Chapter 193: Moths to Flame [Long Chapter]
With the cultivation level of Taoist Jingnie, he activated the spiritual weapon and managed to hold out in the formation for ten breaths.
And in just ten breaths, Taoist Jingnie had already figured out the true strength of this formation.
"This formation is good, but unfortunately your cultivation is not enough, and you don't have a third-level spiritual vein to bless the formation."
As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Jingnie suddenly made a move, offering a third-grade low-grade talisman and smashing it down. After a fierce collision, the formation was broken.
But just as the Purple Void Thunder and Fire Array was broken, another layer of frosty energy began to boil on the island, blocking the way forward for Taoist Jingnie.
"Ice Blade God Slaying Formation."
"Another third-tier magic weapon. It looks like you have a lot of opportunities."
The moment he saw this formation, Taoist Jingnie immediately revealed a cold look.
He acted decisively once again, using the Purple Flame Lamp to suppress it while using a third-grade inferior talisman to suppress it, breaking the Ice Blade God-Slaying Formation on the spot.
After the Ice Blade God-Slaying Formation, the Wind Burying Soul Formation was activated again, causing Taoist Jingnie to look solemn for the first time.
But he made another all-out effort and used a third-level low-grade talisman to completely break the formation.
At the same time, Ye Linyuan, who was hiding in the deep sea, sighed, and a hint of emotion appeared in his eyes.
A third-order intermediate-grade treasure talisman is equivalent to a full-strength attack from a middle-stage Jindan, and a third-order low-grade treasure talisman is equivalent to a full-strength attack from an early-stage Jindan. The value of these treasure talismans is quite high.
For a cultivator who has reached the great perfection of foundation building, even if he only obtains a third-grade low-grade treasure talisman, it can be regarded as a trump card in the bottom of the box. It is a real thing that can save lives and kill enemies.
However, for a veteran Jindan cultivator like Taoist Jingnie, these precious talismans are just one of his assets.
Taking out three third-level low-grade treasure talismans at once, plus one third-level middle-grade treasure talisman, might make Taoist Jingnie feel a little painful, but it would definitely not cause him any serious injuries.
He is a Jindan cultivator who has practiced for hundreds of years and has a nearly thousand-year-old sect as his supporter. His methods and trump cards are enough to completely crush the combined efforts of several foundation-building masters.
As far as Ye Linyuan knew, the Xinghuo Sect also had a powerful mid-stage Jindan cultivator hundreds of years ago. Even if such a person only left behind some of his skills, he would be able to allow Taoist Jingnie to fight against a mid-stage Jindan cultivator for a certain period of time.
As long as the Taoist Jingnie is willing to consume his foundation, the resulting gap will be difficult for Liu Xuanheng and others to make up.
Let's get back to the point. At this time, as the Blowing Wind Soul Burial Formation was broken, the three strange forces of wind, thunder and ice between heaven and earth continued to entangle and transformed into a Three Strange Immortal Burial Formation.
"It is indeed this formation."
When seeing the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation, Taoist Jingnie finally became unable to sit still.
A third-order low-grade formation was not too difficult to break with his strength in the absence of a third-order spiritual vein and a Jindan cultivator's main formation.
But if it is a third-order compound formation, its power will not only increase several times, but even a Jindan cultivator will not be able to break it easily.
At this time, Liu Xuanheng had already passed the fourth thunder tribulation. If he was delayed too much time by this formation, Liu Xuanheng might have successfully passed the tribulation and escaped.
"If you want to break the formation quickly, it may not be easy to do it from the outside."
"Only by charging into the battle array can we achieve a quick victory."
The Taoist Jingnie's mind was in turmoil, and then he decisively sacrificed a small golden bell magic weapon to protect himself, and then he actually flew directly into the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation.
As soon as he entered the formation, he was attacked by ice blades, thunder, fire, and gusts of wind, but Taoist Jingnie remained unafraid.
The small golden bell above his head trembled slightly, and a ray of golden light spread out to protect his body, blocking the attack of the three strange powers.
“If this formation was set up on a third-level spiritual vein, or if there was a golden elixir master array, perhaps I would not dare to charge into the formation.”
"But you are only at the foundation-building stage, how can you stop me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Jingnie flicked his sleeves and took out a treasure furnace, which actually suppressed the entire Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation.
"Oh no! This is the Starfire Furnace, the most precious treasure of the Starfire Sect."
The moment he saw this treasure furnace, Taoist Wuyun's expression suddenly changed.
This Starfire Furnace is a mid-grade magic weapon, and it is also the best among mid-grade magic weapons. Naturally, it has great power.
Taoist Jingnie was barely able to activate this treasure, and the power it unleashed was actually enough to fight against the entire Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation, and it could even vaguely completely suppress the formation.
After all, the spiritual veins here are insufficient, and cannot unleash the full power of the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Array. It seems that it will only take a moment for Taoist Jingnie to use this treasure to completely suppress the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Array.
Thinking of this, Taoist Wu Yun said immediately: "Daoist Xue Hun, please act quickly."
"it is good!"
The old ghost of blood soul acted decisively and summoned dozens of blood-colored puppets to fly across the sky.
These blood puppets formed a blood puppet formation and surrounded Taoist Jingnie tightly, trying to stop him from suppressing the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation.
"Blood Puppet Formation."
The moment he saw these blood puppets, Taoist Jingnie couldn't help but sneer.
There are a total of thirty-six blood puppets, including twelve blood puppets in the late foundation building stage, and the remaining ones are comparable to the middle foundation building stage in terms of cultivation.
Although the strength of these blood puppets was only forcibly enhanced by the fusion of array patterns and spiritual minerals, their combat power is not as good as that of the foundation-building body cultivators of the same level, and their service life will be greatly reduced, but the strength of the blood puppet army formation is not weak.
I dare not say that I can match the powerful Fake Dan, but by joining forces, I can contain the Fake Dan for a period of time.
With Taoist Jingnie's cultivation level, dealing with these blood puppets would be a piece of cake, but at this moment he was concentrating all his efforts on suppressing the Three Wonders Formation. If he freed up his hands to deal with these blood puppets, time would inevitably be greatly delayed.
Moreover, the Starfire Furnace consumes a lot of mana. If it is delayed too long and Liu Xuanheng successfully overcomes the tribulation, I am afraid that I may not be able to suppress him when he is at his weakest.
But as a veteran golden elixir master, how could Taoist Jingnie not have any foundation at all?
But he sneered, flicked his sleeve and patted the spirit beast bag, and a purple dragon python with an extremely powerful aura flew into the air and collided violently with the blood puppet army on the spot.
"Purple-scaled python."
The moment he saw the purple-scaled python, Ye Linyuan, who was hiding in a puppet not far away, couldn't help but frown.
Legend has it that in the depths of the Cangling Sea, there is a purple-scaled snake that transformed into a real dragon, which is one of the most powerful true spirits of heaven and earth in this era.
It is also because of this that the purple-scaled snake can gradually transform into a purple thunder dragon, a purple thunder dragon, and even the legendary ancient thunder dragon.
However, there is always a possibility of failure in bloodline transformation. Once the Purple Scale Snake King fails to transform into a dragon, it may transform into a Purple Scale Dragon Python.
This purple-scaled dragon python has limited potential and can only stop at the false pill realm, but it will definitely be able to break through the false pill realm. For a foundation-building cultivator, it is also an existence that cannot be provoked.
At this time, the purple-scaled python kept roaring, and flashes of lightning boiled between its wings, hitting the blood puppets one by one and sending them flying. It was obvious that it had great control over the blood puppets.
Under this situation, it won’t be long before all these blood puppets will be killed or injured.
Knowing that the situation was not good, Ye Linyuan did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
But he instantly urged the fake pill puppet to fly out and killed the Taoist Jingnie.
"Fake Dan puppet, I didn't expect you to have such a background?"
The moment he noticed this puppet, Taoist Jingnie couldn't help but speak in surprise.
However, he remained calm throughout. As he waved his sleeves, a humanoid puppet flew out of his storage bag and blocked Ye Linyuan's fake pill puppet with unparalleled sharpness.
Obviously, the one in the hands of Taoist Jingnie is also a powerful fake pill puppet.
“So many cards.”
Seeing the methods used by Taoist Jingnie, everyone couldn't help but feel more depressed.
Although they had estimated it in advance, the trump card played by Taoist Jingnie still made everyone present feel difficult.
Only Ye Linyuan remained calm. He just sighed and showed a helpless look.
Fake pill spirit beasts, fake pill puppets, third-order spirit talismans, these are the dream cards for foundation-building cultivators. If one obtains one of them, he can be almost invincible in the realm of foundation-building.
But for Jindan cultivators, these are not difficult to find.
Especially for those veteran Jindan masters who have lived for more than 500 years, it is not difficult for them to cultivate one or two fake dan spirit beasts based on their own foundation and accumulation.
The second-level rare blood jade grass is something that a foundation-building cultivator can only see once every hundred years, but it is also a common trading item at the Golden Core level barter conference.
As long as the veteran Jindan cultivator is willing to spend a huge amount of money, let alone the second-level rare blood grass, even the more precious blood jade flower or even blood fruit can be bought at a huge price.
As for the fake elixir puppet, this kind of treasure can be preserved for thousands of years, and many Jindan cultivators will buy one as their trump card.
Puppets, talismans, spirit beasts, these trump cards added together are like mountains for the foundation-building cultivators, and are almost an irresistible chasm.
As long as they are willing to use their trump cards, even the strongest foundation-building cultivator will find it almost impossible to defeat the old golden elixir cultivator.
In his previous life, Ye Linyuan had powerful fake pill combat power before he formed the golden elixir. His preparations at the time of forming the golden elixir were much more sufficient than Liu Xuanheng. After forming the golden elixir, he even had a strength close to the middle stage of the golden elixir.
However, facing the various trump cards of the enemy of the Great Dao, he almost died in the Golden Core Tribulation, and finally paid a huge price to barely escape with his life. "The longer the old monk lives, the stronger his strength and foundation will be."
"This is the best I can do without exposing my true identity."
Ye Linyuan whispered slowly in his heart, looking in the direction of Liu Xuanheng, and said with an extremely solemn look: "Next, it depends on your own trump card."
"Buzz-"
At this moment, changes occurred again in Lingsang Island.
Thousands of spirit butterflies flew out from the island and rushed towards Taoist Jingnie.
Ye Linyuan recognized the origins of these spirit butterflies, because they were all catalyzed by the Liu family's spirit silkworm inheritance. After the spirit silkworms were catalyzed into spirit butterflies with special secret methods, their strength and cultivation would be greatly enhanced.
At this moment, thousands of spirit butterflies flew out of the island, including dozens of second-level spirit butterflies. It was obvious that Liu had transformed all the spirit silkworms into butterflies.
"Spiritual insects are fighting against the enemy. I wonder if Taoist Jingnie has any means to deal with it."
At this moment, in the formation, Taoist Jingnie saw these spirit butterflies flying towards him, but he remained motionless.
But he sneered and then said, "A mantis trying to stop a chariot."
As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Jingnie casually opened his spirit pet bag, and tens of thousands of golden shadows flew out and pounced on the spirit butterflies.
"It's over."
Seeing this scene, Ye Linyuan's heart sank.
These tens of thousands of golden lights and shadows are all spiritual bees, called golden-patterned bees. It is said that they have the bloodline of the gold-eating bee, which ranks 27th on the list of the strange insects in the world. Their combat power is extremely strong among the spiritual insects.
At present, there are tens of thousands of golden-striped bees, and the lowest level of their cultivation is comparable to that of the initial stage of Qi training. Among them, there is even a queen bee at the false elixir level.
Faced with this queen bee, the two Xuanpo Frost Butterflies who had reached the great perfection of foundation building had no power to fight back and could only keep fleeing to seek a chance to save their lives.
"With such a trump card and means, it is worthy of being a great golden elixir sect that has been passed down for nearly a thousand years. No wonder Taoist Jingnie dared to let Liu Xuanheng form a golden elixir."
Just as Ye Linyuan was deep in thought, the thunder tribulation in the sky had come to an end.
Liu Xuanheng has already passed the eighth thunder tribulation, and only the last and strongest thunder tribulation is still brewing.
At this time, Liu Xuanheng was already seriously injured, but after taking a healing pill, he recovered a lot. It seems that the possibility of surviving the thunder tribulation is not low.
Once he successfully survives the thunder tribulation, Liu Xuanheng can choose to escape into the sea. Once he can get rid of the pursuit of the Taoist Master Jingnie, it will not be easy to capture him after he successfully recovers from his injuries.
Taoist Jingnie also understood this, so he decisively used the Starfire Furnace to suppress the formation, and then summoned his own innate magical power - [Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Sword].
In an instant, a brilliant sword light flashed across the sky and pierced through the Three Wonders Immortal Burial Formation.
"boom--"
"puff--"
With a loud roar, the Taoist Wuyun in the main formation flew out covered in blood, and his strength was directly reduced by 80% to 90%.
At the same time, the Purple Scaled Flood Python was also fighting continuously, and it killed most of the thirty-six blood puppets. The Fake Dan Flood Python, which was good at thunder, had too much restraint on the blood puppets.
Ye Linyuan suppressed the urge to attack and showed a helpless look. He knew that even if he attacked, it would be powerless to save the situation.
The strength of Taoist Jingnie's trump card makes him worthy of being a veteran Jindan master, and even more worthy of inheriting the heritage of a great sect for nearly a thousand years.
With such background and strength, even if he took action early, he would not be able to change the overall situation.
Moreover, he absolutely cannot take action. Once he takes action and shows the combat power of the fake pill, he will inevitably be hunted down by the Lord of Canghai Sect. Even if he can barely escape by then, there will be no place for him in the Seven Domain Alliance.
"The dragon is hiding in the abyss, and it is not time for me to emerge."
Ye Linyuan forced himself to suppress the thought, and while letting the fake pill puppet keep a distance, he looked at Liu Xuanheng who had survived the thunder tribulation.
If Liu Xuanheng successfully survives the tribulation and still has a trump card left, he may still have a chance to escape.
"boom--"
At the same time, the last ray of thunder fell, shattering Liu Xuanheng's last few protective spiritual weapons, and finally hit Liu Xuanheng's body-protecting true energy.
In an instant, streaks of lightning and fire engulfed everything.
When everything calmed down, Liu Xuanheng slowly stood above the sky, his whole body was charred black, and only 20% to 30% of his breath was left.
If it were in ancient times, when the laws of nature were still intact, there would be rain from heaven after Liu Xuanheng successfully passed the tribulation. Not only would he be able to recover from his injuries instantly, but he would also be able to quickly improve his cultivation with the help of the rain from heaven.
But in this era, there is only punishment but no reward from heaven. After going through the tribulation, one can only rely on oneself to recover little by little from the injuries.
"Hahaha."
Seeing that Liu Xuanheng had successfully passed the tribulation, Taoist Jingnie laughed and soared into the sky, manifesting a huge hand of vital energy to completely suppress Liu Xuanheng.
But at this moment, a white light suddenly appeared between Liu Xuanheng's eyebrows, and a dazzling spiritual silkworm flew into his body.
Then his injuries began to recover quickly, and the charred skin all over his body fell off piece by piece, revealing his smooth white skin first.
Moreover, Liu Xuanheng's magic power and cultivation were restored a lot in an instant. In an instant, Liu Xuanheng suddenly summoned his innate magical power, the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Sword, and broke the giant hand that covered the sky on the spot.
"This is the Heavenly Silkworm Technique."
Ye Linyuan showed a hint of joy, but quickly shook his head: "It's a pity that it's only an entry-level magical power, and has not yet reached the realm of pseudo-magical power."
It turns out that the Heavenly Silkworm Art is a scroll of ancient magical power that can restore a cultivator's injuries and mana in a very short time.
Unfortunately, Liu Xuanheng only cultivated the Heavenly Silkworm Art to the Mahayana stage, and did not step into the realm of pseudo-supernatural powers or minor supernatural powers.
If one can cultivate to the level of minor supernatural powers, even if it is just a minor supernatural power or pseudo-supernatural power at the initial stage.
Liu Xuanheng's injuries should be able to recover by more than 80% within a short period of time, so he will have a great chance of escaping the pursuit of Taoist Jingnie.
However, the Mahayana entry-level magic spell was only able to restore 30% of Liu Xuanheng's injuries and magic power, and could not allow him to have nearly the combat power of his peak period.
At this time, Taoist Jingnie also noticed this change, and immediately sneered and said, "You have comprehended the Heavenly Silkworm Art quite well. It seems that as long as I kill you completely, I will be able to break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core with no doubt."
At the same time, the Fake Pill Queen Bee, the Fake Pill Puppet, and the Purple Scaled Dragon Python all surrounded him, trying to completely cut off Liu Xuanheng's retreat.
Liu Xuanheng did not answer, but looked at everyone calmly, and then looked at Taoist Jingnie with cold eyes and said: "It seems that I still underestimated your trump card."
"But if you want to keep me, I'm afraid you will have to pay a certain price."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xuanheng took out his magic sword and attacked the purple-scaled python fiercely, trying to fight his way out of this side.
But with three fake elixir warriors and a veteran golden elixir blocking his way, how could he escape easily? Within just a few moves, he was in a precarious situation.
"My husband, I'm here to help you."
Seeing that Liu Xuanheng was in a desperate situation, Su Lian'er flew into the air with the determination to die, and suddenly cast a blood curse, actually adding her own essence to Liu Xuanheng's body.
In an instant, Liu Xuanheng's aura surged, and his cultivation was almost restored by half.
"lady!"
Liu Xuanheng burst into tears and roared in despair. He couldn't help but look at the old ghost Xuehun and said, "Old thief, what did you do?"
The Blood Soul Ghost remained silent. The blood curse that Su Lian'er cast was called the 'Blood Soul Infatuation Curse', which was a special curse inherited from the Blood Soul Ghost Ghost.
This spell cannot kill the enemy, but it requires the person casting the spell to willingly use his own blood and soul as a guide to transform it into the purest vital energy to increase the strength of others.
Faced with this disaster, Su Lian'er was afraid that she would be in great danger, so she prayed for this kind of spell from the old ghost Xuehun.
"what!"
Looking at the expression of the old ghost Xuehun, Liu Xuanheng understood something in his heart.
He was filled with hatred and roared as he flew into the air, holding the sword in his hand and ready to fight to the death with the old monster Jingnie.
However, facing the four powerful enemies, even though Liu Xuanheng was a genius, he was ultimately powerless and still fell into an absolute disadvantage, and could not even break out of the siege by force.
"Brother Liu, I'm here to help you."
Seeing that his life or death was in danger, Taoist Wuyun forced himself to make a move and activated the formation again to provide some support.
The old monster Blood Soul also suppressed his emotions and flew into the air, using the Blood Soul Formation flag to protect himself as he forcibly joined the Golden Elixir and Fake Elixir battlefield.
The young foundation-building members of the Liu family also roared unwillingly, and each of them rushed forward with a desperate belief, like moths to a flame.
"Master, we are here to help you."
Ye Linyuan watched all this, but he couldn't help it in the end. He ordered the puppet that had already escaped thousands of miles away to turn back and charge into the cruel battlefield.
(End of this chapter)
