Chapter 26: Encounter with the Demonic Beast

  "Huh? There's a cave here."

  The red-clothed girl came down from the mountain and saw Yang Meng standing at the entrance of the cave, asking casually.

  "How did you come down?"

  "There is nothing on the mountain top, it's all bare."

  "Have you seen how big this island is?" Yang Yun asked.

  "It's just about four or five li away, and to the northwest, there is another island that appears to be slightly larger than this one."

  "How strange! Why is it fogging up?" Meng Chao pointed at the sea and asked.

  From the top of the mountain, a layer of fog rose from the surface of the sea, and the Changfu ship was covered by the fog, gradually disappearing. The fog gradually spread to the island, and white fog churned at the foot of the mountain. At this time, standing on the mountain, it seemed as if I was in an isolated island in a sea of fog.

  Yang Yun and the red-clothed girl suddenly changed color, they felt the abnormal fluctuation of the spiritual energy.

  "It's an array formula!" The two people said in unison.

  "What's with the formation?" Meng Chao asked in surprise.

  At this time on the Changfu ship, a burst of crying and shouting. "It's over! This is Fog Island, we've rushed to the Ghost Gate!" The old captain howled.

  In the woods, Yang Yue threw down the water bucket in his hand and pulled Chen Hu to quickly climb up a big tree. The other three sailors also climbed up the trees beside them. As soon as they climbed up, they heard rustling sounds coming from below their feet, with occasional snapping of branches, as if something huge was crawling underneath.

  "What should we do? Shall we go down?" asked the red-clothed girl.

  The fog gradually spread to the mountain waist where the three people were, with a rolling sea of fog under their feet. The spiritual energy fluctuated and appeared vaguely, accompanied by a thrilling feeling, as if there was a ferocious beast hidden in the fog.

  "Do you have a clear conscience?"

  "No."

  "What about the talisman for exorcism, the talisman for summoning spirits and the talisman for capturing shadows?"

  "None at all, just some low-level talismans." The red-clothed girl felt a wave of embarrassment and thought to herself that next time she would ask Master for more low-level spells to carry with her.

  "There's nothing we can do about it now, let's just wait." Yang Yun said helplessly, "Give a Radiant Seal to Old Meng, is there any attacking talisman?"

  "There are some Fireball Talismans and Blade Dance Talismans."

  "Use your own Blade Dance Seal and give a few Fireball Seals to Old Meng."

  The red-clothed girl handed several talismans to Meng Chao with a pleased expression.

  "This - is this a talisman?" Meng Chao took it over, carefully holding it in his hands, "How does one use it?"

  "Rip it open and a light ball will attach to your hand, just throw it at the target like a hidden weapon." Yang Yun explained.

  "Huh? It's that simple with the celestial seal?"

  "This is the lowest level of talisman, used by ordinary people. Higher-level talismans require the injection of true energy to trigger, and true energy leaving the body can only be done by innate masters."

  "What kind of seal do you use?" The red-clothed girl asked Yang Yun.

  "Uh... I don't have any symbols, can you give me two Slashing Dance Symbols?"

  "What? Your master didn't even give you any symbols, and yet he let you come out to gain experience?" The red-clothed girl's eyes widened in surprise. Before building their foundation, cultivators actually don't have much of an advantage compared to ordinary people in the martial world, after all, martial arts are specialized techniques for fighting, so disciples during the foundation-building period will always carry with them symbol records bestowed by their sect's seniors.

  "My master is a wandering cultivator, and I'm just a nominal disciple. He only taught me for a few months before saying he had to avoid some enemies and left in a hurry." Yang Yun was worried, it seemed that once you told one lie, you had to keep making up more lies to cover it up, and this master's lies were getting more and more vivid.

  The red-clothed girl felt a twinge of sympathy, having never seen such a pitiful cultivator. She pulled out a stack of talismans, intending to hand a few over to Yang Yun, but before she could react, her vision blurred and her hands lightened as Yang Yun smiled slyly and stuffed the talismans into his own robes.

  "Haha, thank you so much, you're really generous." Yang Yun's mouth was curved with a sly smile.

  What swift thieving hands! How could I pity this guy?! A surge of pent-up anger churned in the chest of the red-clothed girl, her rage meter shooting straight to the red line, almost making her lift her foot to kick this guy off the cliff.

  She didn't know that Yang Yun had just used the Splitting Flowers and Willows Hand, a supreme technique of the Silent Yuan Refining Essence Technique, to snatch her symbol record. It wasn't strange at all that she hadn't guarded against it even a little bit.

  "Will Changfu go by itself?" Meng Chao said worriedly. Yang Yun was overjoyed, and it was indeed his brother who had made this clever move.

  The sky gradually darkened, making the mist on the island look even more eerie and ghostly. The sea surface in the distance was completely invisible.

  As expected, the red-clothed girl was distracted and worried that the boat would leave them behind.

  Yang Yun estimated that the red-clothed girl's foot was no longer kickable, so he put away his guard and said: "With such a big fog, the captain must be afraid of running aground and won't set sail rashly——and this is not ordinary fog, even if he wants to leave, he may not be able to get out."

  "How much longer must we wait?" The red-clothed girl said impatiently.

  "Just wait a little longer, it's almost done."

  The moon rises above the sea surface, but is blocked by the foggy sea. From the top of the mountain, looking down, you can only see a faint silver light in the misty air on the east side.

  "Let's go."

  "Hey, why are you going upstairs?"

  "Set up an ambush."

  "What's the ambush?"

  Yang Yun waved his hand and said, "Have you noticed this formation? This is a large array that absorbs the moon's essence. The center of the formation is the stone platform under our feet."

  "Are you saying that later Yuehua will be summoned by the formation to this stone platform?"

  "That's right, take a look at the entrance of the cave, there are traces left by reptilian creatures crawling, and some dried snake spittle. Moreover, most snake-like demons need to absorb moonlight to cultivate."

  "You... you're saying we'll run into a snake demon?" Meng Chao finally understood, his face changing color.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier? I could have prepared myself." The red-clothed girl stamped her foot and said.

  "Ready? What's ready? Can you set up a formation or find some help?"

  The red-clothed girl was stunned, and indeed there was no good way out, so she used the transmission talisman. Even if Master Shu hurried over, it would not be possible to arrive that quickly, and she could only rely on herself. However, her heart was really racing with anxiety. After all, anything that had become a demon was not something an ordinary person could deal with, and now she could only rely on those talismans.

  "Don't worry, this snake demon hasn't reached its prime yet, and this formation wasn't set up by it either. We still have a chance."

  "How did you know?"

  "I guess so, otherwise we'll just be waiting to be eaten by the snake demon."

  The girl in red stumbled and almost fell over in anger.

  There were many rocks on the mountain, and there was no shortage of hiding places. The three people dispersed slightly, forming a triangular encirclement around the stone platform.

  "Watch my gestures later, I'll hold my breath when I raise my hand, and attack at the same time as I swing it." Yang Yun reminded.

  Yang Yun had a calm and composed demeanor, and the other two people unknowingly followed his command.

  The moon gradually rose higher and finally jumped out of the sea of fog. In an instant, the light was released, and the entire sea of fog was dyed silver.

  The moon's essence gazed out, the dense moonlight was like mercury, surging on the surface of the sea of fog, finally condensing into a heavenly river from below, pouring onto the stone platform at her feet.

  "This is indeed a treasure land for cultivation." Yang Yun thought greedily, "If I were to settle here, the cultivation of the Moon Flower True Classic would be at least twice as fast."

  "It's coming!" Yang Yun's heart stirred, something was rapidly moving towards the entrance of the cave, its body condensed with such intense moonlight that even through the belly of the mountain, the Moon Spirit Eye could see the scattered radiance.

  As he raised his hand, several people held their breath at the same time.

  Right after that, a white snake as thick as a bucket emerged from the hole. It first poked out its head, and its blood-red long tongue swept back and forth in the air, making a hissing sound.

  It seemed to have smelled something, and the white snake shook its head from side to side, hesitating and refusing to come out of the hole.

  The sea breeze was blowing upwards, and the three of them held their breath again. The white snake observed for a while without noticing anything unusual, and finally came out impatiently.

  Its body, over ten meters long, coiled into a snake-like array on the platform, bathed entirely in moonlight. Perhaps feeling comfortable, the white python continuously twisted its body and let out a hissing cry.

  Yang Yun's hand hesitated and didn't fall, Meng Chao's body trembled slightly, seemingly unable to hold on any longer. The red-clothed girl wanted to take the initiative, but saw Yang Yun shaking his head at her, so she had to endure once more.

  At this time, the moon rose a bit higher, as if it had triggered some kind of formation. A silver light flashed across the mountain wall and another stream of moonlight shot out towards the stone platform.

  The white python let out a shrill cry, opened its bloody mouth, and a round dan the size of an egg flew out from its mouth, suspended at the intersection of the two moonlights.