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Chapter 344: Mantis Catching Cicada (Subscription Request)

Lingxufang, located in the Lingzhou area of ​​the inner world, is the first stronghold established by the top Yangshen force [Daomeng] in the inner world.

After several years of development, this stronghold has gradually grown into a medium-sized market for practitioners.

In addition, Lingxufang is located in Zhongzhou with convenient transportation, so it is very popular among those independent cultivators who go to the other world for adventure and treasure hunting. It is one of the most frequently visited strongholds by independent cultivators.

Lingxufang is located near the mountains and rivers, surrounded by lush sacred trees and shrouded in clouds and mist, as if nature has deliberately covered this market with a mysterious veil.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a beard and ordinary face followed the long team entering the city, waiting to enter Lingxufang.

About half an hour later, the middle-aged man paid ten spiritual coins and walked into Lingxufang with an expressionless face.

As soon as he entered the town, the middle-aged man couldn't help looking around.

The well-arranged stalls and shops are built on the quaint stone roads. With the help of the power of spirit stones and magic arrays, they create an atmosphere that is both quaint and magical.

The market was bustling with people. The monks, wearing various robes and riding flying swords or spirit beasts, shuttled between the stalls, their eyes flashing with desire for treasures and curiosity about the unknown.

The stalls had everything from the elixirs and talismans needed by low-level Qi Refining cultivators to the magic weapons and spiritual materials pursued by high-level cultivators. There were also some rare spiritual beast cubs and exotic natural treasures, which attracted many people to watch and bid.

While silently observing everything in Lingxufang, the middle-aged man asked silently in his heart:

"Ancestor, what are we doing here in Lingxufang?"

Yes.

This ordinary-looking bearded man was none other than Chang Mo, the heir of the Demon Refining Sect.

The reason for coming to Lingxufang was very simple. He had just killed the eldest son of the Deng family not long ago. Chang Mo was worried that he would be hunted down by the Deng family in the inner world. Therefore, he did not enter the inner world from the nearest space channel of Minzhou at the first time, but directly entered the inner world from the space channel of Lingzhou.

“Buy a map.”

The old voice sounded unhappily.

"Buy a map?"

Chang Mo wondered: "What do you want to buy a map for?"

"The inner world is now completely different from when I was there. Who knows what the environment outside the secret realm has become like back then? I have to check the current map to deduce the location of the secret realm back then."

"oh oh."

Chang Mo nodded, not quite understanding.

Then, under the command of the old voice, Chang Mo entered the largest treasure house in Lingxufang, where he spent a very high price to buy the most complete and up-to-date map of the other world.

Fortunately, he had plundered some property from the Deng family some time ago, otherwise, Chang Mo might not be able to afford the most complete map of the world.

The moment he got the map, Chang Mo probed his spiritual consciousness into it.

Soon, a flat map appeared in Chang Mo's mind, with some geographical locations and names marked on it.

Some of the names here are still the same as they were thousands of years ago, while some were added later.

Chang looked at the map silently. In fact, he didn't know what he was looking at. He was just waiting, because he knew that his ancestor must be looking at this map at this moment, checking the changes on the map.

About a quarter of an hour later.

Just when Chang Mo couldn't help but want to ask, the old voice sounded again:

"Let's go, I have found the location of the secret realm."

Hearing this, Chang Mo's eyes lit up:
"Yes!"

Having said that, he turned around and prepared to return along the way he came.

But before he could take a step, he was stopped by an old voice:

"Don't go out from the south gate, go out from the east gate, and then go all the way north."

Chang Mo was stunned for a moment, then nodded. Of course he wouldn't have any objection, and then went towards the east gate of Lingxufang.

Compared with the team entering the city, the number of independent cultivators leaving the city was obviously much smaller.

Chang Mo hardly had to queue up and successfully left Lingxufang in less than a quarter of an hour.

I looked up to identify the direction.

Chang Mo did not hesitate. He immediately mobilized his magic power and used the magic of speed to head north.

Who would have thought that we would just leave Lingxufang within a few miles.

suddenly!

An old voice suddenly spoke:
"and many more!"

Chang Mo was stunned and was about to stop, but then he heard his ancestor continue:
"Don't stop, keep pretending to be on your way."

"Yes!"

Although Chang Mo didn't understand the situation, he chose to trust his ancestor at the first moment, and then continued to use the magic of walking towards the north with an expressionless face, but in his heart, he couldn't help asking:

"Ancestor, what happened?"

"You are being followed."

Chang Mo was shocked: "I'm being followed?!"

Then a fierce look flashed across his face:
"Could it be that someone from the Deng family has come looking for us again?"

You know, before entering the other world, he was almost always hunted by the Deng family's killers.

Among these killers, there are both practitioners who refine their essence into qi and grand masters who are innate in martial arts. If Chang Mo did not have the help of his ancestors, he would have died at the hands of the Deng family killers long ago.

Instead of flying straight towards the location of the secret realm, Chang Mo inadvertently changed direction under the guidance of his ancestor.

Behind him, the figure was still following him stealthily, and even Chang Mo's own spiritual consciousness could sense it.

A sneer appeared on his face, Chang Mo's eyes suddenly turned cold, and then he flew in a certain direction.

After passing through layers of dense woods, suddenly, an open space appeared in front of us.

There were weed-covered bushes above the open space, and the sounds of insects and birds chirping could be heard faintly from among the bushes, making a rustling sound, which was very lively.

Chang Mo didn't hesitate and landed directly on the open space.

Then he turned around, looked behind him, and said expressionlessly:

"Come out."

Chang Mo's voice fell for a long time, but no figure appeared for a long time.

Seeing this, Chang Mo's eyes became even colder. Even if his spiritual sense might make a misjudgment, how could the ancestor make a wrong judgment?

"If you don't come out, I will go back to Lingxufang."

Chang Mo spoke again with a cold face.

This time, the figure that was following finally came out from behind a tree.

He was a young man wearing a gray robe and looking somewhat sinister and cunning.

However, what surprised Chang Mo was that this young man's cultivation had just reached the stage of refining essence into qi. With such cultivation level, he was not even as good as the assassins sent by the Deng family in previous times.

With a slight frown on his face, Chang Mo looked at the young man in front of him and said:

"You are not from the Deng family?"

"Someone from the Deng family?"

The gray-robed young man was stunned: "What Deng family?"

However, the young man in gray robe did not care. A cruel look appeared on his sinister and cunning face, and his eyes were filled with undisguised malice and greed:
"Boy, hand over the map you bought in the Treasure Pavilion, otherwise..." Having said this, the gray-robed young man looked around and then said viciously:
"Otherwise, this day next year will be the anniversary of your death."

Hearing the gray-robed young man say this, Chang Mo suddenly understood.

It turned out that the gray-robed young man was not a killer sent by the Deng family. Instead, he showed his financial strength when he bought the map at the Treasure Pavilion. In addition, he disguised his cultivation level and pretended to be a casual cultivator in the Taoist foundation period. This made the gray-robed young man who was refining essence into qi develop malicious intentions.

Chang Mo secretly breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't a killer from the Deng family.

This shows that his whereabouts seem to have finally escaped the control of the Deng family.

As for the gray-robed young man in front of him...

Chang Mo raised his head expressionlessly. The moment he raised his head, he did not take off the disguise of the bearded man, but completely released his cultivation.

Swah——

In an instant, Chang Mo's aura improved from that of a middle-stage Dao foundation to that of a middle-stage refining essence into Qi!
With such a level of cultivation, if it were released, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.

You know, a few days ago, Chang Mo was still a cultivator who had not even reached the level of refining essence into qi, and was even worse than the deceased Deng Lin.

In just a few days, he broke through from the foundation of Taoism to the middle stage of refining essence into Qi.

There is no doubt that such rapid progress must be related to Chang Mo's ancestor.

On the opposite side, the young man in gray robe was about to say some harsh words, but the next second Chang Mo's cultivation level suddenly soared to the middle stage of refining essence into qi, which was much higher than his early stage of refining essence into qi.

"you……"

The gray-robed young man's eyes widened, and he was speechless for a moment.

However, Chang Mo didn't want to waste time talking to the gray-robed young man. With a cold face, he raised his hand and the flying sword on his waist shot straight towards the gray-robed young man.

Now that he is a cultivator in the middle stage of refining essence into qi, he no longer needs to rely on martial artists' methods to kill people as he did before.

The flying sword almost left an afterimage in the air.

The gray-robed young man's face changed drastically, and he quickly said loudly:
"Wait a minute, fellow Daoist! It's a misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding..."

Before the word "meeting" landed on the ground, the flying sword came rushing towards him without any pause and slashed through the neck of the gray-robed young man.

"puff!"

Blood spurted out, the gray-robed young man's eyes suddenly widened, and then he fell to the ground with a bang.

Looking at the body of the gray-robed young man, Chang Mo had no expression on his face, without the slightest sympathy.

He would not feel the slightest psychological burden when killing a robbery cultivator like the young man in gray robe, just like the killers sent by the Deng family.

Speaking of the Deng family's killer, Chang Mo felt a little relieved.

Judging from the peace of the past few days, he had finally escaped the Deng family's pursuit.

But just when Chang Mo relaxed his vigilance——

"careful!"

suddenly!

Chang Mo only heard the ancestor's loud roar in his mind.

Then, his heart was suddenly touched.

"That is……"

Looking up at the sky, all he saw was pure white. A ray of extreme light came from afar, overshadowing the rising sun and locking onto him like a divine arrow.

"Mirror of Ten Thousand Beasts!"

The sense of crisis in his heart exploded, his soul was agitated, and without thinking, Chang Mo directly summoned the Mirror of Ten Thousand Beasts.

It was at this moment that the ultimate light descended, and the grass, trees, living creatures, soil, rocks, streams, all things were melting, and the entire world was covered in white.

The entire shadow of the surrounding mountains and forests became blurred, and it was not until this moment that the true face of the bright white light was revealed. It was actually a pure white arrow.

"do you died?"

The light spots gathered together, and Deng Guangkun's figure appeared quietly.

Since Lingxufang, he has been following Chang Mo quietly.

Chang Mo had had a romantic encounter with Yunniang, and had long since informed Yunniang of information about his ancestors.

Knowing where Chang Mo's parents' bodies were buried, and then digging out his parents' bodies, in the cultivation world, it is extremely easy to locate a person through the bodies of blood relatives.

Not to mention that these blood relatives are your biological parents.

As for why there were no assassins from the Deng family chasing after them, it was naturally because Deng Guangkun gave the order in secret.

Since it is already known that Chang Mo is the descendant of the elder of the Demon Refining Sect, and now that Chang Mo suddenly entered the other world, Deng Guangkun speculated that he must be preparing to open the secret library of the Demon Refining Sect.

Therefore, Deng Guangkun was not in a hurry to kill Chang Mo. He planned to follow Chang Mo secretly and wait until he opened the secret library of the Demon Refining Sect before killing him.

He just didn't expect that a stupid robber would disrupt his plan.

He was worried that the appearance of Jie Xiu would make Chang Mo give up his plan to open the secret library of the Demon Refining Sect.

He couldn't follow Chang Mo for the rest of his life, and he didn't have the time.

Since tracking him fails, the best thing to do is to kill him.

As long as he got the key to the Demon Refining Sect's secret vault, Deng Guangkun believed that it would not be difficult to deduce the location of the Demon Refining Sect's secret vault.

That's why the sneak attack just now happened.

But did this blow kill Chang Mo?

Deng Guangkun felt a little unsure.

Even if he was a Jindan cultivator in the late stage of Refining Qi into Spirit, it shouldn't have been possible for an accident to occur if he launched a sneak attack on a junior who was only in the middle stage of Refining Essence into Qi.

But at the moment when Deng Guangkun shot the Cloud-Zao Arrow, he seemed to feel a flash of white light suddenly bursting out from Chang Mo's body.

This white light made Deng Guangkun feel inexplicably alert.

Immediately, he turned his gaze to the place where the Zaoyun Arrow exploded.

"Sure enough, he's not dead!"

There was a cold look in his eyes and through the extreme light, Deng Guangkun caught the breath of Chang Mo's life.

At the same time, with the Thousand Beasts Mirror hanging over his head, Chang Mo's eyes were full of fear as he almost died just now as he looked at the surrounding scenes.

The white light that came from a very far distance burst out with terrifying power, and the entire forest melted away and disappeared directly between heaven and earth.

If the ancestor had not reminded him at the critical moment, sacrificed the Mirror of Ten Thousand Beasts, and summoned the Shadow of the Rotating Turtle, he would have really disappeared along with the forest.

“Refine Qi and Transform into Spirit! This is definitely a Jindan cultivator who refines Qi and transforms into Spirit!”

His heart was agitated and he could hardly control himself, and a silent roar came out of Chang Mo's heart.

It was at this moment that a cold voice sounded quietly in his ears.

"He's not dead?"

Deng Guangkun glanced at Chang Mo, then looked at the Ten Thousand Beasts Mirror floating above Chang Mo's head. A hint of imperceptible greed flashed in the depths of his eyes:

"The key to the Demon Refining Sect's secret vault is indeed in your possession!"

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(End of this chapter)