Chapter 45: The Crown of Disillusionment

Shi Xuan and the others observed for a moment and didn't find anything strange, and after watching Shen Rong and the others go deep into the cave, they also followed.

The cave road was rugged and winding, Shi Xuan and they moved forward cautiously, "Will there be any danger here", Zhong Ling is a girl after all, this kind of desolate cave is inevitably a little uncomfortable.

"Shen Rong, they are ahead, if there is any danger, there should be movement," Zhao Zhuo said.

But it was too quiet, and it didn't come to an end after a long walk, and there were several forks in the cavern.

"We lost it, and we don't know which one they entered?" Shi Xuan said.

All three of them cautiously observed the situation at the intersection, but they did not find any special markings, and they did not have a good choice.

"Why don't we choose the one on the right and leave marks along the way so as not to get lost," Shi Xuan suggested.

"Since I'm here to find an opportunity, it depends on luck," Zhao Zhuo said.

The three of them left marks along the way, afraid of getting lost when they came back, so they walked along the cave all the way in, the cave inside became dark, and Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo had to summon fire to illuminate the cave.

"There won't be any monsters in there," Zhong Ling rubbed his hands, a little uncomfortable.

"Walk slowly, if there is danger, we will run back", Zhao Zhuo encouraged.

Not long after they finished speaking, they heard a movement inside, "What kind of sound are you listening to?" Shi Xuan said.

"Be careful", Zhao Zhuo also summoned a huge fire shield to block the front, and they saw a large piece of black pressure flying towards them in front of them.

"It's a kind of purple-winged demon bat, these things are poisonous, take some detoxification pills first", Zhong Ling took out the detoxification pill and gave it to Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo.

A large group of purple-winged demon bats frantically slaughtered towards them, and the three of them started a big battle, Shi Xuan's monstrous flames trapped the three of them in the fire ring, and these demon bats were burned to death by their flames, emitting a foul smell.

"What a disgusting thing, these demon bats are bigger than a cat, there are so many of them", Zhong Ling couldn't stand these things the most.

"Senior Sister Zhong Ling, don't panic, these things have extremely poor eyesight, don't make a sound, they can't see us at all without sound, and when the flames are extinguished, we hide quietly by the wall, they can't find us", Shi Xuan has some understanding of these demon bats.

The three of them quietly leaned against the wall, holding their breath, Shi Xuan threw a stone far away, and these demon bats chased out frantically.

"Let's go", Shi Xuan pulled the two of them and walked inside, and only stopped after a long time.

"They're not coming back, are they?"

"It's hard to say, but it's safe for the time being," Zhao said.

"You see the road ahead has become wider," Zhong Ling said.

"Let's go and see if we can find any benefits", Shi Xuan and the three of them continued to move forward.

In front of the cave was a space several feet wide, and there was a special device there, and the road ahead had come to an end.

"Hey, what is this device", Zhong Ling looked curiously at a quaint device in front of him, which was engraved with runes, and they didn't understand whether it was chosen.

Zhong Ling saw that there was a recessed place on the device, a bit like the palm of her hand, and she put her hand on it.

Shi Xuan was shocked: "Stop", but it was too late.

The runes on the device began to glow, and the runes arranged on it began to move, and the whole space began to move, some of the runes on the walls emitted bright lights, and their way back was instantly sealed by a huge stone door, and they were trapped in this not too big space.

"Senior Sister Zhong Ling, what good things have you done, we won't be able to get out now", Zhao Zhuo observed the surroundings in horror.

"I didn't mean to, I just tried it out of curiosity, and who knew it would be activated", Zhong Ling was apologetic.

"Let's find out if there is any way to open the way back", Shi Xuan didn't mess up, the three of them began to look for the mechanism to open the way back, and just when they were in a hurry, the cave wall in front of them began to move.

"Be careful," the trio looked at the cracked wall in front of them.

The walls continued to crack in both directions, and a passage large enough for them to enter appeared, glowing with light.

"There is light in it, maybe there is a way out", Zhao Zhuo saw a glimmer of hope.

Shi Xuan and the three of them had no way to retreat, but they could venture through the rift, and when they passed through, the cracked wall closed again.

"It seems that this is a road that only advances and does not retreat, and I don't know what I will encounter?" Shi Xuan saw that the way back was gone.

"Maybe it's some special test that we can leave as soon as we pass it?" guessed the spirit.

They continued to move forward, the winding road walked for a long time, and suddenly Shi Xuan grabbed Zhao Zhuo in the front, Zhao Zhuo realized the danger, he would fall into the pit when he took a step, and they found that there was a huge bottomless pit in front of them, and if they fell, they might be crushed.

"It's so dangerous", Zhao Zhuo was shocked.

"You see, this pit is thirty battles wide, and it is so difficult to jump over it with our strength", Zhong Ling looked at the big pit.

At this moment, there was some terrifying creature roaring in the passage behind him, "It's over, what kind of terrifying existence is there behind, if we don't find a way to get over, we will die here?" Zhao Zhuo was also worried.

"This distance, with my strength, is enough to throw the two of you over", Shi Xuan rang out.

"What about you?" Zhong Ling said.

"You forget, I'm still a powerful control spirit master, and my flame shackles can pass through as long as I can reach the opposite wall," Shi Xuan said.

"Your flame shackles aren't so far away?" Zhao Zhuo had seen his flame shackles.

"That's the limit that you haven't seen me yet, okay, the fierce beast behind is getting closer and closer, no matter how slow it is, there will be no chance", Shi Xuan heard the roar of the giant beast.

"I'll come first, if I can't get by, my life is not good, I believe you Shi Xuan", Zhao Zhuo was the first to do the experiment.

Shi Xuan didn't dare to slack off, once he missed a distance of dozens of zhang, he would inevitably die without a corpse.

The aura of his whole body Cui Fa was sent to the extreme, he lifted Zhao Zhuo up with both hands, ran dozens of steps, and threw it with all his strength, Zhao Zhuo was thrown by him like a stone to the opposite bank, Zhao Zhuo fell on the passage on the other bank with a bang, seeing his successful past, Shi Xuan was sure in his heart.

"Senior Sister Zhong Ling's turn," Shi Xuan said.

Zhong Ling nodded, the girl's weight was far less than Zhao Zhuo's, Shi Xuan picked her up and ran over, Zhao Zhuo answered on the other side and hugged her at once.

"Shi Xuan hurry up and jump, it's almost too late", they seemed to see a giant hand jumping towards him from a distance.

Shi Xuan began to run, urging the Heavenly Dragon Bo Tiandu to the extreme, bursting out with five times the strength and jumping towards the opposite bank, the giant beast braked sharply behind him, and almost fell down.

The two people on the other side were stunned, although Shi Xuan burst out with amazing strength, he only jumped a little more than half of the distance, he began to fall, just when they were worried, more than a dozen extra-long flame shackles appeared on Shi Xuan's body and grabbed towards the wall on the opposite bank.

Zhao Zhuo urged the exercises to lie on the edge of the cliff and grabbed Shi Xuan's flame shackles, he successfully grabbed Shi Xuan, and Shi Xuan slowly climbed up along the cliff wall.

The three of them were all frightened, a huge fierce beast on the other side was roaring, this fierce beast didn't know what kind of desolate alien species it was, with huge horns on its head, hard spirit armor all over its body, huge fangs, and its strength had reached at least the peak of the fourth order.

"Let's go quickly, maybe there are still terrifying creatures that are still talking", Shi Xuan also took a breath, they came to find an opportunity, and accidentally almost took their lives, the key is that this path is still chosen by themselves.

After they walked for a while, Zhao Zhuo seemed to have stepped on something under his feet, and with a click, "Be careful", Shi Xuan felt bad.

Sure enough, hundreds of arrows flew towards the three of them in front of them, and the three of them fully defended, Shi Xuan drew his big knife to block, his defense was amazing, and these arrows hit his body with a clanging sound.

It took a quarter of an hour for the arrows to stop firing. Although there was no danger, Zhao Zhuo still blushed and said, "I accidentally stepped on it."

The three of them continued to move forward, and encountered several traps in a row, all of which they dealt with.

"Are we breaking into hell, it feels like eighteen layers of hell, all kinds of torture against people, and we will die if we go down", Zhao Zhuo also complained bitterly, and was almost seriously injured several times.

As they continued to move forward, there was a sudden change again, and the passage under their feet seemed to become sticky, "What are these?" Zhong Ling almost slipped.

At this moment, a whistling sound erupted in the passage ahead, and a huge firelight came towards them, "What kind of grease is under your feet?"

"Resist with our fire shield," Zhao Zhuo shouted.

The two summoned a huge fire shield to surround the three of them, and the passage instantly turned into a sea of fire, enveloping the three of them.

Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo were fire spirit masters, so they were fine, but Zhong Ling, a water spirit master, was not happy, Shi Xuan and the three of them used their fire shields to slowly move inside, and finally walked out of the sea of fire after a quarter of an hour.

Zhong Ling's girl was almost roasted by their real fire, and after a while, she was still using the water spirit to cool herself.

When they walked through the sea of fire and came to the Sword Mountain again, this time, they had to rely on their own skills, in this narrow passage, rows of sharp spikes appeared on the walls and the ground from time to time, and the three of them used their shields to block a few times, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo cut off a lot of spikes and sharp blades to stand firm.

These spikes and blades are sometimes withdrawn, sometimes stabbed out, there are not too many rules, "You see that these sharp blades are segmented, we take advantage of the time when it is withdrawn to go to the demarcation place, wait for the next area to be retracted, and then pass through, so that we can definitely pass safely", Shi Xuan found a way to pass.

Shi Xuan's spiritual power was the strongest, and he was looking for an opportunity, he carefully observed the spike contraction in each area, seized the opportunity to pull the two of them through quickly, and waited for the next area at the demarcation point, so he finally walked through the terrifying spike passage.

Several people were shocked into a cold sweat, and as long as they took a wrong step, they might be killed by spikes.

"Why are there so many mechanisms in this, we will be played to death if we continue like this", Zhao Zhuo sat on the ground and recovered his aura.

"I don't know how Shen Rong chose the path they did, could it be that the one he took was the right one", Zhong Ling thought of the previous choice.

"We have reached this point, we have no way out, let's think about how to go next," Shi Xuan said.

At this moment, the three of them had already gone deep into the cave, and the few disciples who were waiting for them outside had been waiting impatiently, and they also sent a few people to investigate, but they were attacked by a large number of demon bats and finally retreated.

"Senior Brother Shi Xuan, will they encounter any huge danger inside, it's almost a day, there is no news, maybe we should reconcile with other senior brothers and see if we can find Senior Sister Dai Mengli to help", someone said.

"It can only be like this, such a big matter should let the senior brothers come forward, the few people who went in are all elite disciples this year, if something goes wrong, it will be difficult for us to go back", the disciples waiting outside went deep into the secret realm to find other senior brothers to find a way to rescue them.

Shi Xuan and the three of them continued to move forward in the dark and deep cave, and they didn't know how long they finally walked out of the narrow passage, this is a wide cave, there is an incomparably deep pool in the far side of the cave, in this cave there are three strong array spirits waiting, the strongest one has reached the peak of the fourth order, and the other two are third order.

"I didn't expect there to be such a strong array spirit here, find a way to kill them before we can move forward", Shi Xuan looked at the array spirit in front of him blocking the way.

"It's okay for us to deal with the third-order, but it's only a little dangerous for the fourth-order," Zhao Zhuo said.

"With the strength of the three of us, we should be able to fight it with all our strength, as long as I find a way to temporarily hold off this one of the fourth order, and the two senior brothers can quickly kill the other two, we still have a glimmer of hope," Zhong Ling said.

"I'll carry this one of the world, my defense is stronger, it's not that dangerous," Shi Xuan said.

"No, you are the strongest of the three of us, and you can deal with the third-order array spirit in the shortest time, my attack is not strong, but the waterhole here can help me temporarily tie up the fourth-order array spirit and buy you time", Zhong Ling insisted.

The three of them looked at each other for a moment, and Shi Xuan agreed to the plan, "Be careful yourself," Shi Xuan said.

The three of them quickly approached towards the formation spirit, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo each stared at a third-order formation spirit, Zhong Ling killed the fourth-order formation spirit, and ran in the direction of the waterhole.

Shi Xuan knew that no matter how strong Zhong Ling's means were, it wouldn't last long, the two of them had to fight quickly, the three of them burst out with huge power, the battle in the cave was about to break out, the array spirit roared, these array spirit power is huge, and it can simply apply some spirit skills, and the power is huge.

Zhong Ling finally came to the waterhole, she conjured up the water spirit, a big fish, she rode on it and swirled around the waterhole, the fourth-order array spirit set off a stormy wave, towards her crazy blow, wave after wave of strong attacks, Zhong Ling was like a fish slipping in the water, constantly pulling, from time to time to unleash a huge vortex to stop the attack of the array spirit.

"The spirit of Xuanshui listens to my call", the staff in Zhong Ling's hand burst out with huge power, and a giant dragon in the water was formed, killing towards the spirit of the formation, the power of the spirit of the formation was amazing, it and the spirit of the Xuanshui started a big battle, and the waves were turbulent for a while.

Seeing that Zhong Ling was temporarily unhindered, Shi Xuan also let go of his hands and feet to attack comprehensively, and the Heavenly Dragon Bo Heavenly Decision was exerted to the extreme, and suddenly his central acupoint erupted with huge energy, and a vast aura spread throughout his body, this was the huge power of the central acupoint of the Ning Yuan Realm, and his strength instantly exploded five or six times.

His Void-Breaking Seven Slashes struck a huge blade of air in the air, and everything he passed was indestructible, and the Array Spirit was defeated and retreated under his hands.

Zhao Zhuo also launched an all-out offensive, leaving several terrifying flame whirlwinds on the field, and the fire dragon gong in his hand shot out countless true fires, these third-order array spirits could hardly pose a real threat to the two of them, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.

The real danger is in the pool, Zhong Ling used a set of terrifying water spirit skills to try to bind the powerful array spirit, but several times it was torn open by its brutal power, escaped, and successfully interfered with Zhong Ling's spell many times, and relied on the water spirit she summoned to cruise to avoid the brutal attack many times, and many times the danger was full of dangers.

"Senior Brother Shi Xuan, you go to support her, I'll deal with these two animals, and if it drags on, Senior Sister Zhong Ling is in danger", Zhao Zhuo felt it.

Shi Xuan also saw that the two array spirits had entered the final struggle under the attack of the two of them, Zhao Zhuo should be able to withstand it, and he decided to help Zhong Ling first.

He quickly jumped into the distance, Zhao Zhuo stopped the two array spirits, and started a difficult battle, Shi Xuan came to the edge of the waterhole.

In the water, he has to be difficult to use, and he can only provide long-range support from the shore.

A large string of fire body meteors slashed towards the fourth-order array spirit, and the huge fireball smashed into its head, it was furious, abandoning the fleeing Zhong Ling in front of it, and killed Shi Xuan.

"The animal came just in time", Shi Xuan drew out his big knife to meet it head-on, Tianlong Bo Tianduel exerted to the extreme, his strength reached an astonishing level, his sword qi spread, hitting the walls of the surrounding caves, leaving a series of knife marks.

A fierce confrontation broke out between the two, the world's array spirit defense was extremely strong, and Shi Xuan's tiger mouth felt numb, but he didn't stop in the slightest.

At this time, Zhong Ling finally changed, and she cast a long-range strike in the water, one after another sharp ice blades struck wildly towards the array spirit.

The array spirit burst out with huge power, a terrifying aura exploded, Shi Xuan was directly shocked several battles away, fell to the ground fiercely, got rid of Shi Xuan's attack, it killed Zhong Ling again, roared at her, and the windswept up directly dispersed Zhong Ling's body protection water curtain, and she herself was also greatly injured, and a mouthful of blood spit out from her mouth.

Shi Xuan got up again, the terrifying outburst just now was extremely powerful, if it weren't for his extremely strong defense, it is estimated that he would have been seriously injured a long time ago. It was another terrifying fire meteor, which successfully attracted the attention of the array spirit.

Shi Xuan killed again, he and the burning array spirit fought in close combat again, Shi Xuan's goal was clear, even in a hard defense, it was impossible for the same place to withstand hundreds or thousands of attacks.

He was like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, who was swept away by the array spirit again and again, and killed him tenaciously again and again, until blood spit out from his mouth and did not stop.

The array spirit roared again, the terrifying super-large range of anger erupted, both of them suffered heavy losses, the array spirit no longer seemed to give Shi Xuan a chance this time, it came to the side of him, and smashed down towards him with a fierce punch, Shi Xuan exerted his Divine Dragon Empire to the extreme, his skin became as hard as a rock, but even so, he could not withstand the terrifying punch of the fourth-order array spirit, the huge power knocked him into the soil, his second-order spirit armor was directly shattered, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and even breathing was much more difficult.

The array spirit raised his fist again, wanting to kill Shi Xuan's life, at this time, a blazing wall of fire flew over and smashed its body, Zhao Zhuo finally killed the two end of the array spirit, and came to the rescue in time.

Seeing Zhao Zhuo who made a move, the array spirit killed the past in a rage, Zhong Ling wrapped Shi Xuan with a blister, Shi Xuan was scared with difficulty, his whole body spirit armor was shattered, and a huge fist mark was left on his chest, and at least three sternums were broken.

At this moment, Shi Xuan hurriedly took out some elixirs and took them, he didn't have time to stop and recover, this fourth-order peak array spirit was still raging on the ground.

He endured the pain and once again unleashed a terrifying flame strike, and the three of them launched a siege and strangulation against the fourth-order array spirits.

Zhong Ling's attack was weak, and she continued to use her spiritual skills to control the steps of the array spirit, and a circle of huge ice spikes was cast at the feet of the array spirit, interfering with its offensive steps many times.

The three of them cooperated flexibly, pulling and supporting each other, Zhao Zhuo's flame whirlwind, wall of fire, Shi Xuan's fire body meteor, burning wood shackles, Zhong Ling's frozen spikes, and the ring of evil water all coordinated the spiritual skills quite perfectly, the attack of the fourth-order array spirit was difficult to perform, and his terrifying explosion was not enough to hit the three people who cast spells in the distance, whenever it tried to get close, the three of them used various control skills to restrict its attack.

After a grueling siege, it finally reached the end of its powerful crossbow, and its burst was no longer as powerful as before, and the trio finally succeeded in slaying him.

"Shi Xuan, how are your injuries", Zhong Ling looked at Shi Xuan's broken spirit armor.

"I've already taken the elixir, it should be fine, and it will be good to recuperate after I go out," Shi Xuan had consumed too much spiritual energy at the moment, his face was pale, and he was meditating on the spot to recover his strength.

"My water spirit technique is very suitable for repairing the injured body, I will help you", Zhong Ling used her unique spiritual skills to help Shi Xuan repair the injured body, Shi Xuan felt a cool aura enter his meridians, these spiritual weapons quickly reached his chest and quickly treated his wounds, and sure enough, it had a magical effect.

After some adjustments, "Let's quickly absorb the aura of this array, otherwise it will all dissipate", Zhao Zhuo looked at the scattered aura.

This array spirit really deserves to be the existence of the peak of the fourth order, and the aura it released is enough for the three of them to be promoted to the first order, Shi Xuan has also successfully reached the third order, Zhao Zhuo has reached the sixth order, and Zhong Ling has also reached the sixth order.

"It seems that I still overestimate my defense, I have practiced a crippled high-level defense technique, but unfortunately it is only a fragment, and the defense has weakened a lot when it comes to the Ning Yuan Realm, but it is a pity that it is difficult to make it together in this life", Shi Xuan said as he looked at the injuries on his body.

"The chance is really unpredictable, I hope we can gain something from this adventure, otherwise I'm sorry for this injury", Zhao Zhuo looked at the three of them covered in injuries.