Chapter 35: Patching the Map

The mixed battle between the two sides instantly became a one-sided situation. The explosive power of Long Xuan's five External Avatars was truly too high. After suffering, the few people didn't dare to take them head-on and could only dodge and fight.

But they were at a numerical disadvantage. If they could dodge one person's attack, could they dodge two people's attacks?

It wasn't that they didn't have external Gu for help; they had all refined a Snake Gu and had already released them all.

But Long Xuan had the immortal ability of the Cockroach Gu. Except for the Golden Finger, all his abilities would be copied to the External Avatars.

Including the ability of the Heavenly Mechanism Eye, but the eye at the center of the clones' brows was an illusion, and its magnification ability was far inferior to the main body.

The five great clones relied on their immortal ability, braving the biting of the Snake Gu, attacking the opponents desperately. It was completely a fighting style of trading wounds for wounds.

As long as the Gu cultivator was beaten to death, the Gu insects under blood contract would naturally die instantly. Therefore, the five great clones completely ignored the attacks of the Snake Gu, attacking with full force without any defense.

This fighting style tortured the three of them. Fire Jade, Kan Jade, Lin Jade, Zhui Jade, Gui Jade were smashed onto their bodies desperately.

Most were dodged by them, and the earth was smashed into one round pit after another.

But quite a few attacks still hit them, causing them not-light injuries.

Long Xuan planned to end the battle quickly. Although there was a sound-isolation array here, Long Xuan was still worried that too much movement would attract the Market Guardian.

Although he was the victim, the current situation was that he was beating these three people. Once these three people bit back and said that he was the one robbing the path, then with one side having no injuries and the other side covered in injuries, he wouldn't be able to clear his name even with a mouth.

After such a long time, his Original Realm was finally ready. He didn't hesitate and directly activated it.

The consciousness of the three was immediately sucked into the illusion.

One had to know that only consciousness entered the illusion, not the body.

Once consciousness entered the illusion, the body left outside could only remain motionless and be torn apart by the attacks outside.

When these three were smashed into slag by various jades in an instant, Long Xuan quickly put away the three people's storage bags and fled the scene.

Speaking of which, these three were also unlucky. It was their first time killing and robbing treasures. They were cautious, cautious, and cautious, choosing the one they thought was the weakest, and they predicted the enemy generously and made various preparations, even arranging Stone Gu and sound-isolation arrays.

But even being cautious to such a degree, they still capsized in the end.

Not long after Long Xuan left, a group of people appeared here. The seven leaders were all at the Spirit Refining Peak realm.

Without surprise, they were the guardians of the market.

The Far West Region had seven great Gu cultivator families: Long, Feng, Mu, Miao, Lei, Shi, and Gu.

Each of the seven great Gu cultivator families would send an expert to guard the Far West Market.

The seven experts currently guarding the market were Long Lie, Miao Zhuang, Mu Tie, Feng Lan, Lei Li, Shi Jian, and the Gu Dalong known as Ancient Alchemist.

The seven great Gu cultivator families also had a large number of industries in this market, which were considered one of the economic lifelines of the major clans. Therefore, the seven Gu cultivators sent to guard here were all not weak in strength.

Long Lie inspected the round pits left on the ground one by one, showing a solemn expression, and said solemnly: "What domineering mutated spiritual power. These five types of mutated spiritual power are extremely strong. In the Far West Region, you can't pick out a few mutated spiritual powers stronger than these."

"Hmm!" Miao Zhuang on the side pondered and said: "I have never heard of these five types of mutated spiritual power, and it's my first time seeing them. But each one is extremely domineering and has extraordinary destructive power. It seems these five perpetrators are outside Gu cultivators."

Mu Tie walked up, pinched the soil in the pit, and said: "I have never seen the spiritual techniques they used. Which family are they from? Feng Lan, you are knowledgeable, can you recognize the origin of this spiritual technique?"

He turned his head to look at the middle-aged woman with a hot figure on the side.

"I'm also seeing it for the first time. It might be a newly created spiritual technique, or the five perpetrators came from a very far place. It's normal that I can't see the origin."

"But no matter who it is, to dare to kill and rob treasures here, and even kill three people, it counts as breaking the rules here. They must be caught and tied to the market to be beheaded in public as a warning to others," Feng Lan frowned and said sternly.

Lei Li had a hot temper and said angrily: "That's right. They actually dared to commit crimes in the territory we are responsible for. They clearly didn't put us in their eyes. We must investigate. Since he can commit a crime once, he will commit a crime a second time. We absolutely cannot let it go, otherwise, the market's majesty will inevitably be damaged, and it might make some people's courage grow."

"I see this is the road to Big Stone Village. Those five people are very likely hiding in Big Stone Village. We might as well go over and search, maybe we can catch them immediately."

Gu Dalong laughed: "Hehe! No need to search there. Long Ao is in seclusion in that place. If they dare to go there and act wild, they are looking for death."

"If they really went there, we don't need to make a move at all. They will play themselves to death."

Shi Jian laughed loudly: "That's true. You cheated him here ten years ago with an ancient fragmentary formula to repair the formula, and he has been in seclusion for ten years. You really pitted this old guy quite badly. Repairing a fragmentary formula is not an easy thing. Just those three types of materials might trap him here for a lifetime."

Gu Dalong said dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean I pitted him? The fragmentary formula I gave him was real. It was his own comprehension that wasn't enough to repair it, causing him to waste ten years here. Can you blame me?"

"I didn't force him to repair it. He could give up at any time. It was his own stubbornness. How can it be blamed on me?"

Long Xuan returned home. After casually checking the storage bags of the three loose cultivators, he found no good goods, immediately showing a look of disappointment, and threw the storage bags aside.

Loose cultivators themselves were poor, and they had to spend most of their net worth on Gu insects. Gu insects would die instantly with the death of the host. Once the Gu insects died, Long Xuan had even less harvest.

With this one battle, Long Xuan understood that the way of killing and robbing treasures to obtain resources was not advisable. The harvest and risk might not be proportional.

After taking such a big risk, in the end, he might only get a pile of junk. Don't ever think that you can always succeed. No one is invincible. If you kill and rob treasures countless times, sooner or later you will fail once, and as long as you fail once, what you will pay will be your life.

That female loose cultivator acted so steadily and predicted the enemy so generously, but in the end, didn't she still die?

So farming is the kingly way. Cultivation is not about fighting and killing.

After Long Xuan made a summary, he took out the biggest harvest of the Treasure Exchange Meeting—the treasure map fragment.

According to the plan he had already made, he placed the treasure map fragment on a piece of white paper of similar size, and then began to scribble in the missing parts of the treasure map.

The treasure map fragment originally had 90.98% progress, but after Long Xuan's scribbling, the progress disappeared instantly.

Long Xuan was not surprised but happy. He understood that his idea was feasible.

He was not afraid of the progress disappearing; he was afraid that the progress wouldn't change. As long as the progress changed, whether it rose or disappeared, it meant that his method of padding white paper to patch the map fragment was feasible. As long as he made unremitting efforts, sooner or later, he would successfully patch the map fragment.

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