Chapter 243: How did it start with two big slaps?

"I'll go with you," Jiang Yan said, clutching Jiang Xun's arm.

"Not afraid anymore?" Jiang Xun asked with a smile upon hearing this.

"For the sake of the world, for the common people, I've changed my view of you today. My life was saved by you, so if I die, I die," Jiang Yan said, looking at Jiang Xun.

*Heh, an unexpected harvest. * Jiang Xun's eyes lit up. He had originally been trying to bluff Gufang Chennian, but he hadn't expected to bluff this blockhead Jiang Yan along the way.

"Stay here. If you go down, I'll have to protect you," Jiang Xun said, pulling his hand away and flicking Jiang Yan on the forehead with a laugh, then walked over to the Formation.

"I need protection from you, a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator? Are you crazy?" Jiang Yan said, covering her forehead.

"Be obedient, be obedient. It's more convenient for me to be alone." Jiang Xun winked at Jiang Yan. He didn't know what he meant by that look, but it didn't matter; this silly girl Jiang Yan would imagine the rest herself.

And that was indeed the case.

Seeing that look from Jiang Xun, Jiang Yan suddenly remembered that Jiang Xun had quite a few Soul Returning Pills. She figured he must intend to use the Soul Returning Pills to negotiate with Jiabuli, as Jiabuli in his current state must be very eager for them.

"Then be careful," Jiang Yan said afterward.

"Mm." Jiang Xun nodded and looked toward Gufang Chennian.

Gufang Chennian stood up and came to the Formation, squatting on the ground to look at it, still hesitating.

"Wife, you take Ninglin and Mother and leave first. Go to the Canghe Dynasty and just say I told you to go." Knowing Gufang Chennian's concerns, Jiang Xun looked at Jiang Yan and said, then added via voice transmission: "Say Jiang Xun told you to come."

"Who... oh, okay." Jiang Yan subconsciously wanted to ask who was his wife, but she held it back, having been taken advantage of by Jiang Xun for nothing.

"Relieved now?" Jiang Xun looked at Gufang Chennian and said, "If not, you can leave first after you open the Formation."

"Fine, then it's settled." Gufang Chennian nodded decisively, and without even waiting for Jiang Xun to react, he placed his hands on the Formation, formed seals, and unlocked it.

"Go!" Gufang Chennian then opened the stone slab above the roof and flew out while holding the Empress. Jiang Yan and Gufang Ninglin looked at Jiang Xun.

"Go quickly." Jiang Xun squatted down and placed his hand on the handle.

"Be extremely careful." Jiang Yan nodded and flew out.

"You must come back! I'll be waiting for you up above, I'm not going anywhere." Gufang Ninglin looked at Jiang Xun and said, then flew out without waiting for his response.

After seeing the stone slab close, Jiang Xun reached out and pulled the iron plate open, revealing a staircase leading downward.

Jiang Xun did not hesitate; he walked down the stairs, closed the stone slab, and as he descended, he used ice to seal the path behind him.

By the time Jiang Xun had walked twenty meters down the stairs to the underground area, the corridor behind him had formed a twenty-meter-thick Ice Wall.

In front of him was a space resembling an altar. The octagonal altar had a stone pillar at each of its eight corners, and the firelight glowing inside the tops of the pillars illuminated the underground space. The entire altar was enveloped in yellow sand.

There was also the sound of flowing sand on both sides.

The entire underground space was about five meters high, circular in shape with a radius of about ten meters. Above was a stone ceiling carved with messy runes, and the surrounding walls and floor were also enclosed by similarly carved stone walls.

It was essentially a cylindrical bunker.

"Where is the person?" Si Yuyan said, following Jiang Xun's gaze as she looked around.

Almost simultaneously, two gusts of yellow sand suddenly swirled up around them, turning into sharp spikes that stabbed toward Jiang Xun's chest and abdomen from behind.

The speed was extremely fast; truthfully, neither Jiang Xun nor Si Yuyan had reacted in time.

The Nine Heavens Reversal Robe's effect activated, and the moment the yellow sand spikes hit Jiang Xun, they were violently rebounded by a barrier.

With a *thud*, the yellow sand smashed against the stone wall and scattered all over the ground.

Jiang Xun also turned around and took a few steps back, looking at the yellow sand on the ground.

It seemed to have been stunned by the impact, remaining motionless for a long while.

After about ten seconds, the yellow sand began to resume movement, slowly coalescing into a human shape beside the wall.

It had eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but it was just a hairless sand-man.

"You must be Jiabuli, right?" Jiang Xun looked at the sand-man and smiled.

The sand-man looked at Jiang Xun without speaking, his hollow eyes narrowing slightly. The surrounding yellow sand surged violently toward Jiang Xun, turning into hundreds of sharp spikes, intending to turn Jiang Xun into a hedgehog.

But all the yellow sand was rebounded the moment it touched Jiang Xun, and the hundreds of spikes all stabbed toward the sand-man, directly piercing him back into a pile of scattered sand.

"Stop messing around, you can't beat me," Jiang Xun said, looking at the yellow sand with a smile.

The yellow sand scattered on the ground then slowly floated up in granular form, circling Jiang Xun to size him up, seemingly trying to find a weakness on his body.

"Come out and talk?" Jiang Xun said, looking at the floating yellow sand.

But the response he got was those millions of sand grains attacking Jiang Xun like tiny bullets, only to be rebounded away again.

To be fair, if these grains attacked an army like this, an army of ten thousand cultivators below the Spirit Transformation Stage would be wiped out in an instant.

This Jiabuli really had some tricks up his sleeve, but it was a pity he had run into Jiang Xun.

"Are you a child? My patience is limited," Jiang Xun said, crossing his arms.

"Kid, who are you?"

A middle-aged voice rang in Jiang Xun's ears, and the yellow sand on the ground began to coalesce again, forming a sand-man once more five meters in front of Jiang Xun.

"You are Jiabuli, right?" Jiang Xun asked, looking at the sand-man.

As expected, his strength was indeed at the Spirit Transformation Great Perfection.

"This Venerable asks who you are," the sand-man stared at Jiang Xun and said coldly.

"Venerable your sister!" Jiang Xun didn't say another word; he activated his Crimson Wings, appeared instantly in front of the sand-man, and slapped him across the face, directly knocking his head off.

"You little brat!" The sand-man was furious. The yellow sand quickly formed another head, and then he threw a punch toward Jiang Xun's abdomen, which turned into the shape of a drill mid-way.

The result, naturally, was the drill being rebounded, poking a hole in the sand-man's own abdomen.

"Little brat your sister!" Jiang Xun slapped him on the head again, knocking it off once more.

"I'm trying to talk to you nicely, what are you putting on airs for?" Jiang Xun said, kicking the sand-man and smashing his body to pieces.

The sand-man realized this kid was truly strange and turned into scattered sand to fly toward the stairs, wanting to pass through the Ice Wall to get above, only to find that the Ice Wall was frozen solid, leaving not even a sliver of a gap.

Moreover, the temperature was extremely low; in his current state, if he stayed near the Ice Wall any longer, he would likely be frozen solid.

"I'm asking you, are you Jiabuli? If you don't answer, I'll freeze this entire altar," Jiang Xun shouted, looking around.

"It's me, what do you want?" With no other choice, Jiabuli re-coalesced into a sand-man and looked at Jiang Xun with clenched fists. When had he ever suffered such humiliation? How could this person just walk up and deliver two big slaps without a word?