Chapter 87: 067: The Blade Shines Like Frost Splattered with Blood, Daoism is Thunder breaking through Heavy Gates (Seeking Monthly Ticket)_1 Chapter 87: 067: The Blade Shines Like Frost Splattered with Blood, Daoism is Thunder breaking through Heavy Gates (Seeking Monthly Ticket)_1 Demonic beasts emerged from the mountains and forests on all sides, like thousands upon thousands of wild horses running free.
Their arrival was surprising and their momentum terrifying.
On this night, it became a grotesque festival of surging beasts and cultivators pitched in brutal slaughter.
Chen Dengming and Jiang Qiang battled their way through, escaping the encirclement.
All around them, the screams of humans and beasts rang out from east to west, north and south, echoing everywhere, causing their hearts to palpitate.
What in the world was happening?
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Could this be what he meant?
But the demonic beasts are not the Zhu family.
Various thoughts collided in Chen Dengming’s mind, but he had no time to ponder them deeply.
This sense of urgency, incomprehensibly, made him recover a long-lost, forgotten feeling …
a familiarity he hadn’t felt for nearly a century.
It was a feeling akin to his previous life when he was an office worker, feeling insignificant in the face of the growing society.
The simple cost of a house was four to five hundred thousand per square meter, and he could only save about four to five hundred thousand in a year.
Under that societal pressure and anxiety, he was busy from morning till night.
Where would he have the leisure to ponder the source of his anxiety?
It was this sense of urgency that forced people to keep moving forward, without any time for reflection!
Just like at this moment, all he knew was to kill, rush forward, and cut down the enemy with his blade, using his Daoism as he stormed through obstacles.
No matter what, he had to break through and survive!
Fleeing, but where to flee to?
Retreat, there was nowhere left to retreat!
Tonight, the beastly disaster left no room for a way home.
Finally —-
He didn’t know how many demonic beasts they had killed.
The path ahead was clear.
Chen Dengming quickly reacted and signaled to Jiang Qiang, who was also suffocating from the tense combat atmosphere, and they quickly chose a path to escape.
At this moment, the benefits of their regular training and familiarity with the wilderness terrain became evident.
Even in the dark of night, Chen Dengming was able to quickly distinguish the direction.
With the help of Gu worms and Mini Array Spirit, he led Jiang Qiang to escape quickly to a few safe spots they had noted before.
Along the way, they managed to safely avoid the swarms of demonic beasts.
Finally, they hid in a cave on a hillside.
After Jiang Qiang had set up an illusion array, they were temporarily safe.
All night, they held Spirit Stones to quickly recover their Spiritual Energy, listening to the sounds of beastly roars from afar.
Not far away, the screams from cultivators being chased and killed by demonic beasts echoed incessantly.
By late night, the nearby vicinity was filled only with the faint sounds of demonic beasts gnawing bones and tearing flesh.
Then, dawn gradually approached.
Suddenly, there were sounds of human voices.
These sounds seemed to be driving the demonic beasts away.
“Human voices?
How can there be human voices driving away demonic beasts?”
Chen Dengming and Jiang Qiang exchanged glances inside the stone cave.
Neither of them were fools.
A horrifying guess immediately sprang up in their hearts.
However, before they could check it out, the sound of whistling wind was already approaching.
Both of them immediately held their breaths, exchanging meaningful glances.
“It seems that there are powerful cultivators.
Will your illusion array be able to deceive them?”
“By my estimation, probably not.
The illusion array works fine on these dumb beasts, but it is unlikely to deceive any slightly stronger cultivator.”
“No good can come from them.
If they dare to touch the illusion array later, we will fight immediately and break out quickly.”
Chen Dengming decisively made a decision.
If it were normal times, he would have played along, humbling himself as “Little Chen”, trying to please them to avoid conflict.
If he could avoid a fight, he would.
But now, in such a dire situation, not only were beasts devouring humans, but humans were likely to devour their own kind as well.
Anyone who dared to enter their array would face Chen’s blade before they could explain.
Soon after they began hiding, they noticed the whistling wind had circled around and faded away.
They couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, at that moment, a lightning bolt, like a flaming serpentine chain, suddenly thundered down, tearing through the illusion array and barreling towards the stone cave.
Only then did the loud explosion of thunder follow, shaking the stone cave lightly.
This was the fifth level of Thunder Skill, Palm Thunder!
“Be careful!”
Chen Dengming let out a low roar, and with a wave of his hand, he summoned the Gengjin Bell to protect him and Jiang Qiang.
“Boom —-”
An explosive crack of thunder, like a detonating bomb, resounded within the cave.
Arcs of thunderous light radiated all around, making the cave walls tremble and crumble into dust.
With a flash of golden light, the Gengjin Bell dispersed the thunderous light, resembling a golden beacon flashing out of a crevice as it hurriedly left the cave.
“Where are you going!”
On the hill outside the cave, several cultivators roared angrily.
One of them immediately formed a spell with his hand, once again condensing Thunder Skill in his palm.
One bolt of lightning after another, each with the force of thunderbolts, charged towards Chen Dengming and Jiang Qiang.
This was Instant Palm Thunder!
Chen Dengming snorted coldly, his sleeve rolled up and the high-tier Magic Artifact, Light Reflecting Mirror, appeared in an instant, shining a spiritual light on the lightning bolt.
The thunderbolt flashed for a moment, and then deflected all the streaks of lightning.
The cultivator was taken off guard and immediately summoned his defense Magic Artifact barely blocking his own Thunder Skill.
The other two weren’t so lucky, caught off guard, they were hit by the dazzling white light bounced back by their own lightning, causing their spiritual shields to collapse.
One of them was on fire, with his clothes and hair burnt.
He screamed and rolled on the ground in pain.
In that instant, Chen Dengming turned around, and with a flick of his fingers, the Ice Spirit Sword was launched.
As the sword radiated a cyan-white glow, it seemed like a streak of lightning striking through the dim morning light, aiming directly at the cultivator of the fifth Qi Cultivation level.
The cultivator’s face turned pale, as he had not expected Chen Dengming to counterattack so quickly.
He immediately slapped his Storage Bag, summoning a Magic Artifact shaped like a spear to intercept the blade’s glow.
“Sword!”
Chen Dengming’s eyes suddenly burst with a startling gleam, his palm violently cutting through the air.
The Ice Spirit Sword following his intention suddenly surges to a length of several Zhang, brimming with Broadsword Qi.
The severe and surging sword ruthlessly chops down, tearing layers of air to produce repetitive waves of Qi!
Its force was like a raging tiger breaking out of its cage, showcasing the most fierce intent of a full-out sword strike.
In the dim sky, all that could be seen was a snow-bright sword Qi four Zhang long, exuding powerful spiritual energy, roughly cleaving a mountain peak!
With a ‘Dang’, a soul-shaking loud noise, it shocked everyone’s eardrums.
The spear-shaped magic artifact directly shattered.
Amidst the scattering spiritual energy, Chen Dengming hovered mid-air with his fluttering robes and hanging sword, his eyes firmly locked with the cultivator below, striking like thunder and lightning.
Suddenly, his opponent’s eyes darkened, a gash from his forehead to his chin suddenly broke open, blood sprayed, he fell backward.
This shocking turn of events in a blink of an eye made Jiang Qiang, who was just escaping a few yards away, shake in his very soul, unable to regain his senses.
He just felt Chen Dengming’s white hair fluttering, his figure wielding the sword and killing the enemy in a domineering manner, seemed to be a totally different person compared to his usual gentleness.
It truly was Chen Dengming who, if not forced into action, when acts, he strikes with outstanding might and fatal impact!
“Ah!
——”
At this point, one of the surviving cultivators shouted loudly, stimulating the talisman and charms.
Whoosh!
——
Two gleaming ice spikes as large as an adult’s thigh levitated in the air.
The temperature plummeted as they hurtled towards Chen Dengming.
However, Chen Dengming rode the sword light and floated backwards this time— he slapped his storage bag, and two claw-shaped magic artifacts flew out with a swift Wuling Snatch.
With a squeeze of the great claw, the two ice spikes ‘boom’ shattered into large pieces of ice crystal which exploded.
Among them, two surviving cultivators did not even have Qi Cultivation third level, how could they compete?
In a moment, they were both dead.
Chen Dengming swept up the storage bag and the magic artifact spear from the leading cultivator, he was too lazy to bother searching the other two’s bodies, and without hesitation, he quickly signalled Jiang Qiang to escape.
“Brother Chen!
Why not keep them alive for questioning?”
“Qiangzi, do you know how the villains die?”
Jiang Qiang: “…~?”
“They die because they talk too much, they also die because they know too much.
No matter what happens, we have no more time to deal with anyone, we must leave this place which was washed by the blood of demonic beasts.
If I guess correctly, there must be more cultivators from that force in the vicinity.
Who else can cause such a huge commotion, mobilize Qi Cultivators of the fifth level to die for them on the land of the Lin Family’s Brocade Mill?”
“Only the Lin Family itself!?”
Jiang Qiang was suddenly enlightened and couldn’t help but feel a chill.
Without further chit-chat, he closely followed Chen Dengming and quickly flew low to the ground in an attempt to escape.
Along the way, they saw blood and human limbs scattered on the ground.
Occasionally, they could also see the bodies of demonic beasts, but they were definitely few and far between.
With the aid of the Mini Array Spirit and Gu Worm to move their eyes and perceive their surroundings from afar, they had many close calls, but quickly they dashed tens of miles away.
However, very soon, they had to hide ahead of time in a remote forest.
The old familiar bird, the dark demonic bird, showed its terrifying figure in the sky.
Its wings were like a cloud blocking out the sunlight.
As it flew across the sky, making a deep and oppressive sound as it broke through the air, its body radiated a powerful spiritual might and Evil Qi.
This old bird seemed to be working in conjunction with last night’s feast of the demonic beasts, picking off the remaining stragglers.
At times it swooped down, crushing hidden cultivators with its anchor-like iron claws, and some powerful cultivators were beaten to pieces and thrown to the side, letting them howl in sorrow.
It was not in a hurry to kill them, seemed to be toying with them, as though it had other purposes.
Ordinary cultivators, facing such a demonic beast of Qi Cultivation’s ninth or tenth level, have completely lost their ability to resist.
…
Only after a long time had passed, and the forest fell silent with only the faint smell of blood remaining.
“Dao…Daoist, you can come out now…”
The Mini Array Spirit issued a reminder from Chen Dengming’s waist.
From the interior of a large tree, Chen Dengming, who had used his Wood Escape Skill to hide, breathed a sigh of relief and blinked outward.
He kicked the ground beneath his feet.
The ground shook, revealing Jiang Qiang’s face.
His eyes were closed tightly, his nose and ears stuck together, he was actually in a state of hibernation using the Earth Escape Turtle’s Breath technique.
“Get up!
It’s safe for now.”
Chen Dengming kicked Jiang Qiang.
Jiang Qiang opened his eyes, blinked twice, and quickly flew out from the earth.
Chen Dengming laughed and shook his head, “You, with a fire spiritual root, are pretty good at Earth Escape.
Did you use this technique to escape the chase in Hutong Street back then?”
Jiang Qiang awkwardly scratched his head and laughed, “These small tricks…
I’m still far behind you, Brother Chen.”
“All right, let’s get going.
That demonic bird might have gone to capture the other cultivators and will possibly return soon.
Let’s hurry up!”
Without any delay, the two set off swiftly.
They didn’t know, and didn’t want to concern themselves with the current situation at Brocade Mill.
But they could more or less guess that, apart from Boss Hu of the Business League who had some special privileges, the other loose cultivators were most likely in more danger than not.
Even the terrifying demonic bird was driven by the Lin family to hunt for cultivators specifically.
This thousand miles frontier seemed to be the Lin Family’s hunting ground, which scared them deeply.
They only wanted to take advantage of the current chaos and leave as soon as possible.
At this moment, Jiang Qiang was only relieved that he had listened to Brother Chen and left right away.
If he had thought that it was safe inside Brocade Mill and had hunkered down there, considering himself safe in the city, he would have simply become sitting ducks, unable to escape even with wings by now…
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