Chapter 31: Elder Cui

"Elder Cui, you arrived so quickly." Madam Yin looked up and shouted to the sky with great joy.

Wang Yu was stunned for a moment before he saw clearly that a slender green dugout canoe was floating quietly in the sky more than ten zhang high.

Standing on the dugout canoe was a burly man with a full beard, wearing a yellow robe, and a pitch-black giant iron pestle was slowly rotating in front of him.

"I happened to be handling some matters nearby. After receiving the message, I came over immediately, which is why I could come so fast. Where are the thieves? Have they run away?" The man had black eyebrows and angry eyes, and shouted from high in the sky.

"Elder Cui, the thieves are the Four Fiends of Lanshan. After they succeeded half a day ago, they took the looted wealth and fled to the east. By the way, I saw from afar that they had a flying magic artifact, which seemed to be a standard mechanical flying boat of the Tiangong Sect." Madam Yin replied respectfully.

"Hmph, so it was the Four Fiends of Lanshan, those four thieves. No wonder they dared to move our Vanshen Sheli magic ship."

"The east direction is Yu State. It seems they want to return to their nest in Lanshan. Although my Green Light Boat's speed is above that of low-grade mechanical flying boats, they have been gone for so long, so it's too late to pursue them. I will notify the branch pavilion in Yu State to issue a bounty and hunt down the Four Fiends of Lanshan."

"... Who is this little guy? He is not from our pavilion, right?"

The burly man said a few ruthless words, and his gaze swept over Wang Yu below. Cold light flashed in his eyes, and a great aura descended from the sky, just covering Wang Yu.

Wang Yu felt as if Mount Tai was pressing down on him. After a burst of "pipa" explosions from his bones, he couldn't hold on anymore, his legs went soft, and he knelt on the ground directly. He was terrified and shouted hurriedly:

"Junior is a passenger on the Iron Arrow, not a thief."

"Elder Cui, Brother Wang is indeed just a passenger on the ship and has nothing to do with the thieves." Madam Yin saw this and hurriedly explained.

"Hmph, a mere pseudo-cultivator, and he could escape the pursuit of people like the Four Fiends of Lanshan? Whether he has anything to do with it, after I search his soul, I will naturally know." The burly man's gaze flickered a few times, and he saw through Wang Yu's true cultivation at a glance, but he was still domineering and said. At the same time, the black giant iron pestle rotating in front of him buzzed and hummed.

Wang Yu's face turned pale upon hearing this.

Soul searching? This thing sounded very bad!

"Elder Cui, although this Fellow Daoist Wang's cultivation is not high, but..." Madam Yin saw this and was also in a panic. After hesitating, she intended to explain something else.

But before she could finish her words, the void behind the burly man in mid-air suddenly fluctuated, and a blood-colored short sword appeared, stabbing forward silently in a flash.

Elder Cui's upper body suddenly bent down from the waist at an almost impossible angle.

The blood-colored short sword just barely brushed past one side of his shoulder.

"Who is it?"

The next moment, the burly man's body returned to normal. He shouted in rage, and the black iron pestle beside him smashed toward the void behind him like lightning.

"Boom"

"As expected of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, it really wasn't that easy to succeed."

A fierce wind rolled behind, and a green figure appeared out of thin air with a giggle, flying backward more than ten zhang before stopping steadily in mid-air. It was actually the green-shirted girl, "Qin'er".

She just beckoned, and the blood-colored short sword that missed its target circled and flew back into her hand.

"Blood Witch! Very good, very good. It seems you are very bold. A mere late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator dares to ambush this elder. I will let you know what a Foundation Establishment cultivator is."

The burly man stared fiercely at the girl and said word by word, his voice extremely cold.

"Giggle, if it were just me, I definitely wouldn't dare to provoke Senior. But our Four Fiends of Lanshan never act alone. Falling Moon, you guys appear too. It seems we have to fight a hard battle." After the girl blinked her big eyes, she laughed lightly and said.

As soon as the words fell, two white clouds drifted down from the nearby sky, landed silently on both sides of the girl, and turned into two figures.

One was wearing a Daoist robe, with a sword on his back, and holding a tattered lantern in his hand. It was the Falling Moon Daoist.

The other was wearing a white palace dress, with a charming face. It was actually the woman who was with the girl on the magic ship earlier.

Wang Yu was dumbfounded upon seeing this.

He hadn't noticed at all that there were three other living people hiding nearby, and they were the Four Fiends of Lanshan, who he feared the most.

Madam Yin's face changed uncertainly, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Hmph, Falling Moon Daoist, Crazy Hand Aunt, and Qiankunzi, let him come out too."

Elder Cui looked at the two newly appeared people and snorted, saying without any panic.

"What are you pretending for? You have already fallen from the Foundation Establishment realm. Now you are just a half-step Foundation Establishment; you really still think of yourself as a Foundation Establishment great cultivator?" The Falling Moon Daoist heard this, rolled his eyes, and said unceremoniously.

"How do you know that this elder is a half-step Foundation Establishment? I understand, you are here for me. Is there a traitor in the pavilion?" The burly man was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, and his face became very ugly.

"If it weren't to lure you here, we wouldn't bother to hijack any magic ship. Now, are you going to hand over that thing obediently, or shall we fight and leave our lives together?" Qin'er said with a smile.

"Haha, the Four Fiends of Lanshan are indeed arrogant. This elder will let you know that a half-step Foundation Establishment is also Foundation Establishment. Guard Yin, wait for me here. After I clean up these three little thieves, we will go on the road together." This time, Elder Cui laughed in anger. The dugout canoe under his feet just trembled slightly, and green light instantly lit up on his body, then shot out to one side like a crossbow arrow, flying dozens of zhang away in the blink of an eye.

"Want to run? Chase!"

The Falling Moon Daoist was stunned for a moment, but immediately shouted, flicked his sleeve, and a talisman flew out. After it expanded in the wind, it turned into a fierce wind that rolled the three of them up and chased after the green dugout canoe ahead.

The three of them completely ignored Wang Yu and Madam Yin below.

"We go too!"

Almost at the same time, Wang Yu heard Madam Yin's voice transmission in his ear. After being stunned, he saw that Madam Yin already had a mini carriage-like wooden carving in her hand. After chanting incantations, she threw it onto the nearby ground.

After a roll of black smoke, a wooden carriage about a zhang large appeared, and there were four black giant dogs in front of the carriage.

Madam Yin beckoned to the youth and rushed toward the carriage in a hurry.

Wang Yu suddenly realized and hurriedly followed.

But just at this moment, a strange whistle came from the nearby forest, and a golden light rolled out, hitting the carriage just right.

"Boom"

The carriage shattered into pieces, and the golden light rolled back, landing in the hands of a short figure who walked out of the forest, turning into a golden ring.

"Qiankunzi!"

Madam Yin stopped her steps, looking at the dwarf not far away, her face a bit pale.

Wang Yu gasped, holding the iron-refined long knife tightly.

"Don't be afraid, your opponent is not me, but them." The dwarf saw this, but the corners of his mouth curled up and said.

As soon as the words fell.

Behind the dwarf, three more people walked out slowly, two men and one woman.

Wang Yu looked closely and was stunned.

It was actually Yu Bintian and the young Huang couple.

At this time, the three of them had pale faces and haggard expressions.

But what Wang Yu cared about more was that on the shoulders of the three of them, there was a filthy bone fish a foot long, using its long tail to hook their necks firmly.

"Don't say I didn't give you two a chance. As long as you can kill the three of them, I will let you go."

"You three listen well, if you can kill the two of them, I will also lift the restriction and let you go. If you fail, you know the consequences." The dwarf's vicious words echoed in the air.

This made the expressions of all five people change.

"Split up!"

Madam Yin let out a low shout, black Qi rolled on her body, and she sank directly into the mud, escaping deep underground.

Wang Yu didn't even think about it. He lay down, pressed his hands and feet on the ground at the same time, and then exerted force with all four limbs.

"Sou"

Four pits a foot deep were left on the spot, and he bounced out like a cannonball, then kept waving his hands and feet like a wild beast, disappearing behind many trees in a few jumps.

"Haha, interesting. If you don't chase, you might really not be able to catch up." The dwarf saw this, not caring at all, and instead made sharp laughter toward Yu Bintian and the others.

"Forget it."

Yu Bintian sighed, flipped his hand, took out a yellow talisman, and after sticking it on his body, he actually sank into the mud and chased after Madam Yin.

The young Huang couple saw this and seemed a bit surprised. The two looked at each other.

The young woman suddenly took a lotus-shaped jade hairpin from her hair and threw it into the low air in front of her. It grew crazily, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a green lotus with a diameter of a zhang.

The Huang couple jumped onto the lotus and flew into the sky in the direction where Wang Yu disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, only the dwarf was left on the spot.

"Wonderful, wonderful, I can't wait. No, no, wait a while longer. If I go over too early, they might not be able to let go, and they won't really fight to the death."

The dwarf seemed very excited, his face ruddy, and several of his braids were standing up.

After waiting for a while, he took out a white banner from his arms, shook it, turned into a white cloud, and soared into the sky. After circling in the high sky, he still flew in the opposite direction of Wang Yu. ===== CHAPTER 32 =====