Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 316: Qinglu's Death

Chu Tai followed Taoist Qinglu to another energy point in the earth vein. This place was on the shady side of the mountain. The energy point was hidden in a cave. The shady energy of the earth accumulated into ice, and it looked like snow all around.

Gusts of cold wind blew up countless ice particles and snow, turning them into cold waves that raged back and forth in the cave. Taoist Qinglu lowered the cloud light, raised his hand and released a clear light to protect himself, and then carefully entered.

Chu Tai, who was standing outside, took a look and stretched out his hand to grab it. The Taiyi Xuanhui Miaodao Zhenqi combined with the mist derived from "Yun Zhongjun" obscured his figure and walked into it.

After a while, Taoist Qinglu was heard arguing with an old man.

"Isn't this the Great Master Qinglu from our Zixiao Palace? What was he doing just now? He wasn't going to make love with that guy from Su Nu Dao, was he? The time was a little short. He didn't have the demeanor of your Beitian Xuanwu! Hahahaha..."

The old man had a goatee, was short and skinny, and had an eerie ghostly aura all over his body. Every move he made was surrounded by the ghostly energy of the Seven Evils of Taiyin. It was obvious that he was a fifth-rank cultivator who had achieved some success in practicing the underworld. In this cave, his combat power was far superior to that of ordinary cultivators at the same level.

Therefore, although Taoist Qinglu saw his face was livid, he did not dare to take action. He could only snort coldly: "I was entrusted by someone to go and check the changes in the Qi cavity. Do you want to stop me?"

"Check the changes in the Qi cavity? Under someone's entrustment? Do you still think you are a disciple of the great and glorious Xuanmen sect?"

Although the old man said something sarcastic, he moved away, obviously worried that Qing Lu would really discover something and make Hong Yue unhappy.

However, when Taoist Qinglu walked over, the old man raised his hand and shot out a ray of clear light, which passed over his head. The yin energy of the earth turned into a gust of cold wind, making the sounds of ghosts howling and wolves howling, and at the same time, there were ghost fires flying.

Chu Tai avoided the fire and the cold wind and watched Taoist Qinglu glare at the old man.

"伱!"

"You can't blame me for this. Hong Yue said that in order to prevent someone from sneaking in with strange magic weapons or some magical powers, I have to cast a spell to test everyone who enters. If you are not satisfied, go and tell him!"

As he spoke, the old man showed his yellowed teeth.

Qing Lu snorted coldly and walked quickly inside, then he saw Taoist Hong Yue sitting on a white bone lotus. The lotus was made up of many human bones, with skulls inlaid in the center of the petals. Black smoke was gushing out of the eye sockets of the skulls, making the surroundings look extremely sinister.

Seeing Qinglu, Hong Yue showed a kind smile: "Welcome back. By the way, where is Shaoling? Why didn't she come back with you?"

"She's dead?"

Taoist Qinglu's answer made Hong Yue's face change slightly, and he whispered, "Dead? That girl's cultivation is not low, and she is good at saving her life with her Su Nu Taoism. How did she die?"

There was no trace of the intimacy he had shown towards Qing Lu before in his words; it was as if he was questioning a servant.

Taoist Qinglu was angry but dared not speak. He was silent for a moment. When Hong Yue asked again, he responded: "A cultivator who came with Taoist Mujing. From what I see, he should be the disciple of the Taiyi Sect you mentioned? But for some reason, the things you prepared didn't work on him..."

"It doesn't work? How could this happen..."

Hong Yue muttered something in a low voice and asked about some details of the battle. During this process, Chu Tai was also careful to avoid the influence of the surrounding magic and black fog and observe the layout of the place.

He discovered that the Qi point where he was now was very special. It was not just a Qi point node, but also the intersection of several nodes. It should be an important checkpoint when Hong Yue planned to perform a blood sacrifice in the future.

In the entire cave, many kinds of magic are intertwined, and there are secret demons hidden in the heavens. Ordinary methods of invisibility and escape cannot sneak into this place at all. Most methods of deducing the secrets of heaven also make it difficult to detect this land.

After briefly noting down the arrangements around him, Chu Tai began to pay attention to the communication between Hong Yue and Taoist Qinglu.

"Not only did he break the blood barrier I prepared, but the Heavenly Immortal Soul-Bewitching Powder that Shao Ling carefully refined also didn't work. It seems that his cultivation and true Qi have improved a lot. It's not the sixth-grade cultivation that he showed. I just don't know his specific strength now, and the grade of his true Qi."

Hong Yue walked back and forth twice, looked at Taoist Qinglu, and was about to ask him a few more questions about his thoughts, but suddenly turned around, looked at the cave entrance, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Interesting, there are guests coming at this time." As he said, he walked outside, and saw the old man who had blocked Taoist Qinglu before, fighting with a female cultivator.

The female cultivator was wearing a emerald feather cloud shoulder robe and a tiger-skin miniskirt around her waist. Her exposed arms, thighs, waist, navel, and most of her chest were painted with some strange patterns. Black smoke was floating all over her body, and green light was shining. It was obvious that she was not an immortal cultivator, but a practitioner of some demonic path, or a practitioner of witchcraft.

When she saw Hong Yue, she immediately showed anger, shook her shoulders, and thirteen white bone flying forks flew out, transforming into thirteen green flames into the sky.

Seeing this, the old man jumped to the side and watched from a distance.

Hong Yue looked at the thirteen falling green flames, raised his hand and released a pair of Yin-Yang Separation Knives, flicked his fingers twice in the air, and the surfaces of the two knives exploded with brilliant light, continuously turning four flying forks of inferior quality into a piece of green sparks, which scattered in all directions like thousands of fireflies.

The nine flying forks of slightly better quality were bounced away one by one and were difficult to resist.

Seeing this, the woman took something out from her waist, put it into her mouth, chewed it, and muttered something incoherently.

"The Three Yin and Nine Evils summoning magic of the Naked Sect? You actually provoked this sect?"

Taoist Qinglu's eyes widened slightly when he saw this. Hong Yue chuckled and said, "As expected of a disciple of Zixiao Palace, you can even see through this kind of unconventional magic. Why don't you break it?"

"This is different from what we agreed upon!"

Taoist Qinglu's expression changed and he looked at Hong Yue with anger in his eyes.

"When did I give you the illusion that I mean what I say?"

After Hong Yue responded, he raised his hand and released a black gas, and the woman also spit out a green light.

The two collided in mid-air and immediately became mixed together, with green light rolling in the black air.

The next moment, a mysterious demon shadow emerged from the green light, swallowed the black air, and flew towards Hong Yue.

Hong Yue took a step back, leaving Taoist Qinglu exposed.

The old man on the side couldn't help but burst into strange laughter when he saw this. He never thought that Taoist Qinglu would suddenly make a move. Clear light surged, seven stars danced, and while protecting himself, he hit the ice layer on the side.

He tried to shake the place, but then he saw the woman from the Naked Sect, the ghostly old man, and Hong Yue attacking him at the same time, breaking his protective light and destroying his body.

A point of starlight appeared, and the seven stars turned, as if to escape with the Taoist Qinglu's soul.

"I want to leave now, but it's too late!"

Hong Yue's palm glowed, and the Five Turbidities and Eight Winds Banner flew out. Streams of black and turbid air danced in the air, polluting the starlight. Under Taoist Qinglu's horrified gaze, his yang spirit was swallowed up and merged into the long banner.

Then his flesh, blood, bones and several magic weapons were given to the old man and the woman by Taoist Hong Yue.

Chu Tai saw all this and narrowed his eyes slightly. After staying on the woman for a moment, he left the place carefully.

When he returned to the original location of the qi point, he saw Changpu and Taoist Mu Jing silently calculating on the spot. Seeing Chu Tai returning, Mu Jing hurried forward to ask Chu Tai where he had been before.

But before he could speak, Chu Tai said, "Be careful, Hong Yue may have teamed up with the Naked Sect."

(End of this chapter)