Chapter 542

"The eternal lamp in the Zhaixing Tower has not been extinguished for four hundred years, always bathed in divine grace, and over time, it has raised a lamp spirit." Bai Ziqi brought the lamp spirit on his fingertips close to the ground, "It is the natural nemesis of evil spirits and hates evil like an enemy." The ground immediately ignited with white flames.

The government officials standing close jumped away, but this flame had no heat and didn't burn people.

Immediately after, the lamp spirit floated away.

Wherever it passed, the ground would leave a small group of light white flames.

"It will track the evil spirit's breath and move forward," Bai Ziqi took the lead, "Let's go, this breath should be left by Cheng Yu."

The crowd followed the traces left by the white flames and walked out, indeed heading towards the back mountain. There is a cliff here, with a drop of about twenty zhang (nearly seventy meters), not high but very steep, almost at a seventy-degree angle.

The government officials all came on horseback, so they certainly couldn't jump down directly.

He Lingchuan said to them: "Go down the mountain the same way and follow as soon as possible."

The lamp spirit had already floated to the middle of the cliff, not waiting for anyone at all. Fortunately, the white flames along the way were very conspicuous, and the government officials could find their way here after going down the mountain.

Bai Ziqi and He Lingchuan didn't worry about going down the mountain at all.

Their mounts could almost go straight up and down.

The spirit deer was still cautious, while the Big-Horned Rock Sheep almost jumped all the way down, as if riding the clouds and mist.

In just three consecutive jumps, it reached the ground, faster than the lamp spirit.

You know, its landing points were all dark mountain cliff crevices, some of which looked like they couldn't be stepped on at all, but it jumped so happily.

After landing, the rock sheep proudly shook its head and kicked its hooves.

Look, look, what is called practical! It could also understand human speech, but it was unwilling to be compared to the noble and cold spirit deer.

Bai Ziqi rode the deer to the ground, and the two mounts followed the lamp spirit and ran forward.

There were footprints on the ground, and the white flames all fell into the footprints. Once it was illuminated, He Lingchuan saw the strangeness of the footprints: "Not hoof prints. They are not riding horses." The footprints were like plum blossoms, spread very wide, with claw marks at the tips, "Hmm, they are wolf footprints."

He used to be with rock wolves often, so he naturally knew what wolf footprints looked like.

Bai Ziqi said: "Cen Boqing released wolf puppets to ride, no wonder he could escape along the cliff."

Otherwise, the two of them jumped off the cliff in a panic, where would they have mounts to ride?

Looking at the direction of the footprints, they were rushing towards Waist Lake. He Lingchuan said: "If they are allowed to escape into the lake, it will be troublesome."

Water is the best barrier; the supernatural powers and spiritual sense of land creatures basically cannot penetrate the barrier of water.

Waist Lake is also very large, at least more than twenty thousand mu. If these two guys get into the water, who knows which cluster of water grass they will climb ashore from?

Obviously, the speed of Cen Boqing's wolf puppets was also very fast; Bai Ziqi and the other hadn't seen the backs of the fugitives yet.

The low mountain is not far from the lake, and they have to speed up.

Bai Ziqi took out a golden-red jade box, looking like a duck-egg powder box commonly used by girls, picked out two pinches of silver powder from it, and sprinkled it on the two mounts.

"Whoosh," He Lingchuan could feel the Big-Horned Rock Sheep clearly speeding up.

It was as if it had directly increased from sixty miles to eighty miles, with a strong sense of push.

"Good stuff! What is this?"

Bai Ziqi smiled: "Wind-Speed Technique, just a small trick."

His spell technique can make the mount or person surrounded by a clear breeze, pushing them forward, not only unloading part of the weight but also reducing the wind resistance coming from the front, which is a very practical skill for traveling.

The best point is that there are no side effects on the recipient.

Unlike the collision talent that comes with the Wind-Drilling Beast, although it can launch a charge for a short time, it is a great burden on its own physical strength.

"Saw them!"

The faint light between heaven and earth illuminated the two figures rushing forward.

Those two fugitives were indeed running on big wolves.

These so-called puppet wolves were a circle smaller than He Lingchuan's rock wolves, with large but thin skeletons, but they were more than enough to carry a person. Their eyes flickered with ghostly light, and their fur was dry and lusterless.

Strictly speaking, these were wolf corpses driven by dead souls, only they had been treated so that their bodies would not rot.

The distance between pursuit and escape was only thirty zhang.

Bai Ziqi shouted: "Cen Boqing, stop, I am the Douyun Envoy of Lingxu City!"

Cen Boqing in front turned his head when he heard the sound, and was shocked to see Bai Ziqi.

The special envoy of Lingxu City had already arrived, but he was with He Xiao! That was the Douyun Envoy, the attendant of the gods! Among those mixed in Lingxu City, who didn't know their identity, their means, and the meaning they represented!

At this moment, Cen Boqing was so terrified that his body stiffened.

This was an uncontrollable subconscious reaction, and even the puppet wolves under them slowed down.

Cheng Yu on the side was shocked: "Hey, do you want to die?"

Ahead was the lake water, and they were about to escape, but the pursuers behind were getting closer and closer; how could he not be anxious? Bai Ziqi's shout came again, full of majesty: "If you don't stop, you will be dealt with severely!"

Who knew that it would be better if he didn't say this, but once he shouted, Cen Boqing shivered, and his mind suddenly cleared.

From the moment Commandant Lu shouted and led the army to attack the Cen Mansion, he knew that Wu Bo had confessed.

But as long as Wu Bo died accidentally, relying only on a piece of testimony, Crown Prince Yue might not really be able to convict him. So he found a way to escape.

Who knew that the special envoy of Lingxu City had already arrived, and it looked like he had probably interrogated Wu Bo.

Then he was finished; he couldn't overturn the confession, and he couldn't escape the crime.

Being caught back would eventually lead to death, so Cen Boqing yelled: "Mr. Cheng, make a move!"

Actually, he didn't need to order; Cheng Yu had already acted in advance.

He didn't care about any Douyun Envoy; anyone who hindered his escape was an enemy.

The curse master threw a palm-sized cloth doll into the sky with all his might, and the latter turned into a green-turbaned warrior more than a zhang tall after leaving the ground for more than six zhang, accelerating and falling! He Lingchuan's two mounts had accelerated through the Wind-Speed Technique, and the distance of thirty zhang was covered in the blink of an eye, just under the feet of the green-turbaned warrior.

He Lingchuan watched the big foot of this guy stepping down towards his forehead, and patted the long horn of the rock sheep: "Collision!"

This sheep had been with him for a while, and wouldn't be stupid enough to think he wanted to hit the green-turbaned warrior, so it directly activated the bell hanging on its neck upon hearing the words.

Bai Ziqi only saw this person and mount turn into an afterimage, instantly crossing the fifteen-zhang distance ahead! This is the wonderful use of the bell gifted by General Ling to the rock sheep, which can borrow the talent of the Wind-Drilling Beast for a short time.

Immediately after, the green-turbaned warrior landed with a bang, smashing up a cloud of dust, and the ground trembled so much that one couldn't stand still.

It seems that its weight is not a bit lighter than He Lingchuan's Golden-Armored Bronze General.

But He Lingchuan had already gone behind it and continued to pursue the two fugitives.

The spirit deer didn't have this talent; Bai Ziqi patted its head lightly, and the big deer flicked its four hooves, as if its feet didn't touch the ground, but it flicked two zhang away in one go, its movements exceptionally elegant.

How could such a heavy and slow opponent trap the spirit deer? Without Bai Ziqi's order, the spirit deer was about to sway past it and chase forward.

Who knew that the green-turbaned warrior suddenly disintegrated, turning into a large group of black little things.

Saying they were small, that was relative to the individual of the green-turbaned warrior. In fact, each of these things was the size of a duck egg, looking like beetles, but with a majestic posture, the shell was black and shiny, the upper jaw was like a stag beetle horn and also like a pair of sharp scissors, half an inch long, and covered with fine teeth!

He Lingchuan looked back and was startled.

Isn't this a stag beetle?

With a pair of scissors on its forehead, it shows off its power to everyone. Even the naughtiest children in Heishuicheng wouldn't want to provoke this kind of thing—anyone whose finger has been cut and bled twice will learn a lesson.

The problem is that the stag beetles in Heishuicheng are only the size of peanuts, and these are upgraded and enlarged versions; with a click of the sharp scissors on the jaw, they will cut off your toes.

Looking around, there were at least more than twenty thousand of them.

The most excessive thing is that their shells are hard and not afraid of knives, guns, water, or fire, and they ignore protective energy.

It turns out that the appearance of the green-turbaned warrior was just a cover; the cloth doll was actually a worm nest. Usually, the beetle group disguised as a human figure under the control of the worm king, able to run and jump, and only revealed its true colors at the critical moment.

Bai Ziqi was even more terrifying than poking a hornet's nest; the beetle group rushed towards the prey with a swoosh, covering the sky and the earth.

He Lingchuan felt his scalp tingle, threw out a medicine bag, and accelerated to chase the fugitives in front.

That kind of medicine bag was prepared by Liu Tiao to drive away insects and ants, and the effect was excellent. He Lingchuan also prepared a few bags according to the recipe in reality, so he wouldn't be bitten when walking in the wilderness.

The medicine bag landed and accurately exploded a yellow mist in the insect swarm.

After that, he didn't care.

The famous name of the Douyun Envoy will certainly have the ability to protect himself, right? No need for him to worry too much.

The lake shore appeared ahead, but after three consecutive collisions of the rock sheep, the distance between him and the prey shrank to within twenty zhang.

He Lingchuan aimed at the big wolf under Cen Boqing, and the Floating Life Blade went straight out.

The wolf puppet was very flexible and dodged with a flash.

Of course, the Floating Life Blade made a sharp turn and flew far away, seemingly traceless.

Cen Boqing was full of panic, constantly looking back to observe Bai Ziqi's actions, but the Floating Life Blade detoured from the side and attacked very insidiously from his visual blind spot.

The seat wolf suddenly limped, lost its balance, and fell directly into the mud.

The Floating Life Blade chopped off one of its hind legs.

Only Cheng Yu was left fleeing for his life.

His face was like gold paper, and he didn't know if his injuries had recurred. At this time, he looked back at He Lingchuan and suddenly whispered: "Sink!"

The ground under the Big-Horned Rock Sheep's feet suddenly softened and turned into a mud swamp.

Looking at Cheng Yu again, the short staff in his hand was always touching the ground, silently turning the road surface that the seat wolf passed into a mud pit.

A curse master is also a spell master; at the critical moment, as long as the right supernatural power is used, even a simple spell can save a life.

No matter how much the rock sheep could jump, its hooves needed a fulcrum, and at this time it was stuck in the mud swamp and couldn't get out. He Lingchuan had no choice but to leap from the sheep's back and unfold his movement technique to chase.

But Cheng Yu was only five zhang away from the lake shore, and at the same time reached into his arms, obviously still having a backup plan.

Then it was two zhang, one zhang...

Just as he was about to leap into the lake water, a white fireball suddenly smashed down from directly in front, at least three zhang in diameter.

As soon as it exploded on the ground, it burst out with intense white light.

In the dark night, the first reaction of a normal person to a sudden burst of strong light must be to turn their head to avoid being blinded.

(End of chapter)