Chapter 129: Hunt and Kill
This second cave is completely different from the first cave.
To be precise, this place can no longer be called a cave, but a canyon. Because standing here, you can see white clouds, the sun, and the blue sky when you look up!
However, Qin Chuan knew that the blue sky and white clouds above his head were not real blue sky and white clouds. It was just a scene that was conjured up under the effect of the Great Array.
The sky that looks peaceful and peaceful now, as long as you accidentally touch the formation, it will immediately thunder and lightning, chasing souls.
Qin Chuan stood at the entrance of the cave, recalled the analysis on the detailed map very carefully, and once again told the disciples to be careful, and then took a step forward and embarked on the second journey.
It's well-lit and doesn't need ritual lighting at all. And the surrounding vegetation is luxuriant, the leaves are green and the flowers are abundant, and the scenery is quite good.
However, Qin Chuan was not in the mood to appreciate it at all. While carefully avoiding touching things that shouldn't be touched, keep a close eye on your surroundings.
Because in this second cave, elixirs that are more than a hundred years old have begun to appear. Each one is priceless. Missing a single plant is a huge loss.
I have to say that Qin Chuan's luck is still very good. After walking a distance of more than 100 steps, he actually found three elixirs that were more than 100 years old. This made him very excited.
It's a pity that blessings and misfortunes lurk. As soon as the third elixir was collected and put into the newly equipped storage bag on his waist, he suddenly noticed something strange in his divine sense, and in a path on the left, someone was approaching this side!
It seems that under the operation of the second cave formation, the Feather Sect and other sects have really encountered!
Qin Chuan's face became solemn, and he instructed the four junior brothers and sisters: "There are other sects coming over this way, everyone retreat and retreat to the ancient pine tree behind you." ”
Everyone was immediately ordered to retreat and stand at the foot of the ancient pine, which was not far away. Qin Chuan looked forward intently, wanting to see which faction would meet with the Yuhua Sect.
Soon, a figure appeared in the field of vision. After Qin Chuan saw the faces and clothes of the person who came clearly, his brows suddenly jumped-Feiyun Gate!
The group of people who came out of the path on the left was the Feiyunmen treasure exploration team led by Cao Gongze.
The three disciples who walked in the front, Qin Chuan recognized them at a glance, they were the three people who went into the cave for the first time a few days ago to explore the treasure and were chased by the lightning owl.
At this time, the three of them looked sadly, looking around, their eyes were full of confusion.
Qin Chuan laughed in his heart when he saw it. These three Feiyun Sect disciples must have wondered in their hearts, why did they follow the same path as last time to enter the cave, but the scene in front of them had completely changed?
They didn't know that there was a large array in the second cave, and the internal scene was unpredictable!
Qin Chuan really didn't guess wrong. After Cao Gongze led a group of Feiyunmen disciples into the Jiuqu Huilong Cave, he immediately asked the three disciples who had entered the cave last time to lead the way.
This time, the head of the sect and the elders of the sect personally pressed the formation, and the three disciples were very determined in their hearts, and they led the way forward with great interest, preparing to find the embarrassed lightning owl who chased them last time, and kill them in one fell swoop for revenge.
But they didn't go far before the three of them looked at each other, for they found that the scene in the cave was very different from the last time they had entered.
They never imagined that the environment and vegetation in the cave could all change, and they thought that they were chased too hard by the monster last time and didn't see the environment clearly. Of course, I didn't dare to mention it to Cao Gongze, so I could only continue to lead the way.
Originally, they had told Cao Gongze that they would arrive at the demon beast's lair soon after entering the cave, and there were still a large number of high-grade elixirs alive in the cave.
But going around all the way, there was no trace of demon beasts, elixirs, or whatever.
Cao Gongze couldn't help but be annoyed.
Originally, his plan was to rely on his familiarity with this cave to quickly kill the demon beasts and take away the elixir, so that he could enter the ninth cave that no one had entered to explore the treasure hunt before the other sects, and get a double harvest.
How do you know that these three disciples seem to have amnesia at the same time, and there are often disagreements in leading the way, and the answers to the questions asked to them are also contradictory and ambiguous.
If it weren't for the fact that there was still a place to use them, Cao Gongze would have long wanted a wind cone to go over and stab them all to death.
When he was full of anger and couldn't vent it, he suddenly noticed something strange in the scope of his divine sense. Someone nearby!
Cao Gongze didn't know that in the second cave, all sects could meet, and he thought that he had encountered an enemy, and his vigilance was raised. Ordered all the disciples to be vigilant and slowly move closer to the past.
When the two factions met, when Qin Chuan saw Cao Gongze, Cao Gongze also saw Qin Chuan.
At first sight, Cao Gongze looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahahaha, Master Qin, let's enter the cave from different holes, and we can still meet, it seems that you and I are really fateful!" ”
Qin Chuan's face actually had the same smile: "It is indeed fate to meet here." Solve you here, and the head of this family won't have to worry about the trouble after the hole. ”
Cao Gongze looked at Qin Chuan, full of doubts in his heart. Look at this kid's fearless appearance, could it be that the Kunshan faction is also nearby?
After releasing his divine sense to investigate around and making sure that there were no other people lurking around, Cao Gongze said with confidence: "The old man really doesn't understand, he is only a seventh-level cultivator, where did he get the courage to help you be arrogant!" Do you think that if you find the Kunshan faction as a backer, you can run rampant in the world? If you have the ability, let the guy surnamed Ding come out and save you now! ”
"To deal with you, my feathering power is enough." Qin Chuan said lightly.
"Hmph, you are arrogant in words, but under your hands, you still have to rely on strength to speak! You might as well take out all your intermediate talismans and see if you have a chance to escape this time! ”
Cao Gongze had learned the lesson of the last time, and this time his divine sense was firmly locked on Qin Chuan. Reciting a spell to activate the mana of the rune takes a certain amount of time. During this time, he was sure enough to kill Qin Chuan on the spot.
Who knows, this time Qin Chuan didn't take out any talismans, but just stretched out his hand and patted the ancient pine next to him four times, and then said to Cao Gongze: "This head of the family swaggered this time, if you have the ability, you will chase it!" ”
As he spoke, he led a group of Feather Sect disciples to turn around and swagger away.
Cao Gongze was completely enraged by Qin Chuan's arrogant appearance. was about to raise the fan to cast a spell, but he didn't know that suddenly there was a flower in front of him, and he completely lost the shadow of the people in the Feather Gate. No movement was felt in the consciousness.
Weird! With the superficial cultivation of their group, how could they be out of the scope of their divine consciousness in an instant? Cao Gongze was greatly surprised in his heart, and hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the disciples: "Chase quickly!" ”
The figure flashed, and he first chased in the direction where Qin Chuan had left. The disciples followed.
Unexpectedly, everyone had just set foot in the area near the ancient pine, and this ancient pine tree, which looked to be two hundred years old, suddenly rose up without wind. Between the swaying branches, the pine needles on the trees turned into countless clusters of sharp arrows, shooting at the disciples of Feiyun Sect!
The disciples were taken aback, and were about to release their magic weapons to resist, when they suddenly felt a strong wind around them, and went straight to the pine needles. The pine needles, which were originally pressed by black pressure, were blown out of their way in an instant and scattered in all directions. The originally silent canyon suddenly felt like a green rain.
Seeing that the head of the sect had defused this pine needle attack, the disciples couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and were about to cheer up and move on, but they didn't expect the vision to regenerate-the pine needles that originally fell to the ground turned out to be as if they had life, and they quickly gathered together, and finally condensed into two long python shapes, circling and twisting and pounced on the disciples of Feiyunmen.
These two green "pythons" are covered in spikes, not to mention being bitten, even if they are touched by any part, they will have to open their skin and flesh if they don't die!
"I said why he suddenly lost his trace, it turned out that he used the formation to block the divine sense!" Cao Gongze saw the strange changes in the pine needles and had already woken up.
"But this little trick is to block the old man in disguise, it's just a fool's dream!" With a cold expression, the Feng Xuan Fan in his hand was thrown forward, and immediately spun rapidly not far in front of him.
With the rotation of the wind fan, the surrounding air was immediately pulled, and soon a huge wind vortex with a diameter of about one meter was formed in front of Cao Gongze.
The wind whirlpool spins faster and faster, and from the center of the whirlpool it exudes an extremely strong suction.
When the two "green pythons" formed by the convergence of pine needles flew close to the whirlpool, they were immediately pulled by the suction emitted from it, and no matter how they struggled, they could not get rid of the range of action of the whirlpool, let alone launch an attack on the disciples of the Feiyun Sect.
When the disciples of Feiyun Sect saw that the master's attack was really extraordinary, they immediately blocked the attack of the strange pine needle python, and they all had a big heart, and stood quietly behind the master to watch the play.
I saw that under Cao Gongze's urging, the wind fan rotated faster and faster, and the suction power emitted by the whirlpool became bigger and bigger.
The two "green pythons" finally couldn't compete, the pine needles were sucked into the whirlpool one by one, and the body of the "python" became smaller and smaller, and finally it was completely sucked in by the wind whirlpool and disappeared without a trace.
Cao Gongze snorted coldly and put away the Fengxuan fan. The whirlpool in front of him also dissipated, and the only thing left was green juice flowing all over the ground. It's all melted by the pine needles after they were stirred.
"Oh no, these juices on the ground are weird!" Elder Meng Yang, who entered the cave with Cao Gongze, inadvertently lowered his head and immediately shouted loudly.
Cao Gongze looked at the ground and found that it was true. The green liquor formed by these pine needles is not flowing randomly, but still as if it is alive, converging into two green streams, which flow to the vegetation on both sides.
When the green juice flowed into the grass on both sides, those ordinary weeds immediately seemed to be awakened, and the leaves swayed, desperately absorbing the green liquid flowing over, as if it was some peerless nourishing product.
There are many weeds on both sides, and everyone comes to absorb them together, and the green liquor is quickly absorbed. But then the weeds became weird, swaying and writhing wildly, and growing wildly.
In the blink of an eye, the low grass grew taller than the ancient pine, and the long blades of grass waved like tentacles, covering the sky.
This strange situation made the hearts of the disciples of Feiyun Sect tug again.
Cao Gongze's face also changed - the weird scenes were one after another, and they seemed to be endless! It's not a way to fight like this, you must find the key to breaking the formation!
At this moment, the wild grass that grows wildly has begun to launch an attack on the Flying Cloud Gate. However, Cao Gongze no longer resisted, and said loudly: "All disciples use talismans and magic weapons to defend their own safety, and only defend and not attack. Look at the head of this to break this demon array! ”
As soon as the words fell, all the disciples hurriedly cast their talismans one by one, and erected a shield around them to protect safety.
All the people who were selected to enter the Nine Songs Huilong Cave were all elites of the Feiyun Gate, and the lowest cultivation was also the seventh layer of refining. Moreover, Feiyun Gate has a deep heritage, these people all have magic weapons and talismans in their hands, and after doing a good job of defense, although the weeds that cover the sky are frantically twisted and shrouded, trying to hang them, but for a while, they can't break through anyone's protective shield.
As for Cao Gongze, he is not afraid of these weeds. He has a strong body, and once the blades of grass are approaching, they will retract like an electric shock.
And Cao Gongze didn't bother to pay attention to them. Turning around, his eyes fixed on the ancient pine.
When Qin Chuan left, he slapped four times on this ancient pine, and then this strange grass and tree array was launched.
Come to think of it, this ancient pine is the key to the demon array!
Capture the thief and capture the king first. Whether you guess right or not, destroy this pine tree first!
With a wave of the feather fan in Cao Gongze's hand, dozens of wind blades formed when he landed, roaring all over the sky and rushing towards Gu Song.
This ancient pine is also like a sapient creature, sensing impending danger. Immediately, the branches swayed, shooting out waves of pine needles to resist the wind blades that came from the sky.
Although the wind blade is sharp, cutting pine needles is like destroying withering and decaying. But the pine needles are endless, and after cutting wave after wave. Eventually, the wind blade was exhausted, and it dissipated before it could reach the pine tree.
Cao Gongze was already angry, but at this time he was even more angry: "A withered and old broken tree dares to shake its majesty in front of me!" ”
The wind fan in his hand shook, and two feathers shot out on it. The feathers are so strange that they grow in the wind, and they grow to five or six feet long in the blink of an eye. And the roots are extremely stiff, and they have turned into two extremely sharp feather swords.
Cao Gongze urged his spiritual power and remotely controlled the feather sword to kill.
The first feather sword stabbed all the way down from above, and its strength was incomparably majestic, and it instantly broke through the layers of pine needle barriers; The second feathered sword followed the path carved out by the first, heading straight for the trunk of the ancient pine.
Listening to the sound of "wave", the second feather sword was extremely powerful, not only hitting Honka, but also directly penetrating the trunk of the tree.
The ancient pine was hit hard, the branches trembled, and the pine needles on the trees fell to the ground. He withered and died in an instant.
And the crazy weeds that were originally intertwined around the disciples of the Feiyun Sect also withered and dissipated, revealing the blue sky and white clouds above again.
Cao Gongze went from falling into the grass and trees formation to successfully breaking the formation, which seems to be a long time, but in fact, it is just an instant.
At this time, the formation had been broken, and there was no longer any barrier to the divine sense, and Qin Chuan and the other disciples of the Yuhua Sect appeared in Cao Gongze's divine sense again.
They haven't gone far yet!
"Hmph, with this little carving insect skill, it is delusional to want to block the old man! Later, it will fall into my hands, and discipline you for three days and three nights before you die! ”
Cao Gongze waved his feather fan in the direction where Qin Chuan and the others fled: "Catch up with them!" ”
The disciples of Feiyun Sect did not dare to slack off, and immediately followed the head of the sect and rushed forward.
On the side of the Yuhua Gate, Qin Chuan had already taken nine pine needles in his hand before slapping the ancient pine to touch the formation according to the method recorded on the detailed map of the Jiuqu Huilong Cave.
At this time, he was leading the disciples to move forward quickly, and suddenly there was a strange feeling in his hand, and the nine pine needles that were originally slender and tough turned into powder for no reason.
Qin Chuan's brows couldn't help frowning. The pine needles turned into powder, which means that Cao Gongze has broken the grass and trees array!
Although he knew from the beginning that the grass and trees array could not trap Cao Gongze, he didn't expect him to break the formation so quickly!
The cultivation of the ninth layer of the Qi cultivation period really cannot be underestimated!
Qin Chuan's mood was a little heavy, but his body was not heavy, but more light and fast, leading everyone all the way forward: "Feiyunmen has broken the formation, and it will be chased soon, everyone speed up, three forks in the road ahead, take the one on the left!" ”
Qin Chuan is familiar with maps. If you go to the left side of the three-way intersection ahead, you will go straight to the cave of the demon beast "Golden Arm Blind Ape".
The golden-armed blind ape is a third-level demon beast, and its strength is still above that of the lightning owl. Not only is it difficult to deal with, but the road to its cave is a dead end. If the people of Feiyun Gate cannot be killed on this road, then the Yuhua Gate will have no way to escape.
Although there is an indication of the detailed map of the Nine Curves of the Dragon Cave as a hole card, this indication is not a panacea. There are many places where every step needs to be done carefully in order to successfully avoid danger.
Originally, according to the previous plan, the Golden Gibbon Blind Ape was abandoned here.
Because although there is a heavy treasure hidden in the Golden Arm Blind Ape Cave, there is only a way to avoid the attack of the Golden Arm Blind Ape on the detailed map, but there is no record of the method of killing it.
But now with the pursuit of Feiyunmen, Qin Chuan has formed a bold plan in his heart. As the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger, so you take some risks and take the heavy treasure that you can't get in the hole!
The plan to take the risk was decided by Qin Chuan on an ad hoc basis, and no one else would definitely be able to know. But now seeing that the head of the sect ordered to rush towards the path that they had originally decided to give up, everyone did not raise any objections, and just followed Qin Chuan forward.
This reaction moved Qin Chuan's heart greatly. Being able to entrust life and death without any worries represents everyone's real trust in themselves!
And the most important thing to do as the head of the company is to arrange every step and never disappoint everyone's trust!
Qin Chuan took the lead, and the others followed, and they had just stepped on the path on the left side of the three-way intersection, when a loud shout suddenly sounded in their ears: "Compared with speed, you are still far behind!" ”
It's Cao Gongze's roar!
In Qin Chuan's divine sense, he had already sensed a figure that was speeding close like lightning.
(To be continued)