Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 274: Fight between Two Factions

After about half a day, Chu Tai finally figured out the function of the fetal origin true qi. As the word "fetal origin" suggests, it is one of the few special true qi in the Dongji Chenguang sky that contains the principles of yin and yang and can simulate the state of a fetus bathing in the innate qi in the female's belly.

Moreover, Chu Tai also roughly understood the structure of the token.

The overall design of the token is a culmination of the Mingchen School's three arts of alchemy, weapon refining, and formation. The patterns on the surface and the frequency of the flow of true Qi inside all fit in with some concepts of weapon refining, alchemy, and formation.

In other words, if Chu Tai can solve it perfectly, then he will have made some progress in the Mingchen School's practice philosophy, as well as the techniques of alchemy, refining, and array formation.

Chu Tai, who knew this key point, thought about it for a while, then slowed down. Following the guidance of "fate", he found a caravan and followed them. While studying the token, he slowly approached Jinhua Cave Heaven.

The caravan Chu Tai was looking for this time was a little special. It was a chamber of commerce formed by some of the most prominent businessmen in the Central Plains, and it had branches in every prefecture.

Chu Tai had a leisurely life along the way, and the leaders of these chambers of commerce were mostly perceptive. They were fair and just to cultivators like Chu Tai who obviously had good cultivation. They were fair and just on the surface, but gave him some conveniences in secret.

Therefore, Chu Tai did not encounter any bad things along the way. Instead, wherever he went, there would be someone to introduce him to something and let him see many strange techniques for traveling.

For example, the art of land sailing is suitable for deserts and sandy lands, as it uses the yellow sand to carry people and objects.

A technique to bless beasts of burden so that they are full of energy and can keep running non-stop.

The more sophisticated ones are the art of moving military flags which is derived from the military marching techniques of strategists, and the art of traveling day and night which involves the changes of the sun, moon and stars and draws on the power of the stars.

These little tricks have no effect on Chu Tai, but they are of great help to these traveling merchants.

After knowing that they had deliberately let him see it, Chu Tai didn't mind giving them some pointers to help them better adapt to the corresponding team leader.

And every time he did this, the team leader would be more respectful to Chu Tai and would occasionally ask him some questions.

Chu Tai didn't care about this. He had his own standards in his heart. As long as the questions asked by the other party did not exceed the convenience they gave, he would give guidance.

This kind of guidance is not limited to the team leader, which also led to Chu Tai gradually becoming one of the core members of the caravan.

That day, Chu Tai, who was answering a question for someone, suddenly looked up, glanced at the sky, and whispered, "The aura ahead doesn't look right."

As soon as these words were spoken, a servant beside Chu Tai hurriedly contacted the team leader.

After a while, the team leader came to Chu Tai from the front and asked for the specific reason.

Chu Tai pointed ahead and said, "About 200 miles away, there are two cultivators fighting. Their magical powers are quite impressive. If you rush over directly, you will easily be implicated. Their fight has already affected the ground veins and mountains ahead. It's best to take a detour."

Upon hearing this, the team leader took out the map and looked at it. He immediately frowned and whispered, "This is going to be difficult. Two hundred miles away is the most important resting point for us on this trip. It is also one of the few passages between the two places. If we can't go forward, the time it will take to take a detour will take two or three more days."

As he spoke, the team leader asked someone next to him.

"Are there enough supplies in the caravan?"

The man immediately responded, "Of course there is enough food, but according to our original itinerary, we will reach the destination in about three days, so the first-class spiritual talismans are insufficient. We can use it for four days at most. If we take a detour, it will take at least six days to reach the destination."

Hearing this, the team leader couldn't help but frown. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Chu Tai suddenly stand up.

The leader was shocked and asked, "Master, what happened?" "They actually decided the winner so quickly?"

Chu Tai first whispered to himself, then looked at the leader and said, "Get ready, they are coming."

"coming?"

The team leader was stunned at first, but then he reacted and hurriedly asked the caravan to stop and raised the flag. The faint spiritual light connected with the earth veins, forming a layer of faint bright light to protect the surroundings.

The next moment, there was a loud thunder in the sky, rumbling and making the team leader's heart tremble.

In his perception, the thunder was deafening and mind-shaking, causing the meager magic power in his body to show signs of dissipating.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a scarlet blood light rising into the sky, illuminating most of the sky in the same bright red, which was extremely eye-catching.

Wherever the blood passed, wisps of blood and energy surged up from the ground, being taken away by it.

When it approached them, the team leader couldn't help but look at Chu Tai.

Chu Tai stretched out a finger, stood in front of him, and blew gently.

The fresh air blew through the fingers and turned into two breezes. One of them merged into the surrounding bright light, making it faint, transparent, and almost non-existent.

The other one is integrated into the earth veins, making the connection between the bright light and the earth veins closer, and the aura of everyone under the bright light more obscure.

The almost invisible trace made it impossible for the blood light to lock onto the qi and blood of the people and find their location when it passed by.

The woman in the blood light frowned slightly, glanced in the direction of Chu Tai and others, sensed the sound of thunder behind her, and had no time to look for the blood and energy she had felt before. She twisted her body and immediately split into three figures, flying in different directions.

At the moment when the blood light was divided into three parts, the thunder and lightning fell on the place where the woman had stood before. He had sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, and he glanced around, staring in one direction, and turned into lightning to chase after her.

When the team leader saw this scene, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone in the caravan also relaxed their vigilance.

Just when the team leader wanted to speak to Chu Tai, he was stopped by him with a look.

The next second, the blood light turned, and the blood lotus slowly bloomed. The woman who had left earlier reappeared. She looked around and frowned, "This is strange. I clearly felt that there should be hundreds of people here before. How come they suddenly disappeared? Could it be that someone is protecting them, or are they holding some special magic weapon?"

As she spoke, children's heads popped out from the bloody light around the woman, and they started clapping their hands and playing games with each other, with clear laughter echoing all around.

Many people in the caravan felt splitting headaches when they heard this and cried out in pain.

Seeing this, Chu Tai took out a purple bamboo branch and shook it gently. The sound of waves came from afar, and the next second a sword light fell from the sky and slashed towards the woman.

"Tsk, boy from the Emei Sect, am I not pretty enough or mature enough? Are you so unromantic?"

The woman dodged the falling sword light, stood in mid-air with her clothes half-undressed, looked at the man chasing after her, and said with a smile: "Or is this the kind of hobby you Emei sect like?"

Upon hearing this, the man scolded, "It is indeed a demon from the Wutai Sect. Even when he is about to die, he still does not forget to use the charm method! It's a pity that it is useless to me!"

(End of this chapter)