Misty Valley Chapter 5: Tiger Leaps Over the Brook

  "Leopard!!" Wang She was shocked to see Zhou Bao suddenly beheaded by Wang Guanlan, his mind racing with excitement. Meanwhile, Yue Haifeng's hand tightened, a red glow flashing in his eyes as an invisible wave shot out from between his eyebrows.

  "Ah!!!!" Wang She was already stunned by Zhou Bao's sudden defeat, he couldn't understand how a fourth-level cultivator could be killed in an instant when they had the upper hand. His mind was racing and he didn't notice anything unusual about Yue Hai Feng, who finally seized the opportunity to grab him.

  An invisible fluctuation shot out from the center of Yuhai Peak's eyebrows, instantly entering Wang She's eyebrows. In an instant, Wang She's eyes suddenly condensed, and his body stiffened, standing there. The knife light flashed by, cutting off two things at once.

  "He used spiritual power, he used spiritual power!" Wang Guanlan was panting heavily, his spirit extremely weak. The Bodhi Town Law Knife was a divine art, the highest manifestation of Taoist techniques, and it had extremely strict requirements for spiritual power. Wang Guanlan had used all his might to unleash a single knife strike, killing Zhou Bao in one blow. Although he had achieved success, he had almost completely exhausted his spiritual power. After all, he was only a second-layer cultivator of Qi, and he couldn't even feel what spiritual power was. However, this one knife strike, although it had drained his spiritual power, had also put his spirit in an extremely subtle state. In this state, the mysterious attack from Yue Haifeng did not escape his notice. He clearly "saw" a wave-like power shooting out from Yue Haifeng's brow, entering Wang Guanlan's brow. At the moment it entered, a faint ripple also appeared on Wang Guanlan's body, and then he was killed by Yue Haifeng.

  Although he had never eaten pork, hadn't he seen pigs run? He was very sure that the power used by Yue Haifeng was spiritual power, and this was a spiritual attack.

  Mind attack?

  Sounds utterly ridiculous, why?

  Because the spiritual realm has always been seen as a domain that only top martial artists can possess in this world, the only exception being those martial artists who have grasped Buddhist supernatural powers. Since supernatural powers are a means of unifying Buddhism and martial arts, they require the use of spiritual power. Therefore, these martial artists who understand Buddhist supernatural powers can utilize spiritual power by displaying their supernatural powers. However, this utilization is passive and merely consumptive. As for how it is consumed during the process of utilizing supernatural powers, they cannot explain it clearly either.

  Apart from the Buddha's divine power, there is no one who can use spiritual power before reaching the state of Yuqi.

  But now, Yue Haifeng has broken this common sense in front of Wang Guanlan, and Wang Guanlan can also be very sure that the guy just used was not a Buddhist divine power!

  "Hah...hah...hah...hah!" Like Wang Guanlan, the one who had defeated Wang She, Yue Haifeng was also exhausted, panting heavily.

  "What should we do now?!" Wang Guanlan asked after leaning against the cave wall and panting for a while.

  "They should have had an antidote on them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to move so easily in the fog!" Yue Haifeng said, "We need to leave here as soon as possible. If they can find us, others will too, it's just a matter of time! As he spoke, he squatted down and began searching for something on Wang She's mutilated corpse. After a while, he pulled out several bottles and a bronze token from the remains of Wang She's lower body.

  "Damn it, he's from the Hundred Poisons Sect!"

  "Poison Gate!?" At the same time, Wang Guanlan also searched out a similar token from Zhou Bao's body. These two tokens were made of bronze, about an inch thick, with intricate patterns engraved on them. On one side of the token, a lifelike and ferocious black spider was carved, while on the other side, a "poison" character was carved. This was the emblem of the famous Poison Gate sect in the southern part of the Great Qi Kingdom.

  "What a joke! The Hundred Poisons Sect? They're getting impatient!" Wang Guanlan's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he didn't put this infamous sect in his sights.

  "Let's first see how to get out of this place!" Yue Haifeng did not mind the murderous aura that Wang Guanlan inadvertently revealed. In his opinion, people like Wang Guanlan, who were born into a noble family, had always been arrogant and thought that everyone should listen to them, and everything should go according to their will. But for Yue Haifeng, a warrior who had been fighting on the edge of life and death for years, these things were simply meaningless.

  "Damn it, this guy has too many medicines on him, we don't even know which one is the antidote!"

  "It's this black dan medicine!" Just as Wang Guanlan was complaining, Yue Haifeng finally found a bottle of dan medicine on that half corpse.

  "How did you know!" Wang Guanlan didn't dare to listen to medicine casually, that's something that can kill people.

  Yue Haifeng didn't answer immediately, but instead took the dan medicine and walked to the stone bed, stuffing a black dan medicine into Chen Qingshan's mouth. The dan medicine dissolved as soon as it entered his mouth, and Wang Guanlan saw the black air lingering on Chen Qingshan's face dissipating at a visible speed.

  "Really effective?!"

  "This Seven-Colored Phantom Fog is one of the Three Poisons of the Hundred Toxins Sect, and it's so famous that I've heard of its antidote even though I've never seen it before. This guy only has this one type of pill on him that matches!" As he spoke, Yue Haifeng moved to put Chen Qingshan on his back.

  "What are you doing?!"

  "Get out of here!"

  "Even if we have an antidote now, it's still very dangerous to go out. We don't even know how many of them there are or how strong they are!"

  "Are we going to wait for death here?!"

  "It's not that serious, but I think it's better to be prepared beforehand!" Wang Guanlan said, taking out the map of Wuyin Gorge, "I know you often enter Wuyin Gorge, but I think your understanding of this gorge won't be more detailed than this map. Let's determine where to go first before leaving, what do you say?!"

  "Alright!" Yue Haifeng took a look at the map, and a hint of surprise flashed across his face. Wang Guanlan was right, this map was indeed too detailed, even the hidden cliff they were on was marked, only the person who drew the map didn't discover this cave.

  "Here, the Tiger Leaping Gorge is not far from us. The gorge is ten miles long and extends all the way to the depths of the canyon. Not only is the terrain complex, but there are also many small roads. Most importantly, there is water there, and fish too - we won't go hungry!"

  "Aren't you afraid there's poison in the water?!"

  "The Seven-Colored Phantom Fog is powerful, but it has one characteristic - it's insoluble in water. So, there's absolutely no poison in the water!" said Yue Haifeng.

  "It seems you've studied the Bai Du Men well!" Wang Guanlan said, "Then let's go to Hu Tiao Xi. To be honest, I don't like starving either!" As he spoke, he led the way out of the cave.

  Half an hour later, Qin and another man entered the cave. They stood silently in front of the two bodies that had been cut into four pieces. It was not them who seemed unable to accept the bloody scene before their eyes, but rather the other person.

  "How is this possible? This can't be! How could both of them have died? Could it be that the young master really has a powerful expert secretly protecting him?"

  "It's certain, otherwise Zhou Bao and Wang She wouldn't have died!" Qin Big Brother, although a high-ranking expert in the Condensation Period, didn't believe that one of the two people before him had been killed by Wang Guanlan. "The blood hasn't even dried yet, they couldn't have left more than half an hour ago!"

  "Shall we chase now?!"

  "They can't escape!" Qin Da Ge took a deep breath, and a red light shot out from his sleeve, landing on the ground. It was a colorful spider that directed the spider to circle around the stone bed before rushing out of the cave entrance and disappearing into the dense fog. The two people in the cave closely followed behind the spider, charging into the fog, and the direction they left in was exactly where Wang Guanlan and Yue Haifeng were headed - Tiger Leaping Gorge.

  Tiger Leaping Gorge is the most mysterious place in this section of the misty valley, with a very prominent terrain. The so-called "gully" refers to a tributary formed by the White Sand River flowing into the misty valley, about three zhang wide. This width allows a fierce tiger to jump over it with one leap, hence the name Tiger Leaping Gorge. Due to the terrain of the valley, this tributary of White Sand Lake winds its way through seven bends and eight turns, with strange rocks standing on both sides, making the terrain extremely complex. Strange insects and wild beasts often appear and disappear here, making it a notorious dangerous place in this section of the misty valley. Although Yue Hai and Chen Qing have frequently entered and exited the misty valley, they rarely visit Tiger Leaping Gorge, so they are not familiar with its terrain. However, now that they have Wang Guanlan's map, things are different.

  "Unexpectedly, there's such a profound mystery in the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Fortunately, you have this map in your hand; otherwise, we wouldn't be able to penetrate so deeply!" At the bottom of a cliff in the depths of the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yue Haifeng placed Chen Qing on flat ground, saying with some emotion.

  "This map must have been drawn by the masters of the royal family who entered this misty valley over the years. Except for secret places like the cave we hid in earlier, there are almost no secrets to be found in the terrain of this valley." Wang Guanlan was also very pleased with this detailed map, "Even if those people have the ability to seal off the valley, it won't be easy for them to find us."

  "Is that so? I think it's quite easy!" Before Wang Guanlan's voice had fallen, a voice full of murderous intent came from the depths of the thick fog.

  In the thick fog, two figures gradually became clear in front of me.

  "You Baodu men are really bold, daring to use poison to seal off the Wuyin Gorge!" Wang Guanlan suddenly stood up, staring intently at the newcomer.

  "Heh heh, Fourteenth Young Master, don't pretend to be brave anymore. The Ning Wang Fu is indeed powerful, but even with their strength, it would take them several days to rush into the valley and rescue you. You won't be able to hold on that long!"

  "Damn you!" Wang Guanlan cursed and drew out the long knife from his waist, without saying more, he charged forward with his knife.

  "Whoa!!" Wang Guanlan's speed was fast, but Qin Big Brother was after all a high-ranking expert in the fourth layer of Qi Refining, and couldn't be compared to Zhou Bao who was only in the early stages of the fourth layer. The difference in their strength was not even proportional. Wang Guanlan swung his knife down, but Qin Big Brother lightly flicked his finger, and with a huge force, sent Wang Guanlan flying over ten meters away. At the same time, Yue Haifeng also made his move, fighting against another person in a different location. These two were both martial artists in the Condensing Qi stage, and their strength was originally evenly matched. However, Yue Haifeng had previously fought a battle, and in order to end it quickly, he had used up his mysterious spiritual energy, so as soon as they started fighting, he was already at a disadvantage.

  Qin big brother seems to be very trusting of his own subordinate, and didn't pay attention to the two's battle situation. Instead, he took a step-by-step approach to get closer to Wang Guanlan. "Fourteenth young master, it looks like I underestimated you, haha! The Buddhist divine technique is indeed famous for its name, and with your second-layer cultivation of refining Qi, you directly killed Zhou Bao who was only at the initial stage of condensing Qi. If given time, Fourteenth young master will definitely become a world-renowned figure. Unfortunately, you won't have that chance!"