Chi Zhuo and Tian Min were cultivators of the same generation, but Tian Min had a compassionate heart and a plump body that made him look younger. Chi Zhuo looked thin and had deep wrinkles on his face, making him appear much older than Tian Min. His eyes were full of evil and greed at this time, making people feel disgusted.

Being stared at by him like that, Cheng Qi realized something was wrong and raised his hand to touch his face. Sure enough, the mask had disappeared under the strong wind just now. Thinking back to what Elder Chi Zhuo said just then, Cheng Qi suddenly realized something. “What did you mean just now?”

Chi Zhuo did not answer his question. Instead, he looked at Cheng Qi and murmured to himself, “You actually managed to hide from my eyes. If this face wasn’t exactly the same as Cheng Yu’s, I wouldn’t even know it was you.”

Before, he only heard that this shuanger was extremely ugly, but Chi Zhuo didn’t care about his appearance behind the mask. As a result, this shuanger managed to jump around under his nose for a long time without he realized it.

Tan Eyu also noticed something was wrong and stepped forward to block Cheng Qi. She stared at the foundation-establishment cultivator opposite with a vigilant face. Judging from his reaction, he obviously knew something. If Cheng Qi were taken away by this person, it would be really troublesome.

Elder Chi Zhuo sneered when he saw the ghost’s behavior. “How can you, a ghost slave, stop me?”

As soon as he finished speaking, another attack hit the ghost slave in front of Cheng Qi. But in order not to hurt Cheng Qi, Chi Zhuo didn’t use all his strength. However, Tan Eyu was still knocked backward by the blast. When she fell to the ground, her figure appeared and disappeared, and there were signs of collapse.

“Tan Eyu.” Cheng Qi quickly ran to Tan Eyu to check. While his back was to the man, he bit the tip of his tongue and poured a few drops of his blood on Tan Eyu’s body. Just three drops of blood and Cheng Qi’s body was suddenly sucked in by a force and fell into Chi Zhuo’s hands in the blink of an eye.

Cheng Qi, who had not yet reached Chi Zhuo’s chest, was pinched off the ground and forced to look at him. He saw Chi Zhuo’s eyes turned white, and there seemed to be a curse floating in them, as if nothing in the world could escape those peeping eyes.

After a while, Chi Zhuo reached out and stroked the side of Cheng Qi’s face and said, “You are indeed a top-notch furnace body. Little shuanger, I have been looking for you for more than ten years. It turns out that you were hiding in the mortal world.”

Cheng Yu had similar appearance but he wasn’t as useful as the one in front of him. Thinking of this, Chi Zhuo couldn’t help but smile proudly.

Disgust overwhelmed Cheng Qi at this moment. It turned out being touched by others could be so disgusting. When someone strangled his neck, Cheng Qi struggled to utter a few words, “No, don’t touch me.”

“Don’t worry, just follow me. I’ll take you back.” After Chi Zhuo finished speaking, he raised his hand to seal Cheng Qi’s meridians, then tapped his sleeping point, and carried the unconscious shuanger on his shoulders and took him away.

When Chi Zhuo floated into the air with his flying sword, he suddenly turned around and slapped a palm toward the ground. There was a loud “boom” sound, and the dust on the ground flew for a long time. The area covered by the attack would be reduced to ashes.

Chi Zhuo’s divine sense swept down, and he smiled with satisfaction after confirming that there was no breath left. Those disciples had lost their cultivation or broke their bodies, it would be useless to take them back, it would be better for them and the ghost slave to die here.

Just when Chi Zhuo was about to leave with his sword, a piece of red silk came in front of him. The red silk looked like a soft thing, but it had the aura of a foundation-establishment cultivator. Chi Zhuo sacrificed a vajra pestle and struck the red silk. Originally, softness could overcome strength, but there was a huge disparity in strength between the two, and the red silk shattered inch by inch as soon as they touched it.

Upon seeing this, Tan Eyu waved her arm and dozens of red silk ribbons came forward to meet him, wrapping the vajra in layers. Then she looked at the cultivator carrying Cheng Qi and said, “That is one of this Royal Highness’s people. How can I allow you to take my people away!”

If Cheng Qi was awake at this time, he would find Tan Eyu under the night was completely different from before, and her appearance and temperament had undergone earth-shaking changes. The red python robe and brocade clothes were somewhat similar to the crown prince of Zidong Kingdom, but the aura of a heavenly dragon in her body could not be compared with that of Zhao Shengyu.

Chi Zhuo looked at the ghost slave in front of him and saw a Tianlong seal on her forehead. He was surprised and said, “You actually have the blood of the Tianlong Royal Family.”

The Tianlong Royal Family were ancient emperors. Although they were also mortals, they had the Heavenly Dragon’s True Blood. The blood was added to the body until Tianlong royal family was extinct, and subsequent mortal emperors no longer had the true blood of the Heavenly Dragon. This shuanger was really lucky to be able to contract a ghost slave with the blood of the Tianlong Royal Family.

“It’s a pity that you are not my opponent yet.” After saying that, he injected Qi into the vajra. The vajra, which was wrapped in layers of red silk and could not move, suddenly glowed with light. After spinning in place for several times, the red ribbon wrapped outside was torn apart by a powerful burst of true spiritual energy.

As soon as the vajra was out of the predicament, it hit the ghost slave unstoppably. Tan Eyu only felt that the aura on the vajra was vast. She did not dare to face it and could only quickly dodge backward. The red ribbons collided layer by layer with the vajra in an attempt to weaken its power.

Of course, Tan Eyu knew that she was no match for him. At this time, she was just delaying time. The cultivator’s attack just now triggered the jade pendant left by Li Tianyan. He must have arrived soon. All she could do now was to delay this man until Li Tianyan arrived. Stopping him from taking people away.

However, this person was at the pinnacle of foundation establishment. Tan Eyu just used a few drops of Cheng Qi’s hard work to forcibly improve her cultivation temporarily. In less than half an hour, the Yin energy in her body was almost exhausted. Tan Eyu couldn’t help but say anxiously, “Li Tianyan, if you don’t come now, I won’t be able to hold on anymore.”

Seeing that the vajra was approaching, Tan Eyu was already prepared to resist the blow, but suddenly, a green copper bell appeared in front of Tan Eyu, directly absorbing the incoming Vajra. Even the powerful aura emitted by the Vajra was instantly absorbed.

The moment the vajra disappeared, Elder Chi Zhuo spat out a mouthful of blood without any warning. Turned out the Vajra was Elder Chi Zhuo’s natal magic weapon. It had been kept in his Dantian since his foundation was built, and it was connected with his mind and breath. However, after the Vajra was submerged into the copper bell, the connection between the two was suddenly severed.

It was not a trivial matter for a cultivator to have his natal magic weapon taken away. In serious cases, they might even fall into a qi deviation. Chi Zhuo’s aura was fluctuating at this time, and he was obviously injured severely.

Note

Spoiler alert!!

Li Tianyan actually has a veeeery deep connection with Tianlong Royal Family, much deeper than Tan Eyu.