The three of them were deadlocked in the narrow passage. After the old man and the woman seemed to communicate with each other, two spiritual senses began to repeatedly explore Gong Chenying.
Gong Chenying also saw the changes in the eyes of the two people in her consciousness, and guessed that the other party must be communicating in secret. In fact, it would be fine if the other party just shouted to discuss, because she couldn't understand it anyway.
Besides, what result could be achieved through discussion? The roads here are so narrow that she only needs to be on guard against the front and behind her where any unexpected events might occur.
After more than ten breaths, a few more people came into the narrow cave and stood in front and behind.
After pausing for dozens of breaths, the old man in the front approached Gong Chenying, while the people behind him stayed where they were.
Soon, the old man was about six hundred feet away from Gong Chenying, and his speed immediately slowed down.
His spiritual sense had been firmly locked on Gong Chenying to prevent the other party from suddenly attacking. The moment the old man slowed down, he waved his hand violently.
Four black monsters that looked like small minks flew out from a shadow.
As soon as they appeared, their bodies instantly faded, and the next moment they had crossed hundreds of feet and reached the corner in a flash. The old man also turned into a wisp of light smoke and disappeared from the spot.
As the four monsters that looked like small minks arrived at the corner, they began to wave their limbs. In an instant, black claw marks and black lines appeared in the air, and these black lines seemed to be hanging down from the sky.
Gong Chenying, who was sitting on the other side of the corner, was also using her spiritual sense to lock onto the old man, paying attention to his every move. Seeing four monsters flying over, she began to hold her breath and concentrate.
Just as she was in a trance, Gong Chenying felt a slight dizziness in her head, and then, the scene in front of her eyes moved, and a figure appeared there like a ghost.
At the corner of the narrow cave wall, Li Yan, dressed in black, was holding an old man in his hands. The old man had a hunched body and looked like a dead dog.
At the same time, the moment Li Yan appeared, he swiftly slapped out with his other hand.
Just a few feet in front of Gong Chenying, four monsters shaped like small martens stumbled out from the void, bared their teeth and hissed at Li Yan, then quickly retreated.
"Aying, thank goodness you left those signs behind so I could get here in time. Now you don't have to worry, I have already wiped out all those people in the rear!"
Li Yan looked at her with a smile, then raised a hand and stretched it towards Gong Chenying's shoulder, as if to pull her up...
There was some confusion in Gong Chenying's eyes, and her body, which was sitting cross-legged, was frozen there.
From the outside, four monsters shaped like small minks had appeared above her head, baring their sharp fangs and biting her top of the head, cheeks, and both sides of her neck.
The old man also appeared like a ghost, and approached Gong Chenying. He grabbed her shoulders with a pair of skinny and shriveled ghost claws.
Wisps of black smoke were coming out of the old man's half-foot-long black fingernails, and it was obvious that his palms were covered with poison.
The old man looked at Gong Chenying, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, motionless, and a smile of success appeared on his face.
Just when all the attacks were about to fall on Gong Chenying, she suddenly raised her head, her jade-like face was filled with coldness, and her eyes were completely blank, without a trace of emotion.
The spear on his back suddenly flew up and spun above his head like a wheel, like a wheel in a gust of wind, and a red light burst out in an instant.
At the same time, her shoulders shook, trembled and bumped, and her upper body became blurred, leaving an afterimage of rapid vibration.
First, the four monsters that looked like small minks suddenly crashed into a red light. They were originally second-level monsters, so the old man sacrificed so many of them at the same time. Once Gong Chenying took action, they had no power to resist.
Since the old man took out a monster of this level to deal with a Jindan strongman, he naturally had some confidence. His purpose was to cause a brief impact on Gong Chenying who was hiding behind the corner.
It only took him half a breath to break through to the corner and launch a thundering attack immediately.
Four monsters that looked like small minks were swept up by the magical spear of Gong Chenying who had regained consciousness. They didn't even have the chance to scream before they were turned into a bloody rain.
The old man grabbed nothing with his claws, and just as he was stunned, he felt a sharp pain in his palm.
In a hurry, he saw that the woman he was about to attack had moved sideways dozens of feet, and a vague and narrow space crack had appeared where her shoulder was originally.
The old man just grabbed into it with one claw. There was a faint surge of strong wind in the space crack that made him terrified. The severe pain in his palm came from that place.
The severe pain attacked his brain, and the old man couldn't help but roar. He stepped with all his strength, and suddenly stomped hard on the air, and his whole body retreated like lightning.
What frightened him was that as he retreated he saw that a large part of his arm had disappeared below the wrist.
The hand that could break gold and split stone disappeared completely in an instant.
With a "clang" sound, the cold and beautiful woman's spear had returned to her back like a sword, and was looking at him coldly.
The old man was so frightened that his magic power surged wildly. He let out an inexplicable strange scream and instantly turned around the cave entrance, retreating rapidly in the direction he came from.
Gong Chenying's throat moved slightly, and the fishy and sweet smell was suppressed by her.
The fight between the two of them lasted only a short moment, but it was so sudden that she almost fell into the opponent's trap.
The reason why they didn't take the opportunity to chase and kill him was that Gong Chenying was already injured.
The joint attack of the four demon beasts that looked like small minks actually caused her to have hallucinations. At that moment, she had a mental demon.
This was exactly what the old man wanted to achieve, which was to provide himself with a brief opportunity so that Gong Chenying, who was hiding behind the corner, could not launch an attack in time.
Although Gong Chenying had inner demons, her determination to practice cultivation was strong, and years of fighting had made her nerves as tight as steel.
The moment Li Yan's figure appeared, she knew that she had entered an illusion, and Li Yan's every move and every word in the illusion confirmed her thoughts.
With Li Yan's cultivation level, he could just slap out a palm and kill not only a second-level monster but even a third-level monster would be dead. How could he still stumble out from the void
In addition, although Gong Chenying asked Li Yan to call her "Aying" in private, Li Yan rarely called her that because of habit. Instead, he called her "Sixth Senior Sister". The two of them were in the Wuliang Sect at the beginning, which was also Gong Chenying's request at the beginning. "Aying" was just her own subconscious thought.
As soon as Gong Chenying realized something was wrong, he took action immediately, but he eventually fell into a brief illusion. The old man's ghost claws had already attacked, and Gong Chenying had to either collide with it head-on or dodge.
In a head-on collision, Gong Chenying wasn't sure whether he would be poisoned. If he dodged, the old man would miss his first move, but his momentum would be so overwhelming that he would launch a series of subsequent attacks.
All Gong Chenying could do was keep dodging. As long as he was suppressed by the old man's attack, the people behind him would come. Although the place was narrow, he could still give auxiliary attacks from some gaps.
In this situation, Gong Chenying had already lost the initiative, so he hastily used all his magic power and forcibly performed the fifth level of the "Qiongqi Purgatory Technique" to launch a peak attack.
With just this one strike, she used her shoulder to forcibly create a very thin turbulent space on the spot. She then used the recoil of this force to push herself dozens of feet away.
The fight between the two men lasted only a moment. Gong Chenying looked at the old man's receding image and felt a sense of fatigue and emptiness in his body.
The instantaneous burst of power from that attack just now not only consumed almost all of her magic power, but also tore several of her internal organs.
She seemed to gently raise her hand and cover her red lips, and a drop of "melted bamboo shoots" quietly slipped into her mouth.
In just a moment, the extremely empty body was immediately filled with a surge of magical power. As soon as this magical power appeared, it immediately rushed to the torn internal organs.
Gong Chenying stood up immediately. As she stood up, the spiritual power on her body flickered. Under this spiritual light, she swallowed several pills into her mouth.
Then, Gong Chenying walked to the corner again, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes again, and began to refine the medicinal power.
This scene fell into the consciousness of several ghosts and wind beasts in the distance. They only saw the old man successfully attacking behind the corner.
But just as a look of joy appeared on his face, he saw the old man rushing back from the corner as if he had encountered a snake or scorpion.
At the same time, the magic power of the woman at the corner dropped rapidly, but in an instant it began to surge again like the tide, and then she sat at the corner again.
Although the old man was forced to retreat for unknown reasons, Gong Chenying's magic power dropped instantly before, which was obviously due to a hard fight with the old man, and his magic power was greatly damaged. This actually surprised the wind beasts.
But Gong Chenying's aura suddenly surged again, leaving them confused for a moment, not knowing what had happened.
In just a moment, the old man had shot back like lightning. As soon as he landed, he quickly took out the pill and swallowed it into his mouth. At the same time, a black light appeared on his body.
Under the influence of magic power, wisps of black smoke emerged from the wrist, and a blurry palm was slowly forming.
By the time the old man's palm slowly formed, his face had turned a bluish-gray color.
The ghostly wind beasts then whispered to him, and the old man responded with some strange words with a grim face.
After just a few words, those ghosts and wind beasts all showed horror and disbelief in their eyes.
Gong Chenying withdrew her spiritual sense. Although she could not understand what they were saying, she guessed that they did not believe what the old man said.
The old man affirmed that his attack was powerful enough to tear the void, which was something only a Nascent Soul cultivator could do.
If I had that level of cultivation, these wind beasts would have died countless times already, so they would definitely not believe it.
While Gong Chenying was being alert and healing her wounds, she didn't even notice that a shadow suddenly emerged from the long and narrow path behind her.
At this moment, he had appeared behind her silently!
However, Gong Chenying had no idea about this. Even though she had already separated a wisp of her spiritual consciousness and scanned the back from time to time, the person was just standing quietly behind her, and Gong Chenying's spiritual consciousness seemed to be passing through empty space.
The shadow stared at Gong Chenying, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, for a long time. Then, it suddenly waved its robe sleeve and covered Gong Chenying's head.
Gong Chenying, who had her eyes closed, suddenly opened her beautiful eyes. As she was recovering, she suddenly felt an extreme heart palpitation coming from behind her.
In the blink of an eye, she had already made her move, but the spear on her back only moved slightly upwards before it was tightly grasped by a force that did not belong to her. In an instant, the red spear lost its mental connection with Gong Chenying.
Gong Chenying was unable to move at this moment. She was pinned to the spot by a huge force.
However, in her consciousness, apart from the ghostly wind beasts in the distance that were still whispering and talking, she did not discover anything else at all. That power seemed to have emerged out of thin air, without a master or roots.
Just when her heart was chilled, a figure appeared from behind her. The man was holding a spear that was flashing red light, and his eyes were fixed on Gong Chenying's face...
Li Yan stared at the cave entrance for a while. Not only did the two red-robed men with the bleeding champions not chase in, but their figures quickly disappeared and merged back into the thick black air.
Li Yan did not go out immediately, but began to look around.
If he were to go out again at this moment, he would have to use his magic weapon and would certainly not resist with his physical body. The attacks of those two were very strange, and the cold ghost poison they released was something that even he, who had a poisonous body, could not ignore directly.
This cave was very large. Looking from his position, he could see with his spiritual consciousness that there were eight branching roads in the cave. They were deep and dark, and no one knew where they led to!
Li Yan just stood there, his spiritual sense divided into eight parts and probed towards the depths of the fork in the road. In his spiritual sense, the deep fork in the road was filled with all kinds of strange whistling sounds, like the howling of ghosts and wolves, or the cries of nighthawks.
These voices came in the interweaving of spiritual consciousness, giving people a sinister feeling in their hearts.
When Li Yan's spiritual sense extended to a hundred miles, he still did not find any living creature.
And at that distance, more branches had branched out from the eight forks, so Li Yan withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
"The thick black air outside the cave has made me lose my way. I don't know if Sixth Senior Sister is safe at this moment? Is she still waiting for me there
What's so strange about this cave? Why didn't the two bloody champions in red robes chase me in? Why did they leave and disappear as soon as I entered? If I go out again, they will appear again...
This... This is like trying to trap me here?"
When Li Yan thought of this, his facial expression froze and he became a little dazed.
"Trapped... trapped! They want to trap me here. The Tianli tribe leader and his men... they haven't returned for a long time, and they seem to be trapped too!"