Chapter 716: Battle of Escape

So fast? He Lingchuan was startled. If the one who could be called a formidable enemy by Zhu Xiuer, who had the body of a demon immortal, was left behind, he probably couldn't beat them, so he thanked it and jumped off the ground.

However, Zhu Xiuer suddenly plucked out an eyeball, and this thing turned into a jumping spider halfway, with legs four times longer than its body.

He Lingchuan rode on the jumping spider, and it jumped directly from Zhu Xiuer's body, covering a distance of twenty zhang in one go! This was much faster than He Lingchuan running on his own legs, and it was no different from riding the clouds and mist.

If it weren't for the spiritual rain sticking to its feet, it could have jumped even faster.

Zhu Xiuer helping He Lingchuan like this wasn't entirely out of kindness, but because he was on the same boat as it, and the way to escape Beijia was also in He Lingchuan's hands. Only when this kid got the divine object as soon as possible could they leave Mount Xushan.

It was worthy of being an old demon, instantly seeing through the situation.

The opponent was so powerful; if they didn't unite and help each other, there would be almost no chance of winning this operation.

Riding on the jumping spider, He Lingchuan still had time to look back, seeing Zhu Xiuer had already turned to face the way they came.

It seemed a white figure was coming, faster than a cannonball leaving the chamber.

Huh, it was actually a young girl of fourteen or fifteen, but her face was covered in frost.

That face, He Lingchuan was somewhat familiar with. Thinking carefully, hey, wasn't that the Heavenly Palace divine servant Lu Shishi?

Last time the Demon Emperor issued a decree ordering him to follow Fushan Yue to Mount Xushan, the little maid who received him was Lu Shishi. Later, when he was plotted against by the Miaozhan Heavenly God in the Chongyang Hall, it was Lu Shishi who helped him back to rest.

He knew this little girl had some cultivation, but he didn't expect her actions to be so swift, crossing thirty zhang in one step, making even him bow down.

Hmm? He Lingchuan was slightly surprised. She came alone? Was the "formidable enemy" Zhu Xiuer mentioned referring to her? Her demeanor was indeed like two different people from what he had seen before.

Lu Shishi's gaze swept over Zhu Xiuer, and then landed on He Lingchuan.

That gaze was like light and electricity, stinging his eyes as soon as they met, and he hurriedly turned his head.

What kind of cultivation was this! Could, could it be?

He Lingchuan hissed and urged the jumping spider to run even harder.

Behind him was a high-end game; he had no part in it.

At this time, the jumping spider was only one last jump away from Tianji Peak. Not to mention the massive tree body of the Questioning Tree, even the branches and leaves on the canopy were clearly visible.

Lu Shishi recognized him as the invader at a glance, and her direction folded as she rushed toward him, her speed as fast as a cannonball, but she was blocked by Zhu Xiuer, who sprayed a mouthful of spider silk at her head.

Usually, spider silk would lose its stickiness when it met water. Now that the spiritual rain was falling, it further eliminated its characteristics.

But Zhu Xiuer, as a demon immortal, truly had its own skills. The spider silk it sprayed this time was red, not only super sticky but also attached with strong acid. If Lu Shishi accidentally got stained, that pretty little face would be ruined.

Her gaze, however, remained fixed on He Lingchuan. Seeing the jumping spider jump again, she reached out and slashed diagonally in mid-air! Because National Master Qingyang summoned the spiritual rain, the sky was originally overcast with dark clouds, thunder and lightning flashing. With her gesture, a bolt of lightning suddenly pulled out from the cloud group, striking straight at He Lingchuan! The purple-red lightning was like an arrow or a halberd, large and thick.

If this really hit, wouldn't he be smashed to ashes instantly?

But He Lingchuan was in mid-air, with nowhere to dodge.

The sky above was dazzling, making his face pale.

With a "crackling" sound, the thunder struck the target, light radiating everywhere. At this moment, he was the brightest boy in Mount Xushan.

However, the Hundred-Battle Heavenly God's face froze, because although the invader was struck by the heavenly thunder, he didn't turn into coke, just shivered, and then continued doing whatever he was doing.

On the contrary, the jumping spider he was riding was blasted away, showing that the power of the thunder was still there.

Did this guy have thunder-avoiding talent or thunder-avoiding magic tools? The Hundred-Battle Heavenly God only then remembered that there was a "Thunder Pool" in the eye of the array, but it hadn't been able to do anything to this guy.

A huge figure blocked its line of sight: "Where are you looking? Your opponent is here!"

"Oh, Zhu Xiuer?" The Hundred-Battle Heavenly God mocked, "We are old acquaintances, why aren't you running this time?"

Zhu Xiuer pounced on it without a word.

The second bolt of thunder followed closely—

He Lingchuan happened to sweep past the Questioning Tree, and the lightning striking him was caught by the Questioning Tree's canopy.

Anyway, the canopy was indeed higher than his position.

Thunder snakes flowed across the tree body, but it didn't even blacken a piece of bark.

It had been baptized by the world-destroying catastrophe, and a few strikes of lightning were simply painless for this towering ancient tree.

The moment he swept under the Questioning Tree, He Lingchuan seemed to hear whispers in his ears, someone laughing, someone talking to him, and he seemed to be able to feel the other party's earnestness and teachings.

Was this the senior experts of the Dahai Sect preaching under the tree? But when he focused his attention to listen, all he heard were ten thousand leaves and a thousand sounds.

He Lingchuan had no time to think carefully and swung over with a flying rope.

The jumping spider was gone, but he released the flying rope in time, swinging perfectly on the Questioning Tree, and could leap forty zhang out of thin air! The voices under the tree disappeared immediately, but he heard the last two words clearly: "Lingshan!"

So many voices whispered, all saying the word "Lingshan" to him.

He Lingchuan jumped back to the ground.

The second landing was familiar, and he swung directly to the side of the hot spring pool.

This was the entrance where he first sneaked into the earth's core and found the Ju Ju.

He Lingchuan took out the turtle talisman of True Person Dongli and threw it into the pool.

The water level dropped rapidly, revealing the secret passage underneath.

He dived in.

The cave dwelling underneath was no different from when he last came. The roots of the Questioning Tree penetrated deep into this place, and the magma lay deep underground, neither turning nor surging.

It was just that as soon as He Lingchuan went down, the Ju Ju's true self stood up from the magma.

It was covered in wounds and pits. He Lingchuan saw it scoop up magma and press it onto its wounds.

The magma quickly turned black, and the wounds shrank rapidly.

After seizing the divine object, the Ju Ju also abandoned the Star-Plucking Pavilion battlefield and traveled straight here, two steps faster than He Lingchuan.

He Lingchuan didn't understand: "Why not hand it over outside?"

The Ju Ju looked at the red magma under its feet: "The rain outside is too annoying."

Dripping on it was like splashing sulfuric acid, it hurt to death. It didn't want to be exposed to the rain, waiting for He Lingchuan.

Of course, the most important reason, which it didn't say, was that it had to race against time to heal. Only by standing in the earth fire could it continuously obtain replenishment.

So what if that Abyss-Sinking beast could avoid fire? At most, it wouldn't be burned by fire, but it could never draw energy from the earth fire like it did to heal quickly.

The Ju Ju snorted secretly, the two sides were simply not players of the same magnitude!

"The thing you want has been brought." The Ju Ju threw something out, and it landed on the ground with a "clatter," "Our transaction is complete."

The surface of this thing was covered with crimson magma, and it quickly solidified into black rock when it met the air.

He Lingchuan wasn't afraid of being burned, picking it up quickly. He could only see its shape was round and flat, and there seemed to be a pointed top on it, indeed like a pot lid.

Wrapped in magma, the specific details couldn't be seen at all.

Most importantly, the divine bone necklace was heating up crazily, as if it wanted to burn a hole in his neck.

Seeing the Great Fang Hu so excited, the Ju Ju hadn't swapped it or taken the wrong one.

In ordinary times, He Lingchuan would definitely remove the magma bit by bit to see what the Great Fang Hu lid, which had been stained with countless lives, looked like.

But now was not a good time, he was only afraid of long nights and many dreams.

He Lingchuan held the pot lid up to his heart and patted it on the back of his hand. It looked like he was putting it into a storage ring, but it was actually taken away by the divine bone necklace.

With a "whoosh," the pot lid disappeared.

He could feel the divine bone necklace's impatience.

Once the pot lid disappeared, the divine bone necklace cooled down.

And then? He Lingchuan waited for two breaths.

The artifact was complete again, shouldn't there be some gratifying changes?

Although he had long planned that his Mount Xushan plan didn't include the changes of the Great Fang Hu, if he could get unexpected help, that would be something he couldn't ask for!

However, there was none.

The divine bone necklace was quiet, as if it had eaten its fill and fallen asleep.

He Lingchuan stared: Just this?

He had snatched the pot lid back through all kinds of hardships, and he hadn't escaped the life-threatening danger yet, and the feedback the divine bone necklace gave him was just this? It was truly chilling.

He gave it a chance, could the Great Fang Hu perform well again? The Ju Ju waited impatiently, and shook the giant bracelet on its wrist to remind him: "The contract is complete, it's time to untie the chains!"

The oath chains could only be untied after the agreement was completed, or after both parties agreed.

"No, the agreement is that we leave the Mount Xushan territory, only then will this cooperation be considered complete!" He Lingchuan didn't give the Ju Ju a chance to take advantage, "We haven't escaped the danger yet."

All his tasks in Lingxu City had been completed.

The next step was the escape.

It was not easy to escape Mount Xushan and Lingxu City alive.

The Ju Ju snorted: "Then let's go now."

"No, the Spider Immortal is still resisting the descending Heavenly God outside Tianji Peak." He Lingchuan asked it, "Do you know which great god that is?"

Zhu Xiuer helped him block the pursuers, how could he abandon the Spider Immortal and run?

"The one descending to the human world is likely the Hundred-Battle Heavenly God, I don't want to fight it!" The Ju Ju reached out to him, "Come up! I can take the Spider Immortal away, but be quick. If the Demon Emperor seals that Abyss-Sinking beast as a mountain-marsh spirit, it will also have the ability to travel through mountains."

At that time, it wouldn't be easy for them to shake off their opponents.

He Lingchuan immediately jumped into its palm.

He Lingchuan knew that the "Abyss-Sinking beast" it mentioned referred to the Abyss-Sinking beast. Its power was terrifying. If it could travel through mountains like the Ju Ju, plus a Hundred-Battle Heavenly God descending, they would be in big trouble.

Not to mention, the entire Lingxu City had been provoked by them. With the Emperor's order, who knew how many great demons and experts were rushing here.

Time waits for no one. Staying on Mount Xushan for one more breath would increase the probability of failure.

The top priority is to escape! Only by escaping can there be a follow-up.