Chapter 200

On the mountains northwest of the Lost Lake, all the demons were wearing blood-colored vine armor and vine-woven conical hats. The finely woven vine armor wrapped these people tightly from head to toe, revealing only their faces and two hands. However, judging from the exposed faces and hands, the people inside the vine armor were extremely thin and gaunt, without a trace of blood color, as if all the blood in their bodies had been used to feed this armor.

This was the attire of the Blood Vine Sect.

The vine armor of the Blood Vine Sect demons was extremely famous in the Southern Border region and was something similar to a life-bound magic treasure. After these demons joined the Blood Vine Sect, they would be bestowed a vine seed, which was planted in their navels, and then the vine seed would take root and sprout. By feeding the vine seed with blood, after the vines grew out, they would transform into vine armor to protect the whole body. Few people in the same realm could break the armor, and the vine armor could also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to feed the host, so the cultivation speed of the Blood Vine Sect demons was very fast.

The Blood Vine Sect was a demonic sect within the Southern Wilderness Realm. Like the Yinhe Ghost Sect, they were originally local powerhouses, but now they had all become lackeys under Xin Chenzi.

However, the Blood Vine Sect was even more famous than the Yinhe Ghost Sect, not only because of this strange cultivation method of blood vines, but also because their sect leader, Blood Vine Granny Long Youpo, had already passed through four thunder tribulations. There was even a legend that Blood Vine Granny was the manifestation of a vine demon at a place where a dragon had fallen, having absorbed the essence of the dragon corpse and obtained the dragon treasury, making her a figure with a very high hope of reaching the Fourth Realm.

Long Youpo had lived for many years, so she was called Blood Vine Granny, and her voice was also very old, but her physical body still maintained the appearance of a young girl. She wore a blood-colored long dress, her complexion was rosy, and she even wore a flower garland on her head, looking like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, which looked very strange among a group of demons.

Long Youpo sat on a tree vine at the top of the mountain, leisurely as if she were on a swing. She watched Yao Kaijiang being besieged by many people and wanted to save his life, but she was afraid that the righteous path had set an ambush, so she said,

"Yuechou, you go and scout."

"As you command."

Not far from Long Youpo, a person with a large frame and full vine armor leaped off the mountain and flew toward Yao Kaijiang. This person was named Wu Yuechou, a figure who had undergone two thunder tribulations. He was Long Youpo's confidant and held a position of being under one person and above ten thousand in the Blood Vine Sect.

When this person flew over the Lost Lake, it happened to be when the green rainbow came from the north, like a long rope, like galloping thunder.

The momentum of the green rainbow was vast and mighty, and everyone saw it, heading straight for the sky above the Lost Lake.

But now, a group of people was fighting fiercely on the east side of the Lost Lake, the demons on the west side were hiding in the mountains and not moving, and the mist high above the Lost Lake had also been swept clean by Blood Vine Granny with the blood dragon. Only Wu Yuechou, a demon wrapped tightly in blood armor, was left, appearing exceptionally conspicuous.

The owner of the green rainbow naturally saw him too, and the rainbow light shot over. Wu Yuechou could not figure out the background of this rainbow light, but just looking at the grand formation, he knew it was not an ordinary thing, so he chose to avoid the sharp edge for the time being. He stopped his figure and flew backward for ten or twenty zhang.

Seeing this, the green rainbow did not give up and pursued him as well, and its speed was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it caught up with the demon.

Seeing this, the demon immediately circulated his magic power to urge the blood armor, and the blood armor immediately shone brightly. In addition to this, Wu Yuechou also released a nine-section wooden mace, preparing a defensive posture.

However, what was surprising was that the green rainbow just quickly circled around Wu Yuechou once and then left, leaving only a circle of green rope-like tail behind the demon's side.

Wu Yuechou was somewhat puzzled.

However, the next moment, both the righteous and demonic paths, who were paying attention to the movements of the green rainbow, opened their eyes wide in unison.

They saw that the tail of the green rainbow suddenly tightened like a rope, and like a solid substance, it looped around Wu Yuechou's body.

Tails are very common; they are the spiritual light formed when magic treasures, spells, or even cultivators fly in the void, and the magic light collides with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

These spiritual lights would also radiate different colors according to the Five Elements and Yin-Yang attributes of the flying object, the depth of magic power fluctuations, and the attributes and density of the local spiritual energy of heaven and earth, making them quite eye-catching things.

Often, the greater the movement of the tail, the less simple the flying object is.

However, the tail is ultimately just a trace left by the flying object. When the flying object moves far away, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth slowly returns to calm, and the tail gradually disappears.

Never heard of a tail that can change!

Wu Yuechou also did not expect it, so he had no time to dodge, and this circle of tail was so close to him that he could not dodge it either. He could only urge the blood armor with all his strength and prepare to defend.

However.

The green rainbow tail contracted and tightened around his waist. The blood-colored vine armor, which had exhausted Wu Yuechou's life essence-blood to nourish and had blocked countless calamities for him, seemed like paper in front of the tail. As soon as it touched the tail, it exploded and scattered, not lasting even a single breath, exposing Wu Yuechou's physical body without reservation.

That was a physical body like withered vines, skin wrapped around bones, without any flesh and blood; instead, the roots of the blood vines crawled all over his body like blood vessels.

Such a body did not last half a breath under the tail. As the tail tightened completely, this demon who had undergone two washings exploded into a mass of bone dregs mixed with broken vine fragments all over the sky.

Amidst the fragments all over the sky, a dim primordial spirit held a black-red elixir bead blankly, as if it hadn't yet recovered its senses.

But it didn't matter anymore. At this moment, the green rainbow turned back and hit the demon's primordial spirit and Golden Core squarely, exploding them into countless spiritual lights, transforming into essence energy, and returning to heaven and earth.

Wu Yuechou, the Great Elder of the Blood Vine Sect, who was also somewhat famous in the Southern Wilderness generation, was thus strangled to death by the tail of a magic treasure of unknown origin.

Everyone on the outside was shocked.

What kind of magic treasure is this?

Yang Xuanla had just heard Long Youpo's urging and was about to get up to support Yao Kaijiang, but at this moment, seeing the magnificent power of the green rainbow, he stopped his steps abruptly.

The green rainbow circled over the Lost Lake, and no one dared to approach.

Afterward, a streak of escape light came from the north, following the end of the rainbow light tail and flying to this place.

The escape light arrived at the Lost Lake and condensed into a swift and graceful figure. This woman wore a goose-yellow long gown, and her waist-length hair was tied behind her head with a red rope. Her whole temperament was otherworldly, and at this moment, bathed in the rain curtain and lightning, she had even more of a divine and immortal majesty.

After the woman stood still, the green rainbow retracted its brilliant light and condensed into an ancient, simple, and slender green flying sword, circling around the woman.

The woman's beautiful eyebrows were as dark green as distant mountains, and at this moment, her brows were tightly furrowed. She first looked toward the battle group in the east, where the commotion was gradually subsiding. After sweeping a glance, she looked toward the lake, but at this time, although the mist in the distance of the Lost Lake had been scorched away by Long Youpo, the layer of mist naturally formed over the lake over a long time was still there, which was not something the woman could see through.

However, Cheng Xinzhan on the lake, who was personally controlling the mist formation and possessed the Green-Eyed Dharma Eye, saw the woman outside the lake clearly.

It's her.

How could she come here?

Emei is not far from here; did she come to execute demons after hearing the commotion?

At this time, the woman looked toward the few Daoist priests who were fighting Yao Kaijiang on the east side, and her cold voice rang out over the lake,

"Daoist priests, I wonder where Daoist Cheng is now? Has he been rescued?"

The woman was anxious in her heart. The sect's Listening Division found that a group of Eastern Daoist priests had recently sought help from the Miao Border Daoist Sect. There were Emei ears and eyes in the Miao Border Daoist Sect, and they vaguely heard that three people from the Eastern Daoist Sect had broken into the Lost Lake of the Wu River and were surrounded by the demonic path. Among the three who went in, the leader was a person named Cheng Xinzhan from Sanqing Mountain.

After the woman heard this news, she immediately left the sect and rushed over. Eliminating demons and defending the Dao was Emei's duty.

Facing the woman's inquiry, Song Jishu and the others were confused. He asked,

"I don't know who you are, fellow Daoist?"

The woman cupped her hands and replied,

"Emei Mountain, Zhou Qingyun." So it was someone from Emei; no wonder she had such a sharp sword.

Everyone was suddenly enlightened.

But how did she know Xinzhan was in the lake? Could it be that Xinzhan sent a message to invite reinforcements? However, she seemed to have misunderstood something. They were here to save Red Wood Ridge and to besiege and kill Yao Kaijiang, not to save Xinzhan.

Although Song Jishu had no good impression of Emei, seeing that this person seemed to be an old acquaintance of Xinzhan, he prepared to explain a little. But at this moment, he saw a person fly out from the mist on the lake, still in the same attire he had always worn: lake-blue outer robe, light peach inner garment, purple scarf with pearl crown and fire cloud hairpin, and a pair of cloud-patterned white cloth shoes on his feet.

"This poor Daoist is here, sorry to trouble you, fellow Daoist."

Zhou Qingyun saw that Cheng Xinzhan was unharmed, and her heart relaxed, her face showing joy.

"But I don't know how fellow Daoist Zhou knew this poor Daoist was here?"

Zhou Qingyun's face changed again, her eyes stained with a little emptiness, and her voice became even colder. "That is no trouble for you, fellow Daoist."

She looked toward the peaks in the east, where the mountain tops had been destroyed, the demons were fleeing in defeat, and the demonic leader was also being besieged. But the peaks in the west were filled with demonic energy, yet they were safe and sound. Thinking of the blood armor just now, a thought arose in her mind, and the ancient, simple, and slender green flying sword once again transformed into a rainbow, slashing toward the mountain peak where the Blood Vine Sect was located. She herself also flew away, leaving only one sentence,

"I only came to execute demons."

The ancient, simple, and slender flying sword transformed into a vast green rainbow that spanned the sky and swept across the mountain peak where the Blood Vine Sect was located. The light membrane supported by Blood Vine Granny instantly shattered.

Blood Vine Granny was astonished at the power of this flying sword, and Wu Yuechou's method of death also reminded her of a name from a long time ago: True Person Changmei, the master of Qi Shuming, the contemporary sect leader of Emei.

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Legend has it that before True Person Changmei became an immortal, he traveled the world with his junior brother. True Person Changmei held a green sword, and his junior brother held a purple sword, eliminating demons and defending the Dao, and they were invincible. At that time, the Northern and Southern demonic sects were severely damaged by these two genius senior and junior brothers who had not come out of the world for a long time, and many powerful seniors were suppressed.

In the legend, when that green sword killed an enemy, it would transform into a long rainbow, and anyone grazed by the green rainbow would either die or be injured.

The name of that sword was "Qingsuo."

Emei Mountain, Zhou Qingyun.

Three Heroes and Two Clouds! Long Youpo recalled the woman's self-introduction just now, and her heart became even more certain that it was this immortal sword.

Therefore, everyone heard Long Youpo say the word "Go," and then they saw the blood river fly back to the mountain peak where the Blood Vine Sect was located. Those Blood Vine Sect disciples didn't say a word and threw themselves into the blood river one after another, and Blood Vine Granny herself jumped in as well.

Before Blood Vine Granny jumped in, she cast a wooden talisman. The wooden talisman transformed into a dragon, collided with the pursuing green rainbow, and exploded into fireworks all over the sky. Afterward, the blood river was seen swimming away like a snake in the water, quickly disappearing without a trace.

Yang Xuanla couldn't help but curse, "Old thief woman!"

At this moment, seeing the woman in the yellow dress looking over with cold eyes, Yang Xuanla's scalp tightened. He didn't know how powerful this woman was, but judging by her magic power, she was only in the Initial Third Realm, not worth mentioning. What was powerful was that flying sword. He also didn't know how fierce the flying sword was, but he saw that Wu Yuechou died in one move, and it scared away Blood Vine Granny, whose cultivation was higher than his own, so he didn't want to try to fight and also wanted to leave.

However, Yang Xuanla did not have the supernatural powers of the blood river.

At this time, he had no time to think more, and the green rainbow had already swept over. Yang Xuanla's eyes flashed with fierce light, and he hardened his heart, ignoring his subordinates. Anyway, half of the disciples were still at the mountain gate of Nanpan River, so he transformed into a streak of black light and water smoke, intending to abandon his subordinates and leave.

However, he didn't expect that the notoriously fierce Long Youpo would flee without saying a word, and that blood river supernatural power was truly fast, so he was caught off guard and let her escape. If the slow-to-react Yang Xuanla were also allowed to leave so easily, then Cheng Xinzhan and Zhou Qingyun would be unworthy of being called heroes.

"Burn!"

What escape method in the world can be faster than the incantation intent in the dark?

A blazing Yang fire magic intent landed on the water smoke. Although it did not hurt Yang Xuanla, it broke his escape method, and he transformed back into a human body.

The next moment, the green rainbow swept over.

Yang Xuanla released a stone tablet covered with water moss, which looked gloomy and ominous.

However, when the stone tablet touched the green rainbow, it was like freshly scooped tofu, instantly shattering into dregs.

Yang Xuanla was terrified. Now he finally knew the power of this flying sword, because as soon as he made a move, he had released the strongest defensive magic treasure on his body, a stone tablet he had obtained from the ruins of an ancient witch altar in the Southern Wilderness. In the past, it had never been damaged by anyone, and even if some traces were left on the surface, it would recover as before within a few months by soaking it in spiritual water.

He never expected that it would be destroyed by this green rainbow sword.

The green rainbow came again, and he hurriedly tried to dodge, but immediately afterward, another red-gold sword light flew in.

Yang Xuanla took a look; it was the sword released by the Daoist priest who had just come out of the lake. He also had an impression of this sword; it was the sword the Daoist priest used to break Blood Vine Granny's blood river formation earlier, a sword of pure Yang.

This sword did not look as terrifying as the green sword, but Yang Xuanla raised water ghosts, refined an Yin body, and had a body of cold Yin magic power, so he also dared not take the pure Yang flying sword head-on and had to dodge again.

At this time, "Qingsuo" came again, attacking from the left and right with "Taodu."

"Two juniors, relying on the power of your sword weapons, you actually dare to be so rampant!"

Yang Xuanla had never been besieged by two people who were several realms lower than himself, and he was furious in his heart. He also cursed viciously, and then he was seen releasing a huge earthen jar filled with water. As Yang Xuanla chanted incantations, one water ghost after another crawled out of the jar. These water ghosts had disheveled hair and swam in the void, pouncing toward the two.

"Qingsuo" had spirit. Seeing evil ghosts pouncing on its master from all directions, it hurriedly retreated and circled around its master. Any of these water ghosts that touched the sword light, needless to say, turned into nothingness.

"You just focus on releasing your sword, no need to worry about yourself."

At this time, Zhou Qingyun suddenly heard Cheng Xinzhan say this.

Her heart moved slightly. "Qingsuo" was anxious to protect its master, but in fact, she carried the "Yellow Palace Body-Protecting Talisman" bestowed by her master, so she had no worries about water ghosts at all. But since he said so, she simply believed him.

Therefore, Zhou Qingyun indeed commanded "Qingsuo" again to head straight for Yang Xuanla, regardless of her own safety.

The water ghosts surged again, and Cheng Xinzhan naturally would not let the water ghosts hurt Zhou Qingyun.

"Jade Pivot captures evil, thunderous evil energy, slash!"

"Yang thunder scorches the sky, Fengdu leaves no trace, break!"

"Heavenly Gang evil energy, destroy the shape of ten thousand ghosts, extinguish!"

He chanted the Five Thunder Method incantations loudly. The thunder in the sky made a heaven-opening and earth-splitting roar. Silver-purple light and electricity poured down like a waterfall, and the thunderbolts intertwined into a net of thunder, protecting Zhou Qingyun within it. All the evil ghosts around her turned into ashes of tribulation. The later water ghosts were terrified of the thunder, and no matter how Yang Xuanla urged them, they dared not approach even a bit.

(End of chapter)