Chapter 269: Encirclement!

Although Ji You did not know the specific methods and cultivation techniques of evil transformation, after a long pursuit, he discovered that even if they turned into similar appearances, there should still be differences between the Bu family members.

This difference lay in the strength of the body, the level of combat power, and the degree of clarity of consciousness.

Bu Zun was of the same generation as Bu Qirong, but his combat power was only equivalent to his two nephews, Bu Yao and Bu Sheng.

As for that old one, he was completely a gift.

Ji You, who flew over, had his clothes fluttering, his wrist lifted lightly, and his iron sword kept trembling, the sword Qi shooting straight into the nine heavens.

Following the high-speed slash, the blade cut a ripple in the air, pressing the air to explode constantly...

Bu Zun's eyes were about to crack.

In fact, when the previous sword fell, Bu Zun was not too terrified, but after that "clang" sound, he realized that his soul was about to be slashed out of his flesh.

In a hazy state, he seemed to see his kind great-grandfather.

And as this sword attacked, he really saw his great-grandfather.

The second before his consciousness was annihilated under the sword Qi, Bu Zun was extremely angry and aggrieved.

When they first obtained the immortal fate, in order to avoid the covetousness of the immortal sects, they had always been enduring, not daring to make a move, but in their hearts, they were already hungry and thirsty.

Just like Bu Yao and Bu Sheng going to watch the Heavenly Dao Assembly, looking at everyone as trash, wishing they could make a move themselves.

This endurance lasted until today; seeing the catastrophe of family extermination coming, he actually had a fierce killing intent in his heart to make a move.

Even, he hoped to encounter immortal sect disciples on the road of flight so he could tear them apart fiercely.

Because more than sixty years ago, he had also harbored jealousy toward those who could enter the immortal sects to cultivate.

So if he could kill these heaven's pride experts, for him, it would be a joyous event that could vent all his pent-up frustration.

This was not a mentality unique to him; in fact, many disciples of bottom-tier families would have this impulse to "intend to offend their superiors."

This mentality stemmed from long-term suppression, especially for the Bu family members whose strength increased greatly after obtaining the immortal fate; the emotion was even stronger.

But the fact was that when he truly encountered it, he was not happy again.

Bu Zun had never seen Ji You; at the moment before his death, looking at the man with a monstrous aura, there were only the two words "monster" in his blood-overflowing mouth.

Clearly, they who had mutated into evil seeds were the real monsters; even Bu Zun himself thought so.

But until he saw this young swordsman, he knew who the real monster was.

Boom...

Bang!

The heavy sword Qi passed through Bu Zun's neck, slashing down without losing momentum, causing the flowing river surface to be cut into a broken mark instantly.

Amidst the spraying water waves, Ji You landed on the river beach with a "peng" sound, his chest rising and falling slightly, panting lightly for a while.

Having killed Bu Zun, the Bu family disciples were almost all accounted for; now only Bu Qirong remained.

He looked up to the west, his eyes narrowing slightly.

There shouldn't be many people left around Bu Qirong; he had gone to such lengths and still failed to shake off the pursuit, so he definitely wouldn't have any chance left now.

But the problem was that those Elders of the major immortal sects were not really wearing the same pair of pants.

The reason they subconsciously joined forces to search earlier was that the Dongping Mountain Range was truly vast; if they operated independently, any slight omission would allow the Bu family members, who were familiar with the terrain, to escape.

But since they already knew the target's location, the previous tacit understanding would inevitably be broken, and they might even become hostile.

If Bu Qirong had the ability to escape from the Elders' hands, it meant his combat power was stronger than imagined, making him extremely difficult to kill.

If he failed to escape and was caught, then Ji You would have to kill from under the immortal sects' hands, which was also by no means an easy task.

So what followed should be a fierce battle.

Ji You sat cross-legged, radiance appearing in his hand, and countless spirit stones flew out from his storage gourd.

Among them, some were his own, and some were thank-you gifts from the Bu family members for his contribution to the Bu family's reunion.

To ensure the speed of his return, Ji You had used frontal strong kills for every sword strike earlier, without controlling his strength, so the consumption was actually not small.

He decided to use spirit stones to replenish quickly, filling his body with spiritual energy to return his state to its peak.

Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu also returned with their swords, fine beads of fragrant sweat on their foreheads.

The slaughter just now caused the bloody scent to disperse with the wind, attracting many evil seeds; they had been guarding the perimeter and killed quite a few.

Seeing Ji You take out the spirit stones at this time, they squatted down to crush them for him, making it convenient for him to absorb.

"Does the Young Master intend to kill Bu Qirong next?"

"Having reached this point, if I don't kill the last one, this trip would have been completely meaningless."

"Those immortal sect Elders are all extraordinary, with deep foundations; it's not as simple as just their realm. Please, Young Master, must be careful."

Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu whispered while tapping the spirit stones.

Those immortal sect Elders were indeed not easy to deal with; there were some old monsters who had been in seclusion for a long time, whom even they had never seen.

For ordinary immortal sect disciples, those were existences that would make them feel oppressed just by seeing them, let alone facing them head-on.

Ji You was constantly absorbing the essence spiritual energy from the spirit stones, dispersing it into his limbs and bones: "I will be careful. Even if my combat power is insufficient, it won't be so easy for those people to kill me."

After he finished speaking, looking at those crushed spirit stones, he felt a faint heartache.

In fact, he rarely used spirit stones; he usually used them to exchange for silver. This was the first time he had been so generous.

"Do those Elders bring valuable things when they go out? Since they are noble Elders, they must have deep foundations, right?"

"?"

A trace of solemnity appeared on Ji You's brow: "If they don't bring their valuables with them when they go out, that would be a bit hateful..."

Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu looked at each other, thinking to themselves that the Master-in-law really wanted to rob everyone: "If the Master-in-law is short of money, you can ask the Inspection Master. Our family's Inspection Master is very rich."

"Money is not lacking, but I always feel that I can't make this trip in vain. I'm working so hard, someone should pay."

"Uh, as far as we know, the Elder of Heavenly Jianfeng should have brought some valuable magic tools..."

"Your Profound Jianfeng and Heavenly Jianfeng are still one family after all; isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

"Precisely because of this, they should give the Master-in-law some greeting gifts."

"Your reasoning... is truly quite wonderful."

Absorbing the essence spiritual energy from the spirit stones required some time, and the three's idle chat was also largely to pass this time, and by the way, to slightly reduce the pressure in their hearts.

After all, everyone knew that what Ji You was about to do was very risky.

A few breaths later, all the spirit stones became dim and lusterless. Ji You slowly exhaled a breath, and his scorching body began to spread outward constantly with the rhythm of his powerful heartbeat.

At this time, Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu felt an oppression originating from life itself and couldn't help but retreat slightly.

However, just at this moment, they discovered that a mysterious radiance began to float within Ji You's body, and it faintly had a trend of surging toward the sky.

The two women felt this scene was very familiar, somewhat like the sign of a cultivator about to break through a realm.

However, as Ji You constantly dispersed the absorbed spiritual energy into his body, the mysterious light seemed to be suppressed and unable to rise again between his breathing, and it faded away with a roar as he shook his arms.

Zhuo Wanqiu looked up subconsciously and found that the sky, which had been slightly bright, instantly dimmed, her eyes showing a trace of astonishment.

Ji You slowly opened his eyes at this time: "Time is tight, I will go one step ahead of you, you pay attention to safety."

Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu nodded upon hearing this: "Yes."

At the same time, under the gloomy dome, there was constant dull thunder behind the thick leaden clouds.

And in the heavens surrounded by thunder, purple lightning passed through the clouds, illuminating the firmament as if it were shattered.

Countless immortal sect disciples were heading toward a high mountain on the central-west side, fighting with the evil seeds that rushed out of the mountain forest, and wild blade light and sword shadows whistled up.

Since entering the Dongping Mountain Range, they had spent a lot of time encircling the Bu family, and this was the last place that hadn't been searched, and also the place with the most dangerous terrain.

Not only was there an incomparably pitch-black abyss behind them, but there were also countless high peaks standing around; the shortest one was a thousand zhang high.

And the big mountain they were on at this moment was even more magnificent; in terms of area and height, not even the dojos of the seven major immortal sects could compare.

People in front of it were as small as ants climbing a tree.

Boom!

Amidst the flashing of magic arts, sword Qi, and blade light, the thousand-year-old cypress trees broke in the sharp energy, collapsed with a roar, and fell down the slope, falling straight into the cliff.

The powerful energy whistled away, crushing toward the diving evil corpses.

But this kind of pure evil seed did not fear life or death; after being cut down, it would immediately rush up again, even if its body was broken.

And they were extremely fast, coming from top to bottom at this moment, simply like killing machines.

A slight carelessness would result in being pierced by sinister claws.

At this time, a disciple of the Mountain Sea Pavilion took to the air, darting into the void from between the dense tree crowns.

In the eyes of this immortal sect disciple, his goal was to search for the Bu family members; killing these ghost things was meaningless. But just as he took to the air, a pitch-black figure suddenly jumped up from the mountain, and sharp claws grabbed fiercely toward this Mountain Sea Pavilion disciple.

Fortunately, this evil seed was only blindly pouncing and killing, not sneaking, which allowed this Mountain Sea Pavilion disciple to react in advance and blast it down fiercely with a thunder art.

The evil seed fell off the cliff with a screech, but as soon as one landed, the next one shot into the sky.

The ancient relics had always treated the human race as delicacies; even after they died and only their shells remained, they still hadn't escaped the original sin of gluttony.

At this time, high in the sky, the Elders of various sects floating in the heavens stood with their hands behind their backs, coldly watching this scene, but had no intention of making a move.

They had always maintained a subtle balance between them, which could be said to be evenly matched.

Therefore, no one was willing to waste energy and spiritual power here.

In their eyes, only when the Bu family members appeared would it be the moment for them to make a move.

Clang!

A sword Qi condensed from dozens of Dao swords shot across.

The Heavenly Jianfeng disciples who formed the sword array used this as a path-clearing force, and the sharp sword light cut a vertical opening in the corpse tide.

Then, a figure shot into the air, spreading its arms under the night sky, and a touch of orange-yellow was instantly born behind it.

Before long, a fiery red condensed by magic arts began to circle out from behind its back, and with a boom, it rushed into the running corpse tide.

The blazing fire directly ignited the mountain forest, burning a hot arc in the blink of an eye, instantly swallowing the group of evil corpses in front.

At the same time, there were others who used the bloody scent as a guide to lead these evil seeds, which only cared about killing and swallowing, to disperse to the surroundings.

The mountain road gradually began to become much clearer, and the remaining disciples began to scramble up the mountain.

Because before coming here, their own Elders had issued another imperial order.

If they could find the Bu family members, even if they couldn't make a move to catch them, they could exchange for elixirs and magic arts.

Even, there was a chance to become the personal disciples of these Elders.

But just as these immortal sect disciples swarmed over, fearing to fall behind, a black shadow suddenly whistled out from the valley.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a sense of oppression whistled up from the opposite side, followed by a sharp claw that cut the air with a bang, coming at high speed; the mountain rocks along the way cracked inch by inch.

Bang!

The sharp claws slashed down in the air, and five icy finger marks slashed down like sharp iron blades.

In an instant, the bodies of five Mountain Sea Pavilion disciples and the Chen family immortal clan burst open with a thud, and the sprayed blood dyed the stone cliff, causing a fishy wind to rise suddenly.

"Wh... what is that?"

"A different kind of evil seed..."

The crowd on the hillside instantly held their breath, unable to help but look up.

Only to see an evil seed with a long, thin body and a hunched back land in front, its bloodthirsty ferocity surging out from its body like a sea wave.

And at the same time it landed, seven other figures with extremely similar auras darted toward the four directions of southeast, northwest, and their majestic pressure pressed down along the mountain peaks.

Boom!

The Heavenly Tian Shuyuan was encircling from the east; at this time, Qin Rong held an iron blade, the blade light surrounded by thunder and fire, and collided fiercely with that figure.

Before his eyes, in a pair of scarlet eyes, there was nothing else but the desire for slaughter.

At this time, Ji Jingyao flew over.

Between his two fingers joined together, a white rainbow was born, instantly shooting along the mountain ridge, fiercely blasting toward that figure full of baleful Qi.

The three managers of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan were all experts of the Responding to Heaven Realm, especially Ji Jingyao; his one-handed space-splitting force integrated into finger techniques also had damage that could not be underestimated.

But this finger blasted out, and that phantom only flew out sideways and broke a giant tree, with no sign of injury on its whole body.

"So strong..."

"Looking at the attire, it's a Bu family member, but there is no intelligence at all, only killing intent."

Ji Jingyao landed gracefully, pulling Qin Rong to retreat quickly: "Probably something like a death servant, purely used for slaughter."

Qin Rong stared at that figure full of baleful Qi for a long time: "According to the intelligence, there are eight family servants hidden beside Bu Qirong; this should be one of them."

"But according to previous investigations, Bu family members can basically maintain their consciousness after evil transformation. I don't know why these few are particularly different?"

"It could also be intentional."

"?"

Qin Rong turned to look at Ji Jingyao: "The body strength, speed, and power of these four are all extraordinary; perhaps it is because they sacrificed their consciousness."

Although the immortal sects had never mastered any clues about the Bu family's evil transformation, there had been various speculations before.

In their view, being able to evil-seed-transform and maintain clear intelligence, and also be able to recover, might not be an easy thing.

Now it seems the Bu family actually had another method, which was not to retain intelligence, but the increase in combat power was extraordinarily terrifying.

In other words, although the Bu family had always been lurking in the dark, never showing their faces, they actually had preparations for being exposed very early on.

Boom!

Eight figures with baleful Qi surging into the sky rushed down the hillside, the sharp claw marks directly piercing the mountain forest, whistling toward the immortal sect disciples under the mountain cliff.

The cultivators who followed here this time were basically at the Initial Realm of Merging with the Dao.

They were not as youthful and promising as young heaven's pride experts like Jiang Chenfeng and Huo Hong; some were even nearly sixty years old.

But in reality, their combat power was not low; even because of sufficient years of tempering, their combat experience was even richer than those heaven's pride experts.

But despite this, when facing such terrifying combat power, they were fundamentally unable to resist.

Even if someone reacted quickly, and magic arts had already whistled up before they made a move, thunder and fire intersected and attacked fiercely.

But the result was that they were directly smashed by the other party's hard body, and the sinister sharp claws slashed down, instantly leaving corpses everywhere.

Some things, once done to the extreme, would be terrifying.

Whether it was flesh, speed, magic arts, or sword Dao.

"Don't go forward..."

Jiang Yan withdrew her sword at this time and said to the few people beside her.

The Heavenly Jianfeng disciples, including Yan Qiubai, also woke up from their hot-headedness just like Jiang Yan, watching the figure full of baleful Qi and retreating constantly.

Because whether it was elixirs or magic arts, these things should be established on the basis of having a life to be meaningful.

However, they retreated at this time, but the evil seeds that had been led away had already come all over the mountains and plains, fundamentally not giving them a chance to leave.

At this time, those eight figures with baleful Qi surging into the sky moved again, pressing over like a mass of black mist...

Feeling the heart-trembling aura approaching, everyone began to tense their heartstrings; even existences like Qin Rong, Ji Jingyao, and other immortal sect managers did not dare to face it head-on and retreated at high speed.

Seeing this scene, the Elders who were originally floating in the heavens instantly narrowed their turbid eyes and moved in the whistling wind.

Bearing the brunt was Elder Shang Yang of the Dao Seeking Sect.

As he took a step, the mysterious aura of his whole body surged instantly, and at the same time, he raised his right hand with a "hu" sound, and a snow-white radiance instantly bloomed in his palm.

Just like usurping a bolt of lightning from the sky, the rumbling sound pressed fiercely toward one of the guards.

Boom!

The intense thunder light exploded, causing the gloomy sky to brighten instantly for a moment.

The evil seed that he slashed directly at flew out with a "bang," blue smoke rising from its whole body, smashing the mountain rocks fiercely.

And Elder Fang of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan also drew a long blade, slashing toward the mountain in full view of everyone; a heavy aura instantly crushed the high mountain, directly slashing down the evil seed that pounced over fiercely.

As for the other Elders, their moves also had the momentum of shaking the mountains and earth.

These old fellows who had lived for a long time had actually not made a move for many years.

Even the disciples within their sects did not know what kind of weapons and magic arts they were good at using.

But even if they were on the verge of death, they still possessed a kind of dominance that only great powers would possess.

However, after such a powerful move, they did not land, and their gazes instead became a few points more solemn.

The next instant, amidst the sand and soil raised by the collapse of the mountain rocks, eight figures rushed over across the air.

At this time, a biting sword Qi rose, standing snow-white in the high heavens.

Feeling the vastness within this sword intent, the Heavenly Jianfeng disciples trembled instantly, looking at their own Elder whom they had never seen.

Heavenly Jianfeng had a sword Dao called "Wind Returning to Clouds," which was extremely difficult to practice, and it didn't rank in the forefront among all the sword Daos of Lingjian Mountain.

So even if disciples were rewarded, very few people were willing to learn this sword Dao.

But as that Elder lifted his sword, they suddenly discovered that this sword Dao was so powerful.

"I actually didn't know until now that our Heavenly Jianfeng had such an Elder."

"He is also Elder Yan Cang, who was once famous for a time, but he has been in seclusion for decades and was slowly forgotten. This Wind Returning to Clouds was originally a sword Dao he created himself..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 270 =====