Chapter 525

"Two fellow cultivators." Yu Fei flies faster than them, so he waits above.

After Yan Buji and Gu Yue flew over, they looked around: "Where is the secret realm?"

Yu Fei pointed ahead: "There, you two fellow cultivators should search carefully and you'll find it."

Following the direction Yu Fei pointed, Yan Buji and Gu Yue probed forward and indeed discovered an invisible barrier in midair; they weren't sure what exactly was going on.

"What is this?"

Yu Fei explained: "This should be the outer layer of the Heavenly Palace, a barrier formed near the Heavenly Meridian. We must now pass through the barrier, first enter the Heavenly Meridian, in order to continue searching for the true location of the Heavenly Palace secret realm."

After saying that, Yu Fei took out an object resembling a ruler, the Accumulation Device, and solemnly said: "Fellow cultivators, remember to be careful; dangers in the Heavenly Meridian cannot be predicted—there might be nothing, or there might be everything."

Yan Buji nodded: "I understand, poor Daoist."

"Let's go." Gu Yue shouted.

Yu Fei took the lead, charging through the barrier into it, with Yan Buji and Gu Yue closely following.

As soon as they entered, a huge black wind flooded their sight, and they hurriedly stirred their magic power to resist its erosion!

"What a fierce gale! This gale not only can wear away magical power, but also can block the sharpness of spiritual sense!" Gu Yue's face changed.

Yan Buji wasn't afraid of this black gale; noticing that Yu Fei ahead, holding a ruler, had grown wings behind his back and was flapping them, gradually pushing away the surrounding gale, the two hurriedly moved closer.

"Be careful, you two, this should be the Xuanmi gale, blowing down from the Dark Heavens Layer. Without magical power protecting the body, it can cut living beings to pieces in a moment, and if you release your spiritual sense it will attract nearby possibly existing demon beasts." Yu Fei flapped his wings in a certain rhythm; combined with his own demonic power, it could block the Xuanmi gale's erosion, which actually helped Yan Buji and Gu Yue greatly.

Gu Yue looked around, frowned, then released a red wall gecko with wings.

The red wall gecko left her palm, rotating around and continuously emitting red light.

Yu Fei found it strange and asked, "Fairy Gu, what is this?"

"This is the wind-climbing Gu worm I refined; it can give early warning." Gu Yue didn't elaborate, and Yu Fei naturally didn't ask further.

"Then let's go first, hoping to pass through this layer of Xuanmi gale as soon as possible."

Yan Buji quietly reached out beside them to sense the power of the Xuanmi gale, discovering that this gale was indeed sharp.

At this moment, Yan Buji's palm was covered with fine scratches, some even bleeding, but his fleshly body was strong enough so it didn't matter. However, fighting in such an environment was obviously impossible; his combat strength would at least be weakened by twenty percent by this omnipresent gale.

"However, I once learned a wind-regulating secret technique; my control over wind currents is not bad, so using techniques won't be greatly affected." Yan Buji thought.

Yu Fei led the way, the two followed behind, and they proceeded all the way into the interior of the gale layer.

Moreover, this place was within the Heavenly Pulse; Yan Buji looked left and right, suddenly sensing something wrong.

"Stop!" Gu Yue suddenly shouted.

Yu Fei startled, looked around: "They're coming."

"Gah-gah-gah!!"

A flock of black demon beasts shuttling through the Xuanmi gale charged over; these demon beasts resembled crows, with blood-red eyes, and when they opened their horrifying beaks, they actually had teeth like those of a shark!

Moreover, their bodies were unaffected by this extremely dangerous gale layer, and upon closer inspection there were actually over a hundred of them!

"They are wind-trapping crows; beware of their gaze!" Yu Fei recognized the attacking demon beasts, immediately closed his eyes and swung his ruler to begin battle.

Yan Buji and Gu Yue sensed something off; upon closer look they discovered that the wind-trapping crows' blood-red eyes actually carried some powerful hypnotic technique; one or two were fine, but these demon beasts travel in flocks, and it seems each one's released technique can be strengthened by the group, rivaling divine abilities in strength!

These wind-trapping crows are not strong; at most they are at the level of great demons.

But their numbers are too great, plus their innate techniques; over a hundred gather in one place to unleash them together!

Accompanying the wind-trapping crows' charge, their gazes locked onto the two humans and one demon; the gathered technique turned into a crimson torrent, sweeping the three of them up!

Gu Yue gritted her teeth and activated some Gu technique to resist the technique's erosion; while Yan Buji also deployed a spiritual sense shield, but it was blown apart by the Xuanmi gale within moments, forcing him to rely on his divine sense to stubbornly resist.

But Yu Fei, the Accumulation Device in his hand burst forth demonic power downward, drawing a line of light that blocked the crimson torrent's erosion!

After the torrent passed, the three's condition visibly declined. Yu Fei had to choose self-preservation, while Yan Buji and Gu Yue again faced the double encirclement of the gale and the wind-trapping crows.

"Daoist, Daoist, are you alright?" Gu Yue looked over worriedly.

Yan Buji shook his head, cleared his drowsiness, then took a deep breath: "No problem."

"Then that's good."

After Gu Yue said that, a large number of Gu worms flew from her sleeve to battle the attacking wind-trapping crows; Yan Buji guarded the right side, spewing Shocking Wave Fire to form a fire dragon that froze all the incoming wind-trapping crows.

The two humans and one demon fought for a while, finally eliminating all the invading wind-trapping crows.

"Hah... luck really is good." Yu Fei exhaled, then continued flapping his wings to help the two block the gale.

"Is the luck good?" Gu Yue put away the Gu worms, speaking strangely.

Yu Fei nodded: "These wind-trapping crows were probably swept along with the Xuanmi gale by the Heavenly Pulse; they're just a small part of a clan. I've heard there is a Wind-Trapping Crow King in the Dark Heavens Layer, and that is truly a Great Vehicle Stage cultivator!"

"Great Vehicle Stage?!" Gu Yue's face turned black upon hearing it.

Looking at it this way, what they encountered were merely great demons; although numerous, as long as they could withstand the first wave of their released techniques and divine abilities, it wouldn't be much trouble.

Yan Buji looked at the wind-trapping crow corpses torn apart by the gale, collected a few to examine closely.

"These wind-trapping crows aren't very useful; only a few feathers from their whole bodies can be used." Yu Fei looked over and laughed.

"This feather?" Yan Buji pulled out a torn peculiar black feather, seeing demonic qi flowing on it, he couldn't help but ask.

"Exactly, this is the wind-trapping crow's reverse feather, the key that lets them remain unaffected in the gale layer." Yu Fei said.

Indeed, quite strange; I've broadened my horizons.

Gu Yue looked ahead: "So, how much longer until we can get through this Xuanmi gale?"

"Who knows? No one knows how much gale the Heavenly Pulse's activity brings down." Yu Fei gave a wry smile: "Besides, what I'm most worried about now is that since this Heavenly Pulse might have passed through the Dark Heavens Layer, there could be other disasters as well."

Yan Buji asked: "What disasters does the Dark Heavens Layer have?"

"The Xuanmi gale, dark-day lightning, and blood-bone drowning." Yu Fei sighed: "These three disasters are unique to the Dark Heavens Layer, quite troublesome."