Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 316 [Is it fake?]

(I overslept and started writing past midnight, even later. This chapter is for Saturday the 18th!)

Chapter 310 [Is it fake?]

The two were running in the opposite direction to where the airship had crashed. Chen Yan raced at top speed, and after a while, he heard a roar behind him!
He turned his head and glanced at the spot where the flying boat had crashed, where dark clouds were swirling in the sky. He wondered what kind of magic the combatants had used to create such a strange phenomenon in the heavens and earth.

Looking down in the sky, dark clouds pressed down, and beneath the clouds, a wisp of black energy could be vaguely seen bobbing around like a headless fly. A large golden net was also visible in the air, and the black energy darted back and forth, but could never escape the range of the golden net.

The vital energy grew increasingly violent and chaotic, and various magical lights flashed, followed by a series of explosions that brought a deafening roar...

Chen Yan stole a few glances amidst his busy work, but didn't stop walking. Suddenly, he heard Gu Tongbing, whom he was holding, whisper, "Not good! We can't escape. We need to find a place to hide first!"

After he finished speaking, he pointed.

Chen Yan looked in that direction and immediately saw figures moving about in the air on either side of him as he ran, seemingly riding flying swords and circling around to encircle and close in.

"Find a place to hide first!" Gu Tongbing said urgently.

At this moment, Chen Yan did not argue with Gu Tongbing, nor did he question him. He made a decisive move, immediately stopped, grabbed Gu Tongbing, and stood in the woods, quickly looking around.

Soon, he discovered something, grabbed Gu Tongbing and ran over, quickly swiping under a big tree, seemingly catching some trace.

Chen Yan's eyes lit up, and he immediately grabbed Gu Tongbing, ran around the big tree, and went straight down.

After running for about a hundred meters, the figures on flying swords searching in the air behind them got closer and closer, and at a glance, there were seven or eight figures.

In the distance, where the flying boat crashed, the black mist was completely shrouded by the golden net, but several other streams of black mist escaped from the gaps in the golden net, fleeing in all directions.

One of the dark wisps, unfortunately, was heading straight in his direction.

Chen Yan didn't have time to look around and quickly ran to the base of a big tree.

The tree looks extremely thick, but the land beneath it forms a slightly higher slope.

Chen Yan ran around the earthen slope and soon found the entrance to a cave, which was obviously a den dug by some wild beast.

Standing at the entrance of the den, looking down, you can smell a strong, pungent stench of wild beasts, mixed with a putrid, rotten smell.

Chen Yan didn't care about anything else, he put Gu Tongbing down on the ground, turned around and said to him, "I'll go down first, you follow!"

After saying that, he bent down and crawled into the cave using both his hands and feet.
The cave was only about a meter high, but it was quite spacious. Once you crawled in, the trend was downwards. Chen Yan quickly crawled in, and after a while, he felt a rustling sound coming from deep inside the cave, followed by the low growls of wild beasts.

Suddenly, a thick, shadowy figure appeared ahead, seemingly heading towards him.

Chen Yan didn't care about anything else and slapped him across the face!
His physique is superhuman; the force of that slap is something no ordinary person could withstand. Not to mention humans, even jackals and tigers couldn't withstand it.

With a bang, Chen Yan felt his palm strike something heavy, with a furry feel to it, but the fur was thick and stiff! After he slapped it, the thing was immediately blown to the side.

At this moment, Chen Yan turned to the side, and a sliver of light shone in from the direction of the cave entrance. With this light, Chen Yan could see clearly that in the corner of the cave, a huge, furry creature had been slapped and was lying sideways, whimpering and emitting angry and terrified roars.

Its head was as big as a bucket, and its body was about three meters long. It was extremely robust and strong, with black fur all over its body. Its appearance was seven or eight parts similar to a real-world bear, that is, a brown bear.

The bear was slapped by Chen Yan. The force of the slap was enough to make it dizzy. It was on the ground for several seconds before it shook its head and opened its mouth. Its eyes were full of ferocity. It bared its teeth and opened its paws to pounce on Chen Yan again.

Chen Yan went up again and slapped the bear on the head, knocking its head to the side. Then he twisted up and pounced into the bear's arms, elbowing it in the chest.

Even the bear's burly body couldn't withstand the blow from Chen Yan's superhuman physique. With two cracking sounds, it was clear that the bear's ribs were probably broken!

Chen Yan casually grabbed its left paw and twisted it hard!
With a crack, the bear roared in pain as Chen Yan flipped it over and pinned it down. Chen Yan then punched it several more times on the head.

After a few moments, the bear was whimpering in pain, but it could no longer make a loud noise, and its breathing became much weaker.

Chen Yan unleashed a murderous aura, pressing his knee down on the bear's head, and said viciously, "Move again, and I'll kill you, you beast!"

This bear was so large that it must have been quite old and probably even possessed some intelligence. After being brutally beaten on the head, it was severely injured. It was also shocked by the evil aura released by Chen Yan and suppressed by Chen Yan's vital energy. Unable to move, it finally stopped even from making a sound.

Chen Yan then turned around, pulled Gu Tongbing, who had already climbed into the cave, and dragged him to his side, helping him sit in a corner of the bear cave.

The bear den is not small. The space was dug out by the bears underground. Because it was located under the roots of a large tree, some of the tree roots were inserted and buried in the soil, forming a fixed structure that further reinforced the bear den, making it like a small room.

After settling Gu Tongbing in, Chen Yan turned to look at the bear. He was ready; if the beast made any more trouble, he would kill it!
But when I looked over, I was stunned, and my raised hand involuntarily went down.

The bear lay on the ground, its body curled up in a ball, as if it were trying its best to protect something.

Behind it, two tiny black heads seemed to peek out...

"So it was a mother bear protecting her cubs..." Chen Yan sighed, his gaze towards the bear softened, losing some of its ferocity. He said slowly, "You beast, don't move. I'm just borrowing your den to hide for a while. When I leave, I'll heal your wounds and give you a chance."

The bear curled up into a ball, making a whimpering sound. Although it might not have understood Chen Yan's words, the sound was clearly pleading.

Chen Yan grabbed two concealment talismans, slapping one on Gu Tongbing and the other on himself.

Gu Tongbing frowned: "Your talisman won't work. I was able to see through your actions that day! Take my hidden treasure from my sleeve..."

Chen Yan immediately took out Gu Tongbing's storage sleeve and, under Gu Tongbing's guidance, took out a bronze bottle from it.

"There are wax pellets inside. Pour out two and crush them!" Gu Tongbing said quickly.

Without thinking twice, Chen Yan did as instructed. After crushing the two wax pills, a strange powder immediately filled the air, seemingly without any particular odor...

However, when the powder dissolved into the air, it suddenly seemed to form a strange air barrier, which gradually spread and sealed off Xiong Dong.

Chen Yan noticed that the powder in the air seemed to absorb all the smells within the area it covered.

What surprised him even more was that even the spiritual energy in the air was locked in place, ceasing to flow and move!

He glanced at Gu Tongbing in surprise. Gu Tongbing lowered his voice and said, "This is bone powder from a demonic beast. That kind of beast is best at concealment magic. With its bone powder, even a cultivator at the Celestial Realm level wouldn't be able to spot the flaw unless they deliberately used magic to spy on this place." Chen Yan nodded. Suddenly, he heard the sound of wind outside. Without saying a word, he immediately climbed to the bear's mouth, tore off some branches and leaves, and roughly covered the entrance. He then stood guard at the entrance, watching outside...

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Besides the bear's movements, two figures swiftly traversed the air on flying swords. Subsequently, within the forest, someone lowered their altitude and began to fly, searching through the woods.

Chen Yan could see clearly that these people all carried a murderous aura!

Soon, a figure caught Chen Yan's attention. This person was wearing a black robe and a mask. Judging from his appearance and attire, he looked almost exactly like Gu Tongbing from that day.

The only difference was that Gu Tongbing wore a wooden mask that day, while this guy wore a bronze mask.

The figure floated and swiftly passed through the forest, at one point being less than a hundred paces from the bear den entrance!
Fortunately, the masked man did not stop; he simply floated past the bear cave in the distance and continued his search in another direction.

Chen Yan stood motionless at the cave entrance until the person had gone far away and disappeared from sight, his heart still pounding!
Although the bronze-masked man had only passed by briefly, Chen Yan immediately and subconsciously focused all his attention, not even daring to use his Qi-observation technique to check him out.

The reason was simply because the masked man's attire was exactly the same as Gu Tongbing's, clearly indicating that he was also a person of considerable status in this organization.

Gu Tongbing is already at the Celestial Realm, what if this guy is too?
He was only a third-realm cultivator, and Gu Tongbing was a cripple. How could they possibly resist him?

In this mountain forest, where there are no mirrors, he cannot hide in the mirror world!
Unless absolutely necessary, Chen Yan would only resort to his last trump card to save his life: leaving the realm and jumping back into the real world!

But this is his biggest secret, and he will never reveal it to anyone unless absolutely necessary!

The commotion outside gradually subsided, and it seemed that everyone had gone far away.

Chen Yan watched for a while longer before quietly leaving the cave entrance and crawling back into the bear den.

The bear protected its two cubs, huddled timidly in a corner. As Chen Yan approached, it instinctively bared its teeth in a threatening manner, but the sound it made was one of pitiful pleading.

Chen Yan ignored it and turned to crawl to Gu Tongbing's side.

"Have they gone far?"

"Hmm, they must have gone far away," Chen Yan said in a low voice.

Gu Tongbing lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said, "My Demon Bone Powder can last for at least two hours—unless there are cultivators fighting at close range, causing their magical power to cause a fluctuation in their spiritual energy, which would render the Demon Bone Powder ineffective. Otherwise, we should be safe now."

He paused, then added, "Two hours is enough to wait until this ambush is over and their men have all left. We'll go out after they've left."

Chen Yan looked at Gu Tongbing and said in a serious tone, "Aren't you going to explain this to me?"

"Ok?"

"Logically speaking, these people who ambushed the airship are your accomplices, right? Since you've encountered your accomplices, why don't you try to ask them for help?"

Why do I get the feeling... it's like you're more afraid of being discovered by them?

Gu Tongbing gave a strange smile: "There might be something you've misunderstood."

He exhaled and lowered his voice, saying, "I do want to recruit you into my organization, but neither my organization nor I am the mastermind behind this ambush on the airship—the ambush on the airship was an operation by a force, and I was merely infiltrating to fish in troubled waters."

The events in southern Xinjiang involve…

"Alright! Stop!" Chen Yan quickly waved his hand and said with a wry smile, "I don't really want to know that much, okay!"
What ambush on flying boats, interception of representatives of aristocratic families and sects, framing the demon race... this is clearly a huge conspiracy.

I don't want to get involved.

As for what you said about you being infiltrated into this conspiracy organization, that kind of spy-within-a-spy, undercover-within-undercover thing, I have even less reason to know!
The more you know about secrets, the more trouble you'll cause, and the more karmic consequences you'll be entangled in. So, you don't need to tell me anymore.

Gu Tongbing was taken aback, then finally let out a sigh of relief: "Alright, if you don't want to know, I won't tell you."

Chen Yan moved over and sat down next to Gu Tongbing, took out some food and water, and shared the food and drink with Gu Tongbing.

The air inside the bear cave was actually very murky. With the presence of demon bone powder, the airflow was locked by the powder that permeated the air, preventing the odor from escaping and making the bear cave even more stuffy.

The space here was cramped, and it was already filled with the stench of bears.

Furthermore, the animal dens also contain the remains of wild beasts—presumably food hunted by bears, dragged into the dens to eat, and left uneaten food in the dens for storage.

Over time, a pile of bones and rotten remains were left in the corner.

This made the air here feel like a nightmare.

Fortunately, Chen Yan was used to hardship—during the time he spent wandering in the forests of Badlands Mountain, he had seen and experienced all sorts of things, including animal dens, sleeping in the open, and the carcasses of wild beasts.

At this moment, they didn't mind that the place was dirty.

To his slight surprise, Gu Tongbing, amidst the stench, leaned calmly against the corner, showing not a trace of disgust on his face.

How could a young master from such a prestigious family have such a fixed mindset?
Gu Tongbing noticed Chen Yan's gaze, paused slightly, and guessed what Chen Yan was thinking. He said calmly, "Don't think I'm that kind of young master from a noble family."

I've been through days of sitting on piles of corpses and eating dry rations.

Ok.

Chen Yan recalled that when he first met Gu Jinjia, he had seen Gu Jinjia suffer in the wild, and he felt relieved.

"It seems that you heirs of top aristocratic families aren't living such a good life."

"Other aristocratic families live in luxury, and even those who are slightly willing to cultivate their children have good conditions to protect them. The so-called hardship is just a fleeting thing."

But my Gu family is different. Raising our direct descendants truly involves enduring mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Gu Tongbing frowned, then suddenly glanced at Chen Yan: "Wang Chuyi... this isn't actually your real name, is it? In fact, I suspect that the identity of Wang Chuyi might be fake?"

(End of this chapter)