Chapter 87: The Trap
Chapter 87 The Trap
“That’s right, according to our multiple investigations, that’s the seated cave of the Green Dan Jushi, he’s been missing for more than a hundred years, he was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment before he disappeared”
Lin Guang explained.
“What prohibition is so powerful? The four of you couldn’t break the prohibition even if you joined forces? Why are you looking for me? You guys know quite a few Foundation Establishment cultivators, don’t you!”
Shen Long was puzzled.
“That’s the Small Five Elements Prohibition, it requires five cultivators to join hands to break the prohibition, most of the other Foundation Establishment cultivators have small groups, we don’t feel confident, we’ve been in contact with Fellow Daoist Shen for so long, Fellow Daoist Shen is loyal and reliable.”
Ye Hong said.
They needed to find another Foundation Establishment Cultivator, if they looked for other Foundation Establishment Cultivators, either the other party’s cultivation was higher, if they had heavy treasures, they would definitely not be able to compete, or the other Foundation Establishment Cultivators had cliques, they might fight over their belongings.
Shen Long is alone, only early Foundation Establishment, Ye Hong four people are all middle Foundation Establishment, even if the ancient cultivator cave really has good things, Shen Long can’t compete with them.
“Qingdan Jushi is a second-order alchemist, able to refine a variety of second-order pills, after the matter is accomplished, the pills will all go to fellow Daoist Shen, how about it?”
Ye Hong said.
“Where is the ancient cultivator’s cave? How did you guys find it.”
Shen Long pursued.
“We are not at liberty to tell you where it is, you join the treasure hunt, we will take you there, we found an inheritance bead from the body of a second-order demonic beast, and it took a long time to find the seated cave of the Qingdan Jushi, but the defense of the small five elements ban is very strong, and we attempted it many times, but all ended in failure.”
Ye Hong explained.
“Inheritance bead!”
Shen Long suddenly realized.
Some cultivators who had no hope of breaking through or were trapped and died in a secret dangerous place would record the location of their seated cave in a bead artifact, which was known as the inheritance bead, and those who had the destiny would find the seated cave according to the inheritance bead and get the inheritance and belongings.
Some low-ranking cultivators get the inheritance beads, find the seated cave of high-ranking cultivators, get a large amount of cultivation resources, and their cultivation skyrocketed, there are many such legends in the cultivation world, of course, there are also evil cultivators who set up traps to lure and kill other cultivators.
Shen Long pondered for half a second and said, “How about giving me a moment to think about it?”
“No problem, we hope that Fellow Daoist Shen will give us an answer within a day, we can’t wait too long.”
Ye Hong said.
Shen Long agreed that even if he really wanted to go treasure hunting, he would make more preparations instead of moving immediately.
After chatting for a while, Shen Long excused himself and left.
After a tea time, Shen Long appeared at the entrance of a five-storey high green-colored pavilion, with three big words “Hundred Talisman Pavilion” written on the plaque, and just by listening to the name, he knew that this was a store selling talisman seals.
Shen Long took a big step inside, and after half a quarter of an hour, he walked out.
He spent ten thousand spirit stones and purchased fifteen second-order talisman seals, attack, defense and evasion talismans.
Returning to his residence, Shen Long took out his transmission disk to contact Chen Li and Liu Shi, asking if there was any news of evil cultivators harming people in the Immortal Cultivation World recently, and neither Chen Li nor Liu Shi had heard of any evil cultivators harming people recently.
Shen Long instead contacted Ye Hong and promised to go treasure hunting, Ye Hong made an appointment with Shen Long to meet at the exit of the marketplace at the hour of the next day.
Shen Long sat on a green stone bed, counting the belongings he had on him, more than 100,000 spirit stones, a top-grade defensive magic weapon off-flame pendant, a set of sub-mother blades, sixteen second-order talisman seals, the most powerful one was the Five Thunder Talisman, which he had captured at the underground auction in the early years.
Apart from the Snow Wind Sparrow, Golden Winged Wind Roc and Blue Eyed Spirit Fox, all the other Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects had advanced to the second rank, the strongest was the Iron Tailed Scorpion, followed by the Gold Eating Ants, the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada was suitable for scouting for treasures, and the Fire Rock Beast was more resistant to being beaten up.
Shen Long recalled the content of the conversation with Ye Hong’s four people, and did not find any cracks, as for the Qingdan Dushi, this person did exist, but was active more than a hundred years ago, and Liu Yushan and Qin Yuwei’s elders had dealt with the Qingdan Dushi.
Properly prepared, Shen Long was relieved and closed his eyes to rest.
The next morning, at the stroke of the hour, Shen Long came to the exit of the workshop market on time, and Ye Hong’s four people had come over a long time ago.
After leaving the workshop market, Lin Guang offered a green colored flying boat and carried the five of them towards high altitude.
Seven days later, they appeared above a small valley surrounded by mountains on three sides.
Shen Long’s divine sense opened wide and carefully probed, not finding anything unusual.
Lin Guang’s spell was pinched, and the green-colored flying boat slowly fell down.
Ye Hong took out a golden glittering orb and injected mana.
The golden bead was a mid-grade artifact Bright Eyes Bead, which could see every blade of grass and tree within a ten-mile radius, mainly because it could see far, but it couldn’t be done if one wanted to find the formation’s eyes.
This was to prevent Shen Long from finding someone and following them.
Half a day passed, Ye Hong did not find any other Immortal Cultivators, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
“Fellow Daoist Shen don’t misunderstand, being careful is the best thing to do, we must be careful with this kind of thing.”
Ye Hong said.
“I can understand, this should not be the location of an ancient cultivator’s cave!”
Shen Long said.
“Of course not, the real cave is somewhere else, let’s go there now.”
Lin Guang’s spell was pinched, and the green-colored flying boat carried them towards high altitude, and they were soon gone.
A day later, they appeared at a steep peak with dense vegetation on the mountain.
With a change in Lin Guang’s spell, the cyan flying boat slowly landed at the foot of the mountain.
Shen Long’s divine sense was wide open and still did not find anything unusual.
Ye Hong offered a green flying knife and chopped somewhere at the foot of the mountain, a muffled sound came out, and a pale yellow light curtain appeared.
His magic skill a catalyze, the green flying dagger immediately bloomed a blinding green light, struck in the yellow light screen above, the yellow light screen as papier-mâché like broken, now a ten feet large hole, Ye Hong walked in, Lin Guang three people followed.
Shen Long’s divine sense was wide open, did not find any abnormalities, then followed.
After walking more than a hundred steps, they came to the end and appeared in an acre-sized cave.
On the stone wall in the lower left corner there was a condensed five-colored light screen, and runes flashed on the surface of the five-colored light screen.
“This is it!”
Lin Guang said as he pointed at the five-colored light curtain, his gaze fiery.
“Let’s fight quickly and break the prohibition as soon as possible! Don’t keep your hands.”
Ye Hong said, offering five flying daggers with flashing green light to attack the five-colored light curtain.
The four of them, Shen Long, attacked one after another, the three of them, Lin Guang, were all manipulating magic weapons, and Shen Long released spells.
He raised his hands in unison, a giant fireball with a diameter of three feet flew out, smashing on top of the five-colored light curtain one after another, and the rolling flames flooded the five-colored light curtain.
The roaring sound continued, and multiple kinds of spiritual light flooded the five-colored light screen.
A teacup of time passed, and the prohibition had not yet been broken.
Ye Hong frowned and said, “Increase the attack, I don’t believe I can’t break this prohibition.”
With a pinch of his spell, the five green flying daggers suddenly blazed with green light and instantly merged into one, transforming into a ten foot long green giant blade that chopped on top of the five-colored light screen, which shook for a moment.
Shen Long frowned and released the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada, and his divine sense clung to the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada.
The eyes of the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada lit up with a burst of golden light, and Shen Long could clearly see that there were five Foundation Establishment cultivators behind the five-colored light curtain, and Yang Qingshu was also inside.
“Not good, this is a trap, run.”
Shen Long exclaimed, his feet blazed with green light and ran towards the outside of the cave.
Just at this moment, a mournful sound of ghostly sobbing sounded, a large amount of black Yin Qi surged out from the stone wall, and the sound of ghosts crying and wolves howling continuously.
Shen Long felt a blur before his eyes and appeared in a gray space, and he could see quite a number of ghostly shadows, faintly appearing.
His reaction was quick, he tapped the fire departing pendant on his chest, the fire departing pendant lit up with a red light, a solid red light curtain appeared and covered his whole body.
His divine sense clung to the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada, observing the surroundings.
Shen Long’s right hand raised, and a giant fireball with a diameter of three zhang flew out and smashed into the void somewhere.
A gust of gloomy wind blew past, and a green-faced and fanged stern ghost appeared in a flash, the stern ghost’s eyes were scarlet, its body was covered with red hair, and its ten fingers were pitch-black and sharp, just like eagle’s claws. “Green-faced ghost!”
Shen Long recognized the origin of this kind of ghost.
This green-faced ghost in front of him had the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and was obviously artificially captive.
The green-faced ghost opened its mouth and sprayed out a ball of black light to meet the giant fireball.
With a loud rumbling sound, the black light and the giant fireball died together, and the flames rolled.
A green colored tornado swept in, instantly arriving in front of the green-faced ghost, the green-faced ghost was about to avoid it, when a sharp hissing sound rang out.
The green-faced ghost felt dizzy as if its head was struck by a heavy object, when it came back to its senses, the green-colored tornado had already arrived in front of it, and the powerful air current pushed it into the green-colored tornado.
The dense green wind blades struck the green-faced ghost’s body one after another, and the green-faced ghost let out a mournful ghostly cry, its body rose up in a puff of green smoke and transformed into a greenish-black orb that fell to the ground.
“Windswept Cloud Grand Circle! I didn’t expect that Fellow Daoist Shen was not only proficient in alchemy, but his magical abilities were also not small.”
A somewhat surprised man’s voice sounded.
As soon as the words fell, Yang Qingshu appeared with a gloomy face.
They had wanted to let Ye Hong’s five people use up some more mana before striking, but they hadn’t expected Shen Long to have a second-order Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada, forcing them to change their plans.
“Yang Qingshu! It’s you, you guys have been ambushing here all along?”
Shen Long frowned and said, from the current situation, Ye Hong four people were also victims, if they were accomplices, they would have already attacked Shen Long.
Yang Qingshu set up a trap to lure the Foundation Establishment cultivator, why did they not strike when Ye Hong four broke the formation and waited until Shen Long came over, could it be that their target from the beginning was Shen Long? This was a deliberate set up to target Shen Long.
“Dead people don’t need to know too much, if you want to blame it on your bad luck, come over with them to break the ban.”
Yang Qingshu said coldly.
They set up traps to lure and kill the Foundation Establishment Cultivators, there is no such thing as standing by the river all the time without wetting one’s shoes, this kind of thing can’t be done in one place all the time, they basically switched to a different place after a few crimes.
They set up the Small Five Elements Ban not only because of the strong defense of the Small Five Elements Ban, it also had to do with the fact that this ban required five cultivators to join hands to break it.
There were five people in their gang, so it was just right for each of them to deal with one cultivator, and whoever beheaded the enemy, the belongings would go to them.
Shen Long raised his right hand and a giant fireball shot out, smashing into Yang Qingshu.
A Yin Qi surged out from Yang Qingshu’s side, condensing into a high black wall in front of him.
The giant fireball smashed on top of the black high wall, both of them died together, and Yang Qingshu disappeared.
The eyes of the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada bloomed with blinding golden light, Shen Long could clearly see a faint aura in a certain corner, if not with the help of the Hundred Eyes Golden Cicada, he would not be able to find it at all.
Shen Long’s hands raised, and two giant fireballs shot out successively, hitting a certain corner one after another.
A giant skeleton more than two feet high, black gas winding, giant skeleton’s appearance resembles an ape, right hand holding a white bone sword with black gas winding, its eye sockets have two groups of green flames.
The giant skeleton’s jaws opened and spewed out a black light, heading straight for Shen Long.
Shen Long’s right hand raised, and a green-colored wind wall appeared and blocked in front of his body.
The black light struck above the blue wind wall, there was a muffled sound, the blue wind wall was intact, the black light disappeared.
A “croak” of crows cawed, more than two hundred red fire crows appeared, the fire crow king was a late second stage.
“Red Fire Crows! No, the artifact spirit took shape.”
Shen Long said.
Demonic beast essence souls could be refined into magic weapons and magic treasures as weapon spirits, and the weapon spirits could take shape and attack the enemy and be able to perform some of the divine abilities in front of their bodies, but of course, the demonic beasts that the essence souls had conjured up were always no match for the living demonic beasts.
The Fire Crow King gently flapped its wings, and two huge fireballs as big as water tanks shot out and smashed at Shen Long, and the other Red Fire Crows followed suit.
The dense red fireballs smashed on top of the black wind wall one after another and burst open as much as they could, the rolling flames flooded the black wind wall, it didn’t take long before the black wind wall collapsed, the flames flooded Shen Long’s figure, and the giant skeleton rushed over.
Dozens of thick green vines drilled out of the ground and wrapped around the giant skeleton’s feet, it waved its white bone sword to cut off the green vines, and a golden flashing talisman seal shot out and appeared in front of the giant skeleton.
The surface of the golden seal was covered with countless tiny golden arcs, emitting a terrifying lightning fluctuation.
The second-stage talisman seal, the Geng Thunder Talisman!
Before the giant skeleton had time to avoid it, the Gung Lei Talisman burst apart, turning into a huge ball of golden lightning that flooded the giant skeleton’s body, emitting a mournful ghostly cry and a puff of blue smoke.
Fire Crow King flapped his wings again, two giant fireballs shot out and smashed at Shen Long, other Red Fire Crows followed suit, hundreds of red fireballs smashed at Shen Long.
A whistling sound rang out, the fiery flames that flooded Shen Long dispersed, and a green tornado swept out to meet the incoming red fireballs.
A loud popping sound rang out, a large number of red fireballs were crushed by the green tornado, and the green tornado was also crushed by the dense red fireballs, bursting apart into a large number of green wind blades, shooting out in all directions, crushing a large number of red fireballs.
A small portion of the red fireballs smashed on top of the red light curtain on Shen Long’s body surface, and the red light curtain was unharmed.
The Fire Crow King still wanted to continue attacking Shen Long, Shen Long released another green-colored tornado, heading straight for the Fire Crow flock, and before they could strike, a sharp hissing sound rang out.
The Fire Crow King was fine, the reaction of the other Red Fire Crows were slowed down, the green tornado rushed into the Fire Crow group, and a large number of Red Fire Crows were wiped out by the powerful air current and were destroyed in ashes.
The roars continued, a large number of Red Fire Crows were killed, the Fire Crow King opened his mouth and spewed out a thick red flame, hitting the cyan tornado, the cyan tornado exploded, a large number of cyan wind blades shot out, skimming over the bodies of a large number of Red Fire Crows, chopping them to pieces.
The red fire crows were only transformed by essence souls, their defense was not strong, and they lost half of them in a single shot.
An ear-splitting sound rang out, hundreds of golden arrows shot out, piercing through the bodies of a large number of Red Fire Crows.
With a flap of the Fire Crow King’s wings, two giant fireballs flew out, striking at the incoming twenty golden arrows.
The twenty golden arrows simultaneously lit up with a burst of golden light and merged into one, transforming into a ten foot long golden spear that met the two giant fireballs.
With a popping sound, the two giant fireballs burst apart, and the flames flooded the golden spear.
Dozens of thick green vines broke out of the ground, quickly weaving into a large green hand, lightning-like grabbing the Fire Crow King’s right claw.
The Fire Crow King struggled hard, but it was of little use, and opened his mouth to spew out a stream of crimson flames, which landed on top of the green hand, the green hand flew out in ashes, and a spear with golden light flowing non-stop flew out from the flames, instantly arriving in front of the Fire Crow King, piercing through the Fire Crow King’s left wing, and pinning it to the wall.
The tail of the golden spear collapsed and transformed into thousands of gold-eating ants, these gold-eating ants coalesced into a golden arrow and successively struck the body of the Fire Crow King, the body of the Fire Crow King was pierced through a thousand holes, and transformed into dots of red light and collapsed.
On the other side, the golden thunder light dispersed, revealing the figure of a giant skeleton, a large number of tiny cracks could be seen on its body surface, and its breath was withered.
A giant fireball with a diameter of three feet shot out, before the giant skeleton had time to avoid it, dozens of thick green vines drilled out of the ground and wrapped around its body.
It was unable to avoid it and could only swing its white bone sword to slash at the giant fireball.
The giant fireball was chopped in half by the white bone sword and turned into rolling flames that flooded the giant skeleton’s body.
Before the flames dispersed, a second, bigger, red-colored fireball smashed over, followed by a third and a fourth.
A loud popping sound rang out, and the giant skeleton was enveloped by the flames, emitting mournful ghostly sobs as it struggled.
A cyan-colored tornado swept over and didn’t enter the sea of fire, a roaring sound rang out, and the giant skeleton’s body was torn apart.
Shen Long raised his hands in unison, and two giant fireballs shot out one after another, smashing into the ground somewhere.
A rumbling and bursting sound rang out, and the rolling flames flooded the ground.
More than ten thousand gold-eating ants coalesced into a golden spear and struck the ground where the flames were located.
With a loud bang, the surrounding Yin Qi dispersed, revealing the figures of Yu Susu’s four people.
Ye Hong and Su Nan fell in a pool of blood, Lin Guang’s left arm disappeared, a red round wheel floated in front of Yu Susu’s body, the shape of the round wheel resembled a blazing flame, and a short and fat black-shirted man fell in a pool of blood.
Yang Qingshu’s gaze was gloomy, the Hundred Crows Diagram had been destroyed by Shen Long, who had exterminated a number of Foundation Establishment cultivators with this top-grade magic weapon.
“Departure Fire Wheel! Isn’t this the famous magic weapon of the Yu family ancestor? Are you a descendant of the Yu Family?”
A green-robed old man with a big belly frowned.
Besides Yang Qingshu, there were two men and a woman, all four were in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and Lin Guang had been injured.
“Finish them off as soon as possible, Fellow Daoist Han will join me in dealing with Fellow Daoist Shen, his spirit bugs are very powerful, and he has also cultivated multiple spells to great perfection.”
Yang Qingshu commanded, his face full of killing aura.
Shen Long not only destroyed the giant skeleton, but also broke the formation.
(End of chapter)