Chapter 76: Fleeing in Panic

  "Master! Who is this outsider eavesdropping on our conversation?" A purple-faced, long-bearded old man asked as soon as he saw Wang Zhongqiu enter.

  Wang Zhongque smiled wryly and said, "Who else could it be? It's just that clever girl, Qiao'er. She rarely comes to see me, I don't know what she wants today either. But I've already sent her away!"

  "It's Qiao Er, no wonder!" Wang Zhongkui and Qiao Er had a special relationship between them, which most of his fellow disciples also knew a little about. Upon hearing that the person outside the courtyard was Qiao Er, they nodded thoughtfully.

  "Master, Chou'er and Ling Luoyu are close, I don't know if she heard our conversation or not. What if she goes to inform Ling Luoyu? That wouldn't be good!" said Chen Changlao with concern.

  Wang Zhongque nodded and said, "If it weren't for Brother Chen's reminder, I would have really forgotten about this matter. Brother Chen, you go take a look right away! Don't let anything unexpected happen at this critical moment!"

  Old Chen nodded in response and stood up, leaving the courtyard quickly.

  In the cave mansion, Ling Luo sat on the bed, drinking wine mouthful after mouthful.

  "These two brothers, are they protecting me or monitoring me!" Ling Luoyu glanced at Zhang Shixiong and Zhao Shixiong who were standing quietly beside her, furrowing her brow.

  No matter who it is, being stared at by two people who are not very familiar with each other will definitely be uncomfortable!

  Ling Luo's feathers were lazy, and he didn't bother to reason with the two of them. He just drank liquor mouthful by mouthful, and he was increasingly enjoying that dizzy feeling. In that state, all his troubles seemed to be thrown behind him one by one.

  In the cave mansion, a purple figure flashed by, and Cui'er appeared in the cave mansion.

  "Is it Xiao'er, sister? How did you end up here?" Seeing that it was indeed Xiao'er, Zhang Shixiong and Zhao Shixiong hastily stepped forward, respectfully greeting her. They were merely ordinary inner sect disciples, and their status was far inferior to Xiao'er's. Moreover, they all knew that the Sect Master doted on Xiao'er, so in front of her, they didn't dare be presumptuous.

  "Two senior brothers, Qiao'er is passing by here and came to see Ling junior brother!" Qiao'er smiled lightly and stepped forward a few steps.

  Suddenly, Qiao'er burst out and slapped several palms on the back of the two men's heads.

  That Shifu Zhao didn't expect Qiao to suddenly attack them, and he wasn't on guard against her at all. He didn't even make a sound before being knocked unconscious by Qiao.

  "Qiao'er, it's you! You've finally appeared!" Although he had drunk a lot of wine, as soon as Qiao'er's shadow appeared before Ling Luoyu's eyes, Ling Luoyu immediately sobered up.

  "Ling Shidi, no nonsense, come with me quickly, or it might be too late!" Qiao'er's face was full of urgency.

  "Go, go where?" Ling Luo Yu looked bewildered.

  "Master, they want to use you as a sacrifice to worship the gods, hurry up and run, no matter how far, just go!" Before Ling Luofei could speak, Qiao'er had already pulled him out and was running wildly towards the outside.

  "To know, even if a person dies, their soul still exists, and there's the legendary spiritual realm where they can roam free, perhaps even reincarnate. But if they're used as a sacrifice, that's truly annihilating body and spirit!" Xiao Er held onto Ling Luo Fei, but the two of them had no idea which direction to go in.

  As for this Xuanming Xiuxian realm, both of them were completely ignorant.

  "Why don't we go hide in that mysterious cave first? It's very secluded, and probably no one will find us there!" Qiao'er thought for a moment before speaking up, she really didn't know where else in the entire Xuanming cultivation world they could temporarily take refuge.

  Ling Luo nodded slightly, although he knew he couldn't hold on for much longer. However, he was absolutely unwilling to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb, let alone have his ethereal soul annihilated.

  "After we entered the Xuanming Xiuxian realm, when people treated us like goods and moved us around, I vowed that no matter what means I would use to increase my strength, I must make all those who looked down on me look up to me..." Zitian's words appeared in Lingluo Yu's ears, perhaps Zitian was right, no matter where you are, without strength everything is just empty talk.

  I am already a dying body, I don't want to ask for anything, just hoping to have a moment of peace before death, but unexpectedly even this little request is so difficult!

  Just as Ling Xiaoyu and Qiao'er had just left the cave, Chen Changlao's figure appeared there. Seeing Zhang and Zhao fainting on the ground in the cave, his face changed, and he didn't know what had happened.

  "Chase! Think you can run, let's see where you can go!"

  Hastily and busily, he sent a message to Master Wang Zhongque, and Elder Chen's figure flashed, floating out of the cave.

  A master of the Condensation Period, with deliberate effort, can envelop an area of ten miles in all directions with just his divine sense.

  At this time, Qiao'er had just fled with Ling Luoyu for a short while and hadn't escaped more than ten miles away. Elder Chen searched slightly and immediately discovered the tracks of the two people.

  Elder Chen opened his mouth and spat out a stream of air, and a green flying sword appeared out of thin air. Elder Chen lightly jumped up onto the flying sword and shot towards the two like an arrow leaving a bowstring.

  "Oh no, they've caught up!" Chao'er exclaimed, having already sensed the sound of flying swords piercing through the air from behind. Although her foundation-building cultivation was already sufficient to refine a flying sword, Chao'er had been too lazy to do so, and the speed at which the flying sword flew was far beyond what she could match. Moreover, Chen Laoshi's cultivation, who was controlling the flying sword, was much higher than hers.

  Although Chao'er exerted all her strength to run faster, the distance was still rapidly narrowing.

  They had already run to the vicinity of that mysterious cave, Qiao'er stopped, if she didn't stop and continued to rush into the cave, it was likely that Chen Lao would discover their trail.

  Ling let down his guard, and Cui'er said softly: "Brother Ling, wait a moment, I'll go distract Elder Chen, you run first!"

  "Qiao'er!" Ling Luo Yu called out softly, his voice a little choked. He had many things he wanted to say to Qiao'er, but didn't know where to start and this wasn't the right time anyway.

  "Don't worry, Ling Shidi, Qiao'er will be fine, but you, remember, you must take good care of yourself!" Qiao'er habitually patted Ling Luoyu's shoulder and said with a smile.

  In a flash of black shadow, in this instant when the two were speaking, Old Man Chen had already caught up and appeared before them.

  "Ling Luo Yu, you think you can run? Let's see where you can run to! Xiao Er, come over here and don't get mixed up with Ling Luo Yu!" Old Man Chen shouted sternly.