sinovels Chapter 55: The Crimson Talisman Piercing the Darkness! [New Book, Please Vote!]
Chapter 55: The Crimson Talisman Piercing the Darkness! [New Book, Please Vote!]
Intermediate Talisman - Thousand-Pound Talisman!
The golden-backed mantis tried to dodge, but found that the talisman seemed to have eyes and could not be avoided at all. It turned a corner in the air and then stuck to the back of the golden-backed mantis with a whoosh!
hum!
As the Thousand-Pound Talisman unleashed its spiritual power, the Golden-Backed Demon Mantis instantly felt its body become incredibly heavy, making it extremely difficult to even move its forelimbs!
"Focus fire and kill it!" the one-armed cultivator roared, then wielded his high-grade magic sword in one hand and charged towards the golden-backed mantis, whose speed was restricted!
Seeing this, the other Qi Refining Peak cultivators no longer hesitated and immediately unleashed their strongest attack methods, rushing towards the Golden-backed Mantis whose body was restricted by the intermediate-level talisman!
Boom!
On the other side, facing the siege of five Qi Refining Peak cultivators from Tianque Fortress, Yunxi was in a difficult situation. Her two defensive magic weapons, the Cloud Wing Shield and the Azure Scale Shield, were already shattered and damaged.
"Giant Flame Slash!" Just as Yunxi was being forced back by Feng Yue's sneak attack and couldn't dodge in time in mid-air, a cultivator from Tianque Fortress wielding a giant flaming sword slashed down fiercely!
"Green Bee Sting!" Yunxi hastily activated her shattered Cloud Wing Shield to protect her body, and instantly threw out a sharp spike magic weapon with her other hand!
Boom!
The giant flame slash struck Yunxi directly, and the Cloud Wing Shield shattered instantly at its limit. Yunxi's body was slammed into the ground like a broken sack!
The spiked magic weapon that Yunxi threw out almost simultaneously pierced through the protective spiritual energy of the peak Qi Refining cultivator from Tianque Fortress, instantly piercing through his shoulder!
"Hiss!" The Tianque Fortress cultivator winced in pain and couldn't help but gasp. But the next moment, his expression changed slightly as he realized that the wound on his shoulder was visibly festering and turning green, his mana was solidifying over a large area, and his consciousness was beginning to be contaminated!
"Poison...it's you...insect..." In just a few breaths, the peak Qi Refining cultivator from Tianque Fortress turned pale and purplish, staggered to his knees, pointed in terror at the direction where Yunxi had fallen, stammered out a few words, then his consciousness went limp and he collapsed!
Feng Yue and the others arrived instantly. With grim faces, they examined the Tianque Fortress teammate who had died from poisoning and discovered that the poisoning symptoms were exactly the same as those of the poisonous mosquitoes in the surrounding swarm!
"As expected! The Forbidden Land Insect Plague was your doing!" Feng Yue confirmed almost instantly that Yun Xi was the instigator of the insect plague! Because the toxin carried on that spiked magic weapon was exactly the same as the toxin of the Nine Nether Poisonous Mosquito! Even more potent!
"Cough cough..." However, Yunxi, who was severely injured, did not speak. She just glanced at the Green Bee Sting containing the venom of the Level 2 Netherworld Bee, which could no longer be retrieved, and then took out an earth-yellow talisman and activated it instantly!
Intermediate Talisman: Hundred-Mile Talisman!
"Damn it! Chase her!" When Feng Yue and the others saw Yun Xi take out a Hundred-Mile Talisman and run away, a flash of anger crossed their faces. That girl from Spirit Beast Mountain was too good at running! She had too many things to save her life!
Feng Yue and the other three immediately gave chase in the direction Yunxi had fled. Meanwhile, the four non-Tianque Fortress Qi Refining Peak cultivators discovered that the Golden-backed Demon Mantis's defense was also quite astonishing. Their combined attack failed to kill the opponent instantly, and instead, one of them was killed by the Golden-backed Demon Mantis, who was left with low health.
The three remaining people looked at the mess and corpses on the ground with very solemn expressions.
"...Should we continue the pursuit?" The one-armed cultivator from the Giant Sword Sect looked at the other two.
"The poison that this cultivator from Tianque Fortress was poisoned with is the same as that of those poisonous mosquitoes..." A peak Qi Refining cultivator from Qingxu Sect glanced at the person who had died from the sting of the green bees and then said with a look of fear.
"...It feels like that's no longer something we can get involved in..." The last middle-aged man from Huadaowu looked in the direction Feng Yue and the others had left, his expression solemn.
If at the beginning they thought that with their numbers, they could simply exert pressure and obtain substantial profits from Spirit Beast Mountain at the safest possible cost.
But now, they suddenly realized that the female cultivator from Spirit Beast Mountain seemed to have an unusually large number of trump cards...
If they hadn't had some trump cards up their sleeves, a single peak-level Golden-backed Mantis would have been enough to inflict a fatal blow on them!
"The swarm is getting denser... This is a battle we can't control. We should retreat." The one-armed monk glanced at the corpse on the ground, which was crawling with mosquitoes sucking blood and was visibly shriveling up. He frowned slightly.
Finally, the three exchanged a glance and immediately headed in the opposite direction from where Yunxi had fled.
......
On the other side, under the cover of the mosquito's scent, Mengde slowly made his way towards the outer edge of the valley.
Just as Mengde was about to leave the outer valley and was less than twenty miles away from the evacuation point of the forbidden area, he suddenly looked up and saw a dark shadow fall from the sky and land directly not far from him!
"Huh? Senior Sister?" Meng De looked closely and realized that the person falling from the sky was actually his senior sister from the Spirit Beast Mountain, Yunxi!
Yunxi was now in a rather disheveled state; her beautiful clothes were covered in battle scars, and her long, flowing hair bore burn marks...
"Cough cough... Meng... Mengde?!" Covered in blood, Yunxi got up from the ground and couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of blood. Then, she regained a bit of consciousness and instantly saw the blurry figure of the masked Mengde not far away!
"Hmm...it's me." Meng De, disguised as the Mosquito Taoist and wearing a mask, had a hint of something else in his eyes. He nodded slightly and prepared to step forward to help Yunxi up.
Yunxi was too familiar with Mengde, so even without any aura, the other party subconsciously guessed his identity.
"Take this jade pendant! Cough cough... give it to Senior Sister..."
"Cough cough... From now on... you are... the only disciple of the Qingling Peak Master..." Yunxi wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, then tossed a jade pendant from her waist to Mengde and told him to leave.
Then Yunxi took out a blood-red pill from her storage bag, hesitated slightly, and swallowed it in one gulp. Her injuries began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Hide well! Go quickly!" Covered in blood, Yunxi slightly turned her head, silently glancing at the motionless, ethereal figure. After a moment of silence, she turned and walked a few steps to Mengde, reaching out to remove the Xuanwen Iron Mask from his face. Then, she turned away, leaving Mengde with a thin, broken back view. After a slight hesitation, she sighed... Yunxi put on the Xuanwen Iron Mask, leaving Mengde with a resolute profile, and said coldly:
"If there's a next time... I'll teach you magic properly." After saying that, Yunxi turned into a blur and disappeared in the direction away from the evacuation point!
"We've found her! You can't escape!" A furious shout rang out from the depths of the black sea of insects, followed by the sounds of fierce battle!
"..." Meng De, stripped of his identity as 'Mosquito Taoist,' looked down at the fox-patterned spatial jade pendant in his hand, his deep black eyes gradually losing focus...
In Mengde's unfocused pupils, he seemed to see a swarm of insects covering a radius of five miles...
He seemed to see Yunxi being besieged by three peak Qi Refining cultivators...
He seemed to see Yunxi desperately poisoning a peak Qi Refining cultivator in a near-suicidal manner...
He seemed to see one of the peak Qi Refining cultivators unleash a blood-red talisman. The talisman transformed into a beam of blood-red light, instantly piercing through Yunxi's dantian and ruthlessly destroying the girl's last chance to resist!
"So... this is the world of cultivation...?"
A bloodline rune flew across the sky...
Then everyone instinctively looked up...
The world has changed.