"Master! Has Junior Brother Li been inside for too long?"
Li Yingling looked at Chu Xingchen with concern.
Since Li Xingtian sent the signal and sneaked into the mine, there had been no news from him.
"Let's wait a bit longer," Chu Xingchen frowned slightly. With the Thousand-Mile Teleportation Talisman, Li Xingtian should be fine even if he couldn't win.
Perhaps something went wrong and Li Xingtian teleported away.
Li Yingling sighed deeply after getting the answer and decided to wait as her master instructed.
However, ten minutes later.
A loud explosion echoed from inside the mine, followed by a surge of fierce and evil spiritual energy pouring out.
This time, Li Yingling didn't need to say anything.
Li Xingtian had predicted that the Golden Dan elder in the spirit stone warehouse, a middle-aged man, had already come out. Regardless of what was happening to Li Xingtian inside, she had to stop the Golden Dan elder first!
Chu Xingchen quickly grabbed a spiritual sword from his spatial ring and handed a teleportation talisman to Li Yingling before heading out:
"Use it decisively if you're in danger, then find a place to hide and wait for your master to find you."
"What's this?" Li Yingling looked down at the talisman in her hand, covered in golden patterns.
"It's a random teleportation rune. Inject spiritual energy to activate it. Don't use it out of curiosity," Chu Xingchen put his mask back on. "Also, stay calm and be careful."
"What should I do now?"
"Follow Li Xingtian's plan and try to support him, but make sure to keep yourself safe. Especially if you see someone you can't beat, run without hesitation. Li Xingtian has this talisman too, so don't worry about him."
Then, Li Yingling saw Chu Xingchen's figure disappear instantly, turning into a rainbow light and rushing away.
Chu Xingchen didn't hesitate to use his ultimate move. His most powerful technique at the moment was the mystical skill Li Yingling had learned: the Three Thousand Weak Water Swords.
Strands of sword qi turned into water dragons, clinging to the sword.
Chu Xingchen aimed and swung his sword at the elder who was preparing to return to the source mine.
Even an elementary mystical skill was powerful, especially with Chu Xingchen's masterful escape techniques and the element of surprise.
The elder was anxious to rush back. The plan had reached a critical moment, and this was a vital point for the Qingfeng Sect.
He couldn't afford to fail now. He had already crushed the urgent delivery jade token. With a little delay, other elders from the Qingfeng Sect would come to support.
But the arrays and rituals set up inside couldn't be lost. He was worried.
Faced with Chu Xingchen's sudden lethal attack, the elder realized it was too late to resist.
The elder could only squeeze his Golden Dan and force up a barrier.
But it seemed unable to withstand even for a moment. The sword slash cut through space and time, and in an instant, the aura of death arrived with the endless sword qi.
The elder looked at the sword-wielding figure, dressed in ragged clothes and wearing a demon mask.
But he couldn't dodge it. The sword pierced his heart, and the enormous spiritual energy mixed with the fierce sword qi like a flood, destroying everything inside him.
With just one hit, half of his body, including his heart, was blown into blood foam.
But the elder used this opportunity to break free from the attack range, hurriedly retreating.
Chu Xingchen didn't pursue him. He stopped and stared at the elder. A Golden Dan cultivator shouldn't survive with a shattered heart.
The elder seemed... fine, which was a bit strange. Chu Xingchen decided to check the system's descriptions first.
[Mo Chen]
[Cultivation: Mid-Stage Golden Dan]
[Blue Description: Acquired Demon Body]
[White Description: Tough Skin]
[White Description: Clever]
[Black Description: Demon Infiltration]
Acquired Demon Body?
Chu Xingchen frowned. It seemed there was more to the Qingfeng Sect than met the eye.
The elder stood up, looking relieved. Dark red spiritual energy erupted from his body, quickly and wantonly devouring the nearby Qi Refinement stage two and three miners who hadn't reacted yet.
He quickly absorbed their blood as nourishment, turning it into energy to restore the half of his body that had been destroyed in one hit.
That attack had pierced through his Golden Dan's protective barrier, and the sword technique, as natural as heaven, was clearly a mystical skill!
Cultivators with and without mystical skills were not on the same level.
Especially since this person's cultivation should be higher than his own. Now, he had to delay and wait for other elders from the sect to come to support!
Mo Chen quickly said, "Fellow cultivator! Isn't there some misunderstanding? This is the Qingfeng Sect's mine."
Chu Xingchen's tone was calm: "An evil cult's mine. It's our duty to uphold justice."
Mo Chen breathed a sigh of relief after getting a response. As long as they could talk and delay for a bit, it was fine. This fool, even if he was at the late stage of Golden Dan and had mystical skills, what could he do?
The Yuan Ying ancestors in the sect would come quickly.
Mo Chen quickly cupped his hands and said, "Our Qingfeng Sect is a righteous cult approved by the Xian Meng Pavilion in southern Danzhou. How can you call us an evil cult?"
Seeing Mo Chen cup his hands, Chu Xingchen was delighted. Stupid villains always died from talking too much.
What kind of brain would think he would continue chatting with him?
If slashing the body didn't work well, then he would slash the brain.
"But you..."
Chu Xingchen opened his mouth to speak, and his sword didn't stop. His figure flashed, seemingly reaching Mo Chen in an instant. The sword qi at this moment wrapped around the spiritual sword like water.
This sword slash didn't hesitate and was aimed at Mo Chen's head.
But unexpectedly, this slash missed.
Mo Chen suddenly released dark red blood mist, engulfing the surroundings.
The aura that Chu Xingchen's sword had locked onto suddenly vanished, or rather, the locked-on aura had turned into that blob of blood mist.
Chu Xingchen quickly opened a spiritual barrier to isolate the blood mist, as he didn't know what it was.
He couldn't care about spiritual energy consumption anymore. The spiritual sword in his hand suddenly shone brightly, and threads of light like flowing water surged into the blood mist from the sword, sharply cutting through all the connected blood mist.
"Aren't you the evil cultivator?! Attacking by surprise?!"
Mo Chen's angry voice came out of the blood mist. If he hadn't been prepared, that sword slash might have really cut off his head.
"My heart is bright; what more is there to say?"
Chu Xingchen replied simply, and the thread-like spiritual energy erupted like a flood, starting to erode all the blood mist.
Mo Chen knew he couldn't keep the blood mist state going, or it would be a slow death. He quickly condensed his body again.
At this moment, Mo Chen's bloodshot eyes stared at Chu Xingchen. This kid was bullying him because he couldn't use mystical skills.
Chu Xingchen's expression was calm. A flawless late-stage Golden Dan cultivator fighting a mid-stage one, with mystical skills on top of that, would be a waste if he couldn't win easily.
His spiritual sword shone again, and the intention of flowing water quickly gathered on the sword. He planned to finish this Golden Dan cultivator in two moves.
But suddenly, there was a huge change inside the mine behind him.
Several bloody figures flew out of the mine, smashing all the buildings and embedding themselves in the surrounding stone walls of the mine field.
Chu Xingchen couldn't help but worry and turned to look.
After several bloody figures flew out.
Li Xingtian emerged with overwhelming demonic flames, and dark red, extremely bloody spiritual energy clung to him. His bloodshot eyes were filled with endless killing intent.
Some strange and sinister blood, with a weird and eerie aura, seemed to be controlled by Li Xingtian, coiling around him along with the spiritual energy.
Had he gone insane?
Why did he look so eerie?
Li Xingtian walked out of the mine and saw his master. He shouted with a crazy and respectful tone:
"Master!"
Mo Chen was also stunned as he looked at Li Xingtian.
He had never seen this person before, so he definitely wasn't calling him master.
That meant he was calling the masked man who claimed his heart was bright.