Chapter 366

How could Yunhe appear here?!

Shouldn't he have fled long ago?

Although this place could be considered escaping the Yuan tribe's encirclement and pursuit, it does not mean they have truly left the Yuan tribe's territory.

Moreover, because of the escape direction they chose, they were forced to go deeper into the Yuan tribe's heartland; a short distance ahead they could see the Yuan tribe's Black Abyss Mist.

He actually does not flee this place; isn't he afraid of encountering other Yuan tribe members again?

In fact, Yunhe really isn't that afraid.

As long as he breaks free of the Yuan tribe's encirclement, with his escape speed and means to conceal his aura, even if he encounters a Yuan tribe member of late Fourth Level comparable to a late Nascent Soul cultivator, he might still have a slim chance to flee.

Yet late Fourth Level Yuan tribe members did not even appear in this Yuan tribe's assault on Listening Fragrance Tower, an operation requiring thunderous force to seize; would they be running around wildly outside the Black Abyss Mist?

Therefore Yunhe is not worried.

For him now, the most important thing is to dispose of the two before him as quickly as possible.

And he has no intention of holding back; he follows only one word: fast!

Haiyuan Wei's sudden explosive shout startled Xiao Wuxian from his astonishment, and immediately a strong jealousy welled up in his heart.

Peerless genius?

Even the power of a single Five Elements Thunderbolt Sword exceeds that of an ordinary Fourth Level lower-grade magic treasure; now five such swords form a Five Elements Sword Array, with the mutual generation of the Five Elements flowing, plus the bolstering of thunderbolt power, its might is likely not inferior to a Fourth Level middle-grade magic treasure.

Both he and Haiyuan Wei can clearly feel that these five flying swords are truly a magic treasure, or rather a set of magic treasures, seemingly linked by array power, subtly connected, illuminating and fulfilling each other.

Moreover, he is a Fourth Level array master!

Seeing the four flying swords shoot out behind, Xiao Wuxian's pupils constricted.

"Five?!"

More importantly.

Originally, to him, the path of cultivation that others find extremely difficult was entirely a smooth, broad road, perfectly level.

As the son of the late Nascent Soul great cultivator Huangquan Old Ancestor, and additionally favored extraordinarily for his utterance "like me," he had never experienced jealousy; to him, only others envied him—how could he envy others?

His name "Wuxian" means he needs envy no one.

He is now over 250 years old, with late Golden Core cultivation; it is estimated that by age 300 he may have a chance to reach Golden Core perfection, and with the aid of Fengdu City and Huangquan Old Ancestor, he still has some confidence in achieving Nascent Soul condensation.

At least on the road to late Golden Core cultivation, everything has been extremely smooth.

Xiao Wuxian is not completely ignorant of Yunhe; earlier, inside Listening Fragrance Tower, he heard quite a bit about this person from Ji Liuyun.

Therefore, after a single sword tore apart Haiyuan Wei's Golden Net magic treasure, Yunhe immediately flicked his sleeve, and another four flying swords shot out together!

Adding the pair of extremely swift escape wings on his back, it is clearly not comparable to a Fourth Level lower-grade magic treasure.

But now, a mere loose cultivator has appeared, whose age is not far from his, yet has already condensed a Nascent Soul, even diverting attention to study array arts, reaching the level of a Fourth Level array master; moreover, he now possesses at least two Fourth Level middle-grade magic treasures, and also a corpse-refined Nascent Soul that makes him covetous beyond measure.

He, a cultivator deeply favored by a late Nascent Soul great cultivator, still cannot compare to a mere loose cultivator?

With such a comparison, how could Xiao Wuxian not feel jealous?

Condensing a Nascent Soul in over two hundred years, and the Nascent Soul stage itself has been less than a hundred years—how could he possess so many powerful magic treasures?

Originally I thought three swords were Yunhe's entirety, but I never expected that this time he would actually shoot out five all at once.

Deeply aware of how powerful his flying swords are, and how greatly the thunderbolt power on them restrains some demonic path cultivators.

"Be careful!"

He has witnessed Yunhe slaying an early Fourth Level Yuan tribe member twice!

Fortunately, over these years of growth he has received a fairly good education, possessing a deep scheming mind; thus even if the jealousy now threatens to consume him, he forces himself to calm quickly, first slapping his storage bag, whereupon a talisman flies out.

More precisely, it is a talisman treasure!

Under his frantic infusion of magical power, this talisman treasure rapidly transforms into a huge round shield.

Yunhe naturally does not know the various thoughts in Xiao Wuxian's heart at that instant.

If he knew, he would surely curse: truly, blessed yet unaware of blessing; Xiao Wuxian's starting point is unknown how many cultivators' lifelong goal.

Seeing the rising round shield, Yunhe narrowed his eyes.

"A talisman treasure?"

The strength of a talisman treasure depends on the strength of the magic treasure; if a Fourth Level upper-grade magic treasure's power is drawn to make a talisman treasure, when fully utilized its power might be no less than that of a Fourth Level lower-grade magic treasure.

"As expected, there is still a trump card."

He changed the hand seal, and on the five flying swords shooting toward the two, he relinquished the peculiar pattern.

This is the "Dragon Scale Pattern" left on the sword blades when Yunhe refined the Five Elements Thunderbolt Swords; as his understanding of the Dragon Scale Pattern deepened, the patterns on the swords were gradually filled and perfected through his repeated insights.

Thus, after his hand seal changed, the swords' speed suddenly surged!

That speed was so fast that even Haiyuan Wei couldn't react in time, let alone Xiao Wuxian, who is merely late Golden Core.

Even with his array of supreme treasures at his side, he is ultimately only a late Golden Core cultivator, and there exists an essential gap between him and a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Pfft!!

Before the shield formed from his talisman treasure could fully appear, a flying sword swept straight across Xiao Wuxian's neck, accompanied by a spray of scalding hot blood, and his wide-eyed head flew up.

The son of a great late Nascent Soul cultivator, died just like that?

"Deserves death!"

Seeing this, feeling the scorching blood splashing onto his body, Haiyuan Wei's eyes cracked with rage; although he is extremely weak now, he still glared fiercely at Yunhe.

"Deserves death, deserves death, you deserve death! Do you know what you will face for killing him?!"

His expression made Yunhe involuntarily furrow his brows.

But for him at this moment, what he will face after killing someone is a later matter; now he only needs to kill!

Hum—

The five flying swords hung in midair, responding to each other.

Five Elements Sword Array, condense!

Golden arcs of light leapt up one after another, crisscrossing, and, using the power of the Five Elements' mutual generation, quickly formed a spiderweb-like lightning net.

Pfft—

Wei Haiyuan, gasping with rage, kept spitting blood, glared viciously at Yunhe, then gritted his teeth and slapped his storage bag.

In the next moment, a large number of talismans, magical treasures, and magical artifacts were flung out by him all at once.

Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A huge amount of surging energy struck in waves, presenting a scene of utter chaos.

It was also at this moment.

Whoosh—

A tiny-looking Nascent Soul, covered in dust and dirt, flew out from amidst the four explosions; its speed was so great that even Yunhe could barely react.

The Nascent Soul fled!

However, the Yuan Ying cultivator's last-ditch escape method, which relied upon, upon touching the surrounding Five Elements Sword Formation, more precisely speaking, upon the golden lightning net woven by that Five Elements Sword Formation, accompanied by a hiss, the Nascent Soul let out a painful wail.

This finally made Yunhe react immediately, raising his hand and clenching.

The five flying swords swiftly gathered, and the golden arcs of light, at great speed, wrapped the Nascent Soul, as a large amount of mixed spiritual energy and magical power rose up.

Only when the five flying swords completely merged and the lightning net dissipated did the wailing finally cease.

Since he had decided to intercept and kill, how could Yunhe not guard against Wei Haiyuan's Nascent Soul escaping? The seal formed by combining the power of mutual generation of the Five Elements with heavenly thunder successfully annihilated it completely!

However, this also let Yunhe secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

He had also never before seen a Yuan Ying cultivator flee at the speed of a Nascent Soul; if he had not gone all-out from the start, with all five flying swords unleashed together, just that Nascent Soul's escape speed alone would have made it hard for him to react.

No wonder it's easy for Yuan Ying cultivators to decide victory or defeat, but so hard to determine life or death.

Perhaps only a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator could react to that Nascent Soul's escape speed just now?

Fortunately, his precautions worked.

A mere early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, the venerable demon Wei Haiyuan, the Ghost Insect old demon of Fengdu City, has perished in body and dao!

Having dealt with Wei Haiyuan, Yunhe did not leave just yet; he gathered the corpses of Wei Haiyuan and Xiao Wuxian, as well as their storage bags, and his gaze swept the surroundings.

After a moment, his expression suddenly turned cold, and he said in a low voice: "Do you want me to drag you out, or will you come out yourself?"

A domineering divine sense pressed down upon this place like a tangible weight.

However, after he spoke, there was no response at all, and a cold glint flashed in Yunhe's eyes.

He flicked his finger, and a flying sword shot straight down to a messy spot below.

Bang!!

A muffled sound came, and a sorry figure was blasted out from that place.

Cough cough.

The figure that had fallen spat out mouthfuls of blood.

It was Xiao Wuxian!

He wasn't dead after all!

"How did you find me?" Xiao Wuxian asked, raising his head with difficulty to look at Yunhe in the air, full of resentment.

However.

In response, there was only a puchi sound!

The Five Elements Heavenly Thunder Sword swept across his head once again.

This time it directly crushed his entire body into countless fragments!

Pat—

A small, earth-colored sphere also fell to the ground along with it.

It is obvious that, if Yunhe had previously conversed with him, this sphere would have been his means of "receiving" Yunhe.

Knowing that Yunhe had repeatedly scanned the area with his divine sense, confirming that there was no trace of Xiao Wuxian left, he finally let out a long breath and descended from the air.

To be honest.

After successfully forming his Nascent Soul, he truly was for the first time placing such importance and wariness on a late-stage Jie Dan cultivator.

And the facts proved that his caution was quite correct.

If he had previously thought that dealing with Xiao Wuxian and Wei Haiyuan was enough, perhaps he really would have let them escape.

"Substitute Tribulation Puppet"? The myriad life-saving methods of a late-stage Jie Dan cultivator actually make this Nascent Soul cultivator envious.

He murmured this with a hint of envy.

All that can be said is that having a good father truly lets one do as one pleases.

Fortunately, everything has finally settled at this moment.

"The mid-Fourth Level abyss clan priest is heavily injured."

Yunhe's mind suddenly gave rise to an extremely bold thought.

But he himself quickly suppressed that thought.

A heavily injured early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator and a late-stage Jie Dan cultivator nearly made him slip up due to inattention; better not to invite trouble.

What he should do now is leave this place as quickly as possible, lest he be investigated.

Blaming Xiao Wuxian's death on the abyss clan would still work well.

Moreover, he also needs to examine Xiao Wuxian's belongings one by one to see how much needs to be dealt with, lest he attract the attention of the Yellow Springs Old Ancestor.

Of course, he has now passed the storage bag into the hands of the Demon Beast Body.

(End of chapter)