Chapter 69: The Awakened Big Demon

Hua Changxi looked at the mountain spirit who was still trembling in her arms and said helplessly: "Don't be afraid anymore. You said the Monkey King died a long, long time ago, so I estimate that the power of the Buddha's hand has dissipated almost completely."

"I touched it just now, and the Buddha's hand has already loosened. I think it should have no power."

Hearing this, the mountain spirit raised his head suddenly and asked anxiously: "Fairy, did you move the Buddha's hand?"

Hua Changxi: "I didn't know what that was. I just wanted to see it clearly. Although the Buddha's hand didn't look big, it was as heavy as a mountain. I used a lot of strength to make it move."

The mountain spirit was thoughtful, his expression slowly relaxed: "Fairy can shake the Buddha's hand, it seems that the power of the Buddha's hand is indeed left with little."

Hua Changxi: "Right, I want to go up and get the Buddha's hand down."

Hearing this, the mountain spirit was shocked: "Why does the Fairy want to get the Buddha's hand down?"

Hua Changxi: "I looked at it carefully just now and found that the Buddha's hand is very mysterious. I want to get it down and study it carefully."

The mountain spirit shook his head hurriedly: "Fairy, you can't do this."

Hua Changxi was puzzled: "Why?"

Mountain spirit: "Although the Monkey King is dead, his bones have merged into this stone cave. Now that spiritual energy has recovered, it has activated the Monkey King field, which needs the continued suppression of the Buddha's hand."

Hua Changxi: "What will happen if there is no suppression of the Buddha's hand?"

Mountain spirit shook his head: "I don't know, but I think there might be a big mess."

Hua Changxi looked at the top of the stone cave. She just felt that something that could suppress the Monkey King must be extraordinary, and wanted to observe it. As for letting her get the Buddha's hand down, she really might not be able to do it.

"Fine, I won't move the Buddha's hand. I will take advantage of the fact that I am still here and go up to look at it twice more to see if I can study anything."

Seeing that Hua Changxi was going to practice the Somersault Cloud again, the mountain spirit pulled her: "Fairy, it's time for breakfast."

Hua Changxi looked at him and said while taking the spiritual fruit: "Your meal time is quite punctual."

Mountain spirit took the spiritual fruit: "Because I have to take good care of myself, Fairy, you didn't take good care of yourself, you didn't sleep well."

Hua Changxi laughed: "I have no choice. If I don't seize the time to cultivate, how can we get rid of that old priest?"

Mountain spirit tilted his head: "But as long as we stay in the cave, the old priest doesn't dare to come in. Fairy, you are forcing yourself too much."

Is she forcing herself?

Maybe.

Hua Changxi could actually feel that she was anxious. This anxiety came from the unknown of the cultivation world, and also from her distrust of herself. She didn't know if she could adapt to the cultivation world.

She could only constantly improve her strength to deal with and resist those potential dangers.

Afterwards, Hua Changxi continued to practice the Somersault Cloud, while the mountain spirit ate the spiritual fruit slowly.

Just before noon, a large amount of smoke poured into the stone cave.

"Fairy~"

The mountain spirit was startled. Hua Changxi, who was stepping on the clouds and looking at the Buddha's hand on the top of the stone cave, also hurriedly flew down.

"Fairy, it's the mangy old priest, he is setting a fire outside the cave, wanting to burn us to death."

Looking at the pile of branches piled up at the entrance of the cave, the mountain spirit jumped with anger.

Hua Changxi's brows were tied: "He is not wanting to burn us to death, but wanting to smoke us out."

"What a smell, so stinky~" The mountain spirit pinched his nose and flew away from the entrance of the cave quickly.

Hua Changxi's expression sank, poison smoke, that old priest actually released poison smoke!

"Fat doll, come here, eat this pill."

Mountain spirit took the pill: "What is this?"

Hua Changxi: "Detoxification pill."

The mountain spirit swallowed the pill quickly, then ran to the entrance of the cave and scolded the old priest outside: "You old priest, your heart is too black, actually wanting to poison us to death, you wait for me, wait until I become powerful, you and your descendants will never step into Mount Wuzhi again."

Jiang Guanyun heard the mountain spirit's shouting, and his expression was very ugly.

The breath is so full, this doesn't look like a sign of poisoning.

This mountain spirit was born not long ago, and his cultivation is still very low. He cannot resist the poison smoke. The only possibility is that the little girl who snatched his mountain spirit carries a detoxification pill.

"Very good, let's see how long you can hold on."

Jiang Guanyun increased the investment of poison smoke. At this time, the Jiang family's transmission talisman arrived.

Learning that the Demon Suppression Army had joined forces with the Qingzhou Army and had begun to force other forces to withdraw from Mount Wuzhi, Jiang Guanyun, who originally intended to use poison smoke to slowly force out the mountain spirit, decided to speed up.

"Eldest, Second, come to the third peak immediately."

Catching a newly born mountain spirit, Jiang Guanyun never thought he would fail. If it weren't for that wild girl who suddenly appeared and intervened, the mountain spirit would have been refined by him long ago, and Mount Wuzhi would have been the Jiang family's long ago.

The Jiang family cannot confront the imperial court head-on yet. He must take down the mountain spirit and occupy Mount Wuzhi.

To avoid any more accidents caused by that wild girl, he must let his eldest son, who is in the early stage of Golden Core, and his second son, who is in the late stage of Qi Sea, come over to stop her. After he catches the mountain spirit, he will deal with that wild girl.

In the stone cave, Hua Changxi and the mountain spirit, who took the detoxification pill, were not afraid of the poison fog, but the cave was smoked and scorched, which was still very uncomfortable.

"Fairy, what should we do now?"

Hua Changxi looked at the mountain spirit: "How is your Somersault Cloud learning? If we rush out, do you have confidence to get rid of the old priest's pursuit?"

Mountain spirit shook his head: "I don't know."

Hua Changxi didn't have much confidence in this either. They had only practiced the Somersault Cloud for one day. Although they could drive the clouds, they certainly didn't have much speed.

However, they couldn't be trapped in the stone cave forever.

"Let's seize the time to practice the Somersault Cloud again. After we improve our speed, we will rush out."

This time the mountain spirit didn't dare to be slack, and very seriously practiced the Somersault Cloud with Hua Changxi in the stone cave filled with poison smoke, over and over again.

Outside the stone cave, the poison vine burned for three days and three nights. Seeing that Hua Changxi and the mountain spirit had not appeared, Jiang Guanyun's face was a bit ugly, but he was not too anxious.

The transmission talisman on his waist lit up. Jiang Guanyun knew that his eldest son and second son had arrived.

Jiang Guanyun did not let his eldest son and second son approach the stone cave, but used the transmission talisman to notify them to hide in the left and right directions outside the stone cave.

Then, Jiang Guanyun began to throw tear gas talismans and foul-smelling talismans into the stone cave.

As soon as the talismans flew into the stone cave, they turned into light spots and dissipated in the air.

Hua Changxi had never seen this before and was stunned for a moment.

"Ah, Fairy, my eyes hurt so much..."

"Ugh~"

In a few breaths, Hua Changxi and the mountain spirit's eyes became red and swollen. Tears flowed out constantly like a valve-opened tap, and they vomited constantly.

Hua Changxi ran the wind control technique, wanting to exhaust the unpleasant gas in the cave, but every time she made the air a little fresher, talismans would be thrown in again.

Poison smoke, Hua Changxi had a detoxification pill to solve, but against tear gas talismans and foul-smelling talismans, she was really helpless.

"That old priest is too wicked!"

This time, even if Hua Changxi and the mountain spirit knew that the old priest was blocking them outside the cave, they had to rush out.

No way, the stone cave really couldn't stay.

"Fat doll, let's fly out left and right later. If the old priest chases you, I will block him for a while, you take the opportunity to run."

"Fairy, I don't want to leave you."

"Fat doll, I came to Mount Wuzhi to practice, and I will leave sooner or later. I will come to Mount Wuzhi to see you in the future, you have to protect yourself."

"Okay..."

Unable to bear the smell in the stone cave, Hua Changxi and the mountain spirit prepared and rushed out of the stone cave at the same time.

Jiang Guanyun felt the fluctuation of spiritual energy for the first time, and "boom" slapped out toward the left side where the spiritual energy fluctuation was stronger.

"Bang~"

The distance was too close, Hua Changxi didn't avoid it, took a solid slap on her back, and vomited blood.

Thinking that the old priest came to chase herself, Hua Changxi didn't care about the injury and ran toward the front quickly.

However, just after flying out hundreds of meters, a giant net emitting spiritual light was thrown out.

Not good, the old priest has helpers!

Hua Changxi's expression changed greatly, fire lotus condensed in her hand, and she swung directly toward the giant net.

"Boom~"

As soon as the giant net met the fire lotus, it immediately burned, and soon a big hole was broken.

Seeing this, Hua Changxi breathed a sigh of relief, flew through the big hole quickly, and escaped the coverage of the giant net.

Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a cultivator appeared and launched a fierce attack on her.

Hua Changxi's only means of attack was the fire lotus, so she could only condense the fire lotus again and attack the cultivator.

Facing a cultivator head-on for the first time, Hua Changxi didn't dare to be careless, fearing that the other party would use some means she didn't understand to deal with her, and swung one fire lotus after another.

One fire lotus, the cultivator could barely resist the invasion of the fire lotus, but as the number of fire lotuses increased, surrounding him in the middle, he could only watch the flames swallow him.

"Father, save me~"

Jiang Gaoyou was extremely unwilling. He was the eldest son of the Jiang family, a single earth spiritual root cultivator with outstanding cultivation talent. When others had just started on the path of cultivation, he had already become a Golden Core cultivator.

Now that spiritual energy recovery is intensifying, it is the time for the Jiang family to open up territory. At this moment, he is actually going to die.

No, he cannot die, the Jiang family still needs him...

Hua Changxi swung a full eight fire lotuses, surrounding Jiang Gaoyou layer by layer. No matter how unwilling Jiang Gaoyou was, he had no power to resist and could only let the fire lotus burn him to ashes.

On the other side, Jiang Guanyun, who was chasing the mountain spirit, heard his eldest son's desperate cry for help, and his face was full of disbelief.

That wild girl is a Golden Core cultivator, but the eldest son is too. Even if the wild girl's cultivation is above the eldest

"Big Brother~"

Sensing that his own big brother had died, Jiang Gaoheng's expression changed drastically.

"Don't get distracted. Capture the mountain spirit first."

Though Jiang Guanyun was saddened by the death of his eldest son, it seemed insignificant compared to capturing the mountain spirit.

Jiang Gaoheng dared not defy his father. He glanced in the direction where Jiang Gaoyou was hiding and said, "Big Brother, I will avenge you." With that, he went off to chase the mountain spirit.

After killing the Golden Core cultivator, Hua Changxi realized the old Daoist had not come to pursue her.

At this, she let out a long, heavy sigh of relief.

"Fatty, you're on your own now."

Having been struck by the old Daoist's palm, Hua Changxi was severely injured. Her dantian and Qi sea were shaken, and her circulation of spiritual energy had become sluggish.

Having just consumed a significant amount of spiritual energy to condense the fire lotus, she was heavily wounded and walking through the unfamiliar terrain of Mount Wuzhi; it was too dangerous.

After much hesitation, Hua Changxi turned back toward the stone cave.

The old Daoist had gone to chase the mountain spirit and would not be guarding the cave. Compared to other places, the cave was the safest spot for her.

With the old Daoist's poisonous smoke and talismans gone, Hua Changxi quickly cleared the unbearable aura from the cave, then swiftly set up a Spirit-Gathering Array, took a Rejuvenation Pill to heal her wounds, and began to meditate.

She did not know how much time had passed. Just as the spiritual energy in her Qi sea was slowly returning to calm, she heard a "bang" of impact. She snapped her eyes open to see a spiritual net shrouding the cave entrance; the mountain spirit had seemingly tried to rush in, only to be caught squarely by the net.

"Fairy, save me."

The spiritual net was retracted and the mountain spirit was dragged away. Hua Changxi ran quickly to the cave entrance, only to see the mountain spirit being grabbed by the back of its neck by the old Daoist and held aloft.

"Fairy, save me."

Held by the old Daoist, the mountain spirit struggled, flailing its arms and legs.

Jiang Guanyun and Jiang Gaoheng both saw Hua Changxi as well.

Jiang Gaoheng glared at her viciously: "Was it you who killed my big brother?"

Hua Changxi's mood at this moment was not as panicked as she had imagined; instead, she was surprisingly calm. She looked at them indifferently: "He wanted to kill me, and I killed him in self-defense. You should have expected this outcome."

"You truly deserve to die!"

Jiang Gaoheng let out a fierce roar, then looked at Jiang Guanyun: "Father, kill this wild girl and avenge Big Brother."

Thinking of the eldest son he had cultivated with such great effort, Jiang Guanyun looked at Hua Changxi at the cave entrance with the eyes of someone looking at a corpse: "Once I refine the mountain spirit, that will be the time of her death."

The death of his eldest son made Jiang Guanyun, who thought he could control everything, feel a loss of control, making him afraid to act carelessly again.

Worried about further complications, Jiang Guanyun sat cross-legged outside the cave, preparing to refine the mountain spirit right there.

Hua Changxi saw his intention, and her expression changed.

The mountain spirit also knew what the old Taoist was about to do, and looking at Hua Changxi, it began to wail, "Wuwuwu... Fairy..."

Outside the cave, spiritual light gathered in the old Daoist's hand and he thrust it fiercely into the mountain spirit's chubby body.

"Ah~"

The mountain spirit let out a miserable shriek and twisted its body frantically, but no matter how it struggled, it could not break free from the old Daoist's hand.

Soon, five-colored spiritual light began to drift out from the mountain spirit's body.

As soon as this spiritual light emerged, it was rapidly absorbed into the old Daoist's body.

"Fairy, run quickly. He won't be able to move until he drains me dry."

This cry from the mountain spirit shattered the last bit of hesitation in Hua Changxi's heart. She suddenly turned her head to look at the Buddha hand on top of the stone cave.

Since she wasn't afraid of the Monkey King's domain, she figured that if she moved the Buddha hand, she would likely be fine regardless of what happened. Since she had already formed a blood feud with the old Daoist, they might as well be the ones to die.

"Fatty, hold on. I'm going to move the Buddha hand, release the Monkey King, and kill that old Daoist." With that, she flew up to the top of the stone cave on a cloud with a 'whoosh'.

Hearing Hua Changxi's words, the mountain spirit was so scared it didn't even dare to cry: "Fairy, don't! The Monkey King will kill every living thing on Mount Wuzhi."

Unfortunately, Hua Changxi, who was pushing against the Buddha hand with all her might, didn't hear a word of it.

"Sss~"

The Buddha hand was shifted slightly. Hua Changxi heard the friction and exerted even more force, moving the Buddha hand bit by bit. At this moment, the cave entrance covered by the Buddha hand slowly revealed an opening.

Sunlight poured down, the rays shining into the cave through the gap she had created.

As the light inside the cave grew more abundant and brighter, a groan—filled with pain yet suppressed, and with excitement amidst the restraint—sounded like a whisper in the ears of every living creature on Mount Wuzhi.

At this moment, all was silent on Mount Wuzhi; every living creature looked toward the Third Peak in horror.

At this moment, a voice echoed in everyone's heart: Some ancient existence had awakened from its slumber!