Chapter 167: The Pursuers Appear
When the glory was extinguished and the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, there was no one around Xiao Chuan and the others.
Waking up from a nightmare, the sword cultivator and the puppeteer, along with their puppet beasts, had vanished.
"Is the enemy dead?" everyone had the same question in their minds.
Even so, a few people still didn't dare to be careless, and calmly searched the surrounding area with their divine senses for dozens of miles, and finally determined that the two mid-stage Jindan monks were no longer nearby, so they looked at each other and let out a sigh of relief.
Shi Bin picked up the half-cut hook and the remains of a puppet beast from the ground, came to everyone and said thoughtfully: "It seems that this puppet master's magic weapon and puppet beast have all been damaged, and it is estimated that it will not be able to recover without a hundred years of life, but I have not found any traces left by the sword cultivator, it should be that I fled away before being affected, the enemy should not give up, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go quickly!"
Xiao Chuan, Jin Hao, and Shi Bin have already sworn to form allies, and everyone is very convinced of Shi Bin's behavior, so naturally there is no objection, although Ling Xiao hesitated, he stood with Xiao Chuan and the others silently.
Everyone didn't feel any surprise or inappropriateness at Ling Xiao's behavior, as if it should have been like this.
Xiao Chuan saw the puppet beast very strange just now, and he also had a strong interest in puppetry, so before leaving, he hurriedly collected a few pieces of the remains of the golden retriever wart lion and kept them in his arms for study.
When Shi Bin saw Xiao Chuan's actions, he frowned slightly, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Several people didn't have time to choose their destination, so they followed Shi Bin's guidance at full speed, flew all the way to the west, and then turned south, during which they converged their aura, and used the strength of their bodies to run for hundreds of miles, and after changing directions several times in a row, they stopped in the depths of a dense forest.
After rushing so desperately, everyone felt very tired, but fortunately, the excitement of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe had not completely subsided, so that although everyone's spiritual energy was consumed, their spirits were still very high.
Seeing that everyone was meditating desperately to restore their aura, Xiao Chuan did not hesitate to take out a bottle of elixir that could help cultivators quickly recover their aura, and each person gave it to everyone.
Seeing that Shi Bin, Jin Hao, and Ling Xiao all unceremoniously took the pill and swallowed it in one gulp, Xiao Chuan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his subconscious, as if he had seen in advance the tragic situation of being ruthlessly looted for a long time in the future.
You must know that the elixir that can help cultivators quickly recover their aura is very important for the cultivator's battlefield recovery, and each one is very valuable, second only to the pill that helps to break through the bottleneck, and it is much more expensive than the pill that cultivators usually take to improve their cultivation.
These Jindan monks were able to change their faces and hearts without beating, and they were able to take the pill with peace of mind, in addition to the fact that they were in a crisis that had not yet been resolved, it also showed that these people had completely accepted Xiao Chuan's ally status, which was a joy or a sorrow for Xiao Chuan.
As a cultivator in the foundation building period with the lowest cultivation, Xiao Chuan should naturally be the first to encounter the embarrassment of the depletion of spiritual energy, in fact, on the way, Xiao Chuan has encountered the embarrassment of having no spiritual energy to use more than once, but every time the oil runs out of the lamp, there is a thick and refined spiritual energy flowing out from the drop of blood fused with the blood soul of the little pig in the sea of knowledge, and it instantly fills the dantian.
It was precisely because of this greatest reliance that Xiao Chuan was able to closely follow the retreat of the three Jindan monks without falling behind half a step.
And Xiao Chuan's performance along the way is indeed enough for these Jindan monks, Jin Hao and Ling Xiao, who are less scheming, are also okay, but Shi Bin, who has the most active mind, has been turning over the river and the sea in his heart, and he can't be calm, and his awe of Xiao Chuan has become irreparable, and even blind worship has occurred.
Although Xiao Chuan couldn't see through the minds of these three Jindan monks, he also realized that he should not behave too ostentatiously.
Therefore, although the aura in Xiao Chuan's body is still quite full, he still controls the aura in the depths of the dantian, making the aura in the meridians of the whole body very thin, pretending to be exhausted, pretending to take a pill that quickly recovers the aura, and sitting cross-legged on the ground with everyone closing his eyes and recuperating.
And just when Xiao Chuan and his party recovered their aura, a group of very powerful cultivators had already arrived at the place where the battle had just taken place.
There were as many as fifteen or sixteen cultivators in this group, and the leader turned out to be a great monk in the early Yuan Infant stage, and the remaining dozen or so were all monks in the Jindan period.
If Xiao Chuan and the others were still here, they would recognize that the two Jindan mid-stage monks beside the Yuan Infant Elder Cultivator were the Sword Cultivator and the Puppet Master who had just disappeared out of thin air.
And this puppet master in the middle of the Jindan period has lost all his former demeanor, with his empty hands, his face is pale, and his vitality is obviously greatly damaged.
That sword cultivator was in slightly better condition, but there were still obvious scars on his head and face, and the Purple Star Sword in his hand was also injured and the origin had been trembling slightly.
"Ancestor, we were forced to retreat here by those four Jindan monks just now!" the sword cultivator said to the early Yuan Infant Great Monk, and he actually said that Xiao Chuan was also a Jindan monk.
"Hmm! There are indeed a lot of high-level talisman seals here! Is there really a lot of pills of this quality that the Jindan stage kid you are talking about?" This early Yuan Infant Great Cultivator was holding an aura pill in his hand, which was exactly the same as the pill that Xiao Chuan had just handed over to the Sword Cultivator and the puppeteer.
"Ancestor! I swear to the heart demon, that kid does have a lot of treasures! Not only a large number of high-grade pills, but also countless high-grade talismans, and piles of high-grade spars!" That puppet master suffered a big loss under Xiao Chuan, and he was eager to cramp and peel Xiao Chuan's skin, so naturally he did not hesitate to add oil and vinegar, and spared no effort to encourage this early Yuan Infant Great Monk to target Xiao Chuan, which was quite close to the truth.
This kind of temptation is enough to tempt a Yuanying Grand Monk, especially if this Grand Monk is still a casual cultivator.
This is also a strange phenomenon that only appeared after the Qianzhou Rebellion, some Yuanying Great Monks who were originally at the top of the Qianzhou cultivators' power had to wander around after their own family was destroyed and swallowed up by other forces, and finally became a loose cultivator who made a living from crazy plundering.
This great monk in the early stage of the Yuan Dynasty even gathered a group of Jindan monks around him, which was quite a bit of a king of the mountain.
Inevitably bewitched by this puppeteer, the Primordial Infant Monk closed his eyes and began to sense the remaining aura around him.
"These four ...... Three...... The monk fled to the west...... "The Yuanying Great Monk frowned, and he actually saw through the lies of the sword cultivator and the puppet master with only the residual breath, and found that one of the cultivators only had the cultivation of the foundation building period.