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Chapter 5

Elder Xu was seriously injured.

Obviously less than a quarter of an hour ago, he was still in the upper hand, seeing that the figure in red was about to be wiped out, but the opponent's strength suddenly increased, and he broke free from his spell all at once.

Old Xu was unprepared, Yin Qi invaded his internal organs, and his body was pierced by thorns and vines manipulated by the red clothes. Scarlet blood and internal organ fragments gushed out from it, which was very shocking.

Red Clothes approached him while attacking, those already ferocious wounds were like catalyzed fruits, and the severe pain turned into tides washing away the sea of ​​consciousness, making him let out an unbearable growl.

"……hateful!"

Ever since he was promoted to the third level, Mr. Xu hadn't fallen into such a miserable situation for a long time.

It's not that he doesn't have a magic weapon to save his life, but this is no different from running away, his self-esteem is unacceptable, and even if he escapes smoothly, there is no guarantee that it will not be accompanied by subsequent troubles.

Of course, he still has powerful moves that he hasn't used yet, but the problem is that his current physical condition is so bad, it is completely unknown how much power he can exert, and he may not be able to beat the opponent.

Just when he was hesitating, Zhong Weiwan suddenly appeared here.

Elder Xu has always been proud and wanted face very much. Now that there is a third person present, he naturally can't do things like run away, but his mood will inevitably be even worse.

"What are you making trouble for!?" He yelled, his blood-stained beard shaking violently on his heaving chest, "Get out of here!!!"

Zhong Weiwan didn't respond, nor did he look at Elder Xu, he carefully scrutinized the facial features of the man in red, and opened his mouth after a while, "Liu Feng?"

The man in red didn't have any special reaction, he still stared straight at Zhong Weiwan, his lifeless eyes showed fear, but he didn't disappear like he did when he was in the sky.

Continuing to eat for many days has made him stronger than ever before, and he can even seriously injure a monk in the third level.

The vines around his side were ready to move, just waiting for an order, they would roll towards Zhong Weiwan with lightning speed.

At this moment, You Lin was extremely silent.

Not only is there no sound of birds and beasts, even the sound of the wind passing through the treetops is inaudible, as if the air is stagnant, only some invisible tension and coldness are gradually spreading, and there is only an opportunity to break the stalemate.

Realizing that this was an opportunity, Elder Xu hurriedly took the pill to restore his spiritual power, but his eyes were still focused on the confrontation scene not far away.

Soon, he discovered something unbelievable - the faint spiritual power emanating from Zhong Weiwan's body, though not surging, was orderly, which seemed to indicate that he had entered the first stage!

But how is this possible?

A few days ago, this kid was an ordinary person through and through!

No matter how talented he is, if he wants to be promoted from zero cultivation to the first level, he needs to go through at least several months of meditation practice to build the internal and external aura circulation... Could it be that he deliberately hides his cultivation? ?

It seems that only such an explanation is reasonable, Xu Lao made a judgment in his heart, and the eyes he looked at Zhong Weiwan suddenly became strange.

Those magic weapons for camouflaging realms are not cheap cheap goods on the street, and the cost will only be higher if they can pretend to be so watertight.

Could it be that this kid is a disciple of some famous sect who went down the mountain to practice?

Zhong Weiwan didn't care about Elder Xu's staring gaze, nor did he know what was going on in his heart, otherwise he might have explained to him solemnly that he had indeed just broken through two quarters of an hour ago.

Now Zhong Weiwan focused all his attention on the man in red, seeing that he was silent, he frowned: "Aren't you Liu Feng?"

The man in red remained silent.

Zhong Weiwan didn't ask any more questions, his white jade-like right hand was hanging by his side, his slender five fingers were slightly caged, and there was a gathering of spiritual energy at the fingertips.

With his current state, it might not be so easy to directly pry the man in red's mouth open.However, this body has a high affinity with the aura of heaven and earth, so it should be possible to use this to form an invisible formation, and bind the opponent here first...

Zhong Weiwan looked calm.

As long as he catches it, there is always a way to ask him what he wants to know.

The man in red on the opposite side seemed to have sensed something too. The vines condensed with Yin Qi paused first, and then shot up into the sky, densely intertwined and entwined, turning into huge waves that overwhelmed mountains and seas.

At this critical moment, a silver sword light suddenly descended from the sky, accompanied by a resounding sword chant, stabbing at the man in red with lightning speed, nailing him to the ground.

The man in red let out a painful roar, his delicate facial features became ferocious and fierce, and his eyes were full of resentment.

Controlled by his mind, the vines frantically flocked towards the direction where the sword light appeared, but suddenly collapsed in mid-air, falling downward like soft rotten sludge, stirring up a filthy haze of dust on the ground.

Because the second sword light fell on the man in red right behind, then the third, and the fourth...

He stopped moving very quickly, and now there was nothing but empty silence in the pupils that were originally emotional.

Several young men in blue gowns came with swords, both men and women, with tension and anticipation in their eyes.

The leader stepped forward to check, and shook his head after a while: "Run away."

When the others heard the words, their faces collapsed by coincidence, and they wailed in distress, as if they were very shocked.

"By heaven, how many is this?"

"Let's say there are ten!"

"Obviously the action is already very fast... Is it really possible for us to catch that guy?"

"Senior Sister, if you don't look carefully, you should leave some clues in such a hasty withdrawal of consciousness..."

"It was broken very cleanly." The female Jianxiu called Senior Sister paused, turned her eyes slightly, and looked at Zhong Weiwan and Elder Xu who were not far away, "But they might know something."

*****

Not only Mr. Xu, but also Zhong Weiwan were very surprised by the changes before him.

His realm is too low now, and he didn't notice the arrival of these people in advance.

The young sword cultivators discussed a few words around the man in red, and then several people came out and walked towards them.

The woman walking in the front combed a neat high ponytail, and under her smooth forehead was a pair of red phoenix eyes like stars.She is holding a white long sword, which looks ordinary, but it contains the meaning of killing, which makes people think of the first sword light that just broke through the sky.

Zhong Weiwan didn't know much about the classification of sword cultivators, but he could vaguely guess from the opponent's aura that this should be a cultivator above the fourth level.

The young woman stopped five steps away, bowed to them and saluted: "You two Taoists are friendly."

Old Xu's pride made him stand up staggeringly from the ground with his tattered body, but after all, they are both practitioners, and the other party may be of a higher level, so his tone of voice was much more relaxed than before, and he even thanked him .

Mei Xizhou: "Fellow Daoist, you are welcome. We have been tracking this thing all the way, and I would like to thank you two for distracting it."

Elder Xu raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you all know what it is."

Mei Xizhou nodded and said, "It's a kind of mountain charm."

"Impossible!" Elder Xu blurted out, "I've seen Shan Mei, and it's not like this at all, let alone stealing spiritual power from practitioners!"

"It's a little different. Because it was fused with a human soul and was contaminated with devilish energy, a very rare mutation occurred."

Mei Xizhou glanced at the man in red and explained, "It has become able to drive the shadow to look for food outside, and it is not the way ordinary mountain charms devour flesh and blood, but it can leave a mark on the prey, forming a long-term stable transport, continuous Absorb the opponent's Yuanshou."

Elder Xu's face was a little ugly.

According to this person, what he lost was not only part of his recoverable spiritual power, but also his life span that he could no longer extend?

"...Then is this mountain charm dead or alive?"

When he asked this question, Mr. Xu already had a faint premonition in his heart, and as expected, Mei Xizhou sighed: "Our speed is still not fast enough, he seemed to come to this shadow with his consciousness just now, but we couldn't keep it Hold him."

Elder Xu's face became even uglier.

He naturally still remembered the brand mark on his body, although there was only a very shallow one, which seemed to be caused by being implicated, but it was like a gangrene, and he was still unable to expel it from the body.

After thinking for a while, he poured the last bottle of elixir into his mouth, his complexion became much rosier to the naked eye, although his gray beard was still stained with blood, at least the wound on his body did not continue to ooze scarlet liquid.

"Is there any way to find the true body of Shan Mei? I'll go with you!" He didn't want to die so quickly, and he couldn't feel at ease if he didn't get rid of this hidden danger for a day.

Before Mei Xizhou could say anything, another chubby young Jianxiu couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "If there was a way, we would have gone straight to the door to collect it, why should we wait for you! ?”

His attitude was not very polite. After all, they were both in the third level, but Mr. Xu was already showing an old face. Obviously, his talent was limited, which gave the young man a subconscious sense of superiority.

Apart from that, it was more due to the resentment accumulated in my heart because I was traveling around these days and failed repeatedly.

Old Xu was furious: "You!!!"

The boy raised his chin: "What's wrong with me? I'm not wrong..."

"Junior Brother." Mei Xizhou shouted.

The young sword cultivator's expression froze and he stopped talking.

Just when the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Zhong Weiwan, who had been silent since the beginning, suddenly spoke.

"Is that a mountain charm?" he asked.

Everyone: "..."

There was an eerie silence in the air.

Everyone, look at me and I look at you, thinking that this distraction is too outrageous, aren't they talking about the mountain charm from the beginning to the end?

Seeing that no one answered him, Zhong Weiwan said again: "He looks somewhat similar to someone I know."

Mei Xizhou came back to his senses, instantly understood his doubts, and said: "The image of this mountain charm should be transformed from the human soul he fused."

Zhong Weiwan let out an oh sound, thoughtfully.

Mei Xizhou couldn't help but look at him more.

The appearance is very stunning, and the realm is pitifully poor, but he was able to face the mountain charm at the first stage of the realm, but he was not injured. He probably has other extraordinary abilities, or hides his cultivation.

"Senior Sister, what should we do next?" Someone asked Mei Xizhou, "The compass shows that there are no suspected energy fluctuations within a radius of fifty miles."

Mei Xi Zhou Liu frowned, this is indeed a little troublesome.

"Let's find someone to inquire first..."

"Are you going to find the body of Shan Mei?"

The two spoke at the same time, and closed their voices at the same time.

With four eyes facing each other, Zhong Weiwan asked the question seriously, with the same expression, but Mei Xizhou's expression was a little weird.

This fellow daoist... why did she feel that she was half-timing?

The chubby boy next to him couldn't help but said again: "Is there any need to ask!? Didn't the senior sister say it earlier, we have been chasing that guy all the way! It's just that that guy is as cowardly as a mouse, and he hides his body very deeply. Know where it's hiding..."

"I know."

"If you can't help, then shut up..." The young man's voice paused, his eyes uncertain, "...what did you say?"

Zhong Weiwan: "I should know where the mountain charm is."

Before the words fell, everyone's eyes fell on him.

Mei Xizhou's eyes brightened slightly: "Fellow Daoist, do you have a clue?"

Zhong Weiwan corrected: "Cabled."

Mei Xizhou froze for a moment, but didn't understand.

No one at the scene understood it, only Mr. Xu remembered that not long ago he clearly set off first, but Zhong Weiwan quickly followed. Could it be that it was not a coincidence?

*****

Only Zhong Weiwan could see the flowing black lines in the sky.

After being taken to the sky by the Meixi boat, looking at the earth from a bird's-eye view, the direction of the lines becomes more and more clear, like a complicated and dense spider web, all of which converge in one place in the end.

Half an hour later, everyone landed outside a certain cave.

Numerous vines condensed with yin energy hang down from the ceiling of the cave, presenting a hostile posture to the uninvited guests.

Mei Xizhou split the road with a sword.

Yin Qi turned into countless fragments and fell one after another, and there was a strange beauty in an instant.

The man in red in the cave had nowhere to escape, he was frightened and angry, and a sharp and long whistle erupted from his throat, wanting to fight them to the death.

Compared with the previous shadow incarnation, his body is more solid, with countless blue veins protruding and surging from under the pale skin, like a long worm about to burst out of the ground.

Almost at the same time, those black lines connecting in all directions returned to his side, faintly transforming into a bloated and distorted body with jointed limbs, filling the entire cave space, bringing an extremely strange and powerful sense of oppression.

The faces of all the sword cultivators showed solemn expressions, and they all clenched the long swords in their hands, and their dao hearts were running at high speed.

The chubby boy stood beside Zhong Weiwan.

At first, he was skeptical of Zhong Weiwan's words, and even wondered if this person had ulterior motives - such as wanting to rub his senior sister's flying sword - so his face was very ugly.

But after coming to this cave and seeing Shan Mei's body with his own eyes, his attitude finally changed.

Being able to find the target they couldn't find after all their hard work so easily, the young sword cultivator had to admit that he felt a little admiration in his heart.

"Are you really just the first level?"

"Ah."

The young man was even more amazed, but it was not a good time to gossip, he took a deep breath, and then exhaled slowly, letting the spiritual power flow throughout his body, maintaining the best state of sword drawing.

"Your cultivation base is not enough, remember to follow me closely later."

"..."

"Don't worry, you help us find the mountain charm, and I will definitely protect you."

"..."

He didn't get an answer, the young man turned his head to look suspiciously, only to see that Zhong Weiwan had retreated a hundred feet away at some point, and half of his body was protruding between the towering rock mass.

Sensing his gaze, Zhong Weiwan thought for a while, bowed his hands politely, parted his thin lips slightly, and said four words——

Fellow Daoists, come on.

Young Sword Cultivator: "..."