113: The prey is exchanged, and the devil vine is promoted! (Please read it later)

“Just waiting like this isn't a solution!”

“Tomorrow, I will drive this first-order High Grade ginseng spirit, which has gained sentience, to the vicinity of Xuan Dong Mountain. I refuse to believe that Chi Xiuyuan still won't come out.”

“If he doesn't, then we'll just keep waiting.”

Inside a stone cave within an unnamed mountain peak.

Elder Youfeng, with his bald head, black robe, and two pairs of white pupils, was currently pondering how to lure Chi Xiuyuan, who was guarding Xuan Dong Mountain, out.

A Cultivator from a minor Immortal Cultivation Family would surely be tempted by the allure of a ginseng spirit.

This would be his opportunity.

“Just wait… just…”

“Eh?”

“He… he came out?”

“What is this kid doing?”

“Could it be that he's going back to the Immortal City right after arriving?”

“Impossible. How could a Chamber of Commerce mission be rotated so easily? Regardless, my goal has been achieved. Kid, you can only blame yourself for choosing the wrong faction to join.”

Youfeng, holding a ginseng spirit with an infant's outline, had just been racking his brain on how to make Chi Xiuyuan, who was stationed on Xuan Dong Mountain, come out. Unexpectedly, the other party inexplicably came out right after!

This… this was simply a heaven-sent opportunity, heaven is helping me!

“Today, this old man will let you, kid, know what the cruelty of the Cultivation World is…”

Youfeng couldn't help but laugh. In a flash, his body was enveloped in a black mist, transforming into a wisp of black wind that flew out of the Immortal Cave, heading straight for Chi Xiuyuan.

After only a moment.

Youfeng caught up with Chi Xiuyuan, who had left Xuan Dong Mountain not long ago. His escape speed was slow, and his flying Magical Artifact was a broken High Grade first-order piece. He was truly poor.

How could the Cloud Serpent Pavilion recruit Foundation Establishment Cultivators without at least gifting a second-order Magical Artifact?

Chi Xiuyuan had just advanced not long ago, so his cultivation might not have fully stabilized. Even if he had a second-order Magical Artifact in hand, he probably wouldn't have had time to refine it.

This was also Chi Xiuyuan's weakest moment, the timing was just right.

“So that's it, he's going to gather Spirit Medicine.”

“He needs to leave the mountain to gather even first-order High Grade Spirit Medicine. I truly underestimated you.”

Youfeng, carefully hiding his figure and following behind Shi Chuan, sensed that Chi Xiuyuan had stopped on a tall mountain peak. A white glow flashed in his white pupils.

He could see a wisp of Spirit Medicine's Spiritual Qi on the mountain, and the concentration of Spiritual Qi was around first-order High Grade.

This was the second-order eye technique bestowed by Youfeng's Law Seed.

It was close to a Divine Soul secret technique. Once cast, fellow Cultivators of the same Realm whose Divine Soul Realm was lower than his would fall into an illusion. This way, he would be able to gain an absolute advantage in combat.

After all, in a Foundation Establishment Cultivator's combat, if one side pauses for a breath, there is a fatal danger.

Four Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators had already died at Youfeng's hands, including a seasoned Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator. Dealing with a newly advanced Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator from a small Family was not difficult for Youfeng.

It could be said to be effortless.

Youfeng's initial goal was to use the ginseng spirit to lure Chi Xiuyuan out of the mountain.

And the reason Chi Xiuyuan came out himself was also because he sensed the presence of Spirit Medicine in the outer reaches of Xuan Dong Mountain, only this Spirit Medicine was merely first-order High Grade.

Guarding the Spirit Medicine was a Late Stage Qi Refining black bear demon.

When the black bear demon sensed the Foundation Establishment pressure on Chi Xiuyuan, he immediately fled. A Human Cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Realm was not someone he could handle.

However, Chi Xiuyuan, disguised by Shi Chuan, swung out a crescent blade of magical power, splitting the black bear demon, who was trying to escape, in two, easily killing him.

In the shadows, Youfeng's white pupils spun rapidly, quickly accumulating Divine Soul power.

“Fall!”

Seeing that the two were approaching a hundred paces, Youfeng, hidden deep in the mountain's weeds, stared intently at Chi Xiuyuan's back.

The white pupil illusion transformed into a flying needle, shooting towards Chi Xiuyuan, who was not far ahead.

When the flying needle pierced into Chi Xiuyuan's body.

The situation Youfeng imagined did not occur. His pupil technique flying needle was like a stone sinking into the sea, causing no disturbance at all.

“Again!”

Youfeng's face stiffened.

He unleashed another pupil technique flying needle, piercing into Chi Xiuyuan, who was not far away.

Still no reaction.

At this moment, for some reason, a trace of panic emerged in Youfeng's heart.

How could a newly advanced Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator block two of his pupil technique attacks at once? Even a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, if hit by his pupil technique flying needle, shouldn't have no reaction at all.

This abnormal situation made Youfeng uneasy.

Just as the black wind, into which Youfeng had transformed, retreated a section.

Boom!

Instantly, a profound Formation node appeared under Youfeng's feet. Eight green light pillars rose from the ground, each three zhang high, forming a green jade cage that trapped him inside.

“Hmm?”

“How could this be!?”

“This power is a second-order Formation!”

“You are not Chi Xiuyuan!!”

Youfeng, trapped within the Formation light pillars, was extremely panicked. A black whirlwind-like light pillar formed around him, fiercely crashing against the cage.

But even with his full power, he only created faint, undulating ripples on the cage's light pillars.

“No!”

“Fellow Daoist, are you a Fellow Daoist from the Cloud Serpent Pavilion?”

“As long as Fellow Daoist is willing to spare my old life, I am willing to sign a servant contract and pledge allegiance to Fellow Daoist, serving you like an ox or horse in the future.”

Seeing that he could not break through the cage, Youfeng knew that the so-called 'Chi Xiuyuan' in front of him must have known of his existence long ago, and all of this was a trap set by the other party in advance.

He pitied himself for thinking he had found an opportunity.

“Fellow Daoist, rest in peace.”

Shi Chuan turned around, his tone cold.

Just now, with the power of his Law Seed, after his Divine Soul was amplified, his Divine Thought cultivation soared to the Late Stage Foundation Establishment.

He could easily block the flying needle that Youfeng used to target the Divine Soul. The opponent's flying needle could cause some slight damage to a Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Divine Soul.

But a Late Stage Foundation Establishment Divine Soul was not something he could shake.

This type of pupil technique targeting the Divine Soul was mysterious and unpredictable.

If Shi Chuan were truly just a newly advanced Early Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, then facing Youfeng's sneak attack, he would have surely died long ago.

After he finished speaking.

Shi Chuan's body surged with vital Qi, and a red flood Dragon, twenty to thirty zhang long, coiled around him.

“Roar!”

The flood Dragon roared.

It transformed into a red shadow and pounced towards Youfeng inside the Formation cage.

More than ten breaths later.

Peace finally returned to this unnamed mountain peak. Inside the Soul Nurturing Bottle suspended in front of Shi Chuan, there was also an additional Foundation Establishment Cultivator's essence soul.

Injecting a stream of magical power into the bottle, the Soul Nurturing Bottle could fully refine the Foundation Establishment soul inside.

In a short while.

Shi Chuan took out a wisp of soul essence from the Soul Nurturing Bottle, and together with Youfeng's Physical Body, he let the Demonic Fiend Vine devour it.

Afterward, Shi Chuan slowly flew on a black cloud, heading towards Xuan Dong Mountain.

On the way.

Shi Chuan sensed that the Demonic Fiend Vine in his body had instantly increased its aura by several times. Originally purplish-red, the vine began to show some faint, subtle silver patterns.

The aura on the Demonic Fiend Vine also successfully advanced from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment!

It seemed that there were no bottlenecks in its advancement; as long as it consumed enough power, it could advance smoothly.

These strange species, nurtured by heaven and earth, inherently contained a kind of heaven and earth rule power. There was simply no such thing as a Realm barrier. Their talent was even more outrageous than that of Human Race Cultivator with Heavenly Spiritual Roots.