Chapter 183: Bi Luo

"Nothing can be hidden from the Ancestor's discerning eyes," Senior Brother Xing said without objection, brandishing his snake staff and asking why.

Min Chi Yuan dared to listen, but Cheng Zigui did not; he instantly sealed his hearing and shut his eyes, for he was seated on the elder's flying boat and feared no fall.

Xuantang Xingjun, noticing the latter's move, lifted his hand, a flash of light sprinkling at his ear: "There's nothing you can't hear."

I employed a secret art to compress my cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage, and it automatically restores after leaving the cave.

As for limiting entrants, I, the old Daoist, still lack that ability; everything is the cave's self‑regulation.

Senior Brother Xing wanted to ask another question: when you first entered the Nascent Soul stage, did you kill most of them?

"Other than that, I wouldn't know even if you asked."

"Ancestor, does this cave contain an artifact spirit?" Min Chi Yuan's mind raced; otherwise Min Wu couldn't have pulled him into an alliance to wrest control of the Min family's speech.

"I don't know; we can search for it. But before that, I'll take you to seize a few opportunities." Xuantang Xingjun suspected that the emerald little snake that emerged from the Heavenly King Temple was the cave's artifact spirit.

Unfortunately, his spirit state then couldn't nurture it.

And the emerald little snake had also picked up Jiang Tu's mutterings, constantly complaining: "Jiang Yu isn't righteous, actually sneaking off."

Guo Jue now seems to have discerned its temperament: "She went to find fellow disciples, no excuse; she promised to return."

It must have been an unavoidable incident, preventing her from rejoining us.

Look behind, her senior brothers and sisters are there; she wouldn't abandon.

The emerald little snake glared, "Hmph, don't make excuses for her."

"Then what name will you take? This poor monk can't keep calling you Master Snake." If it weren't for the unbreakable contract, Guo Jue wouldn't be so roundabout; he doesn't want to keep hearing the snake's endless complaints.

"Call it Bi Luo. I, the king, am named Bi Luo, styled Immortal Lord." The emerald little snake had spent years unable to choose a name; now, thinking it over, Jiang Yu's suggestion wasn't bad.

The name settled; in the not‑too‑distant innermost layer, the voice "I, the king, am named Bi Luo" instantly echoed, lingering for a long time before fading.

Clearly, the cave has selective memory; others searched everywhere for the speaker, and the airborne Xuantang Xingjun also halted, "So it is indeed it."

Meanwhile, on an unnamed mountain, Jiang Yu, with senior brothers and sisters, was interrogating a ghost cultivator; hearing that voice, she promptly told Jiang Tu to locate the snake.

Because the voice was unmistakably familiar, it was indeed that emerald little snake.

"It's not nearby, but there are a few skeleton monsters that were chased here."

"Arriving soon, should we eliminate them?" Sometimes Jiang Tu prefers fighting to keep his muscles active.

Honestly, its current spirit fire hurled at the ghost cultivator would instantly extinguish the opponent.

Yet without a combat process, it's not fun at all, and the skeleton monsters linger at the Core Formation stage, making them viable targets.

With a team, Jiang Yu couldn't act on her own; she handed the ghost cultivator to Senior Sister Xia, who promptly consulted the senior brothers and sisters.

Xia Bing didn't hesitate: "Attack; this thing may indiscriminately strike. If we can't defeat it, at least block it and let those behind chase it down."

Jiang Tu, can you see how many skeletons, how many pursuers, and what their cultivation levels are?

As soon as Jiang Tu reported the numbers, clack clack clack, a dozen or so skeleton monsters scrambled in panic.

Xia Bing was also startled, yet she kept flying, unleashing a fierce sword slash at the skeletons.

Jiang Yu and a few others, of course, couldn't let Senior Sister intercept alone; they each unleashed their own spells or sword techniques.

Dang dang, boom—!

The swords didn't sever the skeletons, but the soaring thunder bamboo fan unleashed a massive bolt of lightning, instantly blasting two apart.

The pursuers from the Tianyuan Continent demonic cultivators' Core Formation side fixed their eyes on the thunder bamboo fan, wondering how to destroy it.

Whether to restrain them with their treasure, or better not let the Daoist sect control it.

Impulsively, the two demonic cultivators exchanged a glance, and as they struck the skeletons, they halted the thunder fan's discharge.

On this side, Jiang Yu once again triggered the bamboo fan to unleash thunder, coordinating with the senior brothers and sisters' withdrawal.

Two Core Formation demonic cultivators hurriedly shouted, "No need to retreat; the skeletons are forged puppets, usable as treasures."

Before the words finished, they slipped from the edge, and in a blink lunged toward Jiang Yu's front.

Clang!

A blade of sword light blocked the two; it was Xia Bing, who noticed something off and said, "Both of you are real persons; I, the Grand Void Sect elder, am also here."

"Young friend, what do you mean? The spot you stand on, can't we stand there?" the demonic cultivator snapped back.

Jiang Yu could not let herself be in danger; she instantly withdrew the bamboo fan, erecting it before her as a barrier.

The two demonic cultivators originally intended one to use a nearby secret move to wound, and the other, when Jiang Yu was injured, to strike down the bamboo fan.

Now all plans fell flat, as Lin Yuan vaulted, catching a fellow disciple who fled, while the skeletons had already surrounded them.

The two demonic cultivators were trapped inside, unable to act against Jiang Yu any longer.

Lin Yuan led everyone flying far away, "Why hasn't Elder Qian come back yet?"

With him present, the Heavenly Demon Sect's Core Formation cultivators wouldn't dare chase us.

"Now they also dare not chase." Lu Ruochan smiled leisurely.

The four stared at the battle below, hoping Elder Qian would return safely.

Before they could idle for a moment, another direction also had skeletons running, this time chasing five Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Xia Bing instantly reported the identities: "Profound Heaven Sect, Lingxu Sect, Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, plus Fulong Temple and Cangshan School people. Need a hand."

"Good." Lin Yuan fully agreed, and the group quickly allocated tasks, each taking their own vessel.

Jiang Yu this time no longer used thunder, after all the lightning wasn't hers to summon; relying solely on the fan's internal thunder was far insufficient.

She chose to cast a seal, hoping it would topple without breaking, to study it thoroughly, thus she didn't let Jiang Tu use fire.

A round of golden arrow seals, under Jiang Tu's palm wind, precisely hit each skeleton.

Combined with earth‑wall seals and Senior Sister Xia's sword light blocking enemies, the skeletons were quickly confined.

The five Foundation Establishment cultivators were also hoisted onto the flying boat by Lin Yuan and Lu Ruochan.

"Thank you, fellow Daoists, for your assistance," the Profound Heaven Sect disciple said, which immediately irritated Jiang Tu.

"We are rescuing people; that guy's words make it sound like a raid," Jiang Tu couldn't help but release a palm wind toward the flying boat, seemingly intending to fling the five Foundation Establishment cultivators back into the skeleton heap.

Unfortunately, Elder Qian flew back from underwater, glanced at its movement, immediately flew over and unleashed a Dao barrier, thus preventing it from succeeding.

"Jiang Tu, whatever it is, speak after beating back the skeletons." Elder Qian would not let it attack his own people.

Jiang Yu said the skeletons were puppets; she pointed downward, at the skeletons breaking open the earthen wall: "Can you see anything?"

"Maybe there is, but speak after knocking them down; those two demon cultivators need not be worried about." Elder Qian would not bother with the two demon cultivators chasing the skeletons again.

Jiang Yu followed him down into the trapped skeletons; seeing a Golden Core cultivator appear, others joined in one after another, fighting the skeletons face to face.

Bang bang, crack crack

A fist striking bone certainly hurts; Jiang Yu found it easiest, and once again unleashed her Spirit Net Grand Technique.

Whoosh, it flew out, several skeletons caught in the net; in the cramped space, they ended up fighting each other.

Jiang Yu took the opportunity to carefully observe whether there were any crystals controlling and driving them; there were, and she noted which joints they were pressed on.

"Smash one and we'll know." Upon hearing her idea, Jiang Tu, with one force overcoming ten, smashed one on the spot.