Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Poison of Power
Early the next morning, Shi Xuan was waiting for Chen Kaijia's arrival at the city gate, and as the sun rose, a handsome young man walked on the street, possessed by a powerful spirit armor, a pair of snow-bright silver fists, and a spear behind him, he strode over.
"Brother Chen is really a young hero, and he is also a tiger when he walks", Shi Xuan looked at Chen Kaijia who came over.
"Brother Shi is not bad, when we are done with things, we must have a good discussion with Brother Shi", Chen Kaijia looked like a militant.
"When the time comes, your requirements will be met, and it is still important to get down to business."
"It's a hundred and ten miles here, and we can buy two batches of horses to travel, and we can get there faster." The two found a merchant who specialized in raising horses, each chose a good horse, and one of them disappeared into the distance.
Shi Xuan followed Chen Kaijia all the way, the horse's hooves kicked up a large amount of dust, they hurried with all their might, and they didn't want to delay too long, the horses they rode were very different from ordinary people's horses, the horses they sold in Danyang City were all horses with thin bloodlines containing some spirit beasts, these horses were extremely fast, with excellent endurance and traveling hundreds of miles a day was not a problem at all, Shi Xuan also experienced this extremely fast foal.
After a day of climbing mountains and mountains, they came to the foot of Wuyun Mountain, which can be regarded as a big mountain within a radius of 100 miles, these places are flat, and the high mountains are already famous for doing so.
At this moment, the sky is over, the slanting sun just falls from the top of Wuyun Mountain, and at this moment, under the slanting sun, a large piece of burning clouds appears, which is very spectacular, and Shi Xuan can also see it.
"This Wuyun Mountain is famous for the magical clouds here, today's fire clouds are just one of them, the clouds are different in each season, the wind and rain are also different, this mountain is rich in spiritual energy, rich in spiritual materials, there will be many adventurers to go to this mountain to stretch for hundreds of miles, and it is also a famous river near Danyang City", Chen Kaijia said.
"It's getting late today, let's find a safe place to stay at the foot of the mountain for the night, and let's go up the mountain tomorrow morning", Shi Xuan looked at the sun setting in the sky.
"With this in mind, the spirit of the mountain will be going up tomorrow", the two found a hidden place to tie the horses, and began to find a safe place to camp and rest.
The sun rose again, and the strange clouds looked particularly magnificent in the sunlight, and the two of them packed their bags early and began to head towards the mountains, they did not ride horses, these areas were relatively steep, and they took human climbs and walked in the dense jungle. From time to time, the two of them cut off some dense branches with their knives to make the way, and these mountains contrasted sharply with the bare mountains of Hongyan Ridge.
Just as they walked out of a clearing, a huge iron-clawed black bear blocked the way, this black bear was as big as a cow, its palms were as hard as iron, and a slap could penetrate the chest of an ordinary person, and the power was huge.
"This guy must at least have the peak strength of the third order, ordinary third-order saber-toothed tigers don't dare to provoke it", Chen Kaijia, took off his spear and prepared to fight, Shi Xuan drew out his bright broadsword, ready to strike at any time.
The iron-clawed black bear saw that the two people did not run away and dared to show their blades to him, and suddenly became furious, its body was constricted as if drawing a bow, and its legs kicked the ground, and the search suddenly rushed towards the two people, the two did not dare to connect hard, each dodged, and the iron palm suddenly shot a huge dirt pit on the ground, and the soil splashed.
"It's such a fierce animal, the two of us formed horns to kill it," Chen Kaijia said.
Shi Xuan nodded, took the lead in attacking, it was a killing move at the beginning, he now applied the killing move of breaking the sky and seven slashes perfectly, with a chain of moves, with a strong aura, and an increase in the strength of the fist, the power was huge, ordinary opponents of the same level would never dare to take his move head-on, but the iron palm black bear had a tall body, hard fur, and amazing defensive power, Shi Xuan's big knife actually slashed out a string of sparks on its neck, just cut off some fur, and did not penetrate his defense at all.
The same is true for Chen Kaijia on the other side, he has practiced a magic spear technique, and he can hit an amazing power in a very short period of time, but the metamorphosis defense of the iron-clapped black bear is indeed amazing.
The black bear was furious, it had always taken the initiative to attack its opponent, but this time it was beaten hard, its eyes were crimson, its claws were waving all over the sky, its strength was amazing, both of them were swept away by its huge power, the black bear scratched off the trunks of trees and hit the two people violently, the two could only maneuver to dodge, Shi Xuan's flame combat boots were extremely fast, and they constantly found the right time to attack its neck one after another.
Chen Kaijia also understood his intentions, and attacked the same part one after another, even the steel and iron bones were difficult to resist.
After the iron-clapped black bear discovered their intentions, he began to focus on defense, and Shi Xuan missed several times.
"My body is faster, I'll attract its attention, Brother Chen's task of attacking it will be handed over to you, I'll fight for you a chance," Shi Xuan said.
"Good".
Shi Xuan began to use all kinds of fancy flame spirit skills in front of the black bear, sometimes flame shackles, sometimes thorn flowers, a large number of whiplashes for a while, which completely angered this big guy, he chased and beat Shi Xuan fiercely, Shi Xuan relied on the speed of his combat boots to maneuver with it, seeing that this method worked, Chen Kaijia cautiously looked for an opportunity to make a move, and he ran the exercises with all his might, just when the black bear turned his back to him and roared.
The gun shadows in the sky were launched, Chen Kaijia accurately seized the opportunity, launched his most terrifying marksmanship, in a very short time, dozens of gun shadows were shot, only to see that his gun successfully broke through the black bear's hard defense, a large area of blood gushed out, the black bear turned around and faced Chen Kaijia, angry and angry.
At the moment when it was distracted, Shi Xuan rioted, and the Sky Breaking Seven Slashes were launched again, and the terrifying big knife directly cut off the black bear's head, and a small mountain-like black bear fell heavily to the ground, blood flowing all over the ground.
"It's a difficult guy, we are completely blunt knives to cut meat, it seems that our strength still needs to be improved", Chen Kaijia sighed.
"These spirit beasts are favored by the heavens, and their own strength is huge, fortunately, the spiritual intelligence of low-level spirit beasts is not high, otherwise our human race is really difficult to deal with", Shi Xuan also sighed.
"Maybe although God did not give us the strongest bloodline of the human race, but our spiritual wisdom seems to be the best gift, I heard that in the distant times, the human race gave birth to true gods, although the bloodlines of other races are strong, but in the final stage, these bloodlines seem to imprison them," Chen Kaijia said.
"I have seen many sons and daughters of families who are pampered and have been swaying in the red dust all their lives, and in the end they have done little, but I feel that Brother Chen is different from the sons of other big families", Shi Xuan looked at the young man in front of him.
"Oh, what's the difference?"
"I found in you that you have an extremely motivated and good attitude, and you can put down your noble status to come to such a hard mountain and wilderness, even if you are as fierce as the iron-clapped black bear, you are not afraid," Shi Xuan said.
"This may have something to do with my family's situation, although my family is located in the capital of the Danyang Empire, the scenery is the same for a while, but over the years, the power within the empire has been turbulent, and many big families in the city have been affected, if you want to continue to prosper and survive in the imperial capital, you must have strong strength to gain a foothold, over the years, my Chen family can be said to be surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the family elders will put all the future on us juniors, and they are very harsh on us, even the competition between brothers and sisters is fierce, and this trial is very important to meChen Kaijia was also very helpless when he thought of the family's situation.
"It seems that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and being in a big family may not be a happy thing", Shi Xuan sighed.
"In the past few years, the family's situation has been much more embarrassing, the power changes within the empire, once the family stands on the wrong team, it may soon be politically implicated, if there is no strong person in the family to support it, it will be difficult to deal with the complex scene in the future, which is also the reason why I have been practicing crazy all these years", Chen Kaijia said in his heart.
"Brother Chen is a person with great ambitions, I believe that you will be able to spell out a future in the future, and there will be a place for you on the mainland in the future", Shi Xuan felt that Chen Kaijia was by no means simple.
"Thank you Ji Yan, these are still too far away, let's do the things at hand", the two of them repaired, dug out the black bear's spirit core, and continued to move forward.
On the way, they avoided some low-level spirit beasts, and did not want to waste time, they went all the way over the mountains and mountains, and came to the depths of the mountain, which is a valley, the surrounding terrain is open, the trees are scarce, and even other spirit beasts are not there, and they seem to be very afraid of the purple gold lion king in the cave.
Shi Xuan and Chen Kaijia arrived at their destination, and a hidden cave appeared in the valley, and Shi Xuan and the others did not dare to make a loud noise to avoid disturbing the Purple Gold Lion King.
After some investigation, the two of them retreated to discuss countermeasures.
"This lion king has reached the strength of the fourth order, the two of us have little chance of winning a frontal attack, we can only bury a trap from the outside this time and strangle it, otherwise there is no way", Chen Kaijia said, obviously he had already thought about how to deal with this lion king before.
"I'm the son of a hunter, and I know how to set some traps, but I only have three powerful talismans, and it's not enough to deal with people of the same level," Shi Xuan lacked more powerful means.
"This Shi brother doesn't need to worry, I have prepared a powerful Heavenly Thunder Rune Seal and a Flame Rune Seal this time, as long as your strangulation trap can bind it for a while, I can make it impossible to escape", Chen Kaijia took out some precious rune seals, these rune seals were enough to seriously injure the master of Ning Yuan Realm, much stronger than Shi Xuan's.
"In that case, I will start to lay traps, and you will assist me", Shi Xuan, as the son of a hunter, learned a lot of trap making methods from his father.
The two of them had been busy near the entrance of the cave for a long time, and they were careful not to alarm the spirit beasts in the cave.
After the trap was arranged, Shi Xuan restored the ground to its original appearance, otherwise some spirit beasts with high spiritual intelligence might not be fooled.
"Almost, let's go into the cave together and seduce it out," Shi Xuan said.
"I'm familiar with it, or should I go in?"
"You are not as fast as me, the two of us must be much safer when covering each other," Shi Xuan said.
"Okay".
The two cautiously entered the cave, the cave was hidden and deep, winding and rugged all the way, and it took a while to reach the depths of the cave, what met Shi Xuan's eyes was a huge cave, a purple and gold lion king that was bigger than the iron-clapped black bear was sleeping there, Shi Xuan looked at this cave and found some traces of human activities, a huge pile of charcoal ashes on the ground, it must have been burned for a long time to leave so much.
Not far away, on a flat ground, a simple wooden bed was there, and an almost decaying corpse fell there on the ground against the wall, his spirit armor still had spiritual energy, a box next to it, a spear and a bow and arrow were placed there, and there were still a lot of living utensils in the cave, and I don't know how long this person had been dead, but Shi Xuan judged that this person had been dead for at least one or two decades according to the spirit armor and clothes he was wearing, his clothes were luxurious, his identity was not simple, and the spirit armor on his body was at least a fifth-order quality.
Shi Xuan and the others knew that it was unrealistic to want to go over directly and steal things out, and they would definitely be discovered.
"Do it", Shi Xuan signaled, he quickly took out his bow and arrows and fired three arrows at the lion king whose head emitted purple and gold light, and a burst of sparks appeared, and Shi Xuan and the two ran away.
The Purple Gold Lion King woke up from his sleep, he smelled the breath of the human race, and chased them out frantically, and there was a huge roar behind him, no one dared to attack him like this in the past few years when the Lion King occupied the cave, a few days ago it directly scared Chen Kaijia to death, if it hadn't spent a lot of Fu Seal, he might have died here.
"This beast is so terrifying," Shi Xuan said as he ran.
"Be careful, don't capsize in the gutter," Chen Kaijia said, and the two ran fast.
The Purple Gold Lion King finally found the two people who raided it, it viciously spit out a terrifying purple fire, accompanied by the sound of thunder, Shi Xuan quickly dodged, and with a snap, the wall was hit by the purple fire Mang A large corner, seeing that it was not hit, the Lion King was even more angry, and his speed increased a lot.
Seeing that disappointment was approaching again, Shi Xuan threw out a talisman seal, and a huge burst of fire erupted at once, successfully delaying the lion king's figure, but it did not hit it.
Chen Kaijia also threw out some strange talismans from time to time, some emitted large pieces of poisonous mist, some were fire-rising, and some were thunderous, and the two cooperated with each other to lure the lion king out without danger.
The huge lion king at the entrance of the cave looked at the two people viciously, especially Chen Kaijia, he entered the cave twice, and the lion king asked about his smell.
"You always have your talisman ready, I'll seduce him into a trap," Shi Xuan shouted.
As soon as Shi Xuan got his hands up, he quickly condensed a huge tiger fire spirit with both hands, this true fire was even more terrifying now, and the temperature was terrifying. The huge tiger spirit struck towards the lion king, the lion king looked at him with disdain, and in return he was an even more terrifying purple fire, the two collided in the air, and with a bang, a huge fireball rose, and the remnants of the self-colored fire continued to burn towards Shi Xuan.
Shi Xuan hurriedly rolled away, and the large grass around him instantly turned into ashes, "What a ruthless animal, look at my means", and the flame whips ruthlessly whipped the lion king.
The lion king was furious at this moment, jumped ten battles away, it was going to tear him to pieces, Shi Xuan took it to the trap, saw the slippery Shi Xuan, the lion king roared angrily, and even many beasts in the surrounding mountains and forests were scared away.
An unavoidable ring of fire emanated from the mouth of the Lion King, spreading rapidly outward with the Lion King as the center, Shi Xuan was swept away by the scorching wave of qi at once, and the clothes on his body were burned at once, so he was wearing an amazing defensive spirit armor, otherwise he would become a roasted person.
Shi Xuan threw out ten battles away, his face hit the ground, and after eating a mouthful of delicious dust, Shi Xuan got up and looked at the mess all over.
Seeing Shi Xuan fall to the ground, the Lion Dynasty rushed towards Chen Kaijia, Chen Kaijia waved the shadow of the gun to fight, but the disparity in strength was huge, and it was an old fire that lifted him away, at this time, Shi Xuan drew his bow and arrow from a distance, and shot dozens of arrows in a row, the lion king's back trembled with pain, but it did not break through, it pounced viciously towards Shi Xuan, and still did not fall into the trap.
Shi Xuan could only spin around again, sometimes firing several arrows in a row, sometimes hitting with real fire, sometimes running away with a smoke, and several times when he was close to the lion king, Chen Kaijia threw out the poisonous mist talisman seal, successfully covering Shi Xuan's escape.
"This beast is too clever, I'd better seduce it closely, otherwise we won't be able to leave when our aura is exhausted," Shi Xuan said.
"It's too dangerous, if you don't pay attention to it, you'll be seriously injured", Chen Kaijia felt inappropriate.
"I have practiced a strong defense technique, let's use its power to perfect it today, I also want to know where the limit is", Shi Xuan did not use fancy spiritual skills this time, jumped directly in front of the lion king, drew a big knife and fought with it in close combat.
The Seven Slashes of Breaking the Sky burst out with great power, even Shi Xuan's tiger mouth was shocked and bleeding and could not move, and he was slapped by the Lion King, and the huge impact made Shi Xuan's chest shake violently, although the spirit armor weakened a lot of strength, but there was still a huge force transmitted to the chest, he felt that his body was about to be penetrated, and a ring of fire was sent out, and a large area of grass burned to ashes.
Chen Kaijia threw out some talisman seals for him to cover, this lion king obviously wanted to take advantage of his illness to kill him, and he also wanted to torture and kill Shi Xuan with the violently exploding talisman seal.
At this moment, the Lion King successfully stepped on the trap dug by Shi Xuan, and the trap was triggered in the huge pit, and the Lion King fell into it.
"This is the moment," Shi Xuan shouted.
"Understood", Chen Kaijia jumped over, took out the most powerful talisman seal, and threw it towards the key part of the lion king's body.
All of a sudden, the flames were monstrous, the sky was full of thunder, and the huge power fluctuations swept both Shi Xuan and Chen Kaijia away.
After the explosion, a large fire burned.
"It should be dead, right?", the two of them cautiously approached the fire pit.
The flames gradually extinguished, and the lion king's whole body was in tatters at the moment, his body trembled, and he was still struggling.
"Send him on his way," Shi Xuan shouted.
The two of them each exerted their terrifying strength, and the lion king was finally finished by the two of them.
The Purple Gold Lion King is not an ordinary spirit beast, his strength is extremely powerful, the strength of Shi Xuan and the others is not enough to hurt it, if it weren't for the preparation of many powerful talismans, it is estimated that the two of them will be buried here today.
Looking at the Purple Gold Lion King who was blown up by the Fu Seal, the two of them finally breathed a sigh of relief, at this moment, Shi Xuan and Chen Kaijia were embarrassed, gray-headed, and almost like two people called Huazi.
"Such a ruthless beast, if you want to fight him head-on, at least we must both reach the middle stage of the Ning Yuan Realm, otherwise we are looking for abuse, thanks to the power of your talisman seal", Shi Xuan was shocked.
"These talismans were bought by the family at a high price from a spirit array master, they were expensive, they were originally intended to be used to save my life, but I had to use them for this adventure", Chen Kaijia was also distressed.
The two of them did not rush into the cave but meditated outside to recover their aura, and this battle consumed a lot.
It took a long time for the two of them to recover, and they began to dig out the fourth-order spirit core of the Purple Gold Lion King, Shi Xuan took a lot of effort to cut off the purple gold crown of the Lion King, this purple gold crown is also a good spiritual material, the fourth-order spirit core Shi Xuan didn't ask for it, he gave it to Chen Kaijia, after all, he paid a lot of price, and those talismans were not cheaper than this spirit core.
"You should also go in and take a look, after spending so much effort, I don't know if it's worth it?" Chen Kaijia said.
"Go".
The two walked into the cave expectantly.
Inside the cave, the two looked at the skeleton that had fallen to the ground, this person was richly dressed, and his identity was not simple at first glance.
"Looking at this kind of costume, it seems that it is the princes and nobles of the Danyang Empire, this person's status is extremely high", Chen Kaijia still knows Danyang City.
"Seeing that his bones were blackened, he may have been poisoned in front of him, and three bones in his chest were shattered, and then he suffered heavy injuries, and finally died tragically in this cave", Shi Xuan preliminarily concluded.
"The person who dealt with it was not simple, he was able to penetrate his fifth-order spirit armor and inflict heavy damage on him," Chen Kaijia said.
"Let's take a look at the contents of the box first," Shi Xuan said.
The two of them opened the box, this box was exquisitely made, the material was not ordinary, there were some elixirs in the box, there was a letterhead underneath, some clothes underneath, and a book of exercises was placed at the bottom.
"It's not in vain", Chen Kaijia picked up this exercise.
Shi Xuan also came over to check, Tianlong Bo Tiandu.
The two of them opened the exercises to check, and there was a record in them: This exercise is the secret of the Jiang family in Danyang City, it is the family inheritance exercise, which is powerful and domineering, and can greatly enhance the strength of the practitioner.
"I can be sure that he must be a member of the royal family in Danyang City, the Jiang family in Danyang City is also the family of the current emperor, and only the direct members of the royal family can be qualified to cultivate", Chen Kaijia was shocked.
"It seems that the only way to uncover his face is to open the letterhead", Shi Xuan shook the letter in his hand.
The paper on the letterhead is the special paper of the royal family of the Danyang Empire, which is difficult for the outside world to imitate.
The general content of the letterhead is: When someone sees this letter, the widow must have passed away, and I leave everything to the destined person, and at the same time hope that the destined person can complete one thing for the widow. The widow is the 121st monarch of the Danyang Empire, Jiang Bingqian, who was poisoned by a compatriot Jiang Bingkun when the widow practiced once, and was seriously injured by him because of his practice at a critical moment, Jiang Bingkun's wolf ambition took the opportunity to launch a mutiny, trying to kill me, and there were loyal guards who fought for me to escape, I ran all the way to this cave to hide, but unfortunately, the old man was highly poisoned, and suffered heavy injuries for a long time.
It is not a pity for a widow to die, but my ruthless brother will surely carry out a bloody slaughter of my heirs to eradicate those who threaten his throne. I have a very beloved heir, Jiang Yuheng, who was rescued and hid by one of my loyal personal guards, and I believe that he will survive, and I hope that someone who is destined to come here can fulfill a wish for me.
You can take away the exercises that are not passed down by the widow's family, but the widow hopes that you can find my son for me, give him this letter, and teach him the exercises.
My son Jiang Yuheng has the specific mark of my Jiang family on his body, the same as the mark on the letterhead, and he also has a dragon talisman from my family on his hand, which can be used as a certificate when the time comes.
Shi Xuan saw that there were two pages on the letterhead, and the second page was what Jiang Bingqian wrote to his son, but Shi Xuan didn't flip through it.
"I didn't expect that the palace turmoil twenty years ago was real, Jiang Bingqian was killed by his younger brother in a coup d'état, and the palace announced that Jiang Bingqian died of a vicious disease, and his younger brother Jiang Bingkun took over the throne, and even Prince Jiang Yuheng was missing, I didn't expect this to be the case", Chen Kaijia couldn't believe it.
"I didn't expect Jiang Bingkun to be so ruthless for the sake of the throne, and I don't know if the crown prince Jiang Yuheng is still alive", Shi Xuan thought of the emperor's entrustment.
"I see that the two of us each copy a copy of this Tianlong Botian Decision, each of us cultivates, and we each secretly look for Prince Jiang Yuheng, and after finding it, we will teach him the exercises, then we can be regarded as not violating justice," Chen Kaijia said.
"That's the only way," Shi Xuan nodded.