Chapter 42: The Pursuit
Deng An recognized it for a moment, and sure enough, it was a map of the Burial Immortal Mountain area, but it was not as exaggerated as Zhou Jingqi introduced. There are a lot of blank spaces on this map, most of which are marked as unexplored areas or dangerous areas, especially the core part of the Burial Immortal Mountain, which retains a large blank space, which is generally classified as the Demon Beast Zone.
Only on the outer ring of the Burial Immortal Mountain, there are scattered meditation accumulation points one after another, and the distance between them is mostly more than 100 miles, which is not too far.
Deng An quickly found the reason why Zhou Jingqi dared to boast, because the range of Qianqiao Peak within a radius of three hundred miles was marked in great detail, and even the distribution of demon beasts was explained one by one, but when it came to Snow Spirit Grass, because it was related to the self-interest of meditation cultivation, no one would tell these secrets, and only some general ranges were delineated on the map.
After Deng An confirmed that it was correct, he couldn't help but praise the other party's map a few words, and then asked seemingly casually: "Before I came in, I saw Zhou Daoyou send out a fat man from a distance, this meditation I look a little raw, I only came to Qianqiao Peak recently." ”
"Daoyou mean Chen Youzhi?" Zhou Jingqi's face unconsciously showed a trace of hatred, and said: "It's not a newcomer, it's only a month or two later than Daoyou, I don't know how he got the trust of Grimace and was appointed to collect the store rental fee." ”
Sure enough, it was Chen Youzhi, and Deng Anxin sank. The other party actually took refuge in Qianqiao Peak, and made a friendship with the actual manager Grimace, it seems that this is not a place to stay for a long time, and the plan determined in advance must be adjusted to avoid being retaliated against by Chen Youzhi.
After Deng An got confirmed, he chatted with Zhou Jingqi for a while, then got up and said goodbye, he didn't have to worry about meditation, and he didn't need to tidy up his bags, however, not long after he left Nian Wenzhai, Chen Youzhi happened to come back from the back of the mountain peak and saw his back.
"Deng An!" Chen Youzhi quickly recognized it, almost gritting his teeth. At this time, it was too late to stop him, and he quickly flew to the residential area of the management personnel at the bottom of the peak.
Deng An walked out of the boulder passage under the Qianqiao Peak, handed over the black stone plaque, and walked to the northeast without delaying the slightest. More than 100 miles away, there is another meditation accumulation point, and on the way, you will pass through a snow spirit grass production area.
He didn't go far before he came to a hilly area. Most of the surface vegetation here is gray-black, with a staggered height and relatively sparse distribution. When he walked more than ten miles out of this area, passing through a hill covered with gray thorns, he suddenly felt an extremely dangerous aura coming from one side, he knew that something was wrong, and his body retreated again and again, and almost at the same time, a flying knife condensed by yin qi flew out from the hidden place.
The flying knife was very fast, Deng An wanted to avoid some difficulties safely, when he shook his palm, he took out a two-foot beast bone, with a trace of dark force injected, the surface of the beast bone glowed with a faint golden light, and with a soft sound of "bang", the yin qi flying knife was easily dissolved.
Deng An did not feel any slack because of this, but looked to the side with a solemn expression, and three meditation cultivators floated out from behind a thorn bush, led by Chen Youzhi.
"Deng Daoyou, don't come to harm?" Chen Youzhi laughed, not in a hurry to attack, it seemed that Deng An was already in his bag, so he greeted politely first.
"Thank you Chen Daoyou, everything is fine in the next place. ”
"That's fine, so as not to make Chen feel sorry. ”
After the two ghosts met, they exchanged pleasantries, if they didn't know how to see it, they thought that they were friends who had been separated for many years, and who would have thought that they were enemies who would share life and death when they met. Deng An was depressed about this, Chen Youzhi and Wan Hualing were obviously on the same page, but once Wan Hualing died, Chen Youzhi would spill his anger on himself as an outsider.
Just as the two ghosts were talking, the two ghosts brought by Chen Youzhi tacitly distanced themselves from Chen Youzhi, and formed a fan shape with Deng An as the center.
Deng An had already noticed it and secretly prepared to escape.
Chen Youzhi is now a cultivator in the late stage of Nayin, which is roughly equivalent to the seventh level of Qi cultivation among monks, and the other two meditation cultivators are also cultivators in the middle stage of Nayin, and their strength is basically the same as Deng An. If the two sides make a move, Deng An will definitely have the upper hand.
"Two fellow Daoists, be careful, this kid has a corpse demon bone that can spray venom. Chen Youzhi seemed to have lost interest in chatting, and after explaining to the other two cultivators, he condensed three Yin Qi knives again, and with a wave of his big hand, they all shot at Deng An.
Chen Youzhi used the three knives condensed by Yin Qi, although it was not a spell, but Deng An did not dare to underestimate it in the slightest, this is a method of combining Yin Qi condensation and spiritual power, Huang Xingchu had instructed him a little, the power is not as good as a spell, but it is expensive to last.
After the other two ghosts heard the corpse bones, they all became a little excited, and a trace of greed appeared on their faces. An old man with a long beard took out a three-foot-long demon beast fang, and with the injection of spiritual power, the surface of the fangs flashed with a burst of blue light, and some mysterious yin patterns flickered on its surface, and it turned out to be a semi-dark weapon. The other cultivator with a fierce face quickly pinched a few spells, and his body immediately became a gust of yin wind, and more than a dozen small wind blades appeared in the air. The two ghosts were obviously determined to win, and they both used the most powerful means.
If Deng An escaped at this moment, he would inevitably give his back to the other party, and in desperation, he put his big hand together, condensed a ball of yin qi into a round shield, injected a trace of spiritual power into it, and hurriedly hid behind the round shield. At the same time, he secretly recited the spell, gathered a gust of yin wind around the soul body, and also used the yin wind blade spell, under his drive, this gust of yin wind, together with the small wind blade in it, fiercely rushed towards the yin wind in front of the vicious underworld cultivation. Then, he immediately brandished the golden beast bone to meet the fanged half-underworld weapon of the long-bearded old man.
"Boom, boom, boom!" three loud bangs, one after another.
After the three Yin Qi knives collided with Deng An's condensed Yin Qi round shield, both sides died together. Two clouds of yin wind containing small wind blades intertwined in the three, and after a moment of wear, they turned into invisible. Eventually, the fanged half-underworld artifact was bounced open by the beast bone.
After three attacks in a row, Deng An was shocked back several feet, and paid a lot of strength for it. Taking advantage of this interval, he did not hesitate and quickly retreated to the eastern part of the hills. It is definitely not possible to return to Qianqiao Peak, and the road ahead has been blocked, and only the east and west can go, but the west has no danger to use, so you can only choose the east, which is easy to hide.
"Yin Wind Escape Technique!" Looking at Deng An who escaped from the encirclement, Chen Youzhi's face became very ugly, this escape technique was originally passed on to Deng An by him, but now it has become the other party's escape method, and no one will feel good about this matter.
Chen Youzhi was afraid that Deng An would run away, so he decisively said to the other two ghosts: "This kind of escape technique is extremely exhausting, that kid can't last long, I'll go and drag him first, and you guys will follow later." ”
After speaking, a gust of yin wind formed beside Chen Youzhi, and the next moment it appeared in the distance.
Deng An saw Chen Youzhi coming, and he was also anxious, the other party's cultivation was one level higher than him, and he had a lasting advantage in using the Yin Wind Escape Technique, but the situation forced him to have no other choice, so he had to continue to escape while thinking about how to get rid of it.
Deng An didn't go far before a large gray forest appeared in front of him. Looking east from here, the forest is boundless and seemingly endless. He didn't want to think about it, he didn't enter it, and with the help of the forest, he could temporarily deal with Chen Youzhi.
Deng An and Chen Youzhi's cultivation is almost the same, and they are not without the strength to fight. However, Chen Youzhi also knows how to escape from the Yin Wind, and it is still difficult to kill or completely get rid of the tracking. Now, one can only hope that the other two meditations haven't followed.
"Hehe, you're finally not running away. ”
Seeing Deng An stop, Chen Youzhi also stopped more than ten meters away from Deng An, that is, he did not attack or retreat, looking like he was in his chest.
Seeing this, Deng An sighed secretly, guessing that Chen Youzhi should have a way to contact the other two meditation cultivators, but if he continued to chase like this, he would never be able to get rid of the other party, so he could only take advantage of the fact that the other party's helper had not yet arrived, and tried to seriously injure or repel him, he immediately injected a trace of spiritual power into the beast bone in his hand, and then smashed it down.
Not far from the place where Deng An and Chen Youzhi fought, there was a three-eyed evil tiger lying on its stomach in a clearing in the forest, enjoying a feast of demon beasts that had long been indistinguishable. Suddenly, it jerked its head up and looked around alertly. After a while, the three-eyed evil tiger became extremely panicked, as if sensing some terrible existence, jumped up from the ground, and did not care about the food that had already eaten half of it, and hurriedly fled into the dense forest on one side.
About a pillar of incense had passed, and a small beast two feet long had arrived. It bears a resemblance to a hedgehog in appearance, with short legs and a pointed mouth, but no backspines on its back, grayish-black fur, and a pair of pearly eyes glowing with a faint green glow.
The little beast sniffed at the corpse of the mutilated demon beast, and then walked unhurriedly into the woods on the other side, which was not the same direction as the three-eyed evil tiger had left.
Deng An and Chen Youzhi fought fiercely for several rounds, and it was difficult to tell the winner, while the other two meditation cultivators were not far from them. In desperation, he could only force Chen Youzhi to retreat first, to avoid hiding in the trap again, and in order to save his power, he directly sacrificed the corpse demon bone of the multi-armor mud crocodile.
After a large cloud of black yin qi passed through the corpse demon bone, it quickly turned into a black water column and quickly shot towards Chen Youzhi. Chen Youzhi had taken precautions early and easily avoided it. However, when he looked at Deng An again, Deng An had already flashed into the woods in front of him.
Deng An hadn't escaped far before he saw Chen Youzhi chasing after him again, and the spiritual power in his soul body was consumed too much, which was only enough to use the Yin Wind Escape Technique once, so he had to squeeze a snow spirit leaf and attract the yin qi contained in it, in order to recover some spiritual power as soon as possible.
Deng An only has three Snow Spirit Leaves left, and once they are exhausted, they will not be able to pay for other meditation accumulation points, but in order to save their lives, they can only look at the present.
In the previous battle, Chen Youzhi's consumption of spiritual power was also not small, and when he saw that Deng An did not use the Yin Wind Escape Technique, he chased after him with his ordinary body method. The other two meditation cultivators who were lagging behind, because the consumption of spiritual power was less, gradually caught up.
Seeing the situation behind him, Deng An was secretly anxious, but there was nothing he could do.
Suddenly, an inexplicable coercion came from the side. Due to the scarcity of trees there, not only Deng An, but also Chen Youzhi and the other three ghosts in the rear all saw a thornless "hedgehog" several circles larger, climbing on a raised stone and watching them.