124: The counterattack failed, and another Five Thunder Mantra was added!

Indeed!!!

Su Yang clearly sensed Gu Yue's location this time.

Gu Yue must have already reached the territory of Yellow Springs Country, and she was only three thousand li away from him.

Su Yang's heart was filled with joy.

Gu Yue being in Yellow Springs Country also meant that the two Grand Elders, Xuan Yan and Xuan Jian, were there as well.

"Gu Yue, can you sense me now?"

Su Yang contacted Gu Yue mentally.

Upon hearing Su Yang's voice, Gu Yue immediately responded excitedly: "Yes! Master, you are three thousand li to my southeast. I can feel your location in my mind!"

Since they could sense each other, it didn't matter where they were now.

Su Yang instructed: "Tell Xuan Yan and Xuan Jian, the two Grand Elders, my location, and have them come find me immediately!"

"Yes, Master!"

Gu Yue's words were filled with obvious excitement at the thought of seeing Su Yang soon.

"Also! The Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect put a curse on me, and it probably won't be easy to lift. Tell Xuan Yan and Xuan Jian, the two Grand Elders, to put a curse on her as soon as they arrive, so we have a bargaining chip for mutual deterrence!"

Su Yang added another instruction.

"Okay!"

Gu Yue immediately relayed the situation to Xuan Yan and Xuan Jian, the two Grand Elders.

Meanwhile,

A faint, almost imperceptible smile played on Su Yang's lips.

Just then,

Bai Lingxi's steps suddenly halted, her gaze fixed on the sky less than ten li ahead.

She sensed intense spatial fluctuations.

Two experts, whose strength far surpassed hers, were breaking through space using immortal techniques!

Bai Lingxi's expression changed!

This was bad!

They were coming for her!

"You dare to play dirty!?"

Bai Lingxi glared fiercely at Su Yang, then rapidly formed hand seals. A teleportation array appeared beneath her feet at an incredibly fast speed.

A foot stepped out from the sky not far away, and then two powerful suppressive forces simultaneously bore down on Bai Lingxi.

And a giant foot, a thousand meters long, stomped down!

"Where do you think you're going!"

How could Bai Lingxi just surrender? She pushed the array with all her might, risking a backlash from her true essence.

Just as the giant foot was about to crush her to the ground, she managed to disappear from the spot, taking Su Yang with her.

"Boom~~~"

The earth shook and the mountains swayed.

"This little girl has some tricks; she actually got away!"

When Gu Yue, Xuan Yan, and Xuan Jian, the two Grand Elders, appeared, they could no longer detect their traces.

"You two old guys, you let them get away!"

Gu Yue was extremely worried and immediately tried to sense Su Yang's location again.

But to her surprise, she couldn't sense him or call out to him anymore... At this moment, Su Yang,

had been taken by Bai Lingxi to a desolate gobi desert.

Less than a thousand meters from the gobi desert was a stretch of yellow sand.

Bai Lingxi didn't hesitate. The moment she appeared, she grabbed Su Yang and rushed into the yellow sand.

The moment he stepped onto the yellow sand,

Su Yang felt as if he had entered a smoldering furnace without flames; every breath of air entering his lungs was scorching hot.

Even more critically, after entering the yellow sand, the true essence within his body began to uncontrollably drain away. Once it left his body, this true essence was re-transformed into Spiritual Qi and dissipated into the depths of the yellow sand.

He must have stepped into the Yellow Springs Desert!

Su Yang wanted to sense Gu Yue's location again and then tell her his position, so she could bring Xuan Yan and Xuan Jian, the two Grand Elders, to him.

But... Su Yang was startled to find that he had completely lost track of Gu Yue's location.

"Forget about it!"

"The Yellow Springs Desert can block all true essence, Spiritual Qi, Divine Sense, will, and mental connections you can imagine. Here, you can't contact the outside world! And neither can they. Forget about the Body Integration Stage; even those Undergoing Tribulation won't be able to find you!"

Bai Lingxi's face was pale, and she spoke with a displeased expression: "I thought you were an honest boy, but I didn't expect you to be so cunning, actually ambushing experts here to wait for me! If I hadn't reacted fast enough, I would have been captured by you, wouldn't I!? If I fell into your hands, not only would I be forced to help you Breakthrough, but all the conditions you promised me earlier would be null and void, right? You're quite devious, young man!"

Su Yang remained silent.

He continued to try and contact Gu Yue.

He found that, just as she said, after entering the Yellow Springs Desert, all connections were indeed severed.

Not only could he not sense Gu Yue's location, but he couldn't even communicate with her.

Damn it,

this Yellow Springs Desert was incredibly absurd!

Helpless,

he had no choice but to face the enraged Bai Lingxi.

Su Yang said seriously: "Sect Master Bai, I think it's perfectly normal for us, as Cultivators of the righteous and demonic Dao, to be wary of each other."

"You controlled me with the Sea Drying Curse. I wanted to regain the initiative through my own methods, which is very reasonable."

"Just like when you, Sect Master, cast the Sea Drying Curse on me, I didn't scream and shout but accepted my fate on the spot. I don't think Sect Master Bai would be angry because I tried to counter, right? Moreover, my counter failed, and you, Sect Master, were not actually affected. I am still under your control."

Bai Lingxi looked at Su Yang with a strange expression, saying speechlessly: "According to you, my getting angry would mean I lack magnanimity?"

Su Yang said: "I believe the Sect Master is by no means petty."

Bai Lingxi sneered and said: "I can indeed understand your desire to break free from control, and I can also not mind your attempt to counter-kill me. But..."

"I'm starting to hesitate whether I should help you now! I seriously doubt that even if I help you, you won't help me Breakthrough! Let alone stay in the Hehuan Sect for 2000 years to assist me in Cultivating."

"Rather than that, I might as well just kill you! To avoid having one more enemy in the future!"

Su Yang's heart tightened.

He immediately said: "Hey, hey, hey, Sect Master Bai, you can't say that. I know that no matter what I say now, you won't believe it. That's fine, but you have to believe in your own Sea Drying Curse, right? As long as this Sea Drying Curse is in my body and hasn't been lifted, then whether I'm willing or not, it won't affect my promise to you, right?"

Bai Lingxi then said: "If that's the case, why should I risk helping you Breakthrough?!"

Su Yang didn't dare to be negligent and decisively said: "Because this determines whether I am willing to open my Primordial Yang to help the Sect Master Breakthrough and Cultivate! If I resist to the death, the Sect Master certainly won't be able to do anything to me! There's no need for us to gamble with our genuine interests over this harmless little conflict. It won't benefit either of us, don't you think?"

Bai Lingxi was still persuaded.

She thought of Su Yang's pure Primordial Yang.

She thought of the unparalleled efficiency of Dual Cultivation with Su Yang.

Bai Lingxi decided to continue helping him complete his Breakthrough.

However,

Bai Lingxi still kept an extra wary eye, and a streak of Spiritual light shot from her hand towards Su Yang's glabella.

"This is an improved Five Lightning True Word Curse. From now on, if you lie to me, the pain of five lightning bolts striking your heart awaits you! If you fail to do what I ask or do it half-heartedly, an even greater tribulation of five lightning bolts striking your head awaits you! Although it won't kill you, it's enough to make your life worse than death!"

Su Yang's mouth twitched.

Damn it, this time not only did he fail to subdue her, but he also got himself deeper into trouble.

The Sea Drying Curse hadn't been lifted yet.

Now there was another Five Lightning True Word Curse.

Damn!

He was just trying to Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage, why was it as difficult as Undergoing Tribulation!!!

Su Yang cried out to the heavens in his heart.

But what could he do now?

He could only compose himself, readjust his state, and face the difficulties.

Su Yang said: "Sect Master Bai, rest assured, from now on I will listen to everything you say. If you say go east, I will never go west. If you say go west, I will never go east. Whatever you say to do, I will do!"

Since things had come to this, he would first successfully Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage and then deal with the two curses on him!

"That's more like it!"

"Follow me!"

Bai Lingxi walked ahead, heading straight in the direction where the Spiritual Qi was dissipating and draining away.

Su Yang took a deep breath of the scorching air and quickly followed her...