Chapter 27 Loss and Gain

  What a great opportunity!

  Yang Yun's hand suddenly fell, and the red-clothed girl was quick, a blade dance symbol flew out immediately.

  The blade dance symbol had just flown out as a white light sphere, and after hitting Bai E's body, it splashed out dozens of swirling and dancing white streams of light.

  White light flashed rapidly, the air was filled with the sound of whirring flying blades breaking through the wind, dozens of white lights danced up and down, bringing forth a burst of blood flowers on Bai E's body.

  The white python that was attacked did not dodge or evade, but instead stretched its neck and desperately tried to retrieve the inner elixir it had spat out.

  At this time, Meng Chao's attack arrived, a red light ball flew towards Bai E's head.

  The white python's long tail stood up like lightning, whipping the red light group, and suddenly a bright flame burst out. The white python was in so much pain that it let out a shrill cry, and the air was filled with a smoky smell.

  The inner elixir stirred and was thrown into the blood basin of Bai E's huge mouth.

  Yang Yun made an attacking gesture, but he himself didn't move. The silver light in his eyes flashed as his mind worked at full capacity to capture and analyze the battle situation.

  Don't look at Yang Yun's calm appearance, in fact, his heart is also extremely nervous. The wave shark he encountered in the sea last time was just an ordinary fierce beast, and he had already dealt with it very dangerously, but this time his opponent was a demon beast.

  All things have spirit, ordinary beasts can gain initial spiritual wisdom and embark on the path of demon cultivation as long as they condense their inner elixir.

  The body of a demon beast is much stronger than that of a human, and as long as it becomes a demon, most will have some kind of magical talent similar to magic spells. This magical power can be compared to the several people relying on talismans to cast spells.

  As soon as the white python swallowed back the inner elixir, the three of them were completely out of options.

  As he watched the elixir fall into Bai E's mouth, Yang Yun's eyes lit up.

  It's now! He raised his hand and shot out a copper coin.

  The red-clothed girl had just released another slash of the blade dance symbol, and was still blocked by Bai E's body. In the midst of the chaos, she saw Yang Yun shoot out a hidden projectile, and angrily shouted, "Hidden projectiles are useless! Use symbols!"

  Before the Innate Period, true energy cannot leave the body, so when a hidden weapon is thrown out, it actually relies on the power emitted from the wrist. For high-level cultivators, the lethality is very small, so masters in the Jianghu will not use hidden weapons as their main combat weapon.

  The linked symbols can only hurt Bai E, this small hidden weapon, I estimate that it won't even leave a scratch on him.

  As expected, the White Python didn't care about this small, spiritless inferior coin at all, not even a bit. It devoted most of its attention to recalling its inner elixir, and only a small part was spent on guarding against the Symbol Record's attack.

  At this time, Yang Yun took a deep breath and activated the Jingyuan Huajing Jue. Suddenly, he felt his wrist filled with strength and threw out the second inferior coin.

  Carrying the wind sound, the second one quickly caught up with the first inferior coin and collided in mid-air. The inferior coin was of poor quality and immediately broke into four or five pieces.

  In the place where the inferior coins collided, a red light ball suddenly appeared out of thin air, containing explosive fire attribute spiritual energy. It turned out that Yang Yun had wrapped the fireball talisman on top of the first inferior coin.

  The red ball was suspended in the air, and at this moment, the white python's inner elixir happened to pass by its side. The red ball immediately locked onto this target and charged forward with a crash.

  The white snake's mouth was too small, and it swallowed the internal elixir along with the red ball in one gulp.

  Boom

  A dull explosion sound came from the depths of Bai E's throat, and Bai E jumped straight up into the sky, its mouth wide open, a ball of fierce fire and thick smoke spewing out of its mouth.

  The red-clothed girl and Meng Chao were both stunned by this sudden change.

  The white snake fell straight to the ground and wriggled and struggled towards the hole.

  Yang Yun struck out a radiant light talisman onto Bai E's body and shouted: "Pursue!" Then he plunged headfirst into the mountain cave.

  The white python escaped into the cave, and the glowing talisman on its body was like a lantern, guiding Yang Yun and others in the direction.

  There were many forks in the cave, and Bai Yu led everyone on a wild escape, bringing them to an unusually spacious stone hall.

  The walls of the stone hall were inlaid with night pearls, illuminating the entire hall. The ceiling was embedded with dozens of giant crystals, each as large as a tabletop, and above the crystal, the waves rippled, and this place had already reached the seabed.

  The white snake slithered to the center of the hall, coiling its body tightly into a ball. It was unclear what it did, but a circular light shield rose from the ground, protecting the white snake's body. Several people tried to enter the light shield, but none succeeded.

  Meng Chao took out a fireball talisman and pointed it at the light shield, saying: "Let's try it?"

  "Don't waste your effort, our low-level spirit records can't break through this barrier even if we throw in a few hundred."

  "What's to be done?"

  "Take a look around first."

  The white snake seemed to be seriously injured, lying on the ground, occasionally moving slightly, but its blood-red eyes stared coldly at a few people, making them feel like they had thorns in their backs.

  "Huh? There's an array disc here!" The red-clothed girl exclaimed.

  Yang Yun and Meng Chao walked over, seeing the red-clothed girl holding something like a Go board, with countless lines intersecting horizontally and vertically on it. At some of the intersections of these lines, sparkling crystals were embedded.

  "Haha, a beast is still a beast, actually throwing the formation plate around casually - and it's even controlled by a mechanical button, no need for true yuan, heaven helps me!" Yang Yun was overjoyed.

  The array was as complex as the stars in the night sky, and the red-clothed girl felt dizzy and overwhelmed. She regretted not having put more effort into studying arrays, but her school focused on sword cultivation and wasn't particularly skilled in this area either.

  Hearing Yang Yun's maniacal laughter, he said somewhat indignantly: "What's the use of that? Do you understand this formation?"

  "What's so hard to understand about this little starry sky spinning battle formation? Come on, come on —" He stretched out his hand and snatched the array disk, then randomly stirred it up.

  "Hey, hey - are you really getting it or just pretending to? You're going to get yourself killed messing around like that!" The red-clothed girl couldn't help but exclaim in shock as she saw Yang Yun randomly pressing buttons like a madman.

  With a loud noise, the protective shield around Bai Yu disappeared. The red-clothed girl and Meng Chao were overjoyed and were about to attack when they saw six silver light beams appear on the top of the hall, converging and projecting onto the center of the hall, shining directly on Bai Yu's body.

  As if he had eaten an elixir, the seriously injured white python suddenly came to life, raised its head high, and stared at several people with blood-red eyes, swallowing its tongue.

  "Ah! Look at what you've done!" Zhao Jia exclaimed.

  Yang Yun was sweating profusely, he understood this formation method, but there was no manual or anything, only knowing that controlling it like this could release something, thinking it was an attack spell, who would have thought it was actually a condensed moonlight spirit energy as solid as substance?

  "It's nothing, it's nothing. Haven't you heard of 'false replenishment'? Yang Yun's mind was racing, and she decided to go all out, her hands flying quickly over the array disk, the silver light surging forth in a sudden burst, dense and rich like **."

  A torrent of silver light poured into Bai E's body, and he revealed an extremely painful expression. His internal elixir had suffered a severe injury, and after adjusting for a while, it had slightly recovered, but such a large amount of spiritual energy pouring in had already exceeded the capacity of his internal elixir, and there was a risk of explosion at any time.

  A burst of white energy, the inner elixir uncontrollably spewed out a large mouthful of blood, and as soon as the dark red inner elixir emerged, it frantically absorbed spiritual energy, with silver light pouring into the inner elixir like a whale drinking water.

  In the blink of an eye, the internal elixir had grown to the size of a watermelon, with dense, worm-like cracks appearing on its surface, accompanied by a low humming noise.

  "It's going to explode! Run!" The red-clothed girl pushed a palm onto Meng Chao's shoulder, and he immediately flew up, falling towards the passageway they came from. Then she reached out to pull Yang Yun.

  Yang Yun stared intently at the Inner Elixir, a flash of inspiration in his mind, and quickly took off the black stone bracelet, tossing it towards the Inner Elixir.

  The black stone bracelet stuck to the inner dan like a leech, and the surging moonlight burst out of the inner dan, only to be absorbed by the black stone in an instant. The inner dan shriveled up at a visible rate.

  "Ah——"

  But Yang Yun let out a mournful cry, and the red-clothed girl grabbed his collar, exerting force to run backwards. Seeing the withered internal elixir, she was shocked and loosened her grip. Yang Yun couldn't stand firm and fell head-first to the ground.

  The girl in red only then realized that something was amiss and felt a slight twinge of guilt, but soon thought of Yang Yun's wicked ways and became calm once again.

  "I'll go deal with that big snake." She covered her mouth and giggled as she ran off.

  A white snake lay motionless on the ground, with a large patch of black blood around its mouth.

  "She actually skipped." The red-clothed girl kicked Bai E's body a few times and said.

  Can't I just stay still? First, I swallowed the fireball symbol, and my internal organs were severely damaged. Then, my inner elixir rebelled again, tossing me back and forth.

  Huh? Where's the inner elixir?

  Yang Yun got up and found that the inner pill was left with only a thin layer, like grape skin spread on the ground after being sucked dry of its pulp.

  The black stone pendant lay quietly on top, seeming even darker, like a deep and starless night sky.

  Put away the black stone bracelet, suddenly felt a dizziness, Yang Yun shook his head, this feeling disappeared again. Was it an illusion?

  At this time, the silver light column gradually dimmed, Yang Yun looked at the almost disappeared light column, and then looked at the inner dan skin in his hand, suddenly realizing what he had lost.

  That was the accumulated moon essence in this cave for who knows how long, enough to let him cultivate until the Qi Refining stage. There were also the inner elixirs of the demonic beasts, which were the main materials for refining the Enhancing Yuan Dan.

  What a waste! These good things, were all absorbed by this dull black stone in her hand. If she could eat it, Yang Yun would have swallowed it in one bite at this moment.

  Yang Yun cried and sat down with a sad face to start practicing. Since the big head was gone, the remaining mosquito legs were still meat, and there was still some moonlight that had not dissipated, lingering in the air, forming a thin layer of mist, which could not be wasted anymore.

  Even this thin layer of mist, the concentration of moonlight is already hundreds of times that of usual times. As soon as the true energy of the moonlight began to circulate, the thin fog-like moonlight gathered over, countless faint light points seeped into the acupoints on his body.

  The third layer of the Moon Essence True Classic did not condense successfully, and several acupoints collapsed like a dike that could not withstand a single blow under the impact of the vast spiritual energy. In the end, only one Listening Palace Acupoint remained stubbornly resisting.

  The moonlight continued to seep into the Ting Gong acupoint, gradually reaching the limit that the orifice could hold. Along with the impact of the moonlight's true energy, Yang Yun's ears jumped slightly.

  With a loud crash, like the sudden ringing of Huang Zhong Da Lü in his ears, Yang Yun's ears lost their hearing for an instant. The third layer of the Moon Flower True Classic was fully penetrated, and the true energy flowed along the newly opened meridians, finally gathering at the Ting Gong acupoint.

  A stream of air poured into my ears, cool and extremely comfortable, as if it had swept away the itch that had accumulated over the years. After my hearing recovered, it seemed to have become dozens of times clearer, and I could even hear the faintest sound of the wind and the sound of dripping water from a distant cave.

  Listening to the Wind - The Third Layer of the Moon Flower True Classic was unexpectedly cultivated into this divine ability.