Chapter 207: Intense Battling!
Puchi! At the same instance that Old Ancestor Zhang sneered, a transparent ripple struck in from above his head.
Old Ancestor Zhang's expression sank as his facial muscles distorted slightly. Still, it quickly restored to normal.
With his current cultivation, he was definitely faster than Wei Suo in mounting a sneak attack of his artifact. Instead, Wei Suo was the one who activated the Divine Six-Suns Firefork first.
As six radiating suns scorched in, a golden firelight soared towards Old Ancestor Zhang.
"No wonder you dare to commit murder in Perching Phoenix City. However, you are still lacking if you wish to compete with me. Who is Old Devil Qin to you?"
Old Ancestor Zhang wasn't flustered at all. He was long prepared and even shut his eyes while lazily saying those words. He didn't summon any defensive artifact either, but continued to channel his black ancient mirror artifact.
The ancient mirror screen was only the size of a palm, but its back revealed a peculiar talismanic pattern of a cobweb. Following his unceasing stream of true energy, the black beam transformed into countless thin threads that danced around in the air, before swarming towards the Divine Six-Suns Firefork that was merely 10 meters away.
"No way?"
To Wei Suo's horror, although the Divine Six-Suns Firefork directly incinerated those black threads to ashes, after bypassing 3 meters of insane masses of black threads, the Divine Six-Suns Firefork came to an abrupt, tangled halt in mid-air. It looked as though the black threads had captured it.
Witnessing this scene, Wei Suo hastily activated Granny Jin's Rushing Thunder Mallet.
Boom! A sonorous boom occurred as a golden lightning bolted down and blasted a portion of black threads away, allowing the Divine Six-Suns Firefork to return.
Consecutively, Old Ancestor Zhang smiled coldly and lazily summoned a snow artifact shield that oozed with thick frosty aura. Following that, he made seals with his hands and a splendorous yellow cloud more than 10 metres in size appeared above Wei Suo.
Wei Suo glanced up sullenly and noticed the incessant crackling of this splendorous yellow cloud. Inches of lightning currents could be vaguely seen, and droplets of golden aqua lightning came dripping down like rainwater.
Sensing something was amiss, Wei Suo immediately conjured a firecloud beneath his feet and sped off; attempting to leave the range of that yellow cloud.
Yet as his body shifted, the splendorous yellow cloud miraculously tailed him, and around 15 meters away, droplets of golden aqua lightning continued to drip down.
Pop!
When a drop of yellow aqua lightning fell into Wei Suo's outermost divine light screen, the screen instantly flashed brightly and shattered.
"Pop!"
Following the second droplet of aqua lightning, Wei Suo's next layer of divine light screen shattered without any resistance.
Seeing this, Wei Suo's pupils contracted as he immediately produced his set of red artifact shields.
After his ventures at Cyan Wind Mound and Sky Valley, Wei Suo had acquired loads of divine light screen artifacts. The divine light artifacts in his possessions now were all his elite choices, and each could withstand the might of Half-Spirit Class artifacts.
However, these divine light screens couldn't block even a droplet of aqua lightning. Evidently, the droplets of aqua lightning even surpassed the might of a low-grade Sprit Class artifact.
One could accurately fathom the power of Old Ancestor Zhang's skill technique, especially with his strength at the Thought Division Stage level 4 due to the effects of the Heaven's Path Pellet.
Twenty ruby artifact shields appeared and segregated into three layers that encircled around Wei Suo.
Meanwhile, Wei Suo feigned that he was soaring to left, but abruptly diverted towards the right.
The reason for doing so was to attempt to shrug off the yellow thunder cloud. Even with these set artifact shields, they could only last for a period and he still had to escape the attacking scope of this yellow cloud.
Instead, his expression turned immeasurably hideous as his feigned movement failed. Wherever he moved, that yellow cloud followed him above his head like a shadow.
Pop! Pop! Pop! In that brief moment, three of the outermost layer of red shields dimmed and fell.
Throughout this period, Old Ancestor Zhang didn't cast any other artifacts. He merely observed with a pair of sly but interested eyes, as though mocking the fleeing Wei Suo.
"Can't believe he actually has a set artifact shield."
Witnessing the three destroyed shields while the others were seemingly unaffected, a look of surprise surfaced on Old Ancestor Zhang's face. Nevertheless, he still laughed conceitedly as he watched Wei Suo escape.
"My Chasing Thunder Cloud is like a thundercloud that chases a cultivator automatically by the cultivator's interaction with the air. Regardless of feign or real movements, it will follow you wherever you go. There's only on method to stop it from chasing you, that is to stand still."
"Stand still?" Wei Suo was stumped. He almost believed the old man was being nice by revealing the dispelling method, but immediately cursed out, "Darn old man, your feces colored thundercloud is excreting all over my head, even If I stand still, it will still shit on me!"
"Quite smart, understanding so quickly." Old Ancestor Zhang laughed and replied, "I just didn't want you to waste your energy in vain, just be obedient and die."
"Damn old man, you really don't want to accept my bribe?" Wei Suo called out. "Besides, there aren't any witnesses, if you let me go, we can still be good brothers in the future. Moreover, if you don't spare me, my set artifact shields will still be destroyed before I die. You can't have anything. How 'bout this, I'll give you the set artifact shields and even tell you the forging method to create it. Think about it, you won't lose out at all."
"Forging method for set artifact shields?" Old Ancestor Zhang was slightly fazed.
He was indeed rather moved by Wei Suo's words. Moreover, he could tell that each of the artifact shield in that set had a defensive strength of above Half-Spirit Class. The overall stacking strength of the set artifact shield was evidently better than a genuine low-grade Spirit Class defensive artifact shield.
But while he was hesitating slightly… Puchi! A transparent ripple struck the back of his head and caused his body to stiffen.
"Damn old man! Die!"
Seizing the opportunity paved by his divine sense assault, Wei Suo yelled out and activated his Divine Six-Suns Firefork.
Facing an existence of a much higher cultivation, even if Old Ancestor Zhang was moved and accepted his bribe, Wei Suo wouldn't trust him in this transaction either.
"Courting death!"
Old Ancestor Zhang didn't predict that Wei Suo would mount a sneak attack. His eyes burned with agony but his countenance remained exceedingly icy.
Without panicking, Old Ancestor Zhang pointed at the floating black mirror in front. Consecutively, a cyan light shot out from his sleeve. It was actually a cyan scissor-like artifact that surged towards Wei Suo.
Black threads poured out turbulently from the black mirror again and trapped the Divine Six-Suns Firefork in mid-air.
Pa! Pa! Pa! The cyan scissors artifact cut through the first layer of the ruby artifact shield, followed by the second and the third, before striking Wei Suo's Scarlet Shell Shield and cracked the shield.
The power of this cyan scissors artifact wasn't inferior to the Divine Six-Suns Firefork at all.
Shua! Wei Suo's complexion turned incomparably pale.
Despite so, Wei Suo didn't delay to produce a silver short staff.
When the Mid-grade Spirit Class cyan scissor artifact was flying back, a loud bang resounded as a black light bolted out from Wei Suo's silver staff and struck the scissor-like artifact.
"Chi! Chi!"
White fumes spiralled excessively from the cyan scissor as its divine light dimmed. Evidently, it sustained some damage which caused the Old Ancestor Zhang's countenance to fall tremendously.
"Rascal, you dare destroy my artifact! Then I shall plunder your artifact first!"
Following his furious exclamation, Old Ancestor Zhang channelled in his true energy crazily.
The brilliance exuding out from the Divine Six-Suns Firefork was extinguished as black threads engulfed it; attempting to suck it into the black mirror.
"Plunder your head!"
Sou! Wei Suo emotionlessly kept his silver short staff as a black beam jetted towards Old Ancestor Zhang.
"Only a Half-Spirit Class artifact and you want to harm me?"
Old Ancestor Zhang issued a spiteful glance at the incoming tiny black dagger. He didn't try to do anything but allowed the tiny dagger to collide into his white artifact shield. Following that, the tiny black dagger was instantly frozen by the white artifact shield.
All of a sudden, a blood pearl congealed at the tip of the tiny black dagger, which caused the old man's face to turn extremely pale.
PA! The true Spirit Class Millenia Arcane Ice Shield directly shattered into pieces!
Immediately after, Old Ancestor Zhang's right arm radiated out with white ice crystals as he grabbed the blood pearl.
Piank!
Old Ancestor Zhang's entire right arm disappeared into thin air.
Simultaneously, he spat out a white ray that soared towards Wei Suo.
PA! Wei Suo's Scarlet Shell Shield directly fragmented into pieces, allowing the white ray to hit Wei Suo with unstoppable momentum!
Chapter 208: True Demon Sealing Physique Art
Old Ancestor Zhang groaned in anguish.
At the same time, Wei Suo spat out a mist of blood after being struck flying. Evidently, his injury wasn't light as well.
Nevertheless, Wei Suo didn't pause as he unyieldingly manipulated those ruby artifact shields to cover his body. While Old Ancestor Zhang wasn't using his black mirror, Wei Suo quickly summoned back his Divine Six-Suns Firefork at the tiny black dagger.
The furious and shocked Old Ancestor Zhang wanted to pursue him, however, his body continued trembling as he observed Wei Suo speeding away. His countenance turned incomparably unpleasant as he hastily fished out a pellet medicine to consume.
"This brat clearly isn't Old Devil Qin, who exactly is he?! How many tricks does he have up his sleeves!"
Following that, Old Ancestor Zhang landed and rested in a meditation pose.
At present, Wei Suo still hadn't left his line of sight. Observing the soon disappearance of Wei Suo, Old Ancestor Zhang really wanted to vomit blood.
He was a Thought Division Stage level 2 cultivator who consumed a Heaven's Path Pellet, and had a true energy might of a Thought Division Stage level 4 cultivator. As for his opponent, he was a measly Heavenly Circuit Stage level 4 cultivator.
This battle was akin to a cat toying around with a mouse. Never would he expect, the outcome would be himself losing an arm and even sustaining injuries to his heart meridians by that blood pearl!
The might of that blood pearl was actually above the power of an upper-grade Spirit Class artifact. If not for him sacrificing his arm, he would've been killed by it.
Divine Six-Suns Firefork!
Rushing Thunder Mallet!
That weird tiny black dagger.
Clearly, he was also wearing a true Spirit Class artifact robe. Otherwise, it was impossible to escape unscathed after being struck by his final True Essence Arrow skill technique.
The amount of dreadful artifacts on that Heavenly Circuit Stage level 4 cultivator was simply out of the ordinary!
There was still that mysterious silver short staff. Thinking of that silver short staff puncturing holes in his cyan scissor-like artifact, Old Ancestor Zhang wanted to vomit blood again.
His Springwind Scissors was a true mid-grade Spirit Class artifact, but now, it was damaged to the state of inferiority to even a low-grade Spirit Class artifact.
The losses of this one battle was exceedingly immense.
As Old Ancestor Zhang turned to return, he was filled with regret. If he had known earlier, he would've just accepted the bribe and release that cultivator.
"Wei Suo, how are you?!"
At present, Wei Suo wasn't having a good time either. Right at the instance Old Ancestor Zhang's True Essence Arrow struck, Wei Suo managed to grab the Ghost Raising Jar from his bosom and activate the Dark-yin Artifact Robe. Although the Ghost Raising Jar was perfectly fine, his chest still revealed a minor depression.
As the flustered green gowned old man called out, Wei Suo, who was flying with all his might, couldn't hold on anymore and spat out a mouthful of blood. The firecloud beneath his feet diminished as he tumbled down from mid-air; his butt landing on a cluster of muddy shrubs.
"Old Man, this is bad."
Wei Suo wiped the blood trail at his lips and forcefully uttered. He gritted his teeth and hurriedly fished out several few Treasure Receiving Pockets. Then, he produced everything and poured them out before him.
He acquired these few Treasure Receiving Pockets from the cultivators of Jin Villa.
Even though Wei Suo appeared physically intact, every move he made resulted in searing agony within his chest as though it was breaking apart. Waves of thick fishy blood rose up his throat. Without inspecting, Wei Suo could confirm he couldn't find two ribs not fractured. Yet most importantly, despite his serious injuries, he didn't hold any special healing pellet medicine on hand.
Right now, he only wished the Jin Villa cultivators' possessions contained a special type of healing pellet medicine.
After consecutively flipping over a few pellet bottles, Wei Suo hurriedly swallowed down three maroon colored pellet medicine from one of the bottles, and continued flipping through the rest.
A brief while later, having inspected all pellet bottles, a bitter smile floated up Wei Suo's face.
One couldn't tell if his situation was fortunate or unlucky. He managed to find three 'Return of Spring' pellets that could prevent his internal wounds from worsening. As long as the wounds didn't worsen, his life wouldn't be in trouble.
Still, those Return of Spring Pellets could only preserve his life. Without other spirit medicines, a swift recovery was unlikely and required at least 10-20 days.
Within these 10-20 days, Wei Suo mustn't employ his true energy vigorously, otherwise, his wounds may worsen once again.
If it was another safe location, a slow recovery would be fine without any spirit medicines. But now, Wei Suo was inside the wilderness!
Most crucially, powerful cultivators from Perching Phoenix City may catch up to him.
Old Ancestor Zhang's might truly frightened Wei Suo to the core. Furthermore, it seemed as though Old Ancestor Zhang's injury wasn't as severe. If he caught up, just a single Old Ancestor Zhang would be exceedingly arduous to deal with.
Seeing no other alternatives, Wei Suo smiled wryly and retrieved the Beast Slavings Pouch and released the Mind Devouring Bug. Following that, he kept the few Treasure Receiving Pockets and prepared to try his luck and meditate here.
"Eh?"
While racking his mind for methods, Wei Suo's hand chanced upon an object that clearly stumped him a little. He gazed down onto the object he was holding.
He was holding onto a square shaped cyan jade talisman with a tinge of red.
In his panic just now, Wei Suo mixed all the Jin Clan items together and thus, couldn't tell who this talisman came from now. Still, Wei Suo suddenly recalled this talisman was acquired from Jin Shenxuan, the Jin Clan's Fifth Uncle.
Previously, Jin Shenxuan held two jade talismans. Apart from this reddish-cyan jade talisman, the other one was the Entrance Jade Talisman to enter the Jin Ancestral Hall.
Wei Suo noticed that this jade talisman offered an extremely unique luster. It seemed to exhibit a malevolent looking 8-armed demon engraving on the back. The talisman appeared exceedingly archaic and didn't seem like it belonged to this world.
"Old Man, can you tell what this is?"
"I don't know." The green gowned old man floated out from the Ghost Raising Jar and furrowed his brows. "However, it doesn't seem like a defensive or offensive type artifact."
Seeing that the old man had no clue either, Wei Suo inserted his divine sense to probe.
After probing, he gasped in shock.
He saw an colossal 8-armed demon that was wrapped in cyan flames, and brandishing its arms as it roared; as though desiring to devour all of Wei Suo's divine sense.
Yet before the horrified Wei Suo could retract his divine sense, the frighteningly abnormal 8-armed demon didn't pursue him but seemed to be pulling a false bravado.
Wei Suo's divine sense cautiously approached the demon.
Indeed so, the 8-armed demon was merely a fraud and didn't possess a true ability to devour one's divine sense.
Still, to Wei Suo's immediate shock, the 8-armed demon's body was covered in lines of scriptures.
"True Demon Sealing Physique…….Demonic Truth Stare….."
Soon after, Wei Suo exhibited a puzzling look. This 8-armed demon that impressed a tremendously dreadful sensation on Wei Suo, actually recorded two skill techniques.
"Old Man, have you heard of the True Demon Sealing Physique Art or Demonic Truth Stare before?"
Moments later, the green gowned Old Man replied after Wei Suo retracted his divine sense.
"No." The old man bluntly shook his head and inquired, "It only records two skill techniques inside?"
Wei Suo nodded and remained silent. He began quietly comprehending the two skill techniques.
Noticing his glistening eyes, the old man became aware of Wei Suo's intentions and silently awaited.
After roughly an incense worth of time, Wei Suo offered a bleak smile
Wei Suo finally understood. Given the fatal wounds Jin Xin'er received previously, another cultivator would've perished immediately, but instead, she managed to feign her death and slew Jin Qiao'er. Moreover, Granny Jin had clearly and undisputedly died, yet she could keep a final breath and maintain her divine sense to negotiate with Wei Suo.
It was all due to the True Demon Sealing Physique Art recorded in this jade talisman!
The True Demon Sealing Physique was supremely unique. It allowed a cultivator to temporarily seal his wounds prior to receiving a mortal injury. Furthermore, once the cultivator sustains a mortal wound, the cultivator would remain temporarily alive to unleash one last special still technique.
It was no wonder back inside that 9-storey building, Jin Shenxuan could still flee so quickly, even after the Blood Feasting Artifact Dagger had drilled a hole through his chest.
Regardless of Granny Jin, Jin Xin'er or the Jin's Fifth Uncle, they all practiced this specific skill technique.
As for that so called Nightmare Art that Jin Qiao'er proclaimed, it was evidently the other skill technique of this jade talisman - Demonic Truth Stare.
The Demonic Truth Stare was a sinister skill technique that allowed one to cast on sleeping cultivators, or deeply meditating cultivators. It could create myriads of hallucinations in the other party's mind.
With this skull technique, Wei Suo had gained another skill to plot treacherously in the dark. Currently, he didn't have much use for Demonic Truth Stare, but the True Demon Sealing Physique would suffice to solve this present crisis.