Chapter 355: Shadow

In Black Stone Valley, a man in a black robe wearing a bamboo hat was casting spells and setting up a formation with a red formation flag painted with strange patterns beside a white formation covered with runes.

After about the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, a strange black gloomy wind suddenly rolled up above the formation flag in the black-robed man's hand, and a burst of harsh ghost howling sounds came from the gloomy wind.

After the black gloomy wind circled the black-robed man who summoned it several times, it suddenly flew into the air and gathered together, slowly forming a black ghost head more than a zhang wide.

This ghost head looked very scary, with green light shining in its two eye sockets, two huge bull horns on its head, and a few terrifying screams coming from its mouth from time to time.

Seeing the ghost head, the black-robed man smiled with satisfaction, and then immediately took out a three-inch-long broken sword to cut his palm, spraying a ball of bright red blood from his palm into the ghost head's mouth.

The black ghost head formed by the gloomy wind, after touching the blood on the black-robed man's hand, suddenly became very excited and let out bursts of eerie ghost crying and wolf howling sounds.

"Go!"

Following the black-robed man's order, the huge ghost head in the sky turned around and pounced directly on the white formation more than ten zhang away from the black-robed man.

As soon as it touched this white formation, a white giant tiger formed by spiritual light flew out from a white flying sword located in the formation. This white tiger was also very fierce. After flying into the air, it slapped the pouncing ghost head to the side with one blow.

Seeing this white tiger, the black ghost head did not retreat. After turning around in the air, it immediately spat a mouthful of black gloomy wind at the white tiger, entangling the white tiger in it. After the white tiger was trapped by this gloomy wind, the spiritual light on its body dimmed a lot, so it hurriedly used its four sharp claws together to pull and tear the gloomy wind that surrounded it and broke free.

Just after the white tiger broke free, it met the huge ghost head that had already pounced over. Seeing that this ghost head had already opened its bloody mouth and wanted to swallow it in one bite, the white tiger shook its body, as if letting out a roar, and its body immediately became a few points larger, immediately fighting with the pouncing ghost head again.

In the sky, a beast and a ghost fought very fiercely. The black-robed man standing below seemed to be very confident in the ghost head he summoned and did not immediately join this battle to help it, but sat on the side patiently restoring his own magic power.

It may be that summoning this ghost head also consumed a lot of the black-robed man's own magic power and essence blood. At this moment, his face looked abnormally pale, and there seemed to be some pain between his brows.

As time passed, the spiritual light on the white tiger in the sky became dimmer and dimmer, and the black ghost head gradually gained the upper hand, and the gloomy wind spat out from its big mouth firmly suppressed the white tiger's counterattack below.

Half an hour later, as the black ghost head bit the white tiger, which was already weak and unbearable, the white tiger let out an unwilling howl, turned into a few rays of spiritual light that were scattered, and completely disappeared in the high sky.

Just after the ghost head solved the white tiger, the black-robed man below, relying on the two elixirs he took, had also restored his own state to about the same, and that somewhat sickly face gradually improved.

The black-robed man stood up, slowly raised the red formation flag in his hand, and the huge ghost head in the sky immediately turned back into black gloomy wind, and then slowly returned to the ghost head pattern on the formation flag in his hand.

After putting away this formation flag, the black-robed man came to the front of the white formation that was already somewhat dim and lightless, and reached out to pull up the white flying sword in the formation.

At this moment, a strange voice also sounded on him. "This second-level high-grade White Tiger Demon-Subduing Formation is really somewhat tricky. Just to break this formation has already wasted a lot of time. Before, we failed to kill the Carefree Sect cultivators who came to investigate. Now they should have received the news and sent reinforcements soon. The time left for us is not much. Good apprentice, hurry up and go in!"

"Killing a few Qi Refining cultivators will not be taken seriously by the Carefree Sect. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator really died, I am afraid it would alarm the Golden Core elders of the sect to come and investigate. In fact, letting him go before was also intentional, otherwise, just relying on that kid, it would not be so easy to want to escape from my hands."

After the black-robed man muttered to himself, he nodded again, put away the white flying sword in his hand, and walked quickly through the white formation into the cave behind.

After the black-robed man left for about the time it takes for a stick of incense to burn, two shadows suddenly appeared at the cave entrance and slowly walked to the front of the formation that the black-robed man had just destroyed. An old man in yellow clothes looked at the surroundings and said to a red-robed man who looked somewhat enchanting beside him.

"This guy spent so much effort to break the great formation outside. It seems that inside here, it is possible that it is the place where that old ghost is hiding."

The red-robed man shook a folding fan in his hand, looked at the cave entrance in front, and said with an unhappy face: "Following this kid for almost two years, still haven't found the whereabouts of Old Ghost Xiao. We are already uncomfortable enough now. No matter whether that old ghost is inside or not, we must go in and see, so as not to miss anything and miss the best opportunity to take action."

The yellow-clothed old man nodded and continued: "Although this kid is Old Ghost Xiao's disciple, his cultivation base is only at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment. I don't know what kind of abacus Old Ghost Xiao is playing, actually letting such a hairy kid go and take away the things he hid in Skeleton Mountain. If it weren't for the fact that Master left an extra heart back then, we wouldn't have the opportunity to stare at this kid."

"Haha! Junior Brother Liu is right. This kid wouldn't know that the two of us have been following behind him for so long. Back then, in order to find Old Ghost Xiao, I also stayed in the Wei State for a period of time, but didn't get any clues, and almost died in the hands of the Carefree Sect. In the end, I relied on losing a lot of cultivation base and using the substitute method to safely escape."

"Old Ghost Xiao has always been a confidant's trouble for Master. This time, as long as we can successfully find him, it will be considered a great merit for the sect. When we go back in the future, Master will definitely not be stingy with rewards for the two of us." The red-robed man said this, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Haha! Senior Uncle Hong is still far-sighted. As long as I can follow Senior Uncle together this time, I believe this day is not far from us, haha..." After the yellow-clothed old man finished speaking, an excited laugh also flowed out of his mouth.

It is just somewhat strange that this red-robed man is clearly much younger than the yellow-clothed old man, but he is called Senior Uncle by the yellow-clothed old man, which is really somewhat hard to understand.

After the two discussed a few words at the cave entrance, they looked at each other and then walked into the pitch-black cave in front together.

After the two disappeared at the cave entrance, Black Stone Valley, which was originally a barren place, returned to its usual calm.

(End of this chapter)