Chapter 31 Encounter
The man in black stared at the scene in front of him.
Suddenly, the man in black shouted: "Kit!"
His eyes were completely red, and his long hair was trembling and floating. The black feather cloak behind him puffed up like an inflated rubber ball.
At the same time, the five-color spiritual energy group in the void rotated extremely quickly. The spiritual energy tentacles it exuded were like spiritual snakes devouring prey, becoming even crazier, and large tracts of the gray spiritual energy in the dome were swallowed by it.
With the rapid loss of gray spiritual power, more and more silver cracks appeared on the dome, gradually connecting into a spider web shape.
After a while, the spiritual energy tentacles that seemed to have been full began to retract one by one and curled up into a ball. Suddenly, the ball of spiritual energy curled up twisted and formed a thin pipe at the bottom that led directly to the man in black's Tianling Cap.
The next moment, the entire spiritual energy mass was poured into the man in black's spiritual cap like a whale sucking water. At this time, the eyes of the man in black were like copper bells, and a few withered muscles on his originally thin face were twitching violently.
In an instant, spiritual pressure comparable to that of the true elixir realm surrounded the man in black, and a large golden glow shot out from the center of his body.
After a while, the golden light disappeared, and the man in black exhaled a long breath and slowly stood up.
"True Alchemy Realm!" After the man in black said three words calmly, he looked up at the silver cracks on the dome.
At this moment, the entire void trembled more violently, issuing a series of rumbling thunder sounds. The spiritual power from further away is gathering here like thousands of troops. What followed was a pressure as majestic as the sea.
The man in black did not panic. He turned his right hand and a weapon that looked like a knife but not a knife, and something like an ax but not an ax appeared in his palm.
This weapon is about three feet long, with a long handle and a sharp edge like a broad-backed kitchen knife.
The true energy is continuously injected into the sharp blade in his hand, and traces of spiritual power jump from the blade like a black snake. The man in black held the handle of the blade with both hands, jumped up, and swung the strange blade with both arms to slash at the crack in the dome.
The huge sharp blade streaked across the dome like lightning.
"Boom!"
The entire space trembled wildly, and the originally dense silver cracks shattered like mirrors, and a two-foot-sized passage instantly appeared.
Seeing the scene in front of him, the man in black looked happy, then suddenly turned his head and looked in one direction.
"So fast, someone is following me." After saying this, the man in black jumped decisively into the crack in the dome.
I saw two figures running towards here in the distance at great speed, and soon they arrived under the broken dome. They were a handsome girl in a snow-white dress and a burly man.
The girl looked around and found ten people slumped beside the pillar. The chains that originally locked the ten people had become ineffective due to the destruction of the formation.
The girl's eyes stopped on Xu Yang, and then her body flashed and she came to Xu Yang.
He stretched out his jade hand and gently placed it on the inside of Xu Yang's left wrist, with a hint of comfort on his face.
"It's okay, it's just that the soul power is a little overdrawn." As she said that, the girl took out an exquisite jade bottle from the storage bag, poured out a silver pill, and put it into Xu Yang's mouth.
After a while, Xu Yang's originally cold body gradually felt warm.
Xu Yang opened his eyes. Seeing the girl in front of him, he rubbed his eyes with his hands and blurted out: "Lin'er!"
"Xu Yang, we meet again." Lin'er said with a smile.
Seeing Lin'er's cute smiling face, Xu Yang suddenly felt like a spring breeze, and the original pain was long forgotten.
"Thank you for the rescue."
"Let's wake up everyone else here first, and we'll talk about the specific situation later."
Not long after, the ten people who had fainted were all awakened one by one.
Except for the two brothers Xu Yang, Zhu Liuqing and Bi Jia, the other six are all outer disciples of the Formation Engineering Institute.
After a brief introduction between the two parties, Xu Yang learned that the big man who came with Lin'er was named Niu, and that both Lin'er and Lin'er were inner disciples of the Formation Institute.
The other six Array Engineering Institute disciples who were kidnapped before were all outer disciples. One of the Array Engineering Institute disciples briefly stated the previous situation to Senior Brother Niu and Lin'er.
"Various defensive formations are set up in the middle level of the Ghost Roaring Land, which will automatically attack any outsider who enters the True Alchemy Realm or above. This is to prevent strong people above the True Alchemy Realm from breaking into the inner layer without permission. No. Thinking that the intruder actually formed an elixir in the middle layer, and used the power of the elixir to absorb and destroy the local defenses of the defensive formation, and then used the destructive power of the true elixir realm cultivation to break through the inner barrier defense with one blow, and entered The inner layer. Such a meticulous and strange approach is really unbelievable," Senior Brother Niu said.
Senior Brother Niu paused and continued: "This person did not kill anyone. It seems that he was not targeting the disciples of the Tiangui Sect. He must have another purpose in sneaking into the inner layer. The inner layer is the forbidden area of the sect, and there is a secret formation to protect it. , any intrusion by outsiders will definitely alarm the senior officials of the sect, which is something we cannot handle." Then he looked up at the spiritual pressure coming from the distance, and said with a solemn expression: "The protective mechanism of the formation has been triggered. There will be many defensive formation spirits here soon."
At this time, there was a weak spiritual vibration from the dome, and then a huge purple eyeball appeared out of thin air. The eyeball turned and swept downwards.
"The formation spirit defense has been activated." Senior Brother Niu said with a solemn expression.
At the same time, black cracks gradually opened in the space around the dome, and cyan palms emerged from the many cracks. From time to time, many cyan palms grabbed the edge of the crack and tore it hard, as if something was trying to crawl out from inside.
Immediately afterwards, many cyan-skinned humanoid formation spirits landed on the ground from the cracks, surrounding Xu Yang and his party.
The humanoid formation spirit has no hair and is much taller than ordinary people. The green skin has no trace of blood, and the facial features are as ferocious as those of an animal, making people shudder. Each formation spirit turned its head to look at where the group of people was, and let out strange screams of "squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak".
"Each of these formation spirits has at least the strength of the Void Transformation Realm, and a few of them can even compete with the cultivators of the Peiyuan Realm. The instinct of the formation spirits is to kill all perceived intruders. Now it seems that we have been considered as intruders. I'm afraid that even a true elixir realm powerhouse won't be able to benefit from such a large number of formation spirits. We are in a very dangerous situation now."
"Instead of waiting for death here, it is better to escape into the inner space through the escape channel of the intruder." Lin'er suggested.
"The inner level is the forbidden area of the sect. Although we are disciples of the Formation Engineering Institute, we are responsible for the maintenance of various formations within the sect. This time we come here, we are also performing the maintenance tasks of the middle level formation in the Ghost Roaring Land. But for ghosts We don’t know anything about the protection situation in the inner layer of Xiaozhi. It would be dangerous to break into the inner layer rashly,” Senior Brother Niu said.
"The intruder seems to know the situation inside the inner layer better than we do. He is sure to enter the inner layer, and he is probably not going to die. We might as well take the risk," Lin'er said.
"Senior Sister Lin'er is right. Instead of waiting for death here, it is better to go to the inner layer to take shelter temporarily. Without further ado, everyone comes with me!" Senior Brother Niu shouted loudly, then jumped towards the crack above the dome. As he entered, Lin'er followed closely behind.
Among this group of people, only Senior Brother Niu has reached the Cultivation Realm, and Lin'er is at the peak of the second level of the Void Transformation Realm. These two people not only have the highest cultivation level among the people, but they are also inner disciples of the Formation Engineering Academy. Therefore, everyone is more willing to listen to the opinions of the two of them. So Xu Yang and others followed them closely and jumped into the inner gap.
As soon as everyone jumped into the passage formed by the temporary gap, a large group of formation spirits opened their mouths and sprayed out fist-sized spirit bombs, which landed like a violent storm on the place where everyone had stopped. After a burst of fire shot into the sky, a deep pit was blasted out of the ground.
The purple eyeball that appeared on the dome glanced downwards again, and then quietly disappeared from the dome after no one could be seen.
The formation spirits gathered at the place where everyone settled, but did not rush into the inner passage. After a moment, each formation spirit flashed with green light and disappeared one after another.
The passages and cracks in the dome were gradually repaired as before with the continuous replenishment of spiritual power from afar.
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Above the main hall of Tiangui Sect.
Yu Cheng, the leader of the Tiangui Sect, stood with his hands behind his back. Standing opposite him was Ning Tianqi. The two were chatting softly.
At this time, a disciple quickly entered the hall, bowed and said: "Reporting to the sect master, according to the message from the elders who monitor the Ghost Roaring Land, someone broke into the inner forbidden area of the Ghost Roaring Land without authorization, and kidnapped the sect's entourage. The specific situation of the disciples of the Wood Spirit Academy who are undergoing trials in the Land of Ghost Roar and the disciples of the Array Engineering Academy who have entered the Land of Ghost Roar to check the formation conditions are currently being investigated.”
"Who is so bold, trespassing into the land of ghost roars and kidnapping my sect disciples?" Yu Cheng's face darkened.
"Tian Qi is willing to go to the Ghost Roaring Land to deal with this matter in person." Ning Tianqi said.
"The Ghost Roaring Land is a top priority among the forbidden areas within the sect. It is usually monitored by elders sent by the sect, and there have been no accidents in more than a hundred years. It must not be that simple for someone to successfully break in this time. It's up to you It would be best if you go in person." After Yu Cheng finished speaking, he reached out and patted Ning Tianqi on the shoulder.
"Tian Qi takes the order!" After saying that, Ning Tianqi hurried out of the hall.
Sect Master Yu Cheng took two steps back and forth in the main hall, and then said to the disciple who was reporting below: "Be sure to report to me the progress of the situation at any time. Immediately invite the masters of the third battle hall and the fourth battle hall to come to discuss the matter."
"Yes!" After the disciple agreed, he turned around and took the order to leave.
After a cup of tea, two people stood under the main hall of Tiangui Sect.
"Master Zhan Tianba of Barbarian Ghost Hall pays homage to the lord of the clan." The speaker was a middle-aged man with a figure as tall as an iron tower.
"Gui Gufeng, the master of the Ghost Flame Hall, pays homage to the sect master." The speaker was a handsome, tall, middle-aged man wearing a red robe. His fiery red hair was particularly eye-catching.
"You two hall masters don't need to be polite. I'm calling you here this time because I found someone breaking into the inner layer of the Ghost Roaring Land and kidnapping the disciples of my sect who were undergoing trials. I have sent Tianqi to go there first. The Ghost Roaring Land No more than others, just in case, you two rush to support."
"Take your orders!" they both replied in unison.
After the two left, the solemn look on Yu Cheng's face softened slightly.