat, and as the boat shattered from the force, they used that impetus to leap into the air above the center of the vortex. Then they released their Qi Force and, following closely behind the six from the Demon Path, jumped into the center of the vortex.

Upon entering the vortex, at first, they felt as if they were in a washing machine, spinning endlessly, dizzy and light-headed.

After a few moments, their bodies felt like they had passed through a thin membrane, the vortex vanished instantly, and they found themselves in a place with nowhere to exert any force.

They were in mid-air.

Qing Yu saw the ground approaching rapidly, raised his hand, and struck out with palm force from a distance, arresting his fall. He adjusted his posture and landed on one knee.

As he slowly stood up, Qing Yu looked around. He was surrounded by stone walls on three sides, with only one direction to go.

Looking up, there was no entrance to be seen three zhang above, and there were no signs of moisture as if he had appeared out of thin air.

"An Array?"

The strongest beings within the Divinity Realm could create their own space, so it made sense that Elder Suan Tian could set up a Moving Array.

If it was a Moving Array, then Qiao Baixuan, who had jumped in with him, should also be there. But he did not see any sign of him, which was normal.

"But if that’s the case, I feel like we’ve suffered a big loss."

Could they not feel the loss? They had waited half the night, intending to enter early to secure a preemptive advantage, but ended up being randomly teleported. In this case, luck was the only factor—an early or late entry made little difference.

"But the Demon Young Master and his people went through so much trouble just to get a taste of random teleportation earlier than others. Is that normal?"