Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 459 - 459 0324 No Favor to Talk About_2

Chapter 459: Chapter 0324: No Favor to Talk About_2 Chapter 459: Chapter 0324: No Favor to Talk About_2 As Qi Tian moved further ahead, a cold smirk appeared on his face when he saw the new sensory image transmitted by the Heavenly Dao Engine. On his necessary route back to the mine, someone was setting up in the mining tunnel. It was clear they were up to no good.

A cold smile appeared on Qi Tian’s face. Was he encountering a robbery? The possibility wasn’t non-existent. There were always people who liked to take shortcuts in this world, especially amongst cultivators, they were even more common. Most people were hard at work mining spirit stones, and even if luck was bad, there was still harvest to be had.

Mining for spirit stones was a tough job. It was only because Qi Tian had an Innate Spirit Treasure Level mining shovel, and was mining spirit stones, that it seemed extremely easy. But for others, without the mining shovel of the Innate Spirit Treasure Level, the task would be exceptionally arduous. By contrast, robbery was much easier. Simply rally more people, then outnumber and overpower the others, reap their spirit stones. It couldn’t be easier.

Qi Tian used the Heavenly Dao Engine to carefully sense his surroundings. He found that the cultivators ambushing him were not low in their cultivation realms, and even included a practitioner at the Half-step Golden Core Stage. However, so what if there was a Half-step Golden Core cultivator? Unless they were Golden Core experts, they wouldn’t be able to touch Qi Tian. In this specific environment of the secret realm, it has already determined that no means or people above the Half-step Golden Core would appear. This determined that Qi Tian basically stood on unbeatable grounds.

But Qi Tian didn’t dare be careless, he didn’t wish to experience firsthand how easy it was to capsize in a canal. His combat power was strong, but it wasn’t without weaknesses. If the enemy’s tactic just happened to suppress his weak point, he would still be done for.

Qi Tian used the Heavenly Dao Engine’s sensing function to lock onto that small area. He maintained a steady speed while considering how to deal with the situation. For him, the most straightforward highroad would actually be to detour. He had the Innate Spiritual Treasure Level mining shovel. To avoid the ambushing enemy and dig another new route was not a difficult task for him. He had done so when he ambushed more than a hundred Half-step Golden Core practitioners from the Ghost God Temple, making the most of the advantage of his Innate Spirit Treasure Level mining shovel.

However, while this seemed the easiest and most efficient way, it could lead to endless trouble. Since the enemy had set up an ambush, they would undoubtedly be prepared. Once they found he did not show up at the expected time, they would definitely send people to investigate the situation. By then, it’s almost inevitable they would find he had digged another tunnel. Consequently, it’s highly likely they could deduce that he had a treasure on him. By then, to get the treasure, they would certainly keep a close eye on Qi Tian. This was the best case scenario, but what worried Qi Tian more was if they reported this to Wan Xiaolan and Lin Youbi from the Wanjie Commerce. Then, it would be Qi Tian’s turn to cry.

Both Wan Xiaolan and Lin Youbi were Golden Core experts who suppressed their realms. If they demanded from Qi Tian, would he give or not give?

Upon analysis, reality didn’t leave many choices for Qi Tian. He could only choose the hard way, it would be best if he could eliminate all the cultivators who dared to attack him. This would be a once-and-for-all way to solve the problem.

As for how to eliminate them, Qi Tian had many choices.

Qi Tian pulled out a stick from the Heavenly Dao Engine. When he first started practicing the Eighteen Demonic Strokes, he purchased weapons of the staff type. Later, he obtained countless weapons during his cultivation journey, among which staff type weapons were numerous. Although most of the weapons were used as fuel for the Heavenly Dao Engine, he kept some good-looking sticks. The stick he took out this time was one of those.

Qi Tian’s cold smirk became more apparent. He vowed to let those who dared to ambush him taste the flavor of despair.

Following along the mining tunnel for a while, the place where the cultivators set the ambush wasn’t far away, probably five to six hundred meters from him. This part of the mining tunnel was straight, and not long after the ambush site, there was a turn in the tunnel.

Five to six hundred meters is not a distance to be ignored by cultivators who have not reached the Gold Core Stage. Cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage and half-step Golden Core simply cannot sense this far. However, to Qi Tian, this distance could be essentially disregarded.

Qi Tian stood still, weighing the war cudgel in his hand, then, like throwing a javelin, aimed it at the tunnel ahead and threw it. Although the mine tunnel was not high, the speed of the cudgel was quick enough that in an instant, it flew over a distance of more than five hundred meters, landing accurately where the cultivators had set their ambush.

Setting an ambush for them did not mean hiding in the shadows with weapons, waiting to battle Qi Tian. In reality, the first thing these cultivators did was to set up a formation, and it was a Massive Killing Array. They were waiting for Qi Tian to come, to activate the Massive Killing Array, hitting Qi Tian with a series of brutal attacks, leading to Qi Tian being severely damaged. Only then would they start their attack. By then, Qi Tian’s combat power would be severely damaged, and his life or death would be at their discretion.

What they had never expected was that Qi Tian would detect their conspiracy miles away, and he would use a simple and brutal method to break their killing setup.

The Massive Killing Array set up by these cultivators was not weak, and it posed a considerable threat to a half-step Golden Core, but the mine tunnel was narrow after all, and the space for their deployment was limited. As a result, to ensure the power of Massive Killing Array, they had to remove some of its functions, including the identification function.

High-end Massive Killing Arrays could automatically identify the intruders, sparing non-living entities, or even non-targeted entities. Of course, every Killing Array with such functions is anything but simple. These cultivators did not have the ability to obtain these features. What they had deleted was not these features but the function time, concentrating the power of the Massive Killing Array within a relatively short time frame, similar to a grenade, which had maximum power at the moment of explosion and was safe after that moment.

The cudgel that Qi Tian threw was triggered against him by the Massive Killing Array. The power of the Massive Killing Array was ignited in an instant. Countless furious energy turned into several Spirit Sabers, indiscriminately slashing towards the cudgel.

With a series of cracking sounds, the cudgel, which was harder than steel, was split into several segments in just an instant. Each segment was full of marks, too ghastly to look at.

The ambushed cultivators promptly jumped out from their hiding places. They had thought that they would see a dead Qi Tian, and they just needed to take the storage bag from Qi Tian’s waist and reclaim the spirit stones. However, after seeing the cudgel in the Massive Killing Array, a thought suddenly popped into their heads, that they had been discovered.

Before they could come up with another thought to decide what to do, Qi Tian had already rushed over like a gust of wind. He put the Wuhang Ring on his finger, activating the speed doubling mode of the Heavenly Dao Engine. He rushed over with a speed of over a hundred meters per second. From his standing position to here, it took less than three to four seconds. In such a short time, how could these ambushing cultivators react more?

“So it’s you guys who planned to kill me? Well, you all have to die.” Qi Tian faintly felt one of the people who set up the ambush was familiar, but he did not care if it was an acquaintance. If they dared to ambush him, there would be no consideration for personal feelings.

The mine tunnel was narrow, not suitable for using the Red Hoop Stick. As Qi Tian rushed over, he put on his gloves. In an instant, he displayed the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist.

Thirteenth form of the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist — Giving to the Jackals and Tigers, Kill.