The Upper Realm beings gathered around Huang Wu Jiu started whispering when they saw Qing Yuan Wang brazenly sitting opposite them, healing and cultivating.
“Princess Huang, should we interrupt him directly?”
“Yes, if we wait for him to recover and with that bamboo staff in his hand, we might not be his match!”
“Now is the best time! Princess Huang, just give the order, and we’ll attack!”
Huang Wu Jiu took a deep look at Qing Yuan Wang. She had naturally sensed the hatred from him earlier and understood that once he recovered, he would definitely attack her first. However, she didn't allow her people to act rashly because Qing Yuan Wang dared to heal face-to-face, indicating that he had something to rely on, at least some trump cards that gave him such confidence.
“Don't rush. His injuries won't recover so easily. What we need to do now is keep an eye on him and wait for the Young Master to arrive.”
Huang Wu Jiu believed that with the Young Master's strength, taking down an injured Qing Yuan Wang should be more than enough.
After all, that was how she was imprinted with the slave seal by the Young Master. She had a lot of experience with it.
The other Upper Realm beings, although reluctant, followed Huang Wu Jiu's instructions, keeping their eyes fixed on Qing Yuan Wang, vigilantly watching him to prevent him from suddenly attacking.
Qing Yuan Wang appeared to be closing his eyes, focusing on cultivation, but in reality, his eyes were slightly narrowed, allowing him to see everything happening outside. His hand was on his waist, where he had a treasured artifact. If anyone approached his vicinity, this artifact would release a white light to sever the intruder's head. He originally wanted to use this opportunity to trick Huang Wu Jiu, but he didn't expect her to remain unmoved upon seeing him cultivate alone. If she wasn't going to act, why didn't she take this time to escape? Was she not afraid of him attacking her after he recovered?
‘Could it be fear of that so-called Celestial Son, Chen Xu? If so, the Ghost Phoenix Clan's reputation will be completely ruined!’
Thinking of this, Qing Yuan Wang became increasingly contemptuous of Huang Wu Jiu. He had initially thought of her as a significant figure, considering her the biggest obstacle to the Qing family's expansion across domains. Now, he realized he had overestimated her. She was just a pretty face, a useless vase.
Because Huang Wu Jiu didn't dare to attack him, Qing Yuan Wang immediately abandoned the idea of tricking her and completely closed his eyes, immersing himself in his mind to heal and cultivate.
It must be said that as the young master of the Qing family, the Qing family's ancestor doted on him to the extreme, giving him top-notch weapons and healing items.
He swallowed a lotus-shaped spiritual object, and instantly, a water-like luster appeared on his body, gentle and radiant. An incredibly soft power spread outward from his body, and his injuries healed rapidly with the rise and fall of these water waves.
Seeing this, Huang Wu Jiu's eyes narrowed slightly. She was getting anxious. At Qing Yuan Wang's healing speed, his injuries would probably be completely healed in no time.
So why hasn't the Young Master arrived yet?
She raised her eyes and looked into the distance, her gaze deep, her pupils showing a hint of anxiety.
If he didn't arrive, she would have to choose to attack Qing Yuan Wang with her people, even if they couldn't win, they had to stop him from healing.
“Crack!”
Just then.
A crisp sound came from the ancient temple, the sound of a skull being crushed. A hand emitting a faint black aura stretched out from the ancient temple, carrying bloody brain matter. Seemingly having found its target, it directly grabbed towards Qing Yuan Wang, wanting to kidnap him into the ancient temple.
However, before it could touch Qing Yuan Wang, the bronze ancient temple shook and rumbled, as if being tempered by thunder and fire. Bolts of thick, blue lightning struck down from above, blasting the black hand, instantly tearing its skin and flesh. Several terrifying cracks appeared on the palm, and blue blood dripped to the ground, making a sizzling sound. The blue blood was extremely corrosive, corroding a large area around it, turning all the soil into bluish-white powder.
“Ah…”
A miserable and angry roar echoed in the ancient temple, seemingly resenting the bronze ancient temple for meddling. Later, because more blue lightning was gathering above the bronze ancient temple, the black giant hand had no choice but to reluctantly retreat back into the ancient temple.
Qing Yuan Wang, who was fully focused on healing, was startled. The treasured artifact in his arms sensed the danger, vibrating and warning him, and conveyed a sense of fear to him. This meant that if the black hand had really grabbed him, the treasured artifact in his arms might not have been able to do anything.
This made him somewhat frightened, even increasingly fearful. If he were alone and captured into that ancient temple, it would probably be a bad omen. Therefore, for safety's sake, he decided to distance himself from the ancient temple. At least until his injuries were healed, he was unwilling to approach this ancient temple again.
This scene was witnessed by Xu Yang and his group, who arrived late.
The Ox-Demon King was so frightened that he almost wet his pants and hurriedly said to Xu Yang:
“Young Master, this bronze ancient temple really contains an unparalleled fierce being. I felt it when I pushed the door open before, otherwise I wouldn't have run away!”
The Flat Sky Daoist added: “Young Master, the scene I saw in a hurry before was like this, there are several black creatures, torturing these people!”
As for Qing Zhi, after seeing Huang Wu Jiu unharmed, the string in her heart was finally let go.
Ji Daoxuan, disguised as an old servant, narrowed his eyes when he saw the black hand, because he felt a familiar aura from the black hand. He was very familiar with this aura, it was not exactly the same as the alien race he encountered when he first broke through the Tribulation Realm, but it was not too different.
Therefore, the creatures in this bronze ancient temple are not ancient beings, but alien races. Thinking of this, he hurriedly transmitted his voice to Xu Yang, telling him what he had discovered.
After hearing the voice transmission, Xu Yang's expression also became solemn. It can be said that his past life seemed to be fighting against the heavens, but in fact, he was fighting against these alien races, which means that there is an irreconcilable feud between him and these alien races.
And this bronze ancient temple, which is suspected to be the remains of the ancient heavenly court, is suppressing these alien races, preventing them from coming out of the ancient temple. As for the alien race's actions just now, wanting to grab Qing Yuan Wang into the ancient temple, Xu Yang suspected that these alien races did not want to kill Qing Yuan Wang, but wanted to use Qing Yuan Wang's body to walk out of the ancient temple.
Xu Yang was keenly aware and speculated about the matter, which was also when his eyes were like torches, falling on Huang Wu Jiu and others. With a slight sweep, he found that there were several people who were not right. He remembered that he had planted slave seals on the immortal souls of these people, but now the slave seals have disappeared.
Generally, there are only two reasons why the slave seal can disappear, either the host falls, or the slave is killed.
And he, as the host, is living well, so there is only one reason left, these people encountered misfortune in the bronze ancient temple and were killed by the alien races, and those alien races borrowed their bodies to escape from this bronze ancient temple.
The reason why these alien races are not taking the opportunity to escape now is probably to encourage the crowd to step into the ancient temple again, and rescue more of their people by seizing their bodies.
‘Still quite loyal!’
Xu Yang silently slandered in his heart, but did not alarm these alien races in the first time, he did not want to startle the snake, so as not to let the alien races run away, but just told Ji Daoxuan about this matter, asking him to be careful.
As for the Ox-Demon King and the Flat Sky Daoist, he did not tell them, because these two people's cultivation is too low, he did not plan to take these two people into the ancient temple rashly, so there is no possibility of being seized by the alien races.
Ji Daoxuan heard the words, and his mind also tightened, and mobilized some kind of ancient technique to protect his immortal soul, so that he would not be disturbed by external evil.
Subsequently, Xu Yang brought a few people down to the open space. Huang Wu Jiu did not approach at first, but when she saw Xu Yang signaling to her with his eyes, she dared to bring people to Xu Yang's side, and led the people behind her to salute Xu Yang:
“Greetings, Young Master!”
The uniform voice sounded in the open space, although a few voices were abrupt, obviously a little slow, but no one noticed the abnormality.
“You may rise.”
Xu Yang said with a smile.
“Thank you, Young Master.”
Huang Wu Jiu led a group of people to get up.
Qing Yuan Wang, who was healing, was disturbed by the sound again, angrily opened his eyes, glared at the direction of the sound, and then saw Huang Wu Jiu and his party, calling a young man Young Master.
“Hmm?”
“Young Master, where did this Young Master come from? The one who can be called Young Master by Huang Wu Jiu, could it be a noble from the upper heaven domain?!”
“That's not right, I haven't heard of any nobles coming to the Sin Domain!”
Just when Qing Yuan Wang was confused and puzzled, he suddenly saw the young man's face clearly, and recognized the other party's identity in an instant.
“Celestial Son, Chen Xu?”
Qing Yuan Wang stared at Xu Yang, his tone revealing a hint of disbelief.
He found it hard to believe that Huang Wu Jiu, the pearl of the Ghost Phoenix Clan in the fifth heaven domain, would degrade herself and call a nobody Young Master.
Huang Wu Jiu must have gone mad, doesn't she know that this Chen Xu only comes from the third heaven domain, and the forces behind him are very small, and he doesn't even have the qualification to contact nobles!
Even if such a person has some talent, he will not go far in the upper realm, because he has no backer, and no backer means that no one will protect him.
Qing Yuan Wang was puzzled, he really couldn't understand why Huang Wu Jiu would degenerate herself, and, he also remembered one thing, before, when Huang Wu Jiu came to him, she told him that she was being chased by Chen Xu, which means that she was deceiving him, the purpose was to cooperate with Chen Xu from the inside and outside, and give him a hard time.
“This woman is really vicious, her heart is comparable to a snake and scorpion!”
Qing Yuan Wang gritted his teeth and glared at Huang Wu Jiu, his eyes swept over Xu Yang, wishing he could tear this dog couple into pieces.
Then, he happened to see the dead cow with excellent licking skills. If it wasn't for this cow's eloquent tongue, using interests to lure him, let him enter this bronze ancient temple, directly leading to the annihilation of all the followers around him, even he was seriously injured, and it took a lot of effort to escape from the bronze ancient temple.
“This dead cow, is also Chen Xu's person, I have been tricked?!”
Qing Yuan Wang rolled his eyes, almost fainted from anger, even because the gas in his body surged violently, causing the wounds on his body that had just healed to almost crack again.
After figuring everything out, Qing Yuan Wang was almost mad with anger, he felt like a clown, being played by this Chen Xu in the palm of his hand.
“Chen Xu, are you sure you want to attack me?”
Qing Yuan Wang stared at Xu Yang, his expression grim, one hand in his arms, and the other hand clenched the bamboo stick, ready to kill the enemy at any time.
When he was healing just now, he was interrupted again and again, resulting in his injuries not healing too much, and his combat power was naturally greatly reduced, so he had to rely on the bamboo stick and the treasure in his arms to have the confidence to deal with so many people.
Xu Yang looked at Qing Yuan Wang's movements, and probably knew that he had a trump card hidden in his arms, but it was estimated that the trump card was not too big, barely self-protecting, otherwise he would not have spoken to him in such a tone.
His eyes fell on the bamboo stick, and seeing the countless mysterious and complex array patterns carved on the stick body, he suddenly developed endless interest. He knew a lot about the array, knowing that the array patterns on this bamboo stick were very obscure and complex, and must have come from the hands of everyone, if he could let him study for a period of time, maybe he could get some inspiration from it, so that he could go further on the road of array.
Moreover, since this bamboo stick can accommodate so many advanced array patterns, it shows that the material of this bamboo stick is very unusual, it must be some kind of divine object.
With this in mind, Xu Yang became more and more interested in the bamboo stick in Qing Yuan Wang's hand. He raised his eyes to look at Qing Yuan Wang and said with a smile:
“Brother Qing, why be nervous, when did I say that I was going to attack you?”
“Since you don't want to attack me, then please make way, I want to leave.”
Qing Yuan Wang didn't believe the other party's nonsense, if he didn't want to attack him, why did he place so many people by his side, what's more hateful was that he sent this dead cow to kill everyone around him, making him a lonely person, almost like a bare commander.
Because the other party had a large number of people, and Qing Yuan Wang's own injuries had not fully recovered, so he didn't want to conflict, but wanted to avoid the edge temporarily, and when his injuries recovered, he would make a comeback.
Xu Yang shook his head, and did not intend to make way at all, but looked at Qing Yuan Wang and said:
“Brother Qing, why be in a hurry to leave, don't you have the interest to explore this bronze ancient temple with me?”
Except for a few hidden alien races, there is only Qing Yuan Wang as an outsider, Xu Yang will naturally not let him leave easily, such a good paving stone, must be used to its fullest.
“……”
When Qing Yuan Wang heard Xu Yang's words, he wanted to scold his mother, because not long ago, he also said similar words to Huang Wu Jiu, the purpose was to take Huang Wu Jiu as a paving stone.
