Chapter 545

"Cough cough cough!"

Lin Bufan knelt on one knee in a pool of blood, coughing blood continuously, looking exhausted. Not far from him, the Emerald Rainbow Sword had been broken into three sections.

Gao Cuo was still hiding in the dark, and his face was also very ugly, pale as paper.

Sword Elder's voice came: "You took the Heavenly Demon Pill, exchanging it for combat power beyond the limit. Now the medicine effect is about to pass; you must find a place to meditate as soon as possible, otherwise you will fall into an extreme state of weakness, and it may even lead to damage to your Nascent Soul and a decrease in cultivation."

Gao Cuo took a deep breath, and Lin Bufan's appearance was reflected in his right eye: "This person is so good at healing; if I had a sharp weapon for attack, I would definitely be able to take his head!"

"Fight one last time!"

Magic Art—Shadow-Misplacing Kill!

The next moment, in Lin Bufan's field of vision, the world shook, forming countless shadows.

Tree shadows, cloud shadows, mountain shadows, and even Lin Bufan's own shadow, all overlapped and crisscrossed, covering and killing Lin Bufan.

Lin Bufan gritted his teeth, sat cross-legged on the ground, and barely formed seals.

His Nascent Soul was extremely dim, squeezing out the last remaining magic power, condensing into countless emerald lights, forming the appearance of armor to protect himself.

"Not enough!"

Lin Bufan had been fighting Gao Cuo for a long time and knew the power of the enemy's magic arts, so he immediately took out a seed from his storage ring.

The seed was planted directly into his abdomen, taking root and sprouting in his flesh and blood, quickly growing vines.

The green and red intertwined vines enriched the emerald light armor, making its divine form one.

Red vines and green armor!

The overlapping shadows circled around the armor, constantly grinding, making a sizzling sound.

The armor was cut into countless fragments, but accompanied by the full emerald light, it recovered quickly.

Both sides reached a stalemate.

"This guy only cares about protecting himself; even if I move away from this battlefield, I can't cause more interference to him." Gao Cuo gritted his teeth secretly; his own magic power had also bottomed out, so he could only continue to persist.

He was betting that Lin Bufan's remaining magic power was not as much as his.

If he lost the bet, he would die on the spot.

If he lost the bet, he could still retreat calmly.

However, just when this fight was about to decide the final outcome, a red rainbow streaked across the high sky.

The red rainbow paused, gave a light "huh," and then descended.

"This place is strange!" A figure in the red rainbow gradually became clear; it was a female cultivator, with a fat and burly body, tall and big, wearing a red palace dress with a large skirt.

Gao Cuo immediately recognized: "Fairy Fairy Hongxiu? Terrible."

The next moment, Fairy Fairy Hongxiu directly performed a magic art, bombarding the plain-looking mountain valley below.

Gao Cuo was already at the end of his rope; if his strength were normal, he could still rely on illusions to continue covering, but at this time he was powerless, and could only watch helplessly as the illusion was broken, restoring the original appearance of this battlefield.

Sword Elder sighed deeply: "I didn't expect Fairy Hongxiu to be able to see through your illusion; not simple! She specializes in the Giant Strength Moving Mountain Technique. This technique shouldn't have such power. There must be a heavy treasure on her."

Gao Cuo gritted his teeth, blood overflowing from the corners of his mouth, and took one last look at Lin Bufan: "Retreat!"

As soon as he moved, he immediately made Fairy Fairy Hongxiu feel it, and she looked at Gao Cuo's position suspiciously.

"Hmm?"

The next moment, magic arts like a rainstorm covered down.

Gao Cuo immediately enabled the talisman, added the escape technique, his speed soared, and in the blink of an eye, he flew to the edge of the sky.

Fairy Fairy Hongxiu saw his speed, and a look of surprise appeared on her face.

She didn't chase, but landed in front of Lin Bufan.

Lin Bufan still wanted to resist, but was forcefully handled by Fairy Fairy Hongxiu and captured alive on the spot.

"Slow down."

"This fairy, I have countless wealth; can you spare my life in return for wealth."

Who knew Fairy Fairy Hongxiu smiled and sent a message via spiritual sense: "Lin Bufan?"

Lin Bufan was slightly stunned.

The next moment, he was knocked unconscious by Fairy Fairy Hongxiu.

When he woke up again, he saw himself in a natural cave.

Heavy footsteps sounded, and then, the huge Fairy Fairy Hongxiu carried a bowl of porridge, walked around the corner of the cave, and broke into Lin Bufan's eyes.

"Drink this bowl of porridge, and your injuries will recover quickly," Fairy Fairy Hongxiu said.

She looked big and thick, but her voice was very delicate.

Lin Bufan looked at the spirit porridge, unable to figure out Fairy Fairy Hongxiu's intention for a while, and just as he was thinking, another cultivator also walked into his eyes.

Seeing the visitor, Lin Bufan was overjoyed: "Zhu the God-Catcher!"

The visitor was none other than Zhu Zhu Xuanji.

Zhu Zhu Xuanji nodded and smiled at Lin Bufan: "I had a hard time finding Sect Master Lin."

Lin Bufan immediately relaxed, knowing that he had been saved by Zhu Zhu Xuanji.

He said with lingering fear: "I encountered a master; his illusion technique was the only one I have ever seen in my life, extremely accomplished."

He briefly described his battle process.

Basically, in this battle, Lin Bufan was in a very passive situation. Gao Cuo's "Leaving Form and Misplacing Shadow" made Lin Bufan suffer. Several times, his flying sword shot at himself.

"Ashamed!"

"This person almost forced me into a desperate situation, but I didn't even know what he looked like, or whether he was a man or a woman."

Lin Bufan sighed deeply, took the spirit porridge handed over by Fairy Fairy Hongxiu, and took a small sip.

Fairy Fairy Hongxiu said: "The battle of Thousand Peaks Forest attracted too many cultivators. It's not strange to have individual masters; Sect Master Lin has survived a disaster and will have future blessings."

Zhu Zhu Xuanji couldn't help but show a grave expression: "Being able to force Sect Master Lin to this point, this person has extraordinary means and is indeed a master among Nascent Souls."

"However, he has been hiding himself from beginning to end, perhaps indicating that he has another identity."

"If it's not a righteous person from outside the Thousand Peaks Forest, then it's a certain figure within the Thousand Peaks Forest."

"Let's not worry about him."

"Sect Master Lin, recover as soon as possible; we have more urgent things to do!"

Lin Bufan looked at Zhu Zhu Xuanji suspiciously while gulping down the spirit porridge.

Zhu Zhu Xuanji said: "The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts have gone to ambush the Three-General Camp; they want to capture Ning Zhuo alive."

Lin Bufan immediately lost his color: "The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts are strong people at the Nascent Soul level, with a far-reaching reputation. The combat power of either one alone is far beyond the mysterious master who forced me."

"Even if Ning Zhuo is strong, he only has Jin Dan-level combat power; how can he resist the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts?"

Zhu Zhu Xuanji: "Therefore, we must go to rescue as soon as possible."

Lin Bufan looked at Zhu Zhu Xuanji and Fairy Fairy Hongxiu hesitantly: "Just rely on the three of us?"

Thousand-Vine Talisman Sky Corridor.

Ning Zhuo's mechanical unit aimed at the left route and pushed horizontally all the way.

Ning Zhuo did not count the sacrifices and added the battle formation; wherever the mechanical army went, it could be said to be like splitting bamboo!

The Three-General Camp walked on the mountain, slowly following around the corridor.

Whenever Ning Zhuo invaded a section of the corridor from the inside and obtained control, the talisman vine leaves outside the corridor lost their reaction and had no defensive ability.

Therefore, the Three-General Camp only followed, and the three generals Liu, Generals Guan, and Zhang were fully alert, ready to rescue Ning Zhuo at any time. When they attacked the Ten-Mile Burning Forest, they encountered accidents and had big troubles like the Fire-Crowned Divine Cedar god.

According to their estimation, this Thousand-Vine Talisman Sky Corridor might also have a similar situation.

However, when Ning Zhuo's mechanical army pushed horizontally all the way and was about to reach the end, they hadn't encountered any gods.

The cultivators remaining in the corridor, except for the initial confrontation, had very little resistance, and often scattered in a rush.

There were even quite a few people who knelt on the ground on the spot and surrendered directly.

"From the current point of view, the resistance encountered is very low."

"Our decision is correct. Deliberately staying and resting in the Ten-Mile Burning Forest for a few days is to let this news spread."

"Strongholds like the Ten-Mile Burning Forest and the Thousand-Vine Talisman Sky Corridor are not ordinary forces; they are mainly for cultivating resources, so many cultivators will retreat immediately after getting the news."

"Still need to be cautious, to prevent it from being the enemy's trick of underestimating the enemy. Only when the entire sky corridor is occupied by us can we relax."

"That's right. It's possible that a god was secretly cultivated by the Ginseng-Beard Dragon King in the Thousand-Vine Talisman Sky Corridor too!"

!

Liu, Generals Guan, Zhang, and Ning kept close communication through magic tools.

Just at this time, a strange change occurred.

Behind Ning Zhuo, a pale blue ice mist suddenly grew.

From the mist, a white bone claw reached out and grabbed at Ning Zhuo's heart like lightning.

At this moment, Ning Zhuo seemed to have eyes on his back and rolled forward directly, avoiding the bone claw.

His spiritual sense was scattered everywhere, shrouding the entire mechanical army, so naturally he could see behind him. However, even if his spiritual sense could discover it, his own ability was not enough to dodge it.

Just a breath earlier, the mechanical ring in Ning Zhuo's hand gave him a strong warning, making him extremely vigilant.

This was the main reason he could dodge the sneak attack.

However, Ning Zhuo, who dodged the first strike, was still in danger.

He had just rolled three steps away when ice mist grew on his left and right sides, and two white bone skeletons rushed out from the mist.

The three skeletons all exuded the aura of the Jin Dan level, surrounding and attacking Ning Zhuo.

At the critical moment, Ning Zhuo dodged frantically, while summoning mechanical fists and feet to use as emergency blocking.

The empowerment of the "Hero's Return Technique" had already brought his combat power to the Jin Dan level.

The close-combat skills he practiced diligently at the Ten Thousand Medicines Gate allowed him to dodge most of the attacks. For the remaining sneak attacks, he relied on mechanical fists and feet to make up for the gaps in defense.

Bang bang bang.

The grade of these mechanical fists and feet was not high; they were still made by Ning Zhuo when he was at the Ten Thousand Medicines Gate.

After a few rounds, they were all destroyed, scattered on the ground in pieces.

The inner walls of the entire Thousand-Vine Talisman Sky Corridor were also covered with claw marks, and most of them could let light through.

These sneak-attacking skeleton assassins had restrained, ruthless, and poisonous attacks, and the material of the corridor itself reached the Jin Dan level, but was easily scratched open.

Suddenly, the three white bones paused in place, straightened their arms, and aimed their palms at Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo's heart jumped, and he felt something was wrong.

The next moment, countless frost gathered together, producing an unusually intense ice explosion.

Bang!

This section of the corridor was directly broken by the huge ice block inside.

But the next moment, green light shone brilliantly in the ice block, and towering trees grew wildly.

The tree canopy became dense, like a giant umbrella, completely covering this section of the corridor.

Thick vines, like giant pythons, attacked everywhere, hitting the bone skeletons, making them scurry up and down in the smoke and shock.

Ning Zhuo hid in the depths of the canopy, holding the tree trunk, gasping for breath.

The sneak attack just now made him run for his life; only now did he catch his breath.

If those bone claws had hit Ning Zhuo, according to his defensive means, his end would basically be the same as the inner wall of the corridor.

"Using three Jin Dan-level white bone skeletons to sneak attack me? Which cultivator in the corridor hates me so much?"

Under the cover of the canopy, he had the opportunity to look into the distance and examine these skeletons carefully.

He saw their heads were inverted triangle-shaped like mantises, with three spiral ice horns arranged horizontally on their foreheads, and ice-blue ghost fire burning in their eye sockets.

They were hunched over, with inverted blades on their thirty-six vertebrae, long limbs, ice thorns at the joints, and sharp ice blades on their fingers and toes.

The ice light shone on their ribcages, and the shadows of defensive talismans flashed from time to time.

And their tail vertebrae extended to the ground, forming long bone whips. The bone whips were covered with inverted thorns; in the sneak attack just now, Ning Zhuo was almost swept by the whips several times.

Ning Zhuo's pupils relaxed slightly, and connecting to the knowledge in his belly, he immediately identified the identity of these assassins—Snow Bone Rakshasa!

Identifying the identity was just a matter of an instant.

Ning Zhuo then saw firelight appearing at the edge of his field of vision.

He turned his head to look and found that the entire Three-General Camp was in a sea of fire.

This sea of fire was not normal; the flames were yellow-green in color and made a shrill hissing sound when burning.

This time, Ning Zhuo didn't need to combine the knowledge in his belly; he identified the foundation of the sea of fire at a glance.

Magic Art—Nether Fire Purgatory!

He had personally experienced the power of this magic art.

It was when he was fighting Qi Bai in the Fire Persimmon Immortal City that the other party performed it.

Therefore, Ning Zhuo had a deep impression and identified it at a glance at this time.

"Could it be that the Soul-Devouring Sect has come?"

"With such a fire, it is at least a Nascent Soul-level cultivator."

"Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts!"

Ning Zhuo's heart tightened.

Since the grand battle, because the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts participated in the war and performed the Ghost Gate Pass, they were immediately known to the armies of the two kingdoms.

Ning Zhuo naturally also knew this military situation, and his heart felt like it was pressed by a huge stone.

"The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts are strong people among Nascent Soul cultivators, famous in all countries; even if I add the three generals, we will not be their opponents!"

Ning Zhuo himself, with the help of the mechanical army, could leverage combat power at the Jin Dan level.

The Three-General Camp was motivated and could fight existences at the Nascent Soul level. However, this combat power was specifically between Ma Feitui and Tu Ming.

And among the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts, the combat power of either one was publicly recognized as stronger than Tu Ming's.

Tu Ming mastered the divine ability "Ten Thousand Snake Poison Flow" and was a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts were both True Monarch level, and each mastered more than one divine ability!

"Be careful, the visitor is very likely the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts!" Ning Zhuo communicated urgently with Liu, Generals Guan, and Zhang.

Just after he finished contacting, he looked up suddenly and saw a meteorite falling from the sky.

The white ice meteorite drove the howling gale and pressed down fiercely.

Ning Zhuo catalyzed his magic power, mobilized the Wood-Element magic art "Pine Wave Emerald Surge," and launched a counterattack.

The sound of pine waves rose suddenly, and the emerald light surged like a giant wave, rushing onto the white ice meteorite, but it was like a sea wave hitting a reef; the latter was difficult to shake, and only its momentum was reduced by 30%.

Ning Zhuo hurriedly performed "Tree World Arrival" again; the ground bulged high, and countless trees and vines broke through the ground. The towering trees kept rising, forming a wall-like defense.

Wood-Element—Bamboo Joint Green Toughness!

Ning Zhuo added another layer of protection for the giant trees.

This was a magic art that Linghu Jiu had performed before; Ning Zhuo, relying on his profound Wood-Element realm, had a grasp of it after seeing it once.

Now it had been completely replicated.

(End of chapter)