Chapter 542: Isolated Island, Puppet, Decisive Battle

After putting the huge corpse of a Tier 3 Ring-Necked Turtle into his storage bag, Gu Shaoshang's gaze fell under the sea surface.

At just one glance, he noticed something wrong.

That spiritual energy fluctuation was not a sign of the Red Rock Crab's self-detonation.

"Evil aura?"

Just as he was puzzled, his brows twitched, and he immediately pulled back, hiding in the void.

Under the sea surface.

Luo Chen was a bit stunned, a cultivator?

And a Great Cultivator with a seventh-layer Golden Core realm!

Suddenly, his expression moved, he put away the Fierce Fire Miasma, and quietly escaped into the deep sea.

On the large island nearby, the battle had gradually come to an end, and the Red Rock Crab clan could already spare troops to sweep the battlefield; this was not a place to stay for long.

As the two left, after a long time, a figure flew to this sea area.

He circled around and showed a look of doubt.

Gone?

Whether it was his own clan or the demon king of the Ring-Necked Turtle clan, they were nowhere to be seen.

Could it be that his own clan was killed, and even the corpses were taken away?

After searching again, the Red Rock Crab Demon King could only return without success; fortunately, this large island was indeed taken down, and it was one step closer to hitting Xuanyan Island.

On a desolate island.

As soon as Luo Chen returned to the cave dwelling, he took out the Tier 3 Red Rock Crab that had died not long ago without stopping.

Driving a magic tool, between the operation of magic power, he dismantled the shell from the corpse, and immediately used special medicinal liquid for soaking treatment.

Only at this step did Luo Chen breathe a sigh of relief.

Tier 3 demon crabs can already be refined into medicine without being alive.

But accordingly, the materials on its body must be processed in advance to avoid being infected by death aura.

Otherwise, if too much death aura is stained, even if the Black Emperor Paste is refined later, the quality will be very inferior, so the fish he caught in troubled waters would have been caught in vain.

Counting it up, this is already the third Tier 3 demon crab he has quietly hunted in the past few months.

Originally, Luo Chen had almost given up on this idea.

Who knew that the offensive of the demon crab side suddenly changed.

From the beginning of being orderly and cooperating with each other, to the later advancement and retreat being inconsistent, gradually evolving into fighting on their own.

Plus the resistance of the Ring-Necked Turtle side became more and more intense.

The situation became more and more chaotic!

This gave Luo Chen enough opportunities.

With the Tier 3 Hidden Array engraved on his body, whenever Luo Chen took action, as long as he didn't release high-power means, it was almost silent.

The first two times, he encountered two Tier 3 demon crabs that had won a miserable victory and were heavily injured.

After he quietly performed his innate magic treasure Hunyuan Cauldron, he easily caught them back.

This time, it was even easier!

Thinking of the process of taking action this time, Luo Chen recalled the young Great Cultivator he saw earlier.

"Is there someone else who learned from me to be the oriole behind?"

"Late-stage Golden Core..."

Luo Chen's mind moved, and he sent a sound transmission.

After a long time, a seemingly ordinary seagull circled in the sky a few times and then landed on this nameless desolate island.

She walked slowly along a specific route and finally entered the cave dwelling where Luo Chen was.

"Master, Tianxuan is back, what are your orders?"

The young man with his back to her turned around, holding a painting in his hand, on which was a lifelike portrait of a man.

Before he could speak, Tianxuan saw the portrait and blurted out.

"Gu Shaoshang!"

"Sure enough, it's him."

Luo Chen nodded slightly, a flame ignited on his hand, burning the portrait he had just drawn into ashes.

He knew that in this Xuanyan Sea area where there were usually no human traces, why would there be a seventh-layer Golden Core Great Cultivator for no reason.

If it was Gu Shaoshang, it wouldn't be strange.

After all, the other party had come long ago and had even cooperated with the royal demon crabs.

The only strange thing is that although the Feiyun Stream cultivators had already withdrawn from the Xuanyan Sea area, this Gu Shaoshang returned, and like him, acted as an oriole.

"His goal is very obvious, he is aiming for the Tier 3 Ring-Necked Turtle."

"Just like me aiming for the Tier 3 Demon Crab King!"

"However, since he had already joined forces with the demon crab side earlier, why bother to be so mean and learn from me to act sneakily?"

Muttering, Luo Chen fell into thought.

Tianxuan stood there respectfully, not daring to disturb Luo Chen at all.

After a long while, Luo Chen finally woke up.

"Returning after leaving, acting as an oriole, is this because he is afraid that the demon crab side will kill the donkey after the mill is finished, so he relies on his cultivation to act alone?"

It must be said that this guess of Luo Chen is not much different from the truth.

Or rather, it's not difficult to guess this point.

The Tianxuan Fighting Gull, which had been applied with concealment means by Luo Chen, hovered in the nine heavens all the time, monitoring the direction of this great battle for him.

In the process, she also saw several times Feiyun Stream cultivators moving Ring-Necked Turtle corpses to the demon-hunting ship.

This is clearly one of the conditions for the cooperation between humans and demons.

At first, she thought the Feiyun Stream cultivators had earned enough, so they left in a hurry.

Looking at it now, that Gu Shaoshang's appetite is not small.

Of course, the other party is also very cautious, first withdrawing the weak sect members of his own sect, and then hunting more Ring-Necked Turtles alone.

From this, Luo Chen also had a thought.

"Should I take advantage of him being alone and kill him? To avenge Tianxuan?"

Tianxuan's revenge is not just as simple as face.

Because the Tianxuan Fighting Gull was captured, this attracted three Demon Spider Crab demon kings to attack Tianxuan Island, thereby exposing Luo Chen's location.

Otherwise, he wouldn't need to take such risks now and enter the battlefield himself to hunt demon crabs.

After some thought, Luo Chen still temporarily dismissed this idea.

"Forget it!"

"The top priority is to quietly hunt more Tier 3 demon crabs and prepare more Black Emperor Paste for the physical tempering in the late stage of Tier 3 Desolate Ancient."

"Adding extra branches will not be beautiful."

Luo Chen can distinguish between importance and urgency.

The current battlefield environment is chaotic and complex, which is just right for him to fish in troubled waters and seize benefits.

If he creates extra branches, it will easily attract greater trouble if he alarms the five royal demon crab sides.

And!

If he wants to deal with a late-stage Golden Core Great Cultivator, with his current ability, he must use all his means.

Whether he can take him down is one thing, but making too much noise is another.

The master of the evil Jiao and thieving gull is a great enemy of the demon crab side!

After setting the primary and secondary goals, Luo Chen looked at Tianxuan.

"What is the current situation of the crab-turtle war?"

Tianxuan answered without hesitation: "Fifty-four islands have been broken, and only eighteen islands remain under the control of the Ring-Necked Turtle clan. According to my observation, the five royal demon crab clans are determined to win this battle and have sent out almost all the elites in the clan. Taking down the remaining eighteen islands is just around the corner!"

Only eighteen large islands left?

Luo Chen muttered this number, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

The Nine-Palace Bagua Array, with nine islands as an array eye, divides into eight areas, forming a Bagua trend, guarding Xuanyan Island in the center.

That is to say, the eighteen large islands are the last two array eyes.

Either don't break it, once broken, under the chain reaction, the direction of this war will be completely determined.

The time left for him is not much!

"Continue to monitor the battlefield situation, and notify me immediately once a great battle breaks out."

"Yes, Master!"

"How is the situation on Black King's side?"

"According to the array map provided by Master, Big Black is already extremely close to Xuanyan Island. However, wanting to sneak in is afraid to be a bit difficult."

Hearing this news, Luo Chen nodded.

The Nine-Palace Bagua Array, although majestic, is actually quite rough.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easily found by Gu Shaoshang to break it one by one.

On his side, with Han Zhan's guidance, plus the soul-searching and spirit-seeking method of the Sealing God Luo Pan, the direction of this great array is more transparent and clear.

Therefore, long ago, he had already let Black King take advantage of the fierce battle and quietly sneak into the inner array for emergencies.

"You notify Black King, if he gets on Xuanyan Island, follow the array map I gave him and go to the designated place to bury the Sealing God Luo Pan."

Tianxuan was surprised: "Master, are you going to the island too?"

Luo Chen smiled freely, "If it really reaches that point, I also want to witness how this war ends. I think that scene should be very spectacular!"

Personally observing the rise and fall of a clan can be considered a good thing in a cultivation career.

Even if there is no harvest, it can be used as a good talk in exchanges with fellow Daoists in the future.

Time passed slowly.

After losing Gu Shaoshang's command, the attack of the demon crab side became very chaotic.

However, with the single clan forming an army and less mutual restraint, the chaos in command was effectively alleviated.

For this, the price paid was that the five royal demon crab clans each increased their losses by 30%.

Not only low-level demon crabs, but even high-level combat power, the losses also suddenly became larger.

A Great Demon King personally counted that the five clans paid the lives of more than twenty Tier 3 demon kings in this battle.

And the Ring-Necked Turtle side suffered even heavier losses!

However, even so, the resistance of the Ring-Necked Turtle side never stopped, and it was even more determined, not giving an inch.

The five royal demon crab clans were also the same!

The battlefield began to advance continuously.

From the initial seventy-two islands, to thirty-six islands, and then eighteen islands.

Unknowingly, the array-breaking and island-destroying had lasted for nearly a year.

Until the patriarchs of the five royal demon crab clans stepped onto Kongshe Island together.

Jin Hun, Chi Yan, Zhu Xiang, Nine-Clawed, Green Sleeve.

The five demons revealed their complete bodies, their huge bodies standing on Kongshe Island.

Behind them were millions of demon crab armies.

In front of them was a giant island with an area of a thousand miles!

If looking from the sky, it looked like a piece of land.

This is Xuanyan Island!

"Planning for decades, fighting fiercely for five years, we finally arrived here. Everyone, whether we succeed or fail, depends on this last battle!" Jin Hun spat out, without the state of vicissitudes, only full of majestic ambition.

The other four demons were also extremely complicated in their hearts at this moment.

Some of them just happened to meet the meeting and participated in this battle at the end.

Some have been prepared in advance and have been secretly paying attention to the progress of the Overlord Crab clan.

Regardless, the payment of each family is equally huge.

Green Sleeve blinked, feeling quite sentimental: "To get here, my Qingdi Crab clan paid seven Tier 3 clansmen, and the remaining Tier 2 and Tier 1 are countless. Until now, there are still some Tier 3 clansmen whose corpses have not been found."

Zhu Xiang said indifferently: "All the payments are worth it. As long as, we take Xuanyan Island!"

"Chirping and chirping, those who don't know would think it's those weak cultivators who are sentimental." Chi Yan sneered.

And Nine-Clawed couldn't hold back anymore, revealing the fangs in his mouth.

"When are we going to do it?"

Jin Hun raised his giant pincers, "There is only one last step, so don't delay. Choosing a day is not as good as hitting the day, let's do it today!"

As he spoke, his giant pincers fell with a boom.

"Attack!"

After speaking, he soared into the sky.

Together with him were the other four patriarchs.

Under the attention of all, the five great patriarchs broke through the air and headed straight for the giant island with a vast area.

As they flew out, the island trembled with a boom, and a beam of light rose from the ground.

Majestic spiritual energy erupted from the depths of the ground.

And there was a terrifying suction force, permeating all directions.

But unfortunately, this suction force lacked a response.

The Nine-Palace Bagua was broken, and the remaining middle palace had no echo, just an isolated island.

That beam of light, after unfolding, had not yet manifested its form, and was smashed by the five great patriarchs, who used peerless demon energy to crush it.

As the beam of light was crushed, layers of shaking sounds came from Xuanyan Island.

Several high mountains on the island collapsed.

The earth rolled, like a dragon turning over.

Streams of seawater surged from all directions, quite like a tsunami sweeping.

Before anyone knew when, there were Ring-Necked Turtles waiting coldly on the island, and they had already made combat preparations to guard their home.

No nonsense!

With an order from the five great patriarchs, millions of demon crab armies began to land on Xuanyan Island.

For a time, the shouting shook the sky and the earth.

Endless blood rain scattered, and fishy demon energy permeated all directions.

"I should also go to the island."

In the demon crab army, a Tier 2 demon crab moved slowly, looking a bit out of place.

Under the shell, in the abdominal cavity, Luo Chen controlled this demon crab puppet and walked forward slowly with a look of surprise.

Yes, demon crab puppet!

This demon crab is a simple puppet made by Han Zhan for Luo Chen in his spare time.

Its offensive and defensive capabilities are very average, but it wins in being able to hide its tracks.

Plus, after Luo Chen's "Concealment Spirit Technique" reached perfection, he could absorb the aura of others, and the means of disguise and imitation.

Combined, if you don't look closely, almost no one will find anything wrong with this demon crab.

Following Luo Chen's control, a strange feeling emerged in his heart.

"It's a bit like controlling a mecha in the sci-fi I saw in my previous life."

Muttering, the demon crab puppet stepped on eight legs and kept up with the rhythm of the army's advance.

But after landing on the island, it didn't join the battle for the first time, but found a direction, broke away from the main force, and left quietly.

Moving forward all the way, battles broke out frequently on the road, but Luo Chen avoided them as much as possible.

Suddenly.

Luo Chen's footsteps paused, and his gaze looked at a location.

There, spiritual light transformed, and a figure slowly emerged.

"It's him!"

Gu Shaoshang also came.

However, compared to Luo Chen's quietness, Gu Shaoshang's whereabouts were somewhat exposed.

It's fine if the number of ordinary demon beasts is small, but now on this battlefield full of demon beasts, suddenly appearing a human cultivator is really too eye-catching.

As soon as he appeared, Gu Shaoshang had to kill two demon beasts with his own hands.

Luo Chen glanced at it, had no idea of participating in it, and controlled the demon crab to avoid the center of the battlefield.

"Duo!"

In the battlefield, Gu Shaoshang pointed like a sword, controlling a flying sword to harvest the lives of nearby demon beasts.

He was a bit helpless.

He was not proficient in concealment techniques, and he didn't expect that there would be so many demon beasts participating in this final decisive battle.

After a moment of carelessness, he was actually exposed.

Seeing that there were two demon kings flying toward him in the distance, he had to pull back and fly away from Xuanyan Island.

"This final battle, I'm afraid I don't even have the chance to watch."

In helplessness, he glanced from the corner of his eye and saw a demon crab that was out of place going in the opposite direction.

A strange demon crab, not even listening to the orders of the clan king?

Luo Chen naturally didn't know that he had once fallen into the other party's eyes.

He only knew that he was very smooth.

Walking all the way, under his deliberate detour, he avoided battles of all sizes.

Finally, the demon crab puppet stopped in a swamp mud pool covered by miasma.

Eight legs stopped.

The miasma also seemed to be blown away by the wind, giving way to a road.

A giant python with a single horn on its head stretched out its head, looking at the demon crab suspiciously.

But with a divine sense sound transmission entering its ears, it reacted immediately.

"Welcome, Master!"

The demon crab didn't answer, stepped on its feet, and stepped into the swamp.

As soon as it entered, the shell was lifted, and Luo Chen walked out from inside.

Looking around, he showed a look of satisfaction.

"Although this place is inferior, it connects to the deep-sea spring eye, and it is easy to advance and retreat; it can be a base camp! Black King, you did a good job!"

Speaking of this, he casually threw a jade bottle over.

Black King took it like a treasure, carefully.

"Master, are we going to participate in the war?" He held the jade bottle and asked carefully.

Luo Chen's mouth curled slightly.

Participate in the war?

This is naturally going to be done, but it cannot be done hastily.

The top priority is to observe the battlefield situation first!

Without answering Black King, Luo Chen found a dry place in the swamp, sat cross-legged.

The Sealing God Luo Pan floated in front of him.

He operated his innate cultivation technique, absorbed the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy, and before it was transformed, he performed spells.

Soon, a huge water mirror took shape slowly.

In the mirror, all kinds of battles were lifelike.

But because of the eruption of demon energy and spiritual energy, this water mirror began to ripple continuously, looking a bit unstable.

"With my divine sense foundation comparable to a late-stage Golden Core, can't I maintain the Water Mirror Technique under such a large-scale battle?"

Muttering, Luo Chen could only accept reality.

However, he had another method.

"Senior Han, please help me."

In the Soul-Refining Banner, Han Zhan appeared in a phantom figure helplessly.

"You kid..."

As he spoke, he pointed at the water mirror in the air.

In an instant, the mirror surface was as stable as a rock!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 543 =====