Chapter 579: Snatching Treasures

This black shadow was precisely Gu Daoyun, who had already quietly sneaked in when everyone in the hall was snatching light groups.

Gu Daoyun looked at the magic treasure in his hand with satisfaction. Just when he took out a wooden box and wanted to put this magic treasure away first, a golden crescent light blade suddenly headed straight for him, soon interrupting his thought of wanting to collect the treasure first.

"Hmph! Overestimating one's capabilities."

Seeing that the Nascent Soul Demon Emperor who had just been beaten back by him was rushing over here again, Gu Daoyun revealed a look of contempt toward the other party. After his left hand lifted lightly, three sharp giant swords wrapped in bursts of black energy immediately appeared in front of him.

Under Gu Daoyun's control, these three black giant swords transformed into three black lights with extremely fast speed, flying toward that Demon Emperor from different angles. However, in just a moment, they had already forced the other party to be somewhat flustered and begin to retreat steadily.

"Black Scale Sword, you are Gu Daoyun!"

Just after Gu Daoyun displayed this divine ability, Wang Yan, who was still fighting and snatching the colorful light groups in the hall, immediately recognized this powerful magic treasure he had displayed, and a look of shock appeared slightly on his face.

Wu Jiuyuan and the others who had come with him not far away also discovered Gu Daoyun's figure at this time and gathered beside Wang Yan with solemn faces one after another.

"Hehe! Little Wang Yan, what is this expression of yours? Don't tell me you didn't think at all that I would come here. Don't tell me you thought I had really fallen and died!"

Gu Daoyun said while casually controlling his magic power to continue breaking the restrictions on the magic treasure in his hand.

However, because demonic cultivators like to attack mortal beings on weekdays, their own luck is not favored by the Heavenly Dao due to heavy killing.

After this incident, the Wanling Sect, as the number one sect of the Mount Funiu range, felt a great loss of face. Several Nascent Soul Elders of the sect personally took action, uniting with surrounding sects to hunt down Gu Daoyun everywhere. From then on, the two sides began to harbor an irreconcilable blood feud.

"Hmph! Old Demon Gu, your strength has yet to recover, yet you dare to show yourself here. Since I failed to kill you completely last time, I'm afraid you won't have such good luck this time!"

Driven to shame and anger with nowhere to vent, Gu Daoyun slaughtered all of that Jin Dan Elder's hundreds of thousands of clan descendants overnight, not even sparing the mortal children.

"Today is a feud between my Wanling Sect and Gu Daoyun. Are you two here to take treasures, or specifically to interfere in this matter?"

Facing Wang Yan's threat, Gu Daoyun showed no fear in his words. As soon as he finished speaking, two more black shadows flew rapidly to his side; they were none other than the Blood Demon True Person and Mo Yunting.

When Gu Daoyun's cultivation was still at the Core Formation stage years ago, he once competed for a spirit item in a secret realm against a late-stage Core Formation Elder of the Wanling Sect. After being defeated and suffering heavy injuries, he barely escaped, nearly dying at the elder's hands.

As a rare genius of the demonic path, Gu Daoyun did indeed have some ability. Even when facing multiple encirclements by the righteous sects of the Mount Funiu range, not only could he escape their hands every time, but his own cultivation base continued to rise rapidly.

The reason he gave up competing with others for the light orbs and was so anxious to find a way to deal with Gu Daoyun was precisely because there was a significant blood feud between this demon and the Wanling Sect to which he belonged.

Later, after Gu Daoyun's cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds and he broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, he snuck into the Qin State under the Wanling Sect's nose to take revenge. He did not expect that the enemy he had obsessed over for years—the Wanling Sect Jin Dan Elder who had injured him back then—had already exhausted his lifespan and passed away.

In the less than three hundred years since breaking through to Nascent Soul, Gu Daoyun had cultivated to the eighth layer of Nascent Soul. During this period, he also slaughtered countless righteous sect cultivators who came to encircle him.

Wang Yan stared fixedly at Gu Daoyun's figure, his mind already rapidly calculating whether he truly had a chance to keep the other party here.

"Wang Yan! You don't think I came here alone, do you? Your Senior Brother Zhao Wuling is not here today; if you want to kill me here, I'm afraid you are being a bit wishful!"

Seeing the appearance of these two demons, although Wang Yan frowned slightly, he was not too surprised. Whether it was the Blood Demon True Person or Mo Yunting, both were veteran Nascent Soul cultivators of the demonic path. Although their cultivation was not as high as Gu Daoyun's, they would always come in to fish in troubled waters whenever the Heaven-Connecting Tower opened.

Even after subsequently seizing a body to restart his cultivation and spending nearly two hundred years, Gu Daoyun's cultivation had only recovered to the sixth layer of Nascent Soul, far from his peak strength.

Facing Wang Yan's questioning, the Blood Demon True Person glanced at Wu Jiuyuan and the others beside him, chuckled, and said, "Fellow Daoist Wang is joking. We came here naturally to take treasures, but since you have many people and great influence inside, if we only cared about self-preservation, how could we have a chance to snatch treasures from your hands?

If Fellow Daoist Wang truly wants to settle your feud with Brother Gu and doesn't want us two to interfere, you could also take out that treasure you just obtained; then we could naturally consider it!"

"Hmph! Feng Laogui Blood Demon, you want to take things from my hands? Do you think your claws are hard enough?"

Just as Wang Yan and Gu Daoyun's trio were in a standoff, two Demon Emperors from the demon race side had also flown over to help the Demon Emperor who was being suppressed by Gu Daoyun's magic treasure.

The purple-clad Long Ziyun Demon Emperor used a jade plate magic treasure in her hand to release a cluster of yellow glow. After forcefully pushing back the three "Black Scale Swords" controlled by Gu Daoyun, she said to him with displeasure:

"Old Demon Gu, we don't want to meddle in the internal affairs of your human race, but I want to warn you: if you dare to snatch things from our hands again, don't blame us for being impolite later."

"Rest assured, Your Excellency. You can feel free to snatch the things that are useless to me. I am only interested in what I need. This magic treasure was just something I took to play with because it looked like it had an affinity with me."

Hearing Gu Daoyun's perfunctory words, although the Long Ziyun Demon Emperor felt unhappy seeing the magic treasure in his hand, she still forcibly endured it. Now, the "Xuantian Ten Thousand Treasure Map" above was still spitting out light clusters one after another, and there were plenty of treasures left in the great hall.

They really had no need to fight Gu Daoyun, a formidable demon, for this magic treasure right now. As long as the Wanling Sect side and the demonic path group started fighting, there would be fewer people competing for spirit items, which was certainly beneficial to their demon race side.

Thinking of this, the Long Ziyun Demon Emperor gave the other party a warning look, then led several Demon Emperors to turn around and chase after other light clusters, no longer paying attention to Gu Daoyun and the others who were still in a standoff.

"Fellow Daoists, Gu Daoyun must have come for the Profound Spirit Pill inside the Xuantian Ten Thousand Treasure Map this time. Even if we can't snatch the item, we must not let him have his way. Once this demon obtains this item and his strength greatly increases, our Mount Funiu range cultivation world will likely suffer a catastrophe before long and find it hard to be at peace!"

Hearing Wang Yan's secret voice transmission, Qiu Pingshan and the others also nodded slightly. Including Wu Jiuyuan, who had not yet formed his Core back then, they had all followed the Wanling Sect to participate in the encirclement of Gu Daoyun, and many of their sect members and disciples had died at the hands of this demon.

Now that they knew Gu Daoyun was still alive and had recovered his Nascent Soul cultivation, they were already somewhat fearful. If they really let this demon snatch a useful spirit item here and advance his strength further, it would definitely be a disaster for them in the future.

Li Mufeng and the others, who were slightly further away, saw this scene not far off and were similarly caught in a dilemma. Although they had always been at odds with the Wanling Sect, facing demonic path cultivators, they, who prided themselves on being righteous sects, naturally had no reason to sit idly by.

But if they all went to help deal with the demonic cultivators, the treasures before them would definitely be left directly to the demon race, which was also an unacceptable outcome. Whether it was the demon race or the demonic path, both were their mortal enemies; whoever's strength grew was not a good thing for them.

Just as Li Mufeng and the others were still considering whether to go over and help, several more light clusters flew out of the "Xuantian Ten Thousand Treasure Map". One smaller golden light cluster among them was particularly dazzling, instantly attracting the eyes of everyone in the great hall.

"Two Fellow Daoists, help me block them, and this magic treasure will be yours afterwards!" After Gu Daoyun sent a message to the Blood Demon Feng Laogui and his companion, he immediately flew into the high air, heading straight for that golden light cluster.

The Blood Demon True Person and his companion on the side looked at each other and, without too much hesitation, immediately stepped forward to block Wang Yan and the others who wanted to chase after Gu Daoyun.

"Feng Laogui Blood Demon, daring to block my path? Do you think you are worthy of being my opponent?"

Seeing the Blood Demon True Person before him, Wang Yan rebuked him angrily, then quickly swung a red flying sword magic treasure emitting intense flames, slashing a powerful flame at the Blood Demon True Person.

"Hehe! I have long heard of Fellow Daoist Wang's Burning Flame Art, which greatly restrains our demonic path techniques. Today, I finally have a chance to test it!"

Seeing Wang Yan's attack approaching, the Blood Demon True Person chuckled lightly. A burst of blood light suddenly appeared out of thin air beside him, then transformed into a fierce tiger with a gaping maw, which swallowed the flames that had already flown before him in one gulp.

Just as the fight started here, Gu Daoyun had already arrived beside that golden light cluster. Just as he wanted to grab it, a blue flying fork magic treasure suddenly flew from the side, directly knocking away his outstretched right hand.

The golden light cluster that had just escaped took advantage of this opportunity to instantly break free from Gu Daoyun's control and flew directly toward the stone gate entrance where they had entered.

Gu Daoyun reacted and wanted to chase, but the Long Ziyun Demon Emperor, holding twin swords, had already blocked his path.

"Old Demon Gu, you snatched our things just now; don't think you'll succeed again this time!"

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