Stranger
For someone like Zhang Xuezhou, who is skilled in flying and soaring, he can ascend to a sufficient height to avoid being exposed to poisonous winds and rain.
But for the Seven Spiders, who are unable to fly, being blown by winds and waves mixed with dark yin water, or being drenched by rain, means an unbearable burden.
She fled in terror, completely ignoring the two-meter-long Wind and Thunder Blade that Zhang Xuezhou was holding.
It was a sight that shouldn't have appeared. Seven Spiders felt that the Profound Yin Heavy Water shouldn't have taken on such a massive form, but in fact, it had.
They had to go through countless hardships to obtain a bottle of Xuan Yin Heavy Water, an essence of heaven and earth that they used as their ultimate weapon. But now, the Xuan Yin Heavy Water had turned into smoke, and the quantity was so large that it made one's scalp tingle.
It's like someone Struggle for decades in the Great Han Dynasty, risen to the rank of one of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, and obtained a spirit jade, only to suddenly see that Zhang Xuezhou and others own a spirit jade mine. Their belief in Struggle would almost collapse in an instant.
The seven spiders fled frantically, their minds in disarray, unable to believe what they were seeing.
"The wind is blowing this way, run that way!"
"Oh oh!"
Zhang Xuezhou pointed out the direction to escape, and Qi Zhu took a few beats to react before she realized what he meant and stopped running with the wind.
Forced to turn ninety degrees, the Seven Spiders darted through the city's buildings. The earthquake caused undulating ground and collapsed buildings, making her occasionally utter incoherent curses.
"Let me check the situation from a higher vantage point!"
Zhang Xuezhou called out, but Seven Spiders ignored him and offered no further information.
Knowing that he would gain little from the Seven Spiders, Zhang Xuezhou followed the flying body and quickly ascended into the sky.
Even if he flew to a high enough altitude to avoid being contaminated by the purple smoke formed from the Xuan Yin Heavy Water, and even if his body were to be contaminated, this kind of poison gas, diluted many times over, would hardly be able to seriously injure him in a short period of time.
The earth churned, buildings of Gaogao collapsed one after another, ancient trees lay prostrate on the ground, and endless dust shrouded the capital of Qin Meng, making the Xuan Yin Heavy Water, which had turned into purple smoke, even more conspicuous.
"How did a fountain of profound yin water form?"
Standing high in the sky, the purple smoke hovered below, unable to touch his body. Zhang Xuezhou's gaze swept downwards.
After repeatedly turning the camera to look at it, Zhang Xuezhou finally saw clearly that there seemed to be an underground fountain emerging in the Tiger's Nest area. Water mist was constantly spreading in the air along with the spray, thus forming the mist phenomenon of Xuan Yin Heavy Water.
"It seems something is shining on it, causing the transparent water mist to turn into purple smoke!"
It's difficult to see clearly from high above. Zhang Xuezhou could barely make out the fountain below, but he couldn't find the source of the color change in the water mist.
As he continued to observe and focus, Zhang Xuezhou felt a slight itch in his body. The radiance of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art refreshed layer by layer, which allowed him to quickly ascend into the air.
A cold snort came from beside him, and Zhang Xuezhou's heart skipped a beat.
Natural phenomena are nothing to fear, but when phenomena manipulated by humans form natural landscapes, that means a big problem.
"Could it be that Tiger Cultivation has some other master or great-grandfather left here?"
Thinking about the petty things he and Seven Spiders had done, Zhang Xuezhou clearly didn't want to stay behind and be taken down with him.
He also glanced at the Wind and Thunder Blade in his hand and the Five-Colored Divine Stone hidden in his belt. For a moment, he even considered throwing away these two treasures, but as soon as he thought of Nine-Headed, who liked to take advantage of others, he put them back on his person.
No matter what, as long as there's someone else to take the fall, Zhang Xuezhou won't recklessly squander his money.
He lost Dingkui because he couldn't control it, and he lost 'Thorn' because that artifact still had an owner, but losing the Wind and Thunder Blade and the Five-Colored Divine Stone makes no sense at all.
These two treasures were under the control of Hu Yu's elders and were sent out through the Tiger Soul Hall. It's unknown how much space they were separated by, so it's impossible for the other party to have the ability to control them across space.
Although the two treasures have owners, they do not actually have owners when in use, so Zhang Xuezhou and others may be able to draw upon some of their power.
He understood the situation in his mind and didn't linger.
He stirred up waves and soared upwards, his body flying into the distance, eliciting low groans from below.
"It can't fly either!"
Zhang Xuezhou remained calm and even assessed the capabilities of the person hiding there.
But as soon as he thought about how Hu Yu and Hu Hao both possessed the ability to fly and levitate, he couldn't help but have some doubts. For a moment, he also felt that the cold-snorting person below might not have any connection with the Hu Sheng Aristocratic Clan.
Zhang Xuezhou came to Qin Meng with the goal of destroying the Spider God's Cave.
But as he went further and further, his attitude changed.
These fire meteor beings are not a monolithic group; on the contrary, they harbor their own hostility and competition, and have many internal conflicts.
Rather than having them encircle and ambush one another, it would be better to let these fire meteor beings fight amongst themselves first.
They can simply pack up and leave. These fire meteor creatures, having crashed in Qin Meng, have chosen to develop nearby and find it difficult to leave. Moreover, cultivators who can quickly traverse long distances are ultimately a very small minority.
With Qin Meng's capital city currently in ruins, if the opponent is a top expert from the Tiger Saint Lineage, the Tiger Nest's destruction and the Tiger Soul Hall's years of accumulated ruins will be reduced to nothing.
Thinking of the divine artifact 'Thorn' that had been trapped in the tiger's claws and never retrieved, Zhang Xuezhou felt that it wouldn't be difficult for the other party to find a target for revenge based on the artifact.
"Seven Spiders will likely try to rally the fire-meteor beings like Nine Heads and White Bone to lead the fight, but what if the opponent isn't a master from the Tiger Saint Lineage..."
Zhang Xuezhou considered the identity of the one who snorted. Suspecting the former's identity was one thing, but if it was another situation, it would be far beyond Zhang Xuezhou's ability to understand.
"Does tiger breeding also belong to the category of latecomers?"
Zhang Xuezhou had seen the Chang Ghost), and ordinary villagers could transform into Chang Ghost.
Decades or even centuries ago, there were problems with food and clothing, but the population was not small.
The Tiger Soul Hall has a strong ability to convert three thousand Chang Ghost, but the Qinmeng Empire lost far more than three or five thousand people; it lost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
Without a special treasure, Hu Yu couldn't have done this.
Familiar opponents are easier to deal with, but strangers require Zhang Xuezhou's caution.
He ultimately felt he needed to withdraw from Qin Meng as quickly as possible and wait for the situation to become clearer before making a decision.
This is not just his problem alone; it involves the team, and uncontrollable problems can easily arise when information is not equal.
He leaped into the air, no longer needing to wait for the Seven Spider Queens, and his flying speed began to increase.
'Boom'
A loud explosion was heard from the Qin-Meng capital city behind them.
In the distance, a scene of impending storm unfolds, as if a violent storm is about to sweep across the area, with occasional geomagnetic flashes caused by earthquakes, making the changes unpredictable.
This time, Zhang Xuezhou only glanced back at it and did not go forward to investigate again.
He had already exhausted most of his Law Power, but his ability to achieve physical sainthood kept Zhang Xuezhou Zhang Xuezhou at his peak, preventing him from becoming weak or declining in his Technique Method due to excessive consumption.
As he continued to soar through the air using the Cloud Leap Technique, he began to murmur the "Treatise on Vast Righteous Qi."
In reality, the elixirs available couldn't keep up with his cultivation progress. Zhang Xuezhou still hasn't been able to refine an elixir equivalent to the Creation Pill, let alone one comparable to a top-grade Creation Pill. To restore his Law Power, he can only seek the "Treatise on Vast Righteous Qi" taught by Dong Zhongshu.
The probability of releasing this ability is far higher than Zhang Xuezhou's technique of merging Unity of Celestial Person and Heaven. A faint light appeared in the sky and was then Jieyin his body, and the Law Power in his body quickly entered the recovery period.
"That new world has sent out its traction coordinates again!"
"Catch it quickly!"
"It seems someone beat me to it!"
"Damn it, after decades of searching, we can only watch as others ascend to godhood. They acted too quickly!"
Who is it?
"Knowing his name is meaningless now!"
"One step to mortal, one step to god; his past name has indeed lost its meaning!"
As Vast Righteous Qi flowed into his body, Zhang Xuezhou also received some fragmented messages of mental fluctuations.
He felt a sudden tightness in his chest and wanted to stop reciting, but he felt that his body and consciousness were not being pulled in any way.
The information conveyed by this mental fluctuation may be related to the present moment or originates from the past.
Zhang Xuezhou looked up at the azure sky and felt as if the whole world was being watched by some gluttonous monster, which was trying to swallow it whole.