Chapter 73
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The jade pendant worn by Lin Chaochen had very obvious cracks. In addition to the largest crack that ran through the pendant, there were many fine cracks that tightly wrapped around the entire piece.
He was so close, Lin Chaochen was about to follow in his senior brother’s footsteps…
After blocking the sword just now, Li Fenglan didn’t say a word. He just gave Lin Chaochen a cold glance and then went back to Meng Linzhou’s side.
Standing in place, Lin Chaochen saw Li Fenglan’s figure in the distance and subconsciously reached out his hand. He wanted to touch the back of the person who was leaving, but he was blocked by the overflowing aura.
As a result, only a tingling sensation remained in Lin Chaochen’s fingertips.
Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan were still in good condition and even Cheng Huang, the fierce beast, seemed unaffected by the sword formation. But even though they were exceptionally powerful, they could only watch as people in the sword formation fell one by one.
Li Fenglan couldn’t help but bite his lip, his mood was already a bit tense.
Perhaps because Ling Buyan was by his side, Li Fenglan instinctively didn’t fear the sword formation. But seeing it now, he was still worried.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
For some unknown reason, all the spirit swords in the sword formation suddenly came to a standstill. Li Fenglan saw from the corner of his eye that Mo Shenyu was still standing motionless, surrounded by a faint golden light.
Looking at Mo Shenyu’s current state, his spiritual energy had just absorbed half of it…
The sudden stop of the sword formation was obviously beyond everyone’s expectations. Unlike the others who looked towards Mo Shenyu, Li Fenglan instinctively turned around and looked towards Ling Buyan.
The black Split Karma lingered in mid-air while its owner stood still and slowly formed hand seals. Li Fenglan had never seen such a complex hand movement as performed by Ling Buyan. But in just a few moments, the spirit swords that were suspended in the air turned into dust under everyone’s gaze.
In an instant, everything returned to calmness, except for a few injured people on the ground, everything was normal. Li Fenglan slowly sheathed the spirit sword in his hand and saw Mo Shenyu standing not far away. Although his eyes were still terrifyingly golden, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
Ling Buyan interrupted the sacrifice and Mo Shenyu suffered a backlash. Almost at the moment when he saw Mo Shenyu like this, Li Fenglan understood it all. Ling Buyan, as the owner of the sword formation and Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm, could have stopped the operation of the secret realm from the beginning. The reason he waited until now was to interrupt Mo Shenyu when the sacrifice was halfway done.
Sure enough, the golden color in Mo Shenyu’s eyes suddenly faded away, and he returned to his familiar appearance. The next moment, a purple thunder flashed across the clear sky of the secret realm. Mo Shenyu’s mouth overflowed with blood. After wiping it away with the back of his hand, he slowly scanned his surroundings and then suddenly sneered.
“…You cultivators are all focused on achieving ascension, but I just want to be an ordinary person. Why is that so difficult?” Mo Shenyu’s voice was not loud, and now that he was seriously injured, only a few people standing nearby could hear his words, including Li Fenglan.
To be an ordinary person?
“Why did Mo Shenyu go through all this trouble to lure half of the cultivation world into this formation, just to become an ordinary person?”
Li Fenglan felt like he couldn’t quite understand what Mo Shenyu meant by this. Suddenly, Mo Shenyu’s body was once again surrounded by golden light.
Ling Buyan, who was standing on the other side just a moment ago, immediately took two steps forward and whispered “be careful” before standing next to Li Fenglan.
Mo Shenyu heard his senior brother’s words and suddenly turned his gaze towards Ling Buyan. At this moment, everyone became nervous, and Li Fenglan even instinctively wanted to draw his sword. However, what Mo Shenyu said next was not what Li Fenglan had expected.
He frowned slightly and looked at Ling Buyan, smiling as he said, “Senior brother, people say you are knowledgeable and know everything. Do you understand what this secret realm is all about?” When he said this, Mo Shenyu exuded an unmistakable sense of wickedness.
Why did Mo Shenyu ask this?
Li Fenglan was slightly puzzled at first, but then he realized…when Mo Shenyu was absorbing the spiritual energy from everyone’s body with his eyes closed earlier, he probably had no idea what was happening around him!
Mo Shenyu didn’t know what his senior brother had just done.
Coupled with Mo Shenyu’s obvious mental state at the moment, he probably didn’t even want to figure out or care about who had just destroyed the sword formation.
Because Mo Shenyu probably still had a trick up his sleeve…
Ling Buyan stood next to Li Fenglan, while Split Karma disappeared without a trace. Dressed in black, Ling Buyan looked at Mo Shenyu and said, “You turned the entire Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm into a large formation.”
“The entire secret realm?!”
Even though he had expected it, Li Fenglan couldn’t help but be shocked after hearing this. The others were no different.
It turns out that it’s not just the people in the Sword Array. Mo Shenyu even greedily wants to absorb the spiritual energy of all the cultivators in the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm.
“…Isn’t this too much?”
Seeing this scene before him, Li Fenglan couldn’t help feeling sorry for himself in the previous life. Li Fuyue, who he used to be, only fell into qi deviation and didn’t have time to do anything before being chased and killed by a group of people until he perished. He even became the villain in “Tianmian Daosheng”. Compared to Mo Shenyu’s actions, he was too gentle and harmless back then.
After listening to Mo Shenyu’s words, Ling Buyan suddenly became serious.
“If you stop now, there may still be time,” Ling Buyan glanced in the direction where the purple thunder had just fallen, and said calmly, “If you continue like this, you will only attract the attention of the heavens…”
Ling Buyan’s words were interrupted by Mo Shenyu’s laughter.
He looked at Ling Buyan and said, “If I don’t do this, I won’t live long.”
Mo Shenyu said these words with a smile, but his smile did not reach his eyes.
Even though Li Fenglan already knew more than ordinary people, Ling Buyan and Mo Shenyu’s conversation sounded like a riddle to him, let alone others.
They did not understand the meaning behind Ling Buyan and Mo Shenyu’s words. The only thing that was clear was that the entire Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm had been turned into a huge formation by Mo Shenyu.
And what this formation was for… need not be said.
Almost at the same time, the cultivators who had not yet recovered their senses nearby raised their weapons and planned to attack Mo Shenyu. Only Meng Linzhou, who was meditating on the ground, slowly opened his eyes and said coldly, “You want to die together?”
He did not think that this group of people could defeat the mysterious Mo Shenyu.
As expected, just as he finished speaking, Mo Shenyu’s body was covered in a burst of golden light, causing everyone to instinctively close their eyes. The next moment, Li Fenglan only heard a loud noise and instinctively squinted his eyes, looking towards the direction of the sound.
However, Li Fenglan couldn’t see anything. The light on Mo Shenyu’s body was too bright.
He just instinctively felt that although he had seen Mo Shenyu absorb the spiritual energy of the ferocious beasts with his own eyes, and even now Mo Shenyu was about to devour the spiritual energy of many cultivators, he still couldn’t feel any trace of evil energy from Mo Shenyu.
His spiritual energy was incredibly pure…
This situation didn’t last too long. When Li Fenglan opened his eyes again, the place he was in had changed from the empty space from before to a wilderness full of boulders. There was a thick fog that couldn’t be dispelled around Li Fenglan.
“What is this place?” Li Fenglan murmured.
Fortunately, Cheng Huang hadn’t gotten lost. Seeing the environment in front of them change, Cheng Huang approached and gently hugged Li Fenglan’s leg.
“Fenglan…” It was a little scared.
Not only Cheng Huang, but Duan Wannian also returned to her original form and hid in Li Fenglan’s hair.
“It’s okay,” Li Fenglan gently patted Cheng Huang’s back and comforted, “Master is here, there won’t be any problems.”
Just as Li Fenglan spoke, the thick fog on the wilderness finally slowly dissipated. And the familiar figure of Ling Buyan appeared diagonally in front of Li Fenglan. At this moment, he turned around and looked towards Li Fenglan’s direction, casting a comforting gaze.
Seeing this, Li Fenglan’s heart slowly eased, as he nodded gently while looking at Ling Buyan.
Overall, both Li Fenglan and Ling Buyan were considered calm.
But unlike them, as the thick fog gradually dissipated, Li Fenglan saw the figures of people on the open field becoming clearer one by one.
“Why are there so many people…” he murmured to himself.
Ling Buyan turned around and walked to Li Fenglan’s side. He looks into the distance and said to him, “These are all the people who have entered the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm.”
“What?!” Even though he already knew Mo Shenyu’s purpose, Ling Buyan’s words still startled Li Fenglan.
He and Ling Buyan were waiting outside the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm together earlier, so they naturally knew that most of the experts in the cultivation world had gathered here, and even some young cultivators who were not highly skilled but were eager for opportunities had come.
But seeing so many people appear before him one by one, Li Fenglan still felt a great shock in his heart.
At this moment, he even saw several familiar faces who were not in the sword formation before…
It was Ning Qingmo… Li Fenglan saw a familiar blue figure in the distance. As a sound cultivator, Ning Qingmo doesn’t even have an instrument in his hand at this moment. “Why is he here too?” Li Fenglan said softly.
Following Li Fenglan’s line of sight, Ling Buyan also sees the sound cultivator. After a while, Ling Buyan said, “He has dropped another small realm.”
Li Fenglan didn’t say anything. His gaze slowly moved away from Ning Qingmo, and then he saw a person wearing a gray cloak walking towards him at the end of the open field.
Although the eyesight of a cultivator is excellent, the distance was too far, so Li Fenglan can only see a vague figure.
Even though he couldn’t see clearly, at the moment his gaze fell on the figure, Li Fenglan suddenly felt a strong sense of disgust in his heart.
And noticing that Li Fenglan had been staring in one direction, Ling Buyan also followed his line of sight and looked over there.
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