Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 863 Shock
Gu Shiyi reached out and picked up Lao Ma and Wangyue, and retreated to the cave entrance using both hands and feet.

I just wanted to dig a hole to get out, would it attract some powerful beast?

Hmm! Maybe it's possible. Isn't this a magic circle of immortals?
Those immortals like to raise immortal pets to guard their caves. Who knows, besides the half-snake man, there are some other strange creatures raised here!

Just as Gu Shiyi, Lao Ma and Wangyue were nervously watching the rock wall with silver tadpole light shaking more and more violently, Pu Yanlan was surprisingly calm, so calm that it was eerie!

Cai Heming looked solemn.
"Elder Pu, did you find something wrong?"

Pu Yanlan nodded, thought for a moment and said,

"Elder Cai, it's really strange that everything is so peaceful. I'm afraid those half-snakes are planning some major offensive. Why don't we gather everyone together?"

Cai Heming nodded.
"That's right!"

Gathering people together can prevent them from being defeated one by one. They gathered everyone together and counted the number of people. Originally there were more than 80 people, but now nine people died and more than ten were injured. Seeing this, Cai Heming sighed and said,
"It is really unbelievable that we cultivators would suffer casualties when dealing with these half-human, half-beasts...."

Pu Yanlan shook her head and sighed, then said calmly,
“Elder Cai, don’t worry. The path of cultivation is inherently dangerous. Although these half-snake people don’t understand the five elements, they are born with strong bodies and have racial innate skills. If they start fighting... they are not much worse than you cultivators. They also have the advantage of terrain and formations... So the dangers you will face will only increase a lot, so you still have to be extra careful!”

Everyone saw her skills and felt that this female cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage was more skilled than Elder Cai in the Spiritualization stage. They secretly admired her and nodded their heads when they heard her words.

"Elder Pu is right!"

Pu Yanlan nodded, and raised her hand to give out a few bottles of pills.

"This is the elixir I made in my spare time. Please share it with your injured comrades..."

How could the elixirs of these cultivators compare to those of Pu Yanlan? He took a look at them in his hand, threw them into his mouth, and immediately felt a warm sensation rising from his stomach. The pain in his body was reduced, and he was overjoyed. He bowed to Pu Yanlan,
"Thank you, Elder Pu!"

Pu Yanlan nodded slightly without saying anything more. She turned around and discussed with everyone. They all felt that they had already reached the mountainside. Going up further was the treasure cave on the top of the mountain. The half-snake people would never retreat like this. They thought they must have a bigger trick up their sleeve. So everyone used their means to explore the way ahead.
"Eh...this is so strange!"

"Yeah...there's nothing unusual ahead?"

Everyone was surprised. They tried every possible means, but they did not find any living creatures in the jungle ahead or nearby. Even ordinary animals disappeared.
"It's really weird!"

Pu Yanlan raised her eyebrows and looked at Cai Heming, who also gave her a bitter smile.
"Elder Pu, I didn't find anything unusual. Although I know there must be something fishy going on here, I can't find any clues. It's as if these half-snake people disappeared out of thin air in just half an incense stick of time. It's really weird!"

Pu Yanlan thought for a while and said,
"It's really weird... Let me take a look!"

He raised his hands and the golden rings in his hands touched each other. A dozen little ghosts appeared in front of everyone. Everyone in front was fighting on their own, so no one noticed the battle situation on Pu Yanlan's side, so they didn't see the red-clothed man appear. However, this could not be hidden from Cai Heming. After seeing those little ghosts disappear in all directions after receiving the order, Cai Heming came up and bowed,

“No wonder… I have always felt that although Elder Pu is in the late Nascent Soul stage, the spiritual energy around him is much richer and more refined than that of other cultivators of the same period. It turns out that Elder Pu is actually a dual cultivator!”

Everyone was surprised, happy and envious when they heard this. Needless to say, they were surprised, as a cultivator practicing dual cultivation is hard to come by once in a century. As for happiness, after seeing how powerful these half-snake people are, these originally arrogant cultivators no longer looked down on them, and naturally the stronger their companions' abilities, the greater their chances of saving their lives. Needless to say, they were envious!
Although the advancement of cultivators practicing dual cultivation is slow, their magical powers are naturally far superior to those of cultivators of the same level!

Facing the surprised, happy and envious eyes of the crowd, Pu Yanlan smiled slightly and said,

“I dare not hide the truth from you all. I only discovered my dual spiritual roots when I advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. There are too few books to learn about the art of controlling ghosts, so I only know the basics!”

She couldn't believe a word of what she said, but everyone didn't doubt it at all. Cai Heming nodded and said,
"Fellow Daoist Pu, being able to refine a substitute evil ghost is already very impressive!" Although Cai Heming has entered the Spiritualization Stage, he has stayed in a peaceful world for too long, with too few cultivators, so his experience is ultimately much less. He only thought that Hong Yi blocked the attack for Pu Yanlan because she used the evil ghost as a substitute, but he didn't know that the evil ghosts refined by Elder Pu were not ordinary evil ghosts that had lost their intelligence and only knew how to kill. Pu Yanlan just smiled and didn't say much, but said lightly,

"Everyone, please wait a little longer. The ghosts I sent out can follow the yang energy and track them all the way. I think it won't be long before we have news..."

Everyone nodded and took this opportunity to sit and meditate. Sure enough, after waiting for less than half an incense stick of time, the little ghosts came.

"Master, all those half-snake people have retreated to a valley fifty miles away from here. There should be a magic array in the valley that blocks all the five elements and the yin and yang energies. When we chased them to the vicinity of the valley, we could not sense the yang energy..."

However, the ghosts were different from the magical instruments or talismans released by the monks. The ghosts were intelligent and many of them still retained their memories from their previous lives. For example, the leading ghost this time was a lieutenant in the army. It was natural for him to track down the half-snakes. When he couldn't find any scent, he found the half-snakes hiding in the valley from the traces they had left in the dense forest.

"…Among those half-snakes, except for an old man with a white tail who seemed to have noticed us, the rest were completely unaware of us. However, these half-snakes have a strange aura, so we dare not get too close to them…"

The half-snake people have severed their yin and yang, and have only yang meridians in their bodies. The little ghosts can't even possess them, so naturally they don't like them!
"Hmm...did you find out anything?"

The little ghost replied,

"Master, the old man with a white tail and an old man with a bald head are instructing their men to release something. However, the old man with a white tail said that releasing the thing would cost the lives of many tribesmen, and it would be difficult to put it back after it comes out. The old man with a bald head said that this wave of cultivators is too powerful, and if they do it themselves, more people will die. It would be better to release the thing, and after the cultivators are eliminated, sacrifice some tribesmen and take the thing back..."

"Oh...did they say what it was?"

The little ghost thought about it and shook his head.
"They didn't say what it was. They only said that it wouldn't hurt the half-snake people. It would only deal with the monks. Then we can cooperate with that thing to kill all the monks..."

The half-snake people are so confident, it seems that it must be a very extraordinary thing!
Everyone looked solemn upon hearing this. Cai Heming watched Pu Yanlan take the little ghosts back, and then he asked,
"According to Elder Pu's opinion, what kind of powerful beast is that?"

Pu Yanlan thought for a while and said,
"I don't know either, but if they can sacrifice many tribesmen to release something, they must be difficult to deal with..."

When I got to this point, I looked at the crowd.
"We can't stay here any longer, we have to leave here as soon as possible before they summon that thing!"

After saying that, he took the lead and ran to the top of the mountain. Everyone followed him. These monks were used to flying around on weekdays, but after being banned from flying, they were like birds without wings, and could only hop on the ground. And the speed of their running was almost the same as crawling compared to the half-snake people. Therefore, they had only been running quickly to the top of the mountain for less than half an hour when they felt a vibration under their feet. It was a slight tremor at first, and then it became more and more violent. The ground began to shake left and right, and large pieces of the ground cracked, and a strong smell surged out of the cracks in the ground...

While they were shaken, Gu Shiyi was silent.
"Eh...what's going on?"

Gu Shiyi, Wangyue and Lao Ma looked at each other in bewilderment. They had clearly felt that the aura of something behind the magic circle in front of them was becoming stronger and stronger, and the pressure was becoming stronger and stronger. Through the madly jumping silver tadpoles, it seemed that something behind the magic circle was about to break out of the stone!
suddenly
In just a breath, there was no sound at all, except for the loose soil and small stones falling in the cave, and then there was no more sound. After that... even the mud stopped falling. It was completely quiet. Gu Shiyi and the other two looked at each other and could even hear each other's breathing. The three of them swallowed their saliva together, and Gu Shiyi spoke first.

"What...what's going on?"

Lao Ma and Wang Yue both stretched out their long heads from their shells and looked at her blankly. Suddenly, Gu Shiyi's expression changed.
"Eh... it seems like the thing over there has left..."

The two little turtles nodded in unison. They also felt that the breath of the thing that was separated from them by a stone wall was gradually moving away. Until they could no longer sense it, Gu Shiyi said with shining eyes,
"Hurry, let's break this place down before that thing gets far away... maybe we can get out!"

When they heard that she was going to break the stone wall, Lao Ma and Wang Yue looked at each other with fear on their faces.

"But...if we break through the magic circle and go in, will it attract that thing again?"

Gu Shiyi's personality is such that he would stir up trouble even for no reason. How could he back down? He immediately responded,
"We are trapped here and cannot get out. I estimate that the beast over there should be an ancient ferocious beast. Judging from the vibration just now, it is probably very large and heavy, so it usually cannot run fast. After we break the magic circle, we can run when we find a chance. As long as we run fast, it can't catch up with us!"