The dusk gradually fell, leaving only a hint of orange in the sky.
The earth grew dark, a fishy wind blew across the inky hems of the clothes, and the air was mixed with the breath of many spirit beasts, making it extremely complicated.
The last fourth-tier spirit beast that blocked the path before the people of Tianxuan Sect retreated in fear. Its hind legs were injured, and its ferocity had been worn away in the battle, leaving only fear.
"Roar!!"
The roar of the monster came again from around Crescent Lake, with obvious rage.
The fourth-level spirit beast paused in its retreat and crawled on the ground in pain. The pressure from the monster was so heavy that it was almost unbearable.
Yan Jiuge used a cleansing magic to wash away the blood stains on the Long Yin sword.
He raised his head, his eyes not paying attention to the fourth-level spiritual beast in front of him, but looking at the demon beast that was entrenched by the Crescent Lake and never left.
The monster is huge.
In the dim light, the pitch-black shell has a hard texture like ore, and the undulating sections of the shell look like a circle of hills surrounding the Crescent Lake.
It has a body like a centipede, but its head is a tumor with a human face without eyes, which looks a bit creepy.
Sensing Yan Jiuge's gaze, the monster bared its teeth and let out a threatening roar.
Yan Jiuge pulled the corner of his lips and sneered.
He held the Longyin Sword and walked towards the direction of the monster. The others followed behind him, maintaining the formation of the sword array without losing any step.
It took them less than an hour to finally break through the ten-mile beast tide and reach the center of the Yunxi Secret Realm.
No one was killed.
Under Chu Qi's spiritual power, everyone's energy remained high, without any fatigue or drowsiness.
The remaining spirit beasts were still following the orders of the demon beasts to stop the foreign cultivators, but they did not dare to get close to this team. Even the fourth-level spirit beasts could not stop them. They were spirit beasts that were not even at the fourth level, so naturally they did not dare to go forward and die.
"Roar!"
The monster roared, gathering invisible pressure and crushing towards the people from Tianxuan Sect.
The first to bear the brunt was Yan Jiuge, who was standing at the head of the formation.
Yan Jiuge raised his hand and performed the sword-controlling technique. The Longyin sword in his hand flew out, and scarlet lines suddenly appeared on the sword. He held the sword in front of him.
The overwhelming pressure came over, but disappeared completely when it touched the Long Yin Sword and was easily resolved.
The monster, which had been motionless, finally raised its dark and ferocious head from the edge of Crescent Lake. The monks in front of it made it feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.
It survived the fight between seven monsters, devoured the flesh and blood and monster cores of other monsters, and also inherited some of their abilities.
It’s a pity that the fusion time is too short to allow it to break through immediately.
What's more, rare treasures are about to descend upon the Yunxi Secret Realm.
At this time, the water of Crescent Lake emits wisps of white mist, which is condensed from spiritual energy. When the white mist dissipates, rare treasures will descend.
This process only takes two hours.
In other words, a rare treasure will appear tonight.
The monster raised its head, and its pale human face was facing the direction of Tianxuan Zong and others. The human face had no eyes, and its eyes were all under the carapace sections. There was an eye on each section of the carapace, and when it was open, it was white, making it very easy to identify.
Except for Yan Jiuge, it was the first time for the others to see such a monster. Its appearance was completely beyond their cognition and looked very strange and terrifying.
"What kind of monster is this? I think its appearance is against the will of nature and completely violates balance." Luo Wuci asked in a low voice.
Liu Weiming shook his head. "I haven't seen it before. It is indeed very unusual. The aura is too complex, as if there are six or seven auras in its body at the same time."
"I can't recognize the beastmaster even if he comes."
Yan Jiuge looked at the monster and identified its abnormality. "It swallowed six other monsters. The blood power mixed together may cause atavism. But the time was too short, and it didn't have time to integrate these things."
The bloodline of beasts often weakens with the passage of time. Only after they have tempered themselves through subsequent training and thunder tribulations and achieved the state of returning to their ancestral form can they be considered advanced.
"In that case, don't give it a chance to merge."
Chu Qi stood at the center of the formation, and his aura had changed a lot compared to before. His emerald eyes were extremely calm, his aura became more condensed, and there was a hidden sharpness in his body, not as quiet and gentle as at the beginning.
The killing formation lasted for nearly an hour. As the center of the formation, Chu Qi had to sense the status of all his fellow disciples in the formation. The sword energy and killing aura had a great influence on him.
Between his wrists, the leaves of the withered vine ring curled up quietly, but a hint of green could be seen at the roots of the leaves. While providing Chu Qi with spiritual energy, it also gained nourishment from the origin of Chu Qi's spiritual platform.
Yan Jiuge looked back and took a look at Chu Qi's condition. At first he was a little surprised by his change.
But Chu Qi met his gaze, smiled at him, and curved the corners of his lips as gently as ever, as if the glance just now was just an illusion of Yan Jiuge.
Before Yan Jiuge could think carefully, the monster in front of him rushed towards him and a tough battle began.
The killing formation changed from one suitable for group attacks to one for fighting a single enemy.
All the spiritual power and sword energy will gather on the person at the head of the formation, with one person taking the lead in the attack while the others will accumulate power to maintain the formation.
If Yan Jiuge fought alone, he would need to remove the seal to fight against this monster. But now with the help of his fellow disciples' sword formation and Chu Qi's spiritual power, his aura rose from Jindan to Yuanying, and he would not be at a disadvantage against this monster.
But if you want to kill it with your sword, you still have to find the monster's weakness.
"boom!"
The monster's hard shell hit the ground, leaving a big hole. The flying sand and rocks brushed against the hem of Chu Qi's clothes.
Chu Qi narrowed his eyes slightly.
This monster is not stupid. When Yan Jiuge confronts its head, it will use its tail to attack the remaining people in the sword formation.
Moreover, it seemed to realize that Chu Qi was the core of the sword formation. All the eyes on its shell were staring in the direction of Chu Qi, closely observing his every move.
We have to think of a way to break this deadlock, otherwise they can't afford it. Chu Qi thought in his heart, and the Tianxuan Sect's medical inheritance in his sea of consciousness continued to surge, and he found a way.
In most battles, the healer is weak, and the endurance of the healing spell will continuously improve the strength of the team, and the opponent will be eager to attack the healer first. Therefore, how the healer can save his life is also introduced in the inheritance.
After dodging the attack from the monster's tail once again, Chu Qi suddenly stumbled and did not have time to catch up with the other disciples in the formation. His body was unstable and he was about to fall to the ground.
The eyes on the monster's tail shell suddenly widened as it noticed this flaw.
Without any hesitation, the monster's head, which was still struggling with Yan Jiuge, suddenly turned and pounced fiercely at the lone Chu Qi.
The force was so fierce that it felt like the impact of a huge rock falling to the ground.
Yan Jiuge held the sword and looked in the direction the monster turned its head. His pupils suddenly contracted and the veins on his hand that was gripping the hilt bulged.
"Ayan, hurry up!!"
However, a familiar voice came from behind Yan Jiuge.
Within the perception range, Chu Qi's breath suddenly appeared in the sword formation, and was protected tightly in the center by many Tianxuan Sect's sword-cultivating disciples.
The mistaken figure just now was just a cover.
But the monster had no time to retract its strength. The change happened in an instant. It thought it had found the flaws of the cultivators in front of it. It smashed its head towards the afterimage. The force was enough to smash a Jindan-stage cultivator into a pulp, but because of its twisted posture, it exposed its abdominal weakness to Yan Jiuge - the monster's abdomen was not covered by an extremely hard shell.
Yan Jiuge turned his wrist, and the Long Yin sword in his hand moved as he wished, and the sword tip instantly generated a mighty sword intent.
At that moment, the spiritual energy flowing between heaven and earth stagnated for a moment.
A chilling murderous intent burst out from the tip of the sword, slashing towards the exposed abdomen of the monster.
"!"
The three-foot sword blade penetrated into the flesh and blood, and the fierce momentum never stopped. From top to bottom, the sword penetrated most of the abdomen like ripping open the belly of a monster.
A dark gold color flashed in the depths of Yan Jiuge's eyes. He had just recovered from the fear of Chu Qi's injury, and the murderous intent that burst out was almost tangible.
After drinking the blood, the Long Yin sword moved forward a few more inches, to a place where no one could see. Intricate scarlet runes were leaping on the sword, circle after circle, and finally turned into hundreds of invisible sword auras, exploding in the body of the monster.
This sword directly destroyed the monster's demon pill and cut off its life.
The monster's wailing stopped abruptly, and before it could retract its head from the ground, it was killed by Yan Jiuge's sword. Thousands of eyes blurred at the same time, and its lifeless body was no longer solid, collapsing to the ground like mud.
The young man in black took back the magic sword. The blood on the blade had been cleaned by him, but the momentum of the sword's slash remained and looked particularly cold and fierce.
After the monster died, the surroundings were silent.
The disciples of Tianxuan Sect have not yet recovered from the sword attack. Each of them holds a spiritual sword and maintains the posture of sword formation, some of them are stunned.
Chu Qi, who was the core of the formation, was the first to come back to his senses, disbanded the sword formation, and walked towards Yan Jiuge.
The battle was finally over, but he didn't know whether Yan Jiuge was still in good condition, so he had to go over and check it out.
"Ayan, we won." Chu Qi stood beside Yan Jiuge and called him softly.
Yan Jiuge spent a great deal of energy to suppress the murderous intent that surged in his heart. He almost did it. When he saw Chu Qi about to be hit by the monster's head, his mind almost went out of control.
"What happened to you just now?"
Yan Jiuge's voice was a little hoarse. He did not look in the direction of Chu Qi, but put the Long Yin sword in his hand back into the scabbard first.
The remaining murderous aura has not yet dissipated, and his appearance has always frightened the other members of the Yan family. It is better not to let Aqi see it.
"That was just a trick. There just happened to be such a move in the medical tradition. I thought that the monster must want to kill me first, so—"
Chu Qi's explanation stopped abruptly, and his eyes unexpectedly met Yan Jiuge's eyes.
There was forbearance and a bit of pain in those eyes.
Chu Qi had never seen Yan Jiuge like this before. For a moment, all the words in his mind were thrown out of the window, leaving only a blank.
My heart felt like it was being pulled and it hurt inexplicably.
"Ayan..." Chu Qi murmured, but he couldn't say more.
“Don’t take risks.”
“Don’t use fake ones anymore.”
Yan Jiuge closed his eyes, trying to calm his surging emotions. He almost took the cover seriously.
"Okay." Chu Qi nodded. Although he still didn't quite understand what he had done wrong, he still responded when he heard Yan Jiuge's request.
He could sense that Ayan's mood was not right, but fortunately he was not in a state of madness.
After a brief conversation between the two.
Chu Qi keenly sensed that the surrounding spiritual energy had changed.
He turned his head and saw that the Crescent Lake not far behind them suddenly burst out with rich spiritual energy. Compared with the faint breath before, this breath was even stronger now, because it announced that the strange treasure was about to arrive.
The white spiritual mist that had originally condensed in the Crescent Lake spread out from the center of the lake to the surroundings. In just a moment, the spiritual mist enveloped everyone in the Tianxuan Sect, and even the area twenty miles away.
(End of this chapter)