Chapter 2307: Free Play

Bing Qing Wan is a medicine of extreme cold nature; someone in the sect once took it by mistake and froze into an ice sculpture from inside out, taking only thirty breaths.

After the injured person swallowed the Bing Qing Wan, the fire poison subsided somewhat, but the blisters and ulcerations on the skin surface continued to spread.

What a vicious fire poison. If Elder Chu had not responded in time, this disciple would now have self-ignited from within and burned to ashes.

Elder Chu pointed a finger, and a fire ape phantom leapt over, opening its mouth to suck fiercely at the wound.

At this moment, another market lane appeared ahead, houses packed closely together, all kinds of shops and gatehouses, all lit with lamps.

But there was no one, not a single person.

"There was no such market lane when we came. Elder, I think we took a wrong turn."

"Wrong about what?" Elder Chu said angrily, "It's not us who are wrong, it's this ghostly place. It wants to confuse our direction!"

If they could fly over, they would have already met up with Sect Leader Yuan. But after entering Weian City, everyone's bodies felt extremely heavy, and flight and levitation divine abilities seemed hard to use. Elder Chu knew that some ancient relics have different laws from the present world, and those who cannot adapt soon face mortal danger. But does this small world also count as a relic?

Of course, he did not realize that many large cities in reality also like to use elemental power to enforce flight bans, and those born without wings simply cannot fly.

Elder Chu pointed at the market lane, and several fire ape phantoms charged forward again, determined not to stop until they burned these paper houses flat.

However, a figure slashed out from the market lane, biting fiercely at the neck of the smallest fire ape, then immediately shaking its head wildly, directly flinging the fire ape into a shower of sparks.

It was the lizard that had injured someone earlier.

It then opened its mouth and inhaled, sucking all the flames in the market lane into its belly in one breath.

Then it belched, spewing out a mouthful of black smoke.

"Indeed, it is a fire-natured demon immortal!"

Elder Chu was furious, about to command the other fire apes to surround and attack this giant lizard, but the other sect members' phantoms also surged forward, yet it burrowed underground again and vanished.

In this mirror world, the demons of Cangyan come and go with utmost ease.

No time to quarrel with it, Elder Chu made a hand seal, and the remaining fire apes gathered together, instantly forming a large block. This fire ape stood over three zhang tall, pulled out two whips from behind, and began to sweep through the market lane.

This vast market lane surely hides countless killing traps, so Elder Chu let the fire ape clear the way.

The whip bore Xiong Xiong's blazing flames; wherever it passed, buildings turned into scorched smoke.

However, after the fire ape swung the whip a few times, the flames disappeared.

The fire lizard was causing trouble again; it also had another name, the Fire-Eating Lizard. Liu Qingdao assigned it specifically to counter Elder Chu's fire phantoms, especially effective against them. Whip fire is also a manifestation of phantom power; the more the fire lizard eats, the weaker the phantoms naturally become.

As long as the whip is not attached to flames, the collapsed buildings emit red light and can recover within a few breaths.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror is still faithfully doing its duty.

Elder Chu became enraged.

Could the controller of this secret realm really think that paper houses could block his path?

Elder Chu pointed at the giant fire ape and said to everyone: "All get on."

Behind him were just six people; hearing this, they all leapt onto the giant fire ape's shoulders and sat down. Though the creature's surface temperature was extremely high, under Elder Chu's control, it caused no harm to his disciples.

As soon as everyone sat down, the fire ape leapt forward.

Although this small secret realm cannot allow flight, the ape's leaping ability is unquestionable; one leap spans over forty zhang.

It leapt to a height of ten zhang, and only then could everyone see the road ahead clearly, and they all jumped in fright.

What road ahead? Only dense trees and buildings! If they tried to push forward on the ground, they could not get out of this residential area.

As for the Red Tower, it remained far away.

Weian City is not like this at all; is this ghostly place an illusion, capable of freely changing its layout?

In fact, the mirror has already deviated from Weian City's replica blueprint and begun to act freely. After all, the master gave it only one task:

To the utmost of its ability, cause trouble for the Qixia Sect.

But the fire ape's leaping ability is excellent; after a few more bounces, it would not have time to shift positions and reshape the scene. After all, most of its energy is focused on fighting those seven big demolition golden giants, so it inevitably neglects one thing while attending to another.

"Come help!" it could only cry urgently, "Just me alone, how can I stop this Chu-surname person?"

In the blink of an eye, it forgot there was still a fire lizard here, which angrily spat out a mouthful of fire.

However, as soon as the mirror's words fell, a handful of golden threads shot from the ground, exploding in midair into a large net. The fire ape had just leapt up, midair, and at that moment grabbed the whip and swept outward, catching a large tree, preparing to pull itself free.

But then another net shot out from below, upper and lower nets closing together, perfectly smacking it in the face.

A tremendous force dragged both the fire ape and the Qixia Sect people down to the ground.

The fire ape could have turned into flowing flame and slipped through the net's mesh, but the master and disciples were inside the net, and the mesh was especially fine. If it left on its own, would the Qixia Sect people not be captured helplessly?

So after landing, it let out an angry roar, grabbed the net with both hands, and pushed outward hard, trying to tear it apart.

The others also drew their weapons, hoping to cut the net's mesh.

But this net was never afraid of being torn; the fire ape pulled twice and could not move it, becoming even more enraged, flames blazing all over its body, its color shifting from dark red to pale white, faintly glowing with a hint of gold light.

The heat radiating from its body scorched the buildings within ten zhang around it.

Yet this net itself glowed with red light, and under the blazing flames it remained unharmed, only suddenly tightening.

From behind the red house more than ten zhang away, the culprit slowly stepped out.

It was a huge spider, standing over one zhang tall, its body red and black, unsure whether red base with black patterns or black base with red patterns, but the colors were extremely vivid.

Two Qixia Sect members from the net's mesh shot out magical weapons, blades and arrows flying together, reaching just before the spider and turning into dozens of points of cold light, all striking it in unison.

Elder Chu saw this and loudly cursed: "Fool, what are you doing scattering your strength?"

This spider's shell looks hard at a glance; the disciples should have concentrated their force to attack its strong point and try to break through, but instead they scattered their limited strength into dozens of strands, so each strand striking the spider's body felt like scratching an itch.

Stupid, truly stupid, is this really the disciple he taught?

Seeing the ground-dwelling spider queen so content, one knows it does not care about this attack, and kindly reminds everyone:

"My spider web fears no fire; the hotter your fire burns, the tighter it constricts."

Zhu Xiuer spoke no lie; under the fire ape's scorching, the net had already contracted until everyone's faces bore its imprint.

If this continues, they will surely be strangled to death.

"What big talk!" Elder Chu sneered, "You haven't even reached demon immortal level!"