Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 891 Ambush encountered
After crossing the 'Xuanwu River', the road ahead is completely unknown. Moreover, since they have already encountered a fifth-level holy realm monster, it means that there will most likely be more in the future. Therefore, even Ye Xuan did not dare to be careless. He was extremely vigilant and slowed down his pace a lot.

After safely passing through a small woods, the two saw a relatively flat grassland in front of them. The ground was covered with unknown light gray grass. It looked like dead grass, but a closer look revealed that the weeds were full of life, but the color was just strange.

On the other side of the meadow is another endless forest, and at the end of the sight is a mountain wall that rises into the clouds.

That is the 'end' of the Poison Ivy Back Valley, which is the middle of the gourd-shaped Poison Ivy Valley and the dividing point between the Front Valley and the Back Valley. Seeing it also means that Ye Xuan and his team have already walked 70% of the way through the Back Valley.

"There doesn't seem to be any monsters here." Huo Miao looked at the grass in front of him and speculated in a low voice.

The view ahead is wide, and it is unlikely that the monsters and poison vines are hiding, so the only thing to watch out for is the danger from underground. However, there are not many monsters living underground in the Poison Ivy Valley, and they haven't encountered two along the way. Huo Miao secretly prayed that there would be no monsters here, so that the two of them could safely pass through this grassland.

"It does look very peaceful." Ye Xuan nodded slightly, but his expression did not relax. He pondered, "But it always feels like it's a little... too peaceful."

He used his divine sense to the limit and carefully explored the grass in front of him, including the ground below, but he did not find anything unusual. He felt a little relieved and said to Huo Miao, "In any case, it is better to be careful. Let's go."

"Okay." Huo Miao nodded and followed Ye Xuan carefully.

After walking two-thirds of the way without any accidents, Huo Miao subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he could really cross the grassland safely as he wished.

But at this moment, he suddenly found that Ye Xuan, who was walking in front of him, stopped without any warning, and suddenly turned his head to look to the right, with a very ugly look on his face.

Huo Miao's heart skipped a beat and he asked nervously, "Sixth brother, what's wrong?"

Ye Xuan stared at the empty ground a thousand feet away on the right, his eyes gleaming slightly, and he uttered three words lightly: "Ambush..."

"What!!" Huo Miao was horrified and felt a chill down his spine. He subconsciously gathered all his holy power and took a defensive posture. He was shocked and confused at the same time, because although Ye Xuan said "ambushed", which was a very bad situation, his expression seemed too calm and he did not look like a person who was ambushed and in danger.

"Om..."

The next moment, before Huo Miao had time to ask anything, he suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet shake violently. An extremely powerful and strange wave appeared without warning. Then he found that the surrounding space was distorted at this moment. His eyes blurred and the surrounding scenery changed completely.

The grass under his feet disappeared, the woods behind him disappeared, and the shadows of the jungle and mountain walls in front of him also disappeared. All that filled his sight was countless twisted gray fog. Even the sense of being on the ground became blurred, making him wonder if he was still "standing" on the ground.

"This, this is..." Huo Miao sent out his spiritual sense to investigate, but found that he could not detect anything, as if he was in an infinitely vast void space. This situation made him a little panicked, and he involuntarily looked at Ye Xuan in front of him with a help-seeking look.

Ye Xuan's face turned gloomy, and he whispered, "This is an illusion array... No, to be exact, it's an illusion killing array..."

"Oh? You really have some skills. You can tell at a glance that this is an illusion killing formation."

At this moment, a cold and old voice suddenly sounded. Huo Miao was startled and looked in the direction of the voice. He saw that a thousand feet to the right was the place where Ye Xuan had been looking at before. The gray "fog" twisted, revealing the figures of five people who had appeared there at some point in time.

"Pei Shenhuan!! Ge Zhanxiong!" The moment Huo Miao saw the two leaders among the five, he subconsciously exclaimed, and at the same time he completely realized what was going on - it turned out that the 'long-feared' ambush had finally come!

Unexpectedly, Ye Xuan was right. These people had not shown any signs of their whereabouts in the past few days. They really had set a trap ahead of them...

But how did they know the routes of their two people?

At this moment, as if he had heard Huo Miao's surprise, Ye Xuan said calmly, "It's not surprising that they would set up an ambush here in advance. I think they should have figured out all the routes we might take, and then set up monitoring arrays near all the routes before us. Then they can gradually narrow down the scope of our actions, and finally completely determine a 'must-take route', and then set up an ambush."

"Humph! You can still pretend to be calm and analyze things at this time. I really admire you." After hearing Ye Xuan's words, Ge Zhanxiong in the distance had a hint of surprise in his eyes, and then sneered, "It's just that you only understand these things now, don't you think it's too late?"

Indeed, Pei Shenhuan left before Ye Xuan and his party after entering the valley. However, he did not start looking for treasure afterwards. Instead, he set up monitoring formations on all the routes that Ye Xuan and his party might pass as quickly as possible. After confirming the direction that Ye Xuan and his party originally took, he continued to monitor several possible subsequent branch routes in that direction. He finally determined the current only way and set an ambush there.

Because Ye Xuan and his team wasted time searching for treasure along the way, Pei Shenhuan was always one step ahead of them. After Ge Zhanxiong and his team came in, guided by Pei Shenhuan's signals, they quickly bypassed Ye Xuan and Huo Miao and met up with Pei Shenhuan.

The monitoring arrays set up by Pei Shenhuan were often located far away from the target route for remote surveillance, so even though Ye Xuan had always been very careful, he had never discovered those monitoring arrays.

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Ye Xuan didn't care about Ge Zhanxiong's ridicule. He looked up at Pei Shenhuan and said with some admiration, "This illusion killing formation is indeed cleverly arranged. I didn't even notice it before it was activated. The formation you used to hide is also very good. You are indeed an experienced formation master."

Pei Shenhuan couldn't help but reveal a strange look when being "praised" by Ye Xuan, because these words really didn't fit the atmosphere of the scene. He couldn't understand why the other party could still be so calm since they had already been ambushed.

Ye Xuan's attitude of disregard made Ge Zhanxiong, who had just made sarcastic remarks, furious. Without waiting for Pei Shenhuan to speak, he shouted: "Ye Xuan!! Do you think your pretense will still be of any use now! You two are destined to die here today!"

Ye Xuan glanced at him and said calmly: "Do you really think so?"

(End of this chapter)