The visitors are none other than Chen Xi and Luo Ling.
Chen Xi's shuttle searched for the sensor of the Luo Ling jade talisman. After landing outside the Iron Spine Sect ruins, the two of them saw only a flattened mountain forest, dried blood stains on the ground and an empty ruin.
The location where Qin Tiexin crushed the jade talisman was right here, but the person had disappeared. Luo Ling turned in three directions on the spot, and Divine Sense scanned every inch of land within a hundred feet, but found nothing.
Chen Xi pinched Method Formula, closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.
The connection to Little Death-Substitution Puppet was still there, pointing to the northwest. After getting on the shuttle and chasing it for more than a thousand miles, the feeling became weaker and weaker, like a silk thread that could break at any time, swaying in the wind.
Chen Xi's face became darker and darker, and he pushed the speed of the shuttle to the limit. Luo Ling stood at the head of the shuttle, his red robe was blown by the high-altitude airflow, and he said nothing.
When they finally found the entrance to the cave hidden deep in the rock formations, broke through the outer camouflage formation and rushed into the tunnel, they happened to see a golden-red Golden Core trailing a bloody trail, entering from the left temple of Qin Tiexin and coming out from the right temple.
Luo Ling's eyes instantly turned red.
Before the shuttle stopped, Chen Xi's figure had disappeared from the shuttle head.
The next moment he appeared on the rubble, stretched out his right hand, and clasped the Golden Core with his five fingers as it was about to fly back to its owner. Golden Core was spinning wildly in his hand, and Blood Sha Qi blew the cuff fabric into a crackling sound. His fingerprints did not move at all.
At the same time, Luo Ling jumped off the shuttle. Her figure had completed all the mobilization of spiritual power on the way down, and a red giant hammer that was larger than her own body appeared out of thin air. The hammer head in her hands was eight-sided, with dense Flame Rune roads engraved on each surface. It burned red under the infusion of spiritual power. The handle of the hammer was as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and she held it tightly with both hands.
The hammer hit True Person Xueying's head with the same force as her whole body.
"To touch my apprentice is to seek death!"
True Person Xueying's pupils shrank sharply. He wanted to retreat, but his legs had been cut off at the knee level and he could not use any force.
He wanted to turn into blood mist and escape, so he activated the remaining spiritual power in his body, but the spiritual power seemed to be solidified and motionless.
Wrong!!
The spiritual power has not been exhausted. Even if Golden Core is not in the body, there is still at least 20% of the spiritual power that can be used. The spiritual power in his body is forcibly suppressed by something from the outside, and every outlet of the spiritual power cyclone is locked.
He lowered his head and looked down, and at some point, a dark blue formation pattern with a diameter of only a few feet lit up beneath his feet. The formation pattern was so simple that there were only seven or eight main lines, but each one was precisely placed on the node where his spiritual power must pass.
Spirit-Locking Formation.
Different from the rough version arranged by the two juniors in the underground palace of the Iron Spine Sect, this Spirit-Locking Formation has a smaller range and Spirit Rune has less, but the suppression power is more than dozens of times that of the previous one.
The people who set up the formation have an understanding of pattern patterns to the point of simplifying the complex, using the fewest patterns to achieve the strongest suppression effect.
When was it done? He didn't notice it at all. Only a few words had passed since the ordinary-looking young man appeared on the rubble.
There was no time to think, Luo Ling's giant hammer had already hit his head.
True Person Xueying used his remaining right arm to push hard on the ground, and his entire upper body rolled to the left twice. The giant hammer rubbed his right shoulder and hit the ground. With a bang, a large pit three feet deep was made in the gravel ground. The rock at the bottom of the pit was burned into dark red magma by the Flame Rune road on the hammer's head.
Although True Person Xueying escaped from his upper body, he was hit by a giant hammer from the waist down, from the lumbar spine down. The sound of broken bones was completely masked by the roar of the hammer. When the hammer head was raised, his lower body had turned into a pool of blood mixed with broken bones, mixed with the magma on the ground, and it was impossible to tell which was rock and which was flesh.
True Person Xueying let out an extremely suppressed scream. He supported the ground with one hand and crawled forward desperately, digging his nails into the cracks in the gravel. Every time he moved, he dragged the increasingly shorter blood trail behind him.
As long as he crawls out of this Spirit-Locking Formation range, as long as he mobilizes even a trace of spiritual power, he can turn into blood mist and escape.
He is not afraid of physical damage. As long as there is a trace of Qi and Blood left, he can grow back.
What he needs is spiritual power, and just a trace of spiritual power is enough.
His fingertips were less than three feet away from the edge of Spirit-Locking Formation, and countless tiny vines suddenly appeared on the ground.
Those vines came out from the cracks in the gravel. Each one was only the thickness of a little finger, and was green all over. Its surface was covered with a very light aura. The vines grew at an abnormally fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they emerged from the gravel, spread, and entangled, and densely wrapped around True Person Xueying's torso and right arm.
The aura on the vines burned out wisps of white smoke the moment it came into contact with True Person Xueying's skin, which was the natural restraint power of the wood attribute Spiritual Qi on Blood Sha Qi.
True Person Xueying struggled desperately, and he broke two of the vines on his right arm, but more vines emerged from the ground, wrapping them layer by layer, locking his arms and torso firmly to the ground, and even his fingers were separated one by one and fixed among the gravel.
He turned his head and saw that the plain-looking young man not far away was holding a Method Formula with one hand, and his five fingers were flicking gently in an extremely weird rhythm. The young man was not even looking at him, and his attention seemed to be more on the struggling Golden Core in his hand. The movements of Hand Seals were as casual as if he were playing with a few strings.
Luo Ling has raised the giant hammer again.
The Flame Rune road on the hammer head was brighter than before. The entire hammer was like an iron billet just taken out of the furnace, burning the surrounding air into a twisted heat wave.
She grasped the handle of the hammer with both hands, and the killing intent in her brows that was usually covered up by her fiery temper was released without reservation. She raised the giant hammer above her head and smashed it down hard.
This blow was heavier than the first blow.
The wind pressure caused by the fall of the hammer blew all the tiny gravels on the ground to both sides. The giant hammer hit True Person Xueying, causing the entire cave to shake. The remaining half of the stalagmites on the dome finally couldn't hold on anymore and collapsed and hit the gravel ground.
The hammer head was raised, and only a dark red humanoid outline was left on the ground. The edges of the outline were broken into powdery bones and flesh and blood residue that had completely lost its shape.
Luo Ling stared at the outline for two breaths, making sure that no spiritual power fluctuations remained, and then slammed the giant hammer to the ground. The handle of the hammer smashed into a piece of rock. She stood on the spot holding the handle of the hammer, her chest heaving violently, and the anxiety and anger that had been suppressed all the way finally found an outlet.
After a moment, she put the giant hammer into the storage ring, turned around and walked quickly towards Qin Tiexin.
But she didn't notice that a very faint Blood Qi rose from the ground.
That was not the evaporated water vapor from the remains of flesh and blood, but a nearly transparent, weak, and almost invisible blood-colored true spirit.
True Person Xueying's true spirit separated from the pulverized remains of his body, gathered all its aura, and floated upward silently along the cave wall.
Without the physical body, all spiritual power was lost, Golden Core was taken away, and hundreds of years of cultivation were knocked back to the starting point in less than a stick of incense. But the true spirit is still there, and as long as the true spirit is still there, he still has a chance.
He knew that a very secret blood pool was a back-up he had arranged in his early years. As long as he could go out, seize the body of a human monk, and then use the Essence Blood in the blood pool to re-temper his body, he would be able to practice again in a few decades.
When the time comes, I will take refuge with Devil Race, use the resources of Devil Race to attack Nascent Soul, and then seek revenge on the master and disciple.
The blood pool is only a few hundred miles away, and it would only take a few days for him to float there in his true spirit state.
As for who to seize or kill, he no longer cares.
His true spirit continued to rise and was almost approaching the cave dome. As long as he passed through the hole that was knocked open in the dome and entered the upper passage, he would be completely out of this place.
Just then, he heard a chuckle.
He couldn't help but look back. The plain-looking young man in the distance was looking up in the direction of him, with a faint smile hanging on the corner of his mouth. His eyes fell on his true spirit very accurately.
Impossible.
In the true spirit state, his sense of existence is extremely low. Even Nascent Soul Cultivator would be difficult to detect without deliberately using Divine Sense to detect it. What's more, a young man who seems to have no more cultivation than Golden Core Early Stage must be an illusion.
He forced himself not to think too much and continued to float upward.
Three feet. Two feet. One foot. He could already see the gray-white skylight coming through the edge of the hole.
Boom!
At this moment, his forehead seemed to hit something.
There was a very light muffled sound, like hitting a transparent wall. He stretched out his hand and touched the transparent wall. It was soft, transparent, and had a very light silver light.
It was a bowl-shaped Law Artifact, placed upside down on top of the entire cave, with its edge almost touching the four walls of the cave, completely covering the entire dome area.
The moment the true spirit collided with it, a layer of extremely faint aura lines appeared on the surface of the barrier. The lines were simple and precise, without any extra branches. Each Spirit Rune just blocked the possible escape path of the true spirit. He floated several feet along the edge of the barrier, and the curvature of the barrier did not change at all, with no gaps or gaps.
His true spirit is trapped inside.
Impossible!!
He had seen all his belongings from that junior's Storage Bag, and there was nothing except a few low-level Teleportation Talismans and a few inferior Law Artifacts.
Even if the pair of masters and disciples came here after the induction, it was impossible to know in advance that there was a cave here, let alone to lay such a level of dragnet in the cave in advance.
Unless, unless the person who arranged these means planned everything from the beginning and did not intend to leave him any escape route.
True Person Xueying's true spirit suddenly turned back and looked at the ordinary-looking young man again.
Chen Xi raised his head at this moment and smiled at him.
That smile was exactly the same as when I asked "Are you looking for this?" It was casual and natural, like a greeting.
True Person Xueying Even in the true spiritual state, I feel a chill!!
It's for me!
This young man had calculated from the very beginning which direction I would flee, where the true spirit would float out, and if it would hit the barrier after floating up a few feet. It was not a spur-of-the-moment move, every step was planned in advance.
True Person Xueying's true spirit no longer hesitated, turned around and floated rapidly towards the other side of the stone wall. As long as it could float to the edge of the stone wall and drill up through the gaps in the stone wall, it might be possible to find the gap between the barrier and the rock formation.
Chen Xi Raise your left hand, and the cuff will automatically turn on without wind.
A piece of talisman slipped out of the sleeve, two inches wide and four inches long. The runes were densely engraved with dark golden ink on the talisman. The runes were extremely complex, nested layer by layer, extending from the edge of the talisman paper to the center of the talisman, and intertwined into a very small circular pattern at the center of the talisman.
This talisman is completely different from the talismans he usually uses. The material of the talisman paper itself is extraordinary. It glows with a faint sapphire luster under the cold light of fluorite, and there is a faint suction force flowing between the strokes of the rune.
The talisman floated into the air and settled on its own. The dark golden runes on the talisman's surface lit up at the same time.
An irresistible suction force surged out from the circular pattern in the heart of the symbol, accurately locking the location of the True Person Xueying true spirit. That suction force had no effect on the surrounding gravel, dust, or spiritual power, and was only effective on the true spirit.
True Person Xueying's true spirit struggled desperately toward the stone wall, like a fish caught on the back by an invisible hook, being dragged back bit by bit.
His true spirit was twisted and deformed in the suction field, and the outline of its edges became increasingly blurred and lighter, until it finally turned into an extremely thin blood-colored thread, which was silently swallowed by the talisman.
The dark golden runes on the surface of the talisman flickered violently for a few times. The talisman paper swelled and collapsed from the middle, swelled and collapsed again, repeated five or six times, and then everything returned to calm.
Chen Xi raised his hand to catch the talisman that floated back, and looked down. There was a very thin blood-colored line in the center of the talisman paper, embedded in a curve between two layers of runes, like a bug sealed in amber.
He put the talisman back into the storage anklet on his left foot, moving casually. After doing all this, he looked back at the direction where Qin Tiexin fell, a faint light flashed deep in his eyes, and then he regained his composure.
"Xi'er!! Xi'er!! Come and see! Tiexin What's going on?!"
Luo Ling's voice exploded in the cave, with a sense of uncontrollable anxiety. She had turned Qin Tiexin over, with one hand under the back of Qin Tiexin's head, and the other hand on Qin Tiexin's chest. The mental power of her palm was rapidly exploring the meridians throughout his body.
Qin Tiexin has returned to his normal body shape. He is naked, and the surface of his skin is covered with large and small healing scars. His right arm is broken at the shoulder level, and the new granulation and solidified blood scab are mixed together at the fracture. The bone surface of the joint and the cut bone marrow cavity are clearly visible. The fist-sized hole on the right temple, the flesh and blood on the edge is shrinking at an extremely slow speed, and broken skull fragments and brain tissue that have stopped beating can be seen deep in the hole.
But when Luo Ling put his palm against his chest, he could still feel an extremely weak and intermittent pulse.
On Qin Tiexin's back, the five-foot-long severed arm had absorbed all the rune light and lay quietly next to his body, looking no different from a piece of burnt dead wood.
Luo Ling couldn't care less about this at the moment, all her attention was on Qin Tiexin.
On the ground not far away, a heavy black knife seven feet seven inches long was stuck crookedly in the gravel.
Edgeless.
After Qin Tiexin returned to normal human size, it also returned to its original size.