fifth form

Chapter 3433 The Stranger

For someone like Zhang Xuezhou, who is skilled at flying and soaring, he can ascend to a sufficient height to avoid being exposed to poisonous winds and rain.

But for the Seven Spiders, who are unable to fly, being blown by winds and waves mixed with dark yin water, or being drenched by rain, means an unbearable burden.

She fled in terror, completely ignoring the two-meter-long Wind and Thunder Blade that Zhang Xuezhou was holding.

It was a sight that shouldn't have appeared. Seven Spiders felt that the Profound Yin Heavy Water shouldn't have taken on such a massive form, but in fact, it did happen.

They had to go through countless hardships to obtain a bottle of Xuan Yin Heavy Water. This essence of heaven and earth was their top trump card. But now, the Xuan Yin Heavy Water had turned into smoke and dust, and the amount was so large that it made people's scalps tingle.

It's like someone who has worked hard in the Han Dynasty court for decades to become one of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers and obtain a spirit jade, only to suddenly see that Zhang Xuezhou and others own a spirit jade mine. Their belief in striving for success would almost collapse in an instant.

The seven spiders fled frantically, their minds in disarray, unable to believe what they were seeing.

"The wind is blowing this way, run that way!"

"oh oh!"

Zhang Xuezhou pointed out the direction to escape, and Qi Zhu took a few beats to react before she realized what he meant and stopped running with the wind.

Forced to turn ninety degrees, the Seven Spiders darted through the city's buildings. The undulating ground and collapsed buildings caused by the earthquake made her occasionally utter incoherent curses.

"Let me check the situation from a higher vantage point!"

Zhang Xuezhou called out, but Seven Spiders ignored him and did not provide any further information.

Knowing that he would not gain much from the Seven Spiders, Zhang Xuezhou followed the flying body and quickly rose into the sky.

Even if he flew to a high enough altitude to avoid being contaminated by the purple smoke formed from the Xuan Yin Heavy Water, even if his body were to be contaminated, this kind of poison gas, diluted many times over, would hardly be able to seriously injure him in a short period of time.

The earth was churning, buildings of varying heights were collapsing one after another, ancient trees were lying prostrate on the ground, and endless dust shrouded the capital of Qin Meng, making the Xuan Yin Heavy Water, which had turned into purple smoke, even more conspicuous.

"How did a fountain of profound yin water form?"

Standing high in the sky, the purple smoke hovered below, unable to touch his body. Zhang Xuezhou's gaze swept downwards.

After repeatedly turning the angle to look several times, Zhang Xuezhou finally saw clearly that there seemed to be an underground fountain emerging in the Tiger's Nest area, with water mist constantly spreading in the air along with the spray, thus forming the mist phenomenon of Xuan Yin Heavy Water.

"It seems that something is shining on it, which caused the transparent water mist to turn into purple smoke!"

It's difficult to see clearly from high above. Zhang Xuezhou could barely make out the fountain below, but he couldn't find the source of the color change in the water mist.

As he continued to observe and focus, Zhang Xuezhou felt a slight itch in his body. The radiance of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts refreshed layer by layer, which allowed him to quickly ascend into the air.

A cold snort came from beside him, and Zhang Xuezhou's heart skipped a beat.

Natural phenomena are nothing to fear, but when phenomena manipulated by humans form natural landscapes, that means a big problem.

"Could it be that Tiger Cultivation has some other master or great-grandfather left here?"

Thinking about the mess he and Seven Spiders had made, Zhang Xuezhou clearly didn't want to be left behind as a scapegoat.

He also looked at the Wind and Thunder Blade in his hand and the Five-Colored Divine Stone hidden in his belt. For a moment, he even thought about throwing away these two treasures, but as soon as he thought of Nine Heads, who liked to pick up bargains, he put them back on his person.

No matter what, as long as there's someone else to take the fall, Zhang Xuezhou won't waste money recklessly.

He lost Dingkui because he couldn't control it, and he lost 'Thorn' because this artifact still had an owner, but losing the Wind and Thunder Blade and the Five-Colored Divine Stone makes no sense at all.

These two treasures were under the control of Hu Yu's elders and were sent out through the Tiger Soul Hall. It is unknown how much space they were separated by, so it is impossible for the other party to have the ability to control them across space.

Although the two treasures have owners, they do not actually have owners when in use, so Zhang Xuezhou and others may be able to draw on some of their power.

He understood the situation in his mind and didn't linger.

He stirred up waves and soared upwards, his body flying into the distance, eliciting low groans from below.

"It can't fly either!"

Zhang Xuezhou remained calm and also assessed the capabilities of the person hiding there.

But as soon as he thought about how Hu Yu and Hu Hao both possessed the ability to fly and levitate, he couldn't help but have some doubts. For a moment, he also felt that the cold-snorting person below might not have any connection with the Hu Sheng family.

Zhang Xuezhou came to Qin Meng with the goal of destroying the Spider God's Cave.

But as he ventured further afield, his attitude changed. These fire meteor beings were not a monolithic entity; rather, they harbored their own animosity and competition, and internal conflicts were not insignificant.

Rather than having them encircle and ambush one side at a time, it would be better to let these fire meteor creatures fight amongst themselves first.

They can simply pack up and leave. These fire meteor creatures, having crashed in Qin Meng, have chosen to develop nearby and find it difficult to leave. Moreover, cultivators who can quickly traverse long distances are ultimately a very small minority.

With Qin Meng's capital city in ruins, if the opponent is a top expert from the Tiger Saint family, the Tiger Nest will be destroyed and the Tiger Soul Hall's accumulated wealth will be wiped out.

Thinking of the divine artifact 'Thorn' that was trapped in the tiger's claws and never retrieved, Zhang Xuezhou felt that it wouldn't be difficult for the other party to find a target for revenge based on the artifact.

"Seven Spiders will likely try to rally the fire meteor beings like Nine Heads and White Bone to lead the fight, but what if the opponent isn't a master from the Tiger Saint Clan..."

Zhang Xuezhou considered the identity of the one who snorted. Suspecting the former's identity was one thing, but if it was another situation, it would be far beyond Zhang Xuezhou's ability to understand.

"Could it be that Tiger Breeding also belongs to the later generation?"

Zhang Xuezhou had seen the changgui (a type of ghost), and ordinary villagers could transform into changgui.

Decades or even centuries ago, there were problems with food and clothing, but the population was not small.

The Tiger Soul Hall has a strong ability to convert three thousand cougars, but the Qin Meng Empire lost far more than three or five thousand people; it lost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

Without a special treasure, Hu Yu couldn't have done this.

Familiar opponents are easier to deal with, but strangers require Zhang Xuezhou's caution.

He ultimately felt he needed to withdraw from Qin Meng as soon as possible and wait for the situation to become clearer before making a decision.

This is not just his personal matter, but involves the team, and uncontrollable problems can easily arise when information is not equal.

He leaped into the air, no longer needing to wait for the Seven Spider Queens, and his flying speed began to increase.

'Boom'

A loud explosion was heard from the Qin capital behind them.

In the distance, a scene of impending storm unfolds, as if a violent storm is about to sweep across the area, with occasional geomagnetic light emanating from the area due to earthquakes, making the changes unpredictable.

This time, Zhang Xuezhou only glanced back and did not go forward to investigate again.

He had already exhausted most of his magical power, but his ability to achieve sainthood in his physical body kept Zhang Xuezhou at his peak, preventing him from becoming weak or experiencing a decline in his magical skills due to excessive consumption.

As he continued to soar through the air using the Cloud Leap Technique, he began to murmur the "Treatise on Righteousness and Righteousness."

In reality, the pills he could produce couldn't keep up with his cultivation progress. Zhang Xuezhou still hadn't been able to refine a pill that was equivalent to the Creation Pill, let alone one that rivaled the top-grade Creation Pill. The only way he could restore his magical power was by seeking the "Treatise on Righteous Qi" taught by Dong Zhongshu.

The probability of releasing this ability is far higher than Zhang Xuezhou's technique of merging heaven and man. A faint light appeared in the sky and was then drawn into his body, and the magical power in his body quickly entered the recovery period.

"That new world has sent out its traction coordinates again!"

"Capture it quickly!"

"It seems someone beat me to it!"

"Damn it, after decades of searching, we can only watch as others ascend to the throne of godhood. They acted too quickly!"

"who is it?"

"Knowing his name is meaningless now!"

"One step to mortal, one step to god, his past name has indeed lost its meaning!"

……

As the righteous energy flowed into his body, Zhang Xuezhou also received some fragmented messages of mental fluctuations.

When he felt a sudden tightness in his chest and wanted to stop reciting, he felt that his body and consciousness were not being pulled in any way.

The information conveyed by this mental fluctuation may be from the present moment or originate from the past.

Zhang Xuezhou looked up at the azure sky and felt as if the whole world was being watched by some gluttonous monster, which was trying to swallow it whole.