Chapter 595

The five floating cloud friends were just small characters in the former Yunlai Workshop.

Five loose cultivators with low aptitude, who would never touch the edge of forging a Dao Foundation in their entire lives.

But one of them seemed to have some hidden physical talent, and after death, he was instead refined into a Dao Foundation zombie, which could be considered some luck.

Fang Xing was not slow or fast, chasing after that gray-white escape light, his mind turning rapidly:

'Lin Xu's corpse should have fallen into the hands of the Xie family of Shanyin... belonging to the Corpse-Driving Sect's power, but now it is being used as a trap to lure me... Could it be that the Corpse-Driving Sect and the Blood Shadow Sect have joined forces?'

'This is not good news for Elder Qingmu Ridge...'

'Isn't the Corpse-Driving Sect at war with the Flying Sword Sect? It seems they have a certain advantage, and can still place pieces in the corners?'

'This Flying Sword Sect, the number one of the ten, has some moisture...'

He laughed secretly in his heart.

If it weren't for his own astonishing perception, he wouldn't have been able to discover that Lin Xu was a refined corpse.

And the other party's trap was clearly to lure Fang Xing out of Poison Dragon Slope through Lin Xu before taking action.

As for why they wanted to lure him out of Poison Dragon Slope before taking action?

They must have suffered in Poison Dragon Slope.

They even felt that Poison Dragon Slope was so dangerous that it must contain some secret, so they couldn't wait to take Fang Xing down.

'Wait... there is one more point, how did they grasp this short opportunity of me coming back?'

Fang Xing's eyes turned, a bit cold: 'Unless... the Blood Shadow Sect has a spy in Elder Qingmu Ridge, or there is a Elder Qingmu Ridge cultivator who deliberately betrayed me!'

This is actually very normal.

Others are fighting to the death on the front line, while he is farming steadily in the rear and has obtained a large amount of merit, which is really eye-catching and easy to attract resentment.

Although the apprentices and nephews of those Yin Spirit True Masters and Yang Spirit True Monarchs have the same treatment, those ordinary Dao Foundation cultivators dare not resent these immortal second generations, only daring to resent people at the same level as them.

Fang Xing, who has no background, earns a lot of contributions, and exchanges for fundamental diagrams of supernatural powers, is naturally very prominent.

'Bullying the weak and fearing the strong is also human nature.'

'I hope that traitor will come together this time, so I can behead them openly...'

After all, colluding with the Blood Shadow Sect to besiege a Elder Qingmu Ridge Dao Foundation is a proper betrayal of the sect!

'Although I am dedicated to farming, people are bullied because they are kind... I must still show a certain combat power so that I can avoid being coveted.'

'The best combat power is naturally the paper-folding technique!'

After all, those who practice the paper-folding technique are all lunatics!

Cultivators are the same as ordinary people; the tough fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don't want to die.

'Lin Xu' flew over a swamp and stopped moving.

Fang Xing looked at him and suddenly smiled: "Should I call you Lin Xu, or 'Xie Songshan'?"

"Oh? You actually recognize this seat?"

Xie Songshan was slightly startled.

"Naturally... after all, Lin Xu died in the battle of the Xie family back then, and you also possessed a Dao Foundation refined corpse to plot against the Fei family ancestor."

Fang Xing said: "I suppose your Dao Foundation supernatural power is something like 'Twin Sons' or 'Corpse-Guarding Ghost', which allows you to divide your spirit and thoughts to possess a Dao Foundation refined corpse, right?"

"Worthy of being a loose cultivator who achieved the Dao, truly intelligent."

Xie Songshan laughed: "The old man is most satisfied with this refined corpse; it has completely hidden the corpse aura, but I didn't expect you to see it... but since you see it's a trap, why are you seeking death yourself?"

Swish swish swish!

Before the words fell, rays of escape light appeared, sealing Fang Xing on all four sides.

One of them, wearing a crimson dharma robe with a haggard expression, should be Xie Songshan of the Xie family.

The other three were Blood Shadow Sect disciples.

The leader was a big man with red eyebrows, whose cultivation had reached the peak of the Dao Foundation mid-stage.

Besides that, another Blood Shadow Sect cultivator at the Dao Foundation mid-stage was an old man with a pale face.

As for the old woman at the early Dao Foundation stage, she actually gave Fang Xing a familiar feeling.

"Eh?"

He looked at the old woman, and from the other party's facial features and expression, he barely found a trace of familiarity.

But the old woman was cold, as if she had met a stranger.

"Blood Shadow Sect paper-shadow lineage, Red Eyebrow Superior."

Fang Xing nodded and looked at the other two Dao Foundations: "These two should be of the paper-folding lineage, right?"

"Not bad... Fang Xing, I didn't expect that a mere runaway slave from the Paper Slave Valley of this sect could break through to the Dao Foundation."

The old man at the Dao Foundation mid-stage smiled: "If it weren't for the fact that the old man was originally a manager disciple of the Paper Slave Valley, and you hadn't changed your name, I might not have recognized you."

"So that's it, I wonder what the name of this fellow Daoist is?"

Fang Xing looked at the old woman again.

"Hehe, this is the old man's Dao companion - Taohong, who was also a paper slave back then. I wonder if you recognize her?"

The old man smiled proudly.

"Five Dao Foundation combat powers... you really give me face."

Fang Xing nodded, and his aura suddenly exploded.

No longer the early Dao Foundation stage, but the Dao Foundation mid-stage!

"Dao Foundation mid-stage?"

Red Eyebrow Superior's expression changed, and he saw the tree shadows all around shattering, hazy and blurred.

It was the superior Dao Foundation - Yu Conglong!

He tore open his robe, and a strange demon beast was tattooed on his chest.

But before he could attach the paper shadow, a sharp wooden thorn pierced his Lower Dantian.

"You... are not an ordinary Dao Foundation mid-stage!"

Red Eyebrow Superior still wanted to speak, but was swallowed by rays of tree shadows.

In the blink of an eye, this ferocious madman died and disappeared.

Speaking of which, he was unlucky; who told him to have the highest cultivation and not be of the paper-folding lineage, so he was targeted by Fang Xing first.

And after winning the first move, Fang Xing used countless tree shadows to block their vision, making every cultivator fight on their own.

Pfft pfft!

The old man born in the Paper Slave Valley wore paper armor, held a paper knife in his hand, and was guarded by two paper dolls. After tearing through the tree shadows, he saw a scene that made his eyes split—

"Ah!"

A late Dao Foundation stage paper general appeared on the battlefield at some point, its horse stepping on the Dao Foundation refined corpse of Young Master Lin Xu, and with a thrust of its spear, it lifted Xie Songshan up.

Clatter!

The paper general shook its spear, and Xie Songshan's entire corpse was torn apart.

"Late Dao Foundation stage paper general? To achieve such cultivation, it must have required sacrificing at least sixty years of lifespan?"

"You actually refined such a ferocious object? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

The old man's expression changed drastically.

"Oh? It requires sixty years of lifespan?"

Fang Xing was noncommittal.

He felt that either it was his Grandmaster-level paper-folding technique and Ten Thousand Perfection Hands, or it was because he had already broken through to level 17 Druid, so his consumption of lifespan for paper-folding sacrifice was actually much less than that of a Dao Foundation cultivator of the Blood Shadow Sect's paper-folding lineage.

"Go!"

He pointed, and the paper general immediately spurred its horse forward, entering and exiting without hindrance, one paper doll per spear.

And just as the old man wanted to escape, his face was suddenly covered by a piece of white paper, and his whole body stalled: "Slut..."

Fang Xing saw it very clearly; it was Taohong who, after the old man's two major paper dolls were beheaded, directly used a secret technique to sneak attack this old man.

"Fang Xing... it's been many years."

After Taohong finished all this, she looked up at Fang Xing, the wrinkles and age spots on her face incredibly clear.

"Yes, it's been many years, and you've grown old too."

Fang Xing sighed: "But I don't think that the friendship we had back then is enough for you to sneak attack your Dao companion."

"Dao companion?" Taohong's expression was distorted: "Rather than calling him a Dao companion, it's better to say I am his furnace... This heaven-killing person practiced the 'Yin-Yang Resentment' Dao Foundation, which can plunder my lifespan through dual cultivation..."

"So that's it."

Fang Xing's expression was calm, as if he had already guessed the truth.

He asked a few more questions and learned that Taohong had received a large amount of funding from him back then and also had some luck, finally being favored by a manager disciple and escaping the Paper Slave Valley.

It's a pity that after joining the Blood Shadow Sect, she, a disciple who rose from slavery, was still discriminated against.

Later, it was this old man who helped her, allowing her to practice all the way up and finally forge a Dao Foundation.

It's a pity that this old man also had bad intentions, letting Taohong practice the 'Turning Jade Wheel' corresponding to the 'Yin-Yang Resentment' Dao Foundation.

It turned out that when this old man was a manager disciple of the Paper Slave Valley, he had already secretly laid out a layout, selecting some outstanding female slaves to cultivate one by one, becoming furnaces for the 'Turning Jade Wheel'.

Because his 'Yin-Yang Resentment', although it can absorb lifespan through dual cultivation, requires a specific Dao Foundation female cultivator.

And among those selected female disciples, only Taohong achieved the Dao Foundation in the end.

"He treats my lifespan as his own... he didn't even let me practice the paper-folding technique, just because he was afraid of losing lifespan..."

Taohong's face was full of resentment: "If it weren't for the fact that absorbing lifespan needs to be done slowly, maybe I would have died of old age long ago..."

"So, are the Dao Foundation cultivators of the Blood Shadow Sect's paper-folding lineage all similar to this? Types that can increase lifespan or reduce lifespan consumption?"

"Even so, the paper-folding lineage is so short-lived..."

Fang Xing was quite moved.

However, he felt that Taohong's luck was still okay.

Those paper slaves in the same batch as them, I'm afraid their bones have turned to ash by now.

Being able to live until now is luck!

"Fang Xing..."

At this time, Taohong seemed a bit embarrassed: "Looking at the friendship we had in suffering together back then, can you give this person to me?"

"Oh? What do you want him for?"

Fang Xing looked at the old man whose facial features were covered by paper and seemed to have become a walking corpse, a bit curious.

"I secretly practice a secret technique, which should be able to reverse Yin and Yang and plunder his lifespan back... It's a pity that this method of plundering lifespan must have losses. The loss of lifespan back and forth is too much. Even if I plunder all his lifespan, my lifespan cannot compare to an ordinary Dao Foundation cultivator."

Taohong gritted her teeth, clearly this woman, as tenacious as a weed, had been waiting for an opportunity to turn the tables.

"Is that so? That's fine... but I have to interrogate this person with soul-bewitching technique first, and incidentally torture the paper-folding classics."

Fang Xing nodded.

"This is naturally fine. After this person achieved the Dao Foundation, he did worship a Yin Spirit True Master as a teacher and obtained the 'Blood Paper Secret Canon'..."

Taohong's face showed a trace of movement, and she seemed very interested in this secret transmission.

"Hmm, besides that, this trap, someone in Elder Qingmu Ridge must have cooperated. Do you know the inside story?"

Fang Xing asked.

"I don't know, but the contact with that person was all done by this old immortal, he must know!"

Taohong pointed at the old man, a trace of happy laughter flashing across her face.