84: Chapter 84 The Melee Within the Ancient Medicine Garden

Qi Yang's gaze turned fierce, and he abruptly activated his Poison Wood Spiritual Power.

Hiss!

Under the enhancement of the five elements ring's toxic light, the high-concentration bone-corroding poison liquid directly burrowed along that trace of a tiny worn crack, fiercely driving straight into the core array patterns inside the magnetic star stone puppet!

This was just like pouring a bucket of strong acid into precision gears.

The ancient array patterns inside the magnetic star stone puppet that had been dormant for a thousand years immediately emitted an unbearable corrosive sound the moment they came into contact with the top-grade bone-corroding poison liquid.

The star magnetic force circulating within the array patterns was frantically devoured and disintegrated by the poison liquid.

The magnetic star stone puppet sitting cross-legged high on the platform seemed to have sensed the abnormality inside its body. Two clusters of scarlet light suddenly lit up in its hollow eyes, and its massive body trembled slightly, as if it wanted to stand up.

"Want to move? Too late!"

Qi Yang, who was underground, sneered and forcefully pushed an entire bottle of bone-corroding poison liquid down through the passage!

The berserk poison liquid completely exploded within the magnetic star stone puppet's body, melting the array patterns of its core hub into a puddle of mud.

The scarlet light that had just lit up in the Puppet's eyes flickered a few times, and ultimately extinguished completely like a candle in the wind.

Its arm, which had just been raised halfway, also limply dropped down, reverting once again into a lifeless dead object.

Without shedding a single drop of blood, he disintegrated a half-step Tier 2 Puppet!

Qi Yang let out a long breath of foul air, his tense nerves finally relaxing.

Without any hesitation, he directly executed the Earth Escape Technique, bursting out of the earth from the edge of the white jade high platform.

Standing on the high platform, Qi Yang looked closely at the star fruit tree radiating brilliant starlight, smelling the refreshing fragrance of the fruit, and his usually steady hands could not help but tremble slightly.

He swiftly took out three top-grade warm jade boxes from his Storage Pouch and cautiously plucked the three star fruit from the branches.

The fruits felt cool to the touch, as if holding three miniature stars; the pure energy contained within them made Qi Yang's Meridians feel a wave of comfort.

Clack.

As the warm jade boxes closed and spirit-sealing talismans were affixed, Qi Yang steadily stowed these three priceless treasures into his inner Storage Pouch.

"Items acquired, time to withdraw."

Qi Yang was not greedy enough to dig up the star fruit tree; this tree simply could not survive without the nourishment of the star magnetic force, and the target was too large anyway.

He turned around and prepared to execute the Earth Escape Technique once more to leave this place of right and wrong.

However, at the very moment his foot stepped into the mud,

Boom!!!

The tightly shut, heavy bronze gates of the Ancient Medicine Garden suddenly suffered a violent strike.

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the bronze gates towering several zhang high were forcefully blasted into fragments by brute force!

A berserk wave of Spiritual Qi surged through the entire medicine garden, blowing the withered remains of the Spiritual Plants flying all over the sky.

Qi Yang's movements paused; he instantly retracted his footsteps, his figure flashing as he tightly pressed himself against a shady corner behind the white jade high platform, operating his breathing concealment technique to the absolute limit.

"Hahaha! It really is the core medicine garden! Although Senior Brother Lu is dead, as long as we get the Spirit Medicine here, returning will still be a great achievement for us!"

Accompanied by arrogant wild laughter, a group of Cultivators wearing cyan feather robes aggressively rushed into the medicine garden.

This was another elite squad remaining from the Qingyu Sect! The leader was a burly man with a rugged face, and his cultivation had likewise reached the Qi Condensation 12th Layer.

Behind him followed seven or eight experts at the Qi Condensation 11th Layer.

As soon as they rushed in, their gazes were attracted by the ancient medicine fields in the garden that, although dilapidated, still radiated faint Spiritual Qi.

However, before this group of Qingyu Sect Cultivators had time to rejoice, a shattering sound suddenly came from the wall on the other side of the medicine garden.

Crack! Crack!

Countless purple thunders tore through the hard bronze walls like wild pythons, and a huge breach was forcibly blasted open.

Ye Hongyu, dressed in fiery red robes, led over a dozen elites of Ziyang Valley, treading on thunder and fire as she domineeringly barged in!

"The trash of the Qingyu Sect are quite fast on their feet."

Ye Hongyu's exceptionally beautiful face was covered in frost, and her lightning-imbued eyes coldly swept across the Qingyu Sect crowd, her tone revealing undisguised contempt.

"This medicine garden is hereby taken over by my Ziyang Valley. Those who don't want to die, get lost immediately."

The rugged burly man of the Qingyu Sect sank his expression and gripped the battle axe in his hand.

"Ye Hongyu! Don't be too arrogant! Do you really think our Qingyu Sect is afraid of your Dual Spiritual Roots of thunder and fire? The treasures in this Yunge Pavilion depend on one's own abilities!"

"Depend on one's own abilities? Are you even worthy?"

Ye Hongyu sneered, not wasting a single sentence of nonsense.

Raising her jade hand, berserk purple thunder gathered in her palm, directly transforming into a thunder-and-fire long whip several zhang long, which she fiercely lashed toward the Qingyu Sect people!

"Do it! Kill them all!"

The Qingyu Sect burly man roared angrily and brandished his battle axe to meet them.

In an instant, the two factions directly broke into a tragic melee within this Ancient Medicine Garden.

The light of various Magical Artifacts colliding and the roars of spellcasting resounded through the clouds, and the berserk aftermath of Spiritual Qi completely destroyed the already dilapidated medicine fields.

Hiding in the shadow of the white jade high platform, Qi Yang watched the two factions outside fighting so fiercely they were almost beating each other's brains out, revealing a sarcastic sneer.

"Fight then, it's best if you perish together. I won't keep you company."

Taking advantage of everyone's attention being focused on the melee, Qi Yang hugged the shadows of the ground, preparing to bypass the battlefield and slip away from the wall breach blasted open by Ye Hongyu.

At this moment, the battle inside the Ancient Medicine Garden had already entered a white-hot stage.

To vie for those surviving Spirit Medicine, the Disciples of the Qingyu Sect and Ziyang Valley used fatal moves with almost every strike.

Fresh blood dyed the dark red spirit soil red, and severed limbs flew about amidst the berserk spell aftermath.

Ye Hongyu was like a female war god bathed in fire; every time her thunder-and-fire long whip swung, it could tear open a charred crack in the Protective Aura of the Qingyu Sect Disciples.

Although that Qingyu Sect Qi Condensation 12th Layer burly man was valiant, under the suppression of Ye Hongyu's freakish Dual Spiritual Roots of thunder and fire, he could only bitterly endure and retreat step by step.

At this moment, Qi Yang was also hugging the ruined walls at the edge of the medicine garden, using the cover of the intense light generated by spell explosions to inch toward the wall breach.

Ten zhang... five zhang... three zhang...

Seeing that he was about to break away from this chaotic battlefield, Qi Yang's heart did not relax in the slightest.

He knew that in a melee of this level, even the slightest carelessness could invite a fatal disaster.

Just when Qi Yang was only the last two zhang away from the breach and prepared to directly execute the divine mobility talisman to rush out,

within the Qingyu Sect faction, a thin, small Cultivator who had been hiding in the rear casting auxiliary spells suddenly let out a sharp cry of alarm.

This Cultivator possessed a pair of bizarre triple-white eyes, where the whites occupied most of the eye sockets, and his pupils presented a ghastly green color.

What he cultivated was a rare auxiliary pupil technique, the Netherworld Dharma Eye; although his combat power was trash, he possessed unique advantages in seeing through illusions and probing Spiritual Qi fluctuations.

Originally, he only wanted to use his pupil technique to find flaws in Ziyang Valley's formation, but the instant his Dharma Eye swept across the edge of the medicine garden, his ghastly green pupils violently constricted.

Within the vision of the Netherworld Dharma Eye, at the corner of the wall that was originally empty and where even perceptual power could not sweep out any abnormalities, a blurry humanoid outline had unexpectedly appeared!

Moreover, on this outline, there still lingered the dense, top-grade Spiritual Qi fluctuations belonging to the star fruit!

"Who is hiding there!"

The triple-white-eyed Cultivator was scared into a cold sweat; without any time to think further, he pointed at the direction where Qi Yang was hiding and screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Senior Brother! Look over there! Someone is hiding in the dark using a high-grade breath concealment technique! He has the Aura of the core supreme treasure of the medicine garden on him! The treasures on the white jade high platform have been stolen by him!"

This scream sounded exceptionally grating within the spell-roaring medicine garden.

The two factions that were still engaged in a life-or-death battle simultaneously paused their movements.

That burly man of the Qingyu Sect fiercely forced Ye Hongyu back with an axe, turning his head to look at the white jade high platform.

When he saw the empty star fruit tree on the high platform, along with the motionless magnetic star stone puppet beside it, his eyeballs instantly turned red.

"Bastard! You dare snatch food from the tiger's mouth right under our noses!"

The Qingyu Sect burly man was furious, his hair standing on end.

They were fighting tooth and nail here, yet they were actually waylaid by a Loose Cultivator hiding in the dark!

"Kill him! Take the treasures back!"

With an order from the burly man, several Qingyu Sect Disciples closest to Qi Yang immediately turned their spearheads.

Three first-grade superior Flying Swords flashing with cold light carried fierce murderous intent, intertwining and assassinating toward the shady spot where Qi Yang was hiding in a pin-shape formation!