After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 1042 Severely Injures Xiao Ling, Intercepts and Kills Cang Gou!

The idea is indeed feasible.

But Chen Yang was not about to sit idly by and wait for his doom.

"Buzz!"

Just then, the space trembled, and a large, illusory seal appeared in front of the Dharma image.

Mountain Lord's Seal.

"boom!"

The phantom of the Mountain Lord's Seal suddenly fell.

It wasn't smashed elsewhere, but rather at the Mountain-Suppressing Sword.

With a loud bang, the Mountain Lord Seal, carrying immense power, slammed into the hilt of the Mountain-Suppressing Sword.

Faxiang held the Mountain-Suppressing Sword, its tip pressed against the array's light barrier, and they were locked in a stalemate.

The Mountain Lord Seal struck like a giant hammer.

The terrifying pressure pushed the Mountain-Suppressing Sword downwards.

"boom!"

The array's light barrier could no longer withstand such immense force; with a flash of intense light, it exploded instantly.

The Mountain-Suppressing Sword pierced straight through the formation and plunged into the ground.

"what?"

This scene caught Xiao Ling completely off guard.

The Eight Gates Demon-Suppressing Formation was actually broken by force.

Was that the Mountain Lord's Seal just now?

How could this junior have such a thing?

"Rumble..."

The shockwave from the explosion of the formation quickly dispersed everything.

Xiao Ling came to her senses, and couldn't help but feel angry again. If her original body hadn't been destroyed and her current body hadn't been so weak, how could this formation have been broken so easily?

At this point, it was too late to say anything. She immediately tried to recall Tiger Thorn and made her escape.

But the tiger thorn did not respond to her.

"boom!"

Just then, Xiao Ling sensed an inexplicable crisis.

Looking up, she saw a large, phantom seal rapidly materialize above her, its unique power locking onto her.

The next instant, the illusory image of the seal descended like a mountain crashing down.

Xiao Ling's expression changed slightly, but she did not panic. She immediately summoned her primordial spirit to slash at the sword in the air.

"Boom!"

The powerful sword light cleaved a crack in the boundless might, allowing Xiao Ling to break free of the lock and quickly escape the range of the seal's lock.

With a loud bang, the phantom of the seal crashed to the ground.

A huge crater was blasted into the ground, and the earth shook violently.

Xiao Ling flipped over in one lap and couldn't help but think to herself, "This is weird."

This kid is truly strange. Is this the kind of power a kid who has just entered the Dao Realm should have?
"call out!"

Just as the seal slammed down, a beam of red light shot towards her.

Before she could even regain her footing, Xiao Ling's heart pounded wildly. Instinctively, she tilted her head to the side, narrowly avoiding a fatal injury, but then felt a burning sensation on her neck.

The red light didn't hit her head, but it struck her neck.

She reached out and touched it, and a sharp pain shot through her body, making her shudder.

Oh no, Soul-Slaying Nails?

She had dealt with Tian Bonong before, so she knew his methods. Almost instantly, she realized what she was going through.

Enduring the excruciating pain, he looked toward the location where the formation had exploded.

The location of the explosion was still obscured by smoke and dust, making it impossible to see clearly.

"You just wait, kid..."

Xiao Ling quickly tapped her body a few times, spat out a mouthful of blood, and abandoned the tiger thorn. She turned and ran, flying towards the entrance of the Immortal Refining Cave on her sword.

……

"Where to go!"

At this time, the battle on Juechen's side will also come to an end.

Juechen struck a wandering monk on the head with his staff, driving the monk's body into the ground like a nail. Turning around, he saw Xiao Ling trying to run away, and immediately used the Dragon-Capturing Hand, a huge golden claw print grabbing directly at Xiao Ling.

"Dog brother!"

Xiao Ling was terrified and hurriedly shouted.

"call out!"

A black sword beam shot out from the cave and struck Juechen's claw mark squarely.

The claw mark paused slightly.

Taking this opportunity, Xiao Ling used her sword to disappear into the cave.

"boom!"

Juechen's claw mark crushed the black sword light, and in the next instant, it also turned into nothingness.

At this moment, another wandering master soared into the sky, wielding a sword in both hands, and slashed straight at Juechen.

The blade crackled with electricity, as if it were about to tear space apart.

"Be careful."

Chen Yang, dragging his scorched and mangled Tiger Thorn, had just emerged from the pit when he saw this scene and immediately shouted.

But this reminder is clearly unnecessary.

With a wave of his staff, Juechen conjured a huge phantom of a staff, which went directly towards the wandering monk.

"boom!"

The clash of knives and canes was deafening.

The wandering master was sent flying, crashing heavily against the mountain wall. His armor shattered, revealing his bluish-black, decaying body.

Juechen also slid back a long way, then slammed his staff into the ground to steady himself.

With his left hand reaching forward, he grabbed the wandering monk with the Dragon-Capturing Hand technique, while the golden light of the Zen staff in his right hand shone brightly as he struck it directly at the head.

There was a bang.

The world is quiet.

……

The two Dao True Realm mid-stage wandering masters were indeed powerful enough. If it were an ordinary Dao True Realm late stage cultivator, they probably wouldn't even have the courage to fight them. But unfortunately, they encountered Juechen.

This time, death is real.

"That's good, that's good."

Juechen calmed his surging blood and qi, dispelled his golden body, and chanted Buddhist mantras, instantly transforming back into a kind-faced old monk.

Chen Yang came to Juechen's side.

Dragging the Tiger Thorn in its hand, its body charred black in many places by the real fire, it was bound by Chen Yang with a red rope, barely clinging to life, and had no ability to resist.

……

"Ding, mission complete. Hunted SS-grade spirit plant [Tiger Thorn]*1. Rewards: [Super Plant Growth Inhibitor]*5, experience points +100000."

……

"Item: Super Plant Growth Inhibitor"

"Description: It can actively penetrate the roots and body of SS-grade spiritual plants, inhibiting their growth and, to some extent, restricting their cultivation. [Note: Growth essence of the same grade can neutralize the effects of the inhibitor.]"

……

Somatostatin?
This is a completely new reward; it hasn't appeared before.

Chen Yang's eyes lit up slightly.

It actively infiltrates and suppresses the growth of SS-grade spiritual plants, while also imprisoning their cultivation.

In other words, this thing is undoubtedly a nightmare for spiritual plants at the Dao True Realm.

In addition, according to the information provided by the system, the growth essence can precisely counteract the effects of somatostatin.

interesting.

With this, he now has another powerful weapon against spiritual plants at the Dao True Realm.

"Are you OK?"

Juechen's voice came from the side.

"Small idea."

Chen Yang shook his head.

Although it was indeed a little difficult, I couldn't admit it.

"Is the patriarch unharmed?" Chen Yang asked.

Juechen shook his head as well, "Both of the wandering masters are quite strong, but they lack intelligence and haven't used any spells. They rely almost entirely on brute force, so they're not worth worrying about..."

At this point, his gaze fell on the entrance of the Immortal Refining Cave ahead. "I just wonder if there are any other beings like this inside."

Chen Yang looked at the two corpses of wandering monks, which were rapidly decomposing and releasing a foul odor.

He then followed Juechen's gaze and looked towards the cave.

The three characters "Refining Immortal Cave" are very eye-catching.

"This kind of thing shouldn't be something that was made by Cang Gou, right?" Chen Yang said.

Juechen nodded slightly.

His intuition told him that the situation might be more serious than he had imagined.

That was a wandering master, who should have been a powerful figure in the mid-stage of the Dao True Realm of the Witch Cult during his lifetime. In this Nine Old Cave Secret Realm, no matter how capable Cang Gou was, where could he find two such powerful figures from the Witch Cult to refine a wandering master?
In other words, it's highly likely that these wandering masters have been here for a long time.

Before they arrived, this place was sealed off by a barrier and protected by a powerful maze array. These things didn't seem like something that Cang Gou could have done.

In other words, this Immortal Refining Cave is likely the dwelling place of a powerful senior, but it was discovered and taken over by Cang Gou.

These two wandering monks may have been left behind by the original owner of this cave.

The Immortal Refining Cave.

It sounds nice, but the place is filled with evil spirits. The "immortal" in this context might actually refer to some kind of evil creature like wandering monks or rampant soldiers.

The old man and the young man exchanged a glance, both seeing caution in each other's eyes.

If, as they suspect, this Immortal Refining Cave is indeed a place where some powerful figure once forged Wandering Warriors, then the problem is enormous. Heaven knows how many usable Wandering Warriors this powerful figure left in this cave, heaven knows how many are still usable, and heaven knows how many Cang Gou and his group can control?
Looking at the cave entrance in front of them, both of them were wary and dared not enter rashly.

Juechen made a hand seal, and a small energy crane quickly flew out and disappeared into the dark cave.

Chen Yang also summoned a swarm of bone-eating beetles, which flew in in a grand procession to scout ahead.

……

Through the perspective of the insect swarm, Chen Yang could see the entire situation inside the cave very clearly.

The cave space is not actually very large; a dark passageway winds its way through the cave, leading all the way into the depths of the mountain.

After walking about 100 meters forward, the first slightly larger cave appears.

The cave was about two or three hundred square meters in size and very damp. There were many bronze coffins standing on the ground, with the lids open haphazardly, but the inside of the coffins was empty.

Water droplets dripped from the cave ceiling, and a dense, malevolent aura, mixed with a black substance that Juechen called evil karma, permeated the cave, giving it a very eerie feel.

Inside the cave, a passageway continues deeper into the mountain.

Every hundred meters or so, there is a similar cave.

There are more or less empty bronze coffins inside, and the deeper you go, the higher the concentration of yin energy becomes.

Upon reaching the sixth cave, there was no further path ahead; the cave had reached its end.

This cave is larger, with a pool in the middle. The water in the pool is dark and eerie, with bubbles bubbling out.

Around the pool, six enormous bronze coffins stood in orderly rows. However, just like the outside, the lids of all six coffins had been opened, and they were all empty.

……

no one!

They could not find Canggou Daoren or Xiao Ling.

Chen Yang was somewhat surprised. The swarm of insects had come all the way here without encountering any forks in the road, dangers, or obstacles, and had entered without any resistance.

There was no road left here.

He saw Xiao Ling enter the cave with his own eyes, so how could there be no one there?
Could there be some hidden space?

"Buzzing..."

Chen Yang's attention fell on the pool in the middle of the cave. He saw that the surface of the water was still rippling and a string of bubbles were still rising.

He immediately spurred the swarm of insects to dive directly into the pool and quickly descend to the bottom.

……

The Yin energy in the pool is very powerful.

The pool was very deep, and the deeper one went, the more terrifying the malevolent energy in the water became.

The two leading insects were just two Spirit Realm Bone-Eating Beetles. When they descended more than 30 meters, their bodies began to give way, and many of them were frozen to death by the extreme cold.

The two Spirit Realm Bone-Eating Beetles could only dive to about forty meters before they could no longer hold on.

Chen Yang used his primordial spirit to probe underwater, but he couldn't reach the bottom at all.

Unable to hold on any longer, Chen Yang had no choice but to manipulate the bone-eating beetles to turn back, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties.

The energy crane that Juechen transformed into continued to descend, perhaps it could gain something.

……

Outside the cave, Chen Yang withdrew the swarm of insects and made no further moves, waiting for Juechen to give his final answer.

At this moment, he already had a bad feeling.

Who knows, Cang Gou and that woman might have already escaped somewhere in the cave.

After a while, the little energy crane also flew out of the cave.

Juechen's expression was serious. "There is a Yin Sha formation inside the cave that gathers Yin Sha energy. The pool is the core of the formation. There is a passage at the bottom of the pool that connects to the bottom of the White Dragon River..."

Connected to the bottom of the Bailong River?

Chen Yang frowned; there was no need to ask, the person had definitely already run away.

Thoughts moved slightly.

Chen Yang thought of something and immediately opened the map of the Bailong River's watercourse distribution.

Four huge red question marks appeared on the map of Bailong River, about four or five miles away from their current location.

This was not the case before.

The red question mark represents non-human beings in the Dao Realm.

The roving army is rampant!

Those who have already died can no longer be considered human.

This brings to mind the six large bronze coffins beside the pool in the cave.

Could these four suddenly appearing red question mark markers be one of them?

In addition, two other Dao True Realm wandering masters have been eliminated by Juechen.

Probably.

"Master, let's go!"

With that thought in mind, Chen Yang stopped thinking and flew up on a swarm of bone-eating beetles, heading towards the location marked on the map.

Although Juechen didn't know why, he didn't dare let Chen Yang take the risk alone. He took out a futon, stepped on it, and quickly caught up with Chen Yang.

……

The markings on the watercourse map are timely; the four question marks on the map are heading eastward upstream along the Bailong River.

Perhaps they wanted to use the river water as cover to conceal their presence.

That is why they are located above the water veins, and the water vein map displays their markings.

Once they leave the area covered by the water veins, it becomes very difficult to find them again.

"what have you found?"

Juechen quickly caught up with Chen Yang.

Chen Yang said, "That woman was hit by the Soul-Destroying Nail, so she shouldn't be a problem. But Cang Gou probably still has at least four Dao True Realm wandering masters under his command. Ancestor, what should we do..."

"Not afraid."

Juechen said, "No matter how many there are, I can handle them all. I've been ganged up on before. The problem is that Canggou is determined to escape. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you and me to stop him!"

……

As they spoke, the two had already caught up with the two and reached the riverbank.

The river meanders through the mountains.

The river is turbulent, with waves frequently forming.

Chen Yang checked the positions of the red question marks on the water vein map.

A string of divine beads appeared in his hand, and without saying a word, he threw it directly into the river.

"call out!"

The Divine Fiend Pearl disappeared into the water like a stray thunderbolt, quickly sinking to the bottom.

"boom!"

The ground trembled violently, and the surging river seemed to freeze for a moment.

Large swaths of white flowers surged up from the bottom of the water, and the surface of the water suddenly exploded, creating huge waves tens of meters high.

Juechen was somewhat at a loss for words, both amused and exasperated.

This little guy, without me noticing, set off firecrackers again.

Is this trick really that effective?
A huge whirlpool was blasted into the river, and the water vein energy went berserk, with terrifying impacts surging back and forth on the surrounding cliffs.

The cliffs collapsed, large chunks of rock rolled down, and large swathes of forest along the shore were destroyed.

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

Within the massive whirlpool, the water exploded, and a large group of figures broke through the surface and swept ashore.

We stood on the opposite bank, about 60 or 70 meters apart.

The young couple at the head of the group were Cang Gou and Xiao Ling.

Hundreds of figures stood guard around the two of them.

They were all wearing the same type of conical hats and armor.

Four people were closest to each other, and their auras fluctuated.

Two are at the mid-stage of the Dao True Realm, two are at the early stage of the Dao True Realm, and the rest are almost all at the Creation Realm.

The place was deathly still and shrouded in malevolent energy; it was undoubtedly filled with wandering, rampant soldiers.

This lineup is simply phenomenal.

It should be noted that back in Dawa Mountain, the mere three Creation Realm Travel Masters had already attracted several Dao True Realm experts to suppress them.

These beings are just like the Divine Fiends, capable of easily fighting beyond their level. In terms of harm, they are even greater than the Divine Fiends.

Juechen's expression was not good.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yang's single Divine Fiend Inner Core actually caused so many to explode.

The person has appeared, but what's next?
Although Juechen was confident that he could withstand any number of people with his Dharma Body Technique, he was only passively attacked and managed to hold his own against his opponents by relying on his strong defense.

If he were alone, he wouldn't be afraid of any number of people on the other side, but unfortunately, Chen Yang was also present.

The opponent only needs one Cang Gou to hold him off, while the rest of them will surround and attack Chen Yang. Can Chen Yang withstand it?
At that moment, he regretted bringing Chen Yang along.

Although Chen Yang is quite strong, participating in a battle of this level is still a bit of a stretch.

However, he remembered that Chen Yang had a powerful water monkey by his side, so the situation might not be as bad as he thought.

"Monk, can you please change your habit of being so persistent and clingy?"

At that moment, the sound of a greyhound came from the other side of the river.

He held a large black banner in his hand, exuding a sinister aura. His voice carried on the wind, like sand grinding on glass, making one's teeth ache.

"Compassion, compassion."

Juechen stood with one hand raised in front of his chest, looking compassionate and sympathetic. "Canggou, turn back before it's too late."

"Humph."

Cang Gou snorted coldly, clearly knowing Jue Chen's character and that nothing he said would make a difference. He immediately turned his gaze to Chen Yang, "Boy, you're quite something. At such a young age, to have such strength and cunning is truly rare. Wouldn't it be a pity if you just died like this?"

"Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about yourself and the person next to you. The feeling of being hit by the Soul-Slaying Nails must be unpleasant, right?" Chen Yang responded loudly.

Anyone can talk big.
Xiao Ling stood beside Cang Gou, her face as pale as a ghost.

With her strength, she could have easily suppressed the mere Soul-Slaying Nail, but unfortunately, this possessed body was too weak. If Cang Gou hadn't intervened and temporarily suppressed it for her, her cultivation would probably have been completely suppressed, and she would have had to endure extreme pain.

(End of this chapter)