Chapter 559

The first duel was unfolding.

Battlefield edge.

Sun and Ning were both riding the Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon, quietly watching the battle in the dragon-head cabin.

The Blood Shadow Cave Master had once made things difficult for them and was now clashing with the righteous Nascent Soul cultivator Lei Qingyang of the Two Beans Kingdom.

"If Lei Qingyang has no means to see through it, the Blood Shadow Cave Master can firmly occupy the initiative by relying on true and false clones," Sun Lingtong evaluated.

Ning Zhuo nodded slightly. He also recognized this judgment.

"Learned it!"

"It seems that next, I also have to master a means to see through disguises."

"Previously, Sect Master Lin Bufan suffered, also because the enemy's illusion means were extremely powerful."

Sun Lingtong muttered: "Little Zhuo, you have too much to learn."

Ning Zhuo rarely failed to hear the implication, his expression serious as he nodded deeply: "Yes, I am still too young, and there is really a lot to learn!"

Sun Lingtong opened his mouth: "Don't forget, you have me covering you. My pair of spirit pupils can see through many false appearances."

Ning Zhuo smiled: "Having the boss is naturally good. But I still want to learn some, just in case."

"However, considering your talent, boss, perhaps I should postpone this learning plan."

"It is also possible to first learn how to disguise myself and build clones."

Sun Lingtong:...

While the two were talking, the Blood Shadow Cave Master and Lei Qingyang had several more rounds of clashes, neither winning nor losing.

Heavenly Master Lei suddenly shouted, the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword pierced through the sky full of blood mist, violent thunder qi shot everywhere, blowing out the true body of the Blood Shadow Cave Master.

This scene made the cultivators of both armies tremble in unison.

In the Thousand Peaks Forest alliance, the faces of most people changed together. Conversely, in the Two Beans Kingdom's camp, there was a burst of cheers.

In the previous few rounds of clashes, Lei Qingyang was gradually suppressed, just because it was difficult to distinguish true from false.

Now, he had already found a way to see through the true body's position, which meant that the situation of the battle would also change accordingly.

The Blood Shadow Cave Master's true body was hit and was not lightly injured.

His whole body's blood light surged, turning into a hundred-foot blood sea.

Nine huge blood pythons flew up from the blood sea, setting off a sky full of blood tides, their snake mouths wide open, spraying countless blood-evil yin thunder.

The cultivators of both armies held their breath, all knowing that this was the most critical contest!

Seeing the fierce offensive launched by his opponent, Lei Qingyang made a prompt decision and bit his tongue.

A mouthful of essence blood sprayed onto the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword, and ancient thunder patterns appeared on the sword body.

The Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword flew into the high sky.

Lei Qingyang also flew his thirty-six evil-warding thunder jades around the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword, using the Thunder-Striking Sword as the array heart, and quickly constructed an array.

Finally, he held the Thunder Marsh Gourd in one hand and released a large amount of thunder cloud again.

The thunder cloud wrapped around the thirty-six evil-warding thunder jades and the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword, expanded rapidly, and soon pushed aside the blood sea, occupying half of the battlefield.

Supernatural Power — Nine Heavens Thunder Bright Body.

"Nine Heavens Thunder Prison, open!"

Lei Qingyang shouted, triggering the Nine Heavens Thunder with his supernatural power. Countless thunder, shooting from all four sides of his body, from bottom to top, shot into the thunder cloud.

The thunder cloud churned endlessly, making rolling thunder sounds, and quickly turned into a temporary thunder pool.

The blood pythons and blood-evil yin thunder of the Blood Shadow Cave Master all flew into smoke in the explosion of the thunder pool, and the blood sea was evaporated until only a three-foot core area remained.

Lei Qingyang shouted again, triggering thousands of thunder, in one go, completely annihilating the blood sea core that was stubbornly resisting.

The thunder light dissipated, and only a blood bead remained at the core of the blood sea, floating in mid-air.

Lei Qingyang narrowed his eyes, just about to trigger means again to annihilate the blood bead.

The next moment, the blood bead suddenly exploded, turning into a blood line, rushing straight at him.

The blood bead was too fast, and countless cultivators watching the battle were shocked, unable to see clearly for a time.

At the critical moment, Lei Qingyang's body suddenly burst with electric light, carrying him to the right.

The blood line brushed past his neck, drawing a long wound on his neck, and then stopped in the high sky in the distance, turning into the Blood Shadow Cave Master's true body.

The Blood Shadow Cave Master was panting, extremely exhausted.

The wound on Lei Qingyang's neck had already stopped bleeding, he turned slowly, his sturdy body's Daoist robe fluttered, and his voice was steady like a mountain: "You lost."

The battlefield was silent.

Even Sun and Ning felt that Lei Qingyang, who mastered the temporary thunder pool, indeed had a great advantage and had already mastered the winning momentum.

The Blood Shadow Cave Master's desperate counterattack just now, although shocking, had little effect, showing that the Blood Shadow Cave Master was already exhausted.

However, the Blood Shadow Cave Master laughed loudly: "No, I won."

As soon as his words fell, the corners of Lei Qingyang's mouth overflowed with poisonous blood. The poisonous blood was blue and fishy.

Lei Qingyang hurriedly used means to suppress the poison.

But the poison in his body exploded at this moment, actually like a mountain-calling and sea-roaring wave, difficult to curb.

Lei Qingyang's aura plummeted all the way, falling directly to the bottom.

The thunder patterns in his palm disintegrated because of this, the temporary thunder pool was even harder to support, and it disintegrated in an instant, turning into thirty-six evil-warding thunder jades and a Heavenly Gang Thunder-Striking Sword. As for the sky full of thunder clouds, they were completely consumed.

Lei Qingyang gritted his teeth, crushed the jade pendant at his waist, and immediately brought up a thunder light.

The thunder light wrapped around him, broke through the air, and quickly returned to the Two Beans Kingdom's camp.

Zhao Xi and others hurriedly welcomed him: "Quick, treat Heavenly Master Lei!"

Lei Qingyang waved his hand to refuse: "The first duel is of great importance, but I lost, and I have no face to drag everyone down to consume magic power to treat me."

"I can solve it!"

"Next, we can only rely on everyone."

Lei Qingyang staggered off the city wall and went to retreat to heal his injuries.

Over there, the Blood Shadow Cave Master also consumed a lot, had difficulty fighting again, and returned to the formation weakly, triggering a burst of cheers.

The cheers reached the Two Beans Kingdom's camp, which was extremely harsh.

Zhao Xi frowned deeply, and as a leader, he had to face the current predicament and solve the current problem.

"The first duel was lost, the situation is not good, but the second battle must not be lost!"

Zhao Xi scanned the many Nascent Soul cultivators around him, hesitating, when another cultivator flew out from the Thousand Peaks Forest alliance.

This person's image was quite terrifying.

His figure was hunched like an old ape, his skin was corpse-green, and the surface was covered with honeycomb-like holes, with countless black maggots drilling in and out of the holes, swallowing rotten meat and then spitting out poisonous silk to repair the body.

He had no hair on his head, replaced by a layer of translucent flesh membrane, and three leeches could be seen swimming in the gray-white brain pulp under the membrane, a situation that made people sick.

His nose bridge was rotten and pierced, and in his eye sockets were not normal human eyeballs, but two poisonous bee nests embedded. Ghostly green phosphorus fire flickered in the hexagonal holes of the bee nests.

"Old man Li Jiuqu, the Gu cultivator, hehehe, who will come to die?"

When he spoke, the corners of his mouth tore to the roots of his ears, revealing a mouthful of jagged black teeth, and his tongue was parasitized by a large patch of miserable green moss, not knowing what kind of trick it was.

"Li Jiuqu?!"

"It really is him!"

"I didn't expect him to really hide in the Thousand Peaks Forest."

"Terrible! This person is a Gu cultivator, mainly practicing the 'Ten Thousand Maggots Devouring Immortal Art.' To practice this method, one must hollow out one's own bones, fill them with rotten immortal maggot larvae, and feed them with one's own essence blood to grow. The bone-eroding poison secreted by the maggots can dissolve magic treasures and can also gnaw on the enemy's flesh and blood to feed the host."

On the Two Beans Kingdom side, the cultivators discussed endlessly, each with quite grave expressions.

In terms of reputation alone, Li Jiuqu could be said to be notorious, a wanted criminal in multiple cultivation countries, much bigger than the Blood Shadow Cave Master.

Because the environment of the Thousand Peaks Forest was loose, Li Jiuqu hid here.

Now, in the second great battle, he appeared for the first time, catching the Two Beans Kingdom off guard, and also making the Thousand Peaks Forest alliance quite surprised.

Because before Li Jiuqu went to battle, he had always hidden his identity, and they didn't know either.

Lu Lu Hongtu was also kept in the dark, and seeing Li Jiuqu at this moment, he subconsciously cast his gaze toward Long Ye.

Long Ye was expressionless, sitting at the head.

The second great battle was of great importance, especially concerning the Dragon King Giant Pillar Mountain, and the entire Dragon King Temple attached great importance to it. Long Ye mainly invited Young Master Sheng Xu, while Li Jiuqu was hired with heavy money by other temple keepers of the Dragon King Temple.

"Hehehe, are you deaf or dumb, can't you understand what the old man said?"

Li Jiuqu called for battle again.

Without a doubt, Li Jiuqu was a strong enemy!

The many Nascent Soul cultivators of the Two Beans Kingdom looked at each other, unable to make a choice for a time.

Zhao Xi was also hesitating; in his view, no one had the certainty of winning, and they might even lose their lives!

Just then, one person took the initiative to step out: "I will fight him."

Everyone's gaze immediately cast toward the person who spoke, seeing him in a black robe, with an eight-brother bird standing on his shoulder; who else could it be but Mo Yechen?

Zhao Xi: "You..."

Mo Yechen smiled faintly: "Lord Zhao, fellow comrades, please rest assured, I take the initiative to fight, but it is not to die, but to have a certain degree of certainty."

"Of course, if there is anyone among you who has more confidence than me, I, Mo Yechen, am also willing to yield."

No one spoke.

Zhao Xi nodded helplessly and watched Mo Yechen fly off the city wall with worry.

Li Jiuqu had called for battle twice, cutting the morale of the Two Beans Kingdom's army twice, and he could not be allowed to continue.

Li Jiuqu vs. Mo Yechen.

"A fool who takes the initiative to die, hehehe, then let's kill you first." Li Jiuqu's black robe surged, and the holes all over his body emitted baby-like crying sounds.

The crying was so shrill that it drilled into people's hearts, shaking magic power and affecting the mind.

Mo Yechen made no move, the pupils of the eight-brother bird on his shoulder shone with starlight, and suddenly issued a clear whistle that pierced the heavens and earth.

This sound from the eight-brother bird immediately exposed the aura of the Nascent Soul level, the whistling sound suppressed the crying, and scattered countless silver brilliance on the battlefield.

"This bird is actually a Nascent Soul-level demon beast!" Ning Zhuo exclaimed.

Sun Lingtong also changed color slightly: "Initially, I didn't see its true colors."

Previously, Du Tiechuan sent four armies to actively invade the Thousand Peaks Forest to probe the reality of the enemy's military deployment.

Ning Zhuo used talismans to teleport to the Red Flower Camp, helping Mu Lan shoot and kill Di Lu and defeat the Pale Moon Ancient God, and then the eight-brother bird sent a message to inform the order to retreat.

Therefore, Sun and Ning, Mu Lan, and Zhang Zhongyi all had a meeting with this eight-brother bird.

Li Jiuqu's body swayed slightly.

His crying means were suppressed, and in annoyance, he took out a magic treasure.

Rotten Immortal Poison Basket!

The poison basket was woven from the spinal bones of cultivators, and inside it raised ten thousand poisonous Gu, including rotten-skin worms, rotten-meat maggots, bone-eroding centipedes, etc.

Deep in the bottom of the basket, a maggot Gu mother emperor was hidden, which could control all poisonous insects within a hundred miles to form a worm tide.

Li Jiuqu shook the Rotten Immortal Poison Basket.

A vast amount of poisonous insects, like a pitch-black torrent, rushed out.

The worm swarm collided and rubbed their shells, making a harsh metallic scraping sound. The mouthparts of the maggots sprayed a vast amount of purple mist, and wherever they passed, grass, trees, and forests instantly turned to ash.

Mo Yechen retreated rapidly, using space to exchange for time.

He still did not make a move, the eight-brother bird on his shoulder flapped its wings and screamed, the sound waves forming semi-transparent ripples.

The worm swarm hit the sound waves, and a large number of poisonous insects exploded with a pop, with miserable green and withered yellow slurry splashing everywhere in the high sky.

"Hehehe." Li Jiuqu sneered, his spiritual sense infused into the worm swarm.

The next moment, more than ten Gu insects flew out from the worm swarm.

The rotten-skin worms took the lead in charging, rotting through the sound waves, the rotten-meat maggots rushed to Mo Yechen's surroundings and exploded, forming a poisonous aura, and the bone-eroding centipedes wanted to drill into Mo Yechen's body, but were swallowed into the bird's belly one by one by the eight-brother bird.

Once swallowed into the bird's belly, Li Jiuqu immediately lost the close connection between himself and the Gu insects.

This made this notorious Demonic Dao Gu cultivator frown.

Seeing this scene, the cultivators of both armies showed different colors one after another.

Sun and Ning also saw the doorway.

Sun Lingtong blurted out: "No wonder this person took the initiative to ask for battle; it turns out this eight-brother bird has the ability to restrain Gu insects."

Ning Zhuo nodded, he put more attention on Li Jiuqu: "A Nascent Soul-level Gu cultivator, this is the first time I have seen one."

His heart moved slightly, and his emotions were a bit complicated.

Don't know why, he seemed to have a different kind of feeling for Gu cultivators.

Seeing that the poisonous Gu were difficult to work, Li Jiuqu immediately cast spells to attack the man and the bird.

Mo Yechen finally made a move, drawing with his hands, and one spell after another clashed out, killing each other in a stalemate for a time.

Li Jiuqu's Gu insects opened the eyes of the crowd watching the battle, and Mo Yechen set off a black tide, swallowing the light, hiding himself, and guarding steadily.

Li Jiuqu's strength was indeed powerful, clearly above Mo Yechen.

But Mo Yechen's battle this time had the help of the eight-brother bird on his shoulder.

His bird pet not only had Nascent Soul-level power, but also had the ability to restrain Gu insects.

The man and the bird helped each other, and actually fought a stalemate with Li Jiuqu.

Lu Lu Hongtu watched the battle for a long time, and sent a spiritual sense message to Long Ye: "Li Jiuqu is famous in name only, and actually cannot take down a Mo Yechen. Time is very tight, and our side's advantage at the Nascent Soul level is very likely to be lost due to the Two Beans Kingdom's reinforcements at any time."

Long Ye nodded and immediately ordered the remaining cultivators to go to battle.

"I am the Demon Heart Cave Master, the one opposite, come out and fight me!"

"Pale Moon Tribe, Gu Ya is here!"

"Old woman Bi Bi Teng Yi, hehehe, who will come to exchange pointers with me?"

"Gao Cuo is here, please give me advice."

In an instant, nearly ten Nascent Soul-level cultivators were dispatched.

Zhao Xi's face was extremely ugly.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators on the Two Beans Kingdom side was far less than that of the Thousand Peaks Forest. The feeling of having their weaknesses firmly grasped by the enemy was really uncomfortable.

At the critical moment, a female cultivator stood up.

"Barbarians from outside, extremely arrogant."

"I am the Princess of the Kingdom, so let me teach you all a good lesson!"

The one who spoke was none other than the Mechanical Princess Shuang Ling.

She flew into the high sky and released a hundred flying mechanical fairies, circling around herself.

"Come, let's go together!" Shuang Ling issued a provocation to the many Nascent Soul cultivators on the enemy side.

She was actually going to fight the crowd alone!