Trials of the Abyss

Chapter 17: Bones like iron and steel

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After killing the brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Hu, Pang Jian's confidence increased greatly, and he realized that the novice practitioners were not invincible.

At this moment, he did not rush to break out, but continued to examine the situation in front of him and the conditions on several battlefields.

Zhou Qingchen, who had extremely strong personal combat power, broke out from his far left side and has now disappeared.

Faintly, he could hear the sound of the dark ghost leader named Hong Tai riding a python and moving quickly on the ground.

Directly in front of him, the original position of the snake rider Hong Tai was chosen by Han Duping as the breakout route.

Han Duping turned into a silver ball. He was successful only in the early stage, but now he was intercepted by someone.

Several dark ghost attackers held huge black iron shields to block their bodies and block the sphere that Han Duping turned into.

Every time the silver ball hit the giant black iron shield, the people behind the shield would work together to resist, making it difficult for Han Duping to get past it.

The appearance of those huge black iron shields left Han Duping, who had thought he could escape in the chaos, helpless for a moment.

Shangguan Qin, who wanted to escape to heaven through him, was stopped by the three dark ghost attackers, who besieged her and humiliated her with words.

Shangguan Qin, who was holding a red jade cane, was at the weakest Tongmai Realm, and one of her opponents was stronger than her at the same level of Tongmai Realm, which made her secretly groan.

If Hong Tai had not said long ago that he needed her and Ning Yao to stay alive, she might have been seriously injured and died.

The rest of the servants who were loyal to the Zhou family and whose fighting spirit was inspired by Zhou Qingchen were also beaten severely by the dark ghosts from various areas.

The number of dark ghosts far exceeded theirs, and their cultivation levels were roughly the same as theirs. Each of them had to deal with two or three opponents, so they were naturally defeated quickly.

Fighting spirit and courage cannot play a big role in a battle with a huge disparity in strength.

The other end.

Ning Yao and Ning Yuanshan's breakout operation did not make any progress due to Zhang Heng's departure. On the contrary, the situation there became even worse.

Ning Yuanshan was nailed to the trunk of a big tree by a golden short spear. He looked in the direction of Ning Yao with unwillingness.

Ning Yao, who was surrounded by tiny star rays, was besieged by a practitioner in the Tongmai Realm and his four subordinates in the Qi Refining Realm, who intended to exhaust Ning Yao's spiritual power and capture her alive.

"Tongmai Realm."

Pang Jian looked for a moment and immediately figured out which ones had reached the Tongmai realm.

Those who have reached the Tongmai realm can either release a hazy spiritual light from their limbs, or dissipate it through the instruments in their hands.

On the other hand, most people in the Qi Refining Stage can only rely on the brute force of their own flesh and blood, and there is no spiritual energy flowing through their bodies.

Who is at the Qi Refining Realm and who is at the Meridian Opening Realm can be easily seen during a battle.

"The two Zhang brothers are dead."

A leader of Tongmai Realm who ordered his subordinates to surround Ning Yao suddenly noticed Pang Jian when he was looking at him. He stretched out his hand and called, "Go and kill him with two people. Be careful, that kid is a bit evil."

"good!"

Two people answered in unison and immediately rushed towards Pang Jian.

Pang Jian no longer had time to observe the situation. He immediately perked up and prepared for the next battle.

He bent his bow and shot arrows again, but the two dark ghosts were not stupid war horses and could move nimbly, so his arrows failed to hit their target.

Not long after, the two men arrived in front of Pang Jian and chose to attack him without any explanation.

The deaths of brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Hu made them extremely cautious on this trip and they dared not be rash at all.

One of them was short and held a dagger, trying to pierce Pang Jian's heart. The other one held a long whip and wrapped it around Pang Jian's lower body, making it impossible for him to keep his torso stable.

The two men cooperated skillfully, and it was obviously not the first time they had attacked the enemy together. Just as Pang Jian was about to raise the dragon-patterned spear to fight, his right ankle was entangled by the whip, and a huge force hit him, causing him to stagger.

"You didn't fall down?"

The man who pulled the whip hard saw Pang Jian standing up again with a look of disbelief on his face.

The short man holding the dagger took the opportunity to approach, but because the two were too close, Pang Jian's dragon-patterned spear was useless.

Seeing the dagger stabbing towards his heart, he could not avoid it as his calf was entangled by the whip, and could only block it with his left arm.

"puff!"

His raised left arm was instantly cut by the dagger, and blood splattered.

But the bones beneath his skin and flesh showed no signs of breaking when stabbed by the dagger, and they blocked the blow as hard as gold and iron.

"Not broken?"

The thin man holding the dagger refused to believe it, and in a flash of lightning, he slashed the wound twice.

“Dangdang!”

A strange sound like the collision of metal came from Pang Jian's arm bones.

Pang Jian, who was in severe pain, reacted suddenly. Without waiting for the man to stab again, Pang Jian, almost sticking to his face, hugged the attacker towards himself and hit him hard with his head.

With a "bang", the attacker's nose was broken and his face was covered in blood.

Pang Jian's hands were like iron hooks. He grabbed the attacker's arms and pulled hard, causing the man's bones to dislocate and his arms to hang limply.

Ignoring his bleeding arm, Pang Jian held the attacker's shoulder with one hand and punched his chest with the other.

“Crack.”

The attacker's sternum exploded and a mouthful of blood spurted out, all over Pang Jian's face and neck.

The second dark ghost, who was about to see his companion die, was pulled by Pang Jian's terrifying force and staggered towards him.

Pang Jian, who was much taller than his peers, had a strong and capable physique. His bloodstained face, with a pair of cold and fierce eyes, frightened the dark ghost attacker.

Just when he was about to reach Pang Jian, he suddenly reacted, dropped his whip, turned around and ran away.

Pang Jian, who was free from his restraints, chased after him without saying a word, caught up with him at an even faster speed, and punched him in the back.

"Bang!"

The second dark ghost attacker fell to the ground and died, suffering the same fate as the Zhang brothers.

"Two useless things."

At the location where Han Duping broke out, on a large tree with dense branches and leaves, someone was swinging his legs and sneering.

This was a young man who was dressed quite elegantly. His face was blocked by the leaves and did not appear immediately.

Before he spoke, neither the people in the battle nor Pang Jian, who had the leisure to observe the situation, noticed the existence of such a person.

"Tongmai Realm."

Pang Jian only took one look and was sure that this person was different from the four who attacked him and was definitely not a cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm.

Because the man's legs dangling in the air seemed to be drawing circles in the air, creating obvious ripples of spiritual power, as if he was carving a flower bud about to bloom.

This man's two feet can emit spiritual energy, which means that he has been immersed in the Tongmai realm for a long time, and his cultivation must be extremely exquisite.

Pang Jian has never encountered an opponent at the Tongmai Realm. Although his brute strength has increased dramatically recently and his sternum and arm bones have been tempered, he does not have the confidence to deal with an opponent of this level.

He looked at the man in the tree, remaining cautious and looking for an opportunity that he could exploit.

"There's something strange about you."

The man suddenly floated down from the tree, landed as light as a feather, and walked straight towards Pang Jian.

"There is no spiritual energy flowing in any of the tendons in your body, so you are not yet at the Tongmai realm. But some of your bones are actually as strong as those of a master at the Xisui realm, which really surprises me."

After he landed, the dark ghost practitioners who attacked Shangguan Qin all avoided him in fear.

As if he was some kind of monster.

He ignored Han Duping who was intercepted, and Shangguan Qin who had messy hair and beautiful face, and just walked towards Pang Jian.

"Jinyang, don't take any risks."

A hoarse and rough voice sounded from behind the huge black iron shield: "You are of noble status, let me go and test this kid's strengths, right? What if he is a Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivator, pretending to be a Qi Refining Realm cultivator? I won't be able to explain to the leader!"

A man walked out from behind the huge shield. He was wearing a golden robe and a golden mask of the same color on his face.

The mask on his face had fangs at the corners of his mouth, and he looked ferocious and terrifying, like a demon from hell.

"I seem to have heard your voice before!"

Han Duping was inside the silver sphere that looked like a big hedgehog. He looked at the strong man who had been hiding behind the giant shield. He finally came out and said with a slightly changed expression, "Perhaps, we have met before!"

The masked man's only exposed eye showed a strange color, and he neither confirmed nor denied it.

"If guys in the Marrow Cleansing Realm are all this young, they are not people from the lower realms." Jin Yang smiled, waved his hand nonchalantly, and said to the man, "Don't worry, he is not that kind of child of destiny."

Seeing that he was determined to do so, the man stopped trying to persuade him.

Listening to their conversation, Pang Jian felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, realizing that the young dark ghost named Jinyang might not be as profound as the snake-riding Hongtai.

But this person's status in An Gui seems to be higher than Hong Tai, and his identity is more noble.

Jinyang was not the initiator of this action. He seemed to be just responsible for watching and it was never his turn to take action.

It is definitely not an interesting thing that such a person is now targeting me and my curiosity has been aroused.

Pang Jian's eyes flickered as he tried to find a direction to break out, but he soon discovered that there seemed to be Dark Ghost's people hiding in every area outside.

He also gradually developed a helpless feeling that no matter how he escaped, Jinyang would catch up with him.

"Black water pool, dry bones, forbidden land!"

At this critical moment, a few words flashed through Pang Jian's mind as quickly as lightning.

When everyone was still trying to break out and leave the trapped black water pool, Pang Jian suddenly turned around and rushed towards the black water pool where a dried-up bone of a heavenly phoenix was stuck.

"Interesting. Instead of seeking the last glimmer of hope, they retreat into a dead end."

Jinyang smiled as he glided lightly over the weeds and approached Pang Jian leisurely.

He also joked: "This phoenix bone is not magical. I have seen it before. Even this black water pool was brought here by Zhang Heng."

They had discovered this dry bone earlier and had explored it carefully.

It was because they knew there were dead bones here and the terrain was easy to blockade that they arranged for Zhang Heng to bring Zhou family and others here on the pretext of the existence of the dead bones.

He really didn't think that Pang Jian could make any waves around the black water pool and the dry bone.

(End of this chapter)