Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1567 - 1567 0916 Prove It to You_2

Chapter 1567: Chapter 0916: Prove It to You_2 Chapter 1567: Chapter 0916: Prove It to You_2 Qi Tian chuckled and said, “I knew it, there is no love without reason, nor hatred without cause. You’re a renowned Nascent Soul Master, dominating your realm, unchallenged by all. Why would you lower yourself to treat me like a brother? So, it turns out you’ve set your sights on my Spirit Beast.”

Li Qingping now had nothing to worry about and was not afraid to speak his mind. He smiled faintly and said, “Qi Tian, your guess is both correct and incorrect. It is correct because you partially guessed right, and it’s incorrect because you didn’t guess the whole picture. I don’t want to entangle with a junior like you excessively. If you have any sense, you’ll obediently remove your Spirit Beast Bracelet, erase the prohibition on it, and don’t try any tricks.”

Qi Tian looked at Li Qingping with undisguised mockery in his eyes and said, “You’re so sure I’ll obediently listen to you?”

Li Qingping laughed loudly and replied, “Of course, you can choose not to listen to me, but you have to bear the consequences of not listening. Did you really think I kindly offered you wine today? I’m not afraid to tell you, the Five Spirit Wine I brought out for you to drink is not your ordinary Five Spirit Wine. Many years ago, I paid a hefty price for a master blender to create this Enhanced Five Spirits Wine just for me. Inside it is my secret medicine. Once you’ve drunk my wine, there’s no way to expel the alcohol from your body, nor can you convert the alcohol into other types of energy. It will only remain alcohol, numbing your nerves and body, making you like an ordinary drunkard, stripping you of any resistance, leaving you as helpless as a dead dog at the hands of others.”

Qi Tian shook his head and said, “I don’t believe your words.”

Li Qingping responded, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me, I can prove it to you. Right now, I don’t need to exert much effort; I just have to poke you with a fingertip, and you will collapse to the ground. Believe it or not?”

Qi Tian shook his head again.

Li Qingping extended his hand and did exactly what he said, lightly poking Qi Tian’s body with a fingertip.

But to Li Qingping’s surprise, Qi Tian didn’t fall down at all, not even a wobble of his body.

Unconvinced, Li Qingping remembered observing Qi Tian closely at the tavern. He was a hundred percent certain that at least half of the jar of Five Spirit Wine had gone into Qi Tian’s stomach. He had done experiments before; one only needed a quarter jar of this specially blended Five Spirits Wine to bring down a Nascent Soul Master. Qi Tian had consumed twice that amount—it made no sense that he was unscathed.

He extended his hand again, this time exerting a little more strength as he poked Qi Tian, attempting to prove that he was right.

Yet, Qi Tian remained unharmed. To Li Qingping’s unexpected dismay, Qi Tian suddenly raised his hand and slapped Li Qingping hard across the face.

A crisp slapping sound echoed in the Treasure Room. Li Qingping was stunned, momentarily unable to process what had happened, but the searing pain on his cheek soon reminded him—he had been struck by someone, a junior like Qi Tian, no less.

Clutching his cheek, he bellowed, “Qi Tian, you dare to strike me?”

“My apologies.”

Qi Tian wore an apologetic expression, but his actions were quicker as he raised his other hand and slapped it across Li Qingping’s other cheek.

Li Qingping never imagined that Qi Tian, having already slapped him once, would actually raise his hand to slap him again. Caught off guard, he didn’t anticipate this move at all and ended up taking another solid slap.

A crisp slapping sound echoed in the Treasure Room once again.

Now Li Qingping truly went mad. Staring at Qi Tian with eyes spitting fire, he bellowed, “Qi Tian, do you even know what you’re doing?”

Qi Tian just shrugged nonchalantly, “Of course, I know what I’m doing. Didn’t you just not believe that I had the guts to hit you? So, there you go, I slapped you twice to prove to you and make you believe that, yes, I really do have the nerve to slap you.”

Li Qingping nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. How many years had it been? Never in all these years had a junior ever dared to be so brazen in front of him, let alone a junior like Qi Tian. Even when he was in the Holy Land, others showed him a degree of respect. No one dared to disregard him like Qi Tian, who even had the audacity to slap him across the face.

Li Qingping roared, and with that bellow, countless fumes of alcohol burst forth from his body. In an instant, Li Qingping became completely sober, not a trace of drunkenness to be seen.

His eyes cold as ice, he said to Qi Tian, “Qi Tian, you have no idea the magnitude of the mistake you’ve made. Initially, today, I was inclined to leave you with an intact corpse, but now I swear, I will have you shattered into ten thousand pieces and ground into mincemeat to feed the dogs.”

Qi Tian still wore a drunken appearance and said with a grin, “I believe you have the resolve. Whether you can turn that resolve into reality, however, is something I don’t believe. Big bro! You really don’t realize the big mistake you’ve made. Our conflict was already settled, I was no longer planning on holding a grudge against Li Rusen for offending me in Relay City, but you couldn’t help yourself, cunning as an old fox, you had to come bustling around me. That’d be fine by itself, but you even had the nerve to act like you wanted to become friends and form a brotherly bond. I have to say, your acting is so bad it’s everywhere—you couldn’t even deceive a three-year-old kid. Those young male stars would cringe at your performance.”

Li Qingping didn’t understand what Qi Tian meant by ‘young male stars,’ but he was sure it wasn’t anything good. Angrily, he retorted, “Even now, you’re still shooting your mouth off with me. Do you really think you’re invulnerable with some kind of Diamond Body Protection? I’m going to teach you a lesson on how to be human right now.”

With those words, Li Qingping didn’t waste any more time talking. He reached out to grab Qi Tian’s wrist, with all his aura fully unleashed, no longer hidden.

The best course of action at this time was to kill Qi Tian and then snatch the Spirit Beast Bracelet away. However, Li Qingping was concerned that Qi Tian and the Tiger Demon might have already established some connection. If Qi Tian had somehow shared his life force with the Tiger Demon, then killing Qi Tian would mean the Tiger Demon would die as well, making it pointless to possess the Tiger Demon thereafter.

This sort of circumstance was common within the Cultivation World. Many cultivators kept Spirit Beasts tethered to them, making them work strenuously and drawing on their blood and other substances for their own use. Treating the life of a Spirit Beast as worthless was nothing new.

Qi Tian seemed to still be intoxicated, not budging from his spot. Li Qingping made his move swiftly, reaching directly for Qi Tian’s wrist. To Li Qingping, the maneuver was almost certain to succeed without any slip-up. But the reality was that Li Qingping had failed.

It was as if there was an invisible barrier around Qi Tian’s wrist, preventing Li Qingping from crossing the short distance to grab it, no matter how hard he tried.

Li Qingping’s expression altered slightly. At that moment, he finally realized that Qi Tian might not actually be drunk—all of it could have been an act. He rapidly retreated, widening the distance between him and Qi Tian, becoming more alert and watching Qi Tian coldly as he said, “I saw with my own eyes that you drank half a jar of Five Spirit Wine, how can you possibly not be drunk?”

Qi Tian chuckled and replied, “Old bro, you have to trust what you see with your own eyes. I really am drunk, not lying to you at all. You can try again, try attacking me one more time. Maybe you’ll succeed, and you can snatch away my Spirit Beast Bracelet. I’ll let you in on a secret—I really do have a Tiger Demon here, and it might just be the very one you’re struggling to find. Give it your best shot, and it could be yours. What are you waiting for? Come on, baby. Hope is right in front of your eyes.”