txolops Chapter 50 Lin Jie's Crisis! The Risks Brought by the Elixir!
Chapter 50 Lin Jie's Crisis! The Risks Brought by the Elixir!
Chapter 50 Lin Jie's Crisis! The Risks Brought by the Elixir!
The second half of the night on the fourth day in the forbidden area.
Lin Chuan was moving towards a location marked on the map where there might be a miraculous medicine.
The powerful divine sense detected from afar the sounds of fierce fighting and fluctuations of spiritual energy coming from a small basin ahead.
One of the angry shouts, which sounded somewhat familiar, caught his attention.
"Lin Jie?" Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow. As a member of the same Lin family and a direct descendant highly valued by the patriarch, he naturally recognized Lin Jie's voice.
He concealed his presence, stealthily approached, and hid behind a giant rock at the edge of the basin, looking down.
In the center of the basin, Lin Jie was leaning against a rock, his face pale, blood at the corner of his mouth, and a deep wound on his left arm that exposed the bone.
The Xuan Turtle Shield, bestowed upon him by the ancestor, floated in front of him, its spiritual light dimmed considerably, and its surface covered with cracks.
His once-fine flying sword had broken in two and landed not far away.
Two cultivators surrounded him tightly, one in front and one behind.
The figure in front of him was dressed in a Qingxu Sect Taoist robe, with a gloomy face and holding a whisk. His cultivation level was clearly at the thirteenth level of Qi Refining.
The person behind him was dressed in the attire of the Huadaowu (a martial arts troupe), holding a pair of throwing knives, and his cultivation level was at the twelfth level of Qi Refining.
The two were clearly in cahoots and worked together seamlessly.
"Boy, I am boundless in my righteousness! I have a compassionate heart and do not wish to cause unnecessary bloodshed. If you hand over all the spiritual herbs and storage bags you have, I can spare your life and let you leave."
The Taoist priest from the Qingxu Sect flicked his whisk and spoke slowly and deliberately, but there was not a trace of compassion in his eyes.
"Don't even think about it!"
Lin Jie gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot. Handing over the elixir was tantamount to ending his hopes of reaching Foundation Establishment; how could he possibly agree? "Kill me if you dare!"
"Why waste words with him! Kill him cleanly and efficiently!"
The cultivator from Huadaowu shouted impatiently, manipulating a flying knife magic weapon to strike the Xuan Turtle Shield again, causing the shield's spiritual light to dim even further.
"This guy's a bit stubborn—"
Lin Chuan, hidden in the shadows, shook his head slightly.
He knew perfectly well that even if Lin Jie really gave in and handed over the items, the two men in front of him would most likely still kill him to silence him.
The world of cultivation is cruel. Although Lin Jie has grasped some of its secrets, his lack of strength is his original sin, and he will be slaughtered by others.
"Sigh—" Lin Chuan sighed softly, "Fine, for the sake of our ancestor, I'll save your life. We're from the same clan, and I don't want to just watch you die here."
His eyes turned cold, and he made a swift decision.
With a flick of his left hand, a dark red talisman exuding a fierce and bloodthirsty aura appeared in his palm—the most powerful Blood Red Knife Talisman Treasure, which he had obtained from Han Tianya!
Pure spiritual energy was infused, and the talisman glowed faintly with a blood-red light.
At the same time, he made a hand seal with his right hand, and the Imprisoning Dragon Ring quietly transformed into silver light, skimming the ground like a lurking venomous snake, silently shooting towards the cultivator from the Blade Transformation Valley.
After a few breaths of gathering power, the crimson dagger talisman was activated first!
A scarlet blade of light, condensed to its extreme and only a foot long, yet exuding a chilling, bloodthirsty aura, condensed before Lin Chuan, trembling slightly, and locked onto the Qingxu Sect Taoist.
But Lin Chuan didn't send it immediately. He waited patiently.
"Whoosh!" The Dragon-Binding Ring moved with incredible speed, bursting out of the ground beneath the cultivator's feet in an instant. Its silver light surged, and like a serpent coiling around his body, it suddenly bound his legs and waist!
"What the hell?!" The cultivator from Huadaowu was caught off guard and was shocked. He hurriedly tried to use his flying knife to cut the silver chain.
It's now!
"Go!" Lin Chuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light!
The blood-red dagger transformed into a thin, scarlet line that was almost invisible to the naked eye, shooting straight at the Qingxu Sect Taoist's back with a terrifying speed far exceeding that of the yellow dagger talisman!
Its speed was so fast that it seemed to transcend spatial distance!
The Qingxu Sect Taoists were mostly focused on Lin Jie in front of them. Although they were wary of the sneak attack from behind, they only maintained a layer of protective spiritual light and did not use any defensive magic weapons.
When he sensed the sharp, bloodthirsty killing intent approaching, and in a panicked attempt to dodge or raise a defensive stance, "Ugh!"
A sharp, piercing pain suddenly shot through his brain!
This is precisely the effect of Lin Chuan's Jingzhe Divine Sword.
The excruciating headache slowed down all the movements of the Qingxu Sect Taoists by half a beat!
That fatal slowness!
"Pfft!"
A flash of blood disappeared!
The scarlet dagger, like a hot knife cutting into butter, pierced through the Taoist's protective aura without any resistance, shooting into his back and leaving a small hole in his chest.
The Taoist priest's body stiffened abruptly. He looked down in disbelief at the blood gushing from his chest, opened his mouth but could not utter a sound, and the light in his eyes quickly faded before he collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Blood—Blood Fiend Blade Talisman Treasure?!"
"How did it end up in your hands?"
On the other side, the cultivator from Huadaowu, who had just barely managed to break through one of the chains of the Dragon-Binding Ring, happened to witness the Taoist being instantly killed.
Especially after seeing the shape of that scarlet blade of light, his face turned ashen, his eyes filled with boundless fear, and his voice changed as he screamed in terror!
He recognized the infamous talisman! It was clearly a talisman forged from the "Blood Fiend Blade," the signature magic weapon of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator in the Blade Transformation Valley, and had always been regarded as a trump card by Han Tianya, a genius disciple of the sect!
How did it end up in the hands of this Yellow Maple Valley disciple?
Could it be that Senior Brother Han—
An overwhelming chill instantly engulfed him.
"Once you're in hell, someone will tell you!"
Faced with the terrified expressions and horrified questions of the cultivators from Huadaowu, Lin Chuan's answer was cold and concise.
Before he finished speaking, the blood-red talisman that had just pierced through the Qingxu Sect Taoist, its spiritual light dimmed but still fierce, nimbly spun under Lin Chuan's precise control, and the scarlet blade light condensed once more.
Transforming into a deadly red line, it swept past the cultivators of Huadaowu who were still partially bound by the Prisoner Dragon Ring and whose minds were in chaos, at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to perceive!
"puff!"
Where the blade flashed, blood spurted out.
The protective aura of the cultivator from Huadaowu was as fragile as paper. A thin line appeared on his neck, and then his head tilted to the side. His eyes were filled with endless fear and confusion before his body crashed to the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the two cultivators who were besieging Lin Jie were dead!
In the room, only Lin Jie, who was dumbfounded, and Lin Chuan, who was calm and began to skillfully search the corpse, remained.
Lin Jie stared wide-eyed, his mouth slightly agape, watching Lin Chuan effortlessly remove the storage bags from the two cultivators, then casually flick a fireball to incinerate the corpses. His movements were so skillful and calm, as if he had done it a thousand times before.
The shock he felt was beyond words, far greater than when he had faced a desperate situation earlier.
"When did he become so amazing?!"
Lin Jie's mind was in complete chaos. This cousin, whom he had always regarded as a rival from another branch of the family and even somewhat looked down upon, was now displaying strength, ruthlessness, and experience that completely overturned his understanding of him.
That eerie silver ring magic weapon, that terrifyingly powerful and incredibly fast crimson flying knife talisman (he didn't recognize it, but he could sense its terrifying nature), and that absolute calmness in the face of life-or-death battles—
Is this really Lin Chuan, who was quietly cultivating in Xuankun Mountain?
Just as Lin Jie was feeling agitated, Lin Chuan had finished dealing with the scene and turned to look at him.
His gaze was calm, yet it carried a sense of oppression that made Lin Jie feel both unfamiliar and uneasy.
It seems that he had overexerted himself in the previous battle, and now that his mind was relaxed, Lin Jie fainted.
"I can't reveal too much about my affairs yet!"
Lin Chuan thought for a moment.
Using the Crimson Knife Talisman just now would be too dangerous if it were exposed, even though the probability of Lin Jie betraying himself is not high.
Lin Chuan took out a Forget-Dust Pill, pried open Lin Jie's mouth, and fed it to him.
"To be on the safe side—"
Then, worried that the dosage was not enough, Lin Chuan took out four or five more pills and put them into Lin Jie's mouth.
He then led Lin Jie to a spot in the canopy outside the basin and hid him there.
Then, with a swift movement, his Cloud-Stepping Boots shimmered, and he vanished like a wisp of green smoke.
After the battle, Lin Chuan took stock of the spiritual herbs he had in a mountain cave.
"Sixty-five main medicinal herbs and three thousand-year-old blood ginsengs—that's enough, even far beyond what we expected."
His current gains are so substantial that they could drive anyone who knows the inside story crazy.