Chapter 85

Grotto-Rhino Candle Illumination

"Senior Brother Wang, those two have discovered us."

Before entering the city, everyone had already sensed something wrong. A yellow-haired cultivator transmitted his voice, "Should we retreat temporarily? Wait until they integrate into this place before making a move?"

"No need to be so careful, right?" Beside Senior Brother Wang, a female cultivator interjected, "These two women are clearly fresh out of the nest. In a place like the Hengze Heaven, they were so lenient, letting those Ping family brothers go and even giving them a few spiritual jades. Acting like this, they must be from the Sheng Sect, with very little experience in training. We have six against four, the odds of winning shouldn't be low."

To speed up the integration into the Hengze Heaven, there are pills to take. To slow down the speed of integration into the Hengze Heaven, it is simple, just try to slow down the absorption of local spiritual energy. Everyone's spiritual energy at this time came from spiritual jade, and the consumption was also very large. Senior Brother Wang thought for a moment and said decisively, "Wealth is sought in danger, Junior Sister Zhang, set up the formation."

Junior Sister Zhang pouted, but obediently took out the formation disk, distributed the formation flags to everyone, and said, "Old rules, eight-sided flags, be careful."

Everyone took the formation flags and also released concealment techniques or magic tools, covering their auras very vaguely, and their figures were only a trace of shadow. They lurked toward different directions outside the city. Because they hadn't integrated into the Hengze Heaven, at this time, they were like living in two different worlds from the shadow residents. Even if they set up a formation, it would not have any impact on this city, only trapping the cultivators belonging to the Langhuan Zhou Tian inside.

Junior Sister Zhang took two command flags and walked with Senior Brother Wang. This group of people was very experienced, divided into three groups, all walking in pairs, so they could take care of each other, and if something happened, they could hold on until their companions came to help. At this time, they were also highly vigilant, and any slight change in the energy field could not escape her Jade Pool reflection. It was only a few cups of tea, and they found the Gen position, and there was still no change around them.

She threw out the formation flag. The formation flag entered the soil, but no spiritual light lit up. Junior Sister Zhang gave an "eh" and walked forward. I don't know how, but she felt a chill in her abdomen. When she looked down, she saw a long sword had been buried in her lower abdomen at some point, as if she had walked to the edge of the long sword herself.

She couldn't believe it, slowly raised her head, and met a pair of smiling eyes. A handsome young man smiled slightly at her, stirred the sword edge, and Junior Sister Zhang's Dao foundation shattered into pieces. Her inner landscape opened above her head, and the five-real-one-virtual Dao foundation dissipated. The scenes of her life drifted out, but she didn't even say a word until she died, and didn't even have time to think of a complete thought.

Ruan Ci pulled out the Cold Frost Sword and turned to look at Senior Brother Wang. Senior Brother Wang was bound by a green jade ring. This jade ring bound him from head to toe, with only his eyes exposed. The ring was of uniform size, showing that the bones inside had been crushed, becoming a human stick. At this time, although his consciousness was clear, he had no ambition left, looking at Ruan Ci with infinite pleading in his eyes. Ruan Ci said, "Ah, you are begging me to give you a quick death."

She was not a cruel person by nature. Since the other party had made such a plea, she casually granted Wang Pan's wish, temporarily leaving the two corpses behind. After putting away her magic treasures and once again activating the Destiny Cloud Seed to conceal her aura, she darted to another location. Those two cultivators still stood there blankly, though the expressions on their faces shifted, and their hands performed various motions as if they were laying out formation flags within an illusion. Ruan Ci watched from the side for a while until confusion appeared on their faces; only then did she fly out the Frost Sword and kill them with a single strike. She pulled a candle from her bosom, blew it out with a 'puff', and sighed, "It is indeed a magic treasure of the Mo Sect; it is truly easy to use."

"Where did you get this good thing?" A streak of light drifted from afar. Qin Fengyu landed on the ground, threw the Qiankun bag down, and poured out four corpses, and also threw out the Qiankun bags of these dead people. "So it was refined by the Demon Sect, no wonder it reveals a trace of evil."

Ruan Ci didn't guard against her too much, threw the candle to Qin Fengyu, and said, "This was given to me by a friend I met outside. I just got it not long ago, and I don't know its power. This candle doesn't have a name yet, and he told me to name it myself."

Thinking of Qu Qu Tan Yue, she couldn't help but reveal a smile. Qin Fengyu saw it in her eyes but didn't ask more, curiously played with the candle, then returned it to Ruan Ci, laughing, "What name do you plan to give it? Your friend is really good to you. If the magic tool originally has no name, giving it a name by the owner will make the connection between the two sides much closer. This magic tool must have been specially sought by him to give to you."

Qu Qu Tan Yue gave Ruan Ci three treasures at the time, and it was not convenient to test them at the Baoyun Ferry. This time, encountering an attack, because there was a certain amount of time to prepare, she had the intention to test it. The result was very unexpected. This candle was lit with a thought, and the smoke was urged by spiritual sense. As long as the spiritual sense could cover it, the smoke could spread. Those six people were actually unknowingly caught in the trick. From the moment they decided to separate and set up the formation, they had already walked into the illusion arranged by Ruan Ci. Even without Qin Fengyu, Ruan Ci could have killed the six of them one by one without any damage to herself.

"If that Zhou Zhi Mo had such a candle, we would have encountered trouble long ago..." She couldn't help but think of Zhou Zhi Mo in her heart, but upon reflection, she couldn't say that. "However, it is not easy for an illusion to confuse many people. It not only needs to arrange the city, but also needs to make feedback according to the actions of those people. With my spiritual sense and Jade Pool, it feels a bit strenuous to confuse six people. When the formation flag entered the soil, I failed to capture the woman's heart and produce a reaction that would convince her. Even if Zhou Zhi Mo had such a treasure, he probably wouldn't take it out to use. Moreover, he deliberately killed people slowly, also to plant magic seeds in everyone's heart, which is completely another kind of profound skill."

"This treasure is indeed very suitable for me to use." She didn't be humble either, admitting it generously. "I have the Heavenly Fate Cloud Seed to protect my body. In this Hengze Heaven, no one can see through it when I cover my aura, and my spiritual sense is stronger than others, so I can just exert the role of this treasure."

She stroked the candle affectionately, channeled her spiritual sense into it, and checked the wear and tear. She said, "Considering how handy you are, I shall give you a proper name. Let's call you the Grotto-Rhino Candle. Grotto-Rhino Candle Illumination—this meaning is quite good."

Qin Fengyu said, "Do you give names to any magic tools at will?"

While the two were talking, Ruan Ci had already taken the corpses of Senior Brother Wang and Junior Sister Zhang. Senior Brother Wang's strange death also attracted Qin Fengyu's attention. Ruan Ci took out the jade ring and laughed, "I asked Panpan to let me try this. Originally I wanted to call it the Da Pan Ring, but Panpan didn't agree, so I changed it to the Yang Pan Ring."

This jade ring could protect the body and trap the enemy. Calling it Yang is also appropriate, but Qin Fengyu was still a bit shocked, and for Wang Panpan and the Yang Pan Ring, she said, "How can it be so childish? This magic tool will definitely not listen to you very much in the future."

While speaking, she poured out all the Qiankun bags and said to Ruan Ci, "You contributed more this time, saving a lot of effort, you take seven and I take three."

In truth, given her cultivation base, even if Ruan Ci did not make a move, it would only be a matter of time before Qin Fengyu killed these eight cultivators alone; the Grotto-Rhino Candle merely saved the two of them some effort. Ruan Ci was not polite either; she took seventy percent of the spiritual jades and put them away. As for the magic treasures, neither of them found anything they liked, so Qin Fengyu wiped away the spiritual sense within them, and the two divided them casually, waiting to sell them to a merchant firm after they got out. Qin Fengyu then taught Ruan Ci some small tricks for refining others' magic treasures and laughed, "These are things one must learn for robbing houses and plundering. You had best learn a few more escape techniques. Your aura is concealed by the Destiny Cloud Seed, so it is enough for now not to learn methods of hiding tracks, but I just saw you using escape light to chase people; it is a bit conspicuous during a struggle."

Cultivator escape, if it is a long-distance journey, like in the Huangshou Mountain, most of them are transformed into light, looking like light spots of different sizes from a distance, with escape smoke behind them. But there are also some strange escape techniques. Qin Fengyu knows a strange escape technique, called shadow escape. The escape light can be attached to the shadow, and can even walk with someone's shadow. In the same realm, no one can see through it. Ruan Ci said, "This escape technique looks like what an assassin learns, it doesn't seem to fit your temperament."

Qin Fengyu laughed, "Actually, I have another hidden identity, which is the most powerful assassin in the world, but because assassins can't talk casually, I washed my hands of it."

She couldn't help but make a few jokes, then covered her mouth to show her heartache for using the quota, and returned to the business. "These six people should be Ping Sect disciples near the Qingling Sect. The two I killed, one was perfect at the seventh layer, and one was six and a half layers full at the seventh layer, both were just that one step away. They came here to do some business. As long as they can kill a few Sheng Sect disciples, and can find some good things from this Hengze Heaven, the resources obtained are enough for them to form a core."

Ruan Ci said, "Those two little cultivators should also be very familiar with them. They saw through our identity and specifically went to report, aren't they afraid of being killed by them?"

Qin Fengyu shook her head. "Those Ping Sect disciples should not easily kill each other. I haven't been to the Hengze Heaven, but the other secret realms I've been to are all like this. Ping Sect and En Sect disciples never kill each other, but when they see Sheng Sect disciples, they unite to hunt them down. As for Mao Sect disciples, half and half. Outside the secret realm, they flatter us Sheng Sect disciples, and after entering the secret realm, some follow to the end, and some turn their faces and are ruthless, depending on personal thoughts."

Although the Langhuan Zhou Tian does not like to bully the small with the big, it does not restrict the sect from sending opponents of the same realm to seek revenge. Therefore, in the South Zhuzhou, that Chu family fourth son didn't look at the elders of the Taibai Sword Sect. In fact, with Elder Liu's cultivation, although he was still in the Foundation Establishment period, killing him should not be a problem. It's just that if one is killed, the sect will send people one after another to seek battle, which is also troublesome. But in the secret realm, the Grotto-Heaven True Person cannot sense it, so Sheng Sect disciples rarely reveal their identities in the secret realm.

Qu Qu Tan Yue didn't let Ruan Ci take action on the jade boat, and used his Nascent Soul avatar's face to protect Ruan Ci into the city, all to prevent her identity as a Shangqing disciple from being known by too many people, so as not to be besieged as soon as she entered the Hengze Heaven. However, Ruan Ci was not worried about this. She had the Heavenly Fate Cloud Seed to protect her body, and her aura changed at any time. The one captured by people at the Baoyun Ferry was not her true aura. Before boarding the jade boat, she had already been covered by the Cloud Seed.

"There is nothing to worry about for now." Ruan Ci poured out the Nether Spirit Water to dissolve the corpses of several people. "When we integrate into the Hengze Heaven, we must be careful. At this time, the energy field is very empty, unless besieged by hundreds of people... well, no, unless besieged by three or four hundred people, otherwise there is no big problem."

Cultivators are not livestock, after all; even if they are lined up waiting for her to kill them, shattering their Dao foundations still requires magic power. Ruan Ci originally felt that a hundred people was the limit, but with the help of the Grotto-Rhino Candle and that Bagua Mirror, if she could trap the enemies and break them one by one, it was not impossible to handle even a hundred people. After thinking about it, she raised the number to three hundred. If they were three hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, she probably could not kill that many; magic power, after all, would eventually run dry.

"I estimate it's about the same." Qin Fengyu also nodded. "Without any trump card means, that's it. But there are some small methods you don't know, it should be that your jade wall is also counted in. In fact, magic power will not be so easily exhausted. You are not like me, you have already held a law, you can use law-cultivator methods to restore magic power."

Sure enough, without experience, there is no enlightenment. Ruan Ci had already felt that she had gained a lot from walking alone in the Huangshou Mountain. At this time, being with Qin Fengyu, she learned a lot again. She was naturally intelligent. Qin Fengyu mentioned it, and she understood it. However, she had to consume some of Qin Fengyu's speaking quota, so she said, "Is it to assess the situation before the fight and set a law? For example, I set a law to kill this person—but if so, can't it be cycled forever, fighting more and more bravely?"

"It's not that every time you set a law, you will get a lot of feedback. For example, if you set a law now to punch me. Then the feedback you get from this law is at most a little more joy in your heart when you hit me." Qin Fengyu explained to her, Ruan Ci hurriedly said, "If I hit you, I will only feel pain and reluctance in my heart, and it is impossible to be happy."

Qin Fengyu laughed, "Is that so? But when my teacher explained it to me, he said that anyone in the world who hits me will be secretly happy, because I am really too noisy."

She waved her hand, "Don't change the subject—I said another sentence! Law-cultivators and vow-cultivators are the same. If you can't complete the law or fulfill the vow, there is no next law or next vow, and the feedback is based on difficulty. According to my own feelings, if you keep setting laws to kill people in your heart, then at most you will be fed back two or three percent of your magic power. If it is a one-on-one fight, it is useless. If you kill this person, you will naturally adjust your breath and luck. It is nothing more than saving some time. But if a person falls into the enemy group, this law-cultivator can help you a lot. After all, many little things make a big one. If you fight several strong enemies alone and are very confident in yourself, then this law-cultivator may become your trump card. Imagine you are facing three great enemies, none of whom are weaker than you. You kill one with all your strength, and they think you have exhausted your chips and magic power. When the law is completed and fed back, you will be full of energy in an instant, and you will attack the next great enemy with your sword, making the two of them dumbfounded, and even secretly feel fear in their hearts, feeling that you are like a god of war, fighting more and more bravely and invincible, and there is a gap in the energy field, allowing you to catch that fleeting opportunity, and take the vital point with one sword..."

Her vivid language seemed to describe the tense scene of the moment. Ruan Ci couldn't help but listen intently. Qin Fengyu finished speaking, satisfied and holding her cheeks, as if she was still savoring her heroic posture. Ruan Ci had already thought, "That also needs to guard against the opponent having such means."

"Not bad, besides law-cultivators, there are vow-cultivators. If you can't beat them, maybe you will make a great vow and get feedback immediately. Although you haven't fulfilled the vow, your cultivation will only be fixed at this moment and you can't make any progress, but at the moment of life and death, you can't care about so much." Qin Fengyu said, "So when cultivators kill people, they are either extremely fast or very slow. Fast, you have to be fast enough to make the opponent unable to use these backhands, otherwise, you can only resolve these backhands one by one and then find the person to kill. Outside the secret realm, some cultivators want to run, you really can't catch up."

Ruan Ci also agreed with this deeply. If that Zhou Zhi Mo wanted to escape, he would have left long ago. Listening, she was also thoughtful, "No wonder the Sheng Sect doesn't hold any pill conferences. This kind of thing is really useless. In the fight, there is no such thing as you attack and I defend. The rabbit rises and the falcon falls, killing is just a blink of an eye."

Qin Fengyu said, "That is, the life of the Qi Condensation period is the least valuable. After Foundation Establishment, it is better. Golden Core disputes will not be too frequent. After Grotto-Heaven, the life and death of cultivators are related, so even disputes will not be easily moved, often lasting for years. It is the Foundation Establishment disciples who die in pieces. Five hundred years ago, I came out to handle errands. That time, more than three thousand cultivators entered the spiritual vein, and I was the only one who walked out alive. The rest were all killed by me."

She seemed to be talking about the weather, saying casually, "The shadow escape method was a heritage obtained in that spiritual vein. It is very useful in fighting. Unfortunately, the expensive method is not passed on, and I can't teach you."

Ruan Ci was stunned, and after a long time, she said, "Feather Lady, this time looking for the Hengze Jade Dew, if I am not useful and can't get the Jade Dew, are you also prepared to kill all the cultivators in the Hengze Heaven?"

Qin Fengyu smiled innocently at her, "That is of course, otherwise why would I come with you?"

Ruan Ci was speechless at this point. Qin Fengyu didn't care at all and laughed, "However, Junior Uncle is Junior Uncle after all, considering more thoroughly. Fighting too many people at once is also very tiring. If you don't keep your strength, you often break the Qiankun bag. It is still Junior Uncle's arrangement that is more appropriate and labor-saving, and spiritual jade is earned easily. I admire it very much."

She clearly still remembered that Ruan Ci let go of the two little cultivators and attracted six fat sheep. Ruan Ci was blushed by the praise, and was about to defend herself, but Qin Fengyu didn't listen at all, patted her on the shoulder, and laughed, "If you don't earn more money, how can you support the expenses of our two cultivation? Envy the fish at the edge of the abyss, it is better to return and cast a rod. Go, go fishing!"

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