Chapter 99: The Hunter and the Prey

Thousands of feet in the air, Li Yu's spiritual boat was flying fast.

From time to time, one or two ships flew past his boat and disappeared into the clouds ahead.

It was the spiritual boat controlled by the sect foundation elders, and the bounty of a total of sixty Tongmai Pills from Kunlun and the Heavenly Dao Sect could only be obtained by killing Zhou Tian, I don't know how many people wanted, and if they went one step earlier, they could naturally seize the opportunity.

Li Yu could only watch others surpass him, and there was nothing he could do about it.

It's not that his spirit boat can't do it, but the ultimate speed of the spirit boat is related to the mana of the controller, although the amount of Li Yu's mana is not much weaker than the foundation building period, but the mana of the qi refining period exists in a gaseous state in the spirit vein, and the mana of the foundation building period is already liquid after extreme compression, which is more condensed than his mana, and also has a stronger explosion.

When he opened up the seventy-two acupuncture points of each spiritual vein, he could try to compress the mana and prepare for the foundation building.

At the speed of the Lingfang, half a day later, they arrived at the land of Nanzhao Smoke Miasma.

It's not the first time Li Yu has come here, it's just that the last time he was just to kill the disciples of the Five Poisons Sect, he didn't go too deep, this time, he drove the spirit boat, flying hundreds of zhang in the air, all the way deep, and soon, he saw that in the depths of a certain mountain range in the land of smoke miasma, there was a rift that stretched for several miles.

A thick miasma of smoke poured out of that crack and surged to the nearby mountains, and inside that crack was the Thousand Poison Cave, which was also the cause of the Nanzhao Smoke Miasma.

The Nanzhao thousands of years ago was actually not like this.

At that time, there was still a country here, but one day, a certain wandering small world suddenly connected with the big world, which happened to border Nanzhao, and the smoke and poisonous gas of the small world poured into the big world from the space interface, and the ordinary people and low-level immortal cultivators of the Nanzhao country died in a short period of time, and the high-level immortal cultivators left here one after another, making this place completely uninhabited within a thousand years.

However, today, the spatial rift of the Thousand Poison Caves is very lively.

Spirits and flying boats stopped outside the rift, and from time to time there were figures passing through the rift and entering the Thousand Poison Caves, while other figures were waiting outside, and their bodies all exuded the breath of the foundation building period.

The land of Nanzhao smoke miasma does not belong to the righteous path, nor does it belong to the demon path, the fish and dragons are mixed, and the elders of the great sect Tianjiao are naturally not worried that they will come alone, and will send some foundation building elders to accompany them to protect.

And what worries about Zhou Tianren's head is not only the righteous path, but also the demon path.

After all, the Heavenly Dao Sect released a word, no matter who it was, as long as they could kill Zhou Tian, they would be rewarded with fifty Tongmai Pills.

The Thousand Poison Cave is different from the general first-order secret realm, and the connection with the big world stretches for several miles, and the space is extremely stable, except for the foundation building period, the disciples in the qi refining period can enter as many as they want, and the major sects this time have the intention of using this to experience the disciples under the sect.

Outside the cracks, the strong men of the two realms of righteousness and demons formed two distinct factions, guarding against each other.

Li Yu received the spirit boat from afar, flew all the way, did not join the other disciples of Kunlun, and flew into the spatial rift alone.

Through the spatial rift, before he could see the situation in front of him, on Li Yu's body protection immortal clothes, the light flashed slightly, and outside his body, a protective shield was automatically formed.

The slightest trace of smoke in the space, in contact with the invisible shield, Li Yu could clearly feel that this shield was gradually corroded and weakened.

At this rate, it would not take more than an hour at most, and the aura automatically stored in this second-grade immortal robe would be used up.

If it is in a place where the aura is sufficient, it can also prolong the use time by absorbing the aura of the surrounding space, but the aura here is very thin, and the immortal clothes cannot replenish the aura from the outside world, and after the aura is exhausted, it needs to use Li Yu's mana.

The poisonous smoke miasma also blocked the line of sight, and within ten zhang, Li Yu could vaguely see it, and from ten zhang away, he basically couldn't see anything.

Li Yu's current location is in a dense jungle, the surrounding flowers and trees are very lush, and the colors are extremely bright, and they are highly poisonous at a glance.

Before Li Yu could take a step, a sound of breaking wind suddenly came from his ears.

Shout!

From behind him, a strong wind shot out, the speed was extremely fast, Li Yu's feet were full of true qi, and his body moved a few inches sideways flexibly, only to see a black liquid falling on the position where he was standing just now.

Multiply......

When the liquid fell to the ground, it instantly burned the ground into a large hole, not only corroding some flowers and plants on the ground, but even melting the two stones in place, which shows the strength of the venom's corrosion.

That venom, if it fell directly on the unprotected Qi Refining Stage Immortal Cultivators, I am afraid that their physical bodies would be destroyed in an instant.

Li Yu turned his head and saw that in the fog behind him, two fist-sized red lights were staring at him.

He used the Qi Prospecting Technique, although the fog was still there, but in the mist, there was a long energy trajectory, and the opposite side was obviously a demon python, judging from the breath, there were mana fluctuations above the seventh layer of Qi refining.

This kind of demon python, python skin and python blood are all materials for making talismans, if it was in other secret realms, it would have been beaten to death by the disciples of various factions of the ninth layer of qi refining, only in the dangerous Thousand Poison Cave, no one hunted it.

In the face of this demon python that was about to move, Li Yu only slightly released some aura of the forty layers of qi refining, and the demon python in the mist trembled, and disappeared with a smoke.

At the seventh level of Qi refining, it already has a certain amount of spiritual intelligence, and it knows that the person in front of it is not something it can afford to provoke.

Li Yu didn't do anything to this demon python, firstly, to save mana, and secondly, he did not lack spirit coins, and to kill this demon python, he had to skin and extract blood, just in order to exchange for a little spirit coin, he also had to pollute his storage ring, which he could not accept.

After the demon python escaped, Li Yu had just taken a step forward, a giant tree beside him suddenly trembled, and when he looked closely, he found that it was not a giant tree, but a giant man-eating flower, the thick trunk was just its rhizome, and a huge amazing flower at the top opened its bloody mouth and swallowed Li Yu in an instant.

And on the ground at its roots, there were piles of bones, the prey it had swallowed.

After the flower closes, it shakes a few times, then rises again, and continues to wait for the next prey.

But in the next moment, a few sword lights appeared from inside the flower, and the huge flower was split in an instant, and this man-eating flower also shook and fell heavily to the ground.

Li Yu fell to the ground, fortunately with the protection of this fairy clothes, although this man-eating flower could not hurt him, but if he was hit by those disgusting venoms, he would definitely cut this stupid flower into a hundred pieces.

Putting away the sword, Li Yu continued to walk towards the depths of the poisonous mist.

No wonder this Thousand Poison Cave, few people come, compared to the Xuling Cave Heaven and Qingyu Secret Realm, it can be described as a step-by-step killing machine, and the ninth layer of Qi refining will be hated here if he is not careful, Li Yu is worried, that Zhou Tian of the Soul Refining Sect will not be in the stomach of a certain demon beast now, or it has been digested by a certain cannibal plant.

After Li Yu left, some small flowers quietly poked their heads out of the ground, devoured the giant man-eating flower that had just fallen, and quietly burrowed into the ground......

At this time, fierce battles were taking place everywhere in the Thousand Poison Caves.

Several giant pythons several feet long wrapped their bodies around the trees, facing the two people in the woods below, frantically spitting poisonous mist, although the fairy clothes on the two of them, although they could temporarily block the erosion of the poisonous gas, but the light on them was constantly dimming, obviously not for long.

A tall man, frowning, only heard the sound of "bang", a flying sword behind him came out of the sheath, and several sword shadows were separated, and the next moment, several demon python corpses were separated and fell to the ground weakly.

The flying sword was automatically unsheathed, and the two Shushan disciples disdained the python corpse in one place and continued to search into the depths of the mist.

Ten miles away, the four disciples of the Heavenly Dao Sect with the gossip mark on their chests, the immortal clothes on their bodies flickered, and the magic weapons in their hands were also full of light, even if they strayed into the cannibal flower forest, they did not feel nervous at all, and after a while, they cut down dozens of cannibal flowers.

"That guy from the Soul Refining Sect, where did he hide?"

"Take your time, the elders said, it's best not to let that demon fall into the hands of others."

"With his strength, I'm afraid he wouldn't have fallen into the mouth of the poison here a long time ago, if he encounters these cannibal flowers, he won't even be able to find the corpse......"

The four Heavenly Dao Sect disciples continued to search while communicating.

In the other direction, three girls who looked exactly the same, under the leadership of two older women, groped in the mist a little bit, and one of the girls suddenly said, "You say, will Senior Brother Li come here?" ”

Another girl said, "It's only been a few days since I saw Senior Brother Li, and you want to see him again?" ”

The girl said: "Didn't I ask for my sister, if I were my sister, I would have been Senior Brother Li's double cultivator a long time ago, like her, she is also reserved, and she is also reserved, and she misses all good things......"

……

Somewhere in the Thousand Poison Cave, Li Yu looked at the three corpses on the ground, his face suspicious.

Judging from the clothes worn by the three people, these three people should be disciples of the Five Poisons Sect of the Demon Dao, and the time of death was about three days ago, and three days ago, the disciples of various factions had not yet rushed over, so these three people were likely to hunt down and kill the three disciples of the Five Poisons Sect who entered here in Zhou Tian.

Li Yu has seen it with the Qi Hope Technique, although the three of them are all practicing a single spirit vein, but the acupuncture points of the spirit vein have been opened up a lot, and they have all reached the eighth layer of qi refining, even if they encounter the peak of the ninth layer of qi refining, they can fight a fight, and they may not suffer a loss.

It stands to reason that there should be no accidents with such a combination of them in the Thousand Poison Cave.

The Five Poisons Sect was originally good at using poison, and since the beginning of their cultivation, they have used all kinds of venom to quench their bodies, they themselves are poisons, and the miasma and poisonous gas here do not have such a great impact on them, but even so, they still died here.

What's even more strange is that Li Yu didn't find any wounds on their bodies.

This shows that they are not demon beasts who died here, nor did they die from fighting with people, through the appearance of the three people, it can be seen that they died peacefully.

This kind of peaceful death, apart from the means of the Soul Refining Sect, Li Yu couldn't think of anything else.

After all, most of the immortal cultivators of the two realms of righteousness and demons are mainly based on physical and spell damage, and once the fighting method is killed, it is difficult to leave a whole corpse.

Only the Soul Refining Sect found another way, raising spirit ghosts, specializing in attacking people's souls, and the person who died in the hands of the Soul Refining Sect did not seem to have any external injuries, but in fact he had already become a soulless body.

But three days ago, Zhou Cai had just been chased into the Thousand Poison Cave, unless there were already disciples of the Soul Refining Sect who were ambushed here, but as far as Li Yu knew, many disciples of the Soul Refining Sect couldn't resist the temptation of fifty Tongmai Pills and wanted Zhou Tian's head.

Just when Li Yu was wondering in his heart, the fog in front of him suddenly had some fluctuations.

Three figures walked out of the fog, and when they saw a figure in the fog in front of them, they immediately dispersed and surrounded Li Yu from three directions.

However, when they saw the faces of the people who surrounded them, their faces changed suddenly, as if they had seen something extremely terrible.

"It's not Sunday!"

"It's him!"

……

The three people who appeared from the mist, Li Yu was no stranger, they were the three Soul Refining Sect geniuses he captured in the Qingyu Secret Realm.

I don't know what agreement the Soul Refining Sect and Emei have reached, Li Yu has seen them again here.

Xu Yi and the three of them were also frightened at the moment, they thought it was Zhou Tian, but they didn't expect it to be Li Yu, the three of them actually besieged Li Yu, isn't this self-defeating?

Xu Yi shuddered for a moment, and immediately said: "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!" ”

Li Yu glanced at the corpses of the three Five Poison Sect disciples on the ground, then looked at the three of them again, and asked, "You killed these three people?" ”

Xu Yi immediately shook his head and said, "No, no, we are here to arrest Zhou Tian, and we didn't kill anyone......"

Li Yu actually asked casually, these three guys can't make up two spirit ghosts, and they can't invade the bodies of three Five Poison Sect disciples at the same time, and it is impossible for the three of them to die at their hands.

Li Yu asked again: "Zhou Tian is a member of the Soul Refining Sect, what are you arresting him for?" ”

Xu Yi respectfully explained: "He violated the ban, slaughtered the city and gathered the Ten Thousand Souls Array, and has been removed from the Soul Refining Sect, and several disciples of my sect have also been killed by him, this time the three of us were ordered to clean up the portal......

"Apart from you, is there anyone else in the Soul Refining Sect?"

"No ......"

……

Except for these three people, there is only one disciple of the Soul Refining Sect in this Thousand Poison Cave.

That's Zhou Tian himself.

These three Five Poison Sect disciples originally chased and killed Zhou Tian here, but they didn't expect to be killed by the other party, from the posture of the three of them when they died, it is not difficult to see that they should have been robbed of their souls in an instant, and to do this, at least three spirit ghosts at the peak of the ninth layer of qi refining are needed.

From this point of view, everyone has seriously misjudged Zhou Tian's strength.

If they only regarded Zhou Tian as an opponent of the fourth or fifth level of Qi refining, then this time, I am afraid that many people will suffer.

After asking him what he wanted to know, Li Yu didn't embarrass the three of them from the Soul Refining Sect, and waved them away.

Although these three people are demonic beings, they don't have any evil energy on their bodies, and they think that they are also Tianjiao who has lived in the ivory tower of the sect since he was a child, after all, he is not a person who is easy to kill, and when he sees a demon disciple, he will be killed.

He had to find the Kunlun disciples as soon as possible, otherwise, they might have an accident.

After Xu Yi and the three left, they all couldn't believe it.

"Did he really let us go?"

"I thought I was going to die!"

"My legs are still shaking now, and the ghosts are gone, if he wants to kill us, none of us will be able to run away today......"

"There are not many righteous path disciples who are so kind, if you meet someone from the Heavenly Dao Sect, you will die today......"

"If only he were really a disciple of my Soul Refining Sect, with this kind of fellow sect, where would we still be angry by those guys in the Heavenly Dao Sect!"

……

Of course, Li Yu didn't know the thoughts of the three Demon Dao disciples, at this moment, he was continuing to search in the Thousand Poison Cave, just north of him, thirty miles away, two puppet sect disciples were being chased and killed by their spirit corpses.

The puppet sect is famous for controlling corpses, and the spirit corpses they sacrifice will never get out of control, unless they are occupied by more powerful ghosts, which is a fatal flaw in the puppet sect's corpse control technique, therefore, in the demon path, the puppet sect is always pressed by the soul refining sect.

This time, they were also attracted by the reward of the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Heavenly Dao Sect had a word first, whether it was a righteous path disciple or a demon path disciple, as long as they could kill Zhou Tian, they could get a reward of fifty Tongmai Pills, how could a demon Dao disciple stand this temptation.

Compared with the disciples of the Righteous Path, they already lacked cultivation resources, and in the entire puppet sect, there were not many who could refine the Tongmai Pill, and all the pills that were refined were also supplied to the descendants of the disciples of those elders, and they couldn't get a single one.

Not to mention them, even the disciples of the Soul Refining Sect coveted Zhou Tian's head.

The news they got was that Zhou Tian was just a little monk at the fourth layer of qi refining, but when they really met him, they found out that where Zhou Tian was the fourth layer of qi refining, it was simply the peak of the ninth layer of qi refining, not only that, but several of his spirit ghosts also had nine layers of qi refining, and more than one, which instantly invaded the body of their spirit corpses and occupied control......

In an instant, the hunter became a prey, a disciple of the puppet sect, but was chased and killed by his own spirit corpse.

The two of them were distracted, and from the fog behind them, two phantoms suddenly flew quickly, submerging into their bodies.

The two of them paused and stood stunned in place, with painful expressions on their faces, but soon, their eyes lost focus and the expressions on their faces became calm.

Soon, four phantoms emerged from their bodies, two of which looked exactly the same as the two puppet sect disciples, but their expressions were a little dull, obviously losing their minds.

A young Taoist came out of the mist behind him, and several phantoms slowly flew in, submerging into his body one after another.

He hooked the corners of his mouth disdainfully, and said lightly: "If you want to kill me, it's up to you to ......"

A moment later.

Li Yu stood in the middle of the forest somewhere, looking at the corpses of the two puppet sect disciples on the ground, and fell into thought.

The two disciples of the Puppet Sect of the seventh layer of Qi refining died like this, with no external injuries on their bodies, and their expressions were serene, and at first glance, they looked like their souls were out of their bodies, exactly the same as those three Five Poison Sect disciples.

Their bodies still have residual warmth, and the time of death is no more than an hour.

Obviously, they were also poisoned by Zhou Tian.

Li Yu was on the ground nearby, and he also saw two lines of footprints.

These two lines of footprints are very deep, ordinary people will not leave such footprints, it is obvious that they are left by spirit corpses, generally speaking, the body of spirit corpses will go through many sacrifices, and they are much heavier than normal people.

The corpses of the disciples of the puppet sect are here, but their spirit corpses are gone, they should be controlled by Zhou Tian, Li Yu followed the footprints on the ground, and continued to search forward.

At the same time, in another place in the Thousand Poison Cave, a disciple of a small sect of the Righteous Path watched his two fellow disciples being sucked dry of blood by two spirit corpses, and the corpses fell to the ground weakly, and the two spirit corpses looked at him again......

Li Yu traced all the way along the traces on the ground, and his face gradually became solemn.

Along the way, he found many corpses, some of them were demonic and some were righteous, and among them there were even two disciples of the ninth layer of Qi refining of the Royal Beast Sect, who had also turned into two peaceful corpses at this moment.

Here, apparently, it has become the hunting ground of that Sunday.

Li Yu even wondered if this incident was a scene directed and acted by this person.

After all, his insidious cunning, Li Yu has deeply understood.

And twice.

Perhaps, he deliberately attracted everyone to come, for this hunt.

In the mist ahead, there was a burst of mana fluctuations, and Li Yu did not delay time and hurried quickly.

At this time, somewhere in the Thousand Poison Cave, the young Taoist controlled several spirit corpses and countless spirit ghosts, attacking a protective formation, and praised: "It is worthy of the Emei faction, and the immortal clothes can still be arrayed, but I see how long you can hold on......

Not far ahead, the three sisters of the Zhao family and the other two Emei female cultivators stood in five different directions, and the body protection fairy clothes they were wearing flashed with light, connecting with each other, forming a protective shield, temporarily resisting the entry of these evil creatures into the palace.

But maintaining this formation, the consumption of mana is extremely great, the aura stored in the immortal clothes itself has long been used up, and their mana is also consumed about the same, even if there is a recovery of the Qi Pill, but the attacks of those spirit corpses and spirit ghosts are becoming more and more violent, and this formation will soon be unable to support it.

This time, they came here just to practice, but they didn't expect that this demon disciple could actually control so many spirit corpses and ghosts.

Even if it is in the foundation building period, it can't withstand this level of attack, let alone the first-order secret realm that can't be entered in the foundation building stage, this person is simply invincible among the disciples in the qi refining stage.

The formation composed of immortal clothes was already crumbling, and all the women in the formation had already shown despair.

However, at this moment, a brilliant sword light suddenly fell from the sky.

The sword qi was vertical and horizontal, and several spirit corpses were cut off in an instant, and several weak spirit ghosts, under this sword, immediately scattered their souls, only those powerful spirit ghosts, with keen perception, scattered and re-condensed their soul bodies, and avoided this earth-shattering sword.

Within the formation, the third girl turned her head and saw the figure falling from the sky, her heart was immediately filled with a sense of security, and she was surprised: "Senior Brother Li!" ”

Li Yu landed in front of the formation and looked at a figure not far ahead.

It was a young Taoist, who looked about twenty years old, and his appearance was ordinary, not good-looking, but not ugly, exactly the same as on the wanted list of the sect.

It was Zhou Tian, a disciple of the Soul Refining Sect.

It was also a year ago that they were calculated behind the scenes, resulting in Zhou Zixuan's injury and Chen Ming being the culprit of the ghost twice.

(End of chapter)