The fear of death instantly enveloped Qi Shi's heart.

Under the crisis of life and death, his face had become extremely distorted, and the thousands of pores on his body suddenly erupted into a fluffy blood mist, surging on the surface of his body and quickly condensing into a blood ball, enveloping the whole person.

The same trick was also used by Ding Jin at the beginning, but it was broken by the rising sun and died on the spot.

However, this move greatly increased the defense in Qi Shi's hands, and Lin Ze slashed it down with a single sword, leaving only a hole in the blood ball and evaporating a puff of blood mist.

Seeing this, his eyes flashed, he took a light breath, and then swung his knife again.

Bursts of sharp and short knife sounds suddenly erupted in the air, and in an instant, countless golden-red knives turned out, covering the void like a torrential rain, enveloping the entire blood cell.

At this moment, the lv4 knife technique was exerted to the extreme by Lin Ze, and the sword light almost spun into a rapidly jumping ball of light, crashing into the blood ball.

The air shook violently, and then the blood ball exploded, and in a terrible scream, a figure shot out like an arrow from the string, and fled in panic into the distance.

Lin Ze's complexion remained unchanged, the light wind behind him rose sharply, and in an instant, he condensed into cyan wings, flapped his wings, and the whole person swept out like lightning at a rapid speed, and caught up with Qi Shi in a few breaths.

Qi Shi's face was as pale as a vampire at this time, the corners of his mouth were still bloodstained, and his expression was full of horror and panic, completely missing his previous majesty and solemnity.

Hearing the sound of breaking the air behind him, Qi Shi looked back and saw that Lin Ze was actually flying off the ground, and chased after him at great speed.

"Wait a minute"

He was answered by the screech of the blade tearing through the air.

Poof!

The golden red soul knife swept across Qi Shi's neck at an extremely fast speed, and the huge head suddenly rose into the sky, and before the blood could splash out, it was transpired by the terrifying high temperature and made countless blood mist, like a morning mist.

A few seconds later, the head fell to the ground, and Qi Shi's headless corpse shook in place several times, and then fell to the ground with a bang, splashing pieces of dust.

The wind wings behind Lin Ze dissipated, and the whole person landed lightly, his eyes swept over the corpse on the ground, and he couldn't help but let out a long breath.

Qi Shi's strength is really strong, if it weren't for the aura that greatly restrained his 'Blood Emperor', coupled with the restrictions of the battle environment, the final outcome would be really unpredictable.

In this way, at this time, his soul energy and aura were on the verge of running out, if Qi Shi still had the strength to fight again, I am afraid it would be his turn to escape.

"After all, it is a 'human pillar' swordsmith whose strength is close to the hero level, even if his strength is weakened, it is not so easy to deal with. Lin Ze said secretly in his heart.

Retracting his gaze from the corpse, Lin Ze looked into the distance, and a silver figure could be faintly seen at the far end.

That's obviously a 'man of God'!

From a long distance, you can still see the smoke and dust billowing from the place where the battle is located, and it seems to be very fierce.

Lin Ze didn't have the idea of joining in the fun, he promised that Peng Xianxi's matter of dragging Qi Shi for ten minutes had been overdone, and the next battle with Gao Mingliang was none of his business, not to mention that with his current state, he was no longer suitable to be involved in a battle of that level.

Thinking of this, Lin Ze simply picked up Master Qi's head, turned around and walked slowly towards the settlement area.

After a while, the silver figure in the distance disappeared, and the battle seemed to be over, and not long after, Lin Ze caught a glimpse of the figure out of the corner of his eye, and Peng Xianxi had already appeared seven or eight meters away, looking at him with a surprised face.

"I was really surprised, Lin Ze, I didn't expect you to actually kill Master Qi!"

"What about Gao Mingliang?"

"I'm ashamed to let him escape, but he was seriously injured and shouldn't be able to pose a threat to us again in a short time!" After a pause, Peng Xianxi's gaze swept over the head of Master Qi that Lin Ze was carrying, shook his head and smiled, "When he learns of Master Qi's death, I'm afraid he won't dare to stay in the settlement anymore." ”

Lin Ze glanced at Peng Xianxi vaguely, although the latter tried his best to hide it, his expression was still tired, and his breathing was a little rapid and unstable, obviously defeating Gao Mingliang made him pay a lot of price.

Regardless, the battle was won by the two of them, and the crisis of the Swordsmith Guild was now resolved.

Back at the headquarters of the Swordsmith Guild, the two sides were still facing each other in place, without the orders of Peng Xianxi and the others, everyone present did not dare to start fighting lightly, so they had to stand in place and glared at each other.

Among them, the momentum of the guild side was obviously weaker, and they obviously did not have much confidence in whether Peng Xianxi and Lin Ze could achieve victory.

Therefore, when Peng Xianxi and Lin Ze returned with Qi Shi's head, many people's eyes widened, revealing expressions of disbelief.

Immediately after that, the guild people erupted in cheers, while the Autonomous Committee and the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce were stunned in place.

The elders of the guild who were more keen-minded looked at each other, and they could see the surprise in each other's eyes.

Qi Shi's head was carried by Lin Ze, what does this mean?

A shocking thought flashed through their minds, but they couldn't believe it, until Peng Xianxi announced on the spot that Qi Shi had been killed by Lin Ze and Gao Mingliang was seriously injured and fled, and another round of uproar was set off in the crowd.

Without Qi Shi and Gao Mingliang, the rest of the people were already unable to make waves, and the very few who were still unwilling and planned to resist were quickly killed by Peng Xianxi's thunder, and the Autonomous Committee and the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce had no strength to resist, and were obediently taken over by the Knife Forgers Guild.

It is worth mentioning that Gao Mingliang did indeed return to the settlement after that, but as Peng Xianxi expected, after learning of Qi Shi's death, he immediately made a decision and fled the settlement overnight with a few henchmen and entered the depths of the wilderness.

Peng Xianxi then immediately sent people to search, but unfortunately nothing was found.

The next day, the office on the top floor of the headquarters.

Lin Ze sat on the sofa, and on the coffee table in front of him were four light yellow and transparent spirit stones like amber.

"I'm sorry, the spirit stones of the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce were all taken away by Gao Mingliang, we only found the spirit stones in the treasury of the Autonomous Committee, a total of three, and one is the reward for curing my injuries. Peng Xianxi smiled.

After a day's recuperation, his face was much more ruddy, and his expression was even more radiant, and it was obvious that the growth of the Swordsmith Guild made him very happy.

"Thank you. ”

After taking the spirit stone, Lin Ze absorbed it one by one on the spot, and by the way, he summoned out the personal panel, staring at the awakening degree of the red lotus column without blinking.

The awakening level of the four spirit stones gradually decreased, and the last one increased by a total of 30 awakening levels.

Red Lotus (liberated, awakening 5520)

"It's finally over 50!" Lin Ze secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was really difficult to improve the awakening degree of the soul knife, it took so long and so much thought, and now it has finally exceeded 50.

"At this decreasing rate, I can only absorb a maximum of 10 spirit stones, and then absorbing it will most likely have no effect. ”

That being said, there are not 10 spirit stones in the entire blackstone settlement area combined, not to mention that some of them were taken away by Gao Mingliang.

At present, only the Sword Forger Guild still has the spirit stone left, and in addition, if you want it again, you can only go deep into the wilderness to find it.

But no matter what, as long as the spirit stone still has an effect on increasing the awakening of the soul knife, Lin Ze has to find a way to get it.

"President Peng. ”

Lin Ze suddenly raised his head and looked at Peng Xianxi, "There should still be a spirit stone in the hands of the Knife Forger Guild, right?"

Peng Xianxi was stunned, and then admitted calmly: "That's right, there is another one." ”

"Can you give it to me, we can negotiate the terms of the transaction. ”

"No problem!"

To Lin Ze's surprise, Peng Xianxi agreed very simply, "I can give you the remaining spirit stone, but on the condition that you help us kill Gao Mingliang!"

Gao Mingliang?

Lin Ze was slightly surprised, and immediately thought about it, and suddenly realized.

The Swordsmith Guild is planning to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

After all, Gao Mingliang is a strong man who has broken through the tenth level, and he has a grudge with the Swordsmith Guild, if he is allowed to live outside, he may develop into a big trouble one day, at least it is a great threat to the Swordsmith who is hunting outside, and it is indeed necessary to clear it as soon as possible.

"There is only one 'human pillar' knife caster left in the settlement now, for the sake of the safety of the settlement, I can't leave for too long, but if the others say, even if they find Gao Mingliang, I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with him, I think about it, only you are more suitable for this task, so I can only ask you." Peng Xianxi said seriously.

"I see, deal!"

Lin Ze didn't think about it for too long before agreeing, in fact, even if Peng Xianxi didn't trade with him, he would go to find Gao Mingliang, after all, the latter still had several spirit stones in his hand, and Peng Xianxi's transaction just added another impetus to him.

After the matter was agreed, Lin Ze did not stay any longer and said goodbye to Peng Xianxi and left.

After Lin Ze walked out of the office and closed the door, the guild elder who had been waiting beside him without saying a word frowned and said: "President, I don't understand why you gave him all the spirit stones, you have also seen Lin Ze's talent, it is really terrifying, if he is allowed to grow up smoothly, I am afraid that no one in the settlement will be his opponent in the future, isn't it very unfavorable to the rule of the guild?"

"That's right!" another guild elder echoed when he heard this, "From the previous events, it can be seen that Lin Ze has no subordination to the guild at all, such a person is equivalent to a time bomb that cannot be controlled, the stronger the strength, the greater the threat, it is better to take advantage of his current strength to snuff out this threat in the cradle."

"There's no need for that!"

Peng Xianxi directly interrupted them, "Lin Ze is all about improving his strength, and he doesn't care about power at all, don't worry that he will stand on the opposite side of us, not to mention"

Speaking of this, Peng Xianxi couldn't help but sigh, "Although Qi Shi and Gao Mingliang are enemies, but without the two of them, the strength of the settlement has been greatly reduced, at this time, it is a good thing for the guild and the entire Blackstone settlement to have a new 'human pillar' sword caster, we can't just focus on fighting for power and profit, that will push the settlement into the abyss of no return."