Chapter Forty-Four: Take advantage of your illness and threaten your life! Down

  At the intersection of a bamboo forest and a forest, a man's corpse lay on a bluestone, and another man sat on the edge of the bluestone with his knees crossed. A thin mist of greenish-black smoke evaporated from his head.

  The man's face turned black, his eyes rolled, and his whole body was filled with a violent aura.

  Suddenly, the man's eyes snapped open, and a blood-red light burst forth. He opened his mouth and spat out a jet of dark, foul-smelling blood, and his pale face regained some of its rosiness.

  This man was exactly Xu Cong, who wanted to kill the disciples of Jingxian Valley and Wang Fei. The corpse beside him was naturally his younger brother, Xu Ming.

  "Damn it, that old bastard, actually poisoned me." Xu Cong spat out the dirty blood and then roared in anger, "Even more detestable is that little scoundrel, not only did he poison me, but also used something that can make people hallucinate, go to hell!"

  Xu Cong furiously roared, however, in the woods except for the chirping birds on the branches, no one paid attention to him, and those birds seemed to be mocking him.

  After a roar of no avail, Xu Cong had to continue to recuperate, but when he glanced at him, his face was filled with grief and hatred.

  "Brother, I will definitely avenge you and kill those two! I'll rape that woman first then kill her, and castrate that man before slaughtering him!"

  As he spoke, Xu Cong's face revealed a wry smile, and he took a deep breath, continuing to expel the remaining toxins from his body.

  "This revenge law is great and very creative!"

  Xu Cong Zheng was pondering how to deal with Wang Fei and Luo Jiao Er when a cold voice suddenly came from his side, the man was startled, quickly got up, rushed to the direction of the sound, and shouted: "Who is it? Who's there! Get out here!"

  Just as Xu Cong concentrated all his spirit on the source of the sound, behind him, energy suddenly burst out and a huge beam of light composed of flames, lightning, ice crystals, wind blades and so on appeared, about the size of a fist.

  The light flashed instantly, and Xu Cong didn't have time to dodge, he could only launch a counterattack, throwing out three protective talismans from his sleeve.

  In an instant, three rays of light flashed, and a triple-layered light shield appeared behind the man, blocking the beam's attack!

  Bang, bang, bang, a series of sounds erupted, the beam struck the light shield, sparks splashed everywhere, and the light shield immediately showed cracks, with a cracking sound, it shattered and dissipated. However, the beam only lost some energy and continued to charge towards Xuc.

  The light shield talisman couldn't stop the beam's approach, Xu Cong's face changed greatly. Now with a wounded body, he was unable to exert his original strength of fifty percent. Feeling stifled, Xu Cong let out a loud roar and once again pulled out a pale blue talisman from his bosom.

  This talisman looks similar to the pale blue-green talismans sold by the old man at Dao Mountain Gate, but it's not a spirit talisman, just an ordinary escape talisman.

  Xu Cong's eyes flashed with a hint of resentment and pain, but the next moment was replaced by determination. He blew a mouthful of air at the talisman, which instantly emitted a pale blue-green light that enveloped it.

  "Hmph, don't think you can leave!"

  With a shout, the sky in the forest suddenly turned red, and then a thin thread appeared, weaving into a net that covered the lower part of the forest.

  "Received!"

  Another sound, the Luo net slowly shrinks, and in the instant it shrinks, somewhere in the forest, space ripples, a hiss, a burst of green smoke rises, and Xu Cong's figure emerges from within.

  He changed his location, Xu Cong didn't say a word and raised a flying artifact to leave. Just as he was about to fly away, he found that the space around him was blocked by a layer of dense red silk threads.

  "Tianluodiwang symbol! Hmph, if it were a high-level symbol, I would still be wary of it, but now it's just a low-level one, and it can't do anything to me!"

  Xu Cong smiled coldly and manipulated the Snowlight Sword in his hand, making a swift slash at the net in front of him.

  A white light beam shot out, sweeping across the net, and the net immediately broke into two halves. Xu Cong let out a cold hum and continued to control the flying artifact under his feet, charging forward.

  However, he flew for only a moment when a loud crash was heard and a bolt of lightning struck down.

  "Ah!"

  Xu Cong let out a mournful howl, his entire body battered and bruised from the lightning blast, his clothes tattered and shredded, pieces falling off him, his whole person disheveled.

  "Get out of here!"

  Xu Cong was furious, but no matter how he released his divine sense, he couldn't detect the aura of the person hiding in the dark. Had the other party used a Concealment Talisman?

  But thinking about it again, it's impossible. The stealth symbol would lose its effect once spiritual power is used, and that previous wave of attacks was clearly a spell, how could it not use spiritual power to cast?

  Xu Cong furrowed his brow in deep thought, but still couldn't figure it out. Suddenly, his ear twitched and he immediately turned his head to the left.

  All he saw was a dark bullet flying towards him, and for a moment, Xu Cong didn't react.

  "Not good!"

  Xu Cong muttered to himself, and his body immediately moved sideways, but his reaction was apparently slower than expected. The bullet exploded with a loud noise, this time it wasn't lightning or ice crystal, but a kind of sticky substance.

  A sticky liquid splashed all over him, and Xu Cong felt his movements suddenly stiffen.

  At the same time, a figure also appeared in his line of sight.

  This man is none other than Wang Fei.

  Wang Fei had exhausted all his stealth symbols and mobilized his spiritual power before he materialized.

  Of course, Wang Fei was fearless, a string of raids had already caused the opposing side to be in great disorder, and his goal had also been achieved.

  Wang Fei's previous words were meant to draw the opponent's attention, thereby focusing all their energy on that position. Meanwhile, he himself would use the Flying Devil Steps, comparable to a Condensation Period cultivator's Instantaneous Movement Technique, to quickly move to the opposite position and launch a sneak attack with multiple explosive pellets.

  However, due to the exhaustion of flying magic steps, too much spiritual power was consumed. Fortunately, Wang Fei had twenty second-grade spirit crystals, and the recovery speed was several times faster than that of third-grade spirit crystals. So, he immediately took out a second-grade spirit crystal and absorbed the spiritual energy inside.

  In just a moment, Wang Fei was back to normal.

  Xu Cong saw Wang Fei, his eyes revealing a fierce light, his hands forming a seal, and a dark, shiny copper ring appeared out of thin air.

  On this copper ring, various strange patterns were carved. Under Xu Cong's spiritual power infusion, it emitted a hissing sound and jumped continuously. The moment the copper ring appeared, a cold aura spread out.

  Low-grade spiritual artifact!

  Wang Fei's eyes narrowed, and his expression changed slightly. This inferior spiritual instrument was far from being a top-grade artifact. A top-grade artifact could be used with great difficulty even by someone who had reached the mid-stage of Spiritual Overflow, but a spiritual instrument was different. Even if one had reached the late stage of Spiritual Overflow and achieved Great Perfection, using it would still be extremely difficult.

  Thus, Wang Fei's expression turned grave, his left hand controlling the ancient flying sword, while his right hand once again produced several explosive pellets.

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  PS: Fellow Taoist, please stay a moment, I've finished reading the book. Could you spare a recommendation vote? I'd be eternally grateful~~~~~~