Chapter 22: The Mysterious Woman
The black shadow that suddenly jumped down from the tree turned out to be a leopard. It was about half a man tall, its body was as black as ink, and its eyes were as big as brass bells, staring at everyone closely. It has a slender body, a thick tail, and strong limbs. At this time, its two front paws were gripping the ground hard, and its hind legs were bent into a bow shape one after the other, looking ready to attack.
"This is a chasing wind and cloud leopard, it can't be wrong! It has a fierce and bloodthirsty temperament, comparable to a strong man in the late stage of the cave void, and we are not his opponent together!" Li Qingyang was extremely anxious.
Chasing the Storm Leopard is a fairly rare monster. Like the Howling Moon Celestial Wolf that Tianxiao and Tianyao encountered five years ago, the Chasing Wind Cloud Leopard has also gone beyond the category of beasts and belongs to the category of demon beasts. The strongest monster beasts in the world are lions, tigers, wolves, leopards, bears, pythons, crocodiles, eagles eight categories, chasing the wind and cloud leopard is also second to none in the leopard monster beasts, the speed is extremely fast, come and go like the wind, hence the name. On top of the demon beasts, there are also rumored fierce beasts, which are said to be born pregnant, but no one has ever seen them.
The cloud-chasing leopard in front of him was not afraid of the rich miasma, and bared its teeth and roared at everyone in a low voice. Everyone was stunned, since they entered the swamp, they haven't seen any birds, beasts, insects and fish, but they didn't expect to be so unlucky in this miasma area. It is now clear why the wounds of those shredded corpses were bitten.
"The saliva of the chasing cloud leopard contains highly poisonous, and if you are bitten by it, you will definitely die, Senior Brother Yan and I will temporarily drag it, everyone hurry up and escape, how many can escape. Evil animal, look at the sword!" Li Qingyang took the lead in attacking the Chasing Wind Leopard after speaking.
Yan Luoting's face was ugly, he wanted to escape immediately just now, but what Li Qingyang said was equivalent to pulling him into the water, and he was embarrassed to run away now, so he had to bite the bullet.
The Chasing Wind Leopard roared, his figure flashed, turned into a blurry black shadow, and jumped towards the oncoming Li Qingyang. Li Qingyang didn't expect the speed of chasing the cloud leopard to be so fast, just now it jumped down from the tree and attacked Cao Ruiqian's speed was not even its limit, and it was only when it really fought that it showed the demeanor of the leopard demon beast king.
"Let's go!" Li Qingyang simply closed his eyes in the face of the oncoming claws. At this moment, his mind flashed the gentle and lovely junior sister from before.
With a "whoosh", a sharp wind whistle grazed the roots of Li Qingyang's ears, and then there was an angry roar of chasing the cloud leopard.
Li Qingyang opened his eyes and saw that the chasing wind leopard had retreated to the side, lowered his head and licked his front paws, and there was already a trace of blood on the end of his claws. There was a red fairy sword on the ground in front of it.
Seeing this immortal sword, Li Qingyang was overjoyed, turned around and shouted, "Senior Brother Wang, you're here!"
Everyone looked back, and from the green miasma more than a dozen steps away, four figures appeared one after another. The man led by a man lying on silkworm eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, very white skin, three long beards under the chin, wearing a yellow robe from the sect at night. Hearing Li Qingyang's greeting, he nodded and comforted everyone loudly: "Senior brothers and sisters, don't panic, with us, that evil beast can't hurt you." Just at the last moment, it was he who threw the fairy sword hard, blocking the claws of the chasing wind and cloud leopard. It can be seen that the quality of the red fairy sword is not low, and it injured the chasing wind and cloud leopard with this flying throw alone.
"Senior brother, why are you here?" Tianyao was very pleased.
The last two of the four figures were wearing purple robes that symbolized the Taiqing Sect. One of them was Han Mingfei, and the other was a bearded, tall, black-faced strong man.
"Third Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother, and all junior brothers and sisters, the Sect Master is not worried about letting only a few of you go deep into the swamp, so he sent us to secretly follow and protect. This is the eldest disciple of the Four Elders, Senior Brother Lu Baifeng. Han Mingfei introduced.
"I've seen Senior Brother Lu!" several people bowed their hands together.
"Haha, a few junior brothers and sisters don't have to be polite. As disciples of the same sect, everyone is a family. Lu Baifeng smiled heartily, it seems that he is a very easy person to get along with.
Han Mingfei said to everyone: "Don't look at Senior Brother Lu so rough, his realm is much higher than mine, now he is in the late stage of the Cave Void, and he is about to enter the realm of Silence as an elder." This time, it happened that Senior Brother Lu's retreat and cultivation had ended, and the sect master ordered him to come with me. ”
It seems that Li Yuanxiao still can't rest assured that his two grandsons are still relieved, and he originally said that he was going to send disciples from the late stage of the void to follow and protect him, but then he thought about it inappropriately, so he simply sent two disciples from the Cave Void Realm over.
On the other side, the disciples of the Yeli Sect also surrounded the two people in apricot-colored robes. Senior Brother Wang said, "It's good that you have nothing to do. Sect Master Guo is also not at ease, and sent me and Senior Brother Song to protect you, and it happened that I met Senior Brother Lu and Senior Brother Han of the Taiqing Sect outside the swamp, so we walked together, and we have been secretly following you for more than a day. ”
Han Mingfei instructed a few people from the Taiqing Sect: "I came to see Senior Brother Wang Ruobin and Senior Brother Song Xihang who left the Sect at night. ”
Everyone ignored the chasing cloud leopard and greeted each other, and the chasing cloud leopard on the side couldn't stand it. The dignified leopard-like demon beast king was actually left aside? It roared unwillingly and pounced towards everyone.
"Heh, this little leopard really has 'leopard guts', do you dare to be presumptuous when the four of us are here?" Lu Baifeng took out the fairy sword on his back, kicked it under his feet, and smashed the sword towards the chasing wind leopard with a "buzz".
Lu Baifeng's immortal sword was really terrifying, the sword body was long and thick, exuding a dark red faint light, and there was no blade on either side. The heavy sword was swung, with a very low wind sound, not so much a sword, in fact, it was similar to a blunt weapon, and a heavy sword hit the shoulder side of the chasing cloud leopard, smashing it diagonally and smashing it into the big tree next to it.
Everyone gasped in unison, secretly saying that this person is so strong, and the speed is amazingly fast.
Chasing the wind and cloud leopard is a demon beast in the end, no more intelligent than humans. It turned out that the strength of those disciples was too weak to see it, and the four newcomers, Lu Baifeng was in the late stage of the cave void, Wang Ruobin was in the middle stage of the cave void, and Han Mingfei and Song Xihang were all in the early stage of the cave void. Although the strength of chasing the wind and cloud leopard is comparable to that of an immortal cultivator in the late stage of the cave void, it is a demon beast after all, it has no immortal sword, and it doesn't know any moves, even if it is against one of them alone, it is not easy to win, let alone facing four at the same time. At this time, chasing the wind and cloud leopard is just the courage of fighting beasts.
This heavy sword smashed really hard, chasing the wind and cloud leopard vomited a lot of blood, although his face was still fierce, but when he saw Lu Baifeng coming over with a heavy sword, he was so frightened that he whimpered in fright, curled up next to the big tree and shivered, where is there still the appearance of a leopard king?
Seeing the pitiful appearance of chasing the wind leopard, several female disciples had a kind heart. Xiao Liying opened his mouth to beg for mercy: "Senior Brother Lu, forget it." It didn't hurt us, it was seriously injured by you, I guess it won't attack us anymore, let it live!"
"Ha, I said, junior sister, have you forgotten the pile of broken corpses next to you? God knows how many lives it has hurt before! If you let it go this time, you can't guarantee that it won't continue to harm people in the future. This kind of demon beast, what's the use of keeping it? Lu Baifeng said, and raised his heavy sword to smash it at the head of the chasing wind leopard.
Several female disciples turned their heads, not wanting to see the tragic situation of Chasing Storm Leopard being smashed to death by a heavy sword. At this moment, several thin, barely visible needles suddenly flew out from behind a nearby tree and shot towards Lu Baifeng's temple.
"Beware of the hidden weapon!" Wang Ruobin shouted loudly, even with his cultivation in the middle stage of the Cave Void, it would be too late to intercept the flying needle.
Lu Baifeng seemed to have been on guard, and the falling heavy sword suddenly lifted upward, drawing a semicircle back, "ding" a few soft sounds, and all the flying needles were blocked by the heavy sword and fell to the ground. Lu Baifeng didn't care about the chasing wind leopard anymore, but jumped to the side of the tree with an arrow, and smashed his sword on the trunk, the big tree trembled suddenly, the branches shook non-stop, and the leaves fell one after another.
What is this doing? No one could see it. Han Mingfei said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Lu's heavy sword is called 'Rong An', and he is practicing my Taiqing Sect's 'Cunyi Sword Book'. This sword book was created by an ancestor of this sect who cultivated to be profound and powerful, and focused on the routine of dark energy and inch strength. The move just now is called 'Fighting Cattle from the Mountain', which is to infuse spiritual power into the heavy sword and pass through the object to injure the enemy behind it. ”
After listening to Han Mingfei's explanation, Tianxiao suddenly remembered the opponent he met in the Taiqing Martial Arts Meeting-Qin Yuejie. Qin Yuejie was using the dark energy to attack, and Tianxiao was almost on his way at that time. Isn't Qin Yuejie exactly the disciple of the Four Elders? Lu Baifeng should be his senior brother, and sure enough, the two have similar exercises, but their techniques are slightly different: Lu Baifeng's sword moves open and close, and every moment the sword contains extremely strong dark energy, which bursts out instantly after hitting the target, paying attention to an unstoppable force, while Qin Yuejie's dark energy is hidden in the seemingly weak moves, and the pursuit is to catch the opponent off guard.
Who is hiding behind the tree? Looking at Lu Baifeng's expression, the other party should have been caught firmly in that move just now. Sure enough, there was a coughing sound from behind the tree, and then a figure slowly walked out from behind the tree.
What a man this is! Thin, disheveled, ragged, with black and white hair, and through the gap between the hanging hair, a lifeless right eye can be seen, and only a black hole is left in the left eye. The man was pale, with a hint of green in the white, and his face was covered in scars, as if it had been wounded by the claws of some animal. There was drooling from the corners of his mouth and a trace of blood. The mere sight is scary enough.
Lu Baifeng frowned, pointed at the man with his Rong An sword, and asked, "Who are you? Why did you sneak attack me? Fortunately, I had noticed someone behind the tree a long time ago, otherwise I would have really planted it on your flying needle." ”
The man grinned and smiled gloomily: "Hehehe......" Listening to the voice, it should be a woman.
"It turned out to be you!" Tianxiao suddenly exclaimed loudly.
Lu Baifeng turned his face sideways and raised his eyebrows: "What, do you know her?"
Tian Yaoyao headed: "I don't know." Yesterday and today, however, this woman was pretending to scare us and not want us to continue our march deeper into the swamp. ”
Hearing Tianxiao say this, everyone else suddenly realized, isn't it, the voice of the woman in front of her is exactly the same as the faint female ghost voice before.
The woman suddenly spoke, "You ...... Listen not to my advice...... All are going to die, all are going to die...... Hehehe......" The slightly hoarse voice, coupled with her terrifying face, makes people feel creepy in broad daylight.
Lu Baifeng had already used his spiritual sense to investigate, this woman was just in the late stage of the Void Netherworld, and he could easily clean her up by himself. Therefore, he laughed loudly: "Are you also overestimating your own abilities? The Void and Netherworld still want to kill us? Let me tell you, as long as I am here, you don't want to hurt anyone's cold hair! Tell me, who are you? Why do you want to hurt people?"
The woman shook her head slightly, did not speak, but slowly walked to the side of the Chasing Storm Leopard, squatted down, and attached her palms to the body of the Chasing Leopard, and in an instant, a blue aura flashed between the woman's fingers.
Everyone was shocked, and the woman was using her spiritual strength to heal her wounds in the body of the Chasing Wind Leopard. However, this spiritual power is inevitably too strong, it can actually emit a spiritual light visible to the naked eye? Whether it is Li Yuanxiao, the sect master of the Taiqing Sect, or Yu Ruijiang, the highest cultivator, it is impossible for them to emit such a strong spiritual power, but the mysterious woman in the Void Netherworld Realm in front of her has done it.
There was no doubt about the recovery power of the powerful spiritual power, and soon, the chasing cloud leopard staggered to its feet, and the woman withdrew her palms.
The effect of spiritual healing is indeed fast and good, but the consumption of the person who treats it is not small. The spiritual power in the body of an immortal cultivator is a stream of energy generated in the body after absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which circulates in the dantian and meridians. Combining spiritual power to perform sword moves during a fight can greatly enhance the power of the attack. However, if spiritual power is used for healing, the consumption rate of spiritual power can be said to be exponentially higher than that of fighting, even if it is a person with advanced cultivation and abundant spiritual power, it will not take too long to consume spiritual power when healing. After the spiritual power is depleted, the recovery is very slow, and the veins in the body suddenly lose a large amount of spiritual power nourishment, and they will become very weak, and people will feel as if they are seriously ill. Therefore, it is very much worth the loss to use spiritual power to heal the wounds, and it is not as simple as directly administering the pill to the injured.
The strength of this woman's spiritual power output when healing was beyond the scope of everyone's cognition, she stood up calmly after closing her palm, her expression and demeanor were still the same as just now, and she did not show the slightest sign of weakness.
Everyone was silent, and the strange woman said to Lu Baifeng: "If I really wanted to kill you just now, you would already be a dead corpse now, and I deliberately released my breath before to let you notice that I was behind the tree." The dark strength of your sword move just now is not bad, but it is far from wanting to hurt me. I tell you, it's not me who wants to kill you, it's her......"
Who is she? The crowd was puzzled. Before anyone could ask, the woman said quietly, "There are still four days...... Four days...... If you do not listen to my advice, you will all die in the swamp...... Blackie, let's go!
Chasing the Storm Leopard flew quickly, and disappeared in a few steps, and the strange woman followed behind the Chasing Storm Leopard, her body flashed, and the speed was not slower than that of the Chasing Leopard. One man and one leopard just disappeared into the depths of the miasma, leaving everyone looking at each other to stand still.
Lu Baifeng couldn't laugh or cry a little: "'Little Black'? such a ferocious demon beast as the Chasing Wind Cloud Leopard seems to be her pet?"
Wang Ruobin thought thoughtfully: "This woman is not simple. First of all, she was not afraid of this miasma, and in addition, when she was behind the tree, she deliberately revealed her aura to make Senior Brother Lu, who was about to kill the Storm Cloud Leopard, feel it, and let us people not feel it, just this kind of ability to manipulate the aura is beyond our reach. Later, the spiritual power she emitted was so strong that she could see the blue aura, and to be honest, it was the first time I had seen it. But just now I used my spiritual sense to probe her realm, and I found that she was only in the late stage of the void, which was really weird. ”
"Whoever you want to feel can feel it, and whoever you don't want to feel it really can't feel it, how can someone control her breath to such a point? Yan Luoting was quite disdainful of this.
Han Mingfei denied: "That woman was quite calm when she spoke, it didn't look like she was made up temporarily. Taking a step back, even if it is a trick, how should we explain the later appearance of spiritual power?"
"Okay, don't think much about it, the world is so big, there are no wonders, maybe it's some kind of strange ability that the woman knows to us. Nowadays, it is safer for everyone to travel together. It's disgusting to have corpses here, so let's get out of here. Lu Baifeng inserted Rong An's sword back into the sword holster on his back, waved his hand to everyone, and took the lead in the direction where the woman disappeared.
Everyone followed one after another, and now it was Lu Baifeng and Han Mingfei who opened the way in front, Wang Ruobin and Song Xihang who guarded at the end, and everyone else gathered in the middle. As they went, everyone speculated about the origin of the mysterious woman and figured out the meaning of the words she left before leaving.
"'There are still four days'? What does this mean? Could it be that something big will happen in four days?" Lu Mingyao said as she walked.
"Whatever! Anyway, with Senior Brother Lu here, we'll be fine. Why don't you take a good look at the swamps, which are not very common. Yan Luoting said with a grin. If Lu Baifeng and Han Mingfei hadn't come, he would be the oldest and would have to take on the responsibility of protecting everyone. Now that he felt reliant and happy, he began to enjoy the view of the swamp.
Such an unproductive person, Lu Mingyao didn't bother to deal with it at all. She asked Lu Baifeng in front of her loudly: "Senior Brother Lu, there is no way deep in the swamp, where are we going?"
Lu Baifeng's loud voice sounded: "If you feel the aura movement, you will naturally go in the direction of the movement." Since I didn't feel it, my instinct told me that it was right to move in the direction where the woman had just disappeared. This is quite a bit of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and preferring to go to the tiger mountains", but in the case of no direction, there is no better choice. Fortunately, there are four cave void masters, and everyone's hearts are much more stable than before.
The deeper you go into the swamp, the lighter the green miasma becomes. After marching for half a day, the group finally walked out of the miasma completely. Tianyao suddenly had a question in his heart. If the miasma was produced by the Green Cloud Swamp, then why did it disappear so unnaturally when it arrived? Could it be that this unusually colored miasma was artificially created? If so, what was the purpose of this man?
Looking around the boundless green cloud swamp, there are shadows in all directions, as if there is danger hidden everywhere.