Chapter 196
“Is that you, Chen Dao-you?”
Chen Huai'an was leisurely flying through the air when a delicate female voice suddenly rang out behind him, sending chills down his spine.
In his experience, only those female streamers in the real world spoke like that.
This was the first time he had heard such a voice in the Cangyun Realm that could practically squeeze the life out of a person.
He instinctively turned around, even more puzzled.
There stood a female cultivator he had never seen before, her attire and the token at her waist clearly marking her as a member of the Qingyun Sect.
A female cultivator from the Qingyun Sect, and she was at the Combined Body stage.
That shouldn’t be…
Why didn’t he have any impression of her?
He remembered that the only one at the Combined Body stage in the Qingyun Sect was the old ancestor, Qingyun Laozu.
Let’s see what’s going on here.
His gaze sharpened, and the basic information about the delicate female cultivator floated into view.
【Qingyun Laozu—Rong Qingyun】
【Realm: Mid Combined Body (Hidden Injury)】
【Age: 1273 years】
Wait, what? Sister?
Chen Huai'an was dumbfounded.
This, this is the old hag known as Qingyun Laozu?
Before him stood a young woman, just over five feet tall, with fair, delicate skin and a charming appearance!
Rong Qingyun noticed Chen Huai'an staring at her and couldn’t help but blush, feeling quite pleased with herself.
She thought to herself that the effect of the Youth Elixir was impressive, secretly proud of her beauty from her younger days.
“Do you still remember me, Chen Dao-you? I mean, the old… cough, this little girl?”
Chen Huai'an looked at the young woman flying alongside him, his mouth twitching as he stiffly replied, “You, Qingyun Laozu?”
“Oh dear! Don’t call me Qingyun Laozu anymore~ I’m Rong Qingyun,” the old ancestor said, cupping her hands in greeting, her sweet smile brightening her face. “That day at the Qingyun Sect, I had to appear as an old woman, after all, I needed to maintain a dignified image in front of my disciples~ You should be about the same age as me, so you should understand this, right?”
“Ahaha, maybe I do…” Chen Huai'an felt it was absurd and quickly accelerated to distance himself.
However, Qingyun Laozu stuck to him like glue, chatting away about anything and everything.
Chen Huai'an didn’t believe a word she said.
A monster over a thousand years old still pretending to be young?
Even if Qingyun Laozu hadn’t appeared as an old woman back then, he wouldn’t have thought anything of it.
His beloved Qingran was a pure, fresh young girl.
What could this old lady, who had used a Youth Elixir, possibly compare to?
Moreover, Qingyun Laozu’s words and actions clearly deviated from her status.
She was clearly a respected elder, yet she was acting like a young girl, which felt very out of place.
It was like a fifty-year-old woman on a streaming platform using beauty filters and makeup to disguise herself as a young girl while filming cringeworthy videos.
Fortunately, cultivators at the Combined Body stage were fast flyers.
They soon arrived above the mountains where the demonic energy was emanating.
The forest below was thick with demonic energy, the miasma even corroding the rock layers, exposing the mountains with lava-like veins resembling blood vessels.
Amidst the demonic energy, hundreds of bronze pillars were faintly visible, driven into the fissures of the earth, with blood mist gushing from the cracks, forming inverted blood clouds in the air.
Countless night crows flitted around the blood clouds, and the midday sunlight that fell into them twisted into a rusty hue…
“Someone has actually set up such a formidable demonic formation around the secret realm?!”
The surrounding cultivators looked grim.
Such a massive amount of demonic energy indicated that the one who set up the formation had no good intentions.
Their target was likely to wipe out the cultivators outside the secret realm!
The elder from the Zhenwu Sacred Land, at the Combined Body stage, had an even darker expression, his hands trembling violently beneath his robes, clearly furious.
“Everyone, this is urgent! Regardless of the intentions behind this formation, let’s work together to destroy it!”
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Chapter 210: Found You!
The group of cultivators had never had any fondness for demonic cultivators.
Now that the demonic cultivators had set up a formation near the secret realm, their nefarious intentions ignited a fire of anger in these cultivators, and one by one, they began bombarding the formation with spells.
Chen Huai'an squinted at the demonic formation.
If the demonic cultivators were up to something, shouldn’t they have used more covert methods?
Such a grand formation was laid bare before these righteous cultivators… was it intentional or a mistake?
“Destiny Calculation, show me who set up this formation!”
【Destiny Calculation in progress… Calculation failed, the opponent is protected by a Dao artifact, player’s luck has been depleted too much!】
The skies above the Cangyun Realm shifted dramatically.
This was the first time Chen Huai'an stood beneath his own destiny.
He saw swirling black clouds appear at the horizon where the mountains met the sky.
From within the black clouds, a golden vertical eye peeked out, scanning a certain spot in the Ten Thousand Mountains before quickly vanishing.
The cultivators also sensed the disturbance in the heavens and earth, but they were already accustomed to the occasional appearance of destiny calculations above their heads, so they merely glanced up before continuing to bombard the demonic formation. Only Chen Huai'an, seeing the direction the golden vertical eye had looked, lit up with excitement, like a wolf that hadn’t eaten for days spotting a sheep escaping from the pen!
Another Dao artifact protection?
Could it be that old lady who had helped Ji Dong before!?
Although he couldn’t determine the opponent’s exact location and information due to the depletion of luck, the disturbance in the destiny calculation was unavoidable.
He was currently in the Cangyun Realm and could easily follow the trail to find her!
With that thought, Chen Huai'an flew straight toward the direction where the golden vertical eye had disappeared.
So many cultivators were bombarding the formation; it was already on the verge of collapse, and his presence wouldn’t make a difference.
Qingyun Laozu was still immersed in the joy of bombarding the demonic formation alongside her crush.
On such a bright day, wasn’t it a delightful thing to bombard the demonic formation together?
But in the blink of an eye, she saw Chen Huai'an flying away on his sword.
“Chen Dao-you, where are you going?”
Rong Qingyun hurriedly followed, only to be pushed back by a force so strong that even she, at the Combined Body stage, couldn’t resist.
“None of your business!” Chen Huai'an vanished in an instant.
“Ah~ Even his way of rejecting someone is so domineering and charming, really~~” Rong Qingyun clasped her ample thigh, covering her flushed face, her eyes filled with infatuation. Turning to face the demonic formation, her eyes were now filled with murderous intent: “Chen Dao-you left in such a hurry, he must have something urgent to attend to. When he said ‘none of your business,’ he actually didn’t want me to be distracted… Hmph, if it weren’t for this demonic formation, I could have gone with him!”
“It’s all your fault!”
Under the uncertain gazes of the surrounding cultivators, Rong Qingyun directly pulled out over ten spirit weapons from her storage bag and tossed them toward the formation like trash, then detonated them all.
Boom! Boom! Boom—!
Amidst the deafening explosions, the formation’s collapse accelerated significantly.
Using precious spirit weapons as bombs like this shocked the surrounding cultivators and made their hearts ache.
“Truly worthy of Qingyun Laozu, her hatred for demonic cultivators runs deep!”
“Though it’s a bit of a waste of resources…”
As the cultivators discussed, they saw Rong Qingyun pull out another ten spirit weapons to throw down.
“Qingyun Laozu, please don’t! Those are spirit weapons! If it’s really necessary, just give them to me, and I’ll help you break the formation!”
The elder from the Zhenwu Sacred Land, at the Combined Body stage, was also filled with uncertainty, his beard trembling as he hurriedly asked his subordinate beside him, “Who is this?”
“This is the old ancestor of the Qingyun Sect.”
“Ah, I see!” The elder from the Zhenwu Sacred Land nodded repeatedly, praising, “I’ve heard for a long time that the Qingyun Sect is the strongest sect in the Cangyun Realm, with deep roots and a fierce hatred for evil. Hearing about it is one thing, but seeing it in person is truly impressive; the rumors are not exaggerated… Once Zhang Zhenren comes out of the great secret realm, I must speak highly of the Qingyun Sect!”
Upon hearing this, the cultivators immediately redoubled their efforts.
Some even imitated Qingyun Laozu, pulling out unused magical artifacts from their storage bags to self-destruct.
Though their power was not as great as the spirit weapons thrown by Qingyun Laozu, the sheer number of them made up for it.
The speed at which the demonic formation was collapsing increased dramatically once again.
Meanwhile, miles away.
At the edge of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Ling Pu, hiding in a thicket, suddenly darkened in expression, murmuring to himself, “This shouldn’t be happening; the formation is collapsing too quickly. Have these sect cultivators improved so much since last year? At this rate, it won’t last half an hour…”
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a strong sense of being watched from above.
Ling Pu looked up at the sky, where, amidst the dense branches and leaves, a golden vertical eye was scanning the area.
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