Chapter 56: You’re awake?
Chapter 56 – You’re Awake?
Just as he wanted to step forward and completely exterminate the grass puppet.
Suddenly, a golden yellow sword qi shot out violently, as swift as lightning, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of the masked cultivator.
“What kind of sword technique is this?!”
The sword trick was just too sudden and swift, and the masked cultivator didn’t have enough time to offer up a defense artifact.
With his soul on the line, he could only barely deflect his body.
There was a swoosh.
The golden-yellow sword qi directly pierced through his shoulder, and blood immediately flowed out, spilling all over the spirit field.
The remaining momentum of the sword qi did not diminish and pierced into the courtyard wall behind him.
“Hurry up and escape!”
The masked cultivator didn’t care about the severe pain coming from his shoulder, a thought flashed through his mind, wanting to escape from this spiritual field.
He was experienced and knew in his heart that a sword skill at such a level could never be executed by a small loose cultivator at the third level of Qi cultivation.
With a few more sword techniques like this, or even just one, he would be at risk of falling here.
A strong wind came from behind him, and a silver-white sword blade trailed him.
The masked cultivator’s mind moved, his aura raced, and a wall of ice surfaced in mid-air, just in time to block the incoming silver-white sword blade.
Unexpectedly, when the sword blade was about to collide with the ice wall, the silver-white short blade cracked noiselessly, and dozens of thin fragments were like silver-white butterflies, attacking the masked cultivator from all directions.
Such an unexpected attack caused the masked cultivator to be disoriented, and there were pieces of debris stabbing into his limbs, shoulders, and chest.
Black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, a black spirit beast sensitively appeared in front of him, turquoise pupils coldly staring at the masked cultivator, the demonic sight made him lose his concentration for a moment.
Before he could react, the spirit beast held up its thick white paws and slapped him on the head, directly slapping the cultivator down to the ground, rolling on the ground a few times and fainting from the pain.
……
The masked cultivator’s consciousness awoke from the infinite darkness.
He didn’t open his eyes to observe his surroundings at the first opportunity, but carefully felt the current state of his body.
The situation was very bad, the transfer of spiritual energy in his body was like a stone sinking into the sea, his dantian qi sea was destroyed, and his cultivation was lost.
At the same time, his body was bound by something, unable to move, and the wounds on his limbs and other places were nakedly exposed in the air, sending bursts of intense pain.
Throat, heart, lower yin several places also vaguely transmitted a sharp coolness, it seems that as long as he has the slightest movement, that a share of sharp coolness will invade his body.
“You’re awake?”
A gentle voice sounded not far from him.
The cultivator still had his eyes closed, as if he was still drowsy.
“If you really don’t wake up, I’ll make you never wake up again.”
The gentle voice said faintly.
The masked cultivator had no choice but to open his eyes, and the pupils of his eyes rotated, taking in the surrounding situation.
He was now located in a simply furnished house, tying himself to his body was a rope of gray and black grass, and resting in front of his Achilles’ heel was none other than the silver and white debris from before.
A young cultivator was standing in front of him, his eyes clear and bright.
“I didn’t expect you, a casual Spirit Plant Master, to be able to hide so deeply.”
“That sword skill …… should be close to the realm of a patriarch, even the sword masters I came into contact with in the past seldom had you this kind of exquisite sword skill.”
“Not to mention, you are still so young.”
“There is also cultivation …… that is definitely far more than the third level of qi cultivation.”
The more the masked cultivator said, the more he regretted, originally thought that dealing with a loose spirit cultivator at the third level of Qi cultivation was a matter of hand-to-hand, but did not expect that he had overturned the boat in the gutter, suffered a serious injury, and was also easily taken down.
“Say it, why did you enter my mansion and try to disadvantage me?”
Lu Xuan ignored the masked cultivator and asked with a smile. “I just happened to pass by here and wanted to enter Your Excellency’s spirit field and steal a few spirit plants, but I didn’t expect to run into a tough opponent.”
The masked cultivator made up a random reason, trying to muddle through.
“You think I would believe that from you?”
Lu Xuan couldn’t help but feel amused as his expression turned cold, and the debris that stopped in front of the cultivator’s throat penetrated a little deeper, piercing through the skin as crimson drops of blood oozed out.
“Just say directly who sent you.”
The masked cultivator fell into silence.
“Actually, if you say it or not, I’m probably clear on who it is.”
“I’m a person who has always lived deeply and been kind to others, and to be able to provoke the other party and cause a killing intent towards me, just think about it casually.”
“But if you don’t say anything, then the ending will be very different. This magic weapon in front of you will then cut you into layers of thin slices, and will also try its best to keep you from dying.”
“When there is still a trace of breath, then you will be sent to the black market, where there are quite a few evil cultivators acquiring the souls of cultivators, and a Qi Practicing Middle Stage Cultivator like you should be able to sell it for a good price.”
Lu Xuan said coldly.
“If I tell you, can you, Taoist friend, spare me?”
“If you say it, I will give you a clean end, if you don’t say it, you will have to endure the endless torment of your flesh and soul, you choose for yourself.”
“It was Zhou Haiwen, the Spirit Plant Master, who paid out spirit stones for me to come over and murder you, promising to give me all the Spirit Plants in your Spirit Fields, as long as you had the canonical jade slip on you.”
The masked cultivator no longer hesitated and made peace.
“Sure enough, it’s that undying Spirit Plant Master, I guess he wants to get the method to grow perfect quality spirit plants from me.”
Lu Xuan had long guessed it, and after receiving the masked cultivator’s answer, he completely confirmed it.
“Tell me his address, don’t try to deceive me, you know that I’m the same Hundred Herb Hall Employing Spirit Plant Master as him, it’s not too difficult to get his information.”
“Okay, I’ll say.”
After giving up the Spiritual Planter, the masked cultivator no longer had any scruples and told all he knew, still holding a hint of Lu Xuan being able to let him off the hook in his heart.
“Alright, you can go on your way in peace.”
Lu Xuan spoke softly, and the thin remnants in front of the cultivator’s throat lurched forward, digging deep into the center of his throat.
After finishing off the cultivator, Lu Xuan’s spiritual energy revolved and a head-sized fireball spell appeared over the cultivator’s corpse.
Immediately, it transformed into a cluster of flames and landed on his corpse, burning him to black ash in ten or so breaths.
Lu Xuan took out another Evil Dispelling Talisman, and the misty white light fluctuated in all directions with the black ash as the center.
Nothing strange happened.
Only then did he completely put his heart at ease, sweeping the thick layer of black ash on the ground together and sprinkling it between the soil of the spiritual field.
“You little guys dodged a bullet tonight, so I’ll give you some good fertilizer to make up for it.”
Since Qin Ming, the second cultivator to be thwarted and turned into fertilizer appeared in the spirit field.
Lu Xuan slightly dealt with the courtyard, his spiritual sense inspected the surroundings, explained that the Biyou Treading Cloud Lynx was watching over the mansion, and his body flashed, noiselessly arriving outside the house.
The marketplace was patrolled by cultivators day and night, but each area had a different level of protection.
Like Lu Xuan’s previous residence in the northern periphery, the fish and dragons were mixed, and the protection strength was better than nothing.
The courtyard where he now lives is relatively close to the center, and the protection is much stronger, but there are usually only a few low-level cultivators who are practicing qi to make a show of it.
Only in the core area would there be Qi practicing middle or even high level cultivators to properly guard against evil cultivators or evil spirits from intruding.
A few moments later, Lu Xuan arrived at his destination, outside the courtyard of that Spirit Plant Master surnamed Zhou.
(End of Chapter)