"Long Yi! You and I have no grievances, why do you have to put me to death?" Gu Sheng shouted angrily.
Long Yi The spiritual sword in his hand once again condensed with dazzling golden light.
"No vengeance? You have a Supreme Immortal Sect reward on your back, and your head is worth one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stone! Not to mention those treasures."
"Hand over that body technique and I can give you a pleasure!"
"Fart!"
Gu Sheng turned around suddenly, formed seals with his hands, Primordial Samsara Bell suddenly enlarged, and the ancient runes on the bronze bell body lit up with dazzling light.
"You can't even tell if I am Gu Sheng, so you kill someone for a reward?"
"I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go!"
Long Yi The sword edge turned, and a golden sword energy tore through the sky.
"In this Cultivation World, weakness is the original sin!"
The moment the sword energy reached his body, Gu Sheng's figure suddenly became blurred and moved three feet sideways at the critical moment.
The sword energy brushed against the corner of his clothes and cut off the stone pillar at the back. The cut was as smooth as a mirror.
"Void Crossing?"
Long Yi's eyes sparkled.
"It is indeed a saint-level technique! You will definitely die today!"
Gu Sheng felt dark in his heart.
Long Yi Although he was afraid of the danger here and did not dare to attack with all his strength, Tribulation Crossing stage's cultivation level was too terrifying.
If he hadn't cultivated Taiqing Guiyi Art to the second level, which was close to perfection, the sword just now would have been enough to kill him.
"We must hold on until Ling Xiao."
The spiritual power in Gu Sheng's body was running wildly, and his speed increased by another three points.
Long Yi snorted coldly, took out a blood-colored elixir from his arms and swallowed it.
In an instant, the aura around him surged, and his speed was more than twice as fast as before!
"Burning Blood Pill?!"
Gu Sheng's pupils shrank suddenly. This is a forbidden drug that burns blood and essence in exchange for a short burst. Long Yi is determined to kill him!
The distance between the two people quickly narrowed. One hundred meters. Fifty meters. Twenty meters.
"Die!"
Long Yi Where the sword pointed, a sword energy that was more terrifying than before roared out, causing tiny cracks in the void wherever it passed.
There is no way to avoid it!
Gu Sheng suddenly turned around, and Primordial Samsara Bell suddenly enlarged to a height of three feet, with the bell mouth facing downwards, covering his entire body.
"Dang——!"
Deafening bells resounded throughout the basin, ripples of sound waves visible to the naked eye spread, and cracks appeared on the surfaces of stone pillars within a hundred feet.
The bell body trembled violently, and the symbols on its surface were unstable, blocking this fatal blow.
"Sure enough, it's Primordial Samsara Bell!"
Long Yi Not surprised but happy.
"It seems that you are Gu Sheng without a doubt!"
Within the clock, Gu Sheng spurted out a mouthful of blood and looked pale.
Although Bao Zhong blocked the sword energy, the impact of Tribulation Crossing stage still caused his internal organs to shift.
Enduring the severe pain, he urged the treasure bell to fly up again and continued to escape deeper into the basin.
"Let's see how long you can last!"
Long Yi followed closely, waving the spiritual sword in his hand repeatedly, and sword energy poured down.
Primordial Samsara Bell Although his defense is amazing, every attack he takes consumes a lot of spiritual energy. In just a dozen breaths, Gu Sheng had lost 70% of his spiritual power, and his speed had obviously slowed down.
"No. If you continue like this, you will definitely die."
With determination in Gu Sheng's eyes, he no longer defended blindly, but turned around to face Long Yi.
"Finally stopped running?"
Long Yi sneered, the sword pointed directly at the center of Gu Sheng's eyebrows.
Gu Sheng didn't answer, and quickly formed seals with his hands. Primordial Samsara Bell suddenly shrank and flew back to his palm.
Just when Long Yi was confused, Gu Sheng threw the treasure bell violently!
"Seeking death!"
"Dang——!"
Long Yi's spiritual sword struck Primordial Samsara Bell hard, but the expected death did not occur.
On the contrary, the ancient runes on the surface of the bronze bell suddenly lit up with dazzling golden light, and lines containing the principles of heaven and earth were intertwined in the void, forming a mysterious and unpredictable pattern.
Long Yi's pupils shrank suddenly, and the hand holding the sword trembled slightly.
The profound meaning contained in those lines made his soul tremble, as if he were facing the origin of the avenue.
The realization at this moment was actually more profound than what he had gained through hard training for hundreds of years!
"This is an extraordinary thing!"
Long Yi was breathing rapidly, and the greed in his eyes almost turned into reality.
"It's actually comparable to the sect master's 'Nine Heavens Ring Pendant'!"
He immediately changed his mind and no longer pursued Gu Sheng, who was stumbling away. Instead, he shot out sealing spells and landed them on the ancient bronze bell.
"Seal the sky and lock the earth, Zhen!"
Void Ring emits dazzling white light, and a strong suction force envelopes Primordial Samsara Bell.
The bell body trembled violently, seemingly unwilling to be subdued, but under Long Yi's full suppression, it turned into a ray of green light and was captured in the ring.
"Hahaha! With this treasure, why worry about not being able to succeed!"
Long Yi looked up to the sky and laughed. Then he remembered Gu Sheng. He turned around and saw that the embarrassed figure had escaped a hundred feet away and was stumbling towards the depths of the basin.
Long Yi sneered disdainfully.
"Death struggle."
He was about to give chase when he suddenly groaned and blood started to flow from the corner of his mouth.
Forcibly suppressing Primordial Samsara Bell consumed most of his spiritual power, and with the 30% absorbed by Gluttonous Beast Pillar before, the spiritual power in his body was now less than 30%.
"It doesn't matter. Killing a seriously injured ant is enough."
Long Yi wiped away the blood and chased after him in a flash.
Gu Sheng It felt like my lungs were burning, and every breath smelled like blood.
His vision began to blur, and he could only rely on instinct to crawl in the direction of where Ling Xiao was in his memory.
"It's over if you can't fall down."
He bit the tip of his tongue and used the severe pain to stay awake.
The footsteps of Long Yi behind him are getting closer and closer, and the breath of death follows them like a shadow.
Just on the edge of losing consciousness, Gu Sheng finally saw that familiar figure.
Ling Xiao is standing next to a stone pillar and has been waiting for a long time.
"Ling Xiao"
Gu Sheng shouted hoarsely, then his vision went dark and he fell heavily to the ground.
Ling Xiao quickly stepped forward, checked Gu Sheng's pulse, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Still alive."
At this time, Long Yi also caught up.
He scanned the surroundings warily, and finally his eyes fell on Ling Xiao.
"Who are you? What is your relationship with this Gu Sheng?"
Ling Xiao smiled calmly and spread his hands.
"I'm just passing by. I have nothing to do with this person."
Long Yi suddenly noticed that the position where Ling Xiao was standing happened to be in the shadow of a Taotie stone pillar, and alarm bells rang in his heart.
How could such a coincidence happen in a place like Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge?
"No matter who you are, if you see something you shouldn't see, you will die!"
Long Yi raised the spiritual sword with a ferocious smile. Although there was not much spiritual power left, it was more than enough to deal with a monk whose aura was no bigger than Nascent Soul stage.
Ling Xiao sighed.
"Why bother"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and ran away at an astonishing speed, disappearing deep into the stone forest in the blink of an eye.
"Want to run?"
Long Yi shouted angrily and chased after him without thinking.
"You will all die today!"
The two of them moved in tandem and quickly moved away from the place where Gu Sheng was unconscious.
Long Yi The more he chases, the more frightened he becomes. The speed of the man in front of him is not inferior to his own in his prime. This is definitely not the strength that a Yuanying monk should have!
"Who are you anyway?"
Long Yi shouted, and at the same time he took out a Communication Jade Slip from his arms and crushed it, notifying his fellow disciples to come to encircle and suppress him.
Ling Xiao didn't answer, but suddenly turned around a thick stone pillar and disappeared from Long Yi's sight.
Long Yi hurriedly caught up, but saw that there was no one in front of him, only a stone pillar carved with gluttonous patterns stood quietly.
"Pretend to be a ghost!"
Long Yi sneered and was about to continue searching when he suddenly froze.
He slowly lowered his head and saw a pale hand coming out of his chest, holding a still beating heart.
"You"
Long Yi turned his head with difficulty and saw Ling Xiao appearing behind him at some point, with a half-smiling expression on his face.
What made Long Yi's hair stand on end was that Ling Xiao's eyes turned pure black without the whites of his eyes, like two bottomless black holes.
"Thank you for the ring."
Ling Xiao came close to Long Yi's ear, whispered, and then pulled out his arm.
Long Yi fell to the ground suddenly, and in his last consciousness, he saw the pattern on the Taotie stone pillar squirming, greedily sucking the blood spurting out from his chest.
"Senior Brother Long Why haven't you come back yet?"
Gong Xuefeng rubbed his hands uneasily, they had been waiting for half an hour.
"How about we go over and take a look?" Another monk suggested.
Everyone deliberated for a moment and decided to search in the direction Long Yi left.
Not far away, a sudden and shrill scream broke the silence, making everyone's hair stand on end.
"It's the voice of Senior Brother Long!"
Luo Tian Sect Everyone's expressions changed drastically and they hurried towards the source of the sound.
When they pushed through the last piece of stone forest, the scene in front of them made everyone feel like they had fallen into an ice cave——
Long Yi's body fell to the ground on his back, with a blood hole as big as a bowl in his chest and his heart was missing.
What's even weirder is that the pattern on the Taotie stone pillar next to it is glowing with a strange red light, as if it had just had a feast.
"Yes Gluttonous Beast Soul!"
Gong Xuefeng's voice trembled.
"Senior Brother Long's soul was swallowed up!"
Everyone took a few steps back in unison, fearing that the pattern on the stone pillar would come alive and attack them.
"Go! Get out of here!"
I don't know who shouted, Luo Tian Sect everyone immediately dispersed and fled out of the basin.
They didn't notice that Void Ring in Long Yi's hands had disappeared.
"A bunch of cowards."
In the cave, Ling Xiao was playing with a simple ring, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
The fingertips glowed with black light, easily breaking the restriction left by Long Yi, and probed the spiritual consciousness into the ring space.
"The harvest is good."
He turned his palm and Primordial Samsara Bell appeared in his hand.
The runes on the bronze bell body glowed slightly when they sensed the breath of Ling Xiao.
"Sure enough, it's you." Ling Xiao murmured in a low voice.
Primordial Samsara Bell hit the cave floor heavily, causing dust to fill the sky.
Ling Xiao waved his right hand lightly, and a breeze came out of thin air, sweeping all the dust out of the cave.
He squatted down and felt Gu Sheng's pulse, his face softened slightly.
"Fortunately, life is very tough."
He took out a jade bottle from his arms and poured out a red elixir the size of a dragon's eye.
There are golden lines on the surface of the elixir, which emit a faint light in the dark cave.
"Seven Revolutions Soul Returning Pill, I'm taking advantage of you."
Ling Xiao pinched open Gu Sheng's mouth and stuffed the elixir in. Then he pressed his right hand on Gu Sheng's chest, and a stream of pure spiritual power entered to help refine the medicine.
With the injection of spiritual power, Gu Sheng's pale face gradually turned red.
Those wounds with deep visible bones healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and new granulations squirmed and intertwined.
"This resilience is so inhuman."
Ling Xiao was a little surprised and increased his spiritual power output.
Under the dual action of the power of the elixir and spiritual power, the damaged meridians in Gu Sheng's body began to repair, and spiritual power gradually began to circulate in the dry Dantian.
A quarter of an hour later, Ling Xiao put his hands away and stood up, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Finally saved my life."
He whispered to himself, walked to the entrance of the cave and sat cross-legged, watching the outside world vigilantly.
I don't know how long it took, but Gu Sheng's fingers suddenly moved.
Slowly opening his eyes, he saw the rough stone walls of the cave roof.
Consciousness gradually returns, and the memories before coma come back - Long Yi's pursuit, Primordial Samsara Bell's resistance, and finally trying his best to escape to Ling Xiao
"Are you awake?"
A familiar voice came from the cave entrance.
Gu Sheng turned his head with difficulty and saw Ling Xiao sitting there with her back to him.
"Where is this?"
Gu Sheng's voice was hoarse, and his throat hurt as if it had been burned.
Ling Xiao turned around and threw a water bag.
"A cave outside Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge. You were unconscious for three days."
Gu Sheng took the water bag and drank a few gulps. The cool liquid moisturized his dry throat.
I tried to sit up. Although my muscles were still a little sore, I was able to move freely.
"Where is Long Yi?"
Gu Sheng looked around and saw no enemy.
Ling Xiao The corner of his mouth raised slightly.
"Dead."
These two simple words made Gu Sheng's pupils shrink.
I clearly remember that Long Yi is a strong person from Tribulation Crossing stage, while Ling Xiao looks like Nascent Soul stage on the surface.
"Did you kill him?"
Gu Sheng asked tentatively.
Ling Xiao did not answer directly, but threw something over.
Gu Sheng caught it and found that it was Primordial Samsara Bell. The ancient runes on the bronze bell body were still there, but the luster was slightly dim.
"The property returns to its original owner."
Ling Xiao said lightly.
"I used you to divert Long Yi's attention and took the opportunity to give him a fatal blow."
Gu Sheng rubbed the bell body, felt the familiar fluctuations, and felt a little at ease.
Look up at Ling Xiao.
"Thank you. But... how did you do it?"
The gap between Tribulation Crossing stage and Nascent Soul stage is like a chasm. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to kill them by leapfrogging.
Ling Xiao is a bit interesting.
"Some things, the less you know, the safer you are."
He paused.
"You just need to understand that now we're in the clear."
Gu Sheng wisely did not continue to ask.
After checking his condition, he found that although the external injuries had healed, less than 30% of his spiritual power had been restored.
"I need to catch my breath."
Gu Sheng sits cross-legged and runs Taiqing Guiyi Art.
In an instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the cave seemed to be summoned, rushing towards Gu Sheng crazily.
The concentration of spiritual energy was so high that a light mist formed around Gu Sheng.
"Stop!"
Ling Xiao suddenly drank.
"Do you want to attract all the evil creatures in Ten Thousand Ghosts Ridge?"
Gu Sheng then realized his mistake and quickly restrained his skills.
The spiritual energy vortex gradually dissipated, but there were still traces of spiritual mist lingering.
"Sorry, forgot about the situation."
Gu Sheng smiled awkwardly and took out a crystal stone as red as blood from his arms.
The moment the crystal appeared, the temperature in the cave suddenly rose.
There seemed to be flames flowing inside the crystal, emitting astonishing energy fluctuations.
"Vermilion Bird Tear Stone?"
Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows.
"You have a lot of good things in you."
Gu Sheng didn't explain, he just held the crystal in his palm and began to slowly absorb its energy.
Compared with directly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, this method is luxurious, but it is more hidden and safer.