txolops Chapter 239 Spirit Beast Cards and the Real Person's Move
Chapter 239 Spirit Beast Cards and the Real Person's Move
The Spirit Herb Garden in a remote area of the Flying Snow Sect.
With a solemn expression, Long Jie continuously poured his magic power into the magic array. The talisman in his hand emitted a dazzling blood-red light, and finally transformed into a blood shadow that shot into the magic array covering the spirit herb garden below.
The next moment, a violent earthquake shook the area within several thousand feet centered on the herb garden.
With the spiritual vein shifting its position, the magic array set up based on the spiritual vein naturally shattered instantly.
The light from the magic array in the herb garden dissipated, revealing its interior.
The entire nearly 1,000-acre herb garden was empty, except for a small tree with gold and silver stripes planted in the center of the garden.
This little tree is only about a foot tall, standing straight and bare, without a single branch or leaf on its trunk, truly a "bachelor"!
But upon seeing this sapling, Long Jie couldn't suppress the joy in his eyes. This sapling was the very spiritual object he had been longing for!
However, before he could take the spirit tree, he needed to deal with the person guarding it.
Long Jie's gaze fell on the old woman beside the sapling: "You must be Fellow Daoist Lei Sha Lei. I've come here for this tree. You'd better leave obediently, lest you lose your life!"
The old woman stared at Long Jie in the sky and gave a self-deprecating smile: "You even know my identity. It seems the inside agent not only destroyed the sect's magic array, but also told you everything about the sect. Who exactly is that inside agent?"
As a Core Formation sect, the cultivators of the Flying Snow Sect are not fools.
Both the core of the formation and the guarding cultivators have taken double precautions to ensure that the sect's protective formation will not malfunction.
Normally, even with inside help within the sect, it would be difficult to shut down the sect's protective formation so easily.
However, now, one of the sect's two Core Formation cultivators is dead and the other is bedridden.
For safety reasons, Shi Yutong ordered all the cultivators outside the sect to return to the sect.
This resulted in internal strife within the Flying Snow Sect, giving an opportunity for an inside agent to take advantage of the chaos and shut down the sect's protective formation, leading to the current incident of rogue cultivators attacking the sect.
Lei Sha stayed in the herb garden, worried about Shi Yutong's safety.
"With your strength, you are no match for me. I advise you not to make a mistake!" Long Jie snorted coldly, not answering her question, but threatening her again.
Lei Sha laughed nonchalantly: "I've lived long enough. If you want this spiritual treasure, you'll have to kill me first!"
Upon hearing this, a fierce glint flashed in Long Jie's eyes: "Hmph! You won't listen to reason, you're asking for it!"
……
Li Ping stood in the void, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.
They successively killed the triangular-faced old man and the white-robed scholar, both late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The commotion caused by the battle did indeed attract the attention of other rogue cultivators, but those who were bolder had already gone to the Flying Snow Sect to buy things for free.
Those who were alerted by the commotion were all cautious cultivators. They sensed the astonishing commotion of the battle but did not dare to come over to investigate for the time being.
"We need to find another place!" Li Ping shook his head.
He then took the storage bags and spirit beast bags handed to him by Jia Yi and Jia Er, and put the two puppets into the storage bags. What he found somewhat regrettable was that the black spirit ruler magic weapon had exhausted its power and turned to ashes in the battle just now.
He lost another talisman!
Fortunately, he had already snatched this talisman from the demonic cultivators of the Spirit Control Sect, so he wasn't heartbroken.
Whoosh!
Holding two storage bags and a spirit beast bag, Li Ping transformed into a streak of light and flew off in another direction.
Behind him, Jia San carried the unconscious Xie Xing in one hand and held five storage bags in the other, following closely behind.
Not long after, having figured out that he had shaken off the cultivators, Li Ping casually chose a secluded courtyard and flew inside.
He glanced at the courtyard with satisfaction and then sat cross-legged.
"puff!"
With a forceful thud, Jia Er threw Xie Xing, who was lying like a dead dog, in front of him. He then put down the five storage bags in his hand, and silently stood aside, leaning on his sword with both hands to guard him.
Li Ping casually placed the seven storage bags and one spirit beast bag aside, then turned his gaze to Xie Xing in front of him.
Previously, Xie Xing had used the ruins of the Tianqiao Sect to lure him out of the city to explore.
Although after fighting the seven-man gang, Li Ping has now basically confirmed that the Tianqiao Sect ruins are a hoax.
However, Xie Xing lost his ability to resist after being poisoned, so taking him down was a piece of cake.
Therefore, Li Ping ordered Jia San not to kill Xie Xing, but to capture him alive and bring him here.
Li Ping wanted to search his soul to verify the matter of the Tianqiao Sect's relics.
After all, there's always a chance of something going wrong.
Although the chances are slim, what if Xie Xing really knows about a Tianqiao Sect ruin?
Li Ping extended his right palm and placed it on Xie Xing's head, who was unconscious. A layer of black light gradually emerged from his palm and enveloped Xie Xing's head.
During Li Ping's soul search, Xie Xing's face was contorted in pain while he was unconscious, clearly indicating that he was enduring great suffering.
After a long while, Li Ping withdrew his right hand and casually threw out a fireball spell, burning Xie Xing to ashes, but a look of disappointment appeared in his eyes.
As he expected, Xie Xing had absolutely no idea about the ruins of the Tianqiao Sect.
They knew that Li Ping had been inquiring about information about the Tianqiao Sect, so they tailored this scam specifically for him.
To their surprise, Li Ping was a homebody and remained completely unmoved by the allure of the Tianqiao Sect's ruins.
After that, they had the Bai sisters, the snowman twins, deliberately approach Li Ping, trying to seduce him with their beauty and make him suffer a great setback.
However, Li Ping remained unmoved by the rare snowman twin beauties.
The composure of a centenarian is no joke.
That's why these people were able to live a little longer by sheer luck.
If he couldn't resist the beauty and took the bait before.
They caught a giant shark while fishing; these so-called "Seven Celestials of the Arctic" probably wouldn't be alive today.
Li Ping thought to himself.
"The Seven Fairies of the North Pole..."
However, Li Ping felt that the way these seven people stuck together for warmth was somewhat familiar.
Shaking his head, Li Ping banished the many strange thoughts from his mind and his gaze fell on the seven storage bags and one spirit beast bag in front of him.
He first checked the storage bags left behind by the seven people.
The seven storage bags contained a large sum of spirit stones, more than ten second-tier magic artifacts, a number of pills and spiritual materials, as well as some special items.
For example, a batch of Essence Pills that Li Ping once refined for the Bai sisters has now returned to his hands.
The Bai sisters' storage bags also contained dozens of pieces of girls' underwear, but Li Ping wasn't interested in these. He guessed that Yan Liming might like them.
Li Ping roughly estimated that the items in the seven storage bags were worth about tens of thousands of spirit stones.
The large sums were provided by the two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, the triangular-faced old man and the white-robed scholar; the other mid-stage and early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators didn't have much wealth.
After sorting and placing all the items in their proper places for later disposal, Li Ping's gaze fell on a bronze plaque in his hand, its surface engraved with many beautiful patterns.
If Li Ping is not mistaken, this should be a spirit beast token.
When cultivators control spirit beasts, they usually set up multiple restrictions on them, just like Li Ping did, to ensure the spirit beasts' loyalty.
However, this method of controlling spirit beasts has a fatal flaw.
Once the master dies, the spirit beast will either die as well or lose control.
Therefore, spirit beasts used for inheritance are generally not controlled by setting up restrictions; instead, spirit beast tokens are mostly used.
In this way, even if a cultivator passes away, they can leave the spirit beast tablet to their loved ones before they die.
With a spirit beast token in hand, one can decide the life or death of a spirit beast, as well as communicate with it, issue commands, and direct it to do things.
Of course, besides inheriting spirit beasts, there is another situation in which spirit beast tokens are used.
Sometimes, skilled beast tamers will sell the spirit beasts they have bred.
In this case, spirit beast tokens are sold in conjunction with spirit beasts to facilitate the purchase of spirit beasts by cultivators who wish to control them.
Thinking of this, Li Ping channeled a wisp of magic power into the spirit beast token in his hand, and immediately sensed a wisp of consciousness emanating from the spirit beast pouch beside him.
He knew that the spirit beast token in his hand was used to control the spirit beasts in the spirit beast bag.
"What type of spirit beast is it?"
Out of curiosity, Li Ping directly commanded the spirit beast inside the bag to come out.
Whoosh!
A dark shadow darted out of the spirit beast pouch and obediently lay down in front of Li Ping, its small eyes staring intently at the spirit beast token in Li Ping's hand.
"Could this be...?"
Li Ping's gaze fell on the pale gold spots distributed from the back to the head of the dark figure, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
……
The core area of the Flying Snow Sect.
Led by four late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators bombarded the protective array below.
The Flying Snow Sect cultivators inside the magic array fought desperately under Shi Yutong's command, but gradually, the magic array began to show signs of weakness and was not far from collapsing completely.
Shi Yutong, who was inside the magic circle, witnessed this scene and couldn't help but show an anxious expression.
Meanwhile, fierce battles raged outside.
The main hall was completely silent, with Master Qianxue lying on the soft couch with her eyes closed.
The sounds of fighting outside reached into the hall, causing her to frown slightly.
"Brother Yun is gone, but I still have Tong'er."
"Tong'er is in danger! I must protect her and prevent her from getting hurt again!"
"You won't be allowed to hurt Tong'er!"
Suddenly, Master Qianxue opened her eyes, but her beautiful eyes were now filled with madness and killing intent.
"The formation is about to break, everyone give it your all!"
Outside the magic array, seeing that the array was showing signs of breaking down, the rogue cultivators became excited, as if they could already see the treasures accumulated by the Flying Snow Sect over the years beckoning to them!
but--
Snowflakes suddenly began to fall from the sky.
The rogue cultivators looked up and realized that it wasn't snowing at all, but rather a white ribbon stretching for thousands of feet, obscuring the sky.
As for the snowflakes... they were merely an unusual phenomenon caused by the influence of the silk ribbon on the climate.
As for the snowflakes... they were merely an unusual phenomenon caused by the influence of the silk ribbon on the climate.
Witnessing this scene, the rogue cultivators present instantly changed color. No longer caring about the treasures within the Flying Snow Sect, they turned around without hesitation and headed away from the Flying Snow Sect.
But at this moment, the snow-white ribbon split into countless light bands of varying lengths, which coiled around all the rogue cultivators like snakes, wrapping them up one by one.
Even though the four late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators struggled desperately and continuously used their magical artifacts to bombard the light band.
But in the end, they were all bound!
……
Sensing the intense spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the core of the Flying Snow Sect, Long Jie's eyes flashed with surprise: "Master Qianxue has made a move? Then I'd better leave quickly!"
After saying that, he transformed into a streak of light and flew away from the Flying Snow Sect.
Behind him.
An old woman's corpse, covered in blood, lay limply on the ground.