The Eternal Way-Chapter 153: Obstruction

Jin Buhuan took his first step.

Li Qi greeted him with a smile.

On the second step, the two men looked at each other warmly, their expressions filled with admiration and approval.

Step by step, the two men approached each other in a friendly manner.

Until they stood face to face.

Li Qi lowered his voice, "Brother Jin, lean in and listen."

Jin Buhuan leaned in.

In an instant, Li Qi struck out!

Without hesitation, he launched a surprise attack.

But in the next moment, Jin Buhuan had already raised his innate divine weapon.

A clink, and he deflected Li Qi's surprise attack.

"Ah, Brother Li, you've given up the opportunity I offered you," Jin Buhuan shook his head.

"Have you forgotten that I am the Spirit of Metal? Metal governs killing, and I am very sensitive to such things," he sighed.

Li Qi thought he had hidden his intentions well, suppressing his killing intent and even making his aura gentle and natural.

But as the Spirit of Metal, Jin Buhuan could still clearly sense the killing intent.

However, he found it normal. Having killing intent doesn't mean one will kill; there are many people who have killing intent towards him, but most are respectful in his presence.

After all, people can't be controlled by their emotions.

So, Young Master Jin was magnanimous and decided to give Li Qi a chance.

If he passed, Li Qi could become his supporter or ally.

If he didn't pass...

Then he would die.

While Jin Buhuan was sighing, Li Qi didn't waste any time.

He launched a series of fierce attacks without hesitation.

The Carp Stream Intent burst forth, and Li Qi's fist broke through the air, roaring into Jin Buhuan's shoulder blade! The immense force dislocated the joint, leaving Jin Buhuan temporarily immobile.

Jin Buhuan endured the blow without changing his expression, still sighing over Li Qi's actions.

The next instant, Li Qi's attack was already upon him.

He drew a Tang knife with his other hand, swinging it with a cruel momentum, bursting with astonishing speed.

A layer of protective golden light surrounded Jin Buhuan, but the Tang knife easily cut through it, the whistling sound of the air being split was deafening, filled with killing intent.

But just like in the past.

Jin Buhuan's body suddenly burst with terrifying energy, transforming into a tiger-headed, human-bodied form.

His strength and agility instantly increased to a higher level, the aura of power and threat around him was almost tangible, heavy beyond belief!

The shockwave from his burst pushed Li Qi back.

Just like in the past, Li Qi maintained a horse stance as he was pushed back five zhang, his feet digging into the ground, plowing two furrows.

The subsequent events unfolded just as they had before.

A flash of golden light.

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Silent, traceless.

A thin golden aura swept across Li Qi's throat, and he couldn't even react.

He didn't even notice it.

In the next moment, his head would be severed.

This was a tactic Jin Buhuan had used countless times, never failing.

Without a doubt, Li Qi's head was indeed severed.

The head is the chief of the six yangs; severing it means certain death.

But it was severed, yet not completely.

Li Qi's charge did not stop!

"Wait, it's the Shaman's Substitute Technique! Young Master, be careful!" Elder Si immediately recognized Li Qi's trick and shouted.

Li Qi's speed suddenly burst forth, his head regrowing, and the severed head on the ground turned into a blood-stained piece of wood.

Jin Buhuan immediately prepared to dodge.

But at the ninth rank of martial arts, how could he avoid it?

Caught off guard, Jin Buhuan was stabbed by the Tang knife.

For some reason, the blade was surrounded by a black light, and some energy surged into Jin Buhuan's wound, a cold shadow enveloping his heart and spreading through his veins, bringing pain, weakness, and trembling.

With a thud, Jin Buhuan fell to the ground, the black energy spreading through his body, his expression gradually changing from confusion to shock, his body stiffening, his face turning blue, and sweat pouring from his body, as if something had a grip on his heart, ready to crush it at any moment, his control over his body gradually fading.

The ghostly energy entered his body, separating his soul from his body.

Soul separated from the body, like falling into a void.

This was the ghostly energy of the eighth-rank Li Weng!

Elder Si, seeing this, immediately flew into a rage!

To be ambushed by a mere ninth-rank shaman in front of an eighth-rank shaman,

"The boy must die!" Elder Si immediately acted, preventing Li Qi from delivering the final blow.

On the other side.

Li Qi had intended to strike Jin Buhuan's soul with a whip, but before he could act, five ghosts surged towards him!

One was covered in knife wounds, bones exposed, and fleshless, charging towards Li Qi.

One was covered in bruises, as if beaten to a pulp, with no good skin or bones left, moving by wriggling its flesh, incredibly fast.

One was pale and swollen from being submerged in water, with a bloated belly, moving forward.

One was engulfed in flames that tore through the air, burning its skin, flesh, tendons, fat, and bones, causing unbearable pain.

One was stiff, a dried corpse, thirsty and hungry, with no moisture in its body, unable to drink or eat.

Li Qi immediately abandoned all actions and retreated, dodging the first wave of ghostly attacks.

He recognized them as the Five Elemental Ghosts.

Elder Si had used these Five Elemental Ghosts to curse Piaoxu in the past.

If touched, one would be dragged into the Five Elemental Hell, suffering the same torments as the ghosts, with no escape.

But the Five Elemental Ghosts immediately continued their attack on Li Qi, while Elder Si rushed to Jin Buhuan.

Elder Si had already noticed that Jin Buhuan's body was invaded by ghostly energy, causing his soul to separate from his body.

Fortunately, he was a ghost shaman, and ghostly energy was not difficult for him to handle.

He carefully examined and found that the ghostly energy in Jin Buhuan's body was dormant, his soul having fled and unable to return, almost completely separated.

It was eighth-rank ghostly energy, of very high quality!

He immediately took out a medicinal herb, lit it, and waved it over Jin Buhuan's head.

The medicinal herb's aroma calmed the soul and dispelled evil, inauspicious, and ghostly toxins, treating heat.

Ghost shamans always kept such herbs on hand to prevent being harmed by their own ghosts.

He lit the herb and used shamanic techniques to drive out the ghostly energy. Jin Buhuan coughed violently, the coldness in his body disappearing.

"Kill him!" Jin Buhuan roared, furious!

He had already given Li Qi a chance!

To be given a chance and refuse it!

Die!

Elder Si nodded, "My Five Elemental Ghosts, although all ninth-rank, can form an array with eighth-rank power. He won't last long... What's happening!?"

Elder Si was stunned, lifting his head in shock to find that one of the Five Elemental Ghosts had already dissipated.

He had spent decades gathering these Five Elemental Ghosts, and in just a few moments, one had been killed?

How could this be!?

The Five Elemental Ghosts were spirits who died in the Five Elements, requiring a certain level of cultivation and extreme suffering and resentment to be used as raw materials.

These materials were then refined with the netherworld's yin energy, slowly tempered and forged, their consciousness erased, and arranged as the eyes of the array.

Through years of refinement, they formed a mobile array, with five ghosts hidden, extremely vicious, not very destructive, but highly toxic, nearly impossible to defend against, and very difficult to detect, making them capable of challenging eighth-rank opponents and likely to instantly kill ninth-rank ones.

This was Elder Si's most prized possession.

But why? What happened?

How could a ninth-rank opponent kill one of his Five Elemental Ghosts in just a few moments!?

The strength of the Five Elemental Ghosts lay in their combination of the Five Elements, allowing them to form an array and rotate endlessly.

If the array was broken, they would just be five ninth-rank ghosts.

While Elder Si was stunned, Li Qi appeared relaxed and composed.

Eighth-rank treasures?

Do you think you're the only one who has them?

Just because Jin Buhuan has eighth-rank golden energy and you, the ghost shaman, have Five Elemental Ghosts that can match eighth-rank?

I, Li Qi, have them too, and of even higher quality!

Li Qi swung the willow branch in his hand, and with one strike, the leading Metal Elemental Ghost was reduced to a wisp of smoke!

The willow branch, infused with the Great Shaman's divine energy, was at the pinnacle of eighth-rank, even surpassing Jin Buhuan's golden energy, which could only be surpassed by the fusion of two golden energies.

Moreover, the willow branch was limited to eighth-rank only because it was just a branch plucked by Lord Zhu, thus naturally restricted.

The reason for choosing a willow branch, besides the symbolism of "willow for farewell," was simply that there happened to be a willow tree nearby.

Li Qi had always kept this branch tightly in his