Chapter 97: Firecracker, Boundary-Breaking Needle, Blood Spirit Venerable's shock!

"The effect is really not bad." Zhao Xing looked at Wu Mei's miserable state and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

At the end of October, he had been to old Chen's manor and saw a new type of plant in the Pear Garden—[Firecracker].

At that time, it was only third-tier in the Pear Garden.

That is because in the south, the growth limit of firecrackers decreases. As the saying goes, "Oranges grown in Huainan are oranges, but grown in Huaibei, they become trifoliate oranges."

Actually, [Firecracker] can generally grow to the fifth-tier level.

It has high requirements for Earth Veins, and it must be a 'Fire-Walking Earth Vein'.

After the firecracker grows to the fifth tier, the inside of its bamboo joints contains incomparably violent Fire-Walking power.

The color of the bamboo surface also changes from green to red. After the 'killing green' (curing) process, it is very easy to explode when it senses a condensed Qi body.

Although Long Xiao came alone, he brought one hundred fifth-tier firecrackers to Chen Shijie from the Divine Might Army.

Chen Shijie himself also planted quite a few young bamboos.

At that time, Zhao Xing wanted a small part of the seedlings to try his hand.

However, old Chen felt that planting them himself was too dangerous, so he only gave him one to try his hand.

The ones prepared in this room later were all finished products after replanting, which is the level of third-tier top-grade.

However, under Zhao Xing's strong request, Chen Shijie still gave him a [Fifth-tier Firecracker].

After being cut into ten bamboo joints, Zhao Xing buried them around the fence.

The one Wu Mei stepped on was exactly one of them.

"Didn't explode to death directly, this person's physique should have reached the eighth grade." Zhao Xing stared at Wu Mei.

Fifth-tier firecrackers naturally have a standard for exploding, which is external stepping pressure and the strength of the Qi body.

If it is not graded, or only ninth grade, it may not necessarily be detonated.

Once the concentration of Qi in the body reaches the eighth grade, the Fire-Walking power inside will be ignited, as if finding a vent, and while exploding, it will also ignite this group of Qi bodies.

So now Wu Mei's legs, the flesh and blood are very difficult to heal.

And the more she runs Qi to repair her body, the heavier the injury becomes.

Zhao Xing can also actively detonate the remaining firecrackers. Although he didn't use the Earth Palace Method, [Earth Treasury Returning to Origin] covers the surrounding boundary.

Now around the fenced courtyard, there is a minefield!

"Pfft~" Wu Mei pulled out a knife, cut off the flesh on the bone, and peeled off the bamboo pieces embedded in it.

After finding that the healing effect was poor, she decisively chose the most direct method.

Time is life at this moment.

"Ah ah~" The pain made her unbearable. Cutting meat and scraping bone for herself, can it not hurt?

"Little bastard! Actually daring to set me up..." Wu Mei's eyes were full of resentment.

"Do you have anything valuable on you?" Zhao Xing's voice came with the wind, sounding a bit cold. Taking advantage of the time Wu Mei was cutting meat and scraping bone, the Yin wind blew toward her body.

The wind seemed to drill into Wu Mei's body from every pore, and the wind blew directly to her soul.

"Hiss~"

Wu Mei shivered, and her whole body couldn't help but tremble.

This coldness on the soul made her, who hadn't cleared the sequelae brought by the firecracker, force her body to retreat, and a group of fire-red blood evil spirits emerged from her body.

Blood evil spirits protected the body, resisting the erosion of the Yin wind.

"Plop~"

A drop of rain fell on Wu Mei's forehead.

"Rain, is it raining?"

Wu Mei raised her head, her scarlet and enchanting eyes looking up.

Only to see a pitch-black dark cloud appearing above her head at some point. This cloud was so black that it completely blended into the night.

When did he cast the cloud?

Why did this cloud form a black vortex?

This is...

"Plop, plop~"

The cold raindrops interrupted Wu Mei's train of thought.

Cold, too cold.

If Yin wind is cold on the soul, then this ice rain is cold on the flesh.

Wu Mei could originally exert the strength of a proper eighth grade. Whether it was physique or spells, she was enough to compare to the proper eighth grade of the Great Zhou.

But now, she found herself as fragile as a clerk! And she was constantly getting weaker!

"Profound Heaven Blood Evil! Blood Spirit Body Protection!"

"God Venerable Seizes Soul, Attach to My True Body!"

The blood evil spirits on Wu Mei's body spat out, and while resisting the Yin wind and ice rain, her body began to sprout a layer of scarlet and dense blood.

The blood flowed, sweeping over her skin and flesh, as if something wanted to break out of her body.

"Transformation? Can you transform?"

Zhao Xing spread his five fingers, thunder wrapped around his fingertips, and quickly formed a palm made of thunder, which was quickly printed on the blood evil spirits on Wu Mei's body.

"Boom crack~"

The blood evil spirits were torn open by a layer, revealing Wu Mei's bloody muscles.

"Pfft!"

The purple palm curved its fingers and quickly poked at Wu Mei's abdomen.

The speed of the blood evil spirits spreading suddenly paused, as if the rotating gears were stuck.

"Boom~"

The thunder palm changed direction and slapped again, also breaking open the protective blood evil spirits first, then curving the palm and extending the fingers.

Poked at six positions on Wu Mei's body respectively.

"Shenting, Shenque, Shendao, Guanyuan, Shimen, Yinjiao... and where is the other position?"

"Forget it, just poke the remaining one randomly."

Zhao Xing didn't remember very clearly, but these six key positions were enough to interrupt the opponent's transformation.

"You..." A look of horror appeared on Wu Mei's face.

She had just seen that the situation was not good, and immediately exerted her full strength, using the secret method of the Profound Heaven Sect, wanting to use her trump card to fight.

"Forget it, I'll just poke the remaining one."

Am I the Profound Heaven Sect, or is he the Profound Heaven Sect?

How does he know so clearly?

Wu Mei couldn't figure it out, but she was greatly shocked.

"Don't poke, I beg you don't poke..." Wu Mei's voice carried a crying tone.

"I shouldn't have died here, I should have captured you back... don't poke."

"You follow me, you will definitely be valued in the Profound Heaven Sect. I never thought of killing you, I just wanted to take you away... don't poke."

Wu Mei begged bitterly.

The blood evil spirits on her body were as thin as cicada wings, and the Blood Spirit attachment was also completely interrupted.

Lurking for more than ten years, just for this action.

Didn't expect it to turn into a bubble, the task was not completed, and she was trapped here.

Unreconciled, she was really unreconciled.

Unlike other Profound Heaven Sect personnel, some are at the end of their lives and are willing to die, and some are manipulated and brainwashed, losing their self-consciousness.

But Wu Mei, her consciousness is completely autonomous.

She still has a very strong desire to survive.

"You follow me, you follow me..." Wu Mei raised her hand, and a needle broke out of her flesh and blood.

Aiming at Zhao Xing's Tianling acupoint.

Boundary-Breaking Needle, this is her last fight.

"Really insidious, I knew you brought it." Zhao Xing muttered.

The Boundary-Breaking Needle passed through his body and nailed it to the door panel behind.

Hum~

The phantom disappeared, leaving only a bead flickering with cold light on the ground.

The projection of the fourth-tier Donghu Pearl.

"You fooled me, you are so insidious..." Seeing this scene, Wu Mei's palm dropped, and she didn't even finish her words, lying on the ground with strong unwillingness.

If she hit Zhao Xing, with the Boundary-Breaking Needle, she could immediately control Zhao Xing and turn defeat into victory. Let Zhao Xing take her away. [97-

The phantom disappeared, leaving only a bead flickering with cold light on the ground.

A projection of the fourth-rank Donghu Bead.

"You tricked me, you are so sinister..." Wu Mei saw this scene, her palms dropped, and without even finishing her sentence, she lay on the ground, filled with intense unwillingness.

If she had hit Zhao Xing, with the Boundary-Breaking Needle, she could have immediately controlled Zhao Xing and turned defeat into victory, making Zhao Xing take her away.

This last-ditch effort failed, and she knew there was no hope left.

Lurking for more than ten years, she had lived on hope.

With hope dashed, Wu Mei completely lost the ability to resist, and her soul was blown to pieces by the Yin wind.

"I did indeed trick you. Someone of your level must carry a Boundary-Breaking Needle. It's just that the style is different. I asked you if you brought it because I didn't want you to see the situation was bad and retreat; I wanted you to feel there was a chance to control my body through the Blood Spirit Needle and walk out of the courtyard yourself, giving you hope for a comeback," Zhao Xing thought silently.

He looked at the dark red nail stuck in the door panel.

The material of the nail was extremely special, appearing like metal yet not metal, and the nail was wrapped in a layer of substance that looked like muscle fibers.

The Blood Spirit Needle is a type of Boundary-Breaking Needle and one of the classic magic treasures of the Profound Heaven Sect.

Its effect is not aimed at the soul, but at the flesh and blood.

"This nail." Zhao Xing didn't dare to touch it, just looking at it from afar, "can bypass a person's Life Soul and directly control the physical body."

"Once hit, it is equivalent to losing control of the body. Although the consciousness is clear, the body is controlled by the Profound Heaven Sect."

The Blood Spirit Needle has contributed greatly to the Profound Heaven Sect's successful abductions.

Although the temples across the Great Zhou mostly only scan within the city, they expand their search range during monthly sacrifices or emergencies.

Taking people away using methods that control the soul is easily detected as abnormal by evil spirits.

But the Blood Spirit Needle controls the physical body, while the three souls remain normal, so naturally, no abnormality is detected.

"After being hit by the Blood Spirit Needle, the next step can change the wriggling of flesh, blood, tendons, and bones, achieving the effect of changing one's appearance."

"You really wouldn't be able to tell even if they were standing right in front of you."

This can be said to be an item that exceeds the current version, a treasure that could only be refined in the era of ancient sects.

The outer sects rely on some inheritances from ancient times to harass the giant beast that is the Great Zhou.

"Meow~" The Mountain Cat was also looking at the needle.

"You can't eat that. Do you want to become a dead cat?" Zhao Xing glared at the Mountain Cat.

The Mountain Cat immediately shrank its head and took half a step back.

Then it wouldn't eat it; it wasn't that hungry anyway.

Outside the ruins, on a high hillside.

At this moment, officials from the Sima Nong Office, such as Chen Shijie, Tang Wanchun, Xue Wenzhong, Pang Yuan, and Gao Linong, had been surrounded.

"Lord Chen." Pang Yuan and Tang Wanchun, who had successively broken free from the Spirit Entering Dream, woke up and saw this scene, looking at Chen Shijie one after another. "The monster invasion assessment is over, why are we still here? What's going on?"

"Oh, it's fine, they aren't fake, they are real." Chen Shijie smiled. "Everyone, the time to earn political achievements has arrived. These are genuine Profound Heaven evil Daoists."

"???" Hearing this, the assistant officials of the Sima Nong Office were directly dumbfounded.

Look at us, do we look like we can fight?

You are a Military Sima Nong, but we are not!

"I knew there would be no good fruit to eat following this bastard Chen Shijie." Gao Linong saw the formation and couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle. "A few years ago, he tortured me enough here, and now he has actually attracted so many Profound Heaven Sect monsters."

"Lord Chen, you and the County Magistrate must have communicated, right?" Tang Wanchun's tone trembled slightly. "Is there a large army in ambush outside?"

"No." Chen Shijie watched the closing encirclement.

"...Chen Shijie, you scoundrel!" Gao Linong couldn't help but start cursing. In his heart, he instantly cursed Chen Shijie's ancestors for eight generations. He felt he was surely going to die this time, so how could he care about who was his superior?

Pang Yuan and Tang Wanchun also complained in their hearts, but they were still half-believing, feeling that Chen Shijie couldn't easily put himself in danger.

Xue Wenzhong was very calm; he saw everything clearly now.

A thundercloud immediately appeared in his palm, and then with a light flick, the thundercloud swam around his body.

One, two, five, ten...

A total of thirty-two thunderclouds not only protected himself but also circled around his colleagues.

"Eating the monarch's salary, sharing the monarch's worries; outer sects should be executed by everyone," Xue Wenzhong said in a deep voice.

"Forget it, it's just death." Tang Wanchun and Pang Yuan both cast clouds and used their own magic arts to block the enemy.

The four laws of heaven and the magic arts of earth instantly filled the entire hillside.

Although their rank was one level lower than the eighth-rank experts brought by Hunting Falcon, under their desperate casting, the Profound Heaven Sect actually moved extremely slowly. Once they rushed within a hundred-meter range, their mobility dropped significantly.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect my Earth-Partitioning Law to be so fierce. Take another bolt of thunder from me!" Gao Linong summoned thunder to strike at one of the black shadows.

The thunder actually struck the opponent, causing them to stiffen in place. Not only that, but a fire-red light even emerged.

"Sensed wrong, not eighth-rank?" Tang Wanchun saw the opponent was so vulnerable, and his eyes lit up.

"Lord Gao, you are overthinking it. It's not that you are fierce, it's that they have become weak." Xue Wenzhong looked at the soles of his feet, then at Chen Shijie. "What a palace."

"Old Xue has a discerning eye." Chen Shijie smiled slightly, then stopped pretending.

The periphery of the entire hillside suddenly cracked, forming an encirclement.

Then a line of fire ignited, bright flames erupting from the ground, reaching four meters high, forming a wall of fire.

"What? Fire-Element Earth-Cracking Law, and this suction force, is it a palace law?!" Hunting Falcon Protector sensed the heavy pressure on his body and couldn't help but be shocked. The other eighth-rank experts were also unable to move an inch, every step very heavy, as if carrying a mountain.

And just as they stepped within the hundred-meter range.

Suddenly, the ground arched up.

"Boom!"

A massive Fire-Element force exploded instantly!

One of the men in black stepped on a firecracker and was instantly blown away!

"What? Stop!" Hunting Falcon Protector looked at his subordinate, who had his legs blown off, half his body gone, and clearly wasn't going to live.

"Profound Heaven True Law, Big Dipper Ascending Dragon!" Hunting Falcon Protector shouted in a low voice upon seeing this.

The men in black beside him also chanted.

"Profound Claw!" One man in black held his hand in the air, and a green battle blade appeared in his hand.

"Profound Horn!" A golden ramming horn appeared in front of the second man in black.

"Extreme Wing!" An armored iron fist condensed above the third man in black's head.

"Profound Yin!" A bright moon appeared around the fourth man in black.

"Original Female!" The fifth man in black held his hands in a circle, and a bead appeared.

"Flying Dragon!" The sixth man in black's form expanded violently, and a ferocious dragon head enveloped his whole body.

Hunting Falcon Protector immediately cast the Profound Heaven Sect's Big Dipper Ascending Dragon Array. Including Hunting Falcon, the seven of them seemed like a flying dragon landing on the ground, chasing the sun and moon.

The surrounding fire wall was instantly pressed down to two meters. The firecrackers buried in the ground no longer exploded after being stepped on, the restraint was greatly reduced, and the mobility of the few people instantly rose.

"Chen Shijie, I didn't expect that with your aptitude, you could reach the perfection of the Spirit Bridge in your thirties. However, my Profound Sect needs talents like you!" Hunting Falcon Protector shouted in a low voice. "Act quickly!"

"Lord Chen!" Tang Wanchun saw these monsters become full of life in an instant and said with red eyes: "The County Magistrate and the Donghu Army really don't know?"

"They are not here." Chen Shijie said indifferently, "But I have a sword cultivator."

"Sword cultivator? What sword cultivator?" Pang Yuan was confused.

Chen Shijie pointed with his hand.

The ground cracked open into a two-meter-square deep pit, which was bottomless.

Just as they were puzzled, a sword light whistled out from the pit.

"Damn it, I was suffocated to death. Don't bury me so deep next time!"

A rough voice came from underground.

Then this golden sword swam in the air like a fish.

After the golden sword came out of the hole, it immediately shot toward the Profound Heaven monsters below the hillside.

"Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo!"

The golden sword was reflected in the eyes of everyone in the Profound Heaven Sect. Hunting Falcon Protector's pupils dilated, and he tried desperately to resist, but although he realized the danger, his hands and feet couldn't keep up.

"Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff!"

The golden sword pierced through his head, and blood holes appeared in the heads of the others at the same time.

"Thump!"

In an instant, all seven fell to the ground!

"Clang!"

The golden sword drew a perfect arc and landed in the hand held high by Long Xiao.

"This..." Tang Wanchun and the others were stunned. "This is a martial artist?"

In their impression, were the crude martial artists this fierce and this cool?

"As everyone knows, a martial artist is a martial artist, and a sword cultivator is a sword cultivator." Long Xiao coolly sheathed his sword, then his expression changed: "Who was cursing my brother just now?"

"Swish, swish~" Tang Wanchun and Pang Yuan looked at Gao Linong in unison, decisively selling out their teammate.

"I..." Gao Linong was instantly sweating profusely.

"He was just speaking without thinking, don't worry about it so much." Chen Shijie looked ahead. "There are still big fish, hurry and follow my wind to find them."

"Alright." Long Xiao put away his intimidating demeanor and quickly leaped away from the hillside.

Anping Town, Maple Leaf Manor, the blood pool altar under the rockery.

At this moment, a purple-robed phantom was floating on the blood pool. From time to time, a ball of red light flew back from outside and merged into the phantom's body; this was the return of the split soul to the main body after the invasion.

"Failed." The purple-robed phantom sensed the movement above. "A large number of officials have returned. This operation has completely failed."

In his perception, Li Wenzheng was leading a large group of Donghu Army, forming a larger encirclement and surrounding them from afar.

It was conceivable that this operation had been premeditated.

"Willing to risk danger, using oneself and many officials as bait. Ruthless and decisive." The purple-robed phantom knew he should abandon this avatar.

However, he was waiting for all the split souls to return. Failure was not terrible; he wanted to retrieve the split souls, perceive everything that had happened, and summarize the detailed process of this failure.

"Such firm will, ten years in the army, never invited a deity once?" Blood Spirit Venerable retrieved a red light and learned of the conversation with Chen Shijie in the dream. "Pity, I cannot take him away."

Hoo~ Another red light flew back, but this time the red light was much weaker, as if it had consumed too much and was weak, less than half of the previous light ball.

"Hmm? Why is the consumption so great?" Blood Spirit Venerable opened his big mouth in confusion and swallowed the red light in one gulp.

Afterward, he saw a fenced courtyard in his mind, and in the courtyard was a disheveled youth, who was exactly Zhao Xing.

"What? This scoundrel!" Blood Spirit Venerable saw halfway, and his blood pressure rose.